Abstract Dr. John Robert ("Bob") Van Pelt was Michigan Tech's sixth president, serving the campus from 1956 to 1965. After he stepped down, Van Pelt began work on a history of the Copper Range Company (whose board he had joined in 1961). The manuscript was unfinished when the Copper Range Company was acquired by Louisiana Land and Exploration in 1977. The collection contains files related to Van Pelt's incomplete manuscript about the history of the Copper Range Company. The bulk of the material...

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Photograph collection, 1952-1953, compiled by Edward Yarbrough of the White Pine mine. Contains photographs of the construction undertaken in 1952-1953 of the new "White Pine" project that would mine and mill the previously thought to be worthless chalcocite. Also includes photographs of the town and the mine.

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Collection, 2000, of papers related to Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality's plan for the remediation of the White Pine mine site in White Pine, Michigan. Issues include filling the mine with fresh water, revegetation of the tailings basins, protecting endangered wetlands and encouraging economic redevelopment of the site.

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Papers, 1995-1997, for the proposed acid solution mining project by the Copper Range Company in White Pine, Michigan. Includes environmental aspect and impact studies, permit applications, work plans for the remedial investigation, stockholder review drafts, lawsuit records, reports, and closure plans and reports.