H Donn de Yampert, along with his trusty photography equipment, is taking us on a drone photo tour of the Baltic Copper Mine site.

The following information is from VisitKeweenaw.com: “Located six miles southwest of Houghton, off M-26, Baltic was the home of the Baltic Mining Company. An underground copper mine near South Range, MI consisting of 5 shafts. Exploration work was started in 1882 and successfully discovered the Baltic Lode. Property was sold in 1897 and the Baltic Mining Co. was organized a month later. The mine was absorbed by Copper Range Co. in 1917 and mining ceased in 1931. #3 shaft was the deepest at 3,839 feet. The mine produced 276 million lbs. of refined copper over 34 years. Fine specimens of copper crystals, as well as copper sulphide minerals (bornite and chalcocite) can be found on the tailings piles.”

For additional information on the Baltic Mine, click on this link from MTU: Baltic Mine Dumps

We join Discovering with Kristin Ojaniemi as she explores the ruins of the Nonesuch Mine in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park to learn the history of one of the most fascinating copper mines, with park interpreter, Katie Urban

Very interesting stuff. I just love these big ole
smokestacks. They are so cool.

Holy wha...we have history here, don't we? To be a fly on the wall back then. EVERYONE worked hard.
The men in the mines and the women with the homes/children. Awesome stuff....and the vid is amazing as well. They do such awesome stuff on there!

I just heard from Alex...he's been in the hospital with an MS flare up. He asked me to tell the gang he says, "Hello".
We're pulling for you, Alex and await the return of your wit here on these pages. Sending healing prayers.

Take care, Alex. Praying you're feeling better
soon. We miss you.

Interesting vid today. And that smokestack! I could not imagine being one of the workers who worked at that height erecting that thing . . ! SISU at work for sure.
Alex get better and get home soon. Best wishes.

Alex, Rest up and get better. I'd make a hospital joke right out of a Leslie Nielsen movie but I think I'll save that for you when you return.

I don't know how many times I've driven through South Range and never realized Baltic Mine was so close.

The Sandhill Cranes in the video were interesting. The areas where they filmed are also where I mostly see them.

After poking around a bit in the mining websites, I just discovered there are 6 mine shafts in the middle of Houghton, located in the area about 200 yards west of The Copper Hills Apartments between Portage street and Donmar Drive. It was called the Portage Mine and then later the Grand Portage Mine.

Alex, so sorry to hear you have been in the hospital. Praying for great doctors and nurses and a quick recovery. We miss you!

It always amazes me that they could build something like that out of concrete back then! How did they get the cement that high? Were most of the old smokestacks made out of brick or concrete?