Nonesuch Mine
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The Nonesuch Mine is an abandoned copper mine and small ghost town in the southeast corner of the Porcupine Mountains State Park in Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon County, near Silver City, Michigan, Un
Nonesuch stamp mill foundation remains.
Ruins of equipment used in the chemical leaching process used to separate the copper from the surrounding rock. This was the miners' last attempt at separating the copper from the ore.
Nonesuch Shale
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The Nonesuch Shale is a Proterozoic geologic formation that outcrops in Michigan and Wisconsin, United States, but has been found by drill holes to extend in the subsurface as far southwest as Iowa.
Nonesuch Mine
…1955, the Copper Range Company opened the White Pine mine, solved the problems of mining and treating the ore, and successfully mined copper from the Nonesuch Shale for the next 40 years. The townsite of Nonesuch is at an elevation of 928 feet (283 m) above mean sea level, at…
Native copper replaces cross-bedded sedimentary rocks of the Nonesuch Shale, White Pine mine, Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Potholes in Nonesuch shale, Presque Isle River, Porcupine Mountains State Park, Upper Peninsula of Michigan