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Barnes-Hecker Mine=---Inundation>The Cleveland-Cliffs owned Barnes-Hecker iron mine was started in 1917 some five miles west of Ishpeming. By 1925 it was 1,067 feet deep and as safe as they made them. Upon opening a great quantity of water was encountered and mining had to be discontinued until mining operations drained most of the water from the ore stratum. >At 11:20 on the morning of Wednesd...
Discovered in 1844, First Production in 1846. The Marquette Iron Range was discovered in 1844 by a party of surveyors led by William A. Burt, who found that their sensitive magnetic compasses produced skewed results because of the concentration of iron in the land they were surveying. Mining began in 1847. At first, the hematite iron ore of the Marquette Range was smelted with local charcoal i...