Gary Smith
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(DON'T BLAME THIS AUTHOR IF HE HAS NO CLUE THAT EARLY ISRAELITES LEFT THESE ARTIFACTS. HE HASN'T AN IDEA REALLY AND KNOWS THE INDIANS WERE NOT USING METAL WHEN DISCOVERED.)
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North America's First Metal Miners
Have you ever thought about who the first metal miners in North America were? What metal did they mine, where did they mine it, and what did they do with the metal? In order to find the answers to these intriguing questions we have to look back several thousand years before the birth of Ch
ist.
Large deposits of 99%+ pure native copper are known on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Reports of these copper deposits were heard by the e
arli
est French explorers of the Great Lakes Region, beginning in 1608 with Champlain. He received a foot long s
pecimen of native copper from an Algonquin Indian chief and sent it to King Henry IV of France. There were no immediate attempts to locate the source of this copper. However, prior to 1800 there were attempts to locate the source of the native copper that was spoken of by the indians of the region. These early attempts to locate and exploit the copper deposits ended in failure.
By the mid 1840s, when the first modern copper mines were opened in the Keweenaw Peninsula, miners began to find traces of earlier mining efforts. Throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, pits and trenches dug into the rock were discovered, some as deep as 20 feet and others only a few feet deep. These
pits and trenches showed evidence of copper having been removed from surrounding rock, and in some cases copper was found partially worked out of the rock but still in place. In association with thes
e pi
ts and tren
ches were found tons of grooved and ungrooved stone hammers, as well as some copper artifacts (k
nives, spearpoints, spuds, awls, etc.)...
http://copperculture.homestead.com/
North America's First Metal Miners
Have you ever thought about who the first metal miners in North America were? What metal did they mine, where did they mine it, and what did they do with the metal? In order to find the answers to these intriguing questions we have to look back several thousand years before the birth of Ch
ist.
Large deposits of 99%+ pure native copper are known on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Reports of these copper deposits were heard by the e
arli
est French explorers of the Great Lakes Region, beginning in 1608 with Champlain. He received a foot long s
pecimen of native copper from an Algonquin Indian chief and sent it to King Henry IV of France. There were no immediate attempts to locate the source of this copper. However, prior to 1800 there were attempts to locate the source of the native copper that was spoken of by the indians of the region. These early attempts to locate and exploit the copper deposits ended in failure.
By the mid 1840s, when the first modern copper mines were opened in the Keweenaw Peninsula, miners began to find traces of earlier mining efforts. Throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, pits and trenches dug into the rock were discovered, some as deep as 20 feet and others only a few feet deep. These
pits and trenches showed evidence of copper having been removed from surrounding rock, and in some cases copper was found partially worked out of the rock but still in place. In association with thes
e pi
ts and tren
ches were found tons of grooved and ungrooved stone hammers, as well as some copper artifacts (k
nives, spearpoints, spuds, awls, etc.)...