A Rare Find
When it comes to Copper Country exploring there’s a level of familiarity to everything you find along the way. The most common site is the poor rock pile, every mine has at least one and you’ll never...
View ArticleThe Rock House
Leaving the Delaware’s superintendents house behind, we cut through the adjacent woods for a short spell before emerging on the edge of a large poor rock pile. The pile had been largely bulldozed flat,...
View ArticleThe Compressor House
The Conglomerate Mine spared no expense in the construction of a formidable surface plant for its aspiring mine. Along with the usual collection of boilers and hoisting equipment, the company also...
View ArticleDelaware: A Site Tour (p1)
With our exploration of the Delaware / Conglomerate Mine now complete I thought it would be helpful to take one last look at the old mine site – this time in terms of the mine’s surface plant layout....
View ArticleDelaware: A Site Tour (p2)
We continue our look at the landscape of the Delaware / Conglomerate Mine area, focusing this time on the Conglomerate’s surface structures down the hill form the mine itself… Warehouse and Manger’s...
View ArticleDelaware: A Site Tour (p3)
We finish up our series examining the Delaware / Conglomerate Mine’s landscape with a look at some of the odd’s and ends scattered across the area… So far we’ve focused in on six main areas of the...
View ArticleDelaware Revisited
Last week we wrapped up our exploration of the Delaware location, including the Amygdaloid, Northwest, Delaware, and Conglomerate mines. Today we’ll take another look, but this time through the eyes of...
View ArticleWorth the Price of Admission (p1)
Traveling into the Keweenaw northern reaches will eventually bring you to a large sign along the road adorned with the a small wooden shaft house. The sign directs your attention down a side road,...
View ArticleWorth the Price of Admission (p2)
While impressive, the old pump house ruins aren’t the only remains of the Conglomerate Mine operation to be found along the Delaware Mine surface tour. If you continue on past those ruins and follow...
View ArticleThe Immortal Remains
The Conglomerate Mine was the Delaware’s last hope, but it was attempt that was equally as short lived as its predecessors. In just four short years the company burned through over a million dollars of...
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