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Michigan Mine Inspectors
(Counties that have had underground mining excluding coal mines)

Marquette County

Mine Inspector
John E. Carlson
806 N. Second Street
Ishpeming, MI 49849
Phone 485-1392
carlson@up.net
http://www.co.marquette.mi.us/mine_inspector.htm

 Underground iron mines, several other metallic exploration shafts

Iron County

Thomas Karvala
P.O. Box 516
Caspian, MI 49915
906-265-5416
tkarvala@up.net
http://www.iron.org/edc/gov-mine.php

 Underground iron mines

Dickinson County

Mine Inspector
Todd Jastremski
W8135 Millie Hill Est. Drive
Iron Mountain, MI 49801
(906) 779-4099 (W)
(906) 776-1656 (H)

 Underground iron mines

Baraga County

Mine Inspector
Charles Sliger
(906) 355-2516

Underground iron mines

Houghton County

 

Mine Inspector
Murray Gillis
43626 US 41
Chassell, MI 49916
906-523-4105 home
906-487-1820 office

http://www.houghtoncounty.net/directory-hcmines.shtml

 Underground copper mines

Keweenaw County

 

Mine Inspector
James Kaura
337-2245 

 Underground copper mines

Ontonagon County 

 Mine Inspector
William Turin,
P.O.Box 183,
911 Mass Ave.,
Mass City, MI 49948
phone 906-883-3378. 		Underground copper mines

Gogebic County

(No mine inspector)
Contact the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners
C/O Administrator,
200 North Moore Street
Bessemer, MI 49911
phone 906-667-0411

Underground iron mines and other metalllic exploration shafts

Kent County

 		   Underground Gypsum mines 

Wayne County

 		   Underground Salt mines
Michigan Abandoned Underground Mines Inventory

Dr. Allan M. Johnson,
Project Principal Investigator
Mining Engineering
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI
E-mail: amj@mtu.edu

 Project Principal Investigator, Michigan Abandoned Underground Mines Inventory
Michigan Department of Natural Resources

For Metallic or Nonmetallic Minerals contact Milt Gere:

Milton A. Gere, Jr., Geologist,
Michigan D.N.R.,
Forest, Mineral & Fire Management,
P.O.Box 30452,
Lansing, MI 48909-7952
phone 517-335-3249
fax 517-373-2443
e-mail: gerem@michigan.gov

More information:

Michigan Department of Natural Resourcesl

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

 DNR contact for State-owned lands and general lands for Michigan Abandoned Underground Mines Inventory notice