Historic Candelaria Nevada - Mining Town & Cemetery - 1870's Cabin - Colorful Drift And Shaft Rappel
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- The historic Candelaria Nevada area has been an important silver mining area for many years. Mexican prospectors working the area found rich silver deposits in 1864. A town grew up to support the miners, but, today the town is decaying and the area is dominated by a few huge open mines that produce gold and silver. The cemetery, original town site and many mine workings are still left.
There was a stamp mill here at one time, but, a lack of water caused it to be run as a dry mill. This created a toxic dust that carried through the town and many miners and residents died from breathing in the dust. This condition was called miners consumption. In the cemetery there are numerous graves that are unmarked and are reported to be miners, many of whom were Chinese.
The mine we explored in this video has natural hand hewn timbering, beautiful mineral veins and two vertical shafts. After checking out the upper level we rappel down to see the lower level.
Judging from the signature on the door Death Valley Curly visited here in 1947. His real name was Roscoe Wright and he was the vice president of the Western Mining Council, Nevada. He was a collector and writer on rocks, minerals, agates, crystals and fossils in Death Valley.
We hope you enjoy the video of this historic area!
another fun explore ..... was hoping you would drop down the other shaft too .....keep'em coming and be safe out there
Why are you trying to wear me out, Jeff? Honestly, it looked like they just followed a vein down with no drift at the bottom. Hard to say for sure, though. I thought you traded in your burro for an electric car and moved to New York. Thanks for the comment!
You guys are cra-cra. I worked at the old open pit Candelaria mine in the 1980's. I drove a triple 7 cat haul truck for three years until the mine closed. They were always finding boxes of unstable dynamite in the shafts. Most of the time they blew them, sometimes they had to go in and pull it out. It was always a hold your breath hour or so. (thank God no one died). I'm 70 years old now but. will never forget. I can see it all like yesterday. I was one of few women working there.. Thanks for the memories.😊
Sounds like you had quite the job in the mine there. We find sticks and boxes full of dynamite often. We usually try and keep our distance from it. Glad that we could stir up some memories for you, and thanks for watching. 👍❤️
Neat colors in that mine. Looks like silver, lead, and gold were mined out of there. That shaft was deep, just a fun little mom and pop mine. That graveyard was cool too. Them volcanic rock covering some of the graves were big ones. That big cross in the center was pretty.
Always fun to see the colorful minerals. I think you are correct about the silver/lead/gold ores. The cemetery is a bit sad with all the unmarked graves. Thanks fir watching, Kimbra!
The rocks falling down on Tom scared the you know what out of me! Julie is cool as a cucumber! You guys are awsome! Thankyou both for taking me along!⁸
Rocks falling down these old shafts is the number one danger in going down them, in my opinion. No matter how much you try and secure things and move the loose rocks there always seems to be more that want to come down. I had one about the size of a golf ball hit me in the forearm from about 80 feet up. I thought it broke my arm. Julie is pretty cool. Thanks for the comment, Gordon!
I'll second that emotion. Julie is one special lady. And easy on the eyes :>
Thanks you two for the bit of history, I always enjoy that as well as the interior of the mine. Nice guitar work Tom.
Glad that you enjoyed the bit of history, Mick. That is a tenor guitar that I played on this. Thanks for commenting!
Enjoyed the episode, lots of minerals to look at, pretty neat. Great job you two, you both are awesome, looking forward to your next episode.
Yes, the minerals are great to see. Glad that you enjoyed this one. We think you're awesome for watching and commenting, Rick!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Thank you 😊
Love your videos. I worked 10years under ground in a huge gypsum mine. The only way in was down the shaft for 640 ft. These mines are so different and interesting.
Hopefully the cage was working to get you down the shaft. Glad you find these mines interesting and thanks for commenting, Greg!
Thank you Tom and Julie. very nice explore. the timbers were awesome. And the minerals were amazing. keep up the great work and stay safe out there. 👍🍺🍻🍻⛏⛏
You're welcome, David. Those hand worked timbers are always fun to see. Same for the colorful minerals. Thanks for watching and🍺🍺🍻👊☝ commenting!
Loved the respect shown at the intro, to all those brave hardworking pioneers, who died so far from home, so sad their folks will never know the fate or final resting place.
Kindest Regards, TOM & JULIE
Yes, very sad about the unmarked graves. So many families that probably had no idea what happened to their loved ones. Thanks for the nice comment, John!
Good documenting history and your experience of these old relics from old day's and lifestyles we take for granted! Happy you both had a fun and safe experience.
The history is a big part of the fun when visiting these places. Thanks for the comment, Gregory!
Hello, Tom & Julie; hope everyone is in good health. Thank y’all for taking us on the historical tour of Candelaria, Nev. It’s really a testament to the fortitude of the hard-working miners when you see the hand-hewn timbers used on top of all their work inside the mine! Real Men!! Both of you are true inspirational examples for historical explorers! It’s hard to wait for the next adventure. This one is going to be very hard to ‘top’ because of Mother Nature’s mosaic of intriguing & mind-blowing colors is an overwhelming Masterpiece!! Really unique!! Keep Safe & Healthy!!
Hello, Cary. We are both doing well and hope you are, too. Glad that you enjoyed seeing this area. Can you imagine the work it took to make just one 8x8 timber from a tree trunk with an axe? Now repeat that a few dozen times. Quite often we see colorful mineral veins like the one here. That's one of our favorite parts of mine exploring.
Thanks for the nice comment!
Thanks for both the great explore AND all the background research information, T&J!
- Ed on the Ridge
Hey Ed, you're welcome. Glad that you enjoyed it!
Hey guys enjoyed the video 😎 cool ass mine, awesome colors in the mine,, its been hot as hell! The temperature 🌡down here went crazy 117 degrees, and it made for a very long day, you guy's be safe around those mines, as always you guys 🎸 rock, ill catch ya'll later, headed down south and see what kind of mistif i can get into 😎🐕
Hey Gunny, wow 117° that does sound hot as hell. Glad that you enjoyed the video. Don’t get into too much trouble, maybe a little though. 😈😎👍
Thanks for the info on the town, cemetery and showing the strip mine from a different angle. The timbers and colors were quite a sight to see.👍👍
Glad that you enjoyed the whole thing, Mark. Thanks for the comment! 👍👍
Great colors in the mine!
Great explore and documentation of the Candelia site. Have driven by the turn off many times on my way south. Thank you for sharing this with us Tom & Julie!
Definitely a colorful mineral vein, which is always fun to see. It's worth the detour to check out this area. Thanks for watching, Bruce!
Already a great start to my Friday morning. Thanks Tom & Julie!
Right on, Ricky. Thanks for watching!
Awesome explore!
Some beautiful colors reminiscent of Van Gogh.
Great video! Thanks!
👍👍👍👊😎
Thanks, George. We love to see those Van Gogh's, too. Thanks for commenting! 👍👍👊
Beautiful colors in this mine and to me the still shots make the explore even better. Thanks y’all, be safe.
This is definitely a colorful one. Glad that you enjoy the stilks. They add a different feel to certain parts. Thanks for commenting, Don!
Not to be a broken record but I love your videos!! I hope all is well now with Julie! A trooper both inside and outside the mine!!
We would enjoy listening to your broken record as long as you want to repeat it. Julie is doing pretty good. She still has some problems from the effects of the radiation treatments she had. She just had another course of steroids that has helped. She is a real trooper. Thanks so much for the comment, Erik!
For a minute there I almost thought you’d found the M-cave lol, very cool video guys! You two are a couple of my favorite CZcamsrs keep up the awesome work guys 😎
Thanks for the nice comment, Daniel. No M -cave this time. Chig will have to find it.
Incredible video? Tom and Julie it's always a pleasure to watch. I like old cemeteries. Lakewood Cemetery here in Minneapolis is my favorite. I was there for a bit today after a lunch from Quang Restaurant.
That living and working building was interesting. I can't recall seeing so much gravel on a roof before? It did look sturdily built.
I really enjoyed when you stopped for the carved and written names. Did I see a tiny "Lucky Larry" above Death Valley Curly? It's awesome you found info on him and the mining. Very impressive hand hewn timbering and such interesting mineralization. That still with Julie and the colorful backdrop should be a framed print. Truly magnificent!
The 100'+ winze or shaft to whatever workings might have been another level. I would have thought you'd link up to it from that other?
What an adventure?👍🏻😎
I've been in beautiful Lakewood Cemetery many times. That area between Bde Maka Ska, (although I moved away before the name change so it's still kind of Calhoun to me) and Harriet is very nice. I had the honor of being a pall bearer for our best man in our wedding and laying him to rest there.
I'll have to zoom my photos of that door on the mine to see if there is a Lucky Larry on it. I know there were several smaller writings on it. It's always fun to see the hand worked timbers in the mines. Can you imagine cutting down the trees and having to carve out a few dozen 8x8's? Wow.
Glad that you like that still of Julie. It is pretty
nice.
It looked to me that the shaft that I didn't go down didn't seem to have more than what was visible from the top. That happens quite often when the miners follow a vein down vertically and it just pinches out at a certain depth.
Thanks for the fun comment, Rick. We appreciate it!
Hi Tom & Julie. Tom & Theresia here. We live in Henderson NV. I have been exploring old mines for about 20 years now in NV. My wife retired several years ago and now joins me on mine exploring trips. We use Tonopah as our base and explore outward in an 80 mile radius. We don’t use any video equipment but take extensive pictures. About a year ago we explored this mine and I photographed the end of the haulage adit (the highly mineralized area) and the short drift behind it also highly mineralized. BTW the end of the short drift has a jagged opening that leads to a natural cave I believe you saw that. We recently completed a 10 day exploring trip and went back into this mine on June 13th so it would appear that we just missed you two. At the portal there were 2 engineer stakes with 2 or 3 strands of barbed wire with the obligatory UNSAFE MINE STAY OUT STAY ALIVE sign. The sign most of us call the Welcome Sign. The reason I mention this is that your shots of the Portal from outside and from inside don’t show the sign and wire. We were wondering if this is just the angle of the shots given that the wire, stakes, and sign were placed very close to the portal or has somebody removed them? Over the years we have been to many mines and would be happy to share information with you guys. While I don’t often see this in comments let me give you our e-mail address. It is mbt25646@cox.net. Send us an e-mail and we can talk more about our common hobby.
Cheers
Tom & Theresia
I'll send you an email, Thomas.
some nice colors in there and wow quite the descent down the shaft ! thanks for taking us along
Yes, a beautiful mineral vein in this one. Glad that you enjoyed it and thanks for commenting, Thorn!
Hello Julie and Tom. I like the Cemetery. It's sad the graves with now proper marker. Sad that those people died and get no recognition.
Hello, Stephen. It really is a bit sad to think many of those who died in that area got no head stone. If they were Chinese, being so far from home and there being a language barrier, their families might never have known what happened to them or where they ended up. Life can be harsh sometimes. The cemetery definitely has a somber feel to it. Thanks for your comment!
Fabulous explore. You two are fearless.
Glad you liked it, Jack. Thanks for commenting!
I consider this to be one of the most interesting. I wish I could give a two thumbs up!
Thanks for the nice comment, Nelson! Here are two thumbs up for you. 👍👍
Another cool adventure . Thanks for sharing.
Glad that you enjoyed it, Pethoviejo! Thanks for watching.
I always find graveyards interesting. In southern New Jersey there are many old graveyards going back to the original settlers. Markers are always interesting. The ones of granite or marble were usually wealthy. Many sandstone markers for I'm guessing the middle class. Then there were wood markers for the not so fortunate. They couldn't stand the test of time and are gone. Some stone markers are no bigger than your foot, maybe with one or two letters on them. We have ghost towns here as well but very little if anything is left of them. Once thriving towns now taken back by nature. Thanks for bring us along Tom and Julie!
Glad ha you enjoyed the trip through the cemetery. I think cemeteries are interesting, too. I've stopped at many through the years as we have been driving by. I like the small country types the best. It a definite possibility that these graves were once marked with the person's name on a woodstake which has long since rotted away. Mother Nature does try to reclaim things that us humans build, even whole towns as you mentioned. Thanks for the comment, William!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring No thanks needed. I have an idea of what it takes to operate a CZcams channel because someone close to me has two of them. Yes, they are no big deal but I see the time and effort. Your efforts go the extra mile when you almost always get back to your fans. Your return comments show a genuine interest and care. I don't have any statistics on this but I'm willing to bet the percentage of CZcamsrs at your level that go this extra mile are darn few! The thanks goes all to both of you Tom and Julie.
@@williamwintemberg It is a bit of work managing a CZcams channel on top of actually doing the exploring. I enjoy reading and replying to the comments. I learn quite a lot from you and the rest of my commenters.
An interesting tidbit of info I recently learned about that area. There use to be a mining town called Pickhandle Gulch, neighbor to Candelaria. It was just a skip away from the cemetery there. Rumor has it Pickhandle was named that because the pick was a favorite thing for miners to grab whenever they got into fights, ouch! Also, a fellow named James Casey, the founder of UPS, was born there at Pickhandle Gulch back around 1888. Originally UPS was named American Messenger Company.
We drove down what is left of Pickhandle Gulch. If you wind around the backside of the mountain from the old town site you come to the top of the open mine and there is a road that goes along side and down the huge open cut. That is Pickhandle. It ends up in Silver One's fenced in yard which you can't go around without doing something obnoxious off road. I've heard the story of the name origin, but not of James Casey. Very interesting and thanks for your input, Matt and Lynn!
I like the history outside of the mine just as much as the inside
Me too. The history is a big part of the overall experience of visiting these places. Thanks for commenting, Bruce!
Very cool explore guys with some nice looking minerals too the one winze looked like it went down over a mile. Please stay safe out their. Smashed the like button and a share.
Glad that you enjoyed it and thanks for the share, Tom!
Death Valley Curly reminded me that earlier today I was telling my neighbor about meeting Death Valley Smiley and his donkey in the early 1960s. And that Norman Rockwell had painted a portrait of him. She said she knew all of Norman Rockwell's paintings and didn't remember that one. I just happened to have my phone with me, which I rarely do, so found the Norman Rockwell painting and showed her, then she remembered it.
Sure some cool colors in that upper level. The lower level wasn't much to look at, makes ya wonder why they went to all the trouble.
Never heard of Death Valley Smiley, but glad you got to meet him and his donkey, Duck. There were definitely some colorful characters around these parts back then. I guess there still are a few.
You never know what you will find in these mines until you go see for yourself. This time not much was down in the lower kevel, but, at least we're not left wondering about it. Thanks for the interesting comment as usual!
Hello! The inscriptions on the door are amazing! Cool video!👍
Yes, the door is one of the fun features of this one. Thanks for the comment!
Candelaria mining district is a pretty cool place. Silver was the predominate metal mined there. I believe it was the Northern Belle Mine that was the largest producer with a total of $15 million dollars worth. The reason i couldn't be a good mine explorer is i'd get lost in the minerals🙂I mean there is lead, barite (barium), iron, zinc, antimony, and even some gold. Seems if i remember right; way back when they had a R/R going through that town. Carson and ?? age. Can't remember. Spent a few weeks out there when i lived in Dayton. Great explore! I just hate it when i catch a rib with my hardhat. Jars ya all the way to the soles of your feet. Been cool to see what those minerals would look like under a UV. Thanks Tom and Julie. Till next week, may all your days be golden!!
Silver was definitely the main object of the mines in this area. They are still drilling and taking pit samples now. A Canadian company named Silver One is doing the drilling and sampling. I've talked to the guys from Silver One a couple times during our several trips to the area. There are at least three huge open mines there. The Carson and Colorado RR might be what you're thinking about. You're right about catching the rib or back with your hard hat. Jams your whole spine. I think I tried flourescing a nearby drift that had very similar looking minerals and not much happened. Thanks for the comment, Richard. Always s pleasure!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Colorado. Man i hate getting old. Be cool!
Hello Tom Hello Julie
The cemetary was very sad.
All this unnamed graves and behind ervery grave a human beeing a life a famliy a Story gone and forgotten .
The mine was very colourfull and the Minerals looks like copper lead and zink it looks a bit like inside the Rammelsbergmine but not so wet 😀😃
Hello Frank, yes very sad about the unmarked graves. You said it well with a human and their story forgotten forever. The minerals are beautiful. Hope all is well for you at Rammelsberg.😀👍
Great video guys! This could be one of my more favorite of your videos, except maybe where you do the repairs on your CJ5. The above ground artifacts, and how they tied to the mine was as interesting as the mine, maybe even moreso. Thanks for the great stuff you share with those of us who can't be there.
Glad that you enjoyed this one, Henry. I find the outside features and history of these places interesting, too. We appreciate your nice comment!
Sorry but I looked up the history of this townsite and have to say this was a big town with a railroad, very nice town , would have been nice if the town was still standing! Thanks again!
More of the town was standing until the 2020 earthquake that was centered 36 miles west of Tonopah. It was pretty big at magnitude 6.5. The town was still was over 150 years old so it wasn't in that great of shape. I'm guessing there might be some old photos of the town when it was all there? Thanks for your input, Ron!
Great tour you 2, Thanks for sharing,
You're welcome, Jacob. Thanks for watching and commenting! We always appreciate it.
Minezillas on the prowl! Great video! a stay safe!
Haha, thanks Jeremy. Will do!
Wow, the first mines I explored in1969! Memories indeed... great fun for a 16 year old on his first desert trip. The Northern Belle was a vertical shaft which had a few levels which were still accessible then. It wasn't far from downtown there. I thought i read they open pitted there, but guess not.
Thinking back now, it's surprising I'm still alive considering how much solo exploration happened. Later teamed up with friends and used proper climbing gear and yes, even hard hats.
We went all over the southwest...of course gas was so cheap then it was mo big deal to drive hundreds of miles.....but there's a special place in my heart for Candelaria - after seeing that my interest in geology & mineralogy was sparked.
Lately I've been thinking about visiting Nevada again....thank you for the reminders...cheers.
How cool is that. Did you see the different levels of the Northern Belle? That one and Diablo are all huge open mines now, as I'm sure you know. Judging from your comment you are a couple years older than me. Thanks for sharing your memories, Steven.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring So they DID open pit there! Wow....yes, the Northern Belle had 6 or 8 levels, but I only explored the top two, for even a 16 year old can see how overextended he was...two flashlights, but noone knew what state i was in, never mind what hole in the ground.
My friends went down a few years later and found an unopened can of calcium carbide & brought a bunch back. Not exactly the mine explorers ethic, but a hazardous material was removed.....
Pretty good for a youngster. Thanks for sharing that story.
Very cool , I will check it out when I head north.
Sounds good, Peter. Thanks for commenting!
That mine was particularly scary for me some of the timbering was under stress and there are some very unsafe abyssal floor spaces only pros like you guys should be there to show us
Thete was definitely a bit of stress on those timbers. That is not unusual, though. Glad that you have confidence in our exploring abilities. Thanks again, Travis!
Very good once again
Thanks for the comment, Robin!
I liked the old grave yard, that little mine had great colors. If some of those places could talk. Until next time be careful and God bless.
The cemetery is a fairly somber place, in my opinion, with all those unmarked graves. I agree that it would be great if the old places could all tell their stories. Wouldn't that be something. Thanks for watching and for the blessing, Jimmy!
Thanks Tom & Julie not a huge mine but some amazing colors in there!
always enjoyable to come along on your adventures.
You're welcome. Glad that you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment!
Hi Tom & Julie, I think it's sad too that the old miners worked hard most of their lives and they never got a headstone after they passed.
The mine definitely had some pretty colours in it, maybe lead and silver was mined there, I'm not sure.
That straight down shaft was just scary deep, I'm relieved you didn't go down that 1 lol.
I'm still stuck here at home apart from a quick visit to the doctors for an HRT review, it was sooo hot out and because I am weirdly allergic
to the sun I was not able to go anywhere else, I think I'm just going to have to trust my Husband to get you guys something, I'm hoping to
sending you something from Cornwall UK that says Cornwall on it, which I really wanted to choose myself, and of course Pickles.
Thank you for sharing, much love to you all. xx 💖
So sorry to hear that you are unable to get around much, Sue. No worries on your gift to us. Why not give yourself some time until you are up and feeling better. Then you can pick the Cornwall memento yourself.
Yes, quite sad about the unmarked graves. It's a different feeling here from what most people are used to when visiting a cemetery. That straight shaft didn't appear to have a drift level at the bottom so I didn't go down it. Thanks for your comment and we hope you feel better very soon! 💖😻
@@TomandJulieMineExploring thank you, is there anything in particular you guys would like me to send ??? xx 🙏💖
@@SueGirling68 Something inexpensive that you like. Use your best judgment.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring💖 xx
The minerals were beautiful 😍
Glad you enjoyed the beauty of the minerals, Linda! Thanks for commenting. 👍👍
Thanks. That decent looked rather scary!
Well, it wasn't too bad, although anytime you're hanging on a rope over a deep hole it's cause for concern. Thanks for the comment, Brommear!
Hello.. Tom & Julie.. Hoping you are in good spirit. At 5:37 the name " Death Valley Curly" appears on the door.
I have seen his name in several mine videos so I googled his name and found this.. "Death Valley Curly was a
collector and writer on rocks, minerals, agates, crystals and fossils in the Death Valley area." & "Area Vice President
of the Western Nevada Mining Council." Thanks!
Hi Ody. We are doing well and hope you are, too. I have read the same about Death Valley Curly. It sounds like he got around pretty good. Thanksfor your research and input!
The deep shaft was amazing but much to deep for the rope
Maybe you come back and explore it
But for now take care i wish you both a happy weekend and a good week
Greetings from the Harzmountains
Yours Frank Galetzka
I think the shaft was around 100 feet deep and the rope I was on is 165 feet so there was enough rope. We usually carry three ropes totaling 375 feet. It just didn't look like there was much down there to be worth the effort.
Take care and hope you have a great weekend!
Very cool vlog T & J nice colors in there
Yes they are. We love the colorful mineral veins. Thanks, Robert!👌
Too bad for the unmarked graves , unknown miners or residents of the townsite very interesting small mine with great colored minerals. Did you figure out what type of mine this produced? Small townsite but it must have had a decent size population. Thanks again for your great video! Stay safe and safe travels!
The unmarked graves make it a somber visit to this cemetery when you really think about it. You die and the people who bury you probably don't even know your name or how to ca contact your relatives. Maybe there were inexpensive wood markers that have rotted away over the last 150 plus years.This is primarily silver country so I would think this was a silver mine. Thanks for the nice comment, Ron!
That was a very wonderful adventure. love that rope you used to drop down the shaft. What is it called? I'm a miner by profession. I hope one day I will be able to make such videos on historic mines here in my home country Zimbabwe. Probably after my retirement.
Hi Israel. Glad that you enjoyed the adventure and we hope you can make some videos of your mines in Zimbabwe. The rope is a 10mm, low stretch, high quality climbing rope that is 165 feet long. I wouldn't trust one of the cheap ones that you see selling for a low price. You will need a few other climbing related pieces of gear besides the rope.
Stay safe in your mining job. Thanks for the comment!
The A team at work again! Mostly gold in that area, silver too
Haha, thanks for the "A" grade. We appreciate the comment, David!
A true international cemetery... I am not sure if intentionally damaging a head stone is desecration but it should be.. Very colorful mine.
I can't imagine how ignorant someone has to be to shoot a headstone in the shape of a cross. Very disrespectful. The m8ne was colorful and fun to see. Thanks, Max!
Impressive stuff I really got a feel for things thanks to this video
Thanks, Travis!
> May be Jeff Williams could answer or give opinion about a mine with heavy mineralization like this one, is the valuable content just light enough to be a tease that kept the prospectors exploring hoping for a good strike yet the labor and material exhausted the investor's money to no avail? The hand hewn timbers kept some laborer busy too. Enjoyed the explore, Thanks.
I'm sure he could give an opinion as he's a pretty sharp geologist. There are several smaller mines like this one in this area so maybe it was profitable enough to be worth driving a drift through the fractured zone to the higher grade dirt. Then they moved down the line a few hundred yards when the vein played out and did the same. This whole area has produced millions of dollars worth of silver since 1864 from the old small drift mines to modern huge open pit operations. Thanks for your input, Carl!
I wonder if there's some kind of instrument that you could unobtrusively apply to a post or timber to measure the amount of stress or weight it's experiencing? There's gotta something, I mean, these days they use ultrasound to measure eye pressure, you can't even tell it's been taken. Loved the video, btw.
Now that would be really cool. Maybe an engineer could come up with a relatively simple device to measure that. Glad that you liked the video!
Beautiful colors. Wish we knew the kind of ore. The cemetery is sad.
Most likely silver/lead judging from the look of it and the history of the area.
Agreed, the cemetery has a sad feel to it with all the unmarked graves.
Thanks for the comment, Jeff!
2:16 Boss Hog? 6:38 Two Laws apply here, in order to be Trespassing one must have Criminal Intent and Refuse to Vacate the Premises when requested to do so and the 1872 Mining Act states that if your Lode Claim does not have a Placer Claim on it too anyone can Prospect for Placer materials on your Lode Claim and Vis versa.
A small Waste Rock Pile often indicates Rich Ore Deposits.
Thanks for your input on all those items. I'm not sure how I got on the subject of claim and trespassing law. We were in Johannesburg and some the mines there were in such rich veins that there was no waste rock at all. Everything that came out of the mine was valuable ore. Appreciate the interesting comment!
Thanks for another awesome explore! So who is the guitar player on your videos Tom or Julie? The music is a nice touch!
Glad that you liked the explore, Roger. That would be me, Tom, playing the guitar. The little tune in this video was played on a tenor guitar. I played in bar blues bands for 20 years from 1977 to 1997. Lots of wild times and late nights.Thanks, Roger!
SPECTACULAR EXPLORE" WOW! Happy Thanksgiving 2022! jd
Thanks, J Dean! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.👍
I don't know what all that color is but it
sure is beautiful Shame about that miners consumption, I wonder if they
wore anything to cover their face and
would it really help much When you
went down you felt like a spelunker
All those names on the door very cool
We love to see colorful mineral veins, too. The minerals are the reason for the mine in the first place. I'm guessing that they would try to limit the dust that they breathed. It probably was not as successful as it would be today. The door is killer. Thanks, Robert!
Great color! I wonder what all the minerals are. I am a old rock hound.
This whole area is known for silver mining so I'm assuming there are minerals related to silver. There are probably a number of other minerals and metals there as well. Thanks, Harold!
RIP Miners
Exactly. Thanks, Don!
If that house was in CA. it would cost a $million. Is it on Zillow?
lol
So, that Hare skull still had its massive ears. The mine 😏Chupacabra might have just snapped it off and spit it aside as it gobbled the rest. 😇
Haha, who knows what goes on in these places. We've seen so crazy stuff over the years. Many times we see evidence of mountain lions and other smaller cats bringing their kills into the mine fo safe eating.
Hey when you go down those mines how do you come back up do you got to pull yourself back up ?that looks like that would be hard to do.
Going down is relatively easy compared to coming back up. We use a hand ascender and foot loop to "jug" up the rope. Here is a link to a video that explains it. Thanks, Eddie!
czcams.com/video/ZqEBP-BZANY/video.html
Mine looks sketchy. What were they mining, gravel?
The fractured part must be some kind of volcanic material that was aerated when molten. Apparently they had to get through that to get to pay dirt. Thanks for watching, Roger.
i would like to know, what ate the rest of that rabbit? Mine goblins?
Good question. Maybe a cat of some sort would be my guess. Not sure how it ended up at the bottom of the shaft. You never know what you'll find in those shaft sumps. Thanks for the comment, Ken!
What are all those red ribbons hanging on the walls of the mine??
The ribbons are markers with written information about the mineral vein placed by assessors and surveyors who estimate the location and amount of ore remaining in the mine. That was a mouthful. Thanks for the question, Gary! 👍👍
Tom, is that your guitar playing?
Yes. I'm playing a tenor guitar. Very different from a standard six string. They have four strings and are tuned differently. Thanks for asking, Ken!
@@TomandJulieMineExploring I thought so, good job, I liked it
Glad that you enjoyed it! 👍
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Thanks, Manuel!
What's to say that shaft doesn't go clear to the center of the earth?
It was getting a bit warm down there. You have good imagination. Thanks, Henry!
Really fantastic Colors getting beaned right on the hard hat ⛑️ glad it was small !!!; )
Rocks and other things falling down the shaft is the most dangerous part of rappelling down a shaft. Glad that you liked the colors, Richard!