Marquette Iron Range
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The Marquette Iron Range is a deposit of iron ore located in Marquette County, Michigan. The towns of Ishpeming and Negaunee developed as a result of mining this deposit. A smaller counterpart of Minn
Lake Superior Iron Ranges
Cliffs Mine on Marquette Range
Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum
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The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum is a former iron mine, now a heritage museum, located on Euclid Street between Lakeshore Drive and Spruce Street in Ishpeming, Michigan. The museum, operated by "Marquette
Marquette Iron Range
…to steel mills in the lower Great Lakes. The Marquette Iron Range was designated as a Michigan registered historic site in 1957, listed as S-0035. The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming and the Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee each celebrate the history of the iron ore deposit and its miners. A 47-mile-long (76…
The old headframe of "B" Shaft, built 1919
Headframe, c. 1919 just after completion
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