Lucky Strike Uranium Mine...Looks Like Someone Broke In
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2022
- I continue my trip around the San Rafael Swell exploring radioactive areas on the trail on my way out to the Lucky Strike Uranium mine. This whole area has an interesting history with uranium mining and there are lots of remnants of mining activity in this area.
Some of these old uranium mines I visit I pick up an ore sample or two. They can be found here uraniumstore.com
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Pretty sure it is a 1939 Chevy Master Deluxe..
Scott for the win. Thanks for the info man.
A 'Fixer-Upper' but can't hardly be beat for the price!
With the front half of the frame missing I think that the engine, transmission, and frame were converted to a stationary power plant.
Holy smokes, the production value of your videos is absolutely phenomenal Drew! Absolutely loving your latest videos 🙂☢️
I do not know how you don't have more subscribers! Your video's are so interesting. Can't stop watching them.
Being a moab regular and having seen some of these myself, super interesting stuff.
Utah has a very interesting and dark uranium history.
Drew: Hi from Alberta Canada, really interesting stuff and amazing scenery in Utah. I visit Arizona every fall you have convinced me to start trying Utah for something different. Its amazing to see these mines compared to active production uranium mines we have in northern Saskatchewan, absolutely no tours there I've tried.
Anything Uranium/radioactive catches my interest so keep it up please, thanks.
Thanks. Glad you enjoy the content.
Im from Germany and I like your work! :) Go forward with it!!
Thanks…glad you found the channel. I’ve spent some time in southern Germany and Austria. Would like to go back one day.
Great video as always ‼️thanks for sharing ✌🏽👍
crazy how yesterday you had 11k subs and today you have 13,3k...your channel is coming to life...keep up the good work and the algorithm will provide
Compliments on your drone work. Looks like they are getting some lead mixed in with the uranium - Ha! Just bought some uranium stock, it's up!
Being British, you can't really go anywhere in the country where you won't encounter someone every few minutes at the least. There are SOME places you can go but, you'd have to look hard and long and they'd have to be pretty much inaccesible to anyone. And even then, you probably will encounter someone. I went to the Grand Canyone a few years back, alone, and I LOVED the fact that there was just so much space (and beauty) and solitude (no the drive to the GC, it's pretty well travelled) but you can head out a way and see that beauty and solitude.
Beautiful country.
Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado have some amazing places to visit. Also the Eastern Sierras is a great place to explore.
The pits may be for concentration of high grade ore. Uranium's pretty heavy stuff, even compared to lead and gold. Given the way it also got concentrated in organic detritus due to redox potentials, it is likely the most productive miners either got lucky on a large organic deposit, or covered a lot of miles hiking and cleaned up any good small deposits they found along the way.
Keep up the good work man. Your channel's growing.
Great camera work and commentary, you got my subscription
love how your videos are shot, really nice editing too
Great video, really enjoying all the content you’ve put out
Thanks.
Great videos!
I love these exploring adventures.
the amount of effort, editing and information among with good cinematography is like a youtuber with millions of subscribers👍The algorithm is beyond fucked, but youre waiting to blow up
Thanks for the kind words. I’m really glad people like watching these videos.
couldn't agree more, just found out this guy through another video, and I must say the content is A+++++++++++++ he should deserve double the subscribers of what Mr Beast and alike have
Wow, thanks.
@@RadioactiveDrew I’m gonna boost your channel on my Tiktok! Hopefully that’ll direct some new viewers to your amazing content 😊.
The time may have come.
Loving every minute of your videos Drew. I love that area and years ago talked with some left behind miners. One pointed out that the area has a full range of quality. So some of the Adits are all they took. Because it was the best of the best fastest to refine. With lower grades taking longer heavier processing. Toss in a boom bust cycle or more and they sealed up mines they may come back to. Oh! Each car is a payday gone wrong. Thanks
I just discovered your channel and I'm a massive nerd for this stuff, love your videos :)
Glad you found the channel.
Great videos to watch, you really capture the awesome scenery so well
Thanks.
So the holes...i know in florida on sugar cane farms they use the same setup. Id assume it works equally well on rocks. You run a beam across midway, a stone wheel that takes up half the diameter so the wheel turns inside the hole. Then strap a donkey or mule to the end. They throw sugar cane or whatever needs crushing inside.
I would guess its a variation on the same basic tool, however basic is still used on many a farm today.
Love the hard work that goes into these videos.
Thanks!
Wow, that's awesome. You are the first person to do this and I really appreciate it. This will go into the gas money fund for the next trip out. Again, thanks Greg.
@@RadioactiveDrew Glad I could buy a gallon of gas for your truck, LOL. Hey, do you list your equipment (cameras, drone, etc.) somewhere? Just interested in what you are using.
Not yet but I think I need to start. Since you asked...I use a Sony A7S3 with a 16-35mm 2.8 G Master, 50mm 1.2 G Master and a 24-105mm Sony lens. The drone I use is a DJI Air 2S and I use a GoPro Hero 8 for some of the truck mount shots.
@@RadioactiveDrew Nice camera! I have an Air 2S as well, and love the quality of video.
They might be test dig sites from the 40s and 50s in search of their bomb juice
i love your videos
Thanks. Glad you found the channel. I have a bunch more in the works just from this trip.
Love the content dude keep it up
Thanks.
Go into the mine!!!!! I would love that content (With a tyvek suit and a respirator of course)
Just by happenstance, I stumbled upon your channel. I'm thoroughly impressed with your articulation of the spoken language, the editing in music you choose to use with your videos, and love the subject of radioactivity and anything atomic in nature. I for one cannot understand why you do not have 10 times as subscribers you do because you're doing an amazing job! You have just earned another subscriber and I look forward to future videos from you!
Awesome, glad to have you here.
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@@FUCK_________googIe thank you ole glorious one. What would the world ever do without you?
@@bradboardwell8295 you changed the spelling didn't you?
You will find structures like the cylindrical structure here at some gold mine sites and at those they can be for water for the mine or added chemicals to the gold ore from the rock. Cyanide Leaching When processors soak the slurry in an aqueous cyanide solution, the gold and silver in the ore form a metal-cyanide complex. ...
Mercury Amalgamation Gold and mercury quickly form an alloy, so people have used mercury amalgamation for centuries to extract gold from ore. As far as the car it's an old car lol.
That car's 'type' is: Old.
Best location to date drew that area looks like something from 1 million years bc....thanks drew
Glad you enjoyed it. That location was pretty amazing.
@@RadioactiveDrew it was Brilliant drew that location looked great my friend yeah I enjoyed it alright drew...thanks so much for your time
I'm coo coo for looking around in the desert, and looking for radiation stuff, that's real cool, Thanks for the content. 👍🤠
The siding on the miners shack looked straight out of the late 70s early 80s, we used same type on our garage.
Great video, you find luck in this place.) As I can see, you shift your mind from radioactivity itself to the beauty of such places, things, and their history.
A lot of these places are surrounded by beauty. So it makes that switch easy.
@@RadioactiveDrew, you're right. And some sort of charm too. A powerful beauty with a spirit of mistery.
I was just lucky enough to live uranium mining at six years old...I'm 77 now and healthy as an ox...I guess being around uranium mines didn't hurt me..
In 1962 my dad gave away his share of what became the Libson Valley Rio Algum mine.
Visited the site right after it was closed..shop, headframe offices and refinery not yet abandoned..250 people lost their jobs when the mine and refinery closed..info from one of three employees left to watch dewatering pumps and do paperwork for the EPA
I know where the last vestive pf the mine resides..put can't tell you..😅
I was six years old when my dad was mining..LOL
I had a water well drilling company in Sonoma County for 47 years...sold it in 2017 to a friendly competitor....company is 101 years old at this time...been there done that!!! LOL
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The Bureau of Land management shouldn't exist anyway Drew. This is Utah's property not the Federal Government regardless of what the bureaucrats think. Great vid, very interesting.
Thanks and I totally agree. Should really call them the fun police.
Great videos. Going near or in those mines, you might want a dust mask. If the mud or rock is that radioactive and friable and it's windy, you don't want to breathe that stuff in.
Agreed, breathing even alpha emitters like radium is no bueno. 100 times worse than just standing next to it because it is in intimate contact with lung tissue. And being heavy, it isn't easily eliminated in mucus.
As someone who works underground for a living I wouldn't be inclined one bit to crawl in that mine lol. Garunteed something out of a horror movie lives in there
Yep, that‘s a shaft. The tower with the cable wheels and the house where the cable drum, break and motor plus operator would be located are missing.
Curious what modifications you have on the truck. Ill check and see if you have a video on it. Love my Tacoma and seems you loves yours also. Great videos! Loving them all!
Yeah I haven't done a part in one of my videos about my truck. Maybe next time I'm out at a location I'll go over what I have on it.
Kinda "disappointed" because there's no jumpscare when you take a peek inside that cave lmao 😂. Anyways, great vlog, so relaxing.
interesting fact - all the lead in the bullets that riddled those cars .... was once uranium.
Car at 7:30 looks to be a 1965-66 Rambler Classic Coupe.
Hey just subbed to your channel pretty cool. Is it dangerous to be out there with that counter going off like that? I know nothing about radiation but I'd be scared to camp out there I think.
Central and eastern oregon have a lot of uranium and cinnabar mines and history. Lots of open mines as well.
Hey Drew, where did you get an ankle strap for your Radiacode? Great video, it was fun to watch!
Yeah it came with mine. I ordered it from the site…not eBay FYI.
@@RadioactiveDrew ok thanks, I’ll see if I can find it.
Mr. Drew: The vistas you capture are drop dead gorgeous. The night shots have really intrigued me, especially the real-time shots of setting up camp. Mind saying what your camera rig is - body & lens? Any other insight would be greatly appreciated. Cheers from Tucson!
That shot of me setting up the tent was shot with the 16-35mm 2.8 G Master lens and the other night shots were with the 50mm 1.5 G Master. The camera body was the Sony A7S3.
@@RadioactiveDrew Thanks for the prompt reply. The vistas and aerial shots from the series in this area are awesome. I guess it’s time to load the war wagon up for a field trip to the north this spring.
are there some other tourists around the mine site? great movie !
I didn’t see anyone else out at the mine that day.
Your production quality is amazing for being a small one man operation. I do wish you had some more educational information in your videos about radiation so the average viewer could easily understand levels of radiation and what they would compare to in laymen's terms. Your channel will explode one day and its cool to be around for the beginning. Keep up the good work!
Thanks. I usually try and explain radiation levels and what they mean in relation to background radiation. Sometimes I forget and get caught up in exploring.
Imagine all the extra walking, having to record you leaving, then get the camera, then get ahead to film you coming, it's got to be much more walking! Lol
It is a bit more walking. There’s a lot people don’t see.
The Geiger counter said *AWOLnation playing in background*......RUN!
I think that formation you said was sandstone was really a petrified jaw from one of the bug planet soldier bugs...😊 Great content, thank you!
Glad you enjoy it.
Second car looks like a 35 Plymouth 4 door. Bad Chad is chopping one up on his channel.
This’ll be where they get their “Mars” footage!
What is it about abandon buildings that if there is sheet rock on the wall people have to punch holes in it?
Like moths to a.flame
Come do fermi lab and Zion power plant
Might try and make it out that way next summer.
@@RadioactiveDrew Zion scared the crap outa me as a teenager. I have wanted to see the inside of the deconstruction before it's all gone. I believe it's slated for full completion in 2024. The police patrol the area heavily still... It's right on lake Michigan next to a state park so I'm sure it could be approached or toured and definitely metered. Fermi is a great spot too especially if you get a tour more than the visitors center. You can camp there too. Or save 30 bucks I'm 20 min from Zion.
I think this spot is cool, but there's a lot of shots of you walking! Get a go pro, ALWAYS bring a flashlight! Be prepped to do what you do, you do it well! I was really disappointed in how little of the mines we're actually explored or shown. Plus there was almost no story to the video. Maybe it's just cause I missed the first one, but shots and time are key to getting views. The drone shots were amazing! Hope to keep seeing you improve.
There is a problem with your videos !
They are soooo interesting, i forgott to like the most of them !
THX !
Glad you like them so much.
@@RadioactiveDrew : Oh yes !
I see the world with your eyes.
Respect.
(My Uranium sample puts out the exact same counts as yours. lol)
Strange thing about most these cars, the bullet holes seem to all be made at one time and one caliber?
From the sound of it, you wouldn’t want to go in alone or without protection. 😯
Probably the air inside that mine will be with a nasty concentration of radon gas. It would be interesting to test the air for that.
The level of radon in uranium mines varies quite a bit. So I’m sure there is radon in there. Being exposed to radon isn’t as big a deal as it’s sold to the public. Short exposure in these mines would have very little effect on someone. Even in a place with a super high concentration of radon. If you worked in these mines and there wasn’t any ventilation then I would be concerned.
@@RadioactiveDrew Of course you don't need to worry too much about a short exposure. I wouldn't go camping in such a mine where the air is not moving however.
Yeah, I wouldn’t suggest camping in a mine. Near a mine is fine.
I've spent a lot of time in the Utah desert. I wonder how many times I've unknowingly come across radioactive material 🥴
Looks like you need to head back there with someone for some underground exploration.
Perhaps the canyon you came across are collapsed upper levels?
Its possible...
Whenever you see cars like at 2:30 its always crazy to think that at one point in time, they rolled off a factory floor in the best shape they’d ever be in. Now there just fossilizing and getting shot at😂
Your counter was setting the frogs into response mode in NT, Oz - could that be a first? ; )
Is it normal is the US for every abandoned car to have bullet holes in it? Btw, have you found Jimmy Hoffa by any chance?
Love the shirt that you're wearing. Where can I get one?????
You should be able to get them at uraniumstore.com
@@RadioactiveDrew Thank you so much.
Another good exploration video, like seeing the historical structures/vehicles. So, what's your typical meal fare while out exploring?
I try and keep the meal’s simple when it’s just me. Usually some cereal in the morning and sandwiches for lunch and dinner. Sometimes I eat those Mountain House meals and those are pretty good.
You think they used the cars as identifiers for locations of dig sites?
Could be...that would be an interesting use for them.
I think they scavenge the engines for stationary power plants.
Lots of those cars look like were taken away by flash floods and ended up there.
I’m a nobody.. but I know enough to know that you’re putting your all into your content and it SHOWS. This shit is so hard to make. You make it seem effortless. I’m obsessed with you and your content. I’m begging you to KEEP IT UP. You’re the next huge channel.
Really wish you went in there😭
Next time.
@Radioactive Drew that is most likely a tailing pile from the mine
Was that a Carnotite vein exposed on the cliff face to the right of the first adit around 13:45?
No...there are some minerals that look like carnotite but aren't. Usually carnotite has a very bright canary yellow to it.
Can you check a slot machine shop for radioactive machines? I bought a couple in the past and the smoke odor was so horrendous that I threw one away and sold the other for ultra cheap. I feared radioactivity from all the years of smokers on the casino floor.
Those slot machines wouldn’t be radioactive from people smoking near them. I know there have been some videos out there that try and make it seem like smoking is this huge radiation exposure…but it isn’t. I’m sure there are traces of lead-210 in cigarettes, which is radioactive. But there is also traces of potassium-40 in bananas, which is also radioactive. But I’ve never heard of anyone claiming that a blender at a smoothie shop is radioactive from too many bananas.
@@RadioactiveDrew, just a small addition. We are radioactive ourselves with potassium-40. About 4 kBq. Polonium-210 and lead-210 give us harm not only by radiation concentrated in certain place of our body but also as a heavy metal poison.
Yeah the lead can be problematic for humans for sure. But the amount of lead and polonium from radon decay is extremely small. It’s only because it’s so active that we can detect it pretty easily using a Geiger counter.
I would expect anything would be concentrated in the ash, not the smoke anyway.. just my 2¢.
The broken into one, it only goes back 100 ft. Max... Not worth the trip to just see it...
Can you explain how people were able to mine radioactive ore? Was the hazard known then?
The ore is radioactive but it isn’t that radioactive.
It's a Packard not sure of year .... likely late 30's
You and ghost town living should do a collaboration video. I think it would be fun idea.
@Radioactive Drew
Nice work Drew. How many miles were you on that road?
Nothing crazy…around 25 miles. It was slow going in some parts because I was down in a river bed without a clear trail.
There is a difference between ore and tailings and waste rock
7:45 ... you mean actions done on someone?? ( thats a lot bullets ) 😳
Here’s a question: how radioactive is your camera and mic after recording all your videos? Have you ever seen radiation dots on your footage from gamma rays hitting the sensor?
It depends on where I take my camera. Some mines have a very high concentration of radon and that will contaminate me and my camera. I have seen some specks from radiation but only if I use a radioactive less on a camera and set the ISO high enough to see it.
@@RadioactiveDrew interesting. I appreciate the good sound quality because it is really hard to get nice, isolated voice with wind, Geiger counter blips, and ventilation noises. Maybe the Midwest is really more quiet
So I bet if go out to the desert where I live chances are I could near some radiation.
Maybe it's Bonnie and Clyde's car?
Explore Hey Joe Canyon!
Plenty to explore in that area. I want to go back.
Taco Trucks are the best. I have one.
Drew…..can you please start wearing a mask when you’re going near those dust filled mines..you freak me out mate
Thanks for the concern but its not as dusty as it seems...or at least not radioactive dust.
Would you report that broken wall to someone to make it safe again?
Damn, I hope it's not bricked up again! If this were a truly free country, the state would post a sign near the mine entrance reading something like "If you enter this mine, you could be seriously injured or die!" and "If you go past this sign and require rescue, you will be charged for the full cost of that rescue."
Then the adventurous could go adventuring without Big Brother interference.
I wish it was like that.
who else saw papa jupiter hiding behind the rocks?