Quincy Smelter

Hancock, Michigan

The Michigan town of Hancock traces its roots to the establishment of the Quincy Mine in 1859 during the copper mining boom in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Home to Finlandia University, it is the hub of Finnish-American culture in the United States.

Preserving Our Industrial Past: The Quincy Smelter

The Keweenaw Peninsula has an extensive copper mining history. This mini documentary highlights the hard-working people who saved the Quincy Smelter from being demolished. The smelter is not only a huge part of the community's culture, it's a way for the community, tourists, researchers, and others to travel back in time.

Michigan's Keweenaw by Drone

Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula by Drone

The Keweenaw is home to Michigan Technological University, the birthplace of professional hockey and Michigan's most northern point. There is a rich mining history in the area and some scenes of mining ruins and tailings can be seen in the video.

Locations filmed are as follows:

Cliff Drive :17 :51
Hungarian Falls :30
Horseshoe Harbor :40
Jacobs Falls :44
Jacobsville/Portage Entry Lighthouse 1:07
Torch Lake Dredger 1:18
Houghton (Left) Hancock (Right) 1:23
Michigan Tech 1:34
Quincy Smelter 1:38
Quincy Hoist 1:45
Copper Harbor 1:51
Gay Stamp Sands 2:08
Redridge Steel Dam 2:26
Freda 2:34
Great Sand Bay 2:50
Portage Canal Entrance Breakers 2:58
Brockway Mountain Drive 3:01


Keewenaw From the Air by Windtrap Digital Media, LLC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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The Final Years of C&H.wmv

Interview with Jack Foster a life time resident of the Lake Superior Copper region. Jack worked most of his adult employed by The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Cycling along the Keweenaw Waterway Ripley Michigan

Cycling on the Public Trail along the Keweenaw Waterway, on the Hancock Ripley side of the channel, a nice warm day, March 18, 2012, with some ice on the lake yet. Shows the old Quincy Smelter, being fixed up as part of the Keweenaw Natioinal Historical Park, and then the Portage Lake Shipping Channel US Highway 41 and M-26 Aerial Lift bridge.

Abandoned Dredge and Copper Mine: Inside Look!

Exploring some old Copper Mining ruins ( and a shored 100+ year old Dredge outside the towns of Houghton and Hancock, Upper Michigan, known as the Quincy Mine area.

**Copper County Quincy Mine Field Guide:

The building was a drop point and grinding/crushing facility for the raw mining material (copper). Once it was crushed, they would use chemicals to get the copper sulfides out of the rock. From there it went across the street to the smelter and then shipped out down the channel.

If you look closely in the building you will notice the concrete is actually bleeding and creating stalactites and stalagmites on the roof and floor. I am not sure if this is natural erosion found with old concrete structures or a possible side effect from using the mining chemicals in this building. You could definitely tell it was contributing to the decay of the building supports/foundations. Most of the concrete in these areas are crumbling like they are made of paper-mache.

The Dredge was old, crumbling, and very difficult to get in. Although technically climbing and exploring the Dredge is not permitted due to safety, its pretty cool to climb around a decaying structure this large from 100 years ago. Just do so at your own Risk :) The technology in the Dredge is old, but still very impressive!

Most of the Smelting building (or what I believe is the smelter) is gone. The only thing that remains is the smoke stack and coal hopper. Both of which are pretty impressive. The coal hopper even had some coal left in it.


**Copper County Explorer Quincy Field Guide:


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