Barnum Mine
dc.date | 1940? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T06:00:15Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:24:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T06:00:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:24:41Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesU285 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/9552 | |
dc.description | Date Scanned: 2002-05-16. | |
dc.description | Engine houses at the Iron Cliffs Shaft commonly known as the Barnum Mine. Near Ishpeming in Marquette County, Michigan. Donor: Russell L. Wood. | |
dc.description | Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. | |
dc.description | Donor: Russell L. Wood. | |
dc.description.abstract | The Iron Cliffs Mining Company opened the Barnum pit mine near Ishpeming in 1868. The New Barnum underground mine shown here was opened nearby in the early 1880s and later became known as the Cliffs Shaft. The 'Old Barnum' pit closed in 1897. The Cliffs Shaft became one of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company's principle mines. 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.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 | Mine buildings | |
dc.subject | Underground mining | |
dc.title | Barnum Mine | |
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 |