Location: Castle-Meteor Mine, Wakefield, MI


Began → Castile Mine → Castile-Meteor Mine


Operated for 37 years.

From: 1886

Located: Sections 10 and 11 of T47N-45W.

Owned by: Owned at one point by the Ogleby Norton Company. [IOI]

Produced: Iron Ore

Method: 

Railroad connection: C&NW to Ashland.

Until: 1923

Lifetime Production: 


Notes

The Castle-Meteor Mine was located about 1/2 mile east of Sunday Lake in Wakefield. It covered section 10 and 11 of T47N-45W.

The Castile began in 1886 and closed in 1923. The Meteor began in 1890 (called the Norton Mine) and was developed into a mine in 1900 and operated until 1904. Six million tons of ore were shipped under the North Mikado mine name.

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