In the mid1800s, iron ore was shipped from the Upper Peninsula mines to the foundries in the lower Great Lakes at an enormous cost. This high cost of shipping was caused by inefficient transportation combined with the nearly 40 percent waste the ore contained.
Get PriceThe Upper Peninsula supplied 90% of America's copper by the 1860s. It was the largest supplier of iron ore by the 1890s, and production continued to a peak in the 1920s, but sharply declined shortly afterward. The last copper mine closed in 1995, although the majority of mines had closed decades before. Some iron mining continues near Marquette.
Get PriceIron River is home to the Upper Peninsula’s Pro Rodeo and the largest Historical Museums around. Read below for some additional top area attractions and visit our local chamber website for more details. Chamber Website. Apple Blossom Trail. Begins on Brady Avenue in Caspian across from the Iron County Museum.
Get PriceIron ore was discovered on the Marquette Range on September 19, 1844 by William A. Burt, United States Deputy Surveyor, and party who were surveying in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Burt was the inventor of the solar compass and it was the remarkable variations in the direction of the needle that caused him to ask his party to seek about for ...
Get PriceA Brief History of Mining in the Upper Peninsula. 1844: Iron ore is discovered in the Upper Peninsula by William A. Burt, the United States deputy surveyor. (27) 1845: The first major discovery of ore is made near Negaunee, Michigan. (28) July 23: The Jackson Mining Company is formed. The Jackson Mine is opened in Negaunee, Michigan.
Get PriceThe 47mile biking and multiuse Iron Ore Heritage Trail crosses the Marquette Iron Range, offering a variety of geography. Enjoy the Lake Superior shoreline, historic and urban area, wetlands, and forests.
Get PriceMarquette ore dock No. 6 with wooden railroad trestle, ca1932, and its current state of preservation. READING AND REFERENCES (A Short List) Boyum, Burton H., The Saga of Iron Mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, John M. Longyear Research Library, 1983.
Get PriceThe Iron Ore Heritage Trail has been designated as a Pure Michigan Trail. We are a 47mile, year round, multiuse, interpretive trail stretching across the Marquette Iron Range from Harvey to Republic in the Upper Peninsula.
Get PriceMICHIGAN IRON MINES. There are three iron ranges in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, these are the Gogebic, Marquette and Menominee Ranges. The Gogebic was the last of the three great iron ore fields opened in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Beginning in 1848 with Dr. A. Randall, federal and state geologists had mapped the ore ...
Get PriceSep 30, 2019· Upper Peninsula ; Vulcan ; Things to Do in Vulcan ... This fascinating tour is family fun and educational too!! You won't forget the experience of visiting the Iron Mountain Iron Mine with skilled guides who take you ... (supplied by the facility) during this tour of an Iron Ore mine, but no dust was encountered. The ride on the small train ...
Get PriceJun 14, 2009· This belief changed in the 1840s when it was discovered that the Upper Peninsula was a vast region of resources including copper and iron ore. Considered to have produced more mineral wealth than the California Gold Rush, the Upper Peninsula supplied 90% of the United States copper supply by the 1860s and was the largest supplier of iron ore by ...
Get PriceThat is until people learned about the mountains stuffed full of copper and iron ore in the upper peninsula. More wealth came out of the UP than out of California during the gold rush, and supplied 90% of America's iron and copper. Sounds like Michigan got the better end of the deal.
Get PriceFirst Discovery of Iron Ore in the Lake Superior Region. Michigan’s Iron Man – William Austin Burt 1792 – 1858. Soon after Michigan became a state in 1837, William Austin Burt was hired to survey the new land. By 1840, Burt and his survey team had reached the Upper Peninsula mapping the “howling wilderness.” Download PDF
Get PriceHowever, since its first iron ore shipment of two hundred pounds in 1846, the Upper Peninsula mines (below) have produced well over one billion tons of iron ore. Some barren waste! Iron ore is Michigan’s most valuable nonfuel, mined commodity. In 1994, the Lake Superior area produced 95% of the US’s supply of iron ore.
Get PriceSep 26, 2012· When it comes to mining, the Upper Peninsula was practically built with it. From the copper mines that made the Keweenaw Peninsula boom in the 1800s to the iron ore mining taking place in Marquette County today, mining has been a way of life for …
Get PricePreWar Iron Mining. From 1847 to 1858 there were only three iron mines in operation in the Upper Peninsula. Two of these mines were located in Ishpeming (the Cleveland Mine and the Lake Superior Mine) and the third in Negaunee (the Jackson Mine).
Get PriceSchoolcraft Blast Furnace Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore National Park Service Department of the Interior With surveyor William Burt’s discovery of iron ore near Teal Lake in Marquette County in 1844, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula suddenly became a hub of activity. The discovery led to construction of a vast mining and
Get PriceAug 22, 2019· Attractions near Iron Ore Heritage Trail: ( mi) Fumee Falls ( mi) Downtown Marquette ( mi) Blackrocks Brewery ( mi) Marquette Regional History Center ( mi) Upper Peninsula Children's Museum; View all attractions near Iron Ore Heritage Trail on TripAdvisor.
Get PriceThe Marquette Iron Range is a deposit of iron ore located in Marquette County, Michigan in the United States. The towns of Ishpeming and Negaunee developed as a result of mining this deposit. A smaller counterpart of Minnesota's Mesabi Range, this is one of two iron ranges in the Lake Superior basin that are in active production as of 2018. The iron ore of the Marquette Range has been mined ...
Get PriceFord's Iron Mountain plant, part of an extensive sawmill complex in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, was retooled during World War II to produce wooden CG4A gliders for the Army. These workers assembled the light aircraft, which had no motor or propellers.
Get PriceAug 22, 2018· The Iron Ore Heritage Trail is a 47mile, year round, multiuse, interpretive trail that crosses the Marquette Iron Range in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Call us the outdoor linear museum where you exercise your body and mind. Those who bike, walk, run, hike, ORV, snowmobile, cross country ski, birdwatch, and/or wander will find a section of trail perfect for your activity.
Get PriceMar 30, 2016· 400 will lose jobs as closing looms for Upper Peninsula ironore mine. Updated Apr 02, 2019 ... The company's adjacent Tilden Mine can be expected to continue producing iron ore pellets for …
Get PriceThe Upper Peninsula’s Empire Mine is closing, symbolic of a fading heritage industry as old as the state. ... Lower production, tumbling iron ore prices and falling revenues and stock shares ...
Get PriceMichigan iron ore averages about 51 per cent iron natural. Its parent rock, the iron formation, averages 20 per cent to 25 per cent iron. The ore is a product of a natural concentration of the iron by removal of its associated silica Ore is not found everywhere in the parent material. It represents less than one per cent of the total volume of
Get PriceSep 11, 2013· Today, mine operators in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are generally after taconite, a lowgrade ore that was once considered waste rock. To make it usable, mining companies blast it into small pieces with explosives, grind it into powder with powerful machinery, and then use magnets or flotation techniques to separate the iron minerals out from ...
Get PriceHe discovered the East Vulcan Mine (Iron Mountain Iron Mine) that started producing in 1877. During the prospecting era, ore was hauled to Menominee by wagonthen shipped by vessel. After 1877 ore was shipped to Escanaba on the "new" Chicago and NorthWestern Railway. ... Michigan, is a popular Upper Peninsula tourist attraction that is now ...
Get PricePack your bags and head up north with this list of things to do in the Upper Peninsula (or UP for short). Pack your bags and head up north with this list of things to do in the Upper Peninsula (or UP for short). ... The Iron Ore Heritage Trail from Marquette to Ishpeming shares the state's history of mines, industry and human resilience in an ...
Get PriceThe mining industry has been essential for Marquettes economy since its founding in 1849. The Upper Peninsula was considered a useless piece of inhospitable land up until Douglas Houghton discovered copper in the Keweenaw Peninsula in 1841. Soon after, William Burt discovered iron ore in the Upper Peninsula in 1844.
Get PriceToday, iron ore travels by train from the mines to each of these two main docks. Getting the iron ore to the ore carriers (Great Lakes freighters) is the work of railroads. In the iron ore district of the Upper Peninsula, one of those railroad lines was (and still is) the LAKE SUPERIOR …
Get PriceRecorded in Stone: Voices on the Marquette Iron Range. Introduction. Recorded in Stone is an instructional web site on the history of immigration to the Marquette Iron Range in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Produced by the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives and funded in part with a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council, the web site features ...
Get PriceArticle > Explore Upper Peninsula Mines and Mine Museums. ... On a fall drive through the Upper Peninsula, the copper boom still echoes throughout the tours, ... a trail connects the museum to the 47mile Iron Ore Heritage Trail, which passes artwork, interpretive signs and relics of …
Get PriceJul 25, 2014· 1. The Iron Ore, an Upper Peninsula newspaper, was sued for slander by Teddy Roosevelt. An editorial piece, called “The Teddy Way” accused him of getting drunk “not infrequently.” His winning sum? 6 cents or in his words “The cost of a good newspaper.” 2. Isle Royale National Park is the ...
Get PriceMay 25, 2012· IRONWOOD, Mich. — On the far northern reaches of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, James Jacques drove on a rutted logging road to an old mining shaft surrounded by …
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