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Copper Mining Michigan Technological University
There is a rich lore about ancient copper mining in the Lake Superior region Most of it is highly speculative and is unsupported but fervently believed There is no doubt that copper was mined at Isle Royale thousands of years ago Most likely this was done by indigenous miners who traded the copper with people who lived far to the south
BY WILLIAM HOLMES
ries of Minnesota and to the ancient copper mines of Isle Royale in Lake Superior Although exhibits of the collections procured through these explorations were made in due course of time full reports of the work done and the observations made at some of the points have never been published Papers were prepared describing the flint
copperculture Homestead
Copper did not define the people of the Old Copper Complex or those who followed archeological evidence would suggest that copper had utilitarian and perhaps ceremonial uses but was not essential to their existence Copper in the Lake Superior Region was
The Great Ancient Copper Mines of Michigan Greater
The Great Ancient Copper Mines of Michigan It appears likely it was carried in a medicine bag to this remote island in Lake Superior in ancient times and the places where the Devil s Club are found are showing us where the miners were using medicines Silver in the Copper
Lake Superior s ancient copper mining mystery
Lake Superior copper has been found as far west as the Rocky Mountains as far north as the Arctic and as far south as Louisiana The region s copper was almost entirely pure making pre industrial extraction possible The ancient miners dug around 5 000 pits some
The Old World s Bronze Age Copper Was Mined in
· American History classes generally mention NOTHING about the ancient copper mines in Michigan s Upper Peninsula where an estimated 500 000 000 pounds of copper was mined from 5 000 to 1 200 B C Interestingly the mines were briefly reactivated on a smaller scale suddenly ending production around 1320 A D 10 years The Knights Templar
Ancient Mines of Kitchi Gummi Cypriot Minoan Traders
In this controversy the ancient copper mines of Lake Superior Kitchi Gummi have become an undeniable piece of hard evidence There have been several books written about the tremendous amounts of pure copper that was set free by the glaciers in Michigan s Upper Peninsula and Isle Royal There is undeniable proof of the mining and gathering
Dispelling some Myths about the Old Copper Culture
My topic today is the world famous ancient copper industry of the Lake Superior Basin Since 1961 and Griffin s seminal publication of Lake Superior Copper and the Indians we have learned a lot archaeologically about prehistoric copper use Griffin 1961 and its persistence through prehistory
The ancient copper mines of Lake Superior Jacob jr
Cite this Record The ancient copper mines of Lake Superior Jacob jr from old catalog Houghton 1879 tDAR id 183927
Timeline of Michigan Copper Mining Prehistory to 1850
Partial serpent artifact made of Lake Superior copper found at Effigy Mounds National Monument Iowa The earliest known metalworking in North America begins when Native peoples start mining copper on the Keweenaw Peninsula Digging pits and using heavy stones to break waste rock away from copper masses they fashion bracelets beads tools
Selected Readings on Ancient Copper and Ancient Copper
Selected Readings on Ancient Copper and Ancient Copper Mining Martin Susan R Wonderful Power The Story of Ancient Copper Workings in the Lake Superior Basin Detroit Wayne State University Press 1999 286 pages text with footnoted sources 15 page bibliography
Copper Mining History and Copper Harbor Michigan
By 1846 only the Pittsburgh and Boston and the Lake Superior Mining Companies were still operating in the Copper Country Much early speculation met with disaster Of the 24 companies formed between 1844 and 1850 only six would pay any dividends and all were organized to mine mass and float copper
Copper Mines in Ancient North America – Expanded
· It is not clear who these ancient miners were but we do know that the mining abruptly ended in 1 200 BC This conveniently coincides with the end of the Bronze Age in Europe The copper located in the Lake Superior area is some of the purest copper in the world yet less than 1 has been discovered in
The ancient copper mines of Michigan s Upper Peninsula
In his 1879 text entitled Ancient Copper Mines of Lake Superior John Jacob Houghton relates beginning on page 141 On the south shore of Lake Superior the works of the ancient miners extend over a district of country comprising what is known as the Trap Range having a length of one hundred and fifty miles through Keweenaw Houghton and Ontonagon Counties Michigan with a varying width from
Popular Science Monthly Volume 19 September
· Various articles have been found in these old pits or in their neighborhood Several copper implements such as a gad a chisel knives and arrow heads have been discovered both on Isle Royale and in the vicinity of similar old mines on the south shore of Lake Superior
Copper mining on Isle Royale 6500–5400 years ago
We analyzed metal carbon nitrogen and organic matter concentrations to document past mining pollution in sediment cores recovered from McCargoe Cove a long narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient copper mines
Don Spohn Ancient Copper Mining YouTube
· 2016 Copper Country Ancient Sites Conservancy Conference GREAT LAKES ARCHAIC INDIANS THE ORIGINS OF PREHISTORIC METAL TECHNOLOGY IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA Duration 53 47 Todd
Mining in Northern Wisconsin Wisconsin Historical Society
Mining on Lake Superior Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior and White fish sustenance of ancient miners Figures 1 and 2 following page 116 Vol 5 Plate 16 The Indian Tribes of the United States by Henry Schoolcraft 1855 View the original source document WHI 34038
The Ancient History of Copper ThoughtCo
· The ability to extract copper from ore bodies was well developed by 3000 BCE and critical to the growing use of copper and copper alloys Lake Van in present day Armenia was the most likely source of copper ore for Mesopotamian metalsmiths who used the metal to produce pots trays saucers and drinking vessels
GREECE AND WORLD Minoan colonies in America
· One of the beaches –veins of copper in Lake Superior in the U S with traces of ancient mining Plutarch writes As to the great continent from which the great sea is contained in a circle from the other islands is less in distance but the Ogygia about five
Copper I Michigan State University
Michigan s unique contribution to archeology is found in the ancient copper mines of the Lake Superior region The presence of copper in the rocks of the Keweenaw Peninsula has been known for centuries Copper artifacts show that long before Europeans arrived native Americans throughout the upper midwest used the metal for making a variety
Popular Science Monthly Volume 19 September
· Ancient Copper Mines of Isle Royale by Newton Horace Winchell the ancient miners of Lake Superior were identical with the mysterious race known as the mound builders The evidence of this first partially elucidated by Messrs Squier and Davis has multiplied by subsequent observations so that there is now a concurrent series of facts
Minerals of the Lake Superior Region Lake Superior
What it is The banded gems called Lake Superior agates are composed of a microcrystalline variety of the mineral quartz or silica and are present throughout the lake basin Agate is the official state gemstone of Minnesota How it got there Agates formed when silica rich solutions filled cavities produced by gas bubbles in basaltic lava flows more than 1 billion years ago
Copper mining on Isle Royale 6500– © The Author s 2014
McCargoe Cove a long narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient copper mines At McCargoe Cove concentrations of lead copper and potassium increase in the sediments after AD 1860 and between 6500 and 5400 years
Historic Isle Royale Mining Companies
Copper was classified in the Lake Superior country in three grades according to its state of occurrence in the rock mass barrel work and stamp Masses were large sheets of pure copper occurring in the vein and weighing from a few hundred pounds to many tons
A history of Lake Superior from the first human habitation
1842 The Webster Ashburton Treaty establishes the international boundary through Lake Superior 1842 The American Fur Co fails 1850s The Upper Penisula s copper mines produce about 80 of the nation s copper
Ancient Mines Ancient Trenches
Lake Superior Mines Old Copper Culture and Copper Shipments to Europe during the Bronze Age Great Lakes Copper Mining in Ancient Times and the Old Copper Culture Below are examples of the forms native copper comes in at the lodes at the Upper Pennisula of Michigan
Highland Copper Company Inc Copper Price Mining
These ancient pits contain masses of native copper in various stages of removal together with crude stone tools that were used in mining the copper Copper tools as well as decorative and ceremonial objects made from Lake Superior copper have been found throughout the upper Midwest in the Mississippi Valley and as far south as Mexico
Great Lakes Copper Heist America Unearthed
It turns out that there were some 10 000 prehistoric copper mines found along the shores of Lake Superior The lake itself in ancient times was much larger periodically as much as 20 more area Also about 3 500 years ago there was a river that cut through what is now Wisconsin that was a branch of the Mississippi
copper mines of lake superior Ancient Lost Treasures
The discovery of native copper and silver similarly associated in the Lake Superior mines has not only destroyed this theory but has established beyond a doubt the locality whence that copper knife and other relics found in the ancient mounds and elsewhere were obtained
Missing Prehistoric Michigan s Half Billion Pounds of Copper
American Anthropologist Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale of Lake Superior William H Holmes Volume 3 1901 Evidences of Prehistoric Man on Lake Superior John T Reeder Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Volume 30 1903 Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region Octave Joseph DuTemple privately published
Those Seafaring Copper Mining Ancient Giants
· The answer as bizarre as it may sound could be America In the State of Michigan t he largest mine was on Isle Royale an island in Lake Superior near the Canadian border Here there are thousands of prehistoric copper pits dug thousands of years ago by ancient peoples unknown
Great Lakes Mining
In addition to the proposed new mines and mineral exploration in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin there are two new copper mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that are both located close to Lake Superior The first is the Eagle copper nickel mine proposed by Kennecott Minerals a subsidiary of Rio Tinto located in the Yellow Dog Plains
ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR
The evidences of ancient mining operations within the mineral region of Lake Superior were first brought to public notice in the winter of 1847 8 Although the Jesuit fathers frequently mention the existence of copper and even use the term mines it is clear from the general tenor of their narratives that they neither saw nor knew of any
Who Mined American Copper 5 000 Years Ago
· Around 10 000 prehistoric Copper miners pits on the South Shore of Lake Superior and on Isle Royale attest to a large and thriving prehistoric culture based on Copper Mining in this area Relatively little is known about these ancient miners but many theories abound regarding this group of prehistoric miners
Prehistoric Alien Mines Found On Lake Superior YouTube
· The ancient copper mines on Superiors isle royale for example although predictable disputed produced over 750 000 tons of copper for a sophisticated group of ancient mystery miners
The Native American Legend of the Sleeping Giant and
· so legends of Phoenician traders in search of copper and tin to make bronze traveling to Lake Superior between 4000 and 6000 years ago is not far fetched geologists claim the massive quantities of copper ore taken from both the ancient Isle Royale mines and the adjacent Keweenaw Peninsula mines had the most pure copper ore of anywhere
Copper in Antiquity Ancient History Encyclopedia
Copper was probably the first metal used by ancient cultures and the oldest artefacts made with it date to the Neolithic period The shiny red brown metal was used for jewellery tools sculpture bells vessels lamps amulets and death masks amongst other things So important was the metal in human development that it gave its name to the Copper Age today better known as the Chalcolithic