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Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 1
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2018
- Probably less than a dozen people know about the historic miner’s cabin hidden away on this mining claim - and even fewer still know about the abundance of gold mines found here… It remains a secret because the people that do know where this is remain tight-lipped about it and this cabin and mines are located in an absolute black hole on topographic and other maps. There is simply nothing marked anywhere near here. With the contractors for the Forest Service, BLM, Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) programs, et al working overtime (with taxpayer money) to get all of these historic mines erased, it is very nice to be introduced to some gold mines that are not (currently) in danger of being permanently closed. It is a shame that we have to wallow in such secrecy simply to protect a historically significant site from the very entities that should be preserving it, but such is the upside down world we live in.
The two adits featured in this video appear to be quite old. I was able to find a couple of references to the mines consolidated on this claim in mining journals dating back to the turn of the last century and they were described as already having been worked for a while at that time. So, initial work here probably dates back to around the time of California’s “Gold Rush” era.
The earliest gold miners in California were placer miners. However, when the easy pickings from the surface were worked out, they became lode miners and headed underground to start chasing the veins where the gold in the creeks originated from (some underground miners also chased the rich placer left behind by ancient river channels that were buried millions of years ago). The little hole by the creek under the huge boulder would have been referred to as a “coyote hole” by the miners of the time. These were in abundance along the creeks and rivers of California in the early days as the miners pursued gold flakes and nuggets back into the rocks and gravel lining the waterways. So, it seems likely that the small adit we visited first would have been the one developed initially and then the larger adit punching into the hard rock would have come along later.
In further support of the idea that these mines are older rather than newer is that, although it may possibly have been there at one point, there was no sign of rail at the mines we visited. The claim owner also stated that he has never seen any sign of rail here either.
It is not difficult to imagine a swarm of miners crawling all over these canyon walls like ants during the “Gold Rush” era, churning up the creeks and digging out coyote holes. This initial surge of miners, however, would have been followed by a more patient, more sophisticated group of miners that had an eye on heading underground. At the second adit shown in this video, for example, you could have had something like a father and son team or two brothers slowly working away at that lode mine for years, chasing those quartz veins and hauling load after load of ore and waste rock out in wheelbarrows.
I’m giving more of a general feel for the area with these videos rather than showing every single bit of mining history present as both sides of this canyon are covered in mines and the remains of mining equipment. We’ll see more of that in the next video.
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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.
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Found your channel here while surfing CZcams on my TV cable box browser. Makes looking over
the various channels easy, but you don't have access to posted links or comments. Have to say you
and Mr McBride have me hooked! I'm a So Cal jeeper that's cruised a few mines in my day, but nothing
like what you guys are exploring. The Dale Mining District east of Twentynine Palms, CA has some
infrastructure, metal tanks, concrete cabin flats, headframes and even big mechanical conveyor
belt machines left, but it's an accessible area that lots of people know about.
I don't think I'm claustrophobic, but as soon as I enter a mine I get a small case of 'The Willies' that
grows and grows until the little angel on my right shoulder tells me to turn around. Thank God for you
guys who do the homework, have the right karma and bring out HD, wobble-corrected video of the
deep places for me. I hear the echoes of the past, I envision the hard work and dreams and sweat
that once lived there right along with you.
Extremely interesting video. Tunnels go on and on in different directions. Good explanations. Easy to listen too in a nice clear voice.
Glad to hear you get permission to pass keep out signs- so many "explorers" tresspass blatantly and pilfer (steal) things. Some even climb in windows of locked houses and buildings.
I really do enjoy these mine videos' because the narrator seems to have pleasant & articulate tone. Another great one, Thank you gentlemen.
If you are interested, my buddy and I went out to a place near Vidal Junction (40+ yrs ago) that was a chrysocolla mine. Had the crusher and table set up. The only problem was about 3 or 4 vertical shafts out in the brush that were full of water and too deep to climb out. You had to be really careful walking around and the drive in was a challenge. You could see Lake Havasu at night.
It sounds like a good spot for the views if nothing else...
That boulder at the portal was unnerving lol..good video man!!
What a treat. Thanks alot for showing us this!
Wow…Awesome old mine, thanx for sharing ❗️
Those old timers did a lot of HARD work, carving out solid Rock ❗️
the more mine exploring videos i watch, the more im in wonder at how people of the gold rush spent their entire lives digging these tunnels in the ground in the middle of nowhere hundreds of miles out in the wilderness
Money talks. People will kill their own family member over money. Throwing pick axes, and living in darkness, definitly wouldnt bother any money hungry "person". It just is what it is.
Money is the most important material thing in the world.
You guys are killing the videos. Ive seen them all most more than once and love the info quality and history. Thanks to you guys and of course the claim owner for the sweet video!
Thank you. I really appreciate the words of support and you watching the videos. I'll pass on the thank you to the claim owner as well.
Wonderful video. Thanks for making it.
Holy wow that's a first for me that was so frickin awesome and ya if you can imagine how much water it took to move all that material down all that length of sluice holy moly and so loud. Hahahaha amazing to say the least. I love your channel you do great work and exploring abandoned mines with Frank you two are awsome to watch. Thanks keep up the great work🍻👍
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for going all the way as far as possible. Most just go a wee way in and then quit, and I am left wondering what they missed!
Haha, yeah, I hate unfinished business. I try to be as through as possible. I'm glad someone else appreciates that!
What a neat old place! Thanks for taking us along for this adventure!
Great video I was in a canyon with a friend and we came a upon a very old ground sluice was a pretty awesome thing to see especially because of how long it's been there in a running creek
Hey, your living my dream !! Love the vids !! Im getting educated too !! 👍 👍 thx & be carefull !!
Thank you!
I like your content! Multiple people making seperate videos in a single small space is a little weird, but I get it lol
I'm glad it's you going into that mine. That would give me the willies.
TVR. You are quickly becoming my absolute favourite CZcamsr. Fantastic footage as always. Thanks man 👍🏻
mine too
@@aaronkeeth651 Ah hell, mine as well
@@ADITADDICTS how you doing buddy!!
@@aaronkeeth651 fine brother! Going to be crazy as shit here real soon with rice harvest. How you doin? I was bummed I couldn't make it up last weekend believe me!
I'll keep watching if you stop crawling on your belly to get into the mine. LOL Your videos are awesome!!!
In reference to gold stuck in equipment, heard true stories about finding amalgam retorts that weren't cleaned out when the mine or mill shut down. Pounds of amalgam have been later recovered still in it when found years later.
Great video Justin! you and Chuck are my new MANCRUSH's!! the dead💀 air in that hole is really bad. and absolutely no 👻's to muck things up!
Let the bromance begin!
We can develop a regular lovefest as we keep going out...
@@TVRExploring lol
Absolutely amazing
Good video nice to see someone is working their claim, what a cool piece of history looking forward to part 2.
Yes, it is nice to have at least some miners still out there!
Wow, like an open air museum very cool
very cool thumbs up
you are so lucky to be able to do this!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice old mine they Doug that out by hand i just subbed
Thanks for the sub. Yes, it is pretty incredible how much work would have been involved in digging that all out by hand.
What a great video and site, really enjoyed the tour and history. Cool cabin and all the stuff laying around WOW
Thank you very much. Yes, I loved seeing that old miner's cabin and all of the stuff around it too.
great job again my friend and glad it is on Private Property and we would install range cameras too as we noticed some people don't read signs to well......love the artifacts and the ore samples of Limonite in quartz ...Cabins in great shape....anytime you see hand stacking of cobbles and large rounded river rock you can bet there was Gold there....that first mine was classic drift mining in old Ancient river channels...I bet there is some juicy Gold still in there....love that old Hand still they used for drilling a round...beautiful stringers running through the back....looks like a serpentine with shale...great place for a Gold Bug 2....should use a 6 inch coil on it....
Soon as I saw this video, I wondered if you knew about this place haha
@@Cambpro I pray for the gold bug two! Lol
Thank you! There was definitely a lot going on at this claim - the number of mines, the different types of mines (which will become more evident in the second video), the number of old mining artifacts around... It definitely felt like there was still some good gold there.
Trail cams are a real good idea...I know a claim owner who had hundreds of pounds of copper cable stolen from an exploration/development-stage mine in New Mexico; isolated mines are vulnerable to theft.
BECAUSE SOMEONE PUTS UP A NO TRESPASSING SIGN DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE IT PRIVATE PROPERTY !
Becarful doing this stuff but a good video 😊👌
Great video was always guys hey did the owner actually find any significant amount of gold in there or does he just play around all of that artifacts stuff is really fascinating nice job thanks for the treat
Kinda both lol. The amount of work done I that little area tho during and after the gold rush is astounding.
Yeah, Adit Addicts is 100% right on this one...
It's a difficult process and a lot of work in itself before you can even begin to work the claim. It's surveyed by a mineral examiner during the claiming process from the blm or nfs. There is a lot of due diligence involved in having an active claim.
Cool stuff. I love lookin and exploring old mines. Miners back then dudes were tuff bustin there asses all day hard work no 4 sure gains u know. So cool seein water dripping into these tunnels. Y is that?
It caved in, it looks like, under the weight of that huge boulder....you would not catch me in there...interesting but scary..... thanks for the video
Love your video’s. Hooked now.
Thank you.
Indeed!
So beautiful there. Can barely wait for part 2. Awesome place.
Yes, it really was a beautiful spot!
lot of work went into the sides to make them as smooth as they were hope your buddies find a nice nugget or two did they check the conglomerate nugs been known to hide there too ! hope second trip drier than this one and Shade a sweet fur face !! see you in the next video. thanks for sharing
Thank you. I thought that larger adit was really interesting... Ha, and, yes, the adits on the other side of the creek are completely dry (which was a welcome change for us).
yea! yea! stopped for a break and there you are! I just watched it with enthusiasm ..?(sp) like you said about the main area beautiful.....
thanks for another great posting
That tunnel is crazy, lot of work.
I've always taken for "granit" the hard work those ol timers put into mining....WOW
The old timers were tough!
@Kaptain Kid nah they had better things to do than nit-pick other people in their free time.
What flashlight are you using? I have a Nitecore long throw, but it doesn't have a focus-albe beam like I've seen you use many times?
I did a video on all of the gear I use here: czcams.com/video/QDqYeSNN7LA/video.html
11:51 is that shinny thing on the ground a gold nugget? Left side of the path about 1/4 of the way across the path.
Great find!
I love your videos wish I had your skill and knowledge, love what you do. But was wondering how do you fund yourself, for showing us all those?
Thank you very much. Well, it certainly isn't cheap, but I pay for these trips out of my earnings at my regular job. Also, when people are kind enough to watch the ads at the start of the videos, it adds a few cents to the change jar, which helps pay for the gas money sometimes.
Top notch as always
Thank you, Ian.
Another oddly familiar north sierra mine sight. You got the dog explorin now, bad ass.
Yea it might seem somewhat close to home lol.
i enjoyed watching this video. keep going 🙂
Thank you.
*I subscribed to this already.*
This was an awesome site...
I love watching these videos. I grew up in the gold country and sure do miss its history
At mark 2:34 you were showing all the things they found at the camp. I saw these plates and some cups..had a design on them. They where white and red. Did you just by chance happen to pick them up and look at the back. They look like plates that were made in the early 1940’s in Erwin TN. They are hand painted. I was just wondering. Love the video!
No, I'm afraid I didn't take a close look at them. Glad you enjoyed the video...
Awesome video and thanks to the claim owner for letting y'all visit and film.
Amazing
It's a great site...
At like 7:52 ish, does he say that was a frog back there in that hole? I seen something, I thought one of you guys were back there
Love it , have been to one here in Oregon that is hidden, locked gates all up road, only 5 or 6 people have been to it, all the contents of the cabin are still in it today by looks of stove, kitchen fig all from the teens or 20s,! great to explore area's all around for min of 70 acres ! with cabin sites found all over ridge and down to valley , most cabins are burned down but can see the burnt timbers on a few sitting on basic rocks that were used to support weight, My only regret is, only 4 days to explore the area , some graves next to one cabin found and land owner said that was due to fire in middle of night, both inside died !
Damn.
Took time to note the little town area was knocked down then buried by BLM due to hippy's trying to live there in the 60s , but the bottle dump was huge and the 4 hole out house was all inside with no division between holes. I would love to go there again but disabled now and not possible, along with unknown who owns it now, It was hard to cover entire area in short time ! I did find one pair of old binoculars out on climb to top of ridge, The body made from pewter hung in a tree, rough shape from being exposed to weather ! I was honored with Geologist inviting me to tag along when he was doing his work those 4 days ! I said about same "DAMN"
@@johnbrookbank2969 life's to short not to take up opportunities such as that.
yep and wife at that time had hard time with me going for 4 days, Told her life time chance & one time experience and iam going ! Not a happy gal !!
@@johnbrookbank2969 I'm very grateful my wife understands when I head out on trips because she doesn't have a choice Lmao. I would never take off though if some pressing business was at hand but I usually try and cover all my bases before an excursion.
Badass footage, quartz for days
Pretty incredible, huh?
I like the Hypervolt the best. it doesn't sound cheap like a mixer.
Great video thank you! Nice cabin you should buy the guy a trash can for all the plastic, looks like really nice pay dirt!
yeah guys a slob, a real grease ball
Oh well we are all at some time, but seems like a good fella especially to share his place with us all! I wish him him good luck and be safe!
What a very nice stream and cabin site.
What area is this near would like to visit this spot.
That huge boulder would make me nervous to work around. Reminds me of a deadfall trap waiting to trigger.
Kind of makes you feel like a squirrel under there for sure!
Yes, I wasn't exactly sorry to be out from underneath the boulder. Might be kind of hard to tell in the video, but it wasn't clear what was holding it up still either...
@@TVRExploring magic
Any chance you are willing to share the location or maybe the contact info for the owners? If not I totally understand. I am fascinated by the mining history in the Sierra Nevadas. The reason I would be interested in the area in your video is that you stated it was safe enough for your dog and I have 7 & 9 yr old girls I'm trying to expose to the reality of how the world really works. the naivety of kids never stops amazing me. Want to show them real-world Minecraft :). Either way good video.
I could be wrong. I thought the Adit was the entrance. The rest was drift and stope. I know there's claims like that up by Portwine? Maybe between Canyon creek and the North Fork Yuba. Very cool. Very lucky. They don't hand those claims out anymore. More's the pity.
Yea were very very familiar with that particular area. The adit is the part you use for access to the workings of the mine. Then when your on the vein it becomes the drift or until you cross the vein then it's a crosscut........I think. The entrance is the portal.
I either see silver and copper, or there is some funky mold growing in that quartz.
Can you bring a pick hammer in and hit the walls and explore for us pretty please?
Ha ha ha ha!!! Love the term Leaverite!
The first adit looked like tertiary creek bed. In the second adit (or third, as it were) just before you said it I was thinking it looked like they were following a fault line. Darned mosquito. That little creek looked like it would be a nice place to work a small backpacker dredge.
remote enough to pull it off
Duck Landes I was just up exploring a mine in Butte County for the first time a couple of days ago... If my first experience is any indication, you have some good mines up there!
I look forward to seeing that. Will be interesting if it's one I've been in and recognize.
I was wondering the same thing... The adit was marked on a topo map, but it wasn't named. I'll call the video the "Upper Butte Mine" or something like that.
A lot of the mines I visited I found by them being marked on topo maps. Though a lot of the marked mines are pit mines, not adits. Pit mines can be interesting too though, one I came across had VW bug size garnet boulders. A lot of the mines I found was just by spotting waste rock and following it up to where it originated from. Some were by word of mouth; once people learned I explored mines they would tell me about mines they knew about. And some I just happened across while out 4-wheeling or riding dirt bikes.
How big a mine was this? How many were working it. Was it a profitable mine.
Unfortunately, all of that has been lost to history...
Good video ,all ya need is some dynamite for that bolder
That's a nice little mine, and always good to see someone working them. Did he get anything with the detector??
Hell no! T_T
Yes, I love that there are still small-scale miners out there scratching away in underground mines... Unfortunately, Adit Addicts is correct. Neither he nor the claim owner were able to pull out any gold that day.
What are those small bottles at 1:30? I found a bunch of them in the middle of nowhere when I sat down by a tree to have lunch.
Maybe for aspirin but not 100% on that.
Cyanide
great video
I hate Keep Out Signs on our Public Lands, if it is not a Patented Claim that Keep Out Sign means nothing. the Claimant only owns Mineral Rights and not Surface Rights so if a Miner ever asks you to leave Public Lands ask to see His or Her Patent Papers, however it is Legal for a Claimant to ask you to leave a Work Area providing they have a Valid Plan of Operation on File with BLM or Forest Service.
FYI: If you want to keep folks off your Claim then below you Mining Claim Sign post another sign that warns of Poisonous Mine Gas in the Area. I had a dumping problem at one of my Lode Claims and no amount of Keep Out Signs would stop anyone from dumping trash but one Poison Mine Gas Sign and never a problem again.
I hate it when people dump a bunch of trash out in the forest (or the desert or wherever)... Haha, "the "poison mine gas" sign is an excellent way to address that!
That metal detector made it sound like you took a baby with you into the mine
Hahaa!!
Sure I seen the owners hand sticking out from under that boulder :)
any chance I can get a location on this place to go explore myself things that I live right here in Coarsegold California in the Sierra Nevadas not to invite myself but just me and my 11 year old son we enjoy doing what you're doing and and we're newbies and just enjoy life.
I did a video on tracking down abandoned mines called "How To Find Abandoned Mines" that I would suggest. Document whatever you find because they are disappearing quickly.
Hey, I really enjoy your show and have watched almost every mine exploration video you have made. I work as a hardrock miner in Colorado and also explore abandoned mines in my free time. I have discovered a way to get mine maps that I use when exploring. A while ago I met with two other mine exploring CZcams channels and have been finding them maps to aid them in exploration. If you would like me to find some maps for you let me know. Keep up the great videos.
Evan
I like the sound of that.
Evan Bush Adit Addicts is my exploring buddy and we're both very much on board with maps!
Great, my email is evan.bush@student.nmt.edu so if you guys send me some places you want maps of I will see what I can do.
@@evanbush5816 awesome and thank you!
Cool! i did some gold sluicing last weekend on the north fork yuba river in the sierra nevada
That's pretty much our back yard, do any good?
ADIT ADDICTS a little! made a video of it over here on my channel. i am looking forward to more mining
@@StevenSchoolAlchemy hopefully soon a little turns into a lot!
So cool that this claim been worked to many are dry or not viable for big companies but totally cud be hunted on smaller scale like this. Great vid as always stay safe keep do wat do it's so cool to just see real workmanship the pride in there wood work even nobody got see. 👍☘🇮🇪
Thank you. Yes, it is great to see that there are still some miners active out there...
i was a mine examiner in the coal mines in central pa. i you for taking me back in the mines!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! Glad I could take you back underground...
Glass Mrs Butterworth bottle that's cool
Thats a cool claim ! Nkt to many kept uo old claims out there in theses hills !
Yes, they are becoming pretty few and far between...
How do they know where to start?
Sometimes, there are obvious outcroppings of veins on the surface. Other times, it is just an educated guess based on the geology of the area... For modern times, they have sophisticated drilling, laser surveys, radar, etc.
Put it all in a personal museum!!!!! KEEP IT SAFE PLEASE DEAR GOD KEEP IT SAFE ITS HISTORY!!!! it would be an honor to see that stuff
The syrup bottle is 1961 or later. It was introduced in 1961.
growing squash and mining gold... living the dream
It sure beats sitting behind a desk like I used to do in some of my corporate jobs!
@@TVRExploring he'll yeah man
I love exploring things but usually me and my friends can only explore sewage tunnels
Well, that's pretty cool. That's something I have always wanted to do...
Do you just find these things in Sierra Nevada mountains randomly
No, lots of research goes into locating them.
What do you do with the equipment in good condition
Leave it right where we found it... We feel strongly about not taking anything. Too many "collectors" have stripped these historic sites bare and it is extremely unusual now to find a museum-quality abandoned mine now.
Lucky bastard. I'm dissapointed that a lot of the mines in my area are on private property. I'll probably keep busy with what's available for a long time.
LOL, yeah, the mines on private property are frustrating because they're almost always the best!
@@TVRExploring God dam private property rights we should just take everybody's land away and give it to the people…
My goal is to own at least 300 acres like this with a good amount of 2nd growth timber amongst some old growth that nobody wanted to fool with (pipe dream). That along with good minerals in the ground & I'd be a kid in a candy shop for the rest of my life!
Sounds pretty nice to me!
Grizzly creek or little grizzly creek? Lot of hydro washes. What gold is left. Where has it been dredged in the 80's?
If you pause it at 12:02 you can see a really cool face on the left. A face on the face.
Must be a fairly pricey claim right here! Has an old cabin and an old mine on it. Sweet deal!
that hanging wall is crazy vertical, the vein looks like a geological miscarriage, and some serious sulphides
Yes, the geology in this one is very interesting - particularly as all of the mines on this claim have such different geological features inside. The claim owner is fortunate to have such mines (and a cabin).
I'd have me a still on that beautiful Creek 😊
It wouldn't surprise me a bit of one had been there in the past...
Very beautiful landscape
Yes, it's a great location!
I was wondering why it says no trespassing if his claim is on public land ? just wondering because some of the claims in Granite Basin had signs that said private property when in reality it was public land and that's what pisses the forest service off , just my opinion . THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK .
deter mischief perhaps?
UNFORGIVEN FOREVER Granite Basin? I was looking at a couple of claims in there. One was on Marble creek and one was on Coldwater creek This video is of a Patented claim. I think.
It's a patented claim. In other words, the land was transferred from public ownership to the claimant, and is no longer public land. There is currently a moratorium on new patents being issued.
Historical records, sadly, are often lost, incorrect, or non-existent. Therefore, for those particular mines, the names and other identifying information in my videos are often wrong. Do not make any personal decisions or conclusions for yourself or others based on information in any of my videos. Do your due diligence!
YOUR OWN WORDS ! DON'T REPLY WITH SPECULATION .
@@Porty1119 what are you talking about?
What does the gold look like when its in the ground. How do you know where to look. Dont worry im not coming there. Im in the UK.lol
Sometimes the miners encounter visible veins of gold which looks like golden threads (sometimes quite wide threads) scattered through the rock. Often, the gold is invisible to the eye though and has to be extracted by crushing the rock the gold is hosted in and then removed chemically.
You look for white quarts the gold will be mixed in with it. This is a cave system that was easy to dig out theirs no scrap pile any where out side this so called mine. Looks like someone did get luck thuo.
Looks like it could still be profitable. Nice
That would be a great place to make some "shine"
Ha, yes, it would... I wouldn't be shocked if that took place there during Prohibition.
I bet that was some good "squash" he was growing up there.
COUGH
COUGH
bottom of the canyon, 2hrs sun max.... probably
Those white stones look like crystals