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Adventure Copper Mine |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, Transportation |
Adventure Copper Mine - Tour office and trolly [People ride a miniature replica of a train bearing the sign "Adventure Copper Mine" Scanned: March 7, 2007 |
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Cities & Towns - Ontonagon |
Persons, Natural Resources, Mines and Mineral Resources, Copper Mines and Mining, Harbors, Docks |
Mass Copper on dock, Ontonagon [A man stands on the dock surrounded by very large copper pieces.] Scanned: May 19, 2008 |
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Spanish Miners |
Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons, |
Members of the Spanish Copper Mining team are pictured with Calumet and Hecla mining officials before making an underground tour of the Allouez Mine Wednesday. [The mining team poses for a photo. Please see comment section for names of the miners.] Scanned: November 14, 2007 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Shown here is the open mine pit into which little Ruth Ann Miller, 7, is reputed to have fallen Saturday while playing and picking strawberries with her brother, Gary, 10. The mile deep vertical shaft is cluttered with debris, assorted timbers and pipes, so that these have to be removed before the improvised skip can be lowered. The cap is shown at left. About half of the slab has been broken to permit search operations. The protective barbed wire fence is revealed enclosing the pit opening. Photo was taken Saturday at 7:00 p.m. while miners and other workmen were readying a big Gundlach crane with extensive cable to act as a hoist engine. Location is near Calumet's Legion Field, about a mile distant from the pit. [Image of the shaft the child fell into.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Calumet and Hecla Fire Chief Al Beauchene was the first to enter the hole when the department arrived at the site shortly before noon Saturday. Firemen quickly enlarged the hole and used a ladder to allow Beauchene to enter the shaft. It was was determined soon afterward that part of the concrete cap would have to be removed. [Mr. Beauchene is shown at the opening of the pit.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
The extent of company concern was seen Monday night in the arrival at the mine site of Jack Gaffney, right, vice president of administration of Calumet and Hecla, Inc. Gaffney, who flew in from the company's corporate office in Chicago, is briefed by Ralph Sanford, director of employee and public relations, who has spent almost every waking hour at the shaft since the tragedy occured. [One of the men looks at his watch as he speaks to the other.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
Burton C. Peterson, right, president and general manager of the Calumet Division, confers with Robert DeNeault, safety engineer and a miner who had just surfaced from the shaft. Peterson has remained at the site of the tragedy throughout the operations. [Photo of the men being briefed.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller |
Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons |
[Final resting place of Ruth Ann.] Scanned: March 5, 2009 |
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Mining Companies - Homestake Copper Company |
Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, |
The joint interests in Homestake Copper Company's project here met this week in the firm's geological department at the Kingston Mine. They also examined the ore specimen donated to the Copper Country Rock & Mineral Club for use in marking the gravesite of Douglass Houghton. Near the copper boulder, from left, are Paul Henshaw, president of Homestake Mining Co.; O. E. Anderson, manager of Homestake Copper Co., and R. J. Hall, assistant to the vice president of the International Nickel Co., of Canada, Ltd. Henshaw stopped in Calumet while enroute from New York to Homestake's home office in San Francisco, while Hall was here to meet with Anderson and others regarding the latest aspects of the project. [The men pose next to the large copper specimen.] Scanned: February 2, 2009 |
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Memorials |
Persons, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, |
A large specimen of copper ore from which a headstone for Douglass Houghton's grave will be cut is examined at the Kingston Mine by, from left, John McKana of the Homestake Copper Company; historian Don H. Clarke of Essexville and state geologist Irvin V. Kuehner. The ore has been donated to the Copper Coutnry Rock & Mineral Club, which is spearheading the project to more fittingly mark Houghton's grave. [Men examine the large stone.] Scanned: February 2, 2009 |