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Hollowed ground : copper mining and community building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s

text Hollowed ground : copper mining and community building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s

Lankton, Larry D.

Summary
From the Dust Jacket: In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sul... Read more
Contents
Keweenaw copper : geology, discovery, dreams of wealth -- Getting the copper out : exploration, development, and the tools of production -- Islands of industry in a sea of trees -- Out at the locations : from camps to communities -- The Quincy Min... Read more
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xiii, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher
Wayne State University Press 2010
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Interlochen Public LIbrary MI 977.499 Lankton 2010 in Michigan Room Available
Peninsula Community Library 972.499 LAN in Adult Available
Woodmere (Main Branch) 977.499 LAN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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