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Location: Vicar Mine, Wakefield, MI
Began → Vicar Mine → Became
Operated for 1 year.
From: 1950
Owned by: Jones and Laughlin Ore Company
Produced: Iron Ore
Method: Underground, stoping method to 609 feet.
Railroad connection:
Stamp Mill/Pellet Plant:
Until: 1951
Long/Lat: 46.47972, -89.88167
Lifetime Production: 97124 tons.
Photo info: A 1930's view of the Vicar Mine head frame house and ore loading facility. Note the locomotive and caboose on site. [MINART]
Notes
The Vicar Mine was located three miles east of Sunday Lake, northeast of Wakefield in Gogebic County. The mine covered Section 12, T47N-R45W. It was operated by the Jones and Laughlin Ore Company.
Time Line
1951. After a heavy investment in surface quipment and buildings, the sinking of a shaft and the construction of a railroad to the site, the mine was finally abandoned after shipping approximately 100,000 tons of ore. [WAK-1954-0402]
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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