What has been said about Rice Lake
Rice Lake is a lake in Rice Lake greenstone belt / Eastern Manitoba, Manitoba, nearest town Bissett. 4 public posts between 2015–2022 mention panning or prospecting here. Everything below is paraphrased from those posts and linked to the original — we have confirmed none of it.
Manitoba's main gold camp — roughly 1.4 million ounces from San Antonio alone, about 80 percent of Rice Lake output. Gold first confirmed nearby in the winter of 1910-11. Active exploration tenure covers much of the belt today.
The mentions
Paraphrased, never quoted, in the order the researcher recorded them. No usernames or personal details are stored. Follow the link to read the source in its own words.
Club page
2020
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Historical society records the San Antonio mine founded 1926 on Rice Lake's north shore at what became Bissett.
Read the original on mhs.mb.ca ↗
How this page was made
A research pass collected public mentions of prospecting on named Canadian waterbodies — forums, video descriptions, blogs, club sites, tourism and government pages. Only public pages were read. The centre point comes from geocoding the place name against public Canadian place-name data, never from coordinates in anyone's post, which is why the map shows a circle at waterbody precision rather than a point.
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Panning-area, claims, and regulation information on LocalKarat is general information for recreational prospectors — it is not legal advice. Mining, land-access, and environmental rules change and vary site by site. Verify current rules with the official sources linked on each page, get permission from private landowners and claim holders, and respect First Nations rights, settlement lands, and treaty areas.
Know before you dig — Manitoba
checked 2026-09
Hand pan on Crown land: 🪪 With a permit / licence
The Mines and Minerals Act s. 45(1): no person shall explore for minerals, or stake out or record a claim, on Crown mineral land unless they hold a prospecting licence. Washing gravel for gold is exploring. The licence is cheap — $15, lifetime, anyone 18+, online in iMaQs — and s. 47 lets a…
- Gold pan & hand shovel · on Crown land🪪 With a permit / licence
- Hand sluice box / rocker · on Crown land🪪 With a permit / licence
- Highbanker / power sluice · on Crown land🪪 With a permit / licence
- Metal detector · on Crown land🪪 With a permit / licence
- Suction dredge · on Crown land🪪 With a permit / licence
Prospecting licence (iMaQs): Anyone 18 or older may apply; $15 for an individual ($287 for a company); valid for life; not transferable. Apply online through Manitoba’s iMaQs portal (a step-by-step tutorial PDF is on the Mines Branch site) or… Apply / details ↗
Claims, parks and reserves are decided ground by ground. Check the registry map for the stretch you want, get the owner's or holder's permission where one exists, and acknowledge whose territory you are standing on — native-land.ca is a starting point, not an authority.
Official sources: The Mines and Minerals Act (C.C.S.M. c. M162), ss. 45–47 · Staking requirements in Manitoba — Mines Branch · How to apply for a prospecting licence (iMaQs tutorial, PDF) · iMaQs — Manitoba online mining portal
Panning-area, claims, and regulation information on LocalKarat is general information for recreational prospectors — it is not legal advice. Mining, land-access, and environmental rules change and vary site by site. Verify current rules with the official sources linked on each page, get permission from private landowners and claim holders, and respect First Nations rights, settlement lands, and treaty areas.