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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.
Drawing of Quincy Stamp Mills site. The Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District is a historic stamp mill (used to crush copper-bearing rock, separating the copper ore from surrounding rock) located on M-26 near Torch Lake, just east of Mason in Osceola Township. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]
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 ]
The Quincy Unit of the Keweenaw National Historical Park commemorates one of the most remarkable feats of engineering in northern Michigan, the 9,000-foot (2,700 m) deep Quincy Mine shaft. Nicknamed "Old Reliable" for its record of paying annual dividends for decades, the Quincy mine enjoyed a position on the rich copper rock of the Pewabic Lode.
It was created to replace an existing tramway, and was designed to take copper-bearing rock from the Quincy Mine downhill to a mill, and return coal uphill to power mine operations. [1] The mainline was just 6.5 miles in length, while sidings and extensions added about 8 miles, for total trackage under 15 miles.
Mason is a small unincorporated community in Houghton County, Michigan [1] that is the remainder of past stamp mill operations at the Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills. [2] Still standing and mostly occupied are 23 mining company houses, all along M-26. Mason has been dubbed by some locals "shutter town," because each house had its own distinct ...
The Quincy Smelter, also known as the Quincy Smelting Works, is a former copper smelter located on the north side of the Keweenaw Waterway in Ripley, Michigan. It is a contributing property of the Quincy Mining Company Historic District , a National Historic Landmark District .
In 2005, Michigan Tech purchased the blacksmith shop and machine shop buildings at the Quincy Mine site, with the intent of moving the museum there. [8] [9] The roof of the machine shop was replaced, but Tech decided instead to build a new building, and sold the buildings back to the Quincy Mine Hoist Association. [9]