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Original No 2 Shaft Rock House No 2 Shaft Rock House Share of the Quincy Mining Company, issued 8. February 1876 Quincy Mine native copper specimen, arborescent crystal cluster on matrix. Size: 15.9 x 9.2 x 6.0 cm. The Quincy Mine was founded in 1846 by the merger of the Northwest Mining Company and the Portage Mining Company.
Painesdale mine - Painesdale, Houghton County; Peninsula mine - Ontonagon County; 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
The Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House is an industrial building located north of Hancock, Michigan along US Highway 41 within the Quincy Mining Company Historic District. The Hoist House contains the largest steam hoisting engine in the world, [3] which sits on the largest reinforced concrete engine foundation ever poured. [3]
Calumet and Hecla Mine shaft No. 2, c. 1906. The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company was a major copper-mining company based within Michigan's Copper Country.In the 19th century, the company paid out more than $72 million in shareholder dividends, more than any other mining company in the United States during that period.
In our continuing trek through the old west and mine country in Blackwood & Bell Mysteries on Facebook, we're finally able to head into the mine shaft to find items necessary to solving our case.
Tamarack mine is a copper mine located in Osceola Township, Houghton County, north of Calumet, Michigan. The first shaft was started in 1882 and five shafts were eventually mined. [ 1 ] In 1966 seven-year-old Ruth Ann Miller fell into shaft #4 and a rescue was impossible.
Relatives of miners and community members wait near an opening to the mine shaft for artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November 13, 2024. - Emmanuel Croset/AFP/Getty Images
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