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" |
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 Shaft and builings, Gogebic Range from snapshot |  Vulcan Mine scene near Vulcan, MI |  Looking east from Woodbury shaft of the Newport Mine, Ironwood, MI |
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 Plymouth Mine Surface mine Wakefield, MI |  Plymouth Mine Surface mine Wakefield, MI |  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.
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Rocks, minerals and gems from these mines:
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Mining History Links
| 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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