A local book on Gold mining in Upper Michigan

[Author Man]

I've been doing some research on the Ropes Gold mine and found a site from the author of the book, Michigan Gold: Mining in the Upper Peninsula, by Daniel R. Fountain. It also contains mines around the Dead River Basin and other area's. It is available on Amazon.com for $12.95 plus shipping. I'll be getting a copy of it in a couple weeks and thought you might be interested in it.

 

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[fatsmahoney]

My cousin pans for gold up north he has an electric sleuge or something like that hes finds mostly dust but i have seen a small nugget about the size of a half piece of rice so if you are persistant i imagine you might get rich

 

[thompy]

author man the book is pretty informative, the writer gave my dad an autogrhphed copy, my dad worked with him at the empire mine. ive found a couple of the mines on the north side of the dead, pretty tough country for hiking. some old logging roads, and a few roads from when they were test drilling back in the 80's but many trees down, would be tough on a 4 wheeler. i have to get another copy myself. i talked to him last year to get an autographed copy he lives on snobird rd in negaunee near the state police post

 

[CACHEHNTR]

yup thats a good book i have a copy myself and there is always a copy at a local library.

 

[grzbear]

i could very well be wrong, but i thought those areas around the ropes mine were off limits

 

[Author Man]

You bring up a goood point grzbear. I do know they have the mine fenced in and there is no tresspassing. I am interested in finding some trout streams in the area and bring along the metal detector to do a bit of searching for gold. Now if I could just hook up my ugly stick to the end of the detector I'd be in heaven. Better yet, to catch a trout with a gold nugget in its belly. Any chance to get out into the woods, fish, detecting and swapping mosquito's is a great day. As I say this, the wind is blowing like a hurricane and the snow is knee deep and the temp buried at -10. Ah, life is good for sure.......

 

[grzbear]

the book is a good read--think i went through it twice--got to hit the yellow dog this summer ,but as i type this i can,t see the boat in the backyard--one of the nastiest days i can remember

 

[CACHEHNTR]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh ya gott love the U.P. Author Man,it's no better over this way. with the wind chill right now it's -39 BELOW......................... UGHHHHHHHHHHH come on spring!!!!

 

[grzbear]

anybody tried the lake superior shoreline for gold?

 

[CACHEHNTR]

I've never tried it BUT i have the gps coordinates to a spot where you can,in the spring,pan gold off of the beach. The gold runs down from some glacial moraines. the fellow i got it from says you can get it also during the summer but its deeper by then. This is just flour gold remind you.

 

[thompy]

found plenty of fools gold in quartz, snorkiling but no nuggets