Finding Minnesota: Gold Prospecting In The Iron Range

Minnesotans looking to strike it rich need not look any further than our own backyard, Rachel Slavik reports (3:09). WCCO 4 News At 10 - March 27, 2016

[@mrruble-dessalet7299]

Gosh darnit just finished packing my carpetbag and was about to head up there to beat the crowd

[@thetruthisoutthereyt]

This is actually so funny. Are you a Ranger? You have to be.

[@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside]

2:13 that shovel would be really handy. Lots of material falls right off your shovel when you're digging under water

[@nhragold1922]

You can be a full time Prospector... just out west!

[@Hooverdarnit]

I found some nuggets as big as chicken nuggets. Oh wait, they were chicken nuggets.

[@gusargoan]

You can go out and find quartz and aquamarine gems worth 250.00 plus, per gem.

[@Alpha5-7]

Where anywhere in mn?

[@gusargoan]

@@Alpha5-7 I don't know in MN. I don't live there.

[@Alpha5-7]

Gustaaf Argoan alright thanks

[@bryanbressem5026]

Quartz isn't worth anything

[@str8menace923]

So your telling me i can illegally use a sluice in Minnesota??

[@LarsonProspecting]

Yes I have a sluice that I use in Minnesota

[@brassslowhand3680]

only until DNR MN catches you! No sluicing in MN. No motorized equipment in MN either. Hand power only.

[@SandhillCrane42]

It's so lame. Digging holes wreck the nature, unless you've got millions to invest in permitting. Then you can dig them visible from space. Build a pipeline while you're at it, but holes ruin the aesthetic of make believe nature land.

[@mikenicholson7708]

That's what everyone seems to think. Makes it hard on the guys doing it legally, giving all of us a bad name even the ones trying to do everything by the book.

[@nrrbull]

hes only found 2 grams in 2 years??????

[@jimlibor4363]

And that's with a gold sluice lol.

[@LarsonProspecting]

Remember this is Minnesota gold is very hard to get here.

[@bryanbressem5026]

And 17000 mosquito bites, woo-hoo

[@eduffy4937]

I frequent areas in mn where i can get a couple grams each trip. Not a huge psyout but its better thsn nothing. Just something fun to do in the non buggy seasons.

[@SandhillCrane42]

Ha, just dumping that gravel into the sluice with the blade downstream and everything. A lot of people do stuff like that because "it's just a hobby" and the grade is low, but you're digging gold to toss it back in the river. He really just reaches right in the box and tousles it too. You might lose a quarter yard with that maneuver. Hopefully they know better now, because all of that is not good. They've got some screens there, but the operation looks dubious. Sorry to be cruel. Once people find a little they settle on their systems for better or worse: feeding it dry, not classifying, running rich, running lean, worst of all is the poking at the mat-that's a genuinely terrible habit people like that makes no sense at all- but it all still amounts to something uneconomical, I suppose. It is NOT a guessing game, it's a game of depositional probabilities in the vicinity of eroded lodes.

[@rolfekurtyka-bestrealestat9326]

I hope that's not a trout stream.

[@etmyld69]

Why? Gold Prospecting is safer than ''Catch and Release'' or Fisherman walking on the fish egg redds in the stream !

[@arthurrodriguez7534]

@@etmyld69 dnr prohibit it in trout streams

[@robertronning7016]

This is why they want to do this up for gold we will not let them kill her wildlife for gold.