List of Copper Mines - Northeast to Southwest

  • Clark Mine - 1858 - (town of Copper Harbor)
  • Aetna Mine - 1863
  • Empire Mine - 1863
  • Medora Mine - 1860
  • Delaware Mine - 1847
  • Amygdaloid Mine - 1862
  • Copper Falls Mine - 1845
  • Central Mine - 1854 - (town of Central)
  • Northwestern Mine - 1846
  • Meadow Mine - 1858
  • Garden City Mine - 1855
  • Phoenix Mine - 1855 (town of Phoenix)
  • North Cliff Mine - 1858
  • Cliff Mine - 1844
  • North American Mine - 1846

Kearsarge Amygdaloid - 1882-1964

  • Ojibway - 1909 (2 shafts)
  • Gratiot Mine - 1907 (2 shafts)
  • Seneca Mine - 1907 (2 shafts)
  • Iroquois Mine - 1849
  • Mohawk Mine - 1898 (5 shafts) (town of Mohawk)
  • Ahmeek Mine - 1903 (4 shafts) (town of Ahmeek)
  • Kingston Mine - 1964
  • Allouez Mine (Allouez Conglomerate - 1859-1900 and 1909) - (3 shafts) (town of Allouez)
  • Old Allouez Mine - 1850 (3 shafts)
  • North Kearsarge Mine - 1881 (2 shafts)
  • Wolverine Mine - 1882 (2 shafts) (town of Kearsarge)
  • South Kearsarge Mine - 1897 (2 shafts)
  • Centennial Mine - 1899 (2 shafts)
  • Mayflower Mine (Old Colony Mine) (3 shafts)

Calumet Conglomerate - 1866-1939 and Osceola Amygdaloid - 1877-1932 and 1968

  • Centennial Mine - 1869 (7 shafts)
  • Tamarack Junior Mine - (2 shafts)
  • Tamarack Mine - 1887 (5 shafts)
  • Calumet Mine (C&H) - 1866 (13 shafts including Hecla) (town of Red Jacket/Calumet)
  • Hecla Mine (C&H) - (town of Laurium)
  • Osceola Mine - 1877 (6 shafts)
  • Old Osceola Mine - 1877 (6 shafts)
  • Tecumseh Mine - 1880 (1 shaft)
  • La Salle Mine - 1903 (2 shafts)
  • Oneco Mine - 1862 (2 shafts)
  • Rhode Island Mine - 1899 (2 shafts)
  • Old Rhode Island Mine - 1865 (3 shafts)
  • Franklin Junior Mine - 1895 (town of Boston)
  • Albany and Boston Mine - 1860 (1 shaft)
  • St. Mary's Mine - 1863 (3 shafts)

Pewaubic Amygdaloid - 1856-1932 and 1945

  • Franklin Mine - 1895 (2 shafts)
  • Quincy Mine - 1856 (5 shafts)
  • Hancock Mine - 1859 (town of Hancock)

Portage Canal

Isle Royale Amygdaloid - 1852-1932-1949

  • Arcadian Mine - 1899 (7 shafts) - north of Portage Canal
  • Albion Mine - 1853 (3 shafts and adit)
  • Sheldon & Columbian Mine - 1864 (2 shafts)
  • Grand Portage Mine - 1853 (2 shafts)
  • OId Isle Royal Mine - 1853 (10 shafts)
  • Isle Royal Mine 1898 (6 shafts) - (town of Dodgeville)
  • Huron Mine - 1854 (10 shafts)
  • Houghton Mine - 1910 (1 shaft)
  • Superior Mine - 1904 (2 shafts)

Atlantic Amygdaloid - 1865-1906

  • Atlantic Mine - 1872 (towns of Atlantic Mine and South Range)

Baltic Amygdaloid - 1897-1917

  • Atlantic Section 16 Mine - 1907 (2 shafts)
  • Baltic Mine - 1897 (2 shafts) (Baltic location)
  • Trimountain Mine - 1899 (4 shafts) (town of Trimountain)
  • Champion Mine - 1899 (4 shafts) (town of Painesdale)
  • Globe Mine - 1901
  • Challenge Mine - 1904
  • Ontario Mine - 1854 - (town of Donken)
  • Elm River Mine - 1899
  • Shawmut Mine - 1853

Winona - Isle Royal Amygdaloid - 1897-1917

  • Wyandot Mine - 1899 - (town of Lake Roland)
  • Winona Mine - 1864 - (town of WInona)
  • King Philip Mine - 1905
  • Cherokee Mine - 1910
  • Douglass Houghton Mine - 1853
  • Firesteel Mine - 1852
  • What Cheer Mine - 1853
  • Indiana Mine - 1862
  • Algomah Mine - 1853 - (town of Lake Mine)
  • Toltec Mine - 1850
  • South Lake Mine - 1905
  • Adventure Mine - 1850 - (town of Greenland)

Evergreen Range Amygdaloids - 1850-1920

  • Mass Mine - 1856
  • Evergreen Bluff Mine - 1853
  • Ogima Mine - 1860
  • Caledonia Mine - 1902, 1950
  • Flintsteel Mine - 1855
  • Rockland Mine - 1856
  • Minnesota Mine - 1847
  • National Mine - 1852 - (town of Rockland)
  • West Minnesota Mine - 1847
  • Oneida Mine - 1854
  • Mendenhall Mine - 1845

Forest Amygdaloid - 1845-1921

  • Victoria Mine - 1849 - (town of Victoria)
  • Ohio Trap Rock Mine - 1845
  • Norwich Mine - 1850 - (town of Norwich)
  • Hudson Mine - 1851
  • Pittsburg Mine - 18751
  • Sharon Mine - 1852
  • Clinton Mine - 1853
  • Derby Mine - 1852
  • Gogebic Mine - 1853
  • Waukulla Mine - 1868 - (town of Bergland)
  • Merriweather Mine - 1854

Source: The Native Copper Mining Era of Keweenaw Copper County, by Taung Kilperla, © 1990 [NCME]

 

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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