Author: Alfred P. Swineford
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Ossian Doolittle Ashley
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Ellis W. Courter
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Orrin W. Robinson
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Lake Superior Mining Institute
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Larry D. Lankton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336965
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and their mines, mills, and smelters, Hollowed Ground is also a community study. It examines the region's population and ethnic mix, which was a direct result of the mining industry, and the companies' paternalistic involvement in community building. While this book covers the history of the entire Lake Superior mining industry, it particularly focuses on the three biggest, most important, and longest-lived companies: Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy. Lankton shows the extent of the companies' influence over their mining locations, as they constructed the houses and neighborhoods of their company towns, set the course of local schools, saw that churches got land to build on, encouraged the growth of commercial villages on the margin of a mine, and even provided pasturage for workers' milk cows and space for vegetable gardens. Lankton also traces the interconnected fortunes of the mining communities and their companies through times of bustling economic growth and periods of decline and closure. Hollowed Ground presents a wealth of images from Upper Michigan's mining towns, reflecting a century and a half of unique community and industrial history. Local historians, industrial historians, and anyone interested in the history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula will appreciate this informative volume.

Author: John R. St. John
Publisher: Рипол Классик
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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This descriptive discussion of the Lake Superior country emphasizes geographical features and is directed primarily towards those interested in locating and exploiting the region's mineral deposits of copper and iron. Nevertheless, it is written as a travel narrative, with the author progressing along the shoreline areas, noting their scenic beauties and providing anecdotes and opinions along the way. The reader is told what to wear and what transportation facilities and amenities will be found en route. The book lists mining companies already functioning in the area and gives information about their management and the nature of their operations. Among other information, there is also a glossary of mining terms, a list of grantees, a short vocabulary of French and local Indian words, and a list of steamship and sailing vessels.