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Caledonia Mine, mine 45 degrees, outside 95

Hooking up the jackleg drill to air line

Rock drilling

Teacher practices jackleg drill

Drilling

Blasting cap placed in dynamite

Dynamite placed in drill hole

Stick shoves dynamite deeper into drill hole

Testing the fuse wires

Safely outside: Fire in the hole!

After blast, scaling loose rock

Mucking

Sampling ore

Measuring ore

Measuring for timbers

Setting timbers

Job well done

After blasting, looking for copper and silver

Silver? Datolite?

Francis finds some native copper

Trammers push rock car (just kidding)

Trammers dump rock car (not really)

Packing up the gear

Lunch time

Back at MTU: Processing the ore they blasted out

Crushing the ore

Grinding the ore

It’s over one percent copper.

Sampling

Flotation

Filtering middlings or fines

At the Cleveland-Cliffs Tilden iron mine

In the pit

Tilden mine

Tilden mine mill

Filter drums

At former mining area reclamation site

Day 1: Just like boot camp

President Tompkins addresses group 8:00 am Monday

Francis Otuonye  tells about program

Mineralogy Lab, George Robinson

Specific gravity

Scratch test for hardness

A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum

Famous Michigan native copper

Day 3: Quincy Mine & Hoist Tour Picnic

Ed Yarborough of Quincy Hoist Association

Hoist went down 2 miles into the earth

Tram ride

Underground in Quincy Mine

Happy faces

Quincy Mine shaft house

In the shaft house, left, bailer; right, mancar

George Robinson explains Copper Vein

Allouez Mine Mineral Hunt

Keweenaw National Park float copper

Mineral hunting at Laurium Mine

Copper, prehnite, calcite, quartz. . .

Day 4: Specular hematite at iron mine

See the magnet move----It’s Magnetite

Ropes Gold Mine  --Mining for gold

View of Cliff Shaft, Ishpeming

On Jasper Knob iron formation

Jaspilite iron ore formation

Pink quarry granite

Crystals: You can feel them

See the stars

16 ton Copper Boulder found in Lake Superior

Mining cookies

Group in gravel pit

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Banquet Entertainment

Francis Otuonye, and NSF Evaluation team, Bill Sparks and Julie Stafford

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