Found your channel here while surfing TH-cam on my TV cable box browser. Makes looking over the various channels easy, but you don't have access to posted links or comments. Have to say you and Mr McBride have me hooked! I'm a So Cal jeeper that's cruised a few mines in my day, but nothing like what you guys are exploring. The Dale Mining District east of Twentynine Palms, CA has some infrastructure, metal tanks, concrete cabin flats, headframes and even big mechanical conveyor belt machines left, but it's an accessible area that lots of people know about. I don't think I'm claustrophobic, but as soon as I enter a mine I get a small case of 'The Willies' that grows and grows until the little angel on my right shoulder tells me to turn around. Thank God for you guys who do the homework, have the right karma and bring out HD, wobble-corrected video of the deep places for me. I hear the echoes of the past, I envision the hard work and dreams and sweat that once lived there right along with you.
If you are interested, my buddy and I went out to a place near Vidal Junction (40+ yrs ago) that was a chrysocolla mine. Had the crusher and table set up. The only problem was about 3 or 4 vertical shafts out in the brush that were full of water and too deep to climb out. You had to be really careful walking around and the drive in was a challenge. You could see Lake Havasu at night.
You guys are killing the videos. Ive seen them all most more than once and love the info quality and history. Thanks to you guys and of course the claim owner for the sweet video!
@@aaronkeeth651 fine brother! Going to be crazy as shit here real soon with rice harvest. How you doin? I was bummed I couldn't make it up last weekend believe me!
Holy wow that's a first for me that was so frickin awesome and ya if you can imagine how much water it took to move all that material down all that length of sluice holy moly and so loud. Hahahaha amazing to say the least. I love your channel you do great work and exploring abandoned mines with Frank you two are awsome to watch. Thanks keep up the great work🍻👍
Glad to hear you get permission to pass keep out signs- so many "explorers" tresspass blatantly and pilfer (steal) things. Some even climb in windows of locked houses and buildings.
the more mine exploring videos i watch, the more im in wonder at how people of the gold rush spent their entire lives digging these tunnels in the ground in the middle of nowhere hundreds of miles out in the wilderness
Money talks. People will kill their own family member over money. Throwing pick axes, and living in darkness, definitly wouldnt bother any money hungry "person". It just is what it is.
In reference to gold stuck in equipment, heard true stories about finding amalgam retorts that weren't cleaned out when the mine or mill shut down. Pounds of amalgam have been later recovered still in it when found years later.
Great video I was in a canyon with a friend and we came a upon a very old ground sluice was a pretty awesome thing to see especially because of how long it's been there in a running creek
great job again my friend and glad it is on Private Property and we would install range cameras too as we noticed some people don't read signs to well......love the artifacts and the ore samples of Limonite in quartz ...Cabins in great shape....anytime you see hand stacking of cobbles and large rounded river rock you can bet there was Gold there....that first mine was classic drift mining in old Ancient river channels...I bet there is some juicy Gold still in there....love that old Hand still they used for drilling a round...beautiful stringers running through the back....looks like a serpentine with shale...great place for a Gold Bug 2....should use a 6 inch coil on it....
Thank you! There was definitely a lot going on at this claim - the number of mines, the different types of mines (which will become more evident in the second video), the number of old mining artifacts around... It definitely felt like there was still some good gold there.
Trail cams are a real good idea...I know a claim owner who had hundreds of pounds of copper cable stolen from an exploration/development-stage mine in New Mexico; isolated mines are vulnerable to theft.
lot of work went into the sides to make them as smooth as they were hope your buddies find a nice nugget or two did they check the conglomerate nugs been known to hide there too ! hope second trip drier than this one and Shade a sweet fur face !! see you in the next video. thanks for sharing
Thank you. I thought that larger adit was really interesting... Ha, and, yes, the adits on the other side of the creek are completely dry (which was a welcome change for us).
I hate Keep Out Signs on our Public Lands, if it is not a Patented Claim that Keep Out Sign means nothing. the Claimant only owns Mineral Rights and not Surface Rights so if a Miner ever asks you to leave Public Lands ask to see His or Her Patent Papers, however it is Legal for a Claimant to ask you to leave a Work Area providing they have a Valid Plan of Operation on File with BLM or Forest Service. FYI: If you want to keep folks off your Claim then below you Mining Claim Sign post another sign that warns of Poisonous Mine Gas in the Area. I had a dumping problem at one of my Lode Claims and no amount of Keep Out Signs would stop anyone from dumping trash but one Poison Mine Gas Sign and never a problem again.
I hate it when people dump a bunch of trash out in the forest (or the desert or wherever)... Haha, "the "poison mine gas" sign is an excellent way to address that!
Cool stuff. I love lookin and exploring old mines. Miners back then dudes were tuff bustin there asses all day hard work no 4 sure gains u know. So cool seein water dripping into these tunnels. Y is that?
Any chance you are willing to share the location or maybe the contact info for the owners? If not I totally understand. I am fascinated by the mining history in the Sierra Nevadas. The reason I would be interested in the area in your video is that you stated it was safe enough for your dog and I have 7 & 9 yr old girls I'm trying to expose to the reality of how the world really works. the naivety of kids never stops amazing me. Want to show them real-world Minecraft :). Either way good video.
Great video was always guys hey did the owner actually find any significant amount of gold in there or does he just play around all of that artifacts stuff is really fascinating nice job thanks for the treat
It's a difficult process and a lot of work in itself before you can even begin to work the claim. It's surveyed by a mineral examiner during the claiming process from the blm or nfs. There is a lot of due diligence involved in having an active claim.
Thank you very much. Well, it certainly isn't cheap, but I pay for these trips out of my earnings at my regular job. Also, when people are kind enough to watch the ads at the start of the videos, it adds a few cents to the change jar, which helps pay for the gas money sometimes.
Love it , have been to one here in Oregon that is hidden, locked gates all up road, only 5 or 6 people have been to it, all the contents of the cabin are still in it today by looks of stove, kitchen fig all from the teens or 20s,! great to explore area's all around for min of 70 acres ! with cabin sites found all over ridge and down to valley , most cabins are burned down but can see the burnt timbers on a few sitting on basic rocks that were used to support weight, My only regret is, only 4 days to explore the area , some graves next to one cabin found and land owner said that was due to fire in middle of night, both inside died !
Took time to note the little town area was knocked down then buried by BLM due to hippy's trying to live there in the 60s , but the bottle dump was huge and the 4 hole out house was all inside with no division between holes. I would love to go there again but disabled now and not possible, along with unknown who owns it now, It was hard to cover entire area in short time ! I did find one pair of old binoculars out on climb to top of ridge, The body made from pewter hung in a tree, rough shape from being exposed to weather ! I was honored with Geologist inviting me to tag along when he was doing his work those 4 days ! I said about same "DAMN"
@@johnbrookbank2969 I'm very grateful my wife understands when I head out on trips because she doesn't have a choice Lmao. I would never take off though if some pressing business was at hand but I usually try and cover all my bases before an excursion.
Yes, I love that there are still small-scale miners out there scratching away in underground mines... Unfortunately, Adit Addicts is correct. Neither he nor the claim owner were able to pull out any gold that day.
yea! yea! stopped for a break and there you are! I just watched it with enthusiasm ..?(sp) like you said about the main area beautiful..... thanks for another great posting
The first adit looked like tertiary creek bed. In the second adit (or third, as it were) just before you said it I was thinking it looked like they were following a fault line. Darned mosquito. That little creek looked like it would be a nice place to work a small backpacker dredge.
Duck Landes I was just up exploring a mine in Butte County for the first time a couple of days ago... If my first experience is any indication, you have some good mines up there!
I was wondering the same thing... The adit was marked on a topo map, but it wasn't named. I'll call the video the "Upper Butte Mine" or something like that.
A lot of the mines I visited I found by them being marked on topo maps. Though a lot of the marked mines are pit mines, not adits. Pit mines can be interesting too though, one I came across had VW bug size garnet boulders. A lot of the mines I found was just by spotting waste rock and following it up to where it originated from. Some were by word of mouth; once people learned I explored mines they would tell me about mines they knew about. And some I just happened across while out 4-wheeling or riding dirt bikes.
Sometimes, there are obvious outcroppings of veins on the surface. Other times, it is just an educated guess based on the geology of the area... For modern times, they have sophisticated drilling, laser surveys, radar, etc.
any chance I can get a location on this place to go explore myself things that I live right here in Coarsegold California in the Sierra Nevadas not to invite myself but just me and my 11 year old son we enjoy doing what you're doing and and we're newbies and just enjoy life.
I did a video on tracking down abandoned mines called "How To Find Abandoned Mines" that I would suggest. Document whatever you find because they are disappearing quickly.
I could be wrong. I thought the Adit was the entrance. The rest was drift and stope. I know there's claims like that up by Portwine? Maybe between Canyon creek and the North Fork Yuba. Very cool. Very lucky. They don't hand those claims out anymore. More's the pity.
Yea were very very familiar with that particular area. The adit is the part you use for access to the workings of the mine. Then when your on the vein it becomes the drift or until you cross the vein then it's a crosscut........I think. The entrance is the portal.
My goal is to own at least 300 acres like this with a good amount of 2nd growth timber amongst some old growth that nobody wanted to fool with (pipe dream). That along with good minerals in the ground & I'd be a kid in a candy shop for the rest of my life!
Sometimes the miners encounter visible veins of gold which looks like golden threads (sometimes quite wide threads) scattered through the rock. Often, the gold is invisible to the eye though and has to be extracted by crushing the rock the gold is hosted in and then removed chemically.
You look for white quarts the gold will be mixed in with it. This is a cave system that was easy to dig out theirs no scrap pile any where out side this so called mine. Looks like someone did get luck thuo.
Hey, I really enjoy your show and have watched almost every mine exploration video you have made. I work as a hardrock miner in Colorado and also explore abandoned mines in my free time. I have discovered a way to get mine maps that I use when exploring. A while ago I met with two other mine exploring TH-cam channels and have been finding them maps to aid them in exploration. If you would like me to find some maps for you let me know. Keep up the great videos. Evan
I don't understand, maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick but if this mine is in a "Black Hole", and the government doesn't know about it and isn't trying to close it down, how can there be a claim owner? To claim a mine, doesn't it have to be registered with the Government?
I didn't intend to convey that there isn't a record of the claim or the property on file, but the various agencies responsible for destroying mines have no idea of the adits on this site or where they are located. They believe it is a surface placer claim (which it could be, but there is a whole lot more to it). The property is located on maps, but not what is on the property. It exists as an information black hole in that sense.
Leave it right where we found it... We feel strongly about not taking anything. Too many "collectors" have stripped these historic sites bare and it is extremely unusual now to find a museum-quality abandoned mine now.
Well to have a legal claim it has to be registered...just saying. I can appreciate wanting to be low key tho. I would scour the nearby country as well. The curse of the gold! This appears to be placer too..right? What other minerals?
It is registered, but there are claims registered everywhere. That doesn't lead anyone to this particular claim... Indeed, this is both placer and lode.
Yes, the geology in this one is very interesting - particularly as all of the mines on this claim have such different geological features inside. The claim owner is fortunate to have such mines (and a cabin).
Imagine how difficult it was to take the time and effort to start drilling blasting holes and either decide for yourself or have someone decide for you to not waste any more time or powder on that particular outcropping of quartz. A foot from a million dollars or a million feet from a dollar. This area must have paid well when it was worked to have a stamp mill. I saw a riffle box close to the cabin but I didn't see it well enough to know what age it came from. I'm afraid if this was on property I owned I wouldn't get much work done on my house, or anything else for that matter. We're all prospectors at heart. Speculators is more like it.
This area was worked VERY heavily. There were adits and evidence of mining activity all over the place... And, yes, it must have been tough indeed to start drilling and not know if they needed to switch to a different outcropping or how close they were to gold.
I was wondering why it says no trespassing if his claim is on public land ? just wondering because some of the claims in Granite Basin had signs that said private property when in reality it was public land and that's what pisses the forest service off , just my opinion . THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK .
UNFORGIVEN FOREVER Granite Basin? I was looking at a couple of claims in there. One was on Marble creek and one was on Coldwater creek This video is of a Patented claim. I think.
It's a patented claim. In other words, the land was transferred from public ownership to the claimant, and is no longer public land. There is currently a moratorium on new patents being issued.
Historical records, sadly, are often lost, incorrect, or non-existent. Therefore, for those particular mines, the names and other identifying information in my videos are often wrong. Do not make any personal decisions or conclusions for yourself or others based on information in any of my videos. Do your due diligence! YOUR OWN WORDS ! DON'T REPLY WITH SPECULATION .
Found your channel here while surfing TH-cam on my TV cable box browser. Makes looking over
the various channels easy, but you don't have access to posted links or comments. Have to say you
and Mr McBride have me hooked! I'm a So Cal jeeper that's cruised a few mines in my day, but nothing
like what you guys are exploring. The Dale Mining District east of Twentynine Palms, CA has some
infrastructure, metal tanks, concrete cabin flats, headframes and even big mechanical conveyor
belt machines left, but it's an accessible area that lots of people know about.
I don't think I'm claustrophobic, but as soon as I enter a mine I get a small case of 'The Willies' that
grows and grows until the little angel on my right shoulder tells me to turn around. Thank God for you
guys who do the homework, have the right karma and bring out HD, wobble-corrected video of the
deep places for me. I hear the echoes of the past, I envision the hard work and dreams and sweat
that once lived there right along with you.
If you are interested, my buddy and I went out to a place near Vidal Junction (40+ yrs ago) that was a chrysocolla mine. Had the crusher and table set up. The only problem was about 3 or 4 vertical shafts out in the brush that were full of water and too deep to climb out. You had to be really careful walking around and the drive in was a challenge. You could see Lake Havasu at night.
It sounds like a good spot for the views if nothing else...
I really do enjoy these mine videos' because the narrator seems to have pleasant & articulate tone. Another great one, Thank you gentlemen.
Extremely interesting video. Tunnels go on and on in different directions. Good explanations. Easy to listen too in a nice clear voice.
You guys are killing the videos. Ive seen them all most more than once and love the info quality and history. Thanks to you guys and of course the claim owner for the sweet video!
Thank you. I really appreciate the words of support and you watching the videos. I'll pass on the thank you to the claim owner as well.
TVR. You are quickly becoming my absolute favourite TH-camr. Fantastic footage as always. Thanks man 👍🏻
mine too
@@aaronkeeth651 Ah hell, mine as well
@@ADITADDICTS how you doing buddy!!
@@aaronkeeth651 fine brother! Going to be crazy as shit here real soon with rice harvest. How you doin? I was bummed I couldn't make it up last weekend believe me!
Holy wow that's a first for me that was so frickin awesome and ya if you can imagine how much water it took to move all that material down all that length of sluice holy moly and so loud. Hahahaha amazing to say the least. I love your channel you do great work and exploring abandoned mines with Frank you two are awsome to watch. Thanks keep up the great work🍻👍
Thank you very much.
Glad to hear you get permission to pass keep out signs- so many "explorers" tresspass blatantly and pilfer (steal) things. Some even climb in windows of locked houses and buildings.
the more mine exploring videos i watch, the more im in wonder at how people of the gold rush spent their entire lives digging these tunnels in the ground in the middle of nowhere hundreds of miles out in the wilderness
Money talks. People will kill their own family member over money. Throwing pick axes, and living in darkness, definitly wouldnt bother any money hungry "person". It just is what it is.
Money is the most important material thing in the world.
I'm glad it's you going into that mine. That would give me the willies.
Wow…Awesome old mine, thanx for sharing ❗️
Those old timers did a lot of HARD work, carving out solid Rock ❗️
I like your content! Multiple people making seperate videos in a single small space is a little weird, but I get it lol
Thank you so much for going all the way as far as possible. Most just go a wee way in and then quit, and I am left wondering what they missed!
Haha, yeah, I hate unfinished business. I try to be as through as possible. I'm glad someone else appreciates that!
In reference to gold stuck in equipment, heard true stories about finding amalgam retorts that weren't cleaned out when the mine or mill shut down. Pounds of amalgam have been later recovered still in it when found years later.
What a neat old place! Thanks for taking us along for this adventure!
Wonderful video. Thanks for making it.
What a treat. Thanks alot for showing us this!
Great video I was in a canyon with a friend and we came a upon a very old ground sluice was a pretty awesome thing to see especially because of how long it's been there in a running creek
great job again my friend and glad it is on Private Property and we would install range cameras too as we noticed some people don't read signs to well......love the artifacts and the ore samples of Limonite in quartz ...Cabins in great shape....anytime you see hand stacking of cobbles and large rounded river rock you can bet there was Gold there....that first mine was classic drift mining in old Ancient river channels...I bet there is some juicy Gold still in there....love that old Hand still they used for drilling a round...beautiful stringers running through the back....looks like a serpentine with shale...great place for a Gold Bug 2....should use a 6 inch coil on it....
Soon as I saw this video, I wondered if you knew about this place haha
@@Cambpro I pray for the gold bug two! Lol
Thank you! There was definitely a lot going on at this claim - the number of mines, the different types of mines (which will become more evident in the second video), the number of old mining artifacts around... It definitely felt like there was still some good gold there.
Trail cams are a real good idea...I know a claim owner who had hundreds of pounds of copper cable stolen from an exploration/development-stage mine in New Mexico; isolated mines are vulnerable to theft.
BECAUSE SOMEONE PUTS UP A NO TRESPASSING SIGN DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE IT PRIVATE PROPERTY !
Good video nice to see someone is working their claim, what a cool piece of history looking forward to part 2.
Yes, it is nice to have at least some miners still out there!
I love watching these videos. I grew up in the gold country and sure do miss its history
Absolutely amazing
lot of work went into the sides to make them as smooth as they were hope your buddies find a nice nugget or two did they check the conglomerate nugs been known to hide there too ! hope second trip drier than this one and Shade a sweet fur face !! see you in the next video. thanks for sharing
Thank you. I thought that larger adit was really interesting... Ha, and, yes, the adits on the other side of the creek are completely dry (which was a welcome change for us).
Wow, like an open air museum very cool
Great video Justin! you and Chuck are my new MANCRUSH's!! the dead💀 air in that hole is really bad. and absolutely no 👻's to muck things up!
Let the bromance begin!
We can develop a regular lovefest as we keep going out...
@@TVRExploring lol
Awesome video and thanks to the claim owner for letting y'all visit and film.
I've always taken for "granit" the hard work those ol timers put into mining....WOW
The old timers were tough!
@Kaptain Kid nah they had better things to do than nit-pick other people in their free time.
I hate Keep Out Signs on our Public Lands, if it is not a Patented Claim that Keep Out Sign means nothing. the Claimant only owns Mineral Rights and not Surface Rights so if a Miner ever asks you to leave Public Lands ask to see His or Her Patent Papers, however it is Legal for a Claimant to ask you to leave a Work Area providing they have a Valid Plan of Operation on File with BLM or Forest Service.
FYI: If you want to keep folks off your Claim then below you Mining Claim Sign post another sign that warns of Poisonous Mine Gas in the Area. I had a dumping problem at one of my Lode Claims and no amount of Keep Out Signs would stop anyone from dumping trash but one Poison Mine Gas Sign and never a problem again.
I hate it when people dump a bunch of trash out in the forest (or the desert or wherever)... Haha, "the "poison mine gas" sign is an excellent way to address that!
11:51 is that shinny thing on the ground a gold nugget? Left side of the path about 1/4 of the way across the path.
When the BLM and Forestry Service close a mine/erase it do they document the location or write a report?
What flashlight are you using? I have a Nitecore long throw, but it doesn't have a focus-albe beam like I've seen you use many times?
I did a video on all of the gear I use here: th-cam.com/video/QDqYeSNN7LA/w-d-xo.html
Hey, your living my dream !! Love the vids !! Im getting educated too !! 👍 👍 thx & be carefull !!
Thank you!
Cool stuff. I love lookin and exploring old mines. Miners back then dudes were tuff bustin there asses all day hard work no 4 sure gains u know. So cool seein water dripping into these tunnels. Y is that?
Any chance you are willing to share the location or maybe the contact info for the owners? If not I totally understand. I am fascinated by the mining history in the Sierra Nevadas. The reason I would be interested in the area in your video is that you stated it was safe enough for your dog and I have 7 & 9 yr old girls I'm trying to expose to the reality of how the world really works. the naivety of kids never stops amazing me. Want to show them real-world Minecraft :). Either way good video.
Great video was always guys hey did the owner actually find any significant amount of gold in there or does he just play around all of that artifacts stuff is really fascinating nice job thanks for the treat
Kinda both lol. The amount of work done I that little area tho during and after the gold rush is astounding.
Yeah, Adit Addicts is 100% right on this one...
It's a difficult process and a lot of work in itself before you can even begin to work the claim. It's surveyed by a mineral examiner during the claiming process from the blm or nfs. There is a lot of due diligence involved in having an active claim.
How big a mine was this? How many were working it. Was it a profitable mine.
Unfortunately, all of that has been lost to history...
What area is this near would like to visit this spot.
It caved in, it looks like, under the weight of that huge boulder....you would not catch me in there...interesting but scary..... thanks for the video
I love your videos wish I had your skill and knowledge, love what you do. But was wondering how do you fund yourself, for showing us all those?
Thank you very much. Well, it certainly isn't cheap, but I pay for these trips out of my earnings at my regular job. Also, when people are kind enough to watch the ads at the start of the videos, it adds a few cents to the change jar, which helps pay for the gas money sometimes.
So beautiful there. Can barely wait for part 2. Awesome place.
Yes, it really was a beautiful spot!
you are so lucky to be able to do this!!!!!!!!!!!
What a great video and site, really enjoyed the tour and history. Cool cabin and all the stuff laying around WOW
Thank you very much. Yes, I loved seeing that old miner's cabin and all of the stuff around it too.
At like 7:52 ish, does he say that was a frog back there in that hole? I seen something, I thought one of you guys were back there
That tunnel is crazy, lot of work.
Top notch as always
Thank you, Ian.
Love it , have been to one here in Oregon that is hidden, locked gates all up road, only 5 or 6 people have been to it, all the contents of the cabin are still in it today by looks of stove, kitchen fig all from the teens or 20s,! great to explore area's all around for min of 70 acres ! with cabin sites found all over ridge and down to valley , most cabins are burned down but can see the burnt timbers on a few sitting on basic rocks that were used to support weight, My only regret is, only 4 days to explore the area , some graves next to one cabin found and land owner said that was due to fire in middle of night, both inside died !
Damn.
Took time to note the little town area was knocked down then buried by BLM due to hippy's trying to live there in the 60s , but the bottle dump was huge and the 4 hole out house was all inside with no division between holes. I would love to go there again but disabled now and not possible, along with unknown who owns it now, It was hard to cover entire area in short time ! I did find one pair of old binoculars out on climb to top of ridge, The body made from pewter hung in a tree, rough shape from being exposed to weather ! I was honored with Geologist inviting me to tag along when he was doing his work those 4 days ! I said about same "DAMN"
@@johnbrookbank2969 life's to short not to take up opportunities such as that.
yep and wife at that time had hard time with me going for 4 days, Told her life time chance & one time experience and iam going ! Not a happy gal !!
@@johnbrookbank2969 I'm very grateful my wife understands when I head out on trips because she doesn't have a choice Lmao. I would never take off though if some pressing business was at hand but I usually try and cover all my bases before an excursion.
Love your video’s. Hooked now.
Thank you.
Indeed!
Can you bring a pick hammer in and hit the walls and explore for us pretty please?
That's a nice little mine, and always good to see someone working them. Did he get anything with the detector??
Hell no! T_T
Yes, I love that there are still small-scale miners out there scratching away in underground mines... Unfortunately, Adit Addicts is correct. Neither he nor the claim owner were able to pull out any gold that day.
yea! yea! stopped for a break and there you are! I just watched it with enthusiasm ..?(sp) like you said about the main area beautiful.....
thanks for another great posting
What are those small bottles at 1:30? I found a bunch of them in the middle of nowhere when I sat down by a tree to have lunch.
Maybe for aspirin but not 100% on that.
Cyanide
The first adit looked like tertiary creek bed. In the second adit (or third, as it were) just before you said it I was thinking it looked like they were following a fault line. Darned mosquito. That little creek looked like it would be a nice place to work a small backpacker dredge.
remote enough to pull it off
Duck Landes I was just up exploring a mine in Butte County for the first time a couple of days ago... If my first experience is any indication, you have some good mines up there!
I look forward to seeing that. Will be interesting if it's one I've been in and recognize.
I was wondering the same thing... The adit was marked on a topo map, but it wasn't named. I'll call the video the "Upper Butte Mine" or something like that.
A lot of the mines I visited I found by them being marked on topo maps. Though a lot of the marked mines are pit mines, not adits. Pit mines can be interesting too though, one I came across had VW bug size garnet boulders. A lot of the mines I found was just by spotting waste rock and following it up to where it originated from. Some were by word of mouth; once people learned I explored mines they would tell me about mines they knew about. And some I just happened across while out 4-wheeling or riding dirt bikes.
Glass Mrs Butterworth bottle that's cool
That metal detector made it sound like you took a baby with you into the mine
Hahaa!!
How do they know where to start?
Sometimes, there are obvious outcroppings of veins on the surface. Other times, it is just an educated guess based on the geology of the area... For modern times, they have sophisticated drilling, laser surveys, radar, etc.
What a very nice stream and cabin site.
I'll keep watching if you stop crawling on your belly to get into the mine. LOL Your videos are awesome!!!
I like the Hypervolt the best. it doesn't sound cheap like a mixer.
Badass footage, quartz for days
Pretty incredible, huh?
any chance I can get a location on this place to go explore myself things that I live right here in Coarsegold California in the Sierra Nevadas not to invite myself but just me and my 11 year old son we enjoy doing what you're doing and and we're newbies and just enjoy life.
I did a video on tracking down abandoned mines called "How To Find Abandoned Mines" that I would suggest. Document whatever you find because they are disappearing quickly.
What were they mining?
Gold.
Put it all in a personal museum!!!!! KEEP IT SAFE PLEASE DEAR GOD KEEP IT SAFE ITS HISTORY!!!! it would be an honor to see that stuff
growing squash and mining gold... living the dream
It sure beats sitting behind a desk like I used to do in some of my corporate jobs!
@@TVRExploring he'll yeah man
I could be wrong. I thought the Adit was the entrance. The rest was drift and stope. I know there's claims like that up by Portwine? Maybe between Canyon creek and the North Fork Yuba. Very cool. Very lucky. They don't hand those claims out anymore. More's the pity.
Yea were very very familiar with that particular area. The adit is the part you use for access to the workings of the mine. Then when your on the vein it becomes the drift or until you cross the vein then it's a crosscut........I think. The entrance is the portal.
Great find!
My goal is to own at least 300 acres like this with a good amount of 2nd growth timber amongst some old growth that nobody wanted to fool with (pipe dream). That along with good minerals in the ground & I'd be a kid in a candy shop for the rest of my life!
Sounds pretty nice to me!
Does the quartz have any real value? If so how much.
No, not really. Some people like the crystals, but it is the gold accompanying the quartz that has the value.
Why would you want to piss off the porch? What did the porch do to him? ;)
You never know with porches. One wrong step....
What does the gold look like when its in the ground. How do you know where to look. Dont worry im not coming there. Im in the UK.lol
Sometimes the miners encounter visible veins of gold which looks like golden threads (sometimes quite wide threads) scattered through the rock. Often, the gold is invisible to the eye though and has to be extracted by crushing the rock the gold is hosted in and then removed chemically.
You look for white quarts the gold will be mixed in with it. This is a cave system that was easy to dig out theirs no scrap pile any where out side this so called mine. Looks like someone did get luck thuo.
If you pause it at 12:02 you can see a really cool face on the left. A face on the face.
Grizzly creek or little grizzly creek? Lot of hydro washes. What gold is left. Where has it been dredged in the 80's?
Did you find any gold?
Not on that day.
Hey, I really enjoy your show and have watched almost every mine exploration video you have made. I work as a hardrock miner in Colorado and also explore abandoned mines in my free time. I have discovered a way to get mine maps that I use when exploring. A while ago I met with two other mine exploring TH-cam channels and have been finding them maps to aid them in exploration. If you would like me to find some maps for you let me know. Keep up the great videos.
Evan
I like the sound of that.
Evan Bush Adit Addicts is my exploring buddy and we're both very much on board with maps!
Great, my email is evan.bush@student.nmt.edu so if you guys send me some places you want maps of I will see what I can do.
@@evanbush5816 awesome and thank you!
Nice old mine they Doug that out by hand i just subbed
Thanks for the sub. Yes, it is pretty incredible how much work would have been involved in digging that all out by hand.
What are veins and why did the miners follow them?
When all the quartz was liquid with gold swirled in creates a vein of gold. Then the rock cooled.
@@loudieselj3165 ahh ok thanks!
very cool thumbs up
i enjoyed watching this video. keep going 🙂
Thank you.
I either see silver and copper, or there is some funky mold growing in that quartz.
The syrup bottle is 1961 or later. It was introduced in 1961.
So little grizzly or big grizzly?
Another oddly familiar north sierra mine sight. You got the dog explorin now, bad ass.
Yea it might seem somewhat close to home lol.
Howcome water drippin in ybese caverns? Where it comin from?
I don't understand, maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick but if this mine is in a "Black Hole", and the government doesn't know about it and isn't trying to close it down, how can there be a claim owner? To claim a mine, doesn't it have to be registered with the Government?
I didn't intend to convey that there isn't a record of the claim or the property on file, but the various agencies responsible for destroying mines have no idea of the adits on this site or where they are located. They believe it is a surface placer claim (which it could be, but there is a whole lot more to it). The property is located on maps, but not what is on the property. It exists as an information black hole in that sense.
Um, yeah. There's a Fed. Mining claim sign on the building.
I love exploring things but usually me and my friends can only explore sewage tunnels
Well, that's pretty cool. That's something I have always wanted to do...
Do you just find these things in Sierra Nevada mountains randomly
No, lots of research goes into locating them.
What do you do with the equipment in good condition
Leave it right where we found it... We feel strongly about not taking anything. Too many "collectors" have stripped these historic sites bare and it is extremely unusual now to find a museum-quality abandoned mine now.
*I subscribed to this already.*
This was an awesome site...
Becarful doing this stuff but a good video 😊👌
so the gold detector says there is gold there ?
Yes, that's what that squalling sound was...
Well to have a legal claim it has to be registered...just saying. I can appreciate wanting to be low key tho. I would scour the nearby country as well. The curse of the gold! This appears to be placer too..right? What other minerals?
It is registered, but there are claims registered everywhere. That doesn't lead anyone to this particular claim... Indeed, this is both placer and lode.
i was a mine examiner in the coal mines in central pa. i you for taking me back in the mines!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! Glad I could take you back underground...
Good video ,all ya need is some dynamite for that bolder
Great video thank you! Nice cabin you should buy the guy a trash can for all the plastic, looks like really nice pay dirt!
yeah guys a slob, a real grease ball
Oh well we are all at some time, but seems like a good fella especially to share his place with us all! I wish him him good luck and be safe!
Amazing
It's a great site...
Sure I seen the owners hand sticking out from under that boulder :)
that hanging wall is crazy vertical, the vein looks like a geological miscarriage, and some serious sulphides
Yes, the geology in this one is very interesting - particularly as all of the mines on this claim have such different geological features inside. The claim owner is fortunate to have such mines (and a cabin).
Imagine how difficult it was to take the time and effort to start drilling blasting holes and either decide for yourself or have someone decide for you to not waste any more time or powder on that particular outcropping of quartz. A foot from a million dollars or a million feet from a dollar. This area must have paid well when it was worked to have a stamp mill. I saw a riffle box close to the cabin but I didn't see it well enough to know what age it came from. I'm afraid if this was on property I owned I wouldn't get much work done on my house, or anything else for that matter. We're all prospectors at heart. Speculators is more like it.
Words of wisdom.
This area was worked VERY heavily. There were adits and evidence of mining activity all over the place... And, yes, it must have been tough indeed to start drilling and not know if they needed to switch to a different outcropping or how close they were to gold.
Gold Detector? That sounds like a dog-toy squeaker!
Or a baby crying at first lol
I bet that was some good "squash" he was growing up there.
COUGH
COUGH
bottom of the canyon, 2hrs sun max.... probably
Surprised roof not more steep
I was wondering why it says no trespassing if his claim is on public land ? just wondering because some of the claims in Granite Basin had signs that said private property when in reality it was public land and that's what pisses the forest service off , just my opinion . THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK .
deter mischief perhaps?
UNFORGIVEN FOREVER Granite Basin? I was looking at a couple of claims in there. One was on Marble creek and one was on Coldwater creek This video is of a Patented claim. I think.
It's a patented claim. In other words, the land was transferred from public ownership to the claimant, and is no longer public land. There is currently a moratorium on new patents being issued.
Historical records, sadly, are often lost, incorrect, or non-existent. Therefore, for those particular mines, the names and other identifying information in my videos are often wrong. Do not make any personal decisions or conclusions for yourself or others based on information in any of my videos. Do your due diligence!
YOUR OWN WORDS ! DON'T REPLY WITH SPECULATION .
@@Porty1119 what are you talking about?
I used to owm that claim
Say hi to jack
Thanks for the comment... Did we miss anything? And do you know what is down that winze in the second video in this series?
Never went in the tunnels just dredged the creek
I see. I hope you did well with the dredging... The conditions looked quite promising for it.
Had a lot of fun their my 5 inch dredge may still be under the cabin lol
@@stephencrandellsr4915 how well did you do with your dredge?