I would love to have heard that conversation.
"Hey, I found silver!"
"Where?"
*Points to map....
Silver Islet
Silver Islet - Mining Silver Under Lake Superior <<
I would love to have heard that conversation.
"Hey, I found silver!"
"Where?"
*Points to map....
Silver Islet
Holy Crap that is unreal.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of this, thanks for the revelation!
I live on Lake Superior and have read many articles and heard many stories about the mine, first I've seen the pic of the Canadian Survey map of the shafts and stopes. far more expansive than I thought, Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteWas it amongst the schist rock?
ReplyDeleteI'll bet that many bricks were schist when the miners were shown the map!
ReplyDeleteEvery year I was going to sail over there and see that but never seemed to find the time. Then my wife and I got into our 70s and sold our boat. So if you're gonna do something do it now. ---ken
ReplyDeleteIt's all igneous rock. Same layer that sticks up on the Copper Island of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
ReplyDeleteWe were always taught the glaciers saueezed the surface down at a fissure, the ends that broke and popped up were Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Makes sense, as the same oo.97% pure copper was mined on each side, which would lead one to believe there's about 50 miles worth of copper about 100 feet below the bottom of Superior in between mined areas.
But I'm just a dumb round-headed Yooper transplanted to near the Iron Range, so I'm probably full of shit. But it is nice making more than $10 or $12 an hour.
There is very a good history of Silver Islet in the book Great Stories of the Great Lakes, by Dwight Boyer. https://a.co/d/cWyqjDu The toughness and tenacity of that generation is is hard for me to comprehend. The book has many fantastic accounts of the men and ships that have sailed those frigid waters since the 1600’s.
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