Michigan Smelter

The smelter was created in 1903-4 as a joint effort between the Copper Range Company and Stanton group of mines.

[1] In 1905, the smelter broke a world record by casting 292,000 pounds of fine copper in seven hours with a single furnace and only ten men.

Product originated from the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain, Michigan, Mohawk, and Wolverine mines.

[1] Slag was skimmed off into steel molds on cars of an electric locomotive and the copper was then drained into the refining furnaces.

[7] Other buildings on the site included an office and laboratory heated by exhaust steam, a warehouse, two 150 ton railroad track scales.