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dc.contributor.authorPetersen, Max S.
dc.date1945-03
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:00:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:21:03Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:00:44Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:21:03Z
dc.identifierlibimagesU455a
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/5829
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2002-5-21.
dc.descriptionUSBM #59536; B-Shaft house and incline to crusher house. Cliffs Shaft Mine. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan. (March 1945 - M.S.P.).
dc.descriptionHeld in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
dc.descriptionDonor: United States Bureau of Mines.
dc.description.abstractWhen the Cliffs Shaft Mine's wooden head frames needed to be replaced in 1919, the architect George Washington Maher was hired to design the new structures. The result was a pair of tall light brown and pink concrete “Egyptian revival” obelisks over the Cliff's A and B shafts. The Cliffs Shaft Mine in Ishpeming in the Marquette Range was the largest producer of hard specular hematite in the US. The Cliffs Shaft Mine (New Barnum Mine) was opened by the Iron Cliffs Company in 1881 and operated by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company starting in 1891. The Mine was one of Michigan's largest iron mines and operated almost continuously until its closure in 1967. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was formed with the merger of two major iron mining companies on Michigan's Marquette Range in 1891. The Company had a number of mines operating in the Upper Peninsula by the outbreak of World War I. By the 1940s the high grade iron ores mined underground were becoming depleted. The Company developed a process to concentrate low grade ores into iron ore pellets in the 1950s, and C. C. I. C.'s last underground iron mine closed in 1979.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
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dc.subjectCleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
dc.subjectIron mines and mining
dc.subjectMine buildings
dc.subjectUnderground mining
dc.titleCliffs Shaft Mine buildings
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionArthur Lakes Library
dc.contributor.institutionRussell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
dc.contributor.institutionUnited States. Bureau of Mines


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