Via Milwaukee Journal Sentinal:

There’s gold in Marathon County, and a Michigan-based company is returning to the woods this winter for more prospecting in the hope of striking it big.

As mining has taken a higher profile in Wisconsin in 2011, mineral exploration company Aquila Resources Inc. has quietly become the most active player in the state.

Make no mistake about it. These are not gold rush days for Wisconsin, and the state is far from a hotbed of metallic mining.