Shipman Mine, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville Counties, Ontario, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Shipman Mine	Mine
Elizabethtown Township	Township
Leeds and Grenville Counties	County
Ontario	Province
Canada	Country

An iron mine operated in the 1800's in Lot 37, Concession II, in Elizabethtown Township which ceased operations in 1875.

NOTE: Currently worked for specimens by Allen Stein and another person; access is restricted (https://www.mindat.org/mesg-150956.html#578072).

Main claim to mineralogical fame as the Dana Locality for twinned pyrrhotite crystals.

The Brockville Chemical Company operated the mine and a plant (from 1869) that produced sulphuric acid (in Brockville). The acid plant continued after the mine closed, using U.S. pyrite, until 1884. A tunnel, started near the foot of the hill, was run S about 10 ft where a raise was cut to meet the bottom of the open pit, near the top of the hill. The main pit was sunk to 250 ft and a shaft, at the bottom of a 50 ft pit, was sunk about 200 ft. From this shaft levels were run to the SW (the Big Drift), S (Gardener Drift) and E. The Big Drift was over 400 ft long and, in one place, over 300 ft wide. In the Gardener Drift the ore was lost. In the E drift calcite and ore were abundant but it had to be abandoned due to water and unsafe walls (no timbering). Mining of open-cuts appears to have been carried out in a piecemeal and unsafe fashion.

Possibly located on Halleck's Road.

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