Show simple item record

dc.date1940?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:00:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:24:41Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:00:15Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:24:41Z
dc.identifierlibimagesU285
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/9552
dc.descriptionDate Scanned: 2002-05-16.
dc.descriptionEngine houses at the Iron Cliffs Shaft commonly known as the Barnum Mine. Near Ishpeming in Marquette County, Michigan. Donor: Russell L. Wood.
dc.descriptionHeld in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
dc.descriptionDonor: Russell L. Wood.
dc.description.abstractThe 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.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectCleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
dc.subjectIron mines and mining
dc.subjectMine buildings
dc.subjectUnderground mining
dc.titleBarnum Mine
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionArthur Lakes Library
dc.contributor.institutionRussell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
dc.contributor.institutionUnited States. Bureau of Mines


Files in this item

Thumbnail
Name:
u285.jpg
Size:
225.8Kb
Format:
JPEG image
Description:
[Barnum Mine].

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record