Copper mining on Isle Royale 6500– 5400 years ago …
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 …
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ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR
ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR BY CHARLES WHITTLESEY WASHINGTON CITY: PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. APRIL, 1863. NEW YORK: D. APPLBTON & CO. ... and were therefore produced from native copper. In the Lake Superior veins spots of native silver are frequently seen studding the surface of the copper, …
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Lake Superior's ancient copper mining mystery
The skeletons, buried amid copper artifacts, turned out to be the earliest evidence of an extensive, ancient trading culture based heavily on copper mined on the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, along the shores of Lake …
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Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake …
The regions surrounding Lake Superior in the United States, including Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, are home to widespread copper deposits that were extensively mined in ancient times by societies associated with the Old Copper Complex (Martin, 1999, Martin and Pleger, 1999) (Fig. 1).Archaeological surveys in the middle 19th century were …
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Ancient mining on the shores of Lake Superior
2 ANCIENT MINING probably been separated by the same cause that gave rise to that formation Avhich geologists call the "drift." The agent, whatever it was, that broke off fragments from the rocks, not only on Lake Superior but further north, and transported them in the shape of boulders, sand, and gravel, as far south as the valley of the Ohio, also bore along the con¬ tents of the …
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Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake …
Determining the timing and transport mechanisms (i.e. fluvial and/or atmospheric) of pollution associated with ancient copper mining on Isle Royale in Lake Superior (United States) is important for understanding the current and future trajectory of ecosystems affected by human activity. This study reports metal concentrations in sediment from two small, closed-basin lakes …
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Mining in Northern Wisconsin
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.
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The Ontonagon…a river with an ancient past
Prehistoric copper miners had mined the region for millennia before the first modern mines were developed. Over 5,000 crude prehistoric copper pits were tabulated around Lake Superior with thousands located between …
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Copper I
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 ...
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OneMine | On the Ancient Copper-Mines of Lake Superior
THE ancient copper-mines of Lake Superior, having been destroyed or covered by-modern mining-dumps, are not accessible to the present inhabitants of that region, and, since no more are likely to be found, some account of those already discovered, from one who has seen them, may be acceptable to the Institute. Early in May, 1855, 1 took a party of men to open an ancient pit …
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Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior – Gen 6 …
Hagar, Albert D. Atlantic Monthly 15 (Mar. 1865): 308-315. IN the month of March, 1848, O. Knapp and J. B. Townsend discovered, from tracks in the snow, that a hedg had taken up his winter-quarters in a cavity of a ledge of rocks, about twelve miles from Ontonagon, Lake Superior, in the neighborhood of the Minnesota Copper Mine.
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Native Americans Mined Copper on a Large Scale 6,000 …
Copper's allure has endured for millennia. Both ancient and modern mines for the extremely useful metal abound in North America's Lake Superior region; long before modern miners extracted the ore from deep underground, local Indigenous communities dug it from shallow pit mines. Isle Royale National Park. Credit: Ray Dumas via Flickr (CC BY ...
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Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene …
ancient copper mining on Isle Royale in Lake Superior (United States) is important for understanding the current and future trajectory of ecosystems affected by human activity. This study reports ...
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Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale, Lake Superior
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
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Khám Phá Bí Mật Luật Bài Liêng: Cách Chơi Để Luôn Thắng …
Chia sẻ tổng quan về bài Liêng Hướng dẫn cách chơi liêng chi tiết từ A – Z. Muốn chinh phục được Liêng và giành nhiều chiến thắng trong game bài này, trước tiên người chơi cần nắm rõ các quy tắc chơi như sau:
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Copper mines many millennia old on Isle Royale designated …
"In the opening of our principal mines we have followed in the path of our ancient predecessors, but with much better means of penetrating the earth to great depths," the Minong Mining Company boasted in 1875. ... Prehistoric copper mining in the Lake Superior region is among the oldest known examples from around the world of humans ...
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Lake Superior Copper and the Indians: Miscellaneous Studies …
early historical accounts of the lake superior copper district download; xml; early american mining in the upper peninsula of michigan and the first recognition of prehistoric mining activities download; xml; prehistoric copper pits on the eastern side of lake superior download; xml; the pic river site download; xml; the mccollum site, nipigon ...
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Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale, Lake Superior …
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
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Archaeological History of Isle Royale and Ancient …
Artifacts of Lake Superior copper ultimately made their way to the southern Lake States and New England. Unfortunately, very little is known about the way of life of these earliest miners, since no habitation sites from the …
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Michigan Copper in the Mediterranean
18. Whittlesey, C., Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1862, reprinted 2007 Gustavs Library, Davenport Iowa, no ISBN 19. Henderson, J., The Science and Archaeology of Materials, An Investigation of Inorganic Materials, Routledge, New York, 2000, (ISBN 0-415-19934-4) 20.
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Copper Mining
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. ... These early mines found native copper in veins at the surface. They left behind pits …
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Native Americans Mined Copper on a Large Scale …
Both ancient and modern mines for the extremely useful metal abound in North America's Lake Superior region; long before modern miners extracted the ore from deep underground, local Indigenous communities dug it …
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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.
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Copper mining on Isle Royale 6500– 5400 years ago …
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 …
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Copper Range
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. ... deposits extend in a narrow band from the Michigan-Wisconsin border to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula and out into Lake Superior. The ...
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Selected Readings on Ancient Copper and Ancient …
Wonderful Power: The Story of Ancient Copper Workings in the Lake Superior Basin (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999) ... Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region Published privately by the Authors: Calumet, MI 1961 Collection of 25 papers, mostly reprints of earlier publications ...
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copper mines of lake superior
Hagar, Albert D. "Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior." Atlantic Monthly 15 (Mar. 1865): 308-315. ... and so is the native copper of Lake Superior; and occasionally in these copper relics blotches and grains of native silver are found. These circumstances serve to establish the fact, that the material of which the implements were made ...
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Ancient mining pollution in early to middle Holocene lake …
Determining the timing and transport mechanisms (i.e. fluvial and/or atmospheric) of pollution associated with ancient copper mining on Isle Royale in Lake Superior (United States) is important ...
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Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan: The Nineteenth …
Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native c... Front Matter Download; ... Lake Superior Copper Explorers 1819–1874 Download; XML; Appendix 3:: Historic Copper Mines Founded on "Ancient Diggings" Download; XML; Appendix 4 ...
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Ancient Mines on Lake Superior
In 1848 the first of these old mines was discovered, and in it was found a mass ot pure copper, weighing six tons, which had been raised by ancient wedges, and rolled along the gallery....
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