More Copper Falls Clues
As I’ve noted before there isn’t a great deal left of the sprawling collection of mines that once occupied Petherick Hill. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing left to collaborate those mines’...
View ArticleThe Number Two
When Captain Hooper first took reins of the old Victoria property in 1881 he found a mine in disarray. Not only was it flooded, which was too be expected, but all the mine’s timbers had rotted away,...
View ArticleTamarack No.3
When the Tamarack Mine undertook the ambitious plan of mining the Calumet Conglomerate at depth, it was an incredibly risky and ambitious plan that had no contemporary counterpart. It was only blind...
View ArticleThe Caldwell (p1)
The success of the C&H Mine atop the Calumet Conglomerate attracted a great deal of attention as well as the interest of numerous investors hoping to cash in on the lode’s apparent riches. This...
View ArticleA Shaft House’s Remains
Like many mines, the Trimountain utilized a combo shaft / rock house for their shafts. These buildings combined a stand alone shaft house – a building that traditionally only served to protect the...
View ArticleThe “B” Shaft
The Minesoata was typical of early fissure copper mines in the region. Scattered and seemingly chaotic, the mine sunk nearly a dozen shafts along its holdings atop the north bluff. With such a rich...
View ArticleA Michigan Bat Cage
The old Michigan Mine property is a literal mine field, encompassing the shafts from not only the Michigan, but also the Minesota, Superior, Rockland, and National Mines as well. In total several dozen...
View ArticleA Portal to the Depths
While the colossus rock house foundations had deservedly garnered much of our earlier attention at the Lake Mine, our eyes had been redirected to another impressive mass of concrete sitting a bit apart...
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