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Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Smelter Correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-263

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Correspondence, 1899-1913, consisting of exchanges between James Cooper, the superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company's smelter in Lake Linden, Michigan and H.Y. Bassett, a Calumet and Hecla Mining Company executive from the East Coast offices. The letters, including reports, address metallurgical issues as well as the results of comparative testing of Michigan copper versus copper from other regions as used by consumers of copper.

Dates

  • 1899-1913

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bodies, developed capital-intensive ancillary industrial facilities, explored diversified non-mining enterprises, and remained a significant mining corporation at the national and international level well past the district’s most productive era.

Extent

0.18 Cubic Feet (1/2 manuscript box (letter size))

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Correspondence, 1899-1913, consisting of exchanges between James Cooper, the superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company's smelter in Lake Linden, Michigan and H.Y. Bassett, a Calumet and Hecla Mining Company executive from the East Coast offices. The letters, including reports, address metallurgical issues as well as the results of comparative testing of Michigan copper versus copper from other regions as used by consumers of copper.

General Physical Description note

0.18 cubic feet1/2 manuscript box (letter size)

Processing History

Elizabeth Russell,12/1/2009

Title
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Smelter Correspondence
Author
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Russell
Date
12/1/2009
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
Description is in English

Repository Details

Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository

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