Nonesuch Mine

The Nonesuch Mine is an abandoned copper mine and small ghost town in the southeast corner of the Porcupine Mountains State Park in Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon County, near Silver City, Michigan, United States.

The area was given its name soon after Ed Less discovered the Nonesuch vein of copper on the Little Iron River in 1865.

The town included school with 30 students, as well as a boarding house, livery stable, markets, stage coach service, and a uniformed baseball team.

[5] The copper at the mine was found in a 4-foot-thick (1.2 m) bed of sandstone, and the underlying shale, also a few feet thick.

As was common practice in the Copper Country, the ore was crushed in a stamp mill and concentrated by gravity.

Nonesuch stamp mill foundation remains.
Ruins of equipment used in the chemical leaching process used to separate the copper from the surrounding rock. This was the miners' last attempt at separating the copper from the ore.