Ancient Copper Mines Michigan

The Great Ancient Copper Mines of Michigan It is estimated that half a billion pounds Ref1 of copper were mined in tens of thousands of pits on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan by ancient miners over a period of a thousand years

The ancient copper mines of Michigans Upper Peninsula The area now known as Michigans Upper Peninsula contains rich copper resources that were mined extensively beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century

Apr 18 2014 Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region Octave Joseph DuTemple privately published Boom Copper Angus Murdock Macmillan Company New York 1943 Inside Michigan Michigans Most Ancient Industry is Americas Prehistoric Copper Mines July 1953

Aug 11 2018 American History classes generally mention NOTHING about the ancient copper mines in Michigans Upper Peninsula where an estimated 500000000 pounds of copper was mined from 5000 to 1200 BC Interestingly the mines were briefly reactivated on a smaller scale suddenly ending production around 1320 AD 10 years The Knights Templar who discovered evidence of the

The Miners of Michigan Copper It is estimated that half a billion pounds Ref1 of copper were mined in tens of thousands of pits on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan by ancient miners over a period of a thousand years Carbon dating of wood timbers in the pits has dated the mining to start about 2450 BC and end abruptly at 1200 BC

Copper was first mined in this area by an ancient vanished race between 5000 and 1200 bc These miners left no burial grounds dwellings pottery clay tablets or cave drawings What was left behind was thousands of copper producing pits and more thousands of crude hammering stones with which the pits had been worked

1771 Alexander Henry makes the first English attempt to mine copper on the Keweenaw Peninsula near the Ontonagon River At the time the nearest English settlement is nearly 300 miles away at Sault Saint Marie and the region is completely undeveloped and mostly unmapped

Dec 18 2008 Ancient Copper Mining in the Upper Peninsula By Jeff Smith on December 18 2008 Tagged Northern Michigan History Outdoors Isle Royale Marquette Upper Peninsula

Aug 11 2018 American History classes generally mention NOTHING about the ancient copper mines in Michigans Upper Peninsula where an estimated 500000000 pounds of copper was mined from 5000 to 1200 BC Interestingly the mines were briefly reactivated on a smaller scale suddenly ending production around 1320 AD 10 years The Knights Templar

Timeline of Michigan Copper Mining Prehistory to 1850 The earliest known metalworking in North America begins when Native peoples start mining copper on the Keweenaw Peninsula Digging pits and using heavy stones to break waste rock away from copper masses they fashion bracelets beads tools fishhooks and other items for trade Objects

Copper Country Road Trips Keweenaw Mining History Caledonia Native Copper Mine Rock and Mineral Collecting near Ontonagon Michigan for the rock collector or geologist Collect samples of copper silver datolite calcite epodote quartz as well as a range of microminerals

The professors at the Michigan School of Mines produced this book about these ancient copper mines and speculated that perhaps Egyptians had come and taken the copper away The archeologists had nothing to say about the matter Not very much copper is found in the remains of the Indians of that period The mounds dont contain very much copper

The State of Our Knowledge About Ancient Copper Mining in Michigan The Michigan Archaeologist 4123119138 Susan R Martin 1995 ABSTRACT Popular literature contributes to the persistence of fantasy and mythology surrounding ancient copper mining in Michigan This paper points out some of the major elements of misstatement and myth revealed

The era around 3000 BC saw more than 500000 tons of copper being mined in the socalled Upper Peninsula in the American state of Michigan The largest mine was on Isle Royale an island in Lake Superior near the Canadian border Here there are thousands of prehistoric copper pits dug thousands of years ago by ancient peoples unknown

Great Lakes Copper Mining in Ancient Times and the Old Copper Culture Below are examples of the forms native copper comes in at the lodes at the Upper Pennisula of Michigan Because of the coppers purity it can be traced chemically to Europe in the Bronze age and even to the Middle East when it turns up in Old World archaeological sites

Descending into an abandoned mine and touring mining museums connect visitors to the UP copper mining boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s Keweenaw National Historical Park KNHP works with local partners to preserve many of these sites The industrial copper boom began in the early 1840s when word spread of the UPs copper deposits in the Keweenaw Peninsula a finger of rock and

Rock Lake Located in Lake Mills Wisconsin has a pyramid resting beneath its waters This pyramid is linked to the people that were mining the copper in upper Michigan thus linked to the King Solomon Mines andor Temple

Jan 10 2013 It is not clear who these ancient miners were but we do know that the mining abruptly ended in 1200 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

MICHIGANS COPPER DEPOSITS AND MINING The first mineral boom in the United States occurred in 1843 when people from all over the continent began to chase the copper silver and iron of Michigans upper peninsula These mines were in commercial operation for more than a hundred years

Evidence of the earlier mining efforts was everywhere in the form of many stone hammers some copper artifacts and places where copper had been partially worked out of the rock but left in place The ancient pits and trenches led to the discovery of many of the copper deposits that were mined in

Apr 13 2017 2016 Copper Country Ancient Sites Conservancy Conference

Mainstream archeologists attribute all these immense labors to a North American Copper Culture certainly not to copperhungry visitors from foreign shores Admittedly many copper artifacts have been dug up from North American mounds but only a tiny fraction of the metal the Michigan mines

Former state archaeologist and UMMAA author John R Halsey will give a presentation on Michigans prehistoric copper mines on Saturday November 10 at the Library of Michigan in Lansing The Museum published Halseys book Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan The NineteenthCentury Discovery of Ancient Diggings in the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale in May

Oct 19 2019 The Miners of Michigan Copper It is estimated that half a billion pounds Ref1 of copper were mined in tens of thousands of pits on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan by ancient miners over a period of a thousand years Carbon dating of wood timbers in the pits has dated the mining to start about 2450 BC and end abruptly at