Copper Country
June 27th 2018 Quincy Mine, Keweenaw National Historic Park, Hancock, Michigan
This one small peninsula, in the northern reaches of Michigan, is the primary source of copper that fueled the electrification of the United States, and indeed, the world. Over 14 billion pounds of copper was mined from basalt seams in the earth in multiple mines scattered around this 75 mile wide spit of land that juts into Lake S
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