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.


Time Line

 

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

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