Pewabic Mine, Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine, located east of Millie Hill on Pewabic Hill, opened in 1887. This photograph was taken shortly thereafter and facing north, shows the extensive tramway leading from the early wooden shaft. Several ore cars have passed under the tramway and have been loaded from the ore pocket. The men standing in front of the ore cars nearest the tramway help provide a visual scale by which to measure these immense mining structures. Judging from the logs to the left of the picture, the mine’s sawmill must have been located to the left of the shaft., Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine, located east of Millie Hill on Pewabic Hill, opened in 1887. This photograph was taken shortly thereafter and facing north, shows the extensive tramway leading from the early wooden shaft. Several ore cars have passed under the tramway and have been loaded from the ore pocket. The men standing in front of the ore cars nearest the tramway help provide a visual scale by which to measure these immense mining structures. Judging from the logs to the left of the picture, the mine’s sawmill must have been located to the left of the shaft.
Subject(s): Mines and mineral resources
Mine shafts
Iron Mountain (Mich.)
Date Created: 1887
Title: Pewabic Mine, Iron Mountain.
Name(s): Dickinson County Library, contributor
Cummings, William John, contributor
Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1887
Physical Form: photographs
Extent: 1 item
Abstract/Description: Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine, located east of Millie Hill on Pewabic Hill, opened in 1887. This photograph was taken shortly thereafter and facing north, shows the extensive tramway leading from the early wooden shaft. Several ore cars have passed under the tramway and have been loaded from the ore pocket. The men standing in front of the ore cars nearest the tramway help provide a visual scale by which to measure these immense mining structures. Judging from the logs to the left of the picture, the mine’s sawmill must have been located to the left of the shaft.
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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Subject(s): Mines and mineral resources
Mine shafts
Iron Mountain (Mich.)
Held by: Dickinson County Library
Restrictions on Access: No Copyright (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of: Dickinson County Library photographs. Identifier: SLC-005
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