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Silver Islet Mine Shafts were established in 1868, plunging up to 365 metres below Lake Superior and producing more than $3 million in silver before shutting down just 16 years later. According to ...

The town's history goes like this: a break wall was built around two nearby islands on Lake Superior to protect ... Where towns get abandoned, moved out, homes get moved," said Lamb.

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(AP) — Michigan Technological University and a city in the Upper Peninsula are working together to see if abandoned ... Lake Superior area. Marquette County has about 200 underground mine ...

Today, it serves as a troubling reminder of the legacy left behind by the abandoned gold and silver mines ... the abandoned mines," Williams said. "A cave-in acts as a dam and a lake forms behind ...

The flooded bottom of an abandoned ... silver and left all the cobalt behind. Nobody wanted cobalt you see." Basa believes mining the mineral can return this region to its former glory. Back in the ...