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Mine: Calumet Mine, Felch, MI (Dickenson County)
Began → Calumet Mine → Became
Operated for 4 years.
From: 1882
Owned by: Calumet Ore Company. Pickands Mather & Co. agent.
Produced: Iron Ore, hard, red, siliceous. Crushed.
Method: Underground and open pit.
Railroad connection: C&NW to port of Escanaba.
Stamp Mill: On site.
Until: 1913.
Lifetime Production: 175,917 between 1882-1913.
Notes
Calumet Mine was located three miles south of Felch, in Dickenson County. It was reached by rail from a short branch which ran southwest off the C&NW Felch Branch from Spruce.
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Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI