Keweenaw County Historil Society - Copper Millg at Gay- How Harmful are Stamp Sands?

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Archaelogists have unvered what they believe to be the remas of the first-known gay, or transgenr, prehistoric man.

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TOP 10 GAY CAMPGROUNDS AMERI

COPPER PROCESSING and STAMP SANDSOrigally a loggg lnch se, Gay beme part of an expandg and profable pper mg empire when the Wolvere and Mohawk Mg Compani built their ls Gay, on the shor of Lake Superr. Wh a few years, the Stanton terts om New York, who fanced the Central, Atlantic, and Baltic mg pani, add the Mohawk m and l and erected hog for the workers at Wolvere, Mohawk, and Gay. They nstcted a railroad le to Gay and a dock south of the l to import al for power and load pper material bound for the Michigan Smelter on the Portage Canal.

Copper procsg at Gay was technologilly morn. Captn: 1920 Map of Gay and lg facili. (9) Gay School.

THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?

Courty: Excerpted and modified om US Army Corps 1920 Lake Survey Map of Grand (Big) Traverse Bay, Gay Michigan. Remas of the sand nveyor system still mark the Gay shorele.

Gay’s stamp sands nta around 0. Other metals the Gay sands clu alumum, arsenic, chromium, balt, mangane, nickel, lead, silver and zc - all at levels that exceed Michigan safety water qualy standards. At Gay, blowg dt om the unvered sands uld be harmful over a perd of long and regular exposure to human lungs.

In the 1980s when the EPA termed the boundari for the Torch Lake Superfund se, they did not clu the Gay sands.

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