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This is a list of Superfund sites in Michigan designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
In addition, the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program, awarded $3.6 million in 2024 for 31 projects to fight invasives, and more than $36 million over 10 years.
Name County Years Material Coordinates Adventure mine: Ontonagon: 1850–1920: copper: Alabastine Mine: Kent: 1907– gypsum: Arcadian mine: Houghton: 1898–1908: copper
Camp Gibbs was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the latter half of 1935 [8] on land purchased by the US from the Michigan Mineral Land Company. The camp was used from 1935 to 1941 as a Michigan Social Welfare Community Organization site to house workers employed in the forest. In 1967, the Iron County Sportsman Club purchased the camp.
Copper knife, spearpoints, awls, and spade made from copper deposits mined by Native Americans in Wisconsin from the Late Archaic period, 3000 BC-1000 BC.. Native Americans were the first to mine and work the copper of Lake Superior and the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan between 5000 BCE and 1200 BCE.
Japanese knotweed is seen in flower. Yellowish-white flower spikes appear in August and September, making now the best time of year to identify and report occurrences of this invasive species.
Camp Gibbs was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the latter half of 1935 [101] on land purchased by the US from the Michigan Mineral Land Company, [103] and is the only remaining CCC camp in Michigan. The camp was used from 1935 to 1941 as a Michigan Social Welfare Community Organization site to house workers employed in the forest.
The mine is located on the Yellow Dog Plains in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Eagle is the only primary nickel mine in the United States . The mine began production in fall 2014 and is expected to produce 440 million pounds of nickel, 429 million pounds of copper and small amounts of other metals (platinum, palladium ...