Journey 1000 ft. Underground - Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine - Cripple Creek - 1st person view
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Another cool adventure, on our recent trip to the Rockies. Highly recommended! Take the full, sardine cage ride with us, 1000 ft. below the surface, and walk and ride through the old, granite tunnels, of this decommisioned gold mine.
I love the Cripple Creek & Victor area. It's got the strangest layout and strangest vibe. There's nowhere else like it. It's absolutely fascinating
I am the tour guide in the video. come up and see us again soon.
Mike Olson I am definitely wanting to go! I have two daughters and they are used to seeing me drywash and metal detect but they haven’t been to a real hard rock lode style mine before. This one is looking good to take them to for sure
Hi Mike, is that what a working mine is like or is it just made to be bright and clean for the tour?
OMG I love the mine
I used to live in Teller County back in the 70s and Cripple Creek was the count seat. We used to love to go to the old courthouse to conduct any business, but I think they built a new one.
We were through there last year and the amount of changes to the area has been staggering.............not all for the better.
This is one of the best gold mine tours in the US the mine has always had a tour all the way back to 1890.
Was fortunate enough to goto Cripple Creek for 8 days in the summer. Beautiful weather and plenty to do. We stayed at a mountain side cabin overlooking the town. Highly recommend 👌
Fill me pockets full of gold! Awesome trip some 1,000 feet below! Man those must have been some harsh and deafening conditions to work in! Often wondered what happened if they struck heavey water blasting and drilling deep in a hole! Thanks for sharing CD
Awesome way to pass a rainy day :) Enjoyed your adventure, thanks for sharing.
Fascinating video! Thank for sharing.
Cool,Thanks for the tour via tube style.Likely the only view I'll ever see of it.
Been there done that! It was the best mine tour I've ever seen.
My mother born in 1925, played with mercury as kids, she rolled it around in her hands, she lived to 91.
What an awesome peek into the past...
Been down twice in the early 90's. They had a mine cart with gold ore samples for free, and I got a button saying Ive been down 1000 feet.
Memories!
I know! I was down there recently
They still have it
very cool CD thanks for showing
When I went there I was so I afraid of getting in the elevator thing but it was worth it
Absolutely beautiful mine @6:54
I went in the early 90s along with 6 family members and I was to young to go down by myself and none of them would go with me so we left but in 2005 4 of my family members and me went back and I was old enough to go by myself and I did but I was struggling to breathe during the whole time we were in up elevations of Colorado I could breathe just fine down in the mine though
I live there in Cripple Creek it’s so beautiful 😍
Incredible
Powli sthalam
CRAZY! Keep me above the ground for now!! LOL!
Yeah, no way I'm going down there. Looks scary!
I lived in Victor late 1970s. Toured molly Kathleen mine. I assume its gone now, everything between the two towns is a massive open pit now smh
Well that was pretty cool!! Never been there
Worth it for the 1000 foot ride down alone! Don't remember for sure, but it was only $15 or $20 for the whole tour.
Been there.
Really cool!
I have been down there 3 times
that was pretty kool - I bet the wife & you really enjoyed that - I bet they brought a lot of gold out of that mine back in the day, bet they make a lot of $$ just off tours - did you wear your hoodie up - thanks for sharing parts of your kool vaca
Man, it was actually surprisingly comfortable down there, not very cold at all. Other mines connect to this one and share common shafts and tunnel intersection areas, to bring stuff to and from the surface. The Mollie Kathleen is estimated to only have had 5% of the gold removed, with 95% still in the rock, but now they would have to pay the government somewhere around $50 million, to start it back up again. All together, there are an estimated 10,000 miles of mine tunnels in the region.
+creekdalton 10,000 miles of mine shafts that's a lot thanks for all the extra kool info I like learning what we can (if we don't forget) I seen when you went to get out of the elevator (going down) the other couple/lady had her hood up & it just struck me funny lol glad you had a great time I'd love to go out there so a big thanks for letting us tag along
Farting in a lift is wrong on so many levels!
That looks like a good tour, a bit far off my turf or I'd go
Been here
Is there a website which provides information about these tours?
www.goldminetours.com/
@@creekdalton Thank You
Now just over the mountain is a working gold mine, that I use to deliver to. Still a lot on gold in those there hills. Did you go in and play some one arm bandits?
Nah...we're not much on gambling, although we did eat a buffet at one of them. Never heard anybody yell that they won anything, the hour we were there, lol.
During operation, would it be really dusty?
I did the tour in 93, they said the price was to low to make it worth it so I assumed that it would be mining again. Every visitor was given a small piece of rock from the vain. That rock was solid white and looked like any garden rock you could get at Home Depot....I guess it was.
Check KGF mines from India
I am going on a school trip to gevour tin mine
Quite a bit more room than your last underground excursion! Hey, by the way, you didn't happen to see any fluorite in the sink hole did ya?😂
Unfortunately not, but we did each get a little complimentary chunk of it to take home, at the end of this tour. Maybe I can seed it in the cave, here at home, and it'll grow, lol?
+creekdalton I've tried that with beer cans in my field, after a good rain I expected to see a bunch of twelve packs out there but no luck😖. But give it a shot👍
@@smokeeater8387 LMAO
Did they have any dynamite for sale?
I want to know how to fix the rocks？on the top
WATCH OUT FOR THE LIZARD PEOPLE!
I am in kgf in kgf there is a big gold mine