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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 .
The Quincy Mining Company Historic District is a United States National Historic Landmark District; [2] [3] other Quincy Mine properties nearby, including the Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills, [5] the Quincy Dredge Number Two, [6] and the Quincy Smelter are also historically significant.
Quincy Smelter site in July 2008 The Michigan Smelter between 1900 and 1906. There were seven copper smelters built in the Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Calumet and Hecla smelter - Operated by Calumet and Hecla Mining Company and located north of Hubbell on the shore of Torch Lake; Detroit and Lake Superior Smelter - Near ...
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 end of the war brought an end to high prices, and nearly all companies closed, leaving only the Calumet and Hecla, Quincy, and Copper Range mining companies. Both Calumet and Hecla and Quincy survived largely by reprocessing the stamp sand left from older mining operations, leaching out copper left by more primitive processing techniques. [9]
In 1898, the Quincy Smelter was constructed in nearby Ripley, Franklin Township, to serve the industrious Quincy Mine. The smelter was built on a site formerly held by the Pewabic Mining Company, which the Quincy had absorbed in 1891. [41] In 1893 both the H&C RR and the MRRR were administered by the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad ...
Quincy Smelter; T. Tamarack/Osceola Smelter This page was last edited on 8 July 2012, at 12:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Whole of Mont Ripley in January 2012, with the Quincy Smelter in the foreground. Mont Ripley opened in 1934. In 1944 it was taken over by Michigan Technological University. [3] In 2006, a new building was built to ease congestion in the main chalet. The new chalet has a gas fireplace and added seating, as well as more lockers.