Another picture of the formidable buildings at the Calumet and Hecla/Red Jacket mine site in Calumet, Michigan.
This building was used for storing cores--samples made by drilling into the earth just to see what the rock contained, deep underground.
Camera: Nikon D70
Photo by Joel Dinda
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Joan, on the Escarpment Trail above Lake of the Clouds in Michigan's Porcupine Mountains State Park.
J.W. Foster and Josiah Whitney, who surveyed the Lake Superior mineral deposits for Congress in the middle of the nineteenth century, included an engraving of this lake, which was then called "Carp Lake" (the river remains the Big Carp--see msprague's comment, below). It seems that the Porkies were already a tourist destination at that time.
Lake of the Clouds is clearly a preferable denomination....
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Shaft 4's rockhouse in the foreground, with the machine shop back behind. An abandoned (since 1967) underground copper operation at Painesdale, Michigan, later the local waterworks. Quite well preserved, considering, but in constant danger of deterioration.
Anyone know whether they're still trying to turn the site into a museum? The PM&S website doesn't exactly look dead, but there's been no recent maintenance.
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Champion Mine, Painesdale, Michigan, 1990. The structure's in better repair, now.
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Lake Superior, on the Keweenaw Peninsula, near Betsy. I'm now using a version of this photo as the header on A Dabbler's Journal. Took this in 2000 with my Nikon N90s.
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