OneMine | On the Ancient Copper-Mines of Lake Superior

THE ancient copper-mines of Lake Superior, having been destroyed or covered by-modern mining-dumps, are not accessible to the present inhabitants of that region, and, since no more are likely to be found, some account of those already discovered, from one who has seen them, may be acceptable to the Institute. Early in May, 1855, 1 took a party of men to open an ancient pit …

Bronze Age Copper Mining in Michigan by Norsemen

What are the latest findings on proof of early Norse copper mining in Michigan ? ... and other locations to the south at the onset of the hard winters on Lake Superior. The mining appears to have ended overnight, as though they had left for the day, and never came back. ... Mining in ancient ages. waitwhat; Jul 3, 2019; Introductions; Replies 0 ...

Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale, Lake Superior

ries of Minnesota; and to the ancient copper mines of Isle Royale, in Lake Superior. Although exhibits of the collections procured through these explorations were made in due course of time, full reports of the work done and the observations made at some of the points have never been published. Papers were prepared describing the flint

Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan: The Nineteenth …

Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native c... Front Matter Download; ... Lake Superior Copper Explorers 1819–1874 Download; XML; Appendix 3:: Historic Copper Mines Founded on "Ancient Diggings" Download; XML; Appendix 4 ...

Mining: Copper Mining in the Great Lakes (USA)

The bedrock geological history of the Lake Superior region is fairly well understood (LaBerge 1994); its basement of pre‐Cambrian bedrock, part of the Canadian Shield, is very ancient.The deposition took place around 1,100 million years ago (MYA), initiated by a period of roughly 25 million years during which a series of enormous movements of magma broke through a …

Ancient mining on the shores of Lake Superior

ANCIENTMININGONTHESHORESOFLAKESUPERIOR. PRELIMINARYREMARKS. TheevidencesofancientminingoperationswithinthemineralregionofLake ...

Copper mining on Isle Royale 6500– 5400 years ago …

McCargoe Cove; a long, narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient copper mines. At McCargoe Cove, concentrations of lead, copper, and potassium increase in the sediments after …

Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake …

The regions surrounding Lake Superior in the United States, including Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, are home to widespread copper deposits that were extensively mined in ancient times by societies associated with the Old Copper Complex (Martin, 1999, Martin and Pleger, 1999) (Fig. 1).Archaeological surveys in the middle 19th century were …

Copper mines many millennia old on Isle Royale designated …

"In the opening of our principal mines we have followed in the path of our ancient predecessors, but with much better means of penetrating the earth to great depths," the Minong Mining Company boasted in 1875. ... Prehistoric copper mining in the Lake Superior region is among the oldest known examples from around the world of humans ...

Missing: Prehistoric Michigan's Half-Billion Pounds of Copper

Records made over twelve years at the turn of the century reveal that two and one-half million tons of copper passed through the Soo Locks. A value in 1898 dollars of $550 …

The ancient copper mines of Lake Superior

The ancient copper mines of Lake Superior . Author(s): Jacob jr. [from old catalog] Houghton. Year: 1879. Summary. This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module ...

Ancient Mines on Lake Superior

In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons, which had been raised by ancient wedges, and rolled along the gallery....

Lake Superior's ancient copper mining mystery

The skeletons, buried amid copper artifacts, turned out to be the earliest evidence of an ex­tensive, ancient trading culture based heavily on copper mined on the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, along the shores of Lake …

The Ontonagon…a river with an ancient past

Prehistoric copper miners had mined the region for millennia before the first modern mines were developed. Over 5,000 crude prehistoric copper pits were tabulated around Lake Superior with thousands located between …

Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale, Lake Superior …

ries of Minnesota; and to the ancient copper mines of Isle Royale, in Lake Superior. Although exhibits of the collections procured through these explorations were made in due course of time, full reports of the work done and the observations made at some of the points have never been published. Papers were prepared describing the flint

Great Lakes Mining

In addition to the proposed new mines and mineral exploration in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, there are two new copper mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that are both located close to Lake Superior. The first is the Eagle copper-nickel mine proposed by Kennecott Minerals, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, located in the Yellow Dog Plains.

ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR

ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR BY CHARLES WHITTLESEY WASHINGTON CITY: PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. APRIL, 1863. NEW YORK: D. APPLBTON & CO. ... and were therefore produced from native copper. In the Lake Superior veins spots of native silver are frequently seen studding the surface of the copper, …

Mining: Copper Mining in the Great Lakes (USA)

The bedrock geological history of the Lake Superior region is fairly well understood (LaBerge, 1994); its basement of pre-Cambrian bedrock, part of the Canadian Shield, is very ancient.The deposition took place around 1,100 million years ago (MYA), initiated by a period of roughly 25 million years during which a series of enormous movements of magma broke …

Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior – Gen 6 …

Hagar, Albert D. Atlantic Monthly 15 (Mar. 1865): 308-315. IN the month of March, 1848, O. Knapp and J. B. Townsend discovered, from tracks in the snow, that a hedg had taken up his winter-quarters in a cavity of a ledge of rocks, about twelve miles from Ontonagon, Lake Superior, in the neighborhood of the Minnesota Copper Mine.

Prehistoric copper mines and long human history earns Isle …

The archipelago of islands in Lake Superior that comprise Isle Royale National Park, or Minong as it is known to the Ojbiwe, has been officially recognized for its cultural resources by the federal government. ... narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient copper mines ...

Conflicted Over Copper: How the Mining Industry Developed Around Lake

The Keweenaw Rift jutting up into the middle of Lake Superior is the world's most important native copper mine and would go on to be exploited for decades. More than 140 copper mines were established by the end of the 19th century, and they left behind millions of tons of waste from the extraction process.

ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE …

An ancient people extracted copper from the veins of Lake Superior of whom history gives no account. They did it in a rude way, by means of fire and the use of copper wedges or gads, and by stone mauls.

Mining in Northern Wisconsin

Mining on Lake Superior "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior" and "White fish sustenance of ancient miners" Figures 1 and 2 following page 116 Vol. 5 Plate 16, "The Indian Tribes of the United States" by Henry Schoolcraft, 1855. View the original source document: WHI 34038.

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Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake …

Determining the timing and transport mechanisms (i.e. fluvial and/or atmospheric) of pollution associated with ancient copper mining on Isle Royale in Lake Superior (United States) is important for understanding the current and future trajectory of ecosystems affected by human activity. This study reports metal concentrations in sediment from two small, closed-basin lakes …

Copper Mines in Ancient North America

It is not clear who these ancient miners were, but we do know that the mining abruptly ended in 1,200 BC. This conveniently coincides with the end of the Bronze Age in Europe. The copper located in the Lake Superior area is some of the purest copper in the world, yet less than 1% has been discovered in America.

The ancient copper mines of Michigan's Upper …

In his 1879 text entitled Ancient Copper Mines of Lake Superior, John Jacob Houghton relates, beginning on page 141: On the south shore of Lake Superior the works of the ancient miners extend over a district of country …

Copper Range

Michigan's unique contribution to archeology is found in the ancient copper mines of the Lake Superior region. The presence of copper in the rocks of the Keweenaw Peninsula has been known for centuries. ... deposits extend in a narrow band from the Michigan-Wisconsin border to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula and out into Lake Superior. The ...

Copper Mining

There is a rich lore about ancient copper mining in the Lake Superior region. Most of it is highly speculative and is unsupported, but fervently believed. ... These early mines found native copper in veins at the surface. They left behind pits …

Copper mining on Isle Royale 6500– 5400 years ago …

McCargoe Cove; a long, narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient copper mines. At McCargoe Cove, concentrations …

Copper I

Michigan's unique contribution to archeology is found in the ancient copper mines of the Lake Superior region. The presence of copper in the rocks of the Keweenaw Peninsula has been known for centuries. Copper artifacts show that long before Europeans arrived, native Americans throughout the upper midwest used the metal for making a variety ...

Native Americans Conducted Large-Scale Copper Mining …

Both ancient and modern mines for the extremely useful metal abound in North America's Lake Superior region; long before modern miners extracted the ore from deep …

Minoans have been to America before Columbus

They created colonies even in Canada and exploited local copper mines. All this before Columbus! ... talking specifically about the possibility of ancient Greeks had arrived in …America, searching for new sources of metals. ... (almost entirely pure) on the shores of Lake Superior, Michigan between the U.S. and Canada, where there have been ...

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