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The Delaware Mine is located off U.S. Highway 41, 12 miles (19 km) in Grant Township, Keweenaw County, south of Copper Harbor, Michigan and is a Keweenaw Heritage Site. [1] [2] The Delaware Copper Mine provides tours of one of the oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw, [2] dating back to 1847.
Pennsylvania Copper Mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County; Petherick mine - Keweenaw County; Pewabic mine - Pewabic, Houghton County; one shaft north of the Quincy Mine; acquired by Quincy in 1891 and renamed to the Quincy #6 shaft; Phoenix mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County; Pit 69 - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County; Pittsburg mine - Norwich, Ontonagon County
Delaware Mine entrance. The Delaware Copper Mine is located off U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), 12 miles (19 km) south of Copper Harbor, Michigan. [4] The Delaware Copper Mine provides tours of one of the oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw, [4] dating back to 1846. [18] The mine had five shafts, with the deepest reaching 1,400 feet (430 m). [18]
Delaware is an unincorporated community in Grant Township in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was established in 1846 as a copper mining town. It is located in the Keweenaw Peninsula, ten miles south of Copper Harbor and around twenty five miles north of Calumet. When the town was first settled it had a population of one ...
Jul. 18—BARAGA — Two small children played in the day's gentle surf on a seemingly unending beach on the Keweenaw Bay shoreline, running back and forth along dark-colored sands warmed by the ...
Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3458-4., focuses on three companies, Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy, in a study of native copper mining and copper-sulfide mining on Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Thurner, Arthur W. (1994).
Lac La Belle (/ ˈ l æ k ˈ l ə b ɛ l / LACK lə-BELL; French: "Lake The Beautiful") is a small unincorporated community in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The town was originally the site of a stamping plant for the copper mines of the Keweenaw, specifically the Mendota Mine and the Delaware Mine. Copper-bearing rock was ...
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...