Hello!
I've lurked the gold sections of TN for some time and now I seek your assistance. I'd like some help picking locations for my future panning missions.
My focal point is around our cottage located in North Central Wisconsin, not far from Wausau. The state of Wisconsin has glacial gold deposits and that is the trail I'm on. See, our cottage is located on essentially the border line for where the glaciers last stopped. South of us is flat plains farmland. North of us is nothing but lakes and rough terrain. Our lake is about the last lake from what turns into a huge glacial drainage basin. Please excuse my terminology, I'm not geologist.
I'm thinking our lake was covered by the leading edge of the glacier. When the advancement stopped, it melted and dropped all the heavies in place, or not far down stream. Our lake bed is nothing but gravely rock and sand. Huge boulders are scattered throughout our property and to the north. The south end of our lake is capped by a bluff/ridge which is about 50ft above water level. There are rock piles which come up from the bottom of the lake in varying spots. Most lakes around us and to the north are very similar. The landscape south is much different.
You can see the large basin area on the attached picture. That big flatish area to the East, slightly North, and South of Gleason was an area that the glacier did not touch. You can see the well defined border lines of the glacier if you look West of Gleason and east across the basin. The areas with all the lakes was covered in glacier, flat area in middle was untouched and became drainage area. Just for clarification, this is information told to me from a friend who took geology classes in college. I've done some reading and it appears correct. Not saying I know much about this but the logic checks out so far.
Do you think I should focus on the lake bed seeing that it's lower than the surrounding area?
Would there be a more likely chance to find larger pieces as the glacier probably melted directly over our location? Thinking it might just have dropped down the heavier pieces as it went.
Or, is my best bet to focus on the drainage basin area? There is a lot of public land around there with streams and such but nothing too big anymore. I'm thinking I'd have to find where the larger streams/river were formed after the glacier melted to find the highest concentrations.
I'm positive I'll find gold but my expectations are very low. It's more a chance to stick it in the face of all the people laughing at my "gold in wisconsin" theories. We all know the glaciers brought some gold in. Seems I might be in a good location to find some of it, that's all.
I'll be working with minimal tools and even less knowledge. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've lurked the gold sections of TN for some time and now I seek your assistance. I'd like some help picking locations for my future panning missions.
My focal point is around our cottage located in North Central Wisconsin, not far from Wausau. The state of Wisconsin has glacial gold deposits and that is the trail I'm on. See, our cottage is located on essentially the border line for where the glaciers last stopped. South of us is flat plains farmland. North of us is nothing but lakes and rough terrain. Our lake is about the last lake from what turns into a huge glacial drainage basin. Please excuse my terminology, I'm not geologist.
I'm thinking our lake was covered by the leading edge of the glacier. When the advancement stopped, it melted and dropped all the heavies in place, or not far down stream. Our lake bed is nothing but gravely rock and sand. Huge boulders are scattered throughout our property and to the north. The south end of our lake is capped by a bluff/ridge which is about 50ft above water level. There are rock piles which come up from the bottom of the lake in varying spots. Most lakes around us and to the north are very similar. The landscape south is much different.
You can see the large basin area on the attached picture. That big flatish area to the East, slightly North, and South of Gleason was an area that the glacier did not touch. You can see the well defined border lines of the glacier if you look West of Gleason and east across the basin. The areas with all the lakes was covered in glacier, flat area in middle was untouched and became drainage area. Just for clarification, this is information told to me from a friend who took geology classes in college. I've done some reading and it appears correct. Not saying I know much about this but the logic checks out so far.
Do you think I should focus on the lake bed seeing that it's lower than the surrounding area?
Would there be a more likely chance to find larger pieces as the glacier probably melted directly over our location? Thinking it might just have dropped down the heavier pieces as it went.
Or, is my best bet to focus on the drainage basin area? There is a lot of public land around there with streams and such but nothing too big anymore. I'm thinking I'd have to find where the larger streams/river were formed after the glacier melted to find the highest concentrations.
I'm positive I'll find gold but my expectations are very low. It's more a chance to stick it in the face of all the people laughing at my "gold in wisconsin" theories. We all know the glaciers brought some gold in. Seems I might be in a good location to find some of it, that's all.
I'll be working with minimal tools and even less knowledge. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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