Rare One Stamp Mill and Windlass at this Gold Mine
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- čas přidán 4. 12. 2022
- I originally planned a trip to another site, but unfortunately the road was closed off. But this was no second option type explore this was the real deal. This rich gold mine had much to offer including a stunning one stamp mill, windlass and tons of beautiful quartz veins. I did alot of hiking this day, but it was super worth the trip! Hope you enjoy.
Tom and Julie did this mine as well, and those crazy monkers went all the way to the back of that first mine that you and I both turned around in. Those guys are nuts! :-D
Wow you make great videos!! WAY back in 1963 in Indiana I heard on the news that 2 boys was on the coal mine property, And one of the 12 year old boys got a new 22 rifle for X-mass. And later it came out that he was a little cocky boy and a little smart ass, He thought it would be cool to shoot the ammunition storage house. On the news said as soon as the boy shot the small house it disintegrated him the other boy didn't want no part of it and he got about 1/2 blocks away and he still was burnt on his back and leg from the blast.
The stone structure you found at around 5:31 might have been the mine's assaying office built sometime between 1906 and 1909, and burned down only a month after opening. I accidentally found this mine three years ago and only checked out the upper portals and totally missed the first portal you explored. We didn't dare descend the ladder below the windlass though, you are brave for that one!
Hi Jerith, the patent date on that stamp was my birthday (obviously not the year lol). Very cool to see that windlass, I think it's only the 2nd one I have ever seen intact, awesome. I'm glad you crawled through that stoped out area as you got a nice shot looking down the ore chute.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Nice video, you don't have to call the rail ties, cross ties, ties is sufficient.
Beautiful little mine! It would be interesting to check the records for any current registration, and then, if it is free, get an assay on a few buckets of rocks!
But that is for a young and able person!
Enjoy your content and plan on watching everything you've done to date. Keep it up. Your commentary is great and your voice is easy to listen too. Well done.
It was great to meet you. Glad you made a video of the day.
Hey Luke! Great to meet you too, that was definitely a great day and explore. Thanks for watching
That was so cool. Thanks!
Too bad the engine was gone!
All that quarts still left too
Awesome Adventure
Glad you're doing videos again You take us great adventures and I appreciate that you let us tag along.
Thanks for that Edward! I love making videos, I'll try my best to record more often.
@@WesternMineDetective While I appreciate you making great videos all the time, you don't have to do it on a regular basis if you don't want to. I'm from Florida and we don't have anything like those old mines and ghost towns around here. I'm quick to watch when you post new videos. It's much appreciated when you do though.
Great little film,fantastic photography,and a good steady descriptive narration! Subbed from an entirely gold free North West Essex,England 👍
Excellent find , and nicely put together
Awesome finds, the stamp obviously but the intact windlass is very cool too.
My favorite mine/desert explorer. Thanks for the video.
Excellent find, simply amazing to find that in such great condition!!
Great video 👍
Thank you!
Well welcome back! You have been missed! What a wonderful, pristine, mine! For once you have me stumped on where you are at! Good job!
That's a really cool mine
Thanks Naomi! It certainly was a fun trip.
Happy to see new content. Love the videos! Keep safe and keep em coming!
Cool explore! Thanks for sharing.
Fantastc mine and stamp mill exploration and report. Thanks.
The destroyer ( USS Hollister (DD-788)) I served on had Fairbanks Morse diesel emergency generators.
Enjoyed the video thanks for sharing 👍
Appreciate that, and thanks for watching!
This was a treat, another excellent video
Thanks, that's greatly appreciated!
Really cool stuf
Really cool find! Would love to be doing the same thing.
Cool run through. I did a video on this mine last year and discussed the history and ownership of the mine, including the surrounding canyon. If you go down the canyon a bit more there is a lost mine that I guarantee nobody has been inside of in decades...maybe longer. I show it in my video, but I didn't want to cross the reeds, given it was warm and I didn't want to become a rattlesnake victim lol!
I was thinking I showed it in my video, but I didn't. There was an old water tank on one of the ridges I checked out as well. Lots of awesome stuff dating to the very early 1900s out there. Turns out that mine was actually what looked to be a temporary shelter there were two workbenches or shelves and there was still hinges for the door. It only went in about 5 or 6 feet.
@@WesternMineDetective yes, very cool history indeed. The lumber for the shute leading down to the stamp mill came from the dismantled pool house in Rhyolite. In my video I found a huge lumber pile which I think was the leftover from the pool house. I'd love to get into the Keene Wonder Mine, which is right down the valley. The Keene corporation owned the mine in your video for a few years as well...I think they wanted to halt work on it so they wouldn't have any competition.
I enjoy your content wery much,so keep up the good work 😃💪 all the best from Denmark 🇩🇰
Thanks alot! Awesome knowing I have viewers from all over.
@@WesternMineDetective you are so welcome 😃 i enjoy your videos alot 👌 have a great one 👌😃🇩🇰
I am surprised in this day and age that scrappers haven't taken the metal. There greed is what ruins sites like this.
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Did you pan the dirt from inside and around that old stamp?
How are the roads in Death Valley after the floods ?
I wonder how productive this mine was with a single stamp - obviously worked well so must have been into some decent gold. How old is this mine? Gas powered stamp?
This mine stopped running around 1911, and had a recorded production value of 1oz per ton. I did a video on it last year going over the history and surrounding valley...great place.
@@southernoregonprospector9074 1 oz per ton is pretty rich ore, but how much can a single stamp process each day? Those guys worked for their pay for sure - Always amazes me how they get this heavy hardware to these remote locations. Plus the water needed for the stamp (and people!) What man will do for that yellow metal!
@@Sutterjack absolutely! But I understand what it's like, having ''gold fever" so to speak...it's not so much that I want to find tons of it (although that would be great), but it's more that I like finding it in places where I think it should be given the geology and terrain. It's nice to be verified that I'm on the right track. This mine was sort of like that...I go over the history in my video, but it was pretty much 1 guy who found the strike and worked it, with a few years of off time here and there while the mine changed hands. Ultimately 1 oz just wasn't enough, especially when there were surrounding mines finding similar or much richer deposits all around. Death Valley actually has a ton of gold, which makes sense what they turned it into a national park.
I hope you use an air monitor.
Awesome filming and a great mine. Thankfully irresponsible people have not found and destroyed it.
Thanks alot! For sure, this is definitely a gem with all it has to offer.
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Who owns the mill?
The National Park Service lol! Sad, but true.
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@Western Mine Detective : Another excellent video but my main question is, why don't you reveal where this location is at? What if others would like to visit? Why are you the privileged and nobody else?
Main reason is, because I don't want to see this site vandalized, ransacked,etc. Additionally, if people want to see or go to these places, doing a little research to find them is all it takes
I did a video on this mine last year, including history and the surrounding canyon.