Hunter Mineral Exploration
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"Gold"
In Eaton Rapids Michigan?
Trout Fishing and Dams Too?
A PRACTICAL METHOD OF REMOVING THE SILT IN THE GRAND RIVER.
Using a simple method, of dredging with hydraulic mining methods, the silt, Mercury and other heavy minerals, such as gold, diamonds, etc. can be removed from the bottom of the Grand River in Eaton Rapids. With the bottom cleaned and fish habitat restored, this could be a prime fishing attraction, and a beautiful lake type setting to attract folks looking to have a nice home on an attractive recreational waterway.
The hydraulic mining dredge works like the principle of a large carpet shampooed. Water is pumped at high pressure through a nozzle, breaking up and dissipating the silt and heavy minerals such as mercury, etc. A suction hose pumps these up top and into a sluice box, where the heavy minerals are trapped and the water runs back into the river.
If you have ever saw how a garden hose aimed at the ground will actually dig a hole in the sand, it is the same principle.
Once the silt is removed, the gravel bottom is clean and prime habitat for all species of game fish. There have been record game fish taken out of the Grand River at Eaton Rapids and could be again.
This equipment can also make settling ponds (depressions in the lake bottom) so that in the spring when the silt comes washing down the river, it will settle in these depressions and then easily dredged out. Keeping the river clean with a minimum of effort and expense.
This type of dredge is known in Arizona and other mining areas as an Arizona High Banker.
Michael Hunter, who was born in Eaton Rapids, is very familiar with this method. A retired timber buyer, prospector, and licensed ginseng dealer. Mr. Hunter has worked with and modified this equipment for this purpose many, many times. Michaels mother is a Corbin. The Corbin family made significant contributions to the early growth and progress of Eaton Rapids as a community.
Seeing the depth of the silt on an electronic fish finder is a real eye opener as to the extent of the silt that has built up. Dams compound the problem as they trap the silt and it just keeps building up and building up against them.
This method is a prototype, on a smaller scale of course, of what is being done to many dams in the Western part of our country, on the many rivers that have been harnessed for energy and irrigation.
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Gold, diamonds and fishing, what do they have in common? Lets start with trout fishing and dams. During the 1930’s we built a lot of dams across this country. Now dams are great, we get power from them, they control erosion, etc., however we have no more spring floods. This causes the silt to compact and forms a very thick crust over the gravel beds where the trout used to spawn. Trout clean their beds with their tail and there is no way that they can break through the silt crust. |
You can hardly get through it with a modern suction dredge. It can be done and these people know how to do it. http://www.keeneeng.com/
Recreational mining by individual prospectors using suction dredges will rejuvenate this natural fish habitat. All a suction dredge does is lift up the gravel and separate any gold and diamonds, and puts the gravel right back. It is most unfortunate that Michigan has no laws regulating recreational mining. This closes the doors to a whole industry that could be beneficial both to the recreational users and my fellow trout fishermen.
However, this same equipment will dredge out fishponds and in Michigan you are only required to get the townships permission to dig a pond less than five acres in size. Our area is primarily a marine deposit that is saturated with small kettles or sinkholes as they are called around here. Large blocks of ice melting caused these, and that gold will lay right at the bottom, on the sandstone that is our bedrock here. Remember the first rule of gold prospecting, never stop digging until you are on bedrock, and we have modern equipment that can go thirty feet.
As a young man, I remember the old timers who brought ginseng to Dad, they were a mysterious group. Many times they would sit and talk, this one fellow in particular used to carry a little glass bottle of gold with him. He wouldn't tell me where he was taking it, other than on the Raisin River in southern Michigan. It kind of fascinated me. This led to a summertime pursuit of recreational mining. In our area of Michigan, we've got gold. This is where the glacial fault from the last ice age melted. There is a dome under Michigan, the minerals moved to the inside of the dome. The dome ends between Jackson and Lansing and the glacier curved around it a little bit, then it melted. This soil in our area is some of the most highly prized ginseng soil in the world because of this. We have gold in the Kalamazoo River by Concord.
For years the ginseng coming out of the Carolinas has been the highest prized ginseng in the world. That is gold bearing territory down there.
Reported Gold Occurrences in Michigan
Following are excerpts from "Gold in Michigan" by R. C. Allen (1911):
Reported gold occurrence in Michigan
Upper Peninsula; Iron River in Ontmagon County. Area streams around Ishpeming, especially near old mines. Streams in and around the Huron Mountains in Marquette County.
Lower Peninsula; Allegan, Allegan County. Antrim Creek, Antrim County (nuggets). Boyne River, Charlevoix County. Little Traverse, Emmet County. Walton, Rapid River and Kalkaska, Kalkaska County. Near Lake, Leelanau County. Greenville and Howard City, Montcalm County. Little Sable River, Manistee County. Manistee River, Manistee and Wexford Counties. Muskegon River, Newaygo County. White River near Whitehall and Muskegon River, Muskegon County. White River, Oceana County. Birmingham, Oakland County. Mareellus, Cass County.
The renewed interest in prospecting combined with modern equipment and techniques, we believe will uncover gold in many previously untouched locations, and that well-known locations still hold significant amounts of recoverable gold.
In the lower peninsula of Michigan, the geology of the region has a tremendous bearing on the value of the ginseng, especially when you get into the Asian market. If you can show the Chinese just one little flake of gold out of your region, it makes their mouth water.
The soil that we are growing on went over one big gold deposit in Ontario. About one hundred miles north of Lake Superior, is the largest working gold mine in the North American hemisphere. If you come straight down from that, you pick up the gold deposits in the upper peninsula. If you follow that flow, you can figure where the glacier went. Follow a map right on down the west side of Michigan. It came on down and made a bend around Jackson, which is one of the reasons this is my home base.
Study your geology. Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin also have
glacial deposits. Only Michigan and Indiana have significant amounts of gold
mineralization, and then only in certain areas. There is no soil to equal southern
Michigan's. Without a doubt Michigan will produce the finest ginseng in the world, just
like it always did.
For years, the ginseng coming out of the Carolinas has been the highest prized
ginseng in the world. That is gold bearing territory down there.
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Area |
County |
| Iron River | Ontonagon |
| Huron Mountains | Marquette |
Lower Peninsula |
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| Area | County |
| Allegan | Allegan |
| Antrim Creek | Antrim |
| Boyne River | Charlevoix |
| Little Traverse | Emmet |
| Walton, Rapid River and Kalkaska | Kalkaska |
| Near Lake | Leelanau |
| Greenville and Howard City | Montcalm |
| Little Sable River | Manistee |
| Manistee River | Manistee and Wexford |
| Muskegon River | Newaygo and Muskegon |
| White River | Muskegon and Oceana |
| Birmingham | Oakland |
| Marcellus | Cass |
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He brought some furs over to Dad, who bought both furs and ginseng. We were sitting out in his car because my Mother didn’t allow smoking in the house. Earl must have been in his eighties at the time, Dad was sitting in the front seat and I was in the back, I couldn’t have been more than ten or eleven at the time. Earl had been sitting there quiet for several minutes, and he just reached into his pocket and pulled out a diamond in the rough. As my eyes were spellbound by the brilliance of that stone in the sunlight, Earl said this is the Dowagiac diamond’s little sister. This stone was about the size of my thumbnail, probably around three carets. I asked him where the stone had been found and all he would tell me was that it came from the place where the water used to run fast on the river. He said you should have seen her big sister. He went on to explain how that during the depression he had the chance to see the Dowagiac diamond, which was found in the early thirties near the Indiana Michigan border and weighted 10.875 carets. I asked him "Well how big was its big sister?" and he said, "the size of a woman’s fist." He went on to tell my father and me that as a young man about my age at the time, his grandfather had taken him to see the "woman stone". It was held in great reverence by the Seneca and according to the legend gave great powers to the wearer, primarily the power to heal and the power to destroy.
This has led to a lifelong pursuit of diamond prospecting. Now the total yield of this endeavor I refer to as the Brown County diamond, which I wear rather proudly on my right hand. I found the diamond in 1972 in Brown County Indiana, while prospecting for gold. I saw it in my gold pan. Picked it up, looked at it and threw it over my left shoulder, just as I realized what it was. I searched for it for several hours, to no avail. I returned two nights later with an ultraviolet light that I could run off of a twelve-volt battery. A diamond in the rough will glow under ultraviolet light. I had no more than turned the light on in the area and there it lay. In the rough it was a shade over a caret and a half, it cut to a little over one half caret.
Diamonds have been found in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. These diamonds are the result of glacial movement over kimberlite pipes and laproite deposits.
Diamonds have three weaknesses:
They will glow under ultraviolet light in the rough if they are freshly washed, like after
a rainstorm.
They are slightly lighter than gravel and can be trapped in a secondary trap built into a gold dredge. I am having a dredge custom built that will trap both diamonds and gold, and also dig real good fishponds, inexpensively.
They can be trapped by grease. This is where the copper gold pan comes in, in places where they prospect for diamonds the prospectors grease their pans with axle grease then they place the pans in the campfire this melts the grease, which is then poured off, leaving any diamonds that might have been found.
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"Ginseng
Planting Time"
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"Trail Blazer
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Consulting Services Are Available,
" Specials"
"Commercial Fall
Specials" 20 # Stratified "Glacial
Gold" Ginseng Seed
Kit
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"New" "Glacial
Gold"
Ginseng Seed and Root Kits
For
" Fast" Personal Service,
Use Our Preferred Ordering Method
"Toll Free"
1-800-430-2939
1 # Stratified "Glacial
Gold"
Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 7,000 Seeds)
Plus
25 "Three"
Year Old Woods Grown "Glacial
Gold"
"Wild Simulated" Ginseng
Roots.
Total Value
$183.95
"August
Special" $159.95
Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide"
by Michael Hunter and Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5),
and 4 Survey Flags. (These
Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the Nitrogen
Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.) Should be Planted in a Area of about
5,500 square feet or less.
Order Form
"Commercial Fall
Specials"
"Toll Free" 1-800-430-2939
5 # Stratified "Glacial Gold"
Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 35,000 Seeds)
Plus
100 "Three" Year Old Woods Grown "Glacial
Gold"
"Wild Simulated" Ginseng
Roots.
Total Value
$624.95
"August
Special" $549.95
Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide"
by Michael Hunter and Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5),
and 10 Survey Flags.
(These Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the
Nitrogen Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.) Should be Planted in a Area of
about 22,000 square feet or less.
Order Form
10 # Stratified "Glacial
Gold"
Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 70,000 Seeds)
Plus
250 "Three" Year Old Woods Grown "Glacial
Gold"
"Wild Simulated" Ginseng
Roots.
Total Value
$1246.90
"August
Special" $1099.95
Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide"
by Michael Hunter and A Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5),
and 20 Survey Flags.
(These Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the
Nitrogen Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.) Should be Planted in an Area of
about 44,000 square feet or Less.
Order Form
20 # Stratified "Glacial
Gold"
Ginseng Seed Kit
(Appo. 140,000 Seeds)
Plus
500 "Three" Year Old Woods Grown "Glacial
Gold"
"Wild Simulated" Ginseng
Roots.
Total Value
$2324.90
"August
Special" $1949.95
Plus S&H (US)
Included With Your Order
The "Ginseng Growers Guide"
by Michael Hunter and A Soil Testing Kit, Performs 10 Tests for Proper PH (Proper PH for Ginseng is 5.5 to 6.5),
and 40 Survey Flags.
(These Metal Survey Flags Draw Static Electricity During Storms and this releases the
Nitrogen Trapped in The Decomposing Forest Floor.) Should be Planted in an Area of
about 88,000 square feet or Less.
Order Form
For
" Fast" Personal Service,
Use Our Preferred Ordering Method
"Toll Free"
1-800-430-2939
Three Year Old Plants, Planted This Spring,
Should Produce A Full Seed Pod By This Fall.
Glacial Ginseng Company Order Form
All Major and Foreign
Credit Cards
Are Accepted.
"Glacial
Gold" Ginseng Seeds
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"Glacial
Gold" Ginseng Seed Kits From During the Fall Planting Season, we are
standing by to take your orders and credit card information from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM EST.. Monday through
Saturday. (Personal Checks and C.O.D.'s are also welcome.) Michael Hunter is often available to answer
brief questions and take your order personally. If you happen to be in the Jackson Michigan area, please feel
free to stop by and pick up your seed orders in person. Michael is usually around
and likes to meet fellow ginseng growers. |
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