Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Smelter Correspondence
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