Pushing Into Unexplored Areas Of A Large Abandoned Mine Complex - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- This abandoned mine dates back to the 1800s and silver, lead, copper and zinc ore was pulled out of this complex of mines... Several large, abandoned mines connect underground at this site, but the others are totally inaccessible from the surface. The mine we entered from will likely not be accessible for much longer either. We knew that the lower levels of the mine that we entered from were unexplored. So, our goals were to push as deep as possible into this mine and also to see if we could gain access to the neighboring mines.
My friends that you see in this video (familiar faces to any regular viewers) had done some reconnaissance on a prior trip to make sure that the site was accessible and also to determine that, yes, it was possible to push into the lower, unexplored levels. It takes a lot of time to determine which levels are still open versus caved, the optimum way to navigate down through a crumbling mine, etc. So, projects like this are not something that one does in a day.
As you could probably see at the start of the video, this is fairly far from home for me and so I was fortunate enough to be able to piggyback on the efforts of my friends and swoop in for the trip where we pushed into the unexplored areas of this mine, which is always an awesome experience. To be clear, we got up to the edge of the unexplored areas in this video, but we get fully into them in the next video and they were definitely worth the long trip!
This mine complex could be put into “Lost Worlds Project” territory, no? However, to avoid confusion, I will keep the name of this series as is and reserve the use of the “Lost Worlds Project” title exclusively for that particular abandoned mine complex in Nevada that we have been working on for several years now.
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Thanks for watching!
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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.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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Glad the mine was as dry as your sense of humor...lol...thanks for sharing as always!
That's got to be one of the best intro's yet. Love it.
Lol
That intro. 😂
Thank you for your great content. 🙏
yeah that was hilarous!
From the surface, I never would have expected sych an interesting mine!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Cinematic gold, flawless transition, editing masterpiece, ❤awesome mine brother, thank you kind sir, much love from Australia 🎉
Leaving us with a cliff hanger. I'm already waiting to see what you all found in there
A nice big stope you started in wow, and a lot more further in and a bit off a mess all over, not strange with all those big stopes , a great explore indeed thanks Justin.
Very nice , with all the people around above on the ground level , I wouldn't of expected this just around the corner ! 😳😉😎
I'm most likely going to use the wrong term but this mine appears to me as an "Industrial Size Mine" for it's time. Can't wait to see part 2!
I think that was a fair description. This is only a small part of it...
Looks like a labyrinth in there and easy to get lost. Great explore as always, looking forward to part two!
The intro is noting short of pure marketing genius.
Wow ,so much material taken out in every direction including under the walkways. Freaked me out when the floor gave away.
You know you’re a TH-cam Pro when you can tee up an opening like that. All those stopes, reminds of the old song, Sixteen Tons, You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt, St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store…
The sarcasm runs deep with you, Justin! It's amazing that this complex maze of tunnels exists below the streets of Kabul unbeknownst to the passers-by.
Yes, it's not very well known...
America and Wales look so different above ground. Underground it looks identical haha, even the carbide graffiti. Love the videos pal
Yes, I've noticed that in the mines I've been to all over the world. As soon as I get underground, I understand exactly what they were doing because the techniques and equipment are so similar. The surface stuff is a wild card.
What a intro! What a Mine!
Complaining!? 😂 Just enjoy the show guys! Justin is bringing us along on his adventures!
I wish more people felt that way about the content that they consume for free...
@@TVRExploring Consider us the silent majority just taking it all in!
@@nikolaisikes6245 That is greatly appreciated. Some days I only hear from the negative people.
Looks like it could be a big mine, thanks for making this video
Some of the pockets and stopes look natural
Very awesome and interesting mine. I love all the artifacts. In Australia where I am all those artifacts would be taken and sold by artifact hunters.
Unfortunately, easily accessible American mines would likewise be completely stripped of artifacts.
@@TVRExploring oh wow. That's sad.
Fabulous explore and very clever intro ..awesome .. thanks for these great videos and history ..
From Australia
Loved the start!
Hi Justin, I loved seeing those old ore carts and that barrel was pretty nice too, I agree with you, they really did take a lot of material out of there. I don't know how you guys keep your nerve on those sections that fall through, was Jeremy okay as it looked like he fell quite a few feet at one point on the rope ???.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞
I like your jumping right into the video. No pre-yakking is good. But I also enjoyed today's intro. Keep up the great work.
great complaints department 😄
thank you for sharing your dips into the underworld
Certainly, we always try to be very responsive to complaints...
Touché on the opener 😂 Thanks for another fine explore!
Intro……
Too cool! Hahahahaha
Awesome place.
Your normal way of starting your videos outside at the area of your mine site is smart . Never disclose the location or give too much of an idea where your at because people will show up , destroy and steel relics , and do what they do .... trash everything. We that are viewers can watch and enjoy . We can go out and find mines to explore as well . But stick to the normal intro of scenery and mine sites and mines
Thankyou
Looks like downtown Reno to me...
nice, i like the opening vid...great footage of the ore, tools and you guys go all the way
Could you please posable a part 2 of this mine it's the best one yet....tank u
INTRO.😉 Nice job guys.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Was all that rock removed from the stopes? Or is some of that natural hollow space?
It was difficult to tell with some of it. I believe that most of it was removed by the miners.
Fantastic opening sir
Thank you for this amazing Video.
The Intro is absolut great 😂😂😂
The mine is very good and very dangerous .
A great thank you for taking the risks to bring the pictures to us.
The miners have done a big amount of work but in the end they got a bit crazy with all these levels and sublevels and this very thin space between the levels.😊😊
You did right not to Show the location of the mine.
I am looking forward to Part 2
Greeting from Germany the Harz mountains and the Rammelsberg Mine.
Glück Auf
Frank Galetzka
Hey Justin, WOW ! Where are we this week ? Spain or Mexico ? Incredible mine, Thanks for the video, I will be looking forward to seeing part 2
Spain or Mexico?! Did you not see the intro? He’s in the Middle East somewhere. There’s a bunch of women who are clearly Muslim and Arabic writing on the signs. Lol you are silly. :p
What would be neat to see, if you can find any to show, is the ore they were mining.
Thought I'd screwed up and clicked onto Bald & Bankrupt lol
Lol. Love the beginning. I was like wtf. Some Indiana Jones stuff right there.
Must have had the Wheatie's to Crawl Over all that debris!!!; )
Mine exploring is great exercise.
One of these days, the author of one of these fine calligraphic mine graffitos will still be with us, but I don't think I've spotted one yet.
Looks like Lewis van Leuven went off to war in the Airborne and lost both legs after D-Day. Darlene Atherley came pretty close to intersecting the video - she died in 2016.
Are there certain types of mines that have more miners graffiti? Some,like this one, seem to be bursting with them while others have nothing. Also did Jeremy get to just hang out there in that spot for hours after being the meat anchor so early on?
It comes down to the personalities of the miners that worked in that particular mine. The exception would be a particularly wet mine where the carbide graffiti would simply be erased... No, that first meat anchor was just to transition through.
This definitely could be classified as another “Lost World’s Project” type exploration, (Might I suggest: “The Unknown Microcosm Adventure” or “The Unidentified Sub-terrestrial Expedition”) just from how difficult it was to get a grasp of its layout (mostly due to damage overtime that made it confusing to try and discern what each area was originally) and sheer scale of the operation! At times, it seemed like the miners were chasing a very unruly vein with the way the drifts and passes seemed to double back around and under each other! (though that could be because it’s hard to create a mental map when watching through a screen) Makes me wonder just how intricately these systems of mines were connected!
Yes, there was a lot of bending and folding around with this one...
Loved the intro! Think you might have something unique to add to the videos 😅
😂 good intro!
The amount of material they took out oh my!
Quite a lot...
I prefer your traditional intros... Odd too, that a mine in the middle east would have English miners signatures. 😂
Thanks for the tour, waiting for part 2!
I fell for it too😄
Start your next video on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland that’s way more believable 😂😂😂
Ha, that's actually a great idea...
20 minutes in I figured it out. Lol, great troll!
That intro lmao😅😂
Fr bro that was unexpected.
Did he do that on purpose.
@@sierramountainsrailfanning2114 pretty sure, kinda a wise crack because nagging. He doesn't show much of the surrounding area before due to safety, vandalism, punks in general.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Boga217 kinda thought that because some of his other videos he says forest service doesn't appreciate it.
The battered bucket was used for carrying out the gold.
I like that sceanrio.
Typo... *Scenario.
13:00 Lewis Van Leuven, its a Belgium name.
A lot going on inside that mine. does not look like anyone has been in there in years.
Holy Cow, is this in Butte County too?
No, we explore mines all over the world... This one is more than a thousand miles from Butte County. I wish we had a mine this dry in Butte County!
Don't you guys have your own mine? Haven't seen anything about it in awhile.
I wouldnt show any of the outside around the mines you explore simply for safety reasons. That intro was funny though
Why does this look so familiar? 🤔
Does anybody know if they are anybody abandon mines with orecarts and tracks in Tennessee north Carolina and Virginia
What? You didn’t find the world’s oldest fez sitting on ancient pair of Levis?
We know why you don't show the surface. Thank you
I would love to have at least two old (riveted preferred) mine carts to use to haul dirt on my property. At the very minimum put solid rubber tires on it but keep it as original as possible!
Having a lot of that trackb would be awesome as well to make a train ride for my granddaughter on our families 20 acres.
I don't know if that was meant as a joke at the beginning or what but you look like you're in India or somewhere
just wondering. Have you ever gone into a mine and met someone there...or a bear or cougar? Love the channel. How is your mine doing>
I watch some cavers on YT that have!
A dead bear once... No living humans or large animals in an abandoned mine (yet).
what country is this?
I really hope some new viewers buy that intro.
It was my sincere hope as well and, judging by some of the comments, we got what we wanted...
@@TVRExploring You almost got me with the Florida one a few years ago. I said to myself Florida doesn't even have a hill let alone a mountain.
@@MikeOrkid Haha.
@@MikeOrkid I should start blending in some of my unpublished combat footage from when I was doing war reporting...
@@MikeOrkid The "Florida" one was actually the Rockies out in Colorado (Just between the two of us).
Strange here I thought you always did good job of laying everything out normally.
You either show the hike into the area, or the buildings and equipment around the site.
Wondering if they know to read the " more" to get better understanding from what you've learned through the research about everything you can find about everything possible including weight taken as far as minerals, depth, number of levels, when it was opened, and the last time it was actually worked according to records available.
But it is a mining channel that operates active mine, and tries to locate old long abandoned mines in the US, and several other countries around the world.
So one would expect to see inside the mine at the beginning or near the beginning of the video.
Yes Sir I know, but it's almost impossible to resist the need to make a point of all the efforts that you go through from start to the end of the video that just suddenly stops.
Leaving one kinda like, where'd he go, but they didn't mention that part.
Sure glad that you're the one editing all the video memory you have to go through including from the others with you that you have to edit into your videos.
Now can we begin after such along delay walking through the streets of some city in a country that 99.8% of us will never see with our own eyes in person to know whether this is real footage or something you edited into it to appease those nice viewers.😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂
Thank you...
0:05 lol 23 days late
Looks like he's in Iran.
😂😂😂
Lots of jokes about tunneling ethnicities to be told here.
Memelord
Pakistani market lol
Just out of curiosity, why don't you update the "graffiti" and correctly label the new way out. It might save someone's life someday.
"Leave only footprints"...
@jilbertb I understand not leaving trash and wrappers from where you stopped for lunch. And I understand not taking "artifacts" or raiding the area for scrap metal as he has suggested some have done in the past in other videos, but in this particular case, I would think it would be a contribution to future explorers if in this case, in such an elaborate mine where some less experienced people could get turned around and lost, what would the harm be in drawing a line through the "incorrect/original" label and draw a new arrow pointing the correct direction with a new 2024 date. That way, future explorers could see both the original miners graffiti and admire the original explorers work, while at the same time, have the correct exit direction marked. It might save someone in the future who gets down there, starts running low on batteries and panics and starts chasing their tale in circles. In the interest of safety, I would think that that exception to altering what you find would be OK.
I find the idea of trashing the historical aesthetics with modern spray paint to be appalling. Secondly, if someone has to worry about being lost in such an environment, they should not be in there in the first place.
23:16 that beer brand seems to be around still...
As your team starts out at 8:22, that is a huge chamber that was stopped out! Lots of crumbling as to all the stopeing thru out the adets. The way the miners ventured up/down/sideways tells me that the mineral veins were extensive. What a way to mine into a hill. This mine is sure different in many facets as to how the miners took the mineral out. (It was a quick study, but thanks for the documentation).
It's really nice of you to bring your friends along on your mine explorations in the far east!
I always like to have them feel included... I'm glad that you're able to see and appreciate my generosity as well.
Cool! 🇨🇦
Have you ever thought of doing an exploration with any of your subscribers? I would love to explore with you
Good company is always welcome.