Da Yooper's Guide to Michigan Gold

Da Yooper's Guide To

Michigan Gold

Gold, is a Michigan mineral, and has been found throughout Michigan. Michigan's Old Gold mines and prospects, long forgotten by many of the locals, exist in many counties. Placer mining was done in almost every county in Michigan, in most cases without finding paying quantities of the mineral Gold. Marquette County has many old hardrock prospects and some hardrock locations were paying mines. The most famous mine was the Ropes Gold Mine, of which much has been written. There are stories of lost mines and placer locations as well as rumors that there are some people in the Upper Peninsula making a living today from their secret locations. Such is the Romance of Gold.

Bear in mind that many of the Michigan Gold prospects and Gold mines were only scams to depart the unwary and greedy from their money. Mines and Placers were salted and the gullible were soon fleeced. Trying to seperate the facts from the fiction at this late date is almost impossible.

I often have visiters to the shop asking questions and telling me stories and locations. I try to record them and will post them to this site as I hear them. If you have any stories you wish to share, please send them to Da Yooper.

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Sites and prospects in Michigan I know of or have heard of.

1. Old Gold mines marked on old County Map of Delta County

Ogontz River near Cemetary just south of U.S. 2. (Placer?)
East of Garden, Mi.. there was an old Gold Mine. Inquire locally. (Hard Rock Mine)

2. Ford River, North of Ralph, MI (Placer)

3. Little Pup. Tributary of Yellow Dog River (Author has found placer gold)

4. Menominee Countyy, Active mine, Location unknown, I have specimen of a very heavy clay type soft Hematite with gold from one of the owners. Gold can often be seen with the eye when fresh sawn.

5. Lake Superior shores. Along the shore of Lake Superior West of the Huron Mountains and East of Grand Marais

I have heard of gold being found on the Menoninee River, the Rapid River, Slate River, the Huron and Little Huron Rivers.

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From David Payant AKA MadDog
There are gold deposits in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Marquette County has one closed mine, Roper's, located north of the City of Ishpeming. Allegedly, there are gold bearing formations near Rocking Chair Lakes, near the Mulligan Plains. The Longyear Corporation tried to block making a wilderness area there because they claim it has potential for a big gold strike. I have heard of placer gold in Bushy Creek, a tributary of the the Yellow Dog River. Placer gold has been found in the Yellow Dog Plains, south of the AAA road. The Marquette County Planning Department has a map of the sites. Two failed mines are locate off Gold Mine Road. The road starts at the ghost town of Birch which is on County Road 550. I have located one of the these mines and a test pit. Allegedly, the gold is found in association with silver and copper. There is a legend about two lost silver deposits. One was found by an old prospector who showed the nuggets to several people and then died in a fire in a L'anse boarding house. He claimed the find was from the Huron Mountains. Another deposit was found near the Holyoke Mine (silver), north of the Dead River. That deposit was simply lost and the prospector forgot how to go back to the site.

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Michigan's Gold Mines

Ropes Gold Mine
Ropes Gold Mine Image 1881-1990

Production $647,902.00

S 1/2 of NW 1/2 of section 29,T48N-R27WGPS Maps

The mine was closed in 1990 due to declining ore values and a cave-in, that resulted in extensive damage underground. Waste Dumps and exposed outcrops in the varea have produced specimen of antigorite (picrolite), chrysotile (asbestos), and suburb crystals of grass-green talc with snow-white dolomite. Microcrystals of pyrrhotite, goethite, pyrite, galena, and calcite are found 1n the waste rock. Blebs of massive tetrahedrite to 1 cm can also be found. Two incredible small masses of gold (about 1 cm each) were found on the dumps by local collector Mike Basal in June 1990. However, most of the gold from this mine was too finely disseminated to be visible or suitable for specimens.

Mineral List

Michigan Gold Mining Company 1890-1895
NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Section 35, T48N-R28W
Production $17,675.35
From Quartz Vein

Superior Gold Mining Company NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of section 35, T48N-R28W
From Quartz Vein

Gold Lake Mining Company
NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of section 35, T48N-R28W
From Quartz Vein

Peninsula Mining Company
SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of section 25, T48N-R28W
From Quartz Veins

Grayling Gold and Silver Mine
S 1/2 of SE 1/4 of section 26, T48-R28W
From Quartz Veins

Gitchigamme Mining Company
W 1/2 of NW 1/4 of section 26, T48-R28W

Grammet Mining Company
NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of section 36, T48N-R28W

Giant Mining Company
SE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of section 36, T48N-R28W

Brown Mining Company
W 1/2 of W 1/2 of section 36, T48N-R28W

Case Mining Company
E 1/2 of W 1/2 of Section 36, T48N-R28W

Swains Mining Company
T48N-R28W ?

Mockers Mining Company
T48N-T28W ?

Fire Centre Mining Company
section 35 T49N-R27W
From Quartz Veins

Holyoke Silver Mining Company section 1 T48N-R27W

Washburn Mining & Milling Company, Gogebic Co.
section 23, T47N-R45W

Menominee Mining Company
lot 4, Sec. 7 & lot 1 sec. 8, T39N-R30W

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