Athens Mine pump station
| dc.date | 1900?-1999? | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:59:08Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:22:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:59:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:22:42Z | |
| dc.identifier | libimagesU132 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/6705 | |
| dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-10-05. | |
| dc.description | USBM #43744; Part of 10th level pump station. This pump station is ventilated by a small fan blowing through tubing. The roof is solid rock and there is very little flammable material. The ladder on the left leads to a raise opening into the shaft 50 ft. above the level. The entrance to the pump station can be sealed off with a large steel door held and ready to be bolted on should there be a sudden increase in the flow of water, which could not be handled by pumps. The raise and ladders give access to the pump for at least 50 ft. in case this should be necessary. Negaunee, Michigan. | |
| dc.description | Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. | |
| dc.description | Donor: United States Bureau of Mines. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Athens Mine was an underground iron mine in the Marquette Range, Michigan. Development on the Athens Mine started in 1913 and the Mine was worked into the 1950s, eventually reaching a depth of some 2,400 feet. The Mine was operated by the Athens Iron Mining Company for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company was formed by 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.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
| dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
| dc.subject | Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company | |
| dc.subject | Iron mines and mining | |
| dc.subject | Mining | |
| dc.subject | Scenes, underground | |
| dc.subject | Underground mining | |
| dc.title | Athens Mine pump station | |
| dc.type | StillImage | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Arthur Lakes Library | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive | |
| dc.contributor.institution | United States. Bureau of Mines |
