Gogebic Range: Mining History: Mine Shafts of Michigan

Mine Shafts of Michigan - - -TO INDEX
Mining History: Mine Shafts of Michigan Part 3

The Gogebic Mineral Range is located in the western Upper Peninsula and extends into neighboring Wisconsin. The iron mines in this range were among the deepest underground iron mines developed in the country. In 1906 the Norrie mine was considered the greatest iron mine in the world. The last operation, the Peterson mine, closed in 1967. The gold explorations were not commercially successful. Iron production on the Gogebic Range totalled 255 million tons. These photos are a sampling of the shaft structures, headframes and shaft houses of some of the underground mines in Michigan.

GOGEBIC MINERAL RANGE MINES
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E.Norrie C Shaft Norrie Iron Mine	Norrie D Timber Shaft for lowering timbers	Pabst C Shaft Iron Mining
Pabst H Shaft Iron mine	Pabst G Shaft	Shaft (Gogebic Range)
Eureka 3 Shaft	Eureka 4 Shaft	Asteroid Shaft
Woodbury Shaft of the Newport Mine	Bonnie K Shaft of the Newport-Bonnie Mine	Corrigan Shaft of the Ironton Mine
Palms Mine Haulageway	Sunday Lake Shaft Iron Mine	Anvil Mine View of Shafts

Mine Shaft, Upper Peninsula	Mine Shaft, Upper Peninsula	Mine Shaft, Upper Peninsula
Mine Shaft, Upper Peninsula	Mine Shaft, Upper Peninsula	View of Pabst and Newport Mines Ironwood, MI
Plymouth Mine, Three locomotives and shovel Wakefield, MI	Volunteer Mine Pit showing a big blast Palmer, MI	Geneva Mine Ironwood, MI
Looking NE Palms Hill, Showing Eureka #3 and #4 Gogebic Range	Eureka #3 Gogebic Range

More photos of Mine Shaft Structures
Note that Michigan Mining School students were often taken on field trips to be shown the mine shaft structures while under construction as a part of their training. So in many photos the internal structural construction can be seen. Some mine shaft headframes may not have been sheathed.

IRON MINES
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Baltic Mine, Iron County, Suffly Shaft	Corrigan Shaft, Gogebic Range	Mining School model room
Tully Mine shaft, Iron County	Eureka #4, 22nd Level At the mine shaft Gogebic Range	Davis Mine, 26th level Gogebic Range

Newport Mine builings, Gogebic Range	Cornish pump, Ludington Mine, Iron Mountain	Tully Shaft, Iron County
G Shaft, Pabst Mine, Gogebic Range	Bengal Mine, Field trip for College of Mines students	Shaft and builings, from snapshot
Shaft and builings, from snapshot	Shaft and builings, from snapshot	Shaft and builings, from snapshot

These photos are a sampling of the shaft structures and other underground pictures of some of the mines
in Michigan from the Michigan Technological University Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences Department Collection.

MICHIGAN MINE SHAFT STRUCTURES:

Michigan Mineral Ranges Introduction	Marquette Mineral Range Part 1	Menominee Mineral Range Part 2
Michigan Iron Mines: Various Locations Part 4	Copper Country Mine Shaft Structures: Quincy Mine Part 5	Keweenaw Copper Mine Shafts & Structures Part 6
More Iron Mine Shaft Structures Part 7	Iron Mines (MTU Library Copper Country Archives) Part 8	Copper Mines (MTU Library Copper Country Archives) Part 9

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