These links to information about mining, mining history and related topics provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster. (Most of these pages will open in a second browser window. If the window disappears behind this one, alt-tab will bring it forward.)

• About Michigan's Natural Gas Industry (Michigan Public Service Commission)
• The Changing Role of the Iron Range (a lesson plan from The Educator's Reference Desk)
• Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
• Colorado School of Mines
• The Cornish Pump, Iron Mountain, Michigan
• Department of Mineral Sciences (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
• Fuel For the Fires: Charcoal Making in the Nineteenth Century (Conner Prairie)
• Geology in Michigan (Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment)
• Geology Fieldnotes: Keewenaw National Historical Park (National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division)
• The Great Escape at Ironwood (Detroit News)
• Keweenaw National Historic Park (National Park Service)
• Michigan Earth Science Teachers Association

Michigan Historical Center sites related to mining

• Fayette Historic Townsite, Garden
• Fort Wilkins Historic Complex, Copper Harbor
• Michigan Iron Industry Museum, Negaunee
• Mining in Michigan Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing

• Michigan Technological University (MTU) Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
• Minerals and the Products of Mining (primary grades lesson plan) and Careers in Mining (secondary grades lesson plan) (Kentucky Coal Association)
• Mining Engineering Department, Michigan Technological University
  • Mining Engineering History at Michigan Tech
• Mining USA
• The Mining History Network
• Mining Records in the Archives of Michigan (Archives of Michigan Archival Circular) [PDF]
• Minnesota Iron Mining (Iron Mining Association of Minnesota)
• Once bustling iron town [Fayette] now mines tourism (Detroit News)
• Pasty Central
• Quincy Mine Hoist Association
• A Short History of Copper Mining and Copper Harbor
• A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum (Michigan Technological University)
• The Soo Locks (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District)
• A Tale of Taconite (Duluth Seaway Port Authority)
• U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program

Available for Purchase

Michigan mining-related publications available at the History e-Store

Fayette Historic Townsite
• Fort Wilkins Yesterday and Today
• No Tears in Heaven

Contact the Michigan Historical Center.

Updated 08/06/2010