Mike, there is an old abandoned lead-silver mine in middletown ct. It is located between the Ct river and Silver St. in middletown. One of the mines looks like it's backed filled. The other is completely filled with water up to the main entrance. It would be cool if you could do a video on that mine with ROV footage of what it looks like. It has been worked on and off in its history until it completely flooded back in the early 1800's.
Great stuff! I really appreciate your work, and I thank you for your efforts. I'm especially interested in this site; not only the mineralogy of it, but the history and lore that's attached to it. I can't tell you how excited I was when I got the notification for this video and saw the title of it. I have to say, though, that I was a little disappointed that you didn't try sending the ROV down one of the shafts. I'm desperately curious as to whether or not there are any underground workings in the Clough Quartzite. I have a hunch that the miners may have been secretly mining the high-grade gold lodes that run parallel to the nearby cobalt-nickel lodes without telling their investors, the public, or neither. If the ROV is able to collect location telemetry data, it might be able to ascertain how much ore was taken from the Clough Quartzite formation and how much was taken from the Collins Hill formation (the edge of which contains the cobalt-nickel lodes) by comparing it with geological map data. They may have had a nice little rackett going; getting investors to pay for a mine, expecting the cobalt/nickel ore from it, but completely naive to the gold ore that was being extracted and processed on their dime. Or maybe the investors were in on it, too. I just find it hard to believe that so much work was done in that small area by so many miners for so many years, and nobody besides maybe John Wintrop the Younger knew that there was gold right there until the 1980s when the gold was "discovered".
Also there are in the mine I'm referring to that it runs deep and has a few tunnels from the main shaft. Again it would be cool if you could R.O.V. that mine.
A good video i say ole chap...i was wondering if you can put a date to the mineral being mined at a particular location without any other information provided.? I still feel the philips mine is the biggest in the area of the hudson.
Mike, there is an old abandoned lead-silver mine in middletown ct. It is located between the Ct river and Silver St. in middletown. One of the mines looks like it's backed filled. The other is completely filled with water up to the main entrance. It would be cool if you could do a video on that mine with ROV footage of what it looks like. It has been worked on and off in its history until it completely flooded back in the early 1800's.
Very cool thank you
Too bad that much of this complex (not shown here) is isolated by private ownership. That ROV guy is quite a good pilot!
Great stuff! I really appreciate your work, and I thank you for your efforts. I'm especially interested in this site; not only the mineralogy of it, but the history and lore that's attached to it. I can't tell you how excited I was when I got the notification for this video and saw the title of it. I have to say, though, that I was a little disappointed that you didn't try sending the ROV down one of the shafts. I'm desperately curious as to whether or not there are any underground workings in the Clough Quartzite. I have a hunch that the miners may have been secretly mining the high-grade gold lodes that run parallel to the nearby cobalt-nickel lodes without telling their investors, the public, or neither. If the ROV is able to collect location telemetry data, it might be able to ascertain how much ore was taken from the Clough Quartzite formation and how much was taken from the Collins Hill formation (the edge of which contains the cobalt-nickel lodes) by comparing it with geological map data. They may have had a nice little rackett going; getting investors to pay for a mine, expecting the cobalt/nickel ore from it, but completely naive to the gold ore that was being extracted and processed on their dime. Or maybe the investors were in on it, too. I just find it hard to believe that so much work was done in that small area by so many miners for so many years, and nobody besides maybe John Wintrop the Younger knew that there was gold right there until the 1980s when the gold was "discovered".
I enjoyed reading, and agree with your take on this mine.
Also there are in the mine I'm referring to that it runs deep and has a few tunnels from the main shaft. Again it would be cool if you could R.O.V. that mine.
A good video i say ole chap...i was wondering if you can put a date to the mineral being mined at a particular location without any other information provided.? I still feel the philips mine is the biggest in the area of the hudson.
I was just there yesterday.
Panned gold from mine brook
There is another down stream from that one that is on the opposite side of the stream
Fascinating story. Why did you spoil it with the foreign gibberish metriq #’s?
Not appreciated !
We are NOT Europe!!!