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Dedication ceremonies for the Copper Pavilion at Michigan Technological University’s A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum will take place today.
The Copper Pavilion is the new home for the Guinness World Record native copper slab.
The approximately 17-ton slab of native copper, recovered from Lake Superior, has been on permanent loan to the Museum from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
In June, the slab was moved from the Quincy Mine Hoist Association, where it had been on display since 2001, to the new stand underneath the pavilion erected to protect it from the weather.
Ted Bornhorst, executive director of the museum and a professor at Michigan Tech, says the slab is by far the largest specimen currently in the museum.
The pavilion was made possible by a generous gift from John and Jane Matz of Traverse City, friends and supporters of the museum.
