List of Copper Country smelters

Quincy Smelter site in July 2008

The Michigan Smelter between 1900 and 1906

There were seven copper smelters built in the Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan:

• Calumet and Hecla smelter - Operated by Calumet and Hecla Mining Company and located north of Hubbell on the shore of Torch Lake
• Detroit and Lake Superior Smelter - Near Hancock
• Lac La Belle Smelter - In Lac La Belle - Structure was completed, but no furnaces were ever installed. Later was converted by the Keweenaw Central Railroad to a locomotive shop.
• Michigan Smelter - Located west of Houghton near Cole's Creek on the Keweenaw waterway.
• Quincy Smelter - Located east of Hancock in Ripley on the Keweenaw Waterway
• Tamarack/Osceola Smelter - In Dollar Bay
• White Pine mine smelter - Was mostly closed in 1982 but continued to process copper and scrap material until 1984[1]

See also

• Copper mining in Michigan
• List of Copper Country mines
• List of Copper Country mills

Notes

1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Site Visit Report: Copper Range Company, White Pine Mine. Document at epa.gov Pages 4-2--4-3.