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Mine Shafts of Michigan - - -INDEX
Mining History: Mine Shafts of Michigan Part 4

Mine shafts in Michigan varied in depth from about 100 feet to over 3,000 feet for iron mines, the shafts usually being vertical. Copper Mines were often deeper, with some shafts being over a mile deep vertically. Most of the deep copper mine shafts were at an angle, ranging between 28 to 73 degrees in angle of descent, so the depth at the bottom of an inclined shaft may have been 9600' with the depth below the surface being less.
In the future we may be able to expand our Mining History site with more detailed information of Mine history. Every mine shaft has a story to tell.
This is a gallery of photos from the Michigan Technological University Mining Engineering Department Collection. There are many more mine, shaft and underground photos, the photos presented here are a sampling and may change from time to time.
Note that we are still trying to identify some of these Mine Shaft Photos.
They were in a set labeled as 1921 field trips to
"Brier Hill, Curry, Vulcan, Newport, Pabst, Ironton, Bengal, Chapin, Yale Mines"
IRON MINES
Click on the snapshot for a full size view.
Shaft and Mine buildings
Shaft and builings,
Gogebic Range
from snapshot		 Not Certain which shaft
Vulcan Mine
scene near
Vulcan, MI 		Looking Eastward from Woodbury shaft
Looking east from
Woodbury shaft of the
Newport Mine, Ironwood, MI
Not Certain, still researching
Mine Shaft 		Not Certain, still researching
Mine Shaft 		Not Certain, still researching
Mine Shaft
Not Certain, still researching
Mine Shaft 		Not Certain, still researching
Mine Shaft 		Not Certain, still researching
Mine Shaft
Loading ore
Plymouth Mine
Surface mine
Wakefield, MI 		Laying panel track
Plymouth Mine
Surface mine
Wakefield, MI 		Plymouth Mine labeled snapshot
Plymouth Mine
Surface mine
Wakefield, MI

MORE PHOTOS: Mixed Mine Shaft and Underground photos from small brownie camera snapshots taken by Michigan School of Mines professors on student field trips during the hey-day of underground iron mining in 1920s.

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




Rocks, minerals and gems from these mines:
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum
Michigan's Official State Mineral Museum

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MICHIGAN MINE SHAFT STRUCTURES:
Michigan Mineral Ranges
Introduction 		Marquette Mineral Range
Part 1 		Menominee Mineral Range
Part 2
Gogebic Mineral Range
Part 3 		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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