The Ropes Mine is located in the northern part of the Ishpeming Greenstone belt, (also called the Marquette Greenstone belt) in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Ropes Mine was founded by the man named Julius Ropes who discovered gold among the serpentine rocks located in the northern region of Ishpeming in 1881. As a result of the […]
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Gold Prospecting in Michigan
Like most of the eastern United States, Michigan’s gold exists mostly as glacial deposits of placer gold and not in any great amounts. The creeks and rivers of the upper and lower peninsulas may yield some fine gold for you, since placer mining has not been profitable commercially. Very little exploration has been done on […]