Panning for Gold on Lake Superior

I'll be panning for gold here in June.... on the Big Lake they call Gitche Gume.

Studying the geology of Lake Superior ... finding gold.

I will be getting some Paydirt samples from Lake Superior as soon as the ice melts... area is rich in volcanic bedrock, quartz, agates, pyrite and lots of black sand.... I will post the results here....

Pans for Panning for Gold

These are the Gold Pans we bought from Amazon.com for Panning for Gold.

We bought 3 of them for $7.60 each + a Snuffer Bottle  (Snifter) for scooping up all the fine gold and 12 small glass vials  ($6.49) for all the fine gold dust we are finding ... We are very happy with the quality of these items and especially the Free Shipping from Amazon.com 

Lake Superior (Gichigami)

Gichigami Gold, Panning for Gold on Lake Superior.

The Ojibwe call the lake gichi-gami (pronounced as gitchi-gami and kitchi-gami in other dialects),[8] meaning "be a great sea." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the name as "Gitche Gumee" in The Song of Hiawatha, as did Gordon Lightfoot in his song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". According to other sources the actual Ojibwe name is Ojibwe Gichigami ("Ojibwe's Great Sea") or Anishnaabe Gichigami ("Anishinaabe's Great Sea"). The 1878 dictionary by Father Frederic Baraga, the first one written for the Ojibway language, gives the Ojibwe name as Otchipwe-kitchi-gami (reflecting Ojibwe Gichigami). The first French explorers approaching the great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron during the 17th century referred to their discovery as le lac supérieur. Properly translated, the expression means "Upper Lake," that is, the lake above Lake Huron. The lake was also called Lac Tracy (named for Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy) by 17th century Jesuit missionaries.[10] The British, upon taking control of the region from the French in the 1760s following the French and Indian War, anglicized the lake's name to Superior, "on account of its being superior in magnitude to any of the lakes on that vast continent.