The sprawling copper mine that stretches deep below White Pine once employed thousands of people, helping make the remote Michigan town a thriving outpost of the state’s northern hinterland.
Prices for the metal eventually started to sink, however, and in 1996 the facility shut down, leaving White Pine a virtual ghost town. Suburban bungalows built to house copper miners and their families sell today to vacationers for as little as $10,000.
