Nonesuch Copper Mine - Ontonagon County, Michigan USA
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The Nonesuch Copper Mine in Ontonagon County
Waymark Code: WM14NZZ
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2021
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The Nonesuch Mine site includes an abandoned copper mine and the remains of a small ghost town in the southeast corner of the Porcupine Mountains State Park, just off South Boundary Road.
The mine was rather aptly named, as the extremely fine character of its copper deposits was unlike any other vein found in the region and made traditional mining techniques incredibly inefficient and costly.
Ed Less is given credit for discovering the Nonesuch on the Little Iron River in 1865 and within two years the Nonesuch Mining Company was extracting copper from a pair of shafts. But as a mining operation the Nonesuch sputtered at best over the next 45 years, opening and closing five different times, .
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