Almost No One Has Been Here in a Century (The Adventure Copper Mine)

Key Topics:

  • Adventure Mine, Ontonagon, Michigan

  • History of the Adventure Mine: how it began, what happened here, and why it closed down

  • Geology of Keweenaw copper mines (where the copper came from)

  • Tour of the 1st and 2nd levels of the Adventure Mine

  • Tour of the 3rd level of the Adventure Mine, which hasn’t been visited in more than 100 years

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