Gly, what's really good about your videos is that you keep the fans informed with everything you see and what something is for and how it works and telling the dates on any paperwork and you will let the fans know a story that goes along with it.💯👍💬
This has got to be one of the best mine videos I've ever seen. The lighting and video clarity as well as the commentary was spectacular. Ohhhh....and the colours. Thanks to you both for an entertaining Sat. morning.
Good to see guys haven't fallen into the recent trend on a couple of the the other mine exploration channels where they clearly go through the mine beforehand and plant a bunch of museum quality artifacts to "discover" along the way. I got interested in this kind of thing because of Frank and later found your channel and have watched enough of both of you to know that finding artifacts in good shape is pretty rare, much less under every loose board or stashed under piles of ore or behind a rock on just a constant basis. You just spice your videos up the classy way, some good clean humor and Pixar quality graphical editing!!
"Gly": Thanks! Yep! you won't find any of that silly stuff here, just good clean exploring and good clean fun and that's how it should be. I'm happy your enjoying the show and thanks again!
The giant stoped out ballrooms you and Frank found here, and your Thunder Ridge explore just blows me away with the amount of work and material that was hauled out. In-f'ing-credible!
What a tremendous mine! Within that big room some of the stolls have become bent over time. The entire adit turned into quite a maze for you two to navigate. When a person looks at this mine in introspect those miners did a stupendous job to clear the mineral, even having to leave pillars to keep holding up the material that they were drilling and chipping out. The haulage adits that the miners cleared look very much like a cave. What a great visual treat you gave us on this explore. Thanks you Gly & Frank.
WOW! Just...freaking WOW! Giant stopes, adits running every which way, gorgeous rock colors...fantastic video! Really glad you had Frank to give perspective of how huge those rooms and stopes were. Was there any gold in the ore, or was it the typical Arizona copper-silver-zinc mix? You two make a great team for sure, can't wait for more explores!! ✌️❤️, and stay safe!
Fred farquar “Gly”: Yeah! I really enjoyed exploring this one. Here is some of the data of this mine without revealing its location: Operations date back to the 1880's and continued intermittently to recent times. Total estimated and recorded production of precious and base metals would be some 160,000 tons of ore containing about 130,582 oz. Au, 89,500 oz. Ag, 45 tons of Cu, 61 tons Pb and minor Zn. About 615 oz. of placer gold with some silver was produced, mostly prior to 1900. Some 1,100 short ton units of tungsten oxide has been reported shipped from the district as well as a few lots of sorted 20% manganese ore.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places That's a lot more gold and less silver than I would have figured. One heck of a mixed ore with all that lead and copper! Thank you very much for the data!👍👍❤️
Interesting, I don't think I've seen actual stairs before. Looks like a pretty modern mine (at least some of it) with those plastic lines running through there. Geeze that place was huge and extensive. Openings to other areas all over the place! I like having Frank there, he gives us a really good perspective on size in there. One word comes to mind: Cavernous! The magic, disappearing miner's cat. He had some kind of escape route. That mine was surely no place for an amateur. Twists and turns abound. Fantastic episode, thank you.
Beautiful colors, now i see why u guys call it the rainbow mine. The minerals in there are gorgeous. Have a great week and glad that ya'll are enjoying Arizona. U guys make a great team.
Sure a lot of pretty colors down there. The biggest stope I ever saw I think was actually several totally collapsed levels that had been washed away down an underground river. Just a few hundred feet in the main haulage level was a short 30' decline, tall enough to walk in, with a 3' hole near the bottom. I crawled down to the hole on my belly and stuck my head through the 4' hole and was looking down about 500' to a huge river of water flowing buy and further than my light could see going to the left and right. Over to the other side of the stope was about 300 to 400 feet. Then I looked underneath myself, like toward my feet, and about crapped my pants when I realized I was laying on a thin layer of lava cap, about 4 inch thick, with nothing else below me for hundreds of feet, near the top of a huge dome that was the top of the stope. I later was told that the hole I crawled up to and stuck my head down was created by a woman who had walked in the short decline tunnel and the floor gave way. She fell through the floor, creating that hole in the lava cap, and her body was never recovered. I'm sure glad I decided to crawl in there on my belly to distribute my weight. I wish I had a camera back then, that was before digital video, and I couldn't afford a good VHS camera.
Duck Landes “Gly”: Scary stuff. Next week you’ll see a mine where they used cactus for false floors and cut n’ fill. The stuff was as brittle as eggshells. Because the false floor had a layer of rock on it you’d have never known you were standing on 100+ year old cactus branches.
That experience and the next mine I explored put enough scare into me to retire from the hobby. I had been doing it over 40 years and never gotten hurt, and figured the odds weren't in my favor anymore. As I came up to the portal of a mine I noticed the water in the entrance was freshly disturbed. Once I got in past the water I realized that the fresh prints in the mud of the animal that had just left as I got there was mountain lion.
Mark Laisure: This was in a Northern California gold drift mine that was following an ancient river bed. There is an active volcano about 80 miles to the north that last last erupted 1914 to 1917, with an explosive eruption in 1915. I suspect the lava cap I was laying on was from an earlier eruption though since it was underground, and the lava cap from the 1915 eruption is mostly still on the surface.
Gly: I was carrying a sidearm, but it still a bit disconcerting to go in a mine knowing a mountain lion just came out of it. I still explored the mine because it was a somewhat unique Chinese gold mine. The ribs, back, and gobbing were so perfect it was like walking in a tunnel rather than a mine. Not far off there was a Chinese mining town built entirely of stacked rocks. It's a kind of spooky location, we would camp near there for weeks at a time dredging for gold and at night you could hear children playing, and a few times I heard a steam train, which there was a train there in the mid 1800's that hauled lumber out of the mountains
Frank and Gly are showing us just what it takes to travel around in a mine, just like miners. Does anyone like a swiss cheese mine. I think Frank was right: A month long series. Huge place. They had a hard time getting that air line in place in one piece. Nice Azurite, lovely colors. Around and around we go again. finally the exit out.
James Rasmussen “Gly”: It’s just that it’s safer to explore when your with a knowledgeable second person. Frank in front of the camera helps put spaces into perspective and betters the commentary.
Pretty impressive the work that those miners did; huge stopes! What was that spool used for as a part of the ore pass? What a maze of haulage adets. You two exploring together give some scope & perspective of the extent of that mine. Good to see the partnership, your filming and editing and Frank's limberness in traversing the "small crawls" and huge, worked out rooms. Thanks for another GREAT explore.
Very colourfull / very holy/ cat disappeared very quickly/ another one up now I can go to sleep/ can’t wait till next week to catch sight of the miners cat / like frank can’t stand still on the go alright / take care gly🙀🙀🙀🐿
Any idea when the new airline was dropped in? When you see PVC lines or air hoses, sometimes they will have the manufacture date along with the other numbers. That can give you a time reference as to when the mine was last worked.
Ahh, a Gly video. I'm at work on nightshifts so I've kicked everybody out the office and I'm kicking back with a cuppa watching your video. Good shot with Frank next to that stall, gives it a real sense of scale. It seems a lot of veins where you are lie at an angle, where ours ours are mostly vertical or horizontal.
UK Abandoned Mine Exploress “Gly”: Yep! The Pacific plate crashing into the North American plate created allot of uplifting around here putting everything on angles.
Wow! What a unique hole! Looks like it must have been worked thru a few eras, huh? Parts look really old, then you have all the PVC and that giant f'n air line, must have been a decent sized operation later on! Not as sketchy as some, but looks like a guy could screw up and accidentally spend a weekend or so staggering around bumping into walls........ As always, interesting! Keep up the good work!
"Gly": Yes, this mine was worked off and on again for many years. It was quite the maze of passages, something a person could easily get turned around in if not careful.
Man this was a huge area to explore , I just enjoy looking at all the footage of the different color ores and rocks , listening to you guys is pretty darn cool too !!
Frank The Goat. Great vid again guys. would be interesting to know more about those mine cats, like the idea from a previous comment about trail cameras
i just love the artistic carpentry the old minors have some of the older mines yall went into woodwork is amazing never new there were mines like this until you guys been on utube
Cats have been known to hide in pretty small and confined spaces. If you notice, his ears don't change direction, but duck down, and what looks like his tail going down towards the water, was in fact going into the larger pipe at 26:56. He's smart enough to know the water is down lower and not a safe direction to go. You walked right over him and didn't know it, and he knew it to. LOL.
It's a shame the cat wasn't rescued, I don't think they would be able to get out on their own. Cats can see in the dark, but even night on earth is not devoid of light, and a mine is pitch black. No light, nothing to see. Given all the different textures on surfaces in a mine, even feeling their way around would be futile. There's not much to go on the smell their way around either. I'd assume any animal in a mine that isn't a bat, will die down there if not pulled out. There's just no way it could keep track of its movements enough to navigate back to where it came in, and with all the pit falls, they will naturally end up deeper and deeper in the mine, only serving to further keep them from finding their way back. They could be walking around in circles without even realizing it. I think the cat only knew how to hide effectively because of the light. So it wasn't that the cat knew the mine well enough to hide, it's just that they had enough light to see where to hide in a pinch.
That's some crazy diggings those posts that were broken and leaning over bad they must have pulled a whole lot of gold out of there. My compliments two the both of y'all be safe
"Gly": Thanks! Here is what was produced at this mine: Production was $1,600,000 in Au bullion in 3 years (1891-1894)(period values). 158,761 tons of ore averaging about 0.85 oz Au/ton, 0.53 oz Ag/ton, and minor Pb and Cu.
Ok so I think I have an idea where the mine cat went to. There is a white drain pipe right where you saw the ringtail. It either went into the pipe or it went under one of the bottom rail tie boards. There was also a glint of something on the right side in the back of the flooded winze. I don’t know if it could jump that far and hide without leaving a simmer in the water
"Gly": Yes, somebody was working down in that flooded winze where we saw the mine cat back in the early 80's. They were using all that PVC pipe and pumping the water out of the winze to both behind that bulkhead and up and out of the mine. I suspect the water storage behind the bulkhead was being used for their drills.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places makes sense , beats hauling water all the way out there for dust abatement. That seamless poly is some of the best piping systems there are.
Hi Gly, such a cool explore, I still can't get over those wooden stolls holding the back up, those things were massive I have never seen them as high as that before, crazy. I wonder where that miners cat went as he just seemed to disappear into thin air, they can run on the ribs of a mine though so perhaps he hid round the corner. Another awesome collaboration between you two, how on earth did Frank keep finding those Barking spiders lmao, lucky I guess ;). Thank you for taking us along. x
"Gly": Thanks Sue! Those little guys are elusive! I looked everywhere for that little bugger and your right, It's like he disappeared into thin air. Well, Frank and I finally capture one on camera next week so stay tuned. The best is yet to come!
Another great one guys. Your goin to have to go up to B.C. and explore in Frank's neck of the woods this summer. My daughter found out about barking spiders last night, lol. Their not just in caves. I did see the mine cat in this one thou, great hiders. He probably stayed tucked up under some of that wood and stuff at the bottom. Water did look like it got disturbed, so he didn't go that far. Yall be safe as always, and cant wait for the next series. I look forward to Saturday morning again like when i was a kid.
Lee Hilton “Gly”: Thanks! Well, now that your daughter knows about barking spiders the next thing you need to do is take her on a snipe hunt. Lol. Good fun!
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces lol. Right. Not many of those in South Dakota, farther south maybe, but we do have jackalopes here. Their a very elusive critter!!
Just a thought-perhaps sometime between adventure vids you guys make gear vid? A shakedown of what is in your backpacks and your equipment. There are a LOT of gear junkies out there and I'm sure it would get a lot of likes. As someone that used to go exploring in the 70s with just a couple cans of Coors stuffed in my pockets and a cheap flashlight I would like to see all the new gear too!
Phew, glad I'm not the only one , was a nervous wreck watching this one , kept thinking.....you're going too fast Frank, gonna fall though a false floor of nudge a crumbly bit of wall or fall against one of the unstable wooden supports and.......I feel much safer watching Gly as he susses everything out first.
Is it possible to get laser measuring devices to measure these shafts ect. I enjoy watching your vids, usually watch why I play my pc games on my second monitor! The support posts too... How do they put them there? How do they also make the little ore shoots that go through the rock to the next level. So many questions!!
"Gly": That would be cool if they did and if it was cheap. Support posts (stulls) are wedged in with shims in stoped out areas. Ore shoots are made by blasting. That's ok, ask lots of questions and I'll do my best to answer.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces okay sweet. When they mark the depth levels on ladders in feet. That's the distance from the surface. But how do they know how many feet down they are at. Is it sea level or the level from the ground at that location?
SuperNick 207 “Gly”: So, if your down in a mine and your at the 200 level that means your 200 feet below the main haulage adit. The levels are always based off of the main level that goes to the portal and to the outside. Now, if your in a horizontal haulage adit and you see numbers on the wall that tells you how many feet you are from the entrance or portal. If your in a drift leading away from the main haulage adit and you see numbers on the wall then that tells you how many feet your from the main haulage adit.
Hi Gly..... This is a Labyrinth Mine..... it's great. Life the cat's in this mine's? Or do they go to sleep in the mine. After that dusty Exploration you'll need a Beer or Whisky 😄 Greetings
DR Fan “Gly”: I think those Mine Cats pretty much live in the mine all the time. They’ve got food, water, shelter and plenty of bats to eat. For me, it’s whiskey. Jameson is my brand.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces OK. Thank you for the Info about the Cat's. I know Jameson. It tastes good. My Brand is Lagavulin (Scotland). Whisky Friend's. 🥃👍
Great video Gly, I can't get my head around why any critter let alone a mine cat would want to live in such darkness, when you have gone those mines will be so dark, enough to send you crazy.
“Gly”: A big part of a mine cats diet is bats. Abandoned mines offer good refuge from predators such as coyotes. Nocturnal mammals see in the dark using all there other senses other than there eyes.
hay G l y, I've heard of you refer to minors cats quite a few times, I was wondering what they are? Are thay cat's left over from the miners? or are they are native animals that live in the mine? Thanks for time.
First off, thanks for your fascinating site, enthusiasm and deep knowledge. Can I ask a potentially stupid question. How do mines have such level floors? Is that something done as the mine progresses as a matter of course? Thanks for your patience on this one :))
“Gly”: As the miners advance through the rock down a drift or adit for example they place what is called a “toe charge” at the floor or base of the main charge. This toe charge serves two purposes, it casts the rock out and away from the face being blasted. If delayed properly and it fractures the rock at floor level so that the void can be filled in with muck rock making for a flat floor. The process of mucking the waste rock out of the mine also helps level the floor as the miners progress. In a well drained mine the drift or adit will progress at a 1 x 3% grade allowing water drainage out of the mine.
Fascinating, thank you so much for clearing this up. This also clears up the absolute need for drainage. I'll keep watching your adventures a little wiser.@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces
If ya watch the video in slow mo up 26:30 you'll see the cat go down then back up looking at Gly and i'm pretty sure he went into that medium sized pipe. The end of the pipe is where you see the cat's head go down into...
Great mine guys. That one looked like allot of work to get through. You 2 guys are the best. Gly Where is Hula Girl ?, I am really concerned about her. Now that you are a star and everything, don’t forget about Hula Girl and the rest of the Clan.
"Gly": Ummm... Frank took her and did things I can't mention here in the comments section. Bobbie the Hula girl will never be the same and Old Bob is really upset too since she was his girlfriend.
Only Frank wud be happy standing under those massive supports. Even doh they were as said like telegraph poles the 1 over shoulder looked like it was ready give bending buckling. If did let's hard hats wouldn't be much use. Cheers thanks yous make great team all need is mines of west, TVR, ask Jeff a massive explore with yous tunnel rats be just cool listening to yous explore stories & see who has biggest set my bet Frank he never gives up always talks himself into stuff for us. Stay safe cheers thanks many regards from Ireland. 👍🇮🇪☘Godbless🙏
This mine makes a Swiss Cheese look like a piker... Which hole do you go into first? Right hand rule doesn't work on a left handed corkscrew travelling through a moth-eaten Swiss cheese tunnel thought up by a brain-addled miner that has been snorting mercury fumes for a couple of decades. I don't think I have ever seen spliced stolls like the ballroom where the stolls are over 30 feet long. There is a bit of sulphides still on the face of the ribs and back and iron staining as well, but also looks like cuprite and chrysocolla, so there is some copper in there.. Glad you found some rails for the haul level, I was starting to wonder how the ore got out until I saw the rails. Too bad for the flooded winze, but where did the miners cat go? I'd like to see more of those critters - they sound like a great asset to get rid of the rats, mice, and other tasty munchies that would otherwise be a real pain in the backside. Well, beer:30 again and thanks for the awesome tour and video !!! I love this mine and would love to walk in it myself. I'll be headed South right after the first of the year and if you gentlemen are about, I'd love to be able to buy a couple of rounds at the local watering hole !!!
"Gly": Yeah, that miners cat disappeared into thin air but you'll be getting a good look at one this coming Saturday when we air our four part collaboration episodes. Remember, Part 1 will begin on Franks channel with Part 2 airing on my channel 15 min. later. I'm not 100% sure where we will be come January. Contact Frank or I via email about that time and maybe we can all meet somewhere for some suds.
At the start of this day's offing, there was Frank's logo on the wall....hmmmm. I don't think that even setting your strobes Gly would have given you a right/wrong direction to get back to. VERY twisty. And got to ask, what is this "approach", as I know you are trying different camera angles. I'd title this episode "Frank Schliting and his camera man". lol Really!? really!? wouldn't the camera views been enough without Frank having to jump, climb, scramble into each stope. Well, guess we know, he's just a hound dog on a trail. lol Great video with good clarity.
This mine looks like Swiss cheese with all those holes everywhere, what do you think was mined here not seeing much quartz so probably not a gold mine , a lot of colors in this mine very cool 😎
"Gly": I was able to find some data on this mine. Here is what was recovered: Production was $1,600,000 in Au bullion in 3 years (1891-1894)(period values). 158,761 tons of ore averaging about 0.85 oz Au/ton, 0.53 oz Ag/ton, and minor Pb and Cu.
The wife says iam obsessed. You guys make my Saturday morning nice and relaxing hot coffee the big screen and a fire blaring. Thank god I have a super comfortable recliner because I’ll be stuck in it for a wile today back to back video. LOVEING IT SO MUCH!!!! Keep up the great work and you guys be safe out there. Your pissing of the BLM and I love it. Can’t wate till next Saturday morning. Thanks again for the videos. ⚒💎⛏🤟✌️
"Gly": Thanks! I'm really happy your enjoying the show. Next week your going to see some of our best work yet. Remember, Part 1 will air on Franks channel with part two airing on mine 15 min. later.
@@theogdirkdiggler Thats a great logo idea Dirk. Gly has been kicking around putting a T-shirt for his site together. (but then, "right hand rules" could be misunderstood and mean alot of things........lol
"Gly": It took me a while to get it figured out but the big room / stope was a ore collection point. The "chasm" was the bottom of an inclined shaft where they took the ore out of the mine.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces the colors were incredible, it must've assayed very well judging by the size of the Ballrooms. Lol you were leaking oil a little trying to keep up with Frank.
You and frank release videos back to back!? I'm not getting any thing done to day.... And now i have finished the clip. The wife is going to be p.o when i stay in the hotel room on our weekend trip to Riga- Latvia next week. 😁
Gly, what's really good about your videos is that you keep the fans informed with everything you see and what something is for and how it works and telling the dates on any paperwork and you will let the fans know a story that goes along with it.💯👍💬
This has got to be one of the best mine videos I've ever seen. The lighting and video clarity as well as the commentary was spectacular. Ohhhh....and the colours. Thanks to you both for an entertaining Sat. morning.
terry mcnickle
“Gly”: Thanks Terry!
Good to see guys haven't fallen into the recent trend on a couple of the the other mine exploration channels where they clearly go through the mine beforehand and plant a bunch of museum quality artifacts to "discover" along the way.
I got interested in this kind of thing because of Frank and later found your channel and have watched enough of both of you to know that finding artifacts in good shape is pretty rare, much less under every loose board or stashed under piles of ore or behind a rock on just a constant basis.
You just spice your videos up the classy way, some good clean humor and Pixar quality graphical editing!!
"Gly": Thanks! Yep! you won't find any of that silly stuff here, just good clean exploring and good clean fun and that's how it should be. I'm happy your enjoying the show and thanks again!
Poor Gly... you looked like a parent chasing their kid around an enormous jungle gym lol.
The giant stoped out ballrooms you and Frank found here, and your Thunder Ridge explore just blows me away with the amount of work and material that was hauled out. In-f'ing-credible!
I'm so darn old it's hard to hear Frank. So I enjoy more when your talking. Still I enjoy your videos very much and I thank you.
"Gly": Yes, Frank tends to mumble. I've been trying different things with the audio and you'll hear quite an improvement in next weeks video.
No, its not us seniors its just that Frank mumbles alot to himself and he moves along. (or else, call it thinking outloud) ha,ha.
Maybe try a good set of earphones?
What a tremendous mine! Within that big room some of the stolls have become bent over time. The entire adit turned into quite a maze for you two to navigate. When a person looks at this mine in introspect those miners did a stupendous job to clear the mineral, even having to leave pillars to keep holding up the material that they were drilling and chipping out. The haulage adits that the miners cleared look very much like a cave. What a great visual treat you gave us on this explore. Thanks you Gly & Frank.
After watching this video it really makes me appreciate Glys camera work. Thanks Buddy!
I really appreciate how you turn slowly and explain everything Gly.
WOW! Just...freaking WOW! Giant stopes, adits running every which way, gorgeous rock colors...fantastic video! Really glad you had Frank to give perspective of how huge those rooms and stopes were. Was there any gold in the ore, or was it the typical Arizona copper-silver-zinc mix?
You two make a great team for sure, can't wait for more explores!! ✌️❤️, and stay safe!
Fred farquar
“Gly”: Yeah! I really enjoyed exploring this one. Here is some of the data of this mine without revealing its location:
Operations date back to the 1880's and continued intermittently to recent times. Total estimated and recorded production of precious and base metals would be some 160,000 tons of ore containing about 130,582 oz. Au, 89,500 oz. Ag, 45 tons of Cu, 61 tons Pb and minor Zn. About 615 oz. of placer gold with some silver was produced, mostly prior to 1900. Some 1,100 short ton units of tungsten oxide has been reported shipped from the district as well as a few lots of sorted 20% manganese ore.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places That's a lot more gold and less silver than I would have figured. One heck of a mixed ore with all that lead and copper! Thank you very much for the data!👍👍❤️
Totally awesome finding a miner's cat still running around!! Where did it go?!?!?! Swiss cheese mine was an understatement!!
How hard was it to get those long logs in there? Plus, they were really heavy.
Interesting, I don't think I've seen actual stairs before. Looks like a pretty modern mine (at least some of it) with those plastic lines running through there.
Geeze that place was huge and extensive. Openings to other areas all over the place! I like having Frank there, he gives us a really good perspective on size in there. One word comes to mind: Cavernous!
The magic, disappearing miner's cat. He had some kind of escape route.
That mine was surely no place for an amateur. Twists and turns abound. Fantastic episode, thank you.
Frank is dangerous
Beautiful colors, now i see why u guys call it the rainbow mine. The minerals in there are gorgeous. Have a great week and glad that ya'll are enjoying Arizona. U guys make a great team.
You guys just made my Saturday morning! Thank you!
Wow such a big mine. Thank you
coffee and some popcorn, I'm ready
Sure a lot of pretty colors down there. The biggest stope I ever saw I think was actually several totally collapsed levels that had been washed away down an underground river. Just a few hundred feet in the main haulage level was a short 30' decline, tall enough to walk in, with a 3' hole near the bottom. I crawled down to the hole on my belly and stuck my head through the 4' hole and was looking down about 500' to a huge river of water flowing buy and further than my light could see going to the left and right. Over to the other side of the stope was about 300 to 400 feet. Then I looked underneath myself, like toward my feet, and about crapped my pants when I realized I was laying on a thin layer of lava cap, about 4 inch thick, with nothing else below me for hundreds of feet, near the top of a huge dome that was the top of the stope. I later was told that the hole I crawled up to and stuck my head down was created by a woman who had walked in the short decline tunnel and the floor gave way. She fell through the floor, creating that hole in the lava cap, and her body was never recovered. I'm sure glad I decided to crawl in there on my belly to distribute my weight. I wish I had a camera back then, that was before digital video, and I couldn't afford a good VHS camera.
Duck Landes
“Gly”: Scary stuff. Next week you’ll see a mine where they used cactus for false floors and cut n’ fill. The stuff was as brittle as eggshells. Because the false floor had a layer of rock on it you’d have never known you were standing on 100+ year old cactus branches.
That experience and the next mine I explored put enough scare into me to retire from the hobby. I had been doing it over 40 years and never gotten hurt, and figured the odds weren't in my favor anymore. As I came up to the portal of a mine I noticed the water in the entrance was freshly disturbed. Once I got in past the water I realized that the fresh prints in the mud of the animal that had just left as I got there was mountain lion.
Duck Landes
“Gly”: Yep! That’s why I carry my pistol and / or a big can of pepper spray. It’s no guarantee but at least it’s something.
Mark Laisure: This was in a Northern California gold drift mine that was following an ancient river bed. There is an active volcano about 80 miles to the north that last last erupted 1914 to 1917, with an explosive eruption in 1915. I suspect the lava cap I was laying on was from an earlier eruption though since it was underground, and the lava cap from the 1915 eruption is mostly still on the surface.
Gly: I was carrying a sidearm, but it still a bit disconcerting to go in a mine knowing a mountain lion just came out of it. I still explored the mine because it was a somewhat unique Chinese gold mine. The ribs, back, and gobbing were so perfect it was like walking in a tunnel rather than a mine. Not far off there was a Chinese mining town built entirely of stacked rocks. It's a kind of spooky location, we would camp near there for weeks at a time dredging for gold and at night you could hear children playing, and a few times I heard a steam train, which there was a train there in the mid 1800's that hauled lumber out of the mountains
Finally! I've been waiting for this. Thank you.
I'm so glad you're feeling better today with Frank yeaaaaa
Frank and Gly are showing us just what it takes to travel around in a mine, just like miners. Does anyone like a swiss cheese mine. I think Frank was right: A month long series. Huge place. They had a hard time getting that air line in place in one piece. Nice Azurite, lovely colors. Around and around we go again. finally the exit out.
Excellent video! I feel like you’re improving being around Frank!
James Rasmussen
“Gly”: It’s just that it’s safer to explore when your with a knowledgeable second person. Frank in front of the camera helps put spaces into perspective and betters the commentary.
Pretty impressive the work that those miners did; huge stopes! What was that spool used for as a part of the ore pass? What a maze of haulage adets. You two exploring together give some scope & perspective of the extent of that mine. Good to see the partnership, your filming and editing and Frank's limberness in traversing the "small crawls" and huge, worked out rooms. Thanks for another GREAT explore.
“Gly”: I think miners from the 80’s were using that spool of cable to bring up ore from that declined shaft.
Very colourfull / very holy/ cat disappeared very quickly/ another one up now I can go to sleep/ can’t wait till next week to catch sight of the miners cat / like frank can’t stand still on the go alright / take care gly🙀🙀🙀🐿
I love your collaborations with Frank. It's a hoot.
Any idea when the new airline was dropped in?
When you see PVC lines or air hoses, sometimes they will have the manufacture date along with the other numbers. That can give you a time reference as to when the mine was last worked.
That is a very big mine what a great video from Mark in Cornwall UK
"Gly": Thanks!
Ahh, a Gly video. I'm at work on nightshifts so I've kicked everybody out the office and I'm kicking back with a cuppa watching your video. Good shot with Frank next to that stall, gives it a real sense of scale. It seems a lot of veins where you are lie at an angle, where ours ours are mostly vertical or horizontal.
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“Gly”: Yep! The Pacific plate crashing into the North American plate created allot of uplifting around here putting everything on angles.
Yes, where as the Pennines near me, got pushed upwards directly giving the difference.
👋👀😎👍🍻. Now I’m watching reruns and waiting till next week
Had to come back an watch again as your other videos Incase I missed something thanks again for all you an frank do
Wow! What a unique hole! Looks like it must have been worked thru a few eras, huh? Parts look really old, then you have all the PVC and that giant f'n air line, must have been a decent sized operation later on! Not as sketchy as some, but looks like a guy could screw up and accidentally spend a weekend or so staggering around bumping into walls........ As always, interesting! Keep up the good work!
"Gly": Yes, this mine was worked off and on again for many years. It was quite the maze of passages, something a person could easily get turned around in if not careful.
Man this was a huge area to explore , I just enjoy looking at all the footage of the different color ores and rocks , listening to you guys is pretty darn cool too !!
Wow holy stopes Batman awesome mine be cool to of seen the cat great stuff guys as always be safe
good one guys i paused at 17;46 just as frank was jumping over that cavern and caught him mid flight ,,would be a cool picture
This one deserves a 24hr camp-in tour!
Thank you for taking us there, it looks like it would be easy to get lost don't know how you do it.
Frank The Goat. Great vid again guys. would be interesting to know more about those mine cats, like the idea from a previous comment about trail cameras
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“Gly”: We captured another one on camera today! The episode will eventually be on Franks channel.
i just love the artistic carpentry the old minors have some of the older mines yall went into woodwork is amazing never new there were mines like this until you guys been on utube
Hi there, That was a really nice piece of swiss cheese you guys found this time!
Simply Amazing...
Your videos are not only entertaining but educational too! subbed
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“Gly”: Thanks! And welcome aboard!
Looks like a huge maze, must be easy to lose your way. Very enjoyable.
Frank reminds me of that old SNL skit Norge Refrigerator repairman.
dang frank is a beast climbing around
This ore looks like the ore they are mining in the Victor/Cripple Creek mine in Colorado.
"What do you think I am, a frigging goat?" Haha.
love the colors
Rainbow mine is famous. I've seen it in movies. Probably old westerns. But ive definitely heard of it. Nice video 👏👊👍
Awesome old mines exploration productions.
Gly when I thought there was no baking spider's in the mine you asked Frank to come to the fresh air.
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“Gly”: I was trying to trick him. Didn’t work. Lol
Wow, makes me wonder why it wasn't just open cut....that is Massive....Unreal....thanks Gly, great video...!
Cats have been known to hide in pretty small and confined spaces. If you notice, his ears don't change direction, but duck down, and what looks like his tail going down towards the water, was in fact going into the larger pipe at 26:56. He's smart enough to know the water is down lower and not a safe direction to go. You walked right over him and didn't know it, and he knew it to. LOL.
"Gly": I think your absolutely right.
It's a shame the cat wasn't rescued, I don't think they would be able to get out on their own. Cats can see in the dark, but even night on earth is not devoid of light, and a mine is pitch black. No light, nothing to see. Given all the different textures on surfaces in a mine, even feeling their way around would be futile. There's not much to go on the smell their way around either. I'd assume any animal in a mine that isn't a bat, will die down there if not pulled out. There's just no way it could keep track of its movements enough to navigate back to where it came in, and with all the pit falls, they will naturally end up deeper and deeper in the mine, only serving to further keep them from finding their way back. They could be walking around in circles without even realizing it.
I think the cat only knew how to hide effectively because of the light. So it wasn't that the cat knew the mine well enough to hide, it's just that they had enough light to see where to hide in a pinch.
That's some crazy diggings those posts that were broken and leaning over bad they must have pulled a whole lot of gold out of there. My compliments two the both of y'all be safe
At 5:30 it looks like a map of the mine painted on the right hand wall
“Gly”: Those painted areas on the ribs of the mine are areas of interest. Areas where recent miners took samples and probably had them assayed.
@7 MIN MARK WHAT WAS ON THE LEFT OF THE BEAM?
"Gly": That was a rock that someone had wrapped with tape to mark their direction of travel.
Now that was a huge mine!! What did they mine out of that massive Place?? Great video and lighting! 💪
"Gly": Thanks! Here is what was produced at this mine:
Production was $1,600,000 in Au bullion in 3 years (1891-1894)(period values). 158,761 tons of ore averaging about 0.85 oz Au/ton, 0.53 oz Ag/ton, and minor Pb and Cu.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places quitethe mixtures running in those seams.
Ok so I think I have an idea where the mine cat went to. There is a white drain pipe right where you saw the ringtail. It either went into the pipe or it went under one of the bottom rail tie boards. There was also a glint of something on the right side in the back of the flooded winze. I don’t know if it could jump that far and hide without leaving a simmer in the water
Gly that poly pipe airline speaks to some newer work over development going on don’t you think?
"Gly": Yes, somebody was working down in that flooded winze where we saw the mine cat back in the early 80's. They were using all that PVC pipe and pumping the water out of the winze to both behind that bulkhead and up and out of the mine. I suspect the water storage behind the bulkhead was being used for their drills.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places makes sense , beats hauling water all the way out there for dust abatement. That seamless poly is some of the best piping systems there are.
Nicely done guys.. Stay safe out there 😎👍
Hi Gly, such a cool explore, I still can't get over those wooden stolls holding the back up, those things were massive I have never seen them as high as that before, crazy. I wonder where that miners cat went as he just seemed to disappear into thin air, they can run on the ribs of a mine though so perhaps he hid round the corner. Another awesome collaboration between you two, how on earth did Frank keep finding those Barking spiders lmao, lucky I guess ;). Thank you for taking us along. x
"Gly": Thanks Sue! Those little guys are elusive! I looked everywhere for that little bugger and your right, It's like he disappeared into thin air. Well, Frank and I finally capture one on camera next week so stay tuned. The best is yet to come!
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Every video is the best ;), I'm looking forward to the 4 part mine though I must admit. x
This place is astronomical! Lol thank you so much! Made me almost wish I was there!
Another great one guys. Your goin to have to go up to B.C. and explore in Frank's neck of the woods this summer. My daughter found out about barking spiders last night, lol. Their not just in caves. I did see the mine cat in this one thou, great hiders. He probably stayed tucked up under some of that wood and stuff at the bottom. Water did look like it got disturbed, so he didn't go that far. Yall be safe as always, and cant wait for the next series. I look forward to Saturday morning again like when i was a kid.
Lee Hilton
“Gly”: Thanks! Well, now that your daughter knows about barking spiders the next thing you need to do is take her on a snipe hunt. Lol. Good fun!
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces lol. Right. Not many of those in South Dakota, farther south maybe, but we do have jackalopes here. Their a very elusive critter!!
That's a amazing mine with all the different ways you could go, I just wonder how big it really is?
"Gly": It's much bigger, Frank filmed the other half on his channel but he hasn't released it yet.
Very cool mine. A spooky one at that. What is meant by the “ right hand rule “ ?
You can see fine stoping by three eminent stopers, Howard, Fine and Howard at 10:30.
Is there a way to see a detailed map of the inside of these mines?
Very interesting Thank You both, also where can I find Franks channel?
“Gly”: His channel is Exploring Abandoned Mines. Search that title and you’ll find his videos.
I've really been enjoying your videos 😁 I am interested in a couple of items you have for sale! Thanks 👍 Gly and Mr. M and Frank
Just a thought-perhaps sometime between adventure vids you guys make gear vid? A shakedown of what is in your backpacks and your equipment. There are a LOT of gear junkies out there and I'm sure it would get a lot of likes. As someone that used to go exploring in the 70s with just a couple cans of Coors stuffed in my pockets and a cheap flashlight I would like to see all the new gear too!
"Gly": I do plan on making a gear video this coming spring or summer after Franks goes back to Canada.
Frank reminds me a old friend I lovingly call Sasquatch
Frank makes me nervous stomping around loose rock. Gly is a lot more careful where he steps. Frank is like one of those bats flying around aimlessly.
Phew, glad I'm not the only one , was a nervous wreck watching this one , kept thinking.....you're going too fast Frank, gonna fall though a false floor of nudge a crumbly bit of wall or fall against one of the unstable wooden supports and.......I feel much safer watching Gly as he susses everything out first.
At 13:10, look, we've got an old wheel barrow. Actually, just an old barrow, no wheel.
What minute is the cat?
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“Gly”: 26:39
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces thanks, weird he just dissapeared
Is it possible to get laser measuring devices to measure these shafts ect. I enjoy watching your vids, usually watch why I play my pc games on my second monitor! The support posts too... How do they put them there? How do they also make the little ore shoots that go through the rock to the next level. So many questions!!
"Gly": That would be cool if they did and if it was cheap. Support posts (stulls) are wedged in with shims in stoped out areas. Ore shoots are made by blasting. That's ok, ask lots of questions and I'll do my best to answer.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces okay sweet. When they mark the depth levels on ladders in feet. That's the distance from the surface. But how do they know how many feet down they are at. Is it sea level or the level from the ground at that location?
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“Gly”: So, if your down in a mine and your at the 200 level that means your 200 feet below the main haulage adit. The levels are always based off of the main level that goes to the portal and to the outside. Now, if your in a horizontal haulage adit and you see numbers on the wall that tells you how many feet you are from the entrance or portal. If your in a drift leading away from the main haulage adit and you see numbers on the wall then that tells you how many feet your from the main haulage adit.
What would it take to get a piece of that deep red rock? I can't afford a lot but I see clusters? of it and you walk right by it. What is it?
Hi Gly.....
This is a Labyrinth Mine..... it's great. Life the cat's in this mine's? Or do they go to sleep in the mine.
After that dusty Exploration you'll need a Beer or Whisky 😄
Greetings
DR Fan
“Gly”: I think those Mine Cats pretty much live in the mine all the time. They’ve got food, water, shelter and plenty of bats to eat. For me, it’s whiskey. Jameson is my brand.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces
OK. Thank you for the Info about the Cat's.
I know Jameson. It tastes good.
My Brand is Lagavulin (Scotland).
Whisky Friend's. 🥃👍
Great video Gly, I can't get my head around why any critter let alone a mine cat would want to live in such darkness, when you have gone those mines will be so dark, enough to send you crazy.
“Gly”: A big part of a mine cats diet is bats. Abandoned mines offer good refuge from predators such as coyotes. Nocturnal mammals see in the dark using all there other senses other than there eyes.
😸😺😺😺 chasing Frank's butt crack arround!! 😸😸😸🍻
Roflmao 😁😁😁😁!!!
nice mine guys! next weeks footage is going to be great i just know it ;)
Hello! I know ive asked before but i cant remember the answer, WHAT SONG IS THAT AT THE END PLEASE? its so nice! need it in my life
never mind.. i finally downloaded that app that does it for me. lol
“Gly”: That song is called “Meet the Macho Man”. You can find it on epidemicsound.com
Why didn't they take the air line out when they left? seems like it is in like new condition.
hay G l y, I've heard of you refer to minors cats quite a few times, I was wondering what they are? Are thay cat's left over from the miners? or are they are native animals that live in the mine? Thanks for time.
12:08 who's shadow is that?
14:42 Top left corner, is that daylight? Must be! And look how flat the rock is, a fault?
First off, thanks for your fascinating site, enthusiasm and deep knowledge. Can I ask a potentially stupid question. How do mines have such level floors? Is that something done as the mine progresses as a matter of course? Thanks for your patience on this one :))
“Gly”: As the miners advance through the rock down a drift or adit for example they place what is called a “toe charge” at the floor or base of the main charge. This toe charge serves two purposes, it casts the rock out and away from the face being blasted. If delayed properly and it fractures the rock at floor level so that the void can be filled in with muck rock making for a flat floor. The process of mucking the waste rock out of the mine also helps level the floor as the miners progress. In a well drained mine the drift or adit will progress at a 1 x 3% grade allowing water drainage out of the mine.
Fascinating, thank you so much for clearing this up. This also clears up the absolute need for drainage. I'll keep watching your adventures a little wiser.@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces
This mine is like a block of swiss cheese, so full of holes. great video.
If ya watch the video in slow mo up 26:30 you'll see the cat go down then back up looking at Gly and i'm pretty sure he went into that medium sized pipe. The end of the pipe is where you see the cat's head go down into...
“Gly”: I’m pretty sure he went into a pipe too. I looked everywhere for that little guy and it’s the only place he could’ve gone.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces I'm working my way through all of your videos, love the content! Stay safe!
Great mine guys. That one looked like allot of work to get through. You 2 guys are the best. Gly Where is Hula Girl ?, I am really concerned about her. Now that you are a star and everything, don’t forget about Hula Girl and the rest of the Clan.
"Gly": Ummm... Frank took her and did things I can't mention here in the comments section. Bobbie the Hula girl will never be the same and Old Bob is really upset too since she was his girlfriend.
Only Frank wud be happy standing under those massive supports. Even doh they were as said like telegraph poles the 1 over shoulder looked like it was ready give bending buckling. If did let's hard hats wouldn't be much use. Cheers thanks yous make great team all need is mines of west, TVR, ask Jeff a massive explore with yous tunnel rats be just cool listening to yous explore stories & see who has biggest set my bet Frank he never gives up always talks himself into stuff for us. Stay safe cheers thanks many regards from Ireland. 👍🇮🇪☘Godbless🙏
One minute watching and I’m saying OMG!!! it’s only 0700 and I already need a beer!!!
This mine makes a Swiss Cheese look like a piker... Which hole do you go into first? Right hand rule doesn't work on a left handed corkscrew travelling through a moth-eaten Swiss cheese tunnel thought up by a brain-addled miner that has been snorting mercury fumes for a couple of decades. I don't think I have ever seen spliced stolls like the ballroom where the stolls are over 30 feet long. There is a bit of sulphides still on the face of the ribs and back and iron staining as well, but also looks like cuprite and chrysocolla, so there is some copper in there.. Glad you found some rails for the haul level, I was starting to wonder how the ore got out until I saw the rails. Too bad for the flooded winze, but where did the miners cat go? I'd like to see more of those critters - they sound like a great asset to get rid of the rats, mice, and other tasty munchies that would otherwise be a real pain in the backside. Well, beer:30 again and thanks for the awesome tour and video !!! I love this mine and would love to walk in it myself. I'll be headed South right after the first of the year and if you gentlemen are about, I'd love to be able to buy a couple of rounds at the local watering hole !!!
"Gly": Yeah, that miners cat disappeared into thin air but you'll be getting a good look at one this coming Saturday when we air our four part collaboration episodes. Remember, Part 1 will begin on Franks channel with Part 2 airing on my channel 15 min. later. I'm not 100% sure where we will be come January. Contact Frank or I via email about that time and maybe we can all meet somewhere for some suds.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Thanks Gly. I'd really appreciate meeting my Heroes. I'll look forward to a possible meeting and hope our paths cross.
How many workers and how long would it have taken to do all that ?
At the start of this day's offing, there was Frank's logo on the wall....hmmmm. I don't think that even setting your strobes Gly would have given you a right/wrong direction to get back to. VERY twisty. And got to ask, what is this "approach", as I know you are trying different camera angles. I'd title this episode "Frank Schliting and his camera man". lol Really!? really!? wouldn't the camera views been enough without Frank having to jump, climb, scramble into each stope. Well, guess we know, he's just a hound dog on a trail. lol Great video with good clarity.
This mine looks like Swiss cheese with all those holes everywhere, what do you think was mined here not seeing much quartz so probably not a gold mine , a lot of colors in this mine very cool 😎
"Gly": I was able to find some data on this mine. Here is what was recovered:
Production was $1,600,000 in Au bullion in 3 years (1891-1894)(period values). 158,761 tons of ore averaging about 0.85 oz Au/ton, 0.53 oz Ag/ton, and minor Pb and Cu.
The wife says iam obsessed. You guys make my Saturday morning nice and relaxing hot coffee the big screen and a fire blaring. Thank god I have a super comfortable recliner because I’ll be stuck in it for a wile today back to back video. LOVEING IT SO MUCH!!!!
Keep up the great work and you guys be safe out there. Your pissing of the BLM and I love it. Can’t wate till next Saturday morning. Thanks again for the videos. ⚒💎⛏🤟✌️
"Gly": Thanks! I'm really happy your enjoying the show. Next week your going to see some of our best work yet. Remember, Part 1 will air on Franks channel with part two airing on mine 15 min. later.
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Awesome thanks again for the great videos guys and be safe
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces ohh boy, look forward to it every week, can you make a shirt that says "right hand rules"?
@@theogdirkdiggler Thats a great logo idea Dirk. Gly has been kicking around putting a T-shirt for his site together. (but then, "right hand rules" could be misunderstood and mean alot of things........lol
Be real cool if you have some trail cameras and see all the animals run through there
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“Gly”: We finally do capture a mine cat on video in next weeks episode. Stay tuned!
You guys need to rename this mine to the Swiss 🧀 mine. Lol.
swiss cheese mine, seems like an awful lot of material on the floor, was that just ore thats left or is it stuff thats fallen off the back?
"Gly": It took me a while to get it figured out but the big room / stope was a ore collection point. The "chasm" was the bottom of an inclined shaft where they took the ore out of the mine.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces the colors were incredible, it must've assayed very well judging by the size of the Ballrooms. Lol you were leaking oil a little trying to keep up with Frank.
"Gly": He is a turbo.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces lol energizer bunny
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces yeah right, thanks for the reply Gly, very interesting mine
You and frank release videos back to back!? I'm not getting any thing done to day....
And now i have finished the clip.
The wife is going to be p.o when i stay in the hotel room on our weekend trip to Riga- Latvia next week. 😁
"Gly": Better than Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces -- Gly , yeh , you're Roadrunner and he's Wile Coyote . LOL ! .
I had to look "mine cat" up. North American Civet Cat. hmm