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Midwest, Michigan

Calumet MI

Copper Country dumps

Old dump ground Inferred from historyPermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Cornish/Finnish/Slavic immigrant-town glass, Michigan brews, mining-camp medicine..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1864-1900

Copper Country's rise is documented exhaustively; rock-pile and location dumps are local knowledge.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old shafts
UP winters.

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