“I know some divers that claim they have seen entire outcroppings under the water in the big lake.”
They have. That’s a fact. We don’t have the technology to remove 100 million tons of copper sitting under Lake Superior.
The old miners in the 19th century got all the easy copper on Keweenaw’s spine. What remains to remove is difficult. A number of test mines have been run and failed.
From the old miners I talked to, we’ve removed about 10% of the copper on the surface. About 90% still sits there, waiting. I’ve got all the stats and historical records in my file. I’ve published those records.
Stan Dyl, former head of Michigan Tech’s Mineralogical Museum, has all the stats in his head. He’s one smart man. Don’t believe me? Talk to Stan.
In my opinion, people severely underestimate how much wealth sits on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
It’s trillions of dollars spread over decades.
It almost needs to be melted in the ground and pumped out.
I sent a set of samples from the Kingman AZ area and they are being used at Tech now. They are always excited to get things like that donated to them.
Like you said..there is trillions of dollars all there if they can just get the GD gubermint the hell outta the way. Think of it. This peninsula has vast Iron deposits, Some gold, some silver. a lot of copper, Timber up the wazoo, they have discovered oil on the Stonington Peninsula and we have to rely on boot licking from the gubermint to survive. I say we split this government and create our own. What the hell? We have shipping on INT waters just about year round now and all that wealth, what do we need with a government that is broke and dragging us down the hole?
I found this bit: WOW! That is one hell of a lot of copper!
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/redmetal/history.html