List of Copper Country smelters

There were seven copper smelters built in the Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan:

• Calumet and Hecla smelter - Operated by Calumet and Hecla Mining Company and located north of Hubbell on the shore of Torch Lake
• Detroit and Lake Superior Smelter - Near Hancock
• Lac La Belle Smelter - In Lac La Belle - Structure was completed, but no furnaces were ever installed. Later was converted by the Keweenaw Central Railroad to a locomotive shop.
• Michigan Smelter - Located west of Houghton near Cole's Creek on the Keweenaw waterway.
• Quincy Smelter - Located east of Hancock in Ripley on the Keweenaw Waterway
• Tamarack/Osceola Smelter - In Dollar Bay
• White Pine mine smelter - Was mostly closed in 1982 but continued to process copper and scrap material until 1984^[1]

Quincy Smelter site in July 2008

The Michigan Smelter between 1900 and 1906

See also

• Copper mining in Michigan
• List of Copper Country mines
• List of Copper Country mills

Notes

1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Site Visit Report: Copper Range Company, White Pine Mine. Document at epa.gov Pages 4-2--4-3.