Sprawling Abandoned Mine & Mormon Cricket Superfund Site
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Part of successful mine exploring - and, really, life in general - is knowing when to cut your losses… That first site we visited looked great from a distance and, undoubtedly, at one time it was an amazing abandoned mine. However, time, water and apparent reclamation efforts made that one a zero. The nauseating stench of the fermenting Mormon crickets is something that you really should have experienced, dear viewers. Oh, and the fun fact of the day is that Mormon crickets are not actually crickets.
Fortunately, striking out at the first site led to success at the next site… That was an interesting mining camp that had obviously been in existence for more than one generation of miners. We were initially discouraged because it seemed that the portals of the adits at this abandoned mine were caved as well. However, that proved not to be the case. The larger adit that we made our way into certainly made us wish that all of the others had been accessible as well because those workings were significant. There was an odd mix of industrial and precious metals mined at that second location ranging from cinnabar (mercury) and scheelite (tungsten) to gold and silver.
According to the records we located, most development work at the second location took place in the 1940s.
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You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: goo.gl/TEKq9L
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Several kind viewers have asked about donating to help cover some of the many expenses associated with exploring these abandoned mines. Inspired by their generosity, we set up a Patreon account. So, if anyone would care to chip in, we're under TVR Exploring on Patreon.
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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Thank you very much!
The next time I go on a diet I'll watch the first 3-ish minutes of this video every day. Thanks!
Glad we can help...
Mormon crickets are an interesting species. You can go years without seeing them then all of a sudden they crawl down out of the mountains and cover the valley floors. Have driven on sheets of crickets for miles and it is very slippery.
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
What a crazy variety of interesting tidbits and mine stuff!
Thanks for taking us along 🙏
Eeww the dead crickets! That looks like a fun exploration.
it is interesting how one gets to know those who share their content regularly 😌
thank you for pulling through!
Another reason that we appreciate longtime viewers such as yourself... We recognize you and it feels like a core group of friends and family.
Love these abandoned mine video
Out of all of the mining shows I watch. I will say you do a great job thank you
Thank you very much.
I wouldn't drink that water even if i were severely dehydrated, good video TVR Exploring.
Well they had a room with a view there, nice old buildings, too bad the ladders were a bit untrustworthy lol very nice explore again Justin and explore team.
I already can't wait for the next video because then I'll know you all lived.
That place is weird AF.
I've seen these mines and buildings from Gly and Tom and Julie but you did it better, keep up the great work. Be safe my friends.
Thank you very much! I'm glad that you think we did a better job of pulling that one off...
I thought I saw a dozer at the start of the video. Awesome find as always.
I remember Gly exploring this mine a while back. The chicken coup room looked familiar, but the smithing shop with the parts storage is what confirmed it. Such an impressive mine site!!
It's crazy to hear that the main portals are now caved at that second site. The entrance closest to the workshops was a bit of a squeeze when we visited two years ago, but the second entrance was quite large, which makes me wonder if something was deliberately done to close it. Good to see that the bats are still there in full force. We encountered close to a hundred of them in the stopes and drifts there.
We filmed this video about five years ago. The adits we visited on that trip (those you see in this video) were no longer accessible when we visited a couple of years ago. The adit next to the workshops was a bit rough to get into, but we did (we just haven't posted the video yet). However, I don't remember a second open adit in the immediate vicinity. So, it makes me wonder if we missed something or if someone opened up something new since we last visited?
Very cool interesting explore..
Loving these Utah mine videos because I know almost exactly where you are, right in my old stomping grounds. And yes, toxic as hell. The government has also spent considerable time collapsing and closing off adits all over that area. Sometimes locals open them back up, but not too common.
I'd love to know!
Thank you buddy
That bunkhouse was seriously amazing! I can't imagine someone humping all that carpet up there, though. Great video, as always!
I certainly wouldn't have wanted to haul that carpet in!
Those guts came from the granddaddy mormon cricket 😂
Certainly a video title I did not expect
Yummy, Morman Cricket and cow inners Gumbo...
Haitian food!😂
@@robertlyman9789 Perfect 🙂
Haha!
Gly Coolness did a vid of this exact location a couple of yrs ago and I say this is b/c of the bunk house. It’s interesting how the mine changed over a few yrs.
I recognized the place because of the big ore chutes with the skip between them. I don't even think it was a year ago since Gly explored it with Laura.
@@samuelgilbert9734 gly explored the area before he met Laura. He then came back to the area with Laura to see the "Thunder Ridge" mine.
Very cool explore. Thank you!
Awesome content! Thanks for taking us along
Wow, this video was great !!!
Thank you!
Very cool video. Lots to see and more you couldn't get too
@4:25 someone has put in some new work shoring up that porch. Very strange.
Yep...
Must not have heard the shot, someone harvested a deer and gutted it in the road
I was thinking that or a mountain lion made a snack of one of the calves.
@@TVRExploring I've just only seen "neat" gut piles like that due to hunters was my logic on it lol
@@garrettmillsap Yes, you're right. Good point...
Musta been a hell of a party down there with all the beer cans!😂
I appreciate your concern for your viewers but don’t worry so much about the wind and other things you have no control of, love your channel anyway
Could be breathing hard all the time like poor Gly!
Love your videos!! This place is awesome!!
Thank you. Yes, that would have been really impressive to see when everything was up and running.
@@TVRExploring to go back in time and see everything in action!! The hard working miners making sacrifices to work in these difficult conditions! It would really be amazing! Thanks for you guys for bringing us the remnants so we can imagine what it would have been like!
Looked like an extensive site over differing periods. Must be/have been a lot of stuff worth digging up there. Creepy fast caterpillar too
Great explore!
Hi Justin, WOW, what an episode, everything from morman crickets to speedy catapillers. What was the mine ? I don't think you're in California anymore. Thanks for the video and interesting mine.
My fav 😍 lets go 🧐
That second level had some really cool infrastructure, rare to see oreshoots that well preserved (or they just built them to last). Wonder what kind of mines these were?
Mormon crickets are nasty, seen a plague of them out in Winnemucca. They are cannibalistic, so the dead ones attract more, sort of an orgy of death.
I talk a bit about the mines in the description below the video. It was a weird mix of mercury, tungsten, etc.
People will pay a lot of money for that old classic truck nice job guys
Looks similar to tomato worms, which I believe make gypsy moths/ hummingbird moths.
I'll have to look those up...
White lined sphinx caterpillar turns into Hummingbird Moth and likely an old 1 1/2 ton WII Army Chevrolet dump truck.
Thank you. I looked them up and, yes, the caterpillars looked like those in the pictures for the hummingbird moths. I was unfamiliar with hummingbird moths. So, I appreciate you putting me onto something new to learn about...
Amazing wind in that long adit. Air in means air out and probably multiple levels. I wish you had said more about how that air was moving.
Bet the first mine had all the adits bulldozed, seeing as that's essentially the only piece of equipment left.
Yes, it did look like that one was in the middle of a reclamation effort.
Alright, so I dropped into the stope above these buildings, but it was completely... different.... =)
Ah, well, you know that the simulation is always pulling shenanigans on us. I expect it rewrote the code on the underground workings there and that's why it looked different for you. Maybe the simulation didn't expect anyone else to get in and so deleted the workings from our visit to free up processing power or memory and then had to scramble to come up with something for your visit?
@@TVRExploring The simulation is chaos underneath it all anyway! The road still garbage past the metal hangar?
One of the tell tales for arsenic in water is the absence of any algae, plant or insect life. I noted that water has algae, but it could be from all the decomposing crickets and it overcame the arsenic if it is present.
I guess you know that they are Mormon crickets by their name badges?
And the bicycles and white shirts!
I had to deal with a thousand-gallon secondary tank containment full of assorted fermenting bugs while rehabbing a surface plant a couple years ago. It wasn't pleasant; I can't even imagine what that disaster you found smelled like.
Ah, the joys of mining!
You don’t want to know where the guts came from!
I have seen the mother F...
Can’t say what they are Thousand pounds of teeth and claws runs with a side gape.
Don’t care if you don’t believe me that’s what I’ve seen.
I spent a lot of time out there detecting for nuggets for over the last 40 year in the middle of nowhere.
It was by complete accident it was thundering and lightning and raining and the wind was blowing like crazy I was parked down the bottom of this cat push I didn’t wanna get stuck come racing out And I’ll be damned thing was standing right there It was just as surprised as I was .
Looks like a White-lined Sphinx Moth, aka Hummingbird Moth. They're quite large.-
Thank you. I wasn't familiar with those and it was interesting to learn about them...
I was trying to eat my dinner when you showed that pile of guts. Mental note: don't try eating while watching TVR exploring
Not 100% sure, but that red n’ yellow mineralization appears somewhat to me like limonite/iron, but I’m not _super_ confident in that assessment… also, looking at secondary mineralization through a secondary visual medium is hardly what I’d call the best for scientific geology evaluation, but still that’s my best guess
Bro just stumblin over an Umbrealla corp dump site in the beginin.
It definitely had that vibe...
4K is highly recommended!!
@TVRExploring - Your adventures are awesome and look fun. What legal issues, if any do you face due to your explorations? The property must belong to someone...
You own it. This is public land...
Ick. The Plague Mine
I wonder what those caterpillars turn into ?
I'd love to know!
Thanks for the forecast! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (behave today finger ski upon boy assault summer exhaust beauty stereo over). How can I transfer them to Binance?
Yikes! Wouldn't want to drink anything there. Yech!
Absolutely not.
Damn, that’s like Mormon cricket Jonestown….
“Don’t drink the groundwater, bill!”
…too dark, perhaps? Meh, I calls it like I see’s it…
Is that truck a '47 Dodge power wagon?
I love your channel man, I also explore mines in Montana. I have lots of really cool mines I could share with you if you’d want to trade for locations in Montana.
Most of my mines are in California and Nevada. That's a long way for you to travel, no?
@@TVRExploring yeah it is I just noticed you had a video of a mine near butte. I was just in butte today and saw some insane concrete tunnels and shafts
When you see big motors you should tell us the horsepower off of the nameplate
That second mine is old.
Yes, it definitely is.
We all know who number 1 is today
Somebody wanted to discourage you with the gut pile.
cant believe that motor at 42:26 hasn't been stripped for copper by the junkies yet.
if you pause it at 1:02 you can almost see the portal in wet dirt. i assume the addit is completely flooded and is just pushing out though that groundfall, and its leaving a stain in it's shape
Yes, I think that is exactly the situation.
39:00 white substance is probably cocaine ... or lime. More probably lime than cocaine.
the Thumbnail for this video looks like two nostrils with a train track running up them ...very strange...I'll be watching in the morning but I just had to mention it lol
I'll never be able to see that picture any other way now...
@@TVRExploring I have a feeling that is large part of why I cant resist pointing things like this out ..lol
This explore covered a lot of really cool stuff! I imagine one could spend much time if time wasn't an an issue. Thanks Justin and Crew!
Oh, absolutely, imagine if something like this was in your backyard when you were a kid? You'd have the time and energy to know every inch of the site and uncover all of its secrets.
Awesome mine and location. I would love to explore this mine. The old truck looks like it was a old Army truck before being a miners truck. Can see the green paint.