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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 288 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAURIUM , a See also:

village of See also:Houghton See also:county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., near the centre of Keweenaw See also:peninsula, the See also:northern extremity of the See also:state. Pop. (18go) 1159; (1900) 5643, of whom 2286 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1904) 7653; (1910) 8537. It is served by the See also:Mineral Range and the See also:Mohawk and See also:Copper Range See also:railways. It is in one of the most productive copper districts in the See also:United States, and copper See also:mining is its See also:chief See also:industry. Immediately W. of Laurium is the famous See also:Calumet and Hecla mine. The village was formerly named Calumet, and was incorporated under that name in 1889, but in 1895 its name was changed by the legislature to Laurium, in allusion to the mineral See also:wealth of Laurium in See also:Greece. The name Calumet is now applied to the See also:post See also:office in the village of Red Jacket (incorporated 1875; pop. 1900, 4668; 1904, 3784; 1910, 4211), W. of the Calumet and Hecla mine; and Laurium, the mining See also:property and Red Jacket are all in the township of Calumet (pop. 1904, state See also:census, 28,587).

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