Lost Silver/copper Mine Lake Superior area

[jeff of pa]

Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), 29 Dec. 1884.







https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...dden&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Yeah, read about an island on the Great Lakes, with MUCH copper; native ppl (aka "Indians) mined their COPPER there. Then went home and made LOTS of copper jewelry; COPPER was more valued than GOLD to them...