The Lost Treasure Mine PT 1- Captivating Chambers, Amazing Artifacts and a Myriad of Miners' Art
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- As Indiana Jones would say, "It belongs in a museum," this holds true for this exceptional abandoned place! Underground, there are miles of workings that connect with many adjacent mines in the area, along with endless historical graffiti, the most elaborately timbered hoist room, ore cars, drills, windlasses, and even miner's garments. We get to explore four of the many levels in this mine, all of them extensive! This abandoned mine is truly an amazing place!
Joining us once again on this adventure is @Zia Mountain Adventures. Together, we take our underground abandoned mine exploring experiences to another level. We have hiked several miles underground, documenting this historic place, each one of us with a different perspective. I hope you enjoy our videos, and I encourage you to check out and subscribe to @Zia Mountain Adventures' channel as well!
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Very cool mine!
Very cool indeed
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it!
@@mineadventures7938 hey thank you for dropping by! I've been keeping up with your videos. You guys are getting into some deeper places!
I can't help rewatching this series, dude. I was a carpenter before I retired, and that place with the barrel vault is just cool!
I really appreciated it! I'm sure you can appreciate the wood work done in this place far better then I can with your expertise! I've never seen anything quite like this before.
I've seldom seen barrel vaults in person, and I've never built one in 45 years of carpentry. I most certainly have never seen one in any mine I've been in, or indeed any on TH-cam, and I've watched thousands of hours of mine exploring. Now, I'd like to think I've done some fine work in my day, and I fully expect many of the homes and churches and other buildings I've built and help finish will be around in a hundred years. But that's with maintenance and care by caring people. That masterpiece is in a closed, abandoned mine in our remote state, uncared for and unmaintained for how ever many decades and it looks like I going to stand for many, many more. The carpenters who built my 1911 house were amazing, I'm pretty good, but those miners who built that station were Jedi Master carpenters! Thanks for showing me/us this thing, dude!
Also, autocorrect is evil.
That one sure checked all the boxes. Some of those timbers were first growth monsters! Really epic mine. Thanks for sharing guys....
Thank you for watching! This place is truly a special one!
Wow! Lots of great stuff in this one! The drilling rig, the ore cart, the octagonal sled, the switches, the dynamite box fragments, the cribbing, the mucker, and the miners’ graffiti. I like how you panned slowly across all the miners’ graffiti. It’s almost like finding ancient petroglyphs out in the desert. The petroglyphs and miners’ graffiti were made by people who are long gone and who probably never thought their drawings would be seen by an international audience on something called the Internet. The way you slowly panned across the graffiti and added thoughtful, appropriate music for some of it was a great way to memorialize it. Don’t think I’ve ever seen double sets of ore cart tracks in one tunnel. That was pretty cool! Super video, Justin!
Hey, Frank! This place is truly a special one! The miner's graffiti here spans nearly 70 years, the earliest we saw was from 1898! You're right about the miner's not thinking about their marks being shown 100 years later. The double set of tracks reminded me of that flooded tunnel you and I explored a while back! My favorite chamber was that elaborately timbered hoist station and workshop. I've never seen anything like it. I've been more involved with adding soundtracks lately. Some scenes are better left without dialogue. Thanks for watching, Frank! It took me a while to get this one out because I've been extremely busy. I'll reach out to touch base! Thanks again, Frank!
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Were there double sets of ore cart tracks in that flooded tunnel you and I explored? I don’t remember them if there were. I’ll have to go back and watch the videos to see….
@Exploring Abandoned Mines and Unusual Places in sections, there were sidings. That's what reminded me of it. In essence, those double tracks were a larger version in this mine.
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Now that you mentioned it, yes, I do remember the sidings in that flooded tunnel.
I got the mucker fuzzies, thanks for a great video. Private mine, i am sure of that, with the portal in line of sight, that mine would be trash ola. So kudos for obtaining permission, otherwise we wouldnt get to see this one. There is one like this in Death Valley, muckers, cars, slushers ,an elevator, dry, no water, everything like new. However some mine explorers, i see you subscribe too, i told them about it and they vandalized it, not very nice. SO , don't share this mine with any mine explorers on TH-cam.
Thank you for the compliment! You'll be amazed how much of a deterrent a little water can be for would-be thieves or vandals. That adit is a long one- 1,800 feet! There are many mines out here that aren't vandalized, but they are harder to access due to remoteness. Much of them are stripped bare not from thieves, but assets being repurposed at other operations.
Some fellow mine explorers and myself have been comparing notes about the outfit you mentioned in your comment. I'd like to discuss what you experienced, and how you were contacted. Shoot me an email sometime (address is in the "About" section). They made their way into my region, and graffiti with their names and outfit ended up in an abandoned mine.
Bad ass!
Thank you guys for partnering up with me! That made the trip even more bad ass!
Awesome!
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Thank you! This place is the most amazing abandoned mine I've explored yet!
Awesome video! I love the part with all of the graffiti! I think finding a tangible connection to the old timers that worked these mines is awesome! All of those dates, not to mention the other artifacts--wow! That's quite a find! I always imagine some alien species examining that graffiti in a bleak and distant future, trying to unravel what creatures carved out these mines... Amazing discovery!
Thank you very much! This is one of those rare places that is simply amazing because it is a place that's frozen in time. You're right about the aliens, lol! An eerie thought: every person who made their mark inside that mine is probably not around anymore. It kind of puts into perspective how short life really is!
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND It looked as if all of the miners put everything down and walked away. We're on the same wavelength about that! These mines and the relics within are stark reminders of the fleeting nature of life. I feel as if 100 lifetimes are too short to discover all the mysteries that the mountains hide!
I couldn't agree more!
so cool
Thank you so much!
That’s amazing the craftsmanship! Bad ass thanks!!
Thank you very much! It's one of my favorite places to visit!
I wish I could have come along for this one; the upper levels don't hold a candle to this one. The hoist room/shop is really just a more ornate version of the one we found down the road.
Guaranteed that 12B would run just fine if air was hooked up. They're incredibly durable machines. That little core drill has my attention!
We'll compare schedules and plan a trip! I could visit here over and over again. That hoist room is really something! I was thinking about that 12 B, weather it would still function. That core drill is in great shape, there's more in there that may end up in the next video!
Really enjoyed watching.
Thank you very much!
Ive played with that very same ore cart. Very fun mine. The ladders were the best exercise lol
Nice! Keep it a secret, lol! There was minimal vandalism on the main level, and none on the upper levels. That ore car is in a harder-to-get to area that most wouldn't be willing to traverse. Those ladders are great, fun exercise, lol!
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND oh I am totally keeping it a secret lol
Hi Justin, wow there is so much to this mine, just looking on the map brings to mind something called a spaghetti junction lol.
I would like to wish You and your Family a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year, much love. xx 🎄❄🎁🎀
Thank you, very much, Sue! Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! This mine is something else, and there is much more to come! We explored several levels to this mine, and this is just the first one.
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Thank you, It's a doozy that's for sure, I cannot wait to see more of it. xx
That looks like fun
This place was fun and amazing! It never gets old visiting here! Thank you!
It looks like an air tugger, but the twin brake levers, twin wire ropes, and the fact it was being used to slush point to it being a very small slusher. Hard to tell without looking at the other end or removing the drum guard. EDIT: I watched a minute further, it's just a tiny slusher. Cute, yet useful.
I have a feeling there's a trammer in the car shop outside the portal, hand tramming that far wouldn't be ideal...
Lol! I thought of you right away when I saw that slusher! I remember you schooling me on the difference 200 feet below the surface a while back! Thanks for watching, Porty!
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Neat mine. Cool graffiti that seems to cross many years.
Thank you! That is the most historical graffiti in a single place I've ever seen! The earliest date we saw was 1898
Was this at once, a gold mine?....................JB............
It was a lead/zinc/silver mine. I tend to find those mines a lot more interesting than gold mines! The gold mines that I've experienced around these parts tend to follow a vein that's straight, with minimal crosscuts, curves, and intersections. Some of these silver mines out here can be maze-like!
Got to admit that is one of the best mine viewings I have seen, thumbs up for the terrific footage, what mineral do you think they were after?
I really appreciate your kind words! Thank you! This was a lead/zinc/silver with copper as well. Towards the end of the video, you get a glimpse of some really sparkly galena!
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Thank you!
Where do you obtain maps such as the one you showed? Furthermore, how do you train your brain to translate that into 3-D?
A lot of maps can be found in historic mining reports one can find online either through the USGS, university or state-sponsored sites. If you have a general sense of direction and comparison, you'll know exactly where you are on the map! Thanks for watching!