The places listed below are user submitted gold prospecting locations. Things change over time - these places may or may not still be open. Be sure to fill your holes, pick up your trash and don't trespass. We are losing good spots all the time.
We really need more info on this state! If you know of any other prospecting locations in this or surrounding areas, please fill out this form. What we need here are fairly specific places like "downstream from where Highway 20 crosses Dry Creek". There are lots of books that say something like "The gold belt runs through ABC & XYZ Counties" or "Gold has been found in ABC River and some of its tributaries". That really doesn't say much about where YOU can find gold, private property issues or Forest Circus rules etc. Please use this form only for suggesting fairly specific places to be added to this page where new prospectors or folks visiting from other areas have a good chance of finding gold. Thank you
From Charlebois Kenneth
Placer Gold found in Ogantz River.
Near Ralph, MI placer gold in Ford River and some of it's tributary creeks.
Most of the creeks flowing into the Yellow Dog and Salmon Trout have
some gold.
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 a 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 depost was simply
lost and the prospector forgot how to go back to the site.
From Johnny Banjo
I'm in southeast lower Michigan and I've found nearly all the streams in Washtenaw,
Livingston, Lenawee, Jackson, and Oakland Counties show color in minor amounts.
I usually get a couple dozen specs and flakes per sluice load. I also found one nice "soup-bean" size copper and gold nugget in the Huron river in Wasthenaw County ten minutes west of Ann Arbor.
I hope to here about more locations you know of in my area. Also any spots
where I can use my dredge without going through all the
red-tape ofthe Department of Enviromental Quality
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