List of Copper Country mines

Many copper mines have existed in the Copper Country of the U.S. state of Michigan. These include both large-scale commercial ventures and small operations. There are hundreds of ancient mining pits in and around the Copper Country area, especially on Isle Royale (several of these were developed). Numerous small modern diggings exist around the area as well, including some around Fort Wilkins and the Copper Harbor Light.

Miners pose with lunch pails in hand on a mine rock pile outside of the Tamarack mineshaft.

Mines

543-S - near Gratiot Lake, Keweenaw County
543-S Deposit - near Deer Lake, Keweenaw County
Adventure mine - Greenland
Aetna Exploration Copper mine - Keweenaw County
Aetna mine - Keweenaw County
Agate Harbor mine - Agate Harbor, Keweenaw County
Agency mine - Keweenaw County
Ahmeek mine - Ahmeek, Keweenaw County
Albion mine (originally the Manhattan Mine) - Keweenaw County
Algomah mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Allouez mine - Allouez, Keweenaw County
American Mining, Exploring, & Manufacturing Company mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Amygdaloid and Isle Royale mine - Amygdaloid Island, Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Amygdaloid mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Arcadian mine - Ripley, Houghton County
Arctic mine - Victoria, Ontonagon County
Arnold mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County
Ashbed mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County
Atlantic Mine - Atlantic Mine, Houghton County
Atlantic Section 16 Exploration Prospect - Baltic
Baltic mine - Baltic
Baltic mine - South Range, Houghton County
Bay State Fissure mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Belt mine (originally the Piscatauqua mine) - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Bluff Wyoming mine - Mandan, Keweenaw County
Bohemian Range Exploration - Keweenaw County
Boston and North American Silver prospect - Silver City, Ontonagon County
Boston mine - Boston location, Houghton County
Brooklyn mine (originally the Nahass mine) - Victoria, Ontonagon County
Bumblebee mine - Rockland, Ontonagon County
Butler mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Caledonia mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Calumet and Hecla mines
Cape mine - within the Mosquito District of Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County
Carp Lake mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
Cascade prospect - Matchwood Township, Ontonagon County
Centennial mine - Centennial Heights, Houghton County; Calumet, Houghton County; and Kearsarge, Houghton County
Central Exploration - Central, Keweenaw County
Central mine - Central, Keweenaw County
Challenge Copper mine - Toivola, Houghton County
Champion mine - Painesdale, Houghton County
Chippewa Mining Company Exploration - Ontonagon County
Cherokee mine - Twin Lakes, Houghton County
Chicago and Isle Royale mine - on the northwest shore of Isle Royale National Park
Clark mine - near Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County
Cliff mine - abandoned Clifton, Keweenaw County; operated from 1845 to 1878
- Avery shaft
Clifton mine - Norwich, Ontonagon County
Concord and Douglas Copper Mine - Houghton County
Concord mine - Ripley, Houghton County
Connecticut mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Copper Falls mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County
- Childs Fissure Mine
- Copper Falls Fissure Mine
- Hill Fissure Mine
- Old Copper Falls Fissure Mine
- Owl Creek Fissure Mine
Cuyahoga mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
Delevan mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
Derby mine - Norwich, Ontonagon County
G-12 Prospect - Lac La Belle, Keweenaw County
G-13 Prospect - Lac La Belle, Keweenaw County
Garden City mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Girard Exploration - Keweenaw County
Girard Mining Company mine - Keweenaw County
Globe mine - Painesdale, Houghton County
Gogebic mine - Bergland, Ontonagon County
Gratiot Lake Project Prospect - Gratiot Lake, Keweenaw County
Gratiot Copper mine - Gratiot location, Keweenaw County
Dana mine - Central
Datolite mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Delaware mine - the abandoned town of Delaware, Keweenaw County, twelve miles south of Copper Harbor
- Delaware Fissure mine
Dover mine - Dover location
Dorchester Mining Company mine - Houghton County
Drexel mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Duncan's location - near Duncan Bay on Isle Royale National Park
Eagle Exploration prospect - Twin Lakes, Houghton County
Eagle Harbor mines - Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw County
Eagle mine - under construction since 2010 near Yellow Dog Plains
Eagle River mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Elm River mine - Twin Lakes, Houghton County
Epidote mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Erie-Ontario Mine - Donken, Houghton County
Evergreen Bluff mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Flintsteel mine (formerly known as the Nassau mine, Old Flintsteel mine, and the Superior-Nassau Superior mine) - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Florida mine - Florida location, Houghton County
Franklin mine - Franklin; bought by the Quincy Mining Company in 1908
Franklin Jr. mine (originally the Albany and Boston mine; then the Peninsula mine) - Ripley, Houghton County
Halliwell mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
Hancock mine - Hancock, Houghton County
- Dupuis shaft
Hanover mine - Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County
Hays mine (originally the Pittsburg and Boston mine) - Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County
Haytown mine (originally the Pittsburg and Isle Royale mine) - Haytown, Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Hecla mine - Hecla location, Houghton County
Hilton mine (originally the Ohio mine) - Greenland
Hogan mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Houghton Exploration prospect - Superior
Hudson mine (originally the Eureka mine) - Norwich, Ontonagon County
Humboldt mine - Copper Falls, Keweenaw County
Huron mine (originally the Houghton mine) - Hurontown, Houghton County
Iron City mine (originally the Empire Mine) - within the Mosquito District of Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County
Iroquois mine - Mohawk, Keweenaw County
Island mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Isle Royale and Chicago mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Isle Royale mine - south of Houghton, Houghton County
Kearsarge mine - Kearsarge
King Philip mine - Winona, Houghton County
Kingston mine - Copper City
Knowlton mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
La Salle mine - Osceola, Houghton County
Lac La Belle Exploration - Keweenaw County
Lafayette mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
Lake mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Lake Superior mine - Ontonagon County
Laurium mine - Laurium, Houghton County
Lizzardo mine - Keweenaw County
Lucky Bay mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Mabbs mine - Houghton, Houghton County
Madison mine - Central
Mandan mine - Mandan, Keweenaw County
Manganese mine - the abandoned town of Manganese, outside of Copper Harbor, near the Clark mine
Manhattan Exploration Prospect - Ojibway, Keweenaw County
Manitou Copper mine - near Torch Lake, Houghton County
Mass Consolidated mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
- Hazard mine
- Mass mine
- Merrimac mine
- Ogima mine
- Ridge mine
Massachusetts Copper-Land and Mining Company mine
Mayflower Old Colony Mine - Centennial
Meadow mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Medore mine - Mandan, Keweenaw County
Mendenhall mine - Victoria, Ontonagon County
Mendota mine - Lac La Belle, Keweenaw County
Merryweather prospect - Bergland, Ontonagon County
Mesnard mine - Hancock, Houghton County; bought by the Quincy Mining Company in 1897
Mica Schist Drill Sample Prospect - Tapiola, Houghton County
Michigan mine - Rockland, Ontonagon County
Michigan Technological University Experimental mine - Pewabic
Minesota Mine - Rockland, Ontonagon County
Minong mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Miskwabic Exploration Prospect - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Mohawk mine - Mohawk, Keweenaw County
Montezuma Prospect - Houghton, Houghton County
Mott Island mines - Mott Island, Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Mount Bohemia mine - Mount Bohemia, Keweenaw County
Natick Gap Exploration Prospect - Phoenix, Keweenaw County, or Vaughsville, Keweenaw County (sources disagree)
National mine - Rockland, Ontonagon County
Native Copper mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Naumkeag mine - Houghton, Houghton County
Nebraska mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
New Arcadian Exploration - Ripley, Houghton County
New Baltic Copper Company mine - Wolverine
New Baltic Exploration prospect - Houghton County
New York and Michigan Exploration mine - Keweenaw County
North's Copper Pit - Houghton County
North American Mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
North Cliff Mine - Keweenaw County
North Kearsarge mine - Kearsarge and Ahmeek
North Lake Mine - Ontonagon County
Northwestern mine - Central
Nonesuch mine - White Pine, Ontonagon County; operated from 1867 to 1912
Ohio and Isle Royale mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Ohio Trap Rock mine - Norwich, Ontonagon County
Ojibway mine - Ojibway, Keweenaw County
Old Colony Exploration Prospect - Calumet, Houghton County
Old Mass mine - Ontonagon County
Old Mendota Copper mine - Lac La Belle, Keweenaw County
Oneco Exploration prospect - Hubbell, Houghton County
Oneida mine - Victoria, Ontonagon County
Ontonagon mine - Rockland, Ontonagon County
Ontonagon mine - Victoria, Ontonagon County
Ontonagon Silver mine - Silver City, Ontonagon County
Osceola Mine - Osceola, Houghton County
Outer Hill Island mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Pacific Exploration prospect - Atlantic Mine, Houghton County
Painesdale mine - Painesdale, Houghton County
Peninsula mine - Ontonagon County
Pennsylvania Copper Mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Petherick mine - Keweenaw County
Pewabic mine - Pewabic, Houghton County; one shaft north of the Quincy Mine; acquired by Quincy in 1891 and renamed to the Quincy #6 shaft
Phoenix mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Pit 69 - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Pittsburg mine - Norwich, Ontonagon County
Pontiac Exploration prospect - Pewabic, Houghton County
Pontiac mine - bought by the Quincy Mine in 1897
Porcupine mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
Portage mine (Originally the Grand Portage mine) - Houghton County
Quincy Mine - Quincy, Houghton County
Ransom mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Reliance Prospect - Keweenaw County
Resolute mine - Keweenaw County
Rhode Island Exploration - Osceola, Houghton County
Rhode Island mine - Osceola, Houghton County
Ridge mine - near Mass City, Ontonagon County
Ripley Exploration Prospect - Ripley, Houghton County
Robbins Mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County or Vaughnsville, Keweenaw County (sources disagree)
Rockland mine - Rockland, Ontonagon Count; opened in 1847
Saginaw mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Saint Mary's mine - St. Mary's location, Houghton County
Scoville mine - near Scoville Point in Rock Harbor on Isle Royale National Park
Scranton mine - Silver City, Ontonagon County
Seneca mine - Seneca location
Sharon mine - Norwich, Ontonagon County
Shawmut mine - Twin Lakes, Houghton County
Shelden-Columbian mine - Houghton, Houghton County
- Columbian mine (originally the Albion mine)
- Sheldon mine
Siskowit mine - Rock Harbour, Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Smithwick mine - Near the end of Rock Harbor within Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
South Cliff Mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
South Hecla mine - Calumet, Houghton County
South Kearsarge mine - Centennial
South Lake mine (originally the Aztec Mine) - Mass City, Ontonagon County
South Pewabic Copper Company mine
South Side mine - Houghton County
St. Clair Mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
St. Louis Mine Exploration - Laurium, Houghton County
Star mine - Keweenaw County
Stoutenburgh Mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County
Suffolk Exploration - Keweenaw County
Superior mine (originally the Old Superior mine) - Superior
Tamarack Junior mine - Tamarack
Tamarack mine - Tamarack
Third Island mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Toltec mine - Mass City, Ontonagon County
Tremont mine (originally the Devon mine) - Ontonagon County
Trimountain mine - Trimountain, Houghton County
Union mine (originally the Bell No. 2 mine) - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County
United States Exploration Prospect - Ontonagon County
Vaughnsville Exploration Prospect - Vaughnsville, Keweenaw County
Victoria Mine (originally the Cushin mine) - Victoria, Ontonagon County; closed in 1921
Vulcan Exploration Copper mine - Keweenaw County
Vulcan mine - Ontonagon County
Washington mine - Mandan, Keweenaw County
Waterbury mine - Keweenaw County
Waukulla mine - Bergland, Ontonagon County
Webster Prospect - Houghton, Houghton County
Wendigo mine - Wendigo, Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
West Caribou Island mine No. 3 - West Caribou Island, Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
West Minnesota mine - Victoria, Ontonagon County
West Vein mine - Phoenix, Keweenaw County
Wheal Kate prospect - South Range, Houghton County
White Pine mine - White Pine, Ontonagon County; the last mine to close in the Copper Country, in 1995
Whittlesey mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County
Winona mine - Winona, Houghton County
Winthrop mine - Central
Wolverine Mine - Wolverine
Wyandot mine - Twin Lakes, Houghton County
Wyoming mine - Wyoming (Helltown)

Notes

There exist a fairly large number of unnamed mines within settlements such as Boston location, Hancock, Houghton, Hurontown, Laurium, Osceola, Oskar, Painesdale, Point Mills, Sevenmile Creek, Superior, Tamarack, Toivola, near Torch Lake, Twin Lakes, and Wolverine in Houghton County; and Copper Falls, Copper Harbor, Isle Royale, near Jacob's Creek, Mandan, Manitou Island, Ojibway, Phoenix, and Vaughsville in Keweenaw County.
Also not included on this list are the hundreds of prehistoric mining pits that exist throughout the Copper Country.

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List of Copper Country mines

Mines

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