Clean cars demand new mineral mining. How Michigan's …
How Michigan's U.P. balanced risk. Marquette — At night, when Rochelle Dale looks to the western sky from her home along the Yellow Dog River, she sometimes mistakes the glow for the northern ...
اقرأ أكثر
Iron Ore Facilities :: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CLF)
Tilden Mine is located on the Marquette Iron Range in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, approximately five miles south of Ishpeming. Cleveland-Cliffs became sole owner of the mine in 2017. Tilden's operations consist of an open-pit truck and shovel mine, a concentrator that utilizes single-stage crushing, autogenous (AG) mills, magnetite ...
اقرأ أكثر
Michigan has minerals America needs | WMU News | Western Michigan …
One area, the western Upper Peninsula, has igneous and metamorphic rocks that host well-known, abundant and varied metallic mineral resources, including copper, iron, nickel, platinum group minerals, manganese and cobalt. The region also has some graphite resources and deposits of a phosphate mineral that contains certain rare …
اقرأ أكثر
Mining boom roils Upper Peninsula | Bridge Michigan
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality already has approved one controversial metallic sulfide mine, the $469 million Kennecott Eagle Minerals project near Marquette. …
اقرأ أكثر
Mining in Michigan
The Department of EGLE, Oil, Gas, and Minerals Division (OGMD) regulates several mining industries in Michigan including, metallic mining, native copper mining, sand …
اقرأ أكثر
Quincy Mine
This is a must see if you want to hear about the rich history of mining in Michigan. At one point the Upper Peninsula was a rich area of resources. This mine tour is very accessible, make sure you call ahead so they can prepare to have a staff member guide you on the accessible tour. ... We visited the Quincy Mine in Hancock Michigan on July 5 ...
اقرأ أكثر
Michigan's Copper Country
homeland, look to the westernmost rooftop of the Upper Peninsula. Here, the Keweenaw Peninsula projects like a bent finger into the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior. Nearly a hundred miles long and some twenty miles wide, this rugged finger of rolling, rocky land takes in three Upper Michigan counties: Keweenaw, Houghton, and most of Ontonagon.
اقرأ أكثر
Nickel Miners, Environmentalists Learn to Live Together in Michigan
Mining is not new to the Upper Peninsula, the northern tip of the state of Michigan that is mostly surrounded by the Great Lakes. The region was the nation's leading copper and iron producer until ...
اقرأ أكثر
THE 5 BEST Upper Peninsula Mines (Updated 2023)
These places are best for mines in Upper Peninsula: Adventure Mining Company; Quincy Mine; Iron Mountain Iron Mine; Delaware Copper MineTours; Chapin Mine Pit; …
اقرأ أكثر
The Best Spots for Gem Mining in Michigan
Location: 7804 Delaware Rd, Mohawk, MI 49950. Hours: Open 10 am to 5pm daily (from mid-May to mid-October), $12/adult. Michigan gems found here: copper. Delaware Copper Mine Tours isn't focused on the hunt, but …
اقرأ أكثر
Timeline of Michigan Copper Mining Prehistory to …
1771. Alexander Henry makes the first English attempt to mine copper on the Keweenaw Peninsula near the Ontonagon River. At the time, the nearest English settlement is nearly 300 miles away at Sault Saint Marie …
اقرأ أكثر
Copper Mine Tours | Keweenaw Peninsula
Tour a Keweenaw copper mine to learn more about the copper mining boom of the late 1800's and early 1900's. Experience what life was like for copper mine workers and their families and the hardships they faced. …
اقرأ أكثر
The ancient copper mines of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
October 9, 2012. The area now known as Michigan's Upper Peninsula contains rich copper resources that were mined extensively beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century. Amazingly, the professional miners who worked the area beginning in the 1850s all describe evidence of extensive ancient mining activity in the area -- evidence that ...
اقرأ أكثر
Highland Copper to begin mine construction project in …
Published: May. 26, 2022 at 12:04 PM PDT. GOGEBIC COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) - A Canadian-based copper company is planning a mine development in the Western Upper Peninsula in early 2023. Highland ...
اقرأ أكثر
Michigan's UP is full of closed mines. Technology may give …
Slideshow: In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, mining waste threatens Buffalo Reef Mining waste and growing wetlands mean more mercury in fish in Upper Peninsula Funded by a $50,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a two-year pilot project will focus on the Mather B iron mine, which closed in 1979 and whose former administrative …
اقرأ أكثر
Talon Metals to explore 400K acres in UP for nickel
Published: Aug. 10, 2022 at 3:23 PM PDT. TAMARACK, Minn. (WLUC) - Talon Metals Corp. has entered an agreement with UPX Minerals Inc. for up to an 80% ownership interest in the mineral rights over ...
اقرأ أكثر
Timber, Iron Ore & Copper Mines
U.P. Iron Ore and Copper Spurred the American Industrial Revolution. While timber was an economic boon to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the iron ore and copper rushes put this …
اقرأ أكثر
Explore Upper Peninsula Mines and Mine Museums
On the Keweenaw Peninsula, the Keweenaw National Historic Park(link is external) Calumet Visitor Center in the town's historic Union Building includes a mining museum. Calumet (formerly called Red Jacket), was once the center of UP mining. In its heyday, the Calumet area amassed a … See more
اقرأ أكثر
Gold Prospecting in Michigan: 7 Best Locations
The Blind Sucker River is situated in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, flowing primarily through Alger and Luce Counties. Named after a sucker fish, the river has a funny name but an interesting feature— it …
اقرأ أكثر
Troubling new mining developments here and in Michigan
September 27, 2021. There have been several recent and important mining industry developments in Wisconsin and Michigan on mining proposals we have been tracking. Changes in the proposals in Michigan's Upper Peninsula are particularly troubling. Canadian company Highland Copper which has completed its acquisition of the former …
اقرأ أكثر
Copperwood Copper Project, Upper Peninsula of Michigan…
The Copperwood copper project is located 22.5km to the north of Wakefield and 40km from the town of Ironwood in Gogebic County, Western Upper Peninsula, Michigan. It is situated inside the Porcupine Mountains copper district. The property is situated on the 2,200km-long Mesoproterozoic mid-continent rift system edge …
اقرأ أكثر
Mining in Michigan: A focus on nonferrous mineral …
Today, two iron mines remain active in Michigan's Upper Peninsula—the Tilden Mine and the Empire Mine, both in the Marquette Range. Industrial copper mining began in the 1860s. During the earlier years of the copper mining era, Michigan produced up to 90 percent of the nation's copper. Copper ranges opening in the west caused competition ...
اقرأ أكثر
Inclined to Innovate: Old Mines Inspire a New Energy …
Upper Peninsula mining established Michigan Tech—and the boom days' remains, from mine tailings to abandoned shafts, are sparking world-changing energy-transition breakthroughs at the University. One idea that's attracting national headlines and international collaboration? Using hydropower to store energy in old hard-metal mines. ...
اقرأ أكثر
What four new wilderness areas would mean for the U.P.
The Highland Copper Co. recently purchased the property, which is home to the former White Pine Mine (Michigan's last major copper mine) in order to resume mining at an adjacent site. ... with the majority located in the Upper Peninsula. The Huron Islands, Michigan Islands and Seney National Wildlife Refuge were the state's first three ...
اقرأ أكثر
Adventure Mining Company
The Adventure Mining Company offers a variety of tours of the Historic Adventure Copper Mine. Choose from easy 45 minute underground walks to 3 hour excursions that feature rappelling down and 80 foot underground shaft. No fancy electric lights or walkways underground here, real mining the way it really was.
اقرأ أكثر
Huge Upper Peninsula mine OK'd despite major concerns
Upper Peninsula mine approved despite major concerns from DEQ and EPA staff, records show. Over and over, Michigan environmental regulators sounded alarms as they reviewed a proposed large, open ...
اقرأ أكثر
Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan | University of Michigan …
Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native copper there. In the nineteenth century, explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in this region. They used those "ancient diggings" as a guide to establishing ...
اقرأ أكثر
Upper Peninsula Geological Repository
The Upper Peninsula Geological Repository (UPGR) is located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Sawyer International Airport in Gwinn, Michigan. The collection is enclosed within in a 44,000 square foot warehouse at the former K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base and holds drill core and cuttings with an emphasis on Northern Peninsula Geology.
اقرأ أكثر
Brief History of Mining in Michigan's Marquette and …
A Brief History of Mining in Michigan's Marquette and Menominee Iron Ranges The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the "U.P." as the locals call it, has been blessed with a wealth of mineral resources. The Native Americans were the earliest miners, using float copper left behind by the receding glaciers to make implements of many types.
اقرأ أكثر
White Pine North Copper Mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula …
A once active copper mine in the western section of Michigan's Upper Peninsula may reopen based on today's announcement that Kinterra Capital Corp. in Toronto has entered into a joint venture with Highland Copper Co. Inc. to acquire a 66-percent interest in the White Pine North copper project. By. R.J. King.
اقرأ أكثر