I actually worked here many many years ago. Thank you for this.This was a small 200 tpd mine. The entire mill concentrator was underground. Crusher, ball mill, thickeners, filters and more. The "engines" or loci(motives) transported the men in the wooden mancars as pictured a mile and a half from the camp area portal to the work areas. The alimak brought the workers up to the second level crusher. This is where the generators were located as well as the main ventilation fans. Alimak took the miners above that level to the mine workings above and beyond that. The first bunch of pipes shown were tailings line that went out to the tailings pond. Booster pumps shown were about halfway along pipeline. I was there the day the bobcat quit. Also was there the day we turned off the lights and locked the doors. There was every intention of running the mine/mill again. There was/is plenty of gold still in them there hills. It was just a matter of moving waste to get to it. And the price of gold was low at the time. What a flashback for me. I've actually touched or laid eyes on so much of what's in this video. Amazing time capsule.
I sit here and watch this in Australia, the other side of the world and I read the comment from a guy who actually worked there. “Fascinating “ is the only word that comes to mind.
You are far braver than I, as curious as I am about stuff like that actually going into a mine shaft is a big no for me. Thanks for taking us along with you!
I love that you take nothing. It would be easy and most would, to take a small core sample. And that would be a really cool piece of history and no one would know, but you check things out and leave them for others. Really amazing morals right there!
Between the flashlight that is just bright enough to illuminate close quarters, the ambient sounds ranging from drip-drop to waterfall level noise and all the equipment in there, this looks like a creepy video game and makes it the most unsettling and fascinating mine exploration video I have ever seen! If there is a long cut of this, I'd soak it up like a sponge! 🤘
As I sit down with my morning coffee, I open TH-cam to find "Destination Adventure uploaded 11mins ago...." What a great way to start a foggy Saturday in Appalachia! #AppalachianStrong *EDIT* 12:00 Would someone please sponsor him with a panel light for his camera?!? It makes a HUGE difference in places like this. This mine is amazing, but we missed a lot bc of a gopro and a flashlight. You need a Cannon and a panel light. OFFER UP SPONSORS, show what your gear can do to transform a video like this. 😉
Lighting for underground photography isn't massively expensive. It requires several lights slaved to the main one. Any caving photographer will be happy to discuss this at very great length...especially in the pub
@@dawnmoriarty9347 my point was with his viewership, someone could and should easily sponsor him with GOOD portable lighting for his underground videos. Dustin is good about promoting products that work...and people listen. How many ebikes do you think he has sold? How many boats? This is a great opportunity for a company to get real world advertising and reviews. I guess no one has good lighting that works 🤷♂️ I have seen cavers do very well wih handheld high power lights....problem is, Dustin doesnt have a team of people to carry gear, its just him. So, a GOOD company with a GOOD portable product stands to make a lot of sales off of sponsering him with something portable that works. You wont find me in a pub...but probably wandering in a forest.
Really wet mine, hard to imagine working in those conditions, but them old time miners were a tough bunch. Thanks for bringing us some underground adventure into the past! The fresh berries were a nice payoff for that hike!
Missed seeing new shows from you guys. Hope all is well and you are enjoying your adventures. Stay safe and we will be looking forward to seeing you guys soon.
Love your adventures and the mine was really nice to see. Crazy that a viewer commented on being a worker and there when the lights turned off. Just a fun addition to the work you so love to do and we enjoy going along with you. Thanks as always
Been in this mine! very little risk as far as mines go, but its fantastic! I've spoken with the current owner several times. The pipe is for pressurized air, all the machinery ran on on air power which the "generator room you first entered would have housed, a large generator....powering a compressor. Also those are directly driven electric pumps, for dewatering the mine.
I saw you a couple days ago driving thru 100 mile house! I waved but don't think you saw me haha , take care Dustin, as always good video! Love to see fellow Canadian TH-camrs out in the wild!
I also saw him driving through Smithers. Did the same waved and wished I had opportunity to stop for a chat. Offer still stands to come fly fishing on Douglas lake ranch with me. Would love to give you some great indicator chironomid fishing footage. 👍
I'm also in 100 mile.my wife and I have been to so many of the places Dustin has explored.brings back many good memories.we still explore all over B.C.
Another perfect Saturday morning just had breakfast now Saturday morning destination adventure and I was a child it was Saturday morning cartoons thanks for another great video Dustin
FYI. - broken pipe at the beginning of your video is a 4 or 6 in dewatering line which would be used to dewater the mine. The hydro turbine you referenced are water pumps. It very interesting to see a mine in this shape I only be in working mines
Good morning Dustin and to all the viewers! Sitting under our gazebo,fire pit going , sipping coffee while the atmospheric river is pouring down and watching yet another great video! It’s amazing how these mining companies just leave everything and walk away from an operation that is so vast underground! Stay safe please and looking forward to Wednesdays journey! 👍🇨🇦
Your adventurous spirit knows no bounds and fortunately you share this with all your viewers. Saturday morning with my nice breakfast and tea, watching your amazing videos …a perfect start to my day. Thank You !
The kootenays are full of old mines. Portals and tunnels are everywhere here. Worked in one of those water drenched holes in Salmo back in '87. Pitch black, water everywhere, rotten timbers and holes to fall into. Good times.
I thought the light on this video was fine! I could see what you were talking about and it kind of added to the mystery of the place, not seeing it in the perfect light!! Thanks for sharing 😊
Hi Dustin, The pipe supplied air or water to operate the jack leg drill. The water cooled the drill bit, while the air powered the drill. Play safe From Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
Can you imagine, going up in that elevator for the last time, thinking that your eyes most definitively will have been the last to have looked at the shaft(s) before the elevator went up one last time.... Crazy!
Dewater pumps, compressed air Lines, ball mills to pulverize ore, slurry pumps,screens centrifuges, float cells, laundering paddles. process water lines. Mules cars, drop chutes. Ventilation shafts. Fresh air fans Bucket elevators, abandoned unstable drifts everything in there is trying to injure or kill you. The mines act that requires decommissioned mines to be sealed, is written in blood. Please be careful and remember you can't be replaced.
The idiom “a sight for sore eyes” originated with Jonathan Swift in 1738 in his book A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation. The original wording was “The Sight of you is good for sore Eyes”. The modern version was first used by William Hazlitt in 1826 in New Monthly Magazine. Another great video, and glad the E bike didnt get stolen..
Cool to see how the operation worked in the mine and the different machines/tools though the down side is all the chemicals and contaminants left to wash around and away down the mountain. Nice coverage under difficult circumstances Dustin 👍🏻
Wicked cool video, it's definitely my highlight to the end of the work week, I love your cinematography and your corny jokes. If you're in Whistler you should check out Parkhurst, and a little farther down the line there's a pump house with a bunch of infrastructure and a few dams for Britannia mine museum.
Dustin, Years ago, My Father, brothers and I use to go blackberry picking in a field near a friend's home in Ohio outside of Cleveland. Like those blueberries, the blackberries were big and juicy as well. I would eat them by the handful as well. Thanks for another awesome video. Don
Great adventure this week Dustin!! A few years ago I had the fortune to tour a large hard rock gold mine in southern BC (mothballed in the 80’s) and it was quite similar to this one. Exciting and spooky in equal measure.
Hi Dustin, just another fantastic video . Crazy they left everything.... the hydroelectric generators are water pumps. The digging machine is a bogger... 😊
This is right up my ally. Fun Fact the deepest road underground in the world that you can drive on is located in Big Bay, Mi. In the U.S. It's a portal, I've been down many times and it's also the only mainly nickle ore mine in the U.S. it's called Eagle Mine and it's the first operating mine I've been underground. Love you videos.
So cool!!! 😎 Glad that you made it out safe, and thanks again for sharing your adventure with us! I always wonder what it would have been like to see places like this in action back in the day. Love seeing things like this.
Of all your explores, this is one I'm glad I was watching, no desire to go under ground, nope, no thank you. Although, I did enjoy watching as you get soaked, thanks for the adventure, Dustin.
Another great video brother! It was perfect for this time of year because it was spooky looking around in the dark like that! It was just like the silent hill game I used to play! Lol! As an electrician I love seeing all that old equipment and would have loved to have been there hooking it all up. What an experience it must have been at that time. Cheers.
Awesome video. We’ve always called those huckleberries not blueberries in the Alpine but I don’t know the difference 😅. Love finding huge ones. They taste like green apple to me
@@scotterickson9769 Did some reading because now I’m interested. Looks like those are what Westerners have called Huckleberries for ages but they are in fact just native blueberries, bigger, compared to the smaller commercially available blueberries we see at the store. Huckleberries are a north eastern species apparently and have 10 large seeds in them that can’t be missed. Now I want to try a true huckleberry out east!
All those steel balls were probably used in a ball mill. Those big tanks could have been used for numerous operations including cyanide. Just be careful to not touch anything you aren't sure about. Also if you don't have an air monitor already I'd invest in a good one, and a brain bucket. They are expensive but your life is priceless. Great videos thanks for sharing. ❤😊👍
I was thinking the same thing about the chemicals. It made me wonder if the large tank/processing plant that had the scales near by were somehow related to chemicals. A great adventure video.
He said it was windy so in this situation an O2 monitor wasn't necessary. It was also put on the screen early on that said he was wearing a monitor. Helmets always a good idea
Awesome underground explore! Looks like the same one My Dad and I saw about 6 years ago when we were in the same area. Unfortunately he doesn't like going underground so I only walked in the first entrance to the corner. I would have loved to walk right through and out the other adit entrances! Those looked like booster pumps, not hydro power generators but I could be wrong. Glad you were able to explore this one so I could see what I missed!
@Destination Adventure Hey again, Dustin. How’s it hangin’? Last time I made a gear recommendation it was for LAPD cargo pants for Emi. I’m a prepper, so I have another one for ya /Mick. I don’t know if it’d be appropriate for splorin’ mine shafts, caves etc., but the Streamlight 88810 Wedge 300-Lumen Slim Everyday Carry is Aces in my book 👍🏼 Tech/nerd specs: 300-Lumens; 1200 candela peak beam intensity; 69-meter beam; 3-hour run time. THRO Output: 1000-Lumens; 3000 candela peak beam intensity; 110-meter beam; 35-second burst. Hope this finds you well, so you can find things well…better 😉
The phrase “a sight for sore eyes” originated in the 1700s and was first recorded in Jonathan Swift's 1738 book A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation. The original wording was “The Sight of you is good for sore Eyes”. The modern version was first used by William Hazlitt in 1826 in New Monthly Magazine.  The phrase means that someone or something is a welcome sight or brings relief, especially after a period of fear, worry, tension, or sorrow. For example, you might say “Linda, who had not seen him in 15 years, told him he was a sight for sore eyes”. Just cause you asked! Thanks for all the adventures!
What you keep referring to as a shaft is called an Adit or Haulage Tunnel, shafts are vertical adits and tunnels horizontal, great find though, its the sort of stuff I look for constantly, and the things you keep referring to as generators are pumps for water and slurry removal. The digging machine looks like an Eimco 12B mucker.
Dustin awesome video it's right up my alley love exploring old mines Would love to show you around some spots as I do a lot of mine exploring myself Definitely curious on this one as I've never been to it Definitely a cool find would love to do this one day with you
Very interesting Dustin. I think those pieces of equipment you were calling hydro electric generators were actually motor driven pumps. I don't think there was enough free water pressure available to drive a hydro turbine and spin up a generator set in that mine. And they would big very large turbines also. The hydo end would be larger that the gen set . Enjoyed the video. I to have safety concerns with you being alone in those dangerous places. Be safe
Great video. You need to look a Olight Flashlights. I am a flashlight junky and they are beyond any other flashlight. If they won’t sponsor your channel let me know and I’ll send you one. They are a bit pricey.
Dustin hi from Calgary. Like you I have a tough time saying ok that's as far as I'm going. I too prefer to take my back country trips solo. That way I go where I want on my schedule it's a total break from the rest of my life. Great explore today amazing the amount of infastructure they obviously abandoned. Exciting to explore but unfortunate our governments fail to enforce clean up laws too. Leaves me a bit conflicted. Thanks for the adventure see you next week.
Really enjoyed the video! Those aren't hydroelectric generators. They are simply motor driven centrifugal pumps... For everyone saying that better light is needed... ...I think the GoPro is a large part of the problem. GoPros just aren't the best for low light situations. Dustin really needs a better camera for these types of explorations.
Reminds me of when I worked in Snow Lake Manitoba one summer. The first piece of equipment is an engine, could be diesel, the overhead pipes are water or air. Many pieces of equipment run on pneumatic power. The alcove is where you stand to get out of the trains way. In a mine equipment has the right of way.
Hey I am like you I love spending time by myself in the mountains and exploring not too worried about bears I run into a few so far but they do cool to see i would love to meet you someday
Good morning Dustin. Love your content. But you definitely need a better headlight. Check out the Night Buddy Headlamps, they have a super bright LED 180 degree range. Cheers.
Strange seeing milling balls inside the mine. What you were describing looked like a siltation tank nearby. Maybe with all the available water, they just decided it would be more economical to process the ore right on site. Must have been deafening with a ball mill running indoors.
Hey Dustin, love your channel. Tell people about it all the time. Even better flashlight for you when filming would be fenix LR40R V2.0 or olight Marauder 2, amazing bright and small - I use it for walking dog rural area need to light up the dark because of predators (coyotes).
My favourite mine related story is how at one point The Royal Hudson (2860) needed a new trailing truck and so while the rail museum of BC was looking to find one for her they asked the Canadian Rail museum if they could borrow the one from her sister (2850) and then they found one at a mine being used for something and when they asked where the mine got it and if they could buy it the mine said "We got it from a Royal Hudson back in the 60s destined for scrap. Turns out that very truck was the original one taken off of 2860 when she was headed for scrap before she was saved and preserved. So she got reuninted with her truck and the original wheels theron :)
I actually worked here many many years ago. Thank you for this.This was a small 200 tpd mine. The entire mill concentrator was underground. Crusher, ball mill, thickeners, filters and more. The "engines" or loci(motives) transported the men in the wooden mancars as pictured a mile and a half from the camp area portal to the work areas. The alimak brought the workers up to the second level crusher. This is where the generators were located as well as the main ventilation fans. Alimak took the miners above that level to the mine workings above and beyond that. The first bunch of pipes shown were tailings line that went out to the tailings pond. Booster pumps shown were about halfway along pipeline. I was there the day the bobcat quit. Also was there the day we turned off the lights and locked the doors. There was every intention of running the mine/mill again. There was/is plenty of gold still in them there hills. It was just a matter of moving waste to get to it. And the price of gold was low at the time. What a flashback for me. I've actually touched or laid eyes on so much of what's in this video. Amazing time capsule.
Please, tell us more!
In wich years did they close?. Wich compagny was owning by? Thank, nice to have your memory here
@FI-Beauce As per Dustin I won't reveal company. Closed mid 80's
Thank you for sharing!
@@seufie I was thinking a lot of the equipment in there looked to be right around 1980's vintage. Thanks for keeping things secret as well.
I sit here and watch this in Australia, the other side of the world and I read the comment from a guy who actually worked there. “Fascinating “ is the only word that comes to mind.
a fantastic dive into an old mine. What a way to start Saturday morning. Thank you Dustin for another awesome Dustination Adventure
You are far braver than I, as curious as I am about stuff like that actually going into a mine shaft is a big no for me. Thanks for taking us along with you!
I love that you take nothing. It would be easy and most would, to take a small core sample. And that would be a really cool piece of history and no one would know, but you check things out and leave them for others. Really amazing morals right there!
Between the flashlight that is just bright enough to illuminate close quarters, the ambient sounds ranging from drip-drop to waterfall level noise and all the equipment in there, this looks like a creepy video game and makes it the most unsettling and fascinating mine exploration video I have ever seen! If there is a long cut of this, I'd soak it up like a sponge! 🤘
As I sit down with my morning coffee, I open TH-cam to find "Destination Adventure uploaded 11mins ago...."
What a great way to start a foggy Saturday in Appalachia!
#AppalachianStrong
*EDIT* 12:00 Would someone please sponsor him with a panel light for his camera?!? It makes a HUGE difference in places like this. This mine is amazing, but we missed a lot bc of a gopro and a flashlight. You need a Cannon and a panel light. OFFER UP SPONSORS, show what your gear can do to transform a video like this. 😉
Lighting for underground photography isn't massively expensive. It requires several lights slaved to the main one. Any caving photographer will be happy to discuss this at very great length...especially in the pub
@@dawnmoriarty9347 my point was with his viewership, someone could and should easily sponsor him with GOOD portable lighting for his underground videos.
Dustin is good about promoting products that work...and people listen. How many ebikes do you think he has sold? How many boats?
This is a great opportunity for a company to get real world advertising and reviews.
I guess no one has good lighting that works 🤷♂️
I have seen cavers do very well wih handheld high power lights....problem is, Dustin doesnt have a team of people to carry gear, its just him. So, a GOOD company with a GOOD portable product stands to make a lot of sales off of sponsering him with something portable that works.
You wont find me in a pub...but probably wandering in a forest.
Love the videos with old mines especially the abandoned mining towns not done any of them for a while
Really wet mine, hard to imagine working in those conditions, but them old time miners were a tough bunch. Thanks for bringing us some underground adventure into the past! The fresh berries were a nice payoff for that hike!
Missed seeing new shows from you guys. Hope all is well and you are enjoying your adventures. Stay safe and we will be looking forward to seeing you guys soon.
As a surface miner, I appreciate all the work underground miners do. I couldn’t do it!
That's just absolutely crazy all the stuff left behind
Love your adventures and the mine was really nice to see. Crazy that a viewer commented on being a worker and there when the lights turned off. Just a fun addition to the work you so love to do and we enjoy going along with you. Thanks as always
I bet that place would be very cool to explore. It's amazing how so much stuff was left behind. It's also amazing how big it is inside.
Been in this mine! very little risk as far as mines go, but its fantastic! I've spoken with the current owner several times.
The pipe is for pressurized air, all the machinery ran on on air power which the "generator room you first entered would have housed, a large generator....powering a compressor.
Also those are directly driven electric pumps, for dewatering the mine.
I saw you a couple days ago driving thru 100 mile house! I waved but don't think you saw me haha , take care Dustin, as always good video! Love to see fellow Canadian TH-camrs out in the wild!
I also saw him driving through Smithers. Did the same waved and wished I had opportunity to stop for a chat. Offer still stands to come fly fishing on Douglas lake ranch with me. Would love to give you some great indicator chironomid fishing footage. 👍
@@AnglingwithAydencool
I'm also in 100 mile.my wife and I have been to so many of the places Dustin has explored.brings back many good memories.we still explore all over B.C.
Another perfect Saturday morning just had breakfast now Saturday morning destination adventure and I was a child it was Saturday morning cartoons thanks for another great video Dustin
Imagine working in those cold, dark, wet mines,no thank u.
Thanks again !! Always another wild and wonderful experience with u!!
FYI. - broken pipe at the beginning of your video is a 4 or 6 in dewatering line which would be used to dewater the mine. The hydro turbine you referenced are water pumps. It very interesting to see a mine in this shape I only be in working mines
echoed my thoughts
Good morning Dustin and to all the viewers! Sitting under our gazebo,fire pit going , sipping coffee while the atmospheric river is pouring down and watching yet another great video! It’s amazing how these mining companies just leave everything and walk away from an operation that is so vast underground! Stay safe please and looking forward to Wednesdays journey! 👍🇨🇦
Your adventurous spirit knows no bounds and fortunately you share this with all your viewers. Saturday morning with my nice breakfast and tea, watching your amazing videos …a perfect start to my day. Thank You !
The kootenays are full of old mines. Portals and tunnels are everywhere here. Worked in one of those water drenched holes in Salmo back in '87. Pitch black, water everywhere, rotten timbers and holes to fall into. Good times.
I thought the light on this video was fine! I could see what you were talking about and it kind of added to the mystery of the place, not seeing it in the perfect light!! Thanks for sharing 😊
Hi Dustin,
The pipe supplied air or water to operate the jack leg drill. The water cooled the drill bit, while the air powered the drill.
Play safe From Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
Can you imagine, going up in that elevator for the last time, thinking that your eyes most definitively will have been the last to have looked at the shaft(s) before the elevator went up one last time.... Crazy!
19:33 they aren't hydro electric generators, they are large water pumps😂
Centrifugal pumps, yes
😂😅
Dewater pumps, compressed air Lines, ball mills to pulverize ore, slurry pumps,screens centrifuges, float cells, laundering paddles. process water lines. Mules cars, drop chutes. Ventilation shafts. Fresh air fans Bucket elevators, abandoned unstable drifts everything in there is trying to injure or kill you. The mines act that requires decommissioned mines to be sealed, is written in blood. Please be careful and remember you can't be replaced.
Same thing at 9:33
The idiom “a sight for sore eyes” originated with Jonathan Swift in 1738 in his book A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation. The original wording was “The Sight of you is good for sore Eyes”. The modern version was first used by William Hazlitt in 1826 in New Monthly Magazine.
Another great video, and glad the E bike didnt get stolen..
Cool to see how the operation worked in the mine and the different machines/tools though the down side is all the chemicals and contaminants left to wash around and away down the mountain.
Nice coverage under difficult circumstances Dustin 👍🏻
Great for a Saturday morning wake and bake!!!!
Wicked cool video, it's definitely my highlight to the end of the work week, I love your cinematography and your corny jokes.
If you're in Whistler you should check out Parkhurst, and a little farther down the line there's a pump house with a bunch of infrastructure and a few dams for Britannia mine museum.
Dustin,
Years ago, My Father, brothers and I use to go blackberry picking in a field near a friend's home in Ohio outside of Cleveland. Like those blueberries, the blackberries were big and juicy as well. I would eat them by the handful as well.
Thanks for another awesome video.
Don
Terrifyingly fascinating video. Glad you are safe.
Great adventure this week Dustin!! A few years ago I had the fortune to tour a large hard rock gold mine in southern BC (mothballed in the 80’s) and it was quite similar to this one. Exciting and spooky in equal measure.
Hi Dustin, just another fantastic video . Crazy they left everything.... the hydroelectric generators are water pumps. The digging machine is a bogger... 😊
Thanks Dustin I love them all and watch every new one.
Beauty little mine. You should take Frank and Sharon from "Exploring Abandoned Mines" with you. They have great gear and cameras.
Watch for landslides, they've had atmospheric rain on the coast, so be careful out there! Nice adventure you and EM had, wonderful!
Amazing Dustin loved this episode had me on the edge of my seat the hole time
another good example of companies not giving a shit after deciding that a place doesn't make enough money.
This is right up my ally. Fun Fact the deepest road underground in the world that you can drive on is located in Big Bay, Mi. In the U.S.
It's a portal, I've been down many times and it's also the only mainly nickle ore mine in the U.S. it's called Eagle Mine and it's the first operating mine I've been underground. Love you videos.
That was neat to see all the equipment in the mines. Nice area too. Thanks for the video.
So cool!!! 😎 Glad that you made it out safe, and thanks again for sharing your adventure with us!
I always wonder what it would have been like to see places like this in action back in the day. Love seeing things like this.
Of all your explores, this is one I'm glad I was watching, no desire to go under ground, nope, no thank you. Although, I did enjoy watching as you get soaked, thanks for the adventure, Dustin.
Nothin says GOOD MORNIN SATURDAY like an epic DESTINATION ADVENTURE, no better way to start EVERY weekend! Well, you could include Emi 💜💜💜
Another great video brother! It was perfect for this time of year because it was spooky looking around in the dark like that! It was just like the silent hill game I used to play! Lol! As an electrician I love seeing all that old equipment and would have loved to have been there hooking it all up. What an experience it must have been at that time. Cheers.
Really enjoyed this one. I moved to Ontario in 99, really miss BC sometimes. Cheers!
I see the light… crazy how much equipment is left behind.
Easy to get lost in there, Dustin. Glad u r doin’ the math!
Done it again Dustin, very interesting, plus love blueberries too Be safe.Thanks❤️
That was absolutely some great stuff.I appreciate you taking me along. Safe Travels
Awesome video. We’ve always called those huckleberries not blueberries in the Alpine but I don’t know the difference 😅. Love finding huge ones. They taste like green apple to me
Huckleberries are red and about the size of a pea
@@scotterickson9769 Did some reading because now I’m interested. Looks like those are what Westerners have called Huckleberries for ages but they are in fact just native blueberries, bigger, compared to the smaller commercially available blueberries we see at the store. Huckleberries are a north eastern species apparently and have 10 large seeds in them that can’t be missed. Now I want to try a true huckleberry out east!
always makes Sat morning in Alaska fun! motivates me to explore
Outstanding work sir
THANK YOU for your hard work and extra efforts and dedication Sir
THANK YOU!!!
Thanks!
Well so much to see and explore ⛏️ thank you for the explore 😀
Aside from the anxiety 😳😳😳 I real enjoyed this episode!
All those steel balls were probably used in a ball mill. Those big tanks could have been used for numerous operations including cyanide. Just be careful to not touch anything you aren't sure about. Also if you don't have an air monitor already I'd invest in a good one, and a brain bucket. They are expensive but your life is priceless. Great videos thanks for sharing. ❤😊👍
I was thinking the same thing about the chemicals. It made me wonder if the large tank/processing plant that had the scales near by were somehow related to chemicals. A great adventure video.
Too late now ....;-))
He said it was windy so in this situation an O2 monitor wasn't necessary. It was also put on the screen early on that said he was wearing a monitor. Helmets always a good idea
It would be fun to pack in a Jackery type battery pack and wire into the lights, might power up!
Awesome underground explore! Looks like the same one My Dad and I saw about 6 years ago when we were in the same area. Unfortunately he doesn't like going underground so I only walked in the first entrance to the corner. I would have loved to walk right through and out the other adit entrances! Those looked like booster pumps, not hydro power generators but I could be wrong. Glad you were able to explore this one so I could see what I missed!
Awesome Dustin another great video 😊
Beautiful new Red Day.
happy end of week.
Classic adventure! Love these explorations of yours. And I’m with you on the solo adventuring - manage your risks and it is the way to go sometimes.
Hi dustin
you are the bravest person i have ever seen!
@Destination Adventure Hey again, Dustin. How’s it hangin’? Last time I made a gear recommendation it was for LAPD cargo pants for Emi. I’m a prepper, so I have another one for ya /Mick. I don’t know if it’d be appropriate for splorin’ mine shafts, caves etc., but the Streamlight 88810 Wedge 300-Lumen Slim Everyday Carry is Aces in my book 👍🏼
Tech/nerd specs: 300-Lumens; 1200 candela peak beam intensity; 69-meter beam; 3-hour run time. THRO Output: 1000-Lumens; 3000 candela peak beam intensity; 110-meter beam; 35-second burst. Hope this finds you well, so you can find things well…better 😉
Wild! Appreciate the information and the views!
An excellent adventure for a rainy day. 👍😎🍺☮️
The phrase “a sight for sore eyes” originated in the 1700s and was first recorded in Jonathan Swift's 1738 book A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation. The original wording was “The Sight of you is good for sore Eyes”. The modern version was first used by William Hazlitt in 1826 in New Monthly Magazine.

The phrase means that someone or something is a welcome sight or brings relief, especially after a period of fear, worry, tension, or sorrow. For example, you might say “Linda, who had not seen him in 15 years, told him he was a sight for sore eyes”.
Just cause you asked! Thanks for all the adventures!
Another great video! Put this one on the list to return to if you get a bigger light set up.
That was an amazing, I don’t know how you did not get lost. Definitely not a group activity. Enjoying your videos.
2:02 👍🙏 Glad to know you take precautions, you are cautious and use sense
hope everything is going okay for you, haven't seen a video in a while and really miss you work
What D Bell does on his free time is NO ONES business!
What you keep referring to as a shaft is called an Adit or Haulage Tunnel, shafts are vertical adits and tunnels horizontal, great find though, its the sort of stuff I look for constantly, and the things you keep referring to as generators are pumps for water and slurry removal. The digging machine looks like an Eimco 12B mucker.
Dustin awesome video it's right up my alley love exploring old mines
Would love to show you around some spots as I do a lot of mine exploring myself
Definitely curious on this one as I've never been to it
Definitely a cool find would love to do this one day with you
Awesome video, love all the old equipment, they could of at least got the Bobcat SSL out of there before it rusted to nothing.... Ha ha ha 😂
Very interesting Dustin. I think those pieces of equipment you were calling hydro electric generators were actually motor driven pumps. I don't think there was enough free water pressure available to drive a hydro turbine and spin up a generator set in that mine. And they would big very large turbines also.
The hydo end would be larger that the gen set . Enjoyed the video. I to have safety concerns with you being alone in those dangerous places. Be safe
Great video.
You need to look a Olight Flashlights.
I am a flashlight junky and they are beyond any other flashlight.
If they won’t sponsor your channel let me know and I’ll send you one. They are a bit pricey.
Wow this is just nuts , how they were well equipped for these years ! 😳 unbelievable
Dustin Those Hydro Electric items are Water Pumps as most of the piping is either Water or Air.
What a cool old mine
Dustin hi from Calgary. Like you I have a tough time saying ok that's as far as I'm going. I too prefer to take my back country trips solo. That way I go where I want on my schedule it's a total break from the rest of my life.
Great explore today amazing the amount of infastructure they obviously abandoned. Exciting to explore but unfortunate our governments fail to enforce clean up laws too. Leaves me a bit conflicted.
Thanks for the adventure see you next week.
Definitely get a light upgrade , excellent explore non the less !
That welder at 21:26 we still have one of those exact welders at work lol. Still works to.
I'm very late today can't wait to sit back and enjoy this
someone send this guy a better flashlight
Really enjoyed the video! Those aren't hydroelectric generators. They are simply motor driven centrifugal pumps... For everyone saying that better light is needed... ...I think the GoPro is a large part of the problem. GoPros just aren't the best for low light situations. Dustin really needs a better camera for these types of explorations.
Reminds me of when I worked in Snow Lake Manitoba one summer. The first piece of equipment is an engine, could be diesel, the overhead pipes are water or air. Many pieces of equipment run on pneumatic power. The alcove is where you stand to get out of the trains way. In a mine equipment has the right of way.
You should name the e-bike Sore Eyes! As in Sight for Sore Eyes!
Hey I am like you I love spending time by myself in the mountains and exploring not too worried about bears I run into a few so far but they do cool to see i would love to meet you someday
Interesting as always, Dustin!
Good Saturday morning ❤
Great video as usual Agree on how to eat blueberries, living in the same clumsy in Sweden i can only concur.
I just love your videos of where you go thank you Justin
Good morning Dustin. Love your content. But you definitely need a better headlight. Check out the Night Buddy Headlamps, they have a super bright LED 180 degree range. Cheers.
Strange seeing milling balls inside the mine. What you were describing looked like a siltation tank nearby. Maybe with all the available water, they just decided it would be more economical to process the ore right on site. Must have been deafening with a ball mill running indoors.
Awesome video!! I’ve tons of old mines and equipment left here in interior Alaska. It’s wild the kind of equipment they leave behind.
Amazing thanks for sharing Dustin
Hey Dustin, love your channel. Tell people about it all the time.
Even better flashlight for you when filming would be fenix LR40R V2.0 or olight Marauder 2, amazing bright and small - I use it for walking dog rural area need to light up the dark because of predators (coyotes).
9’35”. It’s a water pump. Water and compressed air for drilling. The room at the beginning likely was a compressor room, with the generator outside.
My favourite mine related story is how at one point The Royal Hudson (2860) needed a new trailing truck and so while the rail museum of BC was looking to find one for her they asked the Canadian Rail museum if they could borrow the one from her sister (2850) and then they found one at a mine being used for something and when they asked where the mine got it and if they could buy it the mine said "We got it from a Royal Hudson back in the 60s destined for scrap. Turns out that very truck was the original one taken off of 2860 when she was headed for scrap before she was saved and preserved. So she got reuninted with her truck and the original wheels theron :)