1.8m members in the conspiracy community. **The conspiracy subreddit is a thinking ground. Above all else, we respect everyone's opinions and ALL …,Ancient copper mines in Michigan? Carbon dating of timbers in the oldest mines discovered date to 2450BC and stop abruptly at 1200 BC. This area has some of the purest copper in the world and approximately a half billion pounds of copper were mined in ancient times. Archeology says this was the work of local tribal people who did use and make ...

Ancient copper mines in Michigan? Carbon dating of timbers in the oldest mines discovered date to 2450BC and stop abruptly at 1200 BC. This area has some of the purest copper in the world and approximately a half billion pounds of copper were mined in ancient times. Archeology says this was the work of local tribal people who did use and make copper ornaments and tools but not int the amount ,There is a rich lore about ancient copper mining in the Lake Superior region. Most of it is highly speculative and is unsupported, but fervently believed. There is no doubt that copper was mined at Isle Royale thousands of years ago. Most likely this was done by indigenous miners who traded the copper with people who lived far to the south.

This book tells of an ancient Copper Trade between Lake Superior in the United States and a trading group from the Eastern Mediterranean. This trade took place over 4000 years ago and lasted for about 1200 years. It addresses the question who was really first to North America,During the second half of the 1800s, the region including Isle Royale and Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula produced more than half of the world's copper. The largest and most productive 19th-century mine on Isle Royale, the Minong Mining Company, extracted more than half a million pounds of copper in the nine years between 1874 and 1883.

That means ancient miners from overseas were digging Michigan's almost 100 percent pure copper (and picking up copper float from the soil's surface) almost 4,000 years ago. Some of the foreign visitors brought trade goods to exchange for copper rather than doing the mining themselves. More than 5,000 copper mining pits, some as deep as 30,America's Industrial Revolution was founded on copper mined from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. James Cassell, Collector of History, gives a fascinating look a...

Michigan's unique contribution to archeology is found in the ancient copper mines of the Lake Superior region. The presence of copper in the rocks of the Keweenaw Peninsula has been known for centuries. ... In summary, the ore deposits of the Michigan Copper District are of two basic types that differ in mineralogy, host rock type, and ,A Short History of Copper Mining. Copper was first mined in this area by an ancient vanished race between 5,000 and 1,200 bc. These miners left no burial grounds, dwellings, pottery, clay tablets or cave drawings. What was left behind was thousands of copper producing pits and more thousands of crude hammering stones with which the pits had ...

Had to make a few amendments A reading from ancient America Donald J. McMahonSymbologist/Researcher on the missing copper from Michigan. was there an ancien,Now, new research suggests that Isle Royale's mining boom peaked about 6000 years ago and left a legacy of aquatic pollution. The high levels of copper, lead, and potassium in sediments from a ...

America Unearthed, a new series on the H2 channel, did a very interesting show on the subject of the ancient, mysterious copper mines in the Great Lakes region. Where did all the copper go and who mined it? (It was estimated that it would have taken 10,000 men about 1,000 years to remove all of this copper!) Watch the episode here. Share,Great Lakes Copper Mining in Ancient Times and the Old Copper Culture Below are examples of the forms native copper comes in at the lodes at the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. Because of the copper's purity, it can be traced chemically to Europe in the Bronze age and even to the Middle East when it turns up in Old World archaeological sites.

Here are the facts. During the Bronze Age, 3500 to 1000 BC, five thousand copper mines were excavated on the south shore of Lake Superior. Millions of pounds of copper were extracted. Only a,With these discoveries, Michigan's copper boom, which would become bigger in dollar value than the gold rush, was on. According to Halsey, hundreds of ancient mining sites were discovered in Michigan between the 1840s and 1850s. They were mostly on Isle Royale and in the counties of Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon.

Jewell, Robert L. 2004 Ancient Mines of Kitch-Gummi: Cypriot/Minoan Traders in North America. Jewell Histories. Fairfield, PA. Joseph, Frank. And Wayne May. ... It frustrates us a little when people talk of the copper culture in Upper Michigan as the place where it all started when this is not the case. It started in western Wisconsin and ,Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been known as "Copper Country" for years. But mining copper in the region dates back before the birth of Jesus Christ. An anci...

New Michigan Film Explores Ancient Great Lakes Copper Mines. White Lake, MI - The new Noble Odyssey Foundation film, "AMERICA'S ANCIENT INDUSTRY" will premiere on PBS January 2, 2013. Viewers should check local PBS stations for regional broadcast times. Long before Stonehenge and the Pyramids were built, an industry was flourishing in ,The Miners of Michigan Copper. It is estimated that half a billion pounds (Ref.1) of copper were mined in tens of thousands of pits on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan by ancient miners over a period of a thousand years. Carbon dating of wood timbers in the pits has dated the mining to start about 2450 BC and end abruptly at ...

There has been little dispute over the last century that the primary copper sources that were exploited by the Old Copper Complex manufactures came from natural ore deposits spanning 120 miles along the southern shores of Lake Superior on the Keweenaw Peninsula. This native metal has an exceptional ratio of pure copper, typically over 95%,Surveyor Edwin J. Hulbert finds an ancient copper cache that leads him to the mineral-rich Calumet conglomerate lode. By 1864, he secures financing for two mining companies: the Calumet Mining Company and the Hecla Mining Company. ... By 1887, Montana mines, such as the Anaconda, are consistently exceeding Michigan mine production. ...

By, Jay S.Wakefield, jswakefield@comcast Copper: According to American Indian oral tradition, Michigan copper was mined in antiquity by "red haired white-skinned 'marine men' who came from across the sea". Tens of thousands of pits, up to 30' deep, were mined using fire-setting and stone hammers, with an estimated half a billion tons of pure Read More,When did copper mining begin in Michigan? The first copper mine opened in 1771, and its owner, Alexander Henry, sent the massive Ontonagon Boulder-of pure native copper-to Detroit as evidence of the region's richness.But speculative activity did not begin in earnest until 1841, hastened by the favorable reports of the first state geologist, Douglas Houghton.