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- ↑ Wolverine Copper Mining Company (1892). Report. C.H. Clayton & Co. pp. 5–6.
- ↑ Molloy, Lawrence J. (2008). A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper District: Photographs, Maps, and Tours of the Keweenaw, Past and Present. Hubbell, Michigan: Great Lakes GeoScience. pp. 62, 65. ISBN 978-0-979-1772-1-7.
- ↑ Wolverine Copper Mining Company (1892). Report. C.H. Clayton & Co. pp. 5, 14, 17.
- ↑ "Wolverine Mine" (PDF). Wausau Prospectors. 5 (9): 7. June 2012.
