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Mining in Michigan:
Introduction
A Day in the Life of a Miner
A Day's Work
Important Dates in Michigan's Early Mining History
Dangerous Jobs
Made from Metal
Things to Do
At the Michigan Historical Museum
Teacher's Guide [PDF]
Michigan produced more copper between 1847 and 1887 and more iron between 1880 and 1900 than any other state. Follow today’s Time Traveler to the underground world of an 1860s Upper Peninsula miner. Click on a topic in the left column. "Mining in Michigan" originally appeared in the Lansing State Journal on August 8, 2001, as part of the Lansing Newspapers In Education (NIE) program.
Michigan produced more copper between 1847 and 1887 and more iron between 1880 and 1900 than any other state.
Follow today’s Time Traveler to the underground world of an 1860s Upper Peninsula miner. Click on a topic in the left column.
"Mining in Michigan" originally appeared in the Lansing State Journal on August 8, 2001, as part of the Lansing Newspapers In Education (NIE) program.
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"Mining in Michigan" originally appeared in the Lansing State
Journal on August 8, 2001, as part of the Lansing Newspapers In Education
(NIE) program.