It does look like bear scat. There aren't many bears in Nevada and this is on the very southern end of their range. They will also take deer and other young animals like this sheep. I should have tried harder to identify the scat while we was there. Thanks for your input, Jeff!
Hello Tom Hello Julie The flowertour and a poop mine with creepy remains . Your Tour was full of interresting features . Thank you for taking me with you in this great area . Take care have a great weekend Yours Frank Galetzka
Hello Frank. I guess I could have changed the title of the video to the "Creepy Poop and Flower Tour" Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you have a great weekend!
Oh you can be sure we were happy to not corner a lion in a narrow drift. One of these days it will probably happen. I thought those were cool crystals, too. Thanks for commenting, Mick!👍
Once again you two amaze of the places and things you find. Who would have thought a Poop that big was a big Mountain Lion. He must have ate a lot and pooped a bunch! It didn't look like that kill was that old but who knows? Thanks for hiking around finding some crystals and other interesting things. You two do get around out in the desert. It always amazes me how they get some of their equipment up very steep mountains. How did they do that? Thanks again for the great adventure. Stay safe out there!!👌👌🤞🤞😉😉
Some have commented that it might be bear poop in the mine because of the way it looks and it's size. This is not in an area where there are a lot of bears, but who knows, maybe it is. I'm not sure how okd the kill was but there was no smell so it must have been there for a while. I'm guessing that trucks using that road needed assistance getting up and down from either a winch or a dozer towing them. Thanks for the comment, Duane! 👍👍
The canister an old tall boraxo powder tin . I have original mint full smaller ones 1940-50s! Great video , interesting mine. Lots of building remnants. Love these mines a lot to explore! Thanks 😊
Thanks for that information, Ron. I was thinking it was something like that but had no idea of what brand. It's another fun little area to explore. Thanks for commenting! 👍
Hi Tom & Julie, some interesting finds this week, I agree that area could of been a forge but there was nothing left in the drifts such as drill steels but maybe they could have been sharpening or reshaping their tools such as picks ??. It was nice seeing the flowers that survive up there, the Indian paint brush flowers had such a vibrant colour compared to everything else around them, very pretty. Thank you both for all of the hard work you put in to find us these amazing places, much love to you both and Pickles. xx ❤
I was a bit puzzled by that shop area and possible forge when I didn’t see and fabricated steelers around. The one biggest working up there was eroded shut so maybe whatever is in there would make sense out of the shop and forge. The desert flowers are always fun to see. They have some ofthe most beautiful blooms. Thanks for the nice comment, Sue. We appreciate it. P.S. I think Pickles might be hooked on the Dreamies you sent.
the upper adit, Julie looked nervous, she has a sixth sense for sure. creepy was what i thought as well, then you said it, made me laugh. fun times for sure
As you know you always have to be alert for animals when you enter a mine. This one definitely had a vibe that we could sense. I have no idea how that works, but we both felt it. Glad you got a chuckke out of it. Thanks, Ken!
Thank you Tom and Julie. That was a nice little explore. The paint can looked like a military can. love the flowers. The lizard was cool nice Blue underbelly. It always amazes me how they got stuff up the mountains out there. take care be safe have a great weekend. ⛏⛏👍🍻🍺🍺🍺
You're welcome, David. Not the biggest mine ever, but you never know until you get there to see for yourself. I agree that the paint seemed to be military issue, probably bought from a surplus dealer. I liked that lizard, too, and the desert blooms are always great. They must have winches or towed the trucks up and down that road. Thanks for the comment and beer!👍👍🍺🍺🍻
Man, that last Bigfoot lair sure did get my imagination going..👀 bowels, forked horn, human size shits, unknown white gojo looking substances in Mason jars..maybe this oddity used the corrugated metal to file it's hoof nails? Nightfall might uncover the unnatural mystique of this. Stunning explore, guys 💯
We could actually sense some strange sensation as we entered that drift with the dead animal. There was no smell so it wasn't that. After reading your comment there's no way you would catch me up there at night. I don't want to see Bigfoot with his hoof nails sharpened. Lol. Thanks for the comment (I think?) Don! 👍😂😯
@@TomandJulieMineExploring yeah I wouldn't dare set up camp and roast some marshmallows either anytime past 6pm up in that gully..too many questionable variables and miscellaneous breadcrumbs laying around there. Maybe it's best that the other addits were sealed in with dirt and wood tbh I grew up on Papago land and I miss the stories my grandfather used to tell me about working at the Ajo copper mine, which is now a toxic pond. Thx for the solid mine footage that u both share with us. Nothing but best wishes and prayers. 👍
That was a very steep road Tom. Those minerals at the end of the video were fascinating. Interesting remains in the last mine. to be that far back is odd. Most goats and the like won't venture in that deep. Just guessing on my part. Thanks for the tour. Stay safe you 2.⛏⛏🖤
That road was likely a cable road where the trucks were helped up and down the slope. I sure that was a kill by a mountain lion and hauled into the mine for eating. Thanks for watching and commenting, Jake. We appreciate it!
I love this explore! You showed 2 types of mining and answered many questions. All this at an altitude I would most likely need oxygen. I have seen those wire hose clamps. The ones I have seen were factory made and required a special tool to tighten them on the hose and bend the ends over. Thanks for bringing us along Tom and Julie!
You are probably correct about the wire clamp. It looked too perfect to be hand made and the special tool to tighten and crimp the ends makes sense. Thanks for watching and for your input, William! 👍👍
Enjoyed the artifacts, pretty neat stuff, love watching you two never a boaring moment, looking forward to your next episode!!!! This is my favorite channel, you two are Awsome!!!!!!
They really are. I believe trucks hauling equipment and ore would have had assistance navigating this one. Either a winch or towed by a dozer. Thanks for commenting, Max! 👍👍
Another nice trip, I really liked the views. That looked like a really good walk to get there, I wonder how they got everything up the mountain back in the day. Y'all are the best,God bless you both
Even if the mines aren't the greatest we always have the views to enjoy. That road was so steep they must have towed or winched trucks up and down that road. Maybe they had a dozer on site. Thanks for the comment and blessing, Jimmy!👍👍
I enjoy your hiking a lot. The views and flowers are great.🌼🌸 I suppose that boot had been in or near that collapsed structure? That ladder hook was cool, and then finding 2 files👍🏻. I like that hand cleaner can. You mention they drag heavy chassis like that, to grade the roads. The roads must have had switchbacks? That was so steep. I'm glad I got to see this Friday morning adventure 😊
The desert blooms are as beautiful as any flowers. That boot was sitting right where Julie picked it up. Not much life left in that one. I'm not sure if that chassis was for an air compressor or maybe just a road drag. I'm guessing it was for equipment of some sort. That steep road had only a couple switchbacks. Thanks for watching and commenting, Rick!
As a kid I only knew those lizards as Blue Bellies. Thanks for everything. Oh are you playing a Resonator or perhaps a small Parlor guitar .... Regards from Ody Slim
Those lizards are pretty cool. Glad that you liked the video, Ody. That's my very old Harmony Patrician standard six string at the end. Thanks for commenting!
I have small flourescent blue lizards around my place. And frogs the size of your thumbnail and quite a few turtles. But there is no nearby standing water.
Boy when you're standing on that waist pile you can really see how steep that is. And when you say a waste pile now I don't understand that. Do they crush the rock to get the minerals out of it? And that's the Rock left over and they pile it up there? How do they get the minerals out of the Rock? I'm sure there's a few different ways please take the time to educate me. I like your video you know I watch it on the big screen at home. Keep them coming and be safe out there.
Hey Eddie, that's an excellent question and one that many get confused on. The waste rock pile, or mine dump, is the unwanted rock that had to be blasted through and moved to be able to create the adit, drift or shaft that is necessary to access the mineral vein and make room for men and equipment to remove the valuable ore. Some people call that a tailings pile but that's incorrect. Which brings us to your other question. To remove the desired minerals from the rock it's often crushed and further milled into fine powder which can then be processed to remove the valuable mineral or metal. The leftover waste from the milling process is called tailings and is much different from waste rock. Thanks for watching and hope you get the big striper today! 👍👍
Hello Julie and Tom. That mineral out cropping that you called a dyke, I wonder if that was a lava flow at one time? Interesting that you found a File in that mine. Really surprised it hasn't been liberated yet as most of these mines are picked clean. I tried looking up that "Pure Apricot Pineapple Jam Shasta" But couldn't find anything on it unfortunately. Very nice video, beautiful scenery around there. Take care.
Hello Stephen, those dykes, or dikes, I believe we're magmatic, meaning that molten rock pushed up into a crack that had formed in a larger rock formation. That's also how the minerals that are commonly mined are deposited. Two files in one day was good to see. Thanks for trying to find out about the jam, too bad none is available. Glad that you liked the views and thanks for commenting! 👍
I believe that you are correct, Robert. This was a long file. A bastard file is a single cut file that has fairly coarse teeth if I remember correctly. Too bad the tip was broken. Someone probably abused it by prying with it. Thanks for your input.
At 3:02, are there words scratched into the vertical board at right? Yes, at 13:04, that looks like an anvil stump. At 15:37, I wonder if the "7-2-13" at the top of the label is the paint's mfg date.
It does look like there might be a name scratched into the board on the right. I agree about the anvil as that looked to be a shop at one time. The surrounding structure had fallen down. I don't know much about the paint. 2013 would seem to be too recent to have work done there and 1913 too old for those cans. Thanks for your input, Jan!👍
When you first showed the power poles my first thought was wondering if it was DC, but I don't think that mine is old enough for that. The first long distance power grid started in 1889. They switched to AC in 1890. I can't remember seeing any DC relays that large on any vehicle, but maybe they were that large on an old Caterpillar or on a winch motor or something. Interesting to see mine cat poop on a paper. Fox like to poop on things too, like up on a small rock. I have never figured why they do that.
That power line used to run to a much larger mine and mill that's less than a mile away. There was also a 9 mile long water pipeline from a spring to supply the mill. It was not old enough to be DC. You're probably correct that the relay was from a dozer that made the roads up there. We run into our fair share of animal poop and they do have some strange marking habits. Thanks for the comment, Duck!
The olive drab paint cans were interesting. The dead animal at the end of the adit made me think maybe a mountain lion killed it and drug it there to eat it.
The paint cans seem like military issue. Not sure why it's there, maybe just using the cans. I'm sure that's exactly what happened with the little sheep. Glad that the killer was somewhere else. Thanks for the comment! 👍
> Nice views from the top, how high can you climb before wearing out? Curious about the elevations if you would comment. Those steep roads would use a winch truck or dozier to assist loads in and out. Thanks for the beautiful photography. Will there be a best of book or video some day? Take care.
Hi Carl, we are both decent hikers and have climbed many mountains over 10,000 feet above sea level. You are probably correct about trucks on that steep road needing to be winch up and down. It's just too steep to be driven on normally. I've thought about a best of video. Maybe someday after we're done mine exploring. Thanks for commenting! 👍
We have a place in Central Oregon where we spend the summers so the videos aren't always current. We explore mines from September to May. This one was made in May that's why the spring flowers are present. I'll try to include temps and altitudes going forward. Thanks for the comment, Peter!
Oregon! lucky you, I've been stuck in Socal all miserable summer, are you doing any exploring or filming up there? I watch a lot of geology videos made by Nick Zenter from central washington U. He was in your area last year explaining how the Yellowstone hot spot has left calderas across Oregon.@@TomandJulieMineExploring
@@peterwaroblak166 we really don't do any mine stuff during the summer. We do some hiking and fishing, sometimes crabbing. We're not far from Newberry Volcanic Monument which is pretty cool.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring About 10 years ago I was visiting a friend in Mackenzie Bridge, We took a dirt road heading east and went to a volcanic rock "observatory" That would make a good video.
One of the more unique mine explores. Very interesting geology, and that lion den is very intriguing. Do you ever fear that you may come into contact with a big cat inside the mine one day? If so, do you carry along items to protect yourselves such as pepper spray and/or a firearm?
We do keep in mind that we might run into a lion, or believe it or not, burros, inside of a mine. We see tracks of both regularly. I'm not sure which one would be worse the lion or burro. We have seen burro tracks over 700 feet into a mine. We always have a gun on us, sometimes we each are carrying. Thanks for the comment!👍👍
I have to agree that looks like bear scat. Nevada is not home to many bears though, and this is a little farther south than where they are generally found. They do eat just about anything, including grass and hooved animals, like the sheep seen here. We are so accustomed to being in mountain lion territory that I usually assume that kills like this are just that. It could definitely be bear activity. Either way I'm glad that whatever large animal has been using that drift was not there when we were. Thanks for the comment, Morton!👍👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring do you ever carry a sidearm into the mines that you explore? I would be concerned about bumping into a mountain lion or a bear. Besides the obvious reasons for not discharging a firearm in a mine, unless you had to, could either the pressure of the muzzle blast, or the sound waves trigger a collapse in unstable parts of some mines? I assume that in some mines things are really as unstable as they look.
@@sigdog365 We are always armed when we're out exploring in the desert. Not so much for the animals as for the humans. My biggest worry about animals inside of the mines is burros. We sometimes see sign of them hundreds of feet into the mines. Can you imagine cornering a few burros at the end of a long three foot wide drift?
I'm sure it was military issue and probably bought as surplus. I didn't see any paint up there so maybe they were just using the cans. Thanks for commenting, William! 👍
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you guys are like wine keeps getting better with time very nice
Thanks for the nice comment, Jerry. Now if only our worth would go up like vintage wine. 👍🍷
I’m thinking that’s bear scat and a big one. Another great video 👍😀🤗
It does look like bear scat. There aren't many bears in Nevada and this is on the very southern end of their range. They will also take deer and other young animals like this sheep. I should have tried harder to identify the scat while we was there. Thanks for your input, Jeff!
Another fun explore.
Thanks J&T!
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You're welcome, George. Thanks for commenting! 👍 👍 👊
Cute lizard! Thanks for sharing.
He was cute. Thanks, Pethoviejo! 👍👍
Cool mine Tom and Julie! The Indian Paintbrush is the Wyoming state flower. Very cool. 👍✌️
I didn't know that was the Wyoming state flower. They were doing pretty good in this area. Thanks for the comment, Kevin! 👍✌️
Enjoyed the tour!
Glad that you enjoyed it, Mark! 👍
Interesting findings. Thanks for the exploration.
You're welcome, Lars. Good to hear from you and thanks for commenting! 👍
Here kitty,kitty. Nice explore. Thank you.
Haha, no. Stay away kitty. One of these days we're going to un up against a lion in a narrow drift. Thanks for commenting, Richard!
Hello Tom Hello Julie
The flowertour and a poop mine with creepy remains .
Your Tour was full of interresting features .
Thank you for taking me with you in this great area .
Take care have a great weekend
Yours Frank Galetzka
Hello Frank. I guess I could have changed the title of the video to the "Creepy Poop and Flower Tour" Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you have a great weekend!
I would have to say you guys are contenders for top mine Exploration channel !
Thanks for the nice comment, Dave! We appreciate you and your support. We work pretty hard at all this, both in the field and managing the channel. 👍👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring IT shows !
Another awesome vid! Have fun
Thanks, Gene. Glad that you liked it! 👍
That is a big pile, I don't know about you two but I was glad it 'skatted' and left before you got there. Those crystals were cool!
Oh you can be sure we were happy to not corner a lion in a narrow drift. One of these days it will probably happen. I thought those were cool crystals, too. Thanks for commenting, Mick!👍
It's funny you found old cans of OD green ...... I keep wanting to paint my '65 C5 with that stuff ......... great video! Thanks!
It must have been military surplus paint. I painted my '62 CJ5 with rattle cans of a good brand of green. I can't remember the brand off hand.
Thank you Tom and Julie. The flowers are so pretty there must have been rain.❤
You're welcome, David. We love seeing the desert blooms when they happen. Glad that you like them, too!👍👍
its always nice to see the Desert come alive after the Monsoon rains ..... fun explore and be safe out there
Yes it is, Jeff. The desert blooms are some if the most beautiful of all flowers. Thanks for the comment and we'll stay safe.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring you betcha
Once again you two amaze of the places and things you find. Who would have thought a Poop that big was a big Mountain Lion. He must have ate a lot and pooped a bunch! It didn't look like that kill was that old but who knows? Thanks for hiking around finding some crystals and other interesting things. You two do get around out in the desert. It always amazes me how they get some of their equipment up very steep mountains. How did they do that? Thanks again for the great adventure. Stay safe out there!!👌👌🤞🤞😉😉
Some have commented that it might be bear poop in the mine because of the way it looks and it's size. This is not in an area where there are a lot of bears, but who knows, maybe it is. I'm not sure how okd the kill was but there was no smell so it must have been there for a while. I'm guessing that trucks using that road needed assistance getting up and down from either a winch or a dozer towing them. Thanks for the comment, Duane! 👍👍
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Glad that you liked it, Ed. Thanks for watching!
I think it’s amazing that there can be so many pretty flowers in the desert.
It is amazing. The cactus all have beautiful blooms, too. Thanks, Ed!
The canister an old tall boraxo powder tin . I have original mint full smaller ones 1940-50s! Great video , interesting mine. Lots of building remnants. Love these mines a lot to explore! Thanks 😊
Thanks for that information, Ron. I was thinking it was something like that but had no idea of what brand. It's another fun little area to explore. Thanks for commenting! 👍
I love seeing all the flowers in the desert 🏜
Glad that you like the flowers, Daniel. We do too. Thanks for the comment! 👍
Hi Tom & Julie, some interesting finds this week, I agree that area could of been a forge but there was nothing left in the drifts such as drill steels but maybe they could have been sharpening or reshaping their tools such as picks ??. It was nice seeing the flowers that survive up there, the Indian paint brush flowers
had such a vibrant colour compared to everything else around them, very pretty. Thank you both for all of the hard work you put in to find us these amazing places, much love to you both and Pickles. xx ❤
I was a bit puzzled by that shop area and possible forge when I didn’t see and fabricated steelers around. The one biggest working up there was eroded shut so maybe whatever is in there would make sense out of the shop and forge. The desert flowers are always fun to see. They have some ofthe most beautiful blooms. Thanks for the nice comment, Sue. We appreciate it.
P.S. I think Pickles might be hooked on the Dreamies you sent.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Bless her, Enya absolutely loves them too. Let me know if you cannot find any dreamies as I can always send more. xx
@@SueGirling68 I'm sure we can find them, Sue. Thanks for the kind offer though.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring I think they do them on Amazon. xx
When you say it's got a weird vibe makes the hair on my neck stand up lol
It is strange that you sometimes have weird vibes when inside a mine. I can't really explain it. Thanks for commenting, David!
Another awesome explore!
Thank you, Roger!👍👍
the upper adit, Julie looked nervous, she has a sixth sense for sure. creepy was what i thought as well, then you said it, made me laugh. fun times for sure
As you know you always have to be alert for animals when you enter a mine. This one definitely had a vibe that we could sense. I have no idea how that works, but we both felt it. Glad you got a chuckke out of it. Thanks, Ken!
Thank you Tom and Julie. That was a nice little explore. The paint can looked like a military can. love the flowers. The lizard was cool nice Blue underbelly. It always amazes me how they got stuff up the mountains out there. take care be safe have a great weekend. ⛏⛏👍🍻🍺🍺🍺
You're welcome, David. Not the biggest mine ever, but you never know until you get there to see for yourself. I agree that the paint seemed to be military issue, probably bought from a surplus dealer. I liked that lizard, too, and the desert blooms are always great. They must have winches or towed the trucks up and down that road. Thanks for the comment and beer!👍👍🍺🍺🍻
I think that rock dike is called a gossan (a heavily oxidized exposed top of an ore vein or structure) - cool stuff!
That could be. I'm not a geologist, and don't pretend to be, so I appreciate your input. Thanks, BT!
Man, that last Bigfoot lair sure did get my imagination going..👀 bowels, forked horn, human size shits, unknown white gojo looking substances in Mason jars..maybe this oddity used the corrugated metal to file it's hoof nails? Nightfall might uncover the unnatural mystique of this. Stunning explore, guys 💯
We could actually sense some strange sensation as we entered that drift with the dead animal. There was no smell so it wasn't that. After reading your comment there's no way you would catch me up there at night. I don't want to see Bigfoot with his hoof nails sharpened. Lol. Thanks for the comment (I think?) Don! 👍😂😯
@@TomandJulieMineExploring yeah I wouldn't dare set up camp and roast some marshmallows either anytime past 6pm up in that gully..too many questionable variables and miscellaneous breadcrumbs laying around there. Maybe it's best that the other addits were sealed in with dirt and wood tbh I grew up on Papago land and I miss the stories my grandfather used to tell me about working at the Ajo copper mine, which is now a toxic pond. Thx for the solid mine footage that u both share with us. Nothing but best wishes and prayers. 👍
@@devaperzspotreviewz great comment and maybe it's a good thing those adits are sealed. That Ajo mine site is really something to see.
Nice little mine Tom & Julie, was really interesting! You guys are livin the life :)
It's an interesting area. Glad that you enjoyed it, Walt. Thanks for commenting! 👍
That was a very steep road Tom. Those minerals at the end of the video were fascinating. Interesting remains in the last mine. to be that far back is odd. Most goats and the like won't venture in that deep. Just guessing on my part. Thanks for the tour. Stay safe you 2.⛏⛏🖤
That road was likely a cable road where the trucks were helped up and down the slope. I sure that was a kill by a mountain lion and hauled into the mine for eating. Thanks for watching and commenting, Jake. We appreciate it!
I love this explore! You showed 2 types of mining and answered many questions. All this at an altitude I would most likely need oxygen. I have seen those wire hose clamps. The ones I have seen were factory made and required a special tool to tighten them on the hose and bend the ends over. Thanks for bringing us along Tom and Julie!
You are probably correct about the wire clamp. It looked too perfect to be hand made and the special tool to tighten and crimp the ends makes sense. Thanks for watching and for your input, William! 👍👍
More amazing views! It never gets old. 🙂
- Ed on the Ridge
Thanks, Ed. Hard to get tired of beautiful views. Thanks for commenting! 👍
Enjoyed the artifacts, pretty neat stuff, love watching you two never a boaring moment, looking forward to your next episode!!!! This is my favorite channel, you two are Awsome!!!!!!
Thanks for the nice comment, Rick. Glad that you've been enjoying our videos. We really appreciate it!
Those mine roads are scary and amazing..
They really are. I believe trucks hauling equipment and ore would have had assistance navigating this one. Either a winch or towed by a dozer. Thanks for commenting, Max! 👍👍
Another nice trip, I really liked the views. That looked like a really good walk to get there, I wonder how they got everything up the mountain back in the day. Y'all are the best,God bless you both
Even if the mines aren't the greatest we always have the views to enjoy. That road was so steep they must have towed or winched trucks up and down that road. Maybe they had a dozer on site. Thanks for the comment and blessing, Jimmy!👍👍
I enjoy your hiking a lot. The views and flowers are great.🌼🌸
I suppose that boot had been in or near that collapsed structure?
That ladder hook was cool, and then finding 2 files👍🏻. I like that hand cleaner can.
You mention they drag heavy chassis like that, to grade the roads. The roads must have had switchbacks? That was so steep.
I'm glad I got to see this Friday morning adventure 😊
The desert blooms are as beautiful as any flowers. That boot was sitting right where Julie picked it up. Not much life left in that one. I'm not sure if that chassis was for an air compressor or maybe just a road drag. I'm guessing it was for equipment of some sort. That steep road had only a couple switchbacks. Thanks for watching and commenting, Rick!
As a kid I only knew those lizards as Blue Bellies. Thanks for everything. Oh are you playing a Resonator or perhaps
a small Parlor guitar .... Regards from Ody Slim
Those lizards are pretty cool. Glad that you liked the video, Ody. That's my very old Harmony Patrician standard six string at the end. Thanks for commenting!
I have small flourescent blue lizards around my place. And frogs the size of your thumbnail and quite a few turtles. But there is no nearby standing water.
Those lizards are pretty fun tovsee. You maybe have tree frogs? Strange there's no water around. Thanks for commenting, Roger!
Boy when you're standing on that waist pile you can really see how steep that is. And when you say a waste pile now I don't understand that. Do they crush the rock to get the minerals out of it? And that's the Rock left over and they pile it up there? How do they get the minerals out of the Rock? I'm sure there's a few different ways please take the time to educate me. I like your video you know I watch it on the big screen at home. Keep them coming and be safe out there.
Hey Eddie, that's an excellent question and one that many get confused on. The waste rock pile, or mine dump, is the unwanted rock that had to be blasted through and moved to be able to create the adit, drift or shaft that is necessary to access the mineral vein and make room for men and equipment to remove the valuable ore. Some people call that a tailings pile but that's incorrect. Which brings us to your other question. To remove the desired minerals from the rock it's often crushed and further milled into fine powder which can then be processed to remove the valuable mineral or metal. The leftover waste from the milling process is called tailings and is much different from waste rock. Thanks for watching and hope you get the big striper today! 👍👍
Hello Julie and Tom. That mineral out cropping that you called a dyke, I wonder if that was a lava flow at one time? Interesting that you found a File in that mine. Really surprised it hasn't been liberated yet as most of these mines are picked clean. I tried looking up that "Pure Apricot Pineapple Jam Shasta" But couldn't find anything on it unfortunately. Very nice video, beautiful scenery around there. Take care.
Hello Stephen, those dykes, or dikes, I believe we're magmatic, meaning that molten rock pushed up into a crack that had formed in a larger rock formation. That's also how the minerals that are commonly mined are deposited. Two files in one day was good to see. Thanks for trying to find out about the jam, too bad none is available. Glad that you liked the views and thanks for commenting! 👍
Hydrothermoalteration! Nice
The geologist in you is showing. Thanks, Richard! 👍
@8:55 it look's like a 12" Half Round Bastard File. Tom and Julie.
I believe that you are correct, Robert. This was a long file. A bastard file is a single cut file that has fairly coarse teeth if I remember correctly. Too bad the tip was broken. Someone probably abused it by prying with it. Thanks for your input.
just started watching. great videos. thanks
Welcome aboard, Donald. Glad that you are enjoying our videos. Thanks for the comment! 👍
At 3:02, are there words scratched into the vertical board at right? Yes, at 13:04, that looks like an anvil stump. At 15:37, I wonder if the "7-2-13" at the top of the label is the paint's mfg date.
It does look like there might be a name scratched into the board on the right. I agree about the anvil as that looked to be a shop at one time. The surrounding structure had fallen down. I don't know much about the paint. 2013 would seem to be too recent to have work done there and 1913 too old for those cans. Thanks for your input, Jan!👍
When you first showed the power poles my first thought was wondering if it was DC, but I don't think that mine is old enough for that. The first long distance power grid started in 1889. They switched to AC in 1890. I can't remember seeing any DC relays that large on any vehicle, but maybe they were that large on an old Caterpillar or on a winch motor or something. Interesting to see mine cat poop on a paper. Fox like to poop on things too, like up on a small rock. I have never figured why they do that.
That power line used to run to a much larger mine and mill that's less than a mile away. There was also a 9 mile long water pipeline from a spring to supply the mill. It was not old enough to be DC. You're probably correct that the relay was from a dozer that made the roads up there. We run into our fair share of animal poop and they do have some strange marking habits. Thanks for the comment, Duck!
The olive drab paint cans were interesting. The dead animal at the end of the adit made me think maybe a mountain lion killed it and drug it there to eat it.
The paint cans seem like military issue. Not sure why it's there, maybe just using the cans. I'm sure that's exactly what happened with the little sheep. Glad that the killer was somewhere else. Thanks for the comment! 👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Yes those cans were labeled military style. Maybe they just made good buckets.
my thanks again , thumbs up
You're welcome, Ted. Thanks for watching!👍😁
> Nice views from the top, how high can you climb before wearing out? Curious about the elevations if you would comment. Those steep roads would use a winch truck or dozier to assist loads in and out. Thanks for the beautiful photography. Will there be a best of book or video some day? Take care.
Hi Carl, we are both decent hikers and have climbed many mountains over 10,000 feet above sea level. You are probably correct about trucks on that steep road needing to be winch up and down. It's just too steep to be driven on normally. I've thought about a best of video. Maybe someday after we're done mine exploring. Thanks for commenting! 👍
Again a very interesting mining site. Are you testing the oxigene inside?
Yes, we both carry air monitors. Glad you found this one interesting. Thanks for the comment! 👍
Another fun day at the office, was this recent after the rains? Let us know the temps and altitude, thanks
We have a place in Central Oregon where we spend the summers so the videos aren't always current. We explore mines from September to May. This one was made in May that's why the spring flowers are present. I'll try to include temps and altitudes going forward. Thanks for the comment, Peter!
Oregon! lucky you, I've been stuck in Socal all miserable summer, are you doing any exploring or filming up there? I watch a lot of geology videos made by Nick Zenter from central washington U. He was in your area last year explaining how the Yellowstone hot spot has left calderas across Oregon.@@TomandJulieMineExploring
@@peterwaroblak166 we really don't do any mine stuff during the summer. We do some hiking and fishing, sometimes crabbing. We're not far from Newberry Volcanic Monument which is pretty cool.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring About 10 years ago I was visiting a friend in Mackenzie Bridge, We took a dirt road heading east and went to a volcanic rock "observatory" That would make a good video.
One of the more unique mine explores. Very interesting geology, and that lion den is very intriguing. Do you ever fear that you may come into contact with a big cat inside the mine one day? If so, do you carry along items to protect yourselves such as pepper spray and/or a firearm?
We do keep in mind that we might run into a lion, or believe it or not, burros, inside of a mine. We see tracks of both regularly. I'm not sure which one would be worse the lion or burro. We have seen burro tracks over 700 feet into a mine. We always have a gun on us, sometimes we each are carrying. Thanks for the comment!👍👍
Fat Tallo for Mine 🐦 birds
It looked like fat they used for something. Birds you think eh.
If I didn't know any better I'd say the black poo at the face would be bear....And yes they eat grass too.
I have to agree that looks like bear scat. Nevada is not home to many bears though, and this is a little farther south than where they are generally found. They do eat just about anything, including grass and hooved animals, like the sheep seen here. We are so accustomed to being in mountain lion territory that I usually assume that kills like this are just that. It could definitely be bear activity. Either way I'm glad that whatever large animal has been using that drift was not there when we were. Thanks for the comment, Morton!👍👍
Have you ever come across live animals in any of the mines ?
Bats, rabitt, rats and mice are common. Snakes are seen near the portals in warm months. Thanks for the question, Rich!👍👌
@@TomandJulieMineExploring do you ever carry a sidearm into the mines that you explore? I would be concerned about bumping into a mountain lion or a bear. Besides the obvious reasons for not discharging a firearm in a mine, unless you had to, could either the pressure of the muzzle blast, or the sound waves trigger a collapse in unstable parts of some mines? I assume that in some mines things are really as unstable as they look.
@@sigdog365 We are always armed when we're out exploring in the desert. Not so much for the animals as for the humans. My biggest worry about animals inside of the mines is burros. We sometimes see sign of them hundreds of feet into the mines. Can you imagine cornering a few burros at the end of a long three foot wide drift?
Military vehicle paint
Thanks for that.
If there were Bells in the poop, RUN, That would be a Black Bear, But Grass, Brown bear. So wear a bell top keep the bears away
Hi Rich. We run across a bear now and then while hiking. Haven't had any problems so far. Thanks for the comment!🐻
Looks like a prong horn antelope
I think antelope have darker horns. This is bighorn sheep country, too. Thanks for your input, Rich!👍
That paint bucket looks like it has Military script on it.
I'm sure it was military issue and probably bought as surplus. I didn't see any paint up there so maybe they were just using the cans. Thanks for commenting, William! 👍
go morning you too bearers geology rocKs DATIL NM
Good morning, Michael. Hope all is well in Datil. Thanks for watching! 👍
Maybe donkey poo.
I don't think it was donkey, Roger.
just about all animal eat human poo .unless its joe rogans poo .
Haha, okay Todd. Sounds about right to me.