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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Dangers of Michigan Mining
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:11
	Publish Date:		2021-01-27 03:30:00
	Description:		The Northwoods economy was focused on the logging industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, mining was just as important to the economic growth of the region, and in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula mining for copper and iron brought economic prosperity to many communities. It also brought hardship and tragedy. Logging has always been among the most dangerous jobs in America, but hard rock mining is not far behind it. To illustrate the danger, it is instructive to look at 32 days in one single mine in Michigan’s Gogebic range. The Newport Iron Mine outside of Ironwood, Michigan, is part of the Michigan Gogebic Iron Mining District and today is part of the Ottawa National Forest. Mining operations began on the site in 1886 and the shaft was in nearly continuous operation until the early 1950s. The year 1898 was not exceptional for the Newport Mine, but the accidents that took place there in January and February of that year serve
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