{"id":3039,"slug":"cliff-mine-ahmeek-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Cliff is the first — the 'dividend paid' that's the mine's rank, the '97 percent' that's the copper's pure. The '49ers learned' is the schooled — the 'California' that's the pupils' next, the 'Keweenaw' that's the classroom's spot. The 'cliff capped' is the stopped — the 'couldn't expand' that's the geography's limit, the '120 buildings' that's the ruins' count.","The 'mined before' is the older — the 'indigenous' that's the first miners' kind, the 'billion years' that's the lava's age. The 'town grew' is the followed — the 'Clifton' that's the settlement's name, the 'Cornish Irish' that's the workers' mix. Cliff is the forested — the 'trees hide' that's the ruins' state, the 'foundations' that's the left's form.","The file keeps Cliff: the first dividend, the schooled 49ers, the capped cliff, and the older miners.","Cliff Mine is the archive's Michigan file — the first profitable copper mine in Copper Country."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Cliff Mine is the archive's Michigan file — the mine that taught the 49ers.","A mine keeps its cliff — the file's suggestion being that Cliff's hold is the first: the 'dividend' that's the profit's mark, the '97%' that's the copper's pure, and the '49ers' that's the students' fame."]}],"name":"Cliff Mine","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MINING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The first profitable Keweenaw copper mine—the ruins in the woods.","full_desc":"A site in Ahmeek, Michigan, Cliff Mine is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The first profitable Keweenaw copper mine—the ruins in the woods. The archive files it under mining history, ghost towns and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Ahmeek","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":47.298407,"lon":-88.397238,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site / park","research_notes":"lakes batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2937,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the ruins. The site in Ahmeek, Michigan gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. Sources including 'Cliff Mine' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Cliff Mine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_mine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1845-87 operation is documented. Cliff Mine's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Cliff Mine'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1845","date_end":"1887","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Cliff Mine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_mine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Cliff Mine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_mine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}