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ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR

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In the "Relacions" for 1659-60, after missions had been established on Lake Superior, the region is reported to be "enriched in all its borders by mines of lead almost pure and of copper all refined in pieces as large as the fist, and great rocks which have whole veins of torquoise." It is probable that these accounts are second hand and such as the Chippeways gave when they exhibited to the fathers specimens of native metal in the shape of water-worn pieces and small boulders.

ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR Home | Photo Library | Fossils | Geology | Parks | History | Indians | Islands | Plants | Animals | E-Books | SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE ANCIENT MINING ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR BY CHARLES WHITTLESEY WASHINGTON CITY: PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. APRIL, 1863. NEW YORK: D. APPLBTON & CO. COMMISSION TO WHICH THIS PAPER HAS BEEN REFERRED. D. Wilson, LL. D., E. H. Davis, M. D. Joseph Henry, Secretary S. I. COLLINS, PRINTER, PHILADELPHIA. Outline Map showing the position of the ancient mine-pits of Point Keweenaw, Michigan,

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