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  2. Lake Ellen Kimberlite - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Ellen Kimberlite is a poorly exposed volcanic breccia located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Crystal Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The first publication in 1981 [1] describing the feature led to speculation that this or similar kimberlites in the area might have been the source of the diamonds discovered a century ...

  3. List of Superfund sites in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Michigan designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...

  4. L'Anse Indian Reservation - Wikipedia

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    The L’Anse Reservation is both the oldest and largest reservation in Michigan. It was established under the Chippewa Treaty of 1854. The United States Supreme Court has interpreted this treaty as creating permanent homelands for the Chippewa (Ojibwa Anishnaabeg) band signatories to the treaty. The US ultimately acquired land and set up other ...

  5. Sugar Island (Michigan) - Wikipedia

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    Sugar Island is an island in the U.S. state of Michigan in the St. Marys River between the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario. The entire island constitutes Sugar Island Township in Chippewa County at the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula. According to the 2000 census there were 683 people living on a land area of 128 square ...

  6. Upper Peninsula of Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Area code. 906 [a] The Upper Peninsula of Michigan —also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop —is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north ...

  7. Jacobsville Sandstone - Wikipedia

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    Named for. Jacobsville, Michigan. Jacobsville Sandstone is a red sandstone formation, marked with light-colored streaks and spots, primarily found in northern Upper Michigan, portions of Ontario, and under much of Lake Superior. Desired for its durability and aesthetics, the sandstone was used as an architectural building stone in both Canada ...

  8. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Sault Ste. Marie (/ ˌ s uː s eɪ n t m ə ˈ r iː / SOO-saynt-mə-REE) is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Chippewa County and is the only city within the county. [3] With a population of 13,337 at the 2020 census, [4] it is the second-most populated city in the Upper Peninsula, behind ...

  9. Superior (proposed U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    The state of Michigan was admitted to the Union in 1837, incorporating both the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Efforts for the U.P. to secede and form a new state date to 1858, when a convention was held in Ontonagon, Michigan, for the purpose of combining the Upper Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and northeast Minnesota into a new state to be called either Superior or Ontonagon. [2]

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