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Atlantic Mine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Houghton County, in the Copper Country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the Keweenaw Peninsula.

The community was established in 1872, when the South Pewabic Mining Company and the Adams Mining Company merged to form the Atlantic Mining Company, and it is named for the copper mine around which it grew.

A post office was established in Atlantic Mine in 1876, and the settlement once had its own opera house, a hospital, and Finnish Lutheran, Catholic, and Methodist churches; Finnish immigrants began arriving in 1872 to work in the mine.

At its peak the community had almost 3,000 residents, drawn by a mine that produced more than 100 million pounds of copper during its working life.

The Atlantic Mine's hanging wall collapsed in 1905, and by 1906 the shafts were so damaged that the mine was abandoned, though an estimated six million tons of copper ore remain underground.

The Atlantic Mining Company's stamping works in the community kept operating until 1911, five years after the mine itself closed.

Atlantic Mine was included as a newly listed census-designated place for the 2020 census, which counted 565 residents - a fraction of its mining-era peak.

The CDP covers just 1.10 square miles, all land, in Adams Township along highway M-26, roughly halfway between Houghton to the northeast and the village of South Range to the southwest.

Children in Atlantic Mine are zoned to the Adams Township School District, which operates its public schools in the nearby communities of South Range and Painesdale.

Recent Census Bureau survey estimates put Atlantic Mine at roughly 186 households, most of them living in detached single-family homes, many of them dating to the mining era.