Talk:Minesota Mine

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Is the correct spelling Minesota or Minisota? MK2 06:48, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That is the correct spelling. - It was a clerical error when the state charter for the mining company was recorded and it was never corrected.

I hope to expand this topic somewhat as I have a chance, although mineralogy is way out of my comfort zone of what I feel knowledgable enough to write about without embarrassing myself too much. From what I can tell, this article may need to be moved to something like Minesota conglomerate -- a term for the larger formation where the copper was found. While an article specifically about the Minesota Mine would remain here. Perhaps they could be treated together, although there were at least two other mines that worked the same formation. I think there should also be an article about the Ontonagon Boulder, a 500-ton piece of nearly pure native copper!!

Anyhow, I've collected a lot of external links to sources that I'm not quite ready to process yet, so I'm sticking them here so I don't lose them. Anyone should feel free to take advantage of these to improve the article. older ≠ wiser 03:44, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Michigan's Copper Deposits and Mining early history and Ontonagon Boulder
• Ontonagon Boulder {Probably this new link -- Ontonagon Boulder -- now, for same material. Swliv (talk) 14:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC)}
• Michigan Mining History, pre-1840
• Ontonagon Lighthouse, built to facilitate copper shipping
• Request for repatriation of Ontonagon Boulder
• Old Victoria where Boulder was found
• The Copper-Bearing Conglomerate Lodes of the Michigan Copper Country article in Rocks & Minerals, May, 2001 by Tom Rosemeyer
• another source of the Rosemeyer article
• USGS Fissure Deposits
• A USGS reference to the name Minesota Conglomerate for the general formation
• PDF of the 1891 Michigan Mines and Statistics (also refers to the formation as Minesota Conglomerate)
• Irish Immigrants and Michigan Mines