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The Mine Disaster UNDER a Lake

The Mine Disaster UNDER a Lake

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“Scary Interesting”

This is the Barnes Hecker Mine. It was first opened in 1923 and would eventually reach 1000 feet into the earth, in an area littered with surface and underground lakes. But despite the great caution taken by the owners, something unforeseen would happen deep in one of the tunnels that would have…

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  1. Well I’ll be! I’m a Yooper originally from about 45 minutes from there. Never heard of the Barnes Hecker story, but knew of the mine to describe an area. Back in 2004-2005, I actually worked just north of the mine, rebuilding the Silver Lake Basin when that entire reservoir drained by dam failure. I think the dam itself was rebuilt last, around 2007/8

  2. This video is almost entirely misinformation and should be remo9ved. I am an historian and I have studied the Barnes-Hecker mine disaster for years and have spoken about it and authored about it. Right now, here in Ishpeming, multiple families who had past relatives who were killed in the disaster have contacted me to "do something about this B.S. account." Please remove it. It is not even close.

  3. Hey btw, I’m from the UP, and Ishpeming is pronounced Ish-pim-ing not ish-pem-ing. Don’t sweat it though lol it’s just something that caught my attention.

  4. What a scary prospect to think of, just the force that water can have when it looks so harmless. Although not water related this reminds me of the Pike river mine explosion here in NZ where only 2 survived.

  5. a company that genuinely tried to do the right thing for their employees, and when something bad happened, tried to make it right as best they could? that's shocking.

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