FIRST - Commercial Mine Shaft in Michigan - Copper Harbor, MI
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linkys
N 47° 28.437 W 087° 51.580
16T E 435224 N 5258192
Soon after the presence of copper ore in commercially viable concentrations was confirmed, the Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Mining Company sank this shaft on a point of land known today as Hays' Point.
Waymark Code: WMCHR6
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2011
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Today it is just a water filled hole surrounded by a wooden fence that is situated below the Copper Harbor Lighthouse. But in the spring of 1844 it was the thing of dreams, as the Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Mining Company sank this shaft down sixty feet where water filling the mine and a lack of copper ore brought about its demise. In the end it proved to be more of a money pit than than a money producer. Like many first attempts this one didn't pan out, but the company continued to prospect and mine in the Keweenaw until it discovered the fabulously wealthy Cliff mine where the copper wasn't in the form of the traditional black ore, it was huge masses of pure copper.
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