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Princeton Mine- Includes No.1, No

Past Producer in Marquette county in Michigan, United States with commodity Iron
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  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10292015
MAS/MILS ID 0261030088
Record type Site
Current site name Princeton Mine- Includes No.1, No
Alternate or previous names Smith Cheshire Swanzey, 2, and No.3 Shafts

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -87.46781, 46.2886 (WGS84)
Elevation 373
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Marquette(county)

Michigan(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gwinn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gwinn(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Marquette(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escanaba(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 Marquette

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Michigan 045 N 025 W 20 W2NW Michigan

Comments on the location information

  • UTM LOCATION IS FOR SHAFT NO. 2. SHAFT NO. 1 LIES 500 METERS NORTHWEST, AND THE NO.3 SHAFT IS 550 METERS TO THE SOUTH-SOU FROM 1872-1947 THIS MINE PRODUCED 3,221,588 TONS OF SOFT, RE PHOSPHOROUS ORE. WORKED BY CAVING SYSTEM TO A DEPTH OF 548 F

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -87.46781, 46.2886
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1872
Year of first production 1872

Mining district

District name Marquette Iron District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership

Land status

Ownership category Private

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

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:

  • Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. — renamed to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (2017)
    Reorganized and renamed Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 2017 as the parent shifted from iron-ore focus to steelmaking.

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.

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