Exploring Nevada's Abandoned Shoshone Mine
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This was kind of an odd abandoned mine… I often wonder how the miners know to start punching into the mountain in a particular spot, but that is especially the case with this one. I can only imagine that a prospector spotted a promising vein on the surface near the top of the mountain and followed it down into the earth (which would be where that void above the ore chute apparently connected with the surface). Without knowing where the vein ties into the surface, I cannot say why the miners chose to construct an incredibly long haulage adit rather than some sort of tram system. Perhaps they were extremely optimistic about the size of the vein and thought a haulage adit would be needed for the capacity of rock and ore they expected to move? Perhaps there is some physical barrier that makes construction of a tram system an impossible undertaking? Perhaps the miners simply didn’t have a lot of experience? I have learned not to play armchair general and second guess those who were there though. So, it is only with some reluctance that I mention that last possibility.
With literally one ore chute in the entire mine, it is difficult to imagine that the miners involved in this project made a significant (if any) profit. The haulage adit they constructed was very long - far longer than is seen in the video as I had to edit much of it out in order to avoid putting you to sleep - and it would have been expensive and labor-intensive to burrow through the mountain like that. The drifts branching out around the ore chute tell me that the miners lost the vein they were following and were casting about trying to find it again or to locate a new one. Clearly, they were unsuccessful in doing so or this mine would be much larger than it is.
That ore bin and the trestle over it on the surface were visually appealing, no? As I said in the video, if it were not for the metal frame surrounding it, I’m sure that would have collapsed by now. And, by the way, if anyone recognizes the remains of that metal equipment I showed against the cliff near the top of the ore bin, I’d love to know what that was. In case it wasn’t possible to tell in the video, the ore bin is sitting in the middle of a wash. At one time, trucks or wagons would have been brought straight up the wash and had the ore loaded directly into them. We could see the remains of the road on the hike in and much of the road was on the bottom of the wash itself where gravel (perhaps derived from the waste rock?) had been spread out to form a very nice road bed. However, water rushing through the wash over the decades has obliterated the road and returned the wash to its natural state. Very few sections remained that were still smooth gravel and even someone with a dirt bike would likely find it impossible to make it up to the mine without dismounting and walking in.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them - nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand - bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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Wow, what a long adit or tunnel, There was something fantastic driving those miners to keep going. Thanks for crawling through the close holes and showing us how it was all mined.
me and Slim always love getting a message that you uploaded so.....for starters the miners would check the washes for minerals then comb the mountains for outcropping or if there are other mines in the area they would run a cross cut looking for parallel veins which is common...the drilling steel is used to hand vent tubing ......that natural fissure is a great example of how veins are created as Hydrothermal fluids would flow and fill them eventually becoming vein structures.....in other cases you \can have small thing fissure and the fluids can hydraulic them apart over many times...( episodes ) ....this is referred to as a Fault valve system...that country rock looks like Limestone so they were looking for a replacement deposit....( Silver Galena, Sphalerite, ) unless the was an Granitoid intrusion ...then it would be Gold....seems odd they would drift the adit that far unless they were getting great ore....wonder what was up the ore pass with the rope....it must daylight due to the mud....must be an open stope somewhere...
Thanks Lucy, really appreciate that...
SO COME ON LETS GO!
they drill the holes smaller than the bit then drive it in there. it helps to stop the roofs from collapsing. static presure.
*You know what I'm going to say!*
Jeff, it is too bad this guy does not know any geology, otherwise it would provide wealth of information exploring these mines, I think the rope was for escape in case of cave in.
Fan f'n tastic video. Love the way you film and give details exactly where you are in the mine. Fantastic work!
Thank you very much. Yes, I know it gets really confusing watching on video with all of the twists and turns and different branches going off in all directions. So, I try to be really clear on the video about where we;ve been and where we're going.
"Scrambling over" the collapsed piles is what sets this channel above other mine exploration channels.
He's a scramblin' man, yes indeed!
@@TheSWolfe lol
What a cool, clean, LONG additional!! Thanks for taking us along!
Now that must have taken a long time to dig! Surely they were getting something out of there to make it pay a little, or had an owner with some deep pockets, and a lot of faith ! 😊
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
at 5:46 thats almost the size of some stopes here in cornwall, some of the older mines they would only remove what was absolutely necessary so some parts are so narrow you can hardly get through them going sideways
Yes, you're right. Hard to blame the miners when they were working by hand and with candle light...
I’m so glad you posted this video! I explored and documented this mine five or six years ago. However, I turned around at that section where that short ladder goes upward. By that point in the mine, I had walked far enough and had seen enough, so I left. I’m so glad you went beyond that point because I have always wondered what I missed. That rope you found looked pretty interesting! Glad you didn’t try to climb it, though. As you said, who knows what it was anchored to. You are right, too, when you said this is a very odd mine. With only one ore chute, what was the purpose of the whole place? The answer may be up that raise where the rope is. There could be some drift levels off of that nearly vertical raise. And, as you pointed out, it may lead to another opening higher up on the mountain. You’ll have to go back there and look for that - I’m retired!
He's almost light enough he could've climbed it!
@@ADITADDICTS that would have been cool, but it would probably suck to climb up like twenty feet and then have something snap up at the top lol
@@wampachomp5120 That's why he goes first because I'm positive he can't catch me if I fall.😁
Thats alot of labor driving and adit that far very costly and energy to drive working that far. They had to be aware of minerization on the surface that they were trying to intercept. Miner from the past, very tough job.
You guys are hitting some really cool Nevada Mines lately! Love to go down there sometime! Thanks!
all sorts of stuff in Nevada
Someone spent alot of time digging out there..wow.. thank you
They sure did! There was a lot of time and effort put into this one... And probably not for much gain.
Thanks for adventuring into the mine, I wish I could be along with you, keep up the explorations.
Well, that haulage adit was good for exercise! XD I always want to roll a cart down the rails in those mines that have them. Well, I can identify a large crankshaft in the debris, so there was a sizable engine there at some point! Aside from the steel I-beams maybe having once been a skid for said engine, I've no idea what it once was. Might've been able to tell more if I was onsite, but maybe not. Thanks for the tour!
Thank you for taking us along. Your videos are always very good.
Thank you!
Truly Excellent Work ! Nice to know a bit about the geology and all those colours .
Always cool to see perfectly preserved woodwork inside those dry climate mines. Like it was installed yesterday.
Yes, it is amazing how well the wood is preserved in these conditions.
Thank you,You could done a few more minutes outside,What a beautiful place.Sky is spectacular...The mines you bring us to,Were these humans that carried all that gear in,My Gosh that's amazing..Take care.TY73s
Yes, sometimes the scenery outside is far better than the mine. I would have done more outside footage on this one, but there was a fair amount of time pressure that day.
@@TVRExploring OH Bro not being critical,Man you blow it away,But man you get is some spectacular backcountry and Im grateful for you bringing me what you do...Outstanding,Be safe.73s
Oh, no worries. I didn't take that as being critical at all... If you're into the scenery, you might like the views of the mountains in the upcoming video. Also, you'll love what I shot yesterday on the way to an abandoned Soviet mine.
@@TVRExploring Very cool,Safe travels.73s
These videos are great. I'm definitely hooked on watching all of them. Great job
Loving your work.
Beautiful colors in this mine!
That sure is an awesome looking place. Great video.
Another amazing mine keep up the great work and as always stsy safe snd keep them coming
Thank you.
Looks to be almost usable inside, really good nick.
Nice dry one for you, Justin! I recognised a crankshaft among the machinery parts at 18:10, but hard to say if it was out of an engine or a compressor.
I was kind of surprised by the small gear on the end of the crank. It must have transferred a hell of a lot of torque considering the estimated swept length.
Sites like these should be declared historic landmarks and protected as they are. *(Unless someone wants to carry on the legacy by continuing to mine them, of course!) :)
I wish more people felt the way that you do!
Agreed.. but unfortunately, once they gain status like that they’re often sealed by the forest service to “protect them.” Which I suppose is better than letting the yahoos and hooligans fuck them up with graffiti and trash, but a shame nonetheless.
thank you, for old memories, I live again for a short while, hope the young one get in the mines and see what they are missing
Awesome long levels, sure was a long walk! Seemed a interesting layout, not too many ore chutes until deep inside, I wouldn't like to walk that everyday then a hard days work and walk back again, phew!
Yes, it would be quite the commute just getting to the mine and then another long commute once inside of the mine! I am still amazed that they ran back as far as they did before encountering anything.
You should have looked for the top to the shaft you found. Can't believe how deep that went for how little waste rock there was!! Cool mine!
I think alot of waste was in that canyon wash you walked up. There must have been alot more produced than is left in the waste piles now. I'd guess the area has flash floods occasionally, even that plug above the rock chute showed signs of water having gone through that at some stage.
Yes, I think you're 100% right about that. The gravel in the wash that made the road is waste rock that was run through a crusher or stamp mill (likely those metal remains against the cliff) and then put to good use as a road. I didn't show the hike in, but, yes, that wash has some real torrents of water raging down it at times based on the way the rocks were moved around and the distinctive fans of rock and gravel after a flood. Of course, the road up the wash was obliterated.
All the colors of the rock are beautiful !!!
I would love if you could find my dads old mine in Jean Nevada. Don't know what the name was and don't know how to find out though. The mine was not being worked by the 1960s and 70s when my dad was part owner. It was an Ore mine with the mill and everything. I'm sure by now all of that must be gone or at least destroyed by people. There was a small house out there too with a man and his wife who lived there to keep an eye on the property.
You could try and see if the county recorder office has their records online and search there and if not it couldn’t hurt to call them they might help you.
If you know what they were mining you could run a MRDS report for that county and if you sort those results down further by “past producers” it will narrow it a bit further to mines that he could have owned. Then you could use mylandmatters.com and look at who owned the claims historically by getting the BLM report for each mine.
Maybe there’s a simpler way someone will mention I think if it was patented and not leased it should be in federal online database. That’s the tedious way I know of at least I haven’t researched this stuff for a few years and I might be forgetting a really easy way lol.
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Thank you for the info. At this minute, I'm actually on Google looking for mines in Jean Nevada!! A couple of mine names sound familiar, but that really doesn't mean anything because I was born and raised in Vegas. As I'm looking at all these mine names, I'm also looking at what was mined. I remember Ore being mentioned. But none of these mines so far, have mined Ore! Still looking though. Will also try your info to find it. Thank you so much 👍🇺🇸
I also only have my phone to work with and not a computer, so its probably going to take me awhile.....
Calamity Jayne I don’t think any of them will say they mined Ore specifically because it’s a widely used term for the material they were moving. The listings will say what commodity was mined there, I.e. silver, gold, lead etc and sometimes they list secondary minerals mined. So they are mining gold ore or lead ore etc.
Do you remember if it was a gold or lead mine maybe, that would narrow your search a bit. I’ll look around and see if I can see if there’s a way to search historic BLM claims by name I’m almost positive there’s a way. I’ll get back to you if I find it.
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Asking my mom right this minute about the mine! Mom says that dad was not part owner. My dad was doing work for a man named Lew Lawson. And she says it was not in Jean Nevada!! My mom says the mine was past Jean but she really can't remember because it was so long ago-- 60s n 70s. But at least we have a name- Lew Lawson.
Awesome mine video..back in the early 70's I lived in Germany and I would explore WWII bunkers with friends..I remember finding lots of paperwork and junk but we never took anything out..I imagine we passed up some cool German relics
Very cool. That was a great time to be exploring!
Well done, all of your videos are so well presented. It feels like i am there. I especially like the comentary and the smooth movement. 10 out of 10👏👍👌😁
Thank you very much.
Thank you for sharing your journey
I found this missed jem, soo excited. It looks amazing on the big screen. ....
That's cool. I've never seen any of my videos on a big screen and so I'm glad they look good.
That turned out to be much larger than expected (that's what she said. Etc.).
great video, as always! thanks! enjoyed the break.....
Thank you. Glad I can improve your breaks...
Jammed drill bits appear to be a feature of this mine.
Miner 1 - Let's jam a drill bit here!
Miner 2 - Go ahead.
I have to say, with my college level geology, it leaves me at something of a loss to explain what they were doing? These days a small, relatively cheap, drilling program would make it a definite non starter. A single cut and fill stope was kind of depressing (as you observed also) and I failed to see anything encouraging in the wall rock the whole way through. I'm guessing that they were well capitalized but ultimately left defeated. Thanks for the explore however.
Nice exploration
I think odd is an understatement. No real working till the very end and they were small considering the effort to get there. Awfully long adit for no real working. It was like they were chasing a ghost vein. nice hard rock though, not much to timber. Be safe guys
Yes, I had to edit out a lot of the haulage adit just because it was so long and featureless (which makes for dull viewing). So, I actually downplayed the length of the haulage adit in the video. There was an incredible amount of time, hard work and money put into punching this adit back to one little ore chute.
Looks like a large amount of that waste pile has been washed away by flooding in that wash over the years. I bet that pile was very substantial at one time!
As for the remains of that metal equipment you showed against the cliff near the top of the ore bin, it is most likely the site of where the air compressor sat for running the drills. the crank shaft on the ground looks to be from a large, single cylinder Hit & miss engine and the rest looks like scrap tin and pipe with a little rail and a couple of steel beams thrown in. I don't see any rivets in the beams and the ore bin looks to have been gas or arc welded together from steel pipe. Looks like the operation was from the late 40's to early 50's with new prospecting later (bright yellow paint of the explosives locker). It also looks like they hauled off the ore in trucks. Didn't the government shut down mining at the start of WWII except for critical war materials? Many mines never reopened. looks like the equipment was salvaged for other workings.
Yes, mining for "non-essential" minerals was banned.
Awesome, u went into very deep inside... 👍👍👍👍
I wish you would at least say the state you are in if not the general region. Like Southern California middle California Northern California. I get a lot out of seeing the different geology types, but it really doesn’t help if I don’t know where you are generally and can’t figure it out. I love your videos keep up the good work buddy. Stay safe and remember out of all the mine explorers that are out there making videos you are by far the best. I know because I have tried them all. I recommend to everyone.
Thank you very much. I used to share information much more freely, but after getting burned badly several times by doing so, I have to, unfortunately, be much more cagey about locations now. Goes against my nature, but that's humanity for you - a few people ruin things for everyone...
TVR Exploring ya man I hear you. I have the same issues living in Los Angeles by the San Gabriel mountains. It’s so difficult to find places without graffiti. I have a few amazing spots and do my best to keep them protected. So I completely respect your discretion and appreciate it.
Man, would be a shame if someone were to leave their spot beacon up at that mine and have to go back for it. 🤔 Haha. Nice video man!
Yeah, that would really suck if someone did that, but we both know something like that could never happen. That's in the realm of pure fantasy, you know?
TVR Exploring Haha yeah man sometimes my imagination goes a little overboard.
The metal parts outside include a crank so I suspect rather large air or water pump.
Thank you.
In the 1960's, my Dad lived in Boulder City, back in the days when miles of open desert separated Vegas from Henderson and Henderson from Boulder City. He was an avid antique bottle collector, who would scour the open desert looking for old bottles. If he came across this little jewel at 18:30, his first reaction would have been to grab the shovel and start digging. Folks in those days not only used the outhouse for doing their business, but would also use them for trash disposal. From what I see here, someone would have beat him to it, because the seat looks like it was moved aside, exposing the trench for easy access. Most likely it's been dug multiple times, cleaning out what few precious jewels were remaining.
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I was born and raised in las vegas. Boy do I miss those days when we were all surrounded by desert !! Early 1960s to present.
@@calamityjayne9903 You still are.
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In the 60s I grew up in a house my dad built. Ours was 1 of only 2 houses in the immediate area. Desert separated us from downtown Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder city. My old house is now in the middle of the city and miles around are buildings and houses instead of desert.
That knotted rope was interesting, not something you see every day. Some nice shiny brown rock in there reminds me of some rocks I have brought home that look like obsidian, but brown. The wire running up over the mound was kind of scary. You always have to wonder if it's a detonation wire, and is it still attached to anything. I wonder how many rats have blown themselves up running across or chewing on old dynamite.
Haha, yes, I did contemplate that wire running back over the mound for a moment before proceeding as I had the same thought you did.
You have alot of balls going In there by yourself Mr.
How do miners pick the spot? By making educated guesses.
They mostly start the mine in a gulch, as the water/erosion has removed more overburden and exposed rock.
In Nevada they are looking for deposits that formed under pressure after being capped by lava flows. So they tunnel through the basalt to get to harder metamorphizing rock with mineral deposits in them. You can see at modern mines they will do test drilling in the area around a prospect to see how far in the ore is, to determine if it is worthwhile to extract.
In the Sierras or Rockies, which are not volcanic, but igneous rock exposed by plate movement, they can find the veins that were pushed out from deep underground over time.
Placer deposits which means gold can be panned in the creeks leads to the sources upstream or uphill. Likewise they can be exposed too. This is what had happened in California, so the creeks got the 49ers and a few years later companies showed up with machinery for serious mines that could keep finding gold for decades.
You've got the underground placer mines in California as well where the ancient river channels were buried... Finding the boundaries of those were more of a challenge for the early miners.
As to the steel that object in the foreground with a gear on it was a crankshaft. Do you have any idea what they mined?
Turquoise from what I understand. And I know I am real late on this reply. Sorry for necroposting. It was considered a small operation mine.
I wanna have a air horn so bad in there an scare the shit outta some people lol great videos this is all I been watching since I found you’re channel man
Bet the ole war horse would've been a welcome site for you two on that trip!
Ha, to say the least!
That Raise with the rope "ladder" at 18:53 looks like a natural tunnel formed buy water. It"s very smooth and warn unlike the rest of the mine. Did you get that impression?
More than likely it is worn from being an ore chute and having had tons and tons of ore dumped through it from the above levels, which might indeed also have openings to the outside weather.
Yes, I think modsurgeon is 100% right about this one. The tons of rock being dropped down an ore pass or ore chute will very quickly scour the surrounding rock as smooth as glass. Also, yes, given the dried mud down where I was standing as well as the bits of leaves and pine cones, makes it almost certain that that runs all of the way to the surface somewhere far up on the mountain.
The rock scouring is the most plausible reason for the worn look of the ore chute. You have to go back and explore that upper working. Thanks for the great video.
nice color in the stone
Don't know of course, but suspect this was a silver mine. They hit some high grade as they were shipping ore to someone else's mill.
Turquoise mine. If its the one in Churchill thediggings.com/mines/usgs10046107
Awesome one! A lot of tunneling in this mine.
The equipment at the end of the video looks like the remains of an old crankshaft. It might have been part of a big hit-or-miss engine. There was not enough left to tell.
Thank you 😊 interesting explore I enjoy watching your videos
Thank you for coming along.
I like this video.
Always great videos. With all the holes out there in the west, it's surprising that everything west of the Mississippi hasn't imploded yet. Seems like the western half of the country has more mines. I'm wondering if there are any abandoned mines in the Adirondacks or Appalachians that aren't coal or limestone based.
I know there are some smaller mines in the Adirondacks that hit other minerals. I'm not sure about the Appalachians...
There absolutely are, but a lot of them are so old there’s no sign left of them and nobody ever submitted any reports or documents as there were no laws about mineral acquisition on this continent back then, prior to the 1800’s. Just “mom and pop” mines so to speak, and mostly quite small as they were often done just by hand, rarely with blasting. There are also quite a few Native American mine sites, almost exclusively surface workings, for copper (a lot of the copper cane out of the Great Lakes region. Fun fact, only about 10% or less of the copper extracted is accounted for in the archaeological record.... quite a mystery indeed), flint, obsidian, turquoise, etc, but you probably wouldnt even realize it if you saw one. They were quite excellent at extracting what they needed without hurting the land in any lasting way.
Amazing.....just how long that mine was....makes you wonder how much was mined here.
That was a weird mine. It didn't seem like much at all had been mined there! Just running that adit back forever to...practically nothing.
Loved the drone footage!
Thank you. I was struggling with the drone at that location because I was getting a lot of interference from something.
You need a step counter on a mine like that (a long mine)
That is a good idea. It'd be interesting to see the steps that are getting clocked up.
similar to a pregnant honduran migrant who can walk a supposed 450 miles in 9 days wearing flip flops, Even jaime sommers would be impressed with such a feat and she was a bionic woman. lol
Amazing video! Did you think about adding a map with current location and camera direction time to time?
I'd love to, but that's way beyond my technical abilities or the free time that I have.
Thank you..
Any idea of when this mine was shut down? The reason I ask is those tracks being left behind,usually they take the tracks too.
No, I have no idea... It seems like it has been worked off and on for quite a while.
At 4:04 Someone explain how that would work. The offshoot left hand rail ends at the main's right hand rail. So, the left two wheels go where?
You guys should check out the abandoned mines in Johnny nv just outside Pahrump nv.
Anything you can steer us toward?
How tall are these passageways? On camera(and i realize its prolly deceptive a bit) it seems about 5’ high. Love the vids..
Haha, they were probably about seven feet tall or so in most sections. Sometimes you definitely have to crouch down though!
So many different rocks they drilled through. Any idea what they were mining?
wow, that was a long mine.
It sure was!
Oooh another! Ok gotta go watch.
How can I contact you? I spent my entire 35 year career as an historical mining archaeologist and have forgotten more mines than most people will ever see. I worked in California, Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and many other states.
Sounds like you and I would have a lot to talk about! My personal email address is: justin.ames@gmail.com
You ever run into any animald, creepy critters, ghosts or mole people while exploring these old mines?
Never anything other than bugs, bats and rats...
@@TVRExploring I'm sure you'll run into a Bigfoot some day.
Till then keep making these great videos, never thought I'd be interested in exploration content like this.
Well, Bigfoot will make for a great video too!
Man what a weird mine.... because of all the turns and long straightaways, but otherwise lacking any significant features, it seems almost like they just started digging and blasting back into the hill without having any kind of plan or idea of where they wanted to end up and just randomly drove a hole in whatever direction felt fun in hopes of randomly hitting something profitable..... huh. Bizarre.
Yes, definitely a weird one... It's hard to imagine that they made any money on it. However, given the amount of work put in, perhaps that ore body that fed the one ore chute was very large and very rich?
@@TVRExploring I wonder what happened to all that gangue... the waste rock pike hardly seems big enough to account for all that removed material, and I highly doubt there was enough ore in everything that came out of the drifts to cart away and process. Quite a mysterious hole in the ground you found there, sir. Which reminds me, From all the waste piles out at that spot I was talking to you about, I reckon there must be some other fairly extensive workings out there that I didn’t see. I suppose the massive stopes could account for quite a bit if it, but even those don’t quite look big enough to explain all of it. Even more curious now, heh..
Damn fine video, as always. One question somewhat unrelated to this specific video -- A while back, you explored a mine that had a crapload of white hair mold growing on an ore chute, and I haven't been able to find it recently. I was going to send it to a buddy of mine who is studying mycology so he could venture a guess as to what it is. Do you still have that video here on the channel?
Thank you. No, at the moment, I can't have that video publicly available...
@@TVRExploring I completely understand! A geology professor I spoke with at UNR said that it might be ice formations known as `hair ice' - basically, ice being extruded from pores in the rotten wood. It can often occur in conjunction with certain types of white mold.
When you put the video back up, I'll share it with him and get a better assessment.
Thanks again for all your videos!
Interesting... Thanks for looking into it.
wow ! it looks like the mine formed a circle...and outside that one large piece was that a cam for a stamp mill ? thanks for another great adventure !
It felt like we were going in circles underground! That thing went forever... Yes, others have chimed in and identified that as part of a stamp mill.
It felt like we were going in circles underground! That thing went forever... Yes, others have chimed in and identified that as part of a stamp mill.
It felt like we were going in circles underground! That thing went forever... Yes, others have chimed in and identified that as part of a stamp mill.
3:20 that pallet in the explosives store looks quite modern?
Have pallets been used for many decadeds of has the mine been used more recently?
Was last mined in 1980 from what I read on that mine. The pallet wouldn't throw me off as much as the pretty pink paint does ;-) that says modern all the way.
Yes, pallets have been used for quite a while and the wood is almost perfectly preserved underground. The ribbons, paint, etc. one sees underground in abandoned mines are from surveyors that periodically sweep through and do quick assessments of abandoned mines when commodity prices spike. Given that the paint and ribbons are perfectly preserved underground, these markers can sometimes be decades old and appears as if they were just placed last week.
Hi tvr, have you ever explored any mines in California? Near Baker, California, there is a mine where you can literally walk through a mountain. But I also think there are mines close to you.
Yes, when, I'm in the US, I visit many mines in California. Mostly in the northern part though... That's simply because I'm not as familiar with the accessible mines in the southern parts of California.
@@TVRExploring in the US? Where is your home?
I don't really have a permanent home. The US part of the year, Italy for part of the year and then various war zones for part of the year...
First time I saw a pallet in a mine
A1 exploring....., but why do they build tracks right up to the face...??
Thank you. My speculation on that was that they perhaps intended to run the drift farther in and laid the tracks down in anticipation of that.
Usually the tracks go right up to the face so they can operate the mucker to muck out the blast debris.
Rainy William yup using a rail mucking machine.
18 mins ago and it has 105 views already , Amazing ! I have been to Shoshone Falls ?
Amazing.
What the heck were they mining? It looked like they were playing Goldilocks with grey rocks in there.
I'd love to know the answer to that myself...
Love your videos but it sounds like your by your self, no no. Thank you again
Awesome vid as usual! I'm thinking of doing a Nevada Mine tour late December 2018...any way I can get in contact with you to ask some questions? I'm on FB as Rob Farrow. Thanks!
5:25 those drill bits came in from above.
I wonder if they used that fissure to dump smaller waste rock down into.
I don't know if they did that here, but, yes, that was a common practice when encountering such things...
Very cool mine. Do you scout these places out before filming?
To the extent possible, but you really don't know what you're getting until you're on the ground in front of it...
I fell asleep watching this video lastnight, then wake up to an invite on Facebook to explore this exact mine.
Illuminati confirmed.
Nice video. Every comment is a wrong assumption. Thanks for the memories.
I am sure you have been asked this before but. how do you keep your orientation down there? It seems impossible to me.
I'm not really sure. Somehow I am able to keep a mental map in my head as I'm going through... There's also the "right hand rule" to follow if a site gets really complex.
Got to be gold in this mountain somewhere broke a bit sign from God go a different direction!
What were they mining?
How long did it take them to dig something like this?
Also, all I can think of when you're in the mine is "until dawn" o.O
It's difficult to say without knowing how large of a crew they had and what sort of equipment they were using. In optimum conditions, they could probably have gone a few feet a day.
" makin my way through this ventalation pipe, walkin fast"
Curious what your protocol is if there’s a cave in and you get trapped?
No protocol. One tries to get out... Every situation is different and so one can't really make plans around the unpredictable. Sure, you tell someone where you're going, but what about when you encounter a mine you weren't expecting?
11:45 Look at those cracked walls! Man, DON'T GET THERE!!
Amazing
So dope
That track gos for big bucks it's great for small railroads
You should come out with a book.