Tamarack mine
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Miners pose with lunch pails in hand on a mine rock pile outside of the Tamarack mineshaft #5.
Tamarack mine is a copper mine located in Osceola Township, Houghton County, north of Calumet, Michigan. The first shaft was started in 1882 and five shafts were eventually mined.[1] In 1966 seven-year-old Ruth Ann Miller fell into shaft #4 and a rescue was impossible.[2]
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Notes
- ↑ Stevens, Horace. "The Copper Handbook" 1900. Page 181--190 Google books
- ↑ Keweenaw Free Guide
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