Carp Lake Mine - Silver City, MI
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N 46° 48.998 W 089° 43.645
16T E 291943 N 5188399
An old copper mine within the Porcupine Mountain State Park.
Waymark Code: WM2KKZ
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 11/16/2007
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From the State of Michigan Historical Marker nearby:
From Lake Superior the main range of mountains looks like a crouching porcupine, thus their name. Machinery, rock dumps, and old adits are ghostly reminders of forty mining ventures in the years from 1846 to 1928, none of which succeeded. Some logging took place around 1916. As late as 1930 a few trappers eked out a living here. Finally in 1945 the area was made a state park to preserve its virgin splendor.
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