KEWEENAW BAY — After years of uncertainty, Dione Price hopes her community may win a long battle to clean up century-old mining waste. Years of advocacy by partners including the Keweenaw Bay Indian ...

A mining company is pursuing a state lease to pave the way for exploratory drilling on more than 23,000 acres of the western Upper Peninsula. Talon Michigan LLC is on the hunt for nickel, a mineral ...

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The Daily Mining Gazette, in cooperation with other Upper Peninsula newspapers is running companion pieces to our America 250 ...

NEGAUNEE, MI – Michigan’s Upper Peninsula may be primed for a major hydroelectric future because of its underground mining past. Scientists at Michigan Technological University in Houghton believe it ...

Step below the surface, follow a headlamp through the old copper workings, and let Michigan history feel a little colder, ...

Michigan’s economically beleaguered Upper Peninsula is experiencing a dramatic economic turnaround thanks to a resurgence in mining. Mining gained momentum this year after a state judge rejected ...

Four Upper Peninsula newspapers are running companion pieces to our America 250 stories with a focus on the U.P.’s role in ...

Prehistoric copper mines -- Early reports -- Samuel O. Knapp and the Minesota mine -- Who wrote the Knapp report? -- What discoverers saw in the nineteenth century -- Who were the prehistoric miners? ...