The Pea Ridge Mine

Missouri · United States · Mine

Sixteen men died in this Missouri iron mine across forty years of operation. Around eighty percent of the deposit is still in the ground.

The Pea Ridge Mine at Sullivan, Missouri operated from 1961 to 2001, and sixteen men died in it over those forty years.

It closed while roughly eighty percent of what is described as the richest iron ore deposit in North America was still underground. Why it shut has never been entirely clear to people locally, and the impression left is of a place that was simply walked away from.

Strange sounds are reported coming out of the mine shaft late at night.

Mines are the most dangerous industrial workplaces there are, and sixteen deaths across four decades is a real toll carried by a small community where everybody knew the men.

What is reported here does not need any of the speculation that has attached itself about what the miners might have dug into. The shaft goes down a very long way, and sixteen people did not come back up it.

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Where is The Pea Ridge Mine located?

The Pea Ridge Mine is in Missouri, United States.