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dc.date1900?-1999?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:59:10Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:23:50Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:59:10Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:23:50Z
dc.identifierlibimagesU133
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/7281
dc.description2 copies. USBM #43745; Copy #1: The other end of the 10th level pump station showing guarded electrical controls, solid rock roof whitewashed for better illumination. The sides of the room are painted red to 6 ft. above the floor with iron ore water. The corrugated iron suspended from the roof over the pump protects the pump from water drippers at this point. Copy #2: No caption. Negaunee, Michigan.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2001-10-05.
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.abstractThe 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.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
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dc.subjectCleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
dc.subjectIron mines and mining
dc.subjectMining
dc.subjectScenes, underground
dc.subjectUnderground mining
dc.titleAthens Mine pump station
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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