Calumet and Hecla Mining Companies Photograph Collection, 1892-1967.

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Calumet and Hecla Mining Companies Photograph Collection, 1892-1967.

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Photograph collection, 1892-1967, of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Images document all aspects of mining company activity: rocks, drilling and blasting, timbering, tramming, rockhouses, milling, smelting, electrolytic, dredge, leaching, docks and shipping, engines and compressors, pumps, surface shops, and power plants. Also includes photographs from more than twenty Calumet and Hecla companies, including several of the mines (Calumet & Hecla, Ahmeek, Allouez, Centennial, Isle Royale, Kingston, LaSalle, Osceola, Superior, Tamarack) as well as other ancillary companies (Lake Milling, Smelting and Refining Co., Mutual Water, Light and Power Co., Goodman Lumber) operated by the company in Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado and New Mexico. There are also a variety of community photographs documenting social activities of the company in the Calumet, Michigan region.

15.0 cubic feet; 32 boxes.

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 8119252

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Calumet & Hecla, Inc.

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Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company

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The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, which traces its founding to 1864, was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bo...

Calumet and Hecla Mining Company

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The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bodies, developed capital-intensive an...