Talk:Quincy Mine

HAER info
HAER has a great deal (34 drawings, 278 b&w photos, 680 data pages, 29 photo caption pages 9 color transparencies) of info on this mine/mining company. Here is the top directory where all the info is stored: http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/mi/mi0000/mi0086/

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Quincy was a hugely important company to Copper Country history. Go Huskies!! + +Lar: t/c 21:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Quincy Mining Company
I noticed that there is no article for the Quincy Mining Company, which was of course one of the most important copper mines in the country. Then it occurred to me that this article is probably the best place for such info, instead of a separate article. Any thoughts on whether we should have separate articles, put Mining Company info into this one, or perhaps move this into a new Mining Company article? I would also greatly appreciate help from anyone who knows more about the company than me. -- dcclark (talk) 16:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I'd be inclined to put it here, unless the company operations extended significantly beyond this mine. As it is, this is barely more than a stub and I think it is probably better known by the name of the mine rather than that of the company. older ≠ wiser 17:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Mysterious Paragraph
I deleted this from the article:
 * Located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula of the Keweenaw region, just outside Hancock in Ripley, the Quincy Smelting Works sits on the north shore admiring its reflection in the calm waters of the Portage Cannel. Built in 1898, the mighty structure was a small, yet a significant part of its vast mining network, the Quincy Mining Company (QMC), nicknamed “Old Reliable”. Constructed by James R. Cooper, the Quincy Smelter was placed on the stamp sands of Pewabic’s old milling site, which was property obtained by QMC in 1891. The investment into the Quincy Smelter was the direct result of the abundant product, copper, coming from the mines which prior to the 1890’s QMC would have not been able to support. The investment would not let QMC down. Throughout the boom era, the Quincy Smelter smelted, or refined, minerals produced and delivered from its affiliate the Torch Lake mill. The Quincy Smelter witnessed glory from the Copper Boom era prior 1920’s, but with the arrival of the Great Depression and World Wars starting in the 1920’s thru the 1940’s, the smelter would fall a victim to the troubled economy. It remained idle for nearly seventeen years before reopening in mid 1940’s, with help of its leaders and the Reclamation Plant. Despite the obstacles, the Quincy Smelter remained loyal, functioning close to seventy years before it officially closed in 1967.Over the years, the smelter, has slowly disappeared from people’s knowledge, forgetting it, along with others, was the basis of our economy. The Quincy Smelter has sat abandoned since its closure, with little attention directed towards it. The recognition it has received for preservation has not developed beyond proposals. For now, it will remain silent, waiting for that moment to shine once again, to tell its stories of technological advancement in the 19th and 20th centuries, and reveal its significance not only to the Keweenaw, or the Copper Country, but to the world

This smacks of copyvio to me, although I can't find a source. It also has very strange language, duplicates some data already in the article, and generally doesn't fit. Anyone who wants to extract the new data and incorporate it into the article is welcome to. -- dcclark (talk) 22:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

A few additions
Yesterday I added information from the Quincy Mine Hoist page, the Quincy Mining Company Collection from Michigan Tech, and the Keweenaw National Historic Park page. -- User:psycherevolt

Nation's leading copper producer?
Under “Lifespan: 1846-1945”, the first paragraph says that the Quincy was the nation’s leading copper producer from 1862 to 1882. The reference given is a Michigan government website; unfortunately, the website itself does not give its source.

However, Horace J. Stevens' Copper Handbook (published in Houghton, Michigan by the author), an authoritative and widely-used early 20th-century reference on copper mining, tells a different story. The Copper Handbook edition I have handy is the 8th edition (1908), but any comparable edition should have the same figures.

The Quincy annual production history is given on pages 1149-1150, and the annual production of the world's largest copper mines for 1867-1907 are listed on page 1457. In the first year (1867) the Quincy production is slightly ahead of Calumet and Hecla. However, from 1868 onward C&H is far ahead of Quincy in copper production, and in 1882 Quincy falls to third place behind C&H and the Copper Queen mine in Arizona.

To illustrate how far from 1st place the Quincy really was, let's take the production (in pounds of copper) from the year 1870:
 * - Calumet & Hecla 14,031,584 (more than 5x times the Quincy output)
 * - Quincy 2,496,774

Again for illustration, the year 1880:
 * - Calumet & Hecla 31,675,239 (more than 8x Quincy)
 * - Quincy 3,609,250

The Quincy was a great mine, but the claim that it was the nation’s leading copper mine after 1867 appears to be untrue. Unless someone can up with some solid production figures that controvert those in the Copper Handbook, the claim that the Quincy was the nation’s leading copper mine after 1867 should be deleted. Plazak (talk) 15:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No one came up with any figures to disput those in the Copper handbook, so I am modifying the text to read that the Quincy was the leading producer from 1862 through 1867. Plazak (talk) 14:39, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

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