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STATE OF MICHIGAN Plate VI. C. New Baltic Mine, 1911. ......................................18 MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY Plate VII. A. Installing new hoist at Lake Mine, 1911.............18 Publication 8. Geological Series 6. Plate VII. B. Skips and man car at Red Jacket vertical shaft. 18 Mineral Resources of Michigan with Plate VII. C. One of the Calumet and Hecla hoisting Statistical Tables of production and value of engines...........................................................................18 mineral products for 1910 and prior years Plate VIII. A. Tamarack Mine. ...............................................18 Plate VIII B. Red Jacket rock house and power house. ........18 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF R. C. ALLEN Plate VIII C. Red Jacket shaft. ..............................................19 DIRECTOR, MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY Plate IX. A. Timber at Tamarack shaft. .................................24 PUBLISHED AS A PART OF THE ANNUAL REPORT 0F THE Plate IX. B. Rock house and storage bin at Ahmeek Mine....24 BOARD OF GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY FOR Plate IX. C. Shaft house at North Kearsarge Mine. ...............24 1911 Plate X. A. Mesnard shaft, Quincy Mine................................25 LANSING, MICHIGAN WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO., STATE Plate X. B. Rock house at Shaft No. 2, Quincy Mine.............25 PRINTERS Plate X. C. New rock house at vertical shaft, Hancock Mine. 25 1912 Plate XI. A. Drilling competition, Hancock, 1911. ..................25 Plate XI. B. Drilling by steam in St. Louis lode, 1911. ...........25 Contents Plate XI. C. Shaft sinking on St. Louis lode...........................25 Letter of Transmittal. ...................................................... 1 Plate XII. A. Ahmeek stamp mill, Torch Lake. .......................26 Introduction by R. C. Allen ............................................. 1 Plate XII. B. Tailings conveyor, Winona stamp mill, 1911. ....26 The Copper Industry of Michigan by R. E. Hore. ......... 3 Plate XII. C. Calumet and Hecla stamp mills, Lake Linden. ..26 Illustrations LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. To the Honorable, the Board of Geological and Figures Biological Survey of the State of Michigan: Figure 1. Map showing location of copper and iron districts of Gov. Chase S. Osborn, President. Michigan. ..........................................................................5 Hon. D. M. Ferry, Jr., Vice President. Figure 2. Calumet conglomerate lode. ....................................8 Hon. L. L. Wright, Secretary. Figure 4. Osceola amygdaloid lode. ........................................9 Gentlemen:—Under authority of act number seven, Public Acts of Michigan, Session of 1911, transferring to Plates. the Board of Geological Survey the duties which formerly devolved on the Commissioner of Mineral Statistics as Plate I. A. Shaft houses nos. 1 and 2 at Centennial Mine. ....10 defined by Act number nine of the Public Acts of 1877, I Plate I. B. Rock houses, old and new types, Centennial have the honor to present herewith Publication 8, Mine................................................................................11 Geological Series 6, a volume on the Mineral Resources of Michigan containing statistics of production and value Plate II. A. Shaft house at Baltic Mine. ..................................11 of mineral products for 1911 and prior years with outline Plate II. B. Isle Royale Mine. .................................................11 .of the present status and progress of the more important mineral industries of the state. Plate III. A. Adventure Mine, 1911. New vertical shaft..........11 Plate III. B. Baltic Mine. .........................................................11 Very respectfully, R. C. ALLEN, Plate IV. A. Copper ingots on dock at Houghton. ..................11 Director. Plate IV. B. Copper ingots on dock at Houghton. ..................11 Plate V. A. Opening up at St. Louis Mine, 1911. ...................17 INTRODUCTION. Plate V. B. Starting shaft sinking at St. Louis Mine................17 In this volume there is presented a general survey of the Plate V. C. Sinking shaft in overburden, South Lake Mine, more important mineral industries of the state together 1911. ..............................................................................17 with statistical data of production and value of the Plate VI. A. South Lake Mine, 1911.......................................18 mineral products in 1911 and prior years. Plate VI. B. Vertical shaft (in felsite) at Indiana Mine, 1911...18 Publication 8, Geological Series 6 / Copper – Page 1 of 47 Under a cooperative agreement with the U. S. Huronian slate area containing probably the greatest Geological Survey, reports of production and value of undeveloped ore reserves of the state. mineral products and other items of information have As bearing on the problem of the utilization of low grade been received directly from the producers except in the ores, there is presented a special article by Mr. Albert E. case of copper and pig iron. We take this occasion to White on the Jones Step Process, the first authoritative express our thanks and appreciation to all who have description of the experiments which are being thus contributed to this volume. The information conducted by Mr. John T. Jones of Iron Mountain and received in this way is properly tabulated and kept on file associates. in the Survey office. Statistics of production are published in such detail as is permitted by space at The status of the pig iron industry was made the object command with due regard to the interests of the various of a special investigation by Mr. White and is a valuable producers. Information, other than purely statistical contribution to the literature of iron making in Michigan. material, which is received in confidence is not Coal and Gypsum. The Survey reports on coal and disclosed. Those reports of individual production which gypsum have been out of print for a number of years are not a matter of public record are tabulated in state, and, therefore, there has been given to these subjects county or district totals. more space than would otherwise have been done. The labor involved in the preparation of this volume has devolved on various members of the Survey and some Oil and Gas. Drilling for oil and gas is somewhere in the state going on almost continuously. On no other subject special appointees, each of whom has some special familiarity with the subjects presented by him. A part of does the Survey receive so many demands for the information has been obtained by personal work in information. In the article on oil and gas Mr. E. A. Smith presents the available information and the article is the field, a second part by correspondence and reports from the producers and a third by reference to the commended to all persons contemplating exploratory literature. In preparation of the articles on the copper operations. Reports from drill men on indications of oil or gas and accurate well records, are earnestly solicited and iron industries we have had special reference to two recent publications viz., "The Appraisal of the Mining that the Survey may better keep in touch with the Properties of Michigan" by J. E. Finlay and Monograph situation as it develops. Scattered bits of information of no significance when considered singly may when 52, U. S. Geological Survey by O. E. Van Hise and C. K. Leith. The former contains a closer estimate of reserves correlated have an important bearing on the matter of of copper and iron ores than heretofore attempted and intelligently directed exploration. the latter, accurate statistical and geologic data, Salt and Cement. Mr. C. W. Cook has made special especially of the iron districts, and complete revised studies on these subjects. The article on salt is partially maps of the mineral producing areas. a brief abstract of an extended treatise on this subject Copper. The main features of Mr. Hore’s article on the which Mr. Cook has had in course of preparation for the Copper industry are the description of the copper lodes, Survey for the past eighteen months and which will appear in print it is hoped before the end of the year. a thing not heretofore attempted in such completeness of detail, and a review of recent developments in copper The basis of the report on cement is the information mining and exploration. Unlike the iron mining industry obtained by Mr. Cook in 1911 for the State Tax Commission under the direction of Mr. J. R. Finlay. the copper industry is a quasi-public enterprise, financed by a very large number of stockholders in Michigan and Miscellaneous Products: Lack of space in this volume other states. For this reason the description of particular precludes the inclusion of descriptive matter bearing on properties and details regarding the various companies the minor mineral products. There is given, however, should be useful to a large number of people. statistics of production and value for 1910 and 1911. Iron. The inclusion of deails regarding the various iron Special reports on particular mineral industries will appear in subsequent volumes but all of them cannot be mines and iron mining companies is omitted for a number of reasons among which are: lack of space; thus treated each year. such details have been published in recent reports of the List of the Mineral Producers of Michigan. There is Lake Superior Institute of Mining Engineers; the general included a directory of the mineral producers of the public is not interested