Beaufort Mine

Past Producer in Baraga county in Michigan, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10291265
MAS/MILS ID 0260130007
Record type Site
Current site name Beaufort Mine
Alternate or previous names Northrup

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -88.17784, 46.5408 (WGS84)
Elevation 512
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baraga(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Three Lakes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

L'Anse(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iron River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Michigamme(hydrologic unit)

Northwestern Lake Michigan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwestern Lake Michigan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Michigan Baraga

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 048 N 031 W 22 NWNWSW Michigan

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -88.17784, 46.5408

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1882

Mining district

District name Marquette Iron District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Michigan
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORES, MINING DIRECTORY AND STATISTICAL RE

  • Deposit

    PUBLISHED BY THE LAKE SUPERIOR IRON ORE ASSOCIATION, 1952, P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FORMERLY OPERATED BY MUNRO IRON MINING CO. (ROGERS BROWN IRO AGENT). WORKED BY ROOM AND PILLAR SYSTEM. 1905 TOTAL SHIPMENTS =354654 TONS. ORE RED-YELLOW,HIGH PHOSP IN 1951 THIS PROPERTY WAS BEING DEVELOPED BY CLEVELAND-CLIFF CO. AS PART OF THE OHIO LOW-GRADE ORE PROJECT. (SEE OHIO MIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.