Lower Peninsula gold mining files, 1916-1955.

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Lower Peninsula gold mining files, 1916-1955.

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Series 2 of record group RG 82-78 consists of information files on gold mining in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan for the years 1916-1955. The bulk of the collection pertains to mining in Alpena County, primarily Wilson Township, and contains newsletters of Cole Petroleum Co. and Thunder Bay Syndicate along with correspondence, legal action papers, test results and maps. The collection also contains information on sites in Alma (Gratiot County), Atlanta (Montmorency County), Brighton (Livingston County), Central Lake (Antrim County), Flint (Genesee County), Grand Rapids (Kent County), Montrose (Genesee County), and Ortonville (Oakland County). Also in the collection are newspaper articles on the Herron Mine explosion (Alpena County) which killed 5 men.

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Michigan. Geological Survey Division

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...

Cole Petroleum Co.

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Thunder Bay Syndicate.

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