Abstract The Copper Range Company (1899-1977) operated copper mines in Houghton County's southern communities and in Ontonagon County. The second largest mining company in the Copper Country (after Calumet & Hecla), the Copper Range Company was the only one to endure past the 1960s. In addition to mining, it owned and operated the Copper Range Railroad (1899-1973) and the Copper Range Motor Bus Company (1925-1955). Materials in the Copper Range Company Records document the history of the...

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Collection, undated, of Harry T. Mercer, long-time employee of the Copper Range Mining Company and resident of Painesdale, Michigan. Includes technical drawings, a card index, and field notes.

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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Collection, 1853-1978, of the St. Mary's Canal Mineral Land Company of Boston, Massachusetts, a land holder with mineral rights on property along the Lake Superior copper region. Includes correspondence, financial records, land deeds and holdings, field journals and reports. Material in this collection complements material in the Copper Range Company Collection.

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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.