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Offline Cap'n Jon

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Panning up here in the U.P. of Michigan...
« on: February 25, 2004, 04:55:22 PM »
Been thinking about looking for some gold. I know there's a lot around here in the Upper peninsula of Michigan. I need a sourse for a pan to buy...
Thanks...JB
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2004, 06:51:32 PM »
Search the internet for the Michigan Gold Mine(West of Deer Lake north of US HWY 41 on the upper penn.  There also was the Peninsula Mine, Ropes Mine, Fire Center Mine and Holyoke Mine.  They were all located near the Dead River Storage Basin due north of Ishpeming.

You also have silver in the area.

Look for a book: "Gold in Michigan", by C Allen, 1911
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2004, 06:50:40 PM »
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I hunted the Mass and Trout creek area for the last 30 years.There is good gold there.I work the drainage and the Ontonagon River.Find a good bed rock base and work the cracks and peel off what you can.The red clay gullys are tough to work but it is rewarding.I find a lot more silver than gold.But the Gold you find is good.
The DNR are not helpful in the UP they just as soon not let you look.The regulations are just about non exsisting.

Kurt
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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2004, 12:49:46 PM »
Holy cow!  I didn't even know this subject was in this forum!  When all else fails, scroll down....

Speaking of gold in the Yoop, I believe I've heard tales of some gold panned out of the Yellow Dog River, not sure exactly where.  I was a geology student, so I spent much time running through the boonies up there.  Now, I push paper :roll:

If you hear of and good spots, give me a scream.

Michbob.
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Starting to pan!
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2004, 02:46:42 PM »
Well, been pretty busy here on the West End and figured I'd get busy and see about getting a pan and trying my luck...Kennibek mines want to open up the Yellow Dog again and ofcourse the tree hugger's are screaming bloody murder...So we'll see what happens there...But wanted to bump this thread again and let ya guy's know I'm going to try it out before the snows get too deep...We are at low water now also... :D
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2004, 06:07:24 PM »
once in a while they have pans on e-bay. You can also get by with any old rusty slope sided metal pan. I even hear those old enamel wash basins will work. I bought a little 12 inch gold pan out at the Broken Boot mine  in S. Dakota as a souvenire. I have been meaning to go up to the area around the Ropes mine and see if there might be some color under a few rocks.
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2004, 06:46:02 PM »
While the old style pans do work, the newer ones with the built in riffles are much better for saving fine gold.

But, you have to treat the pan first.  Best to use a good detergent to wash it and a little fine emery cloth to rough up the service.  Any oil on the pan from the manufactuing process will cause the fines to float on the water surface when panning.

The riffles are called Chinese rifles.  Supposedly they were the first ones to hammer them into the old metal pans.  When the gold rush first started in Alaska, down near Juneau, the gold prospecters loaded all the Chinese on a boat and kicked them out of town because they were to efficient.
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2004, 12:44:51 PM »
Just saw this thread.  You can get a good steel pan for $5 at:

www.wardsci.com

Look under field equipment, pans and shovels.

Ain't it snowin' up there yet?

Michbob
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« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2004, 01:54:35 AM »
Snowin only applies to them boys when thay can't see over tha top of it.
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« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2004, 10:48:22 AM »
T'would be funny, except that happens up here.  Last year, we had 105" of snow in January alone.......

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« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2004, 10:51:34 PM »
Toooooo cold fer my old bones.
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