I have never been in a mine in the Sierra Nevada Range of California. Much less a water flooded one. You guys are much more adventurous than me. Thanks for taking me along! I explored many Southern California and Nevada mines from the 1960s through the 1990s. I liked the dry desert mines. The Mary Mine near Silver Peak, Nevada was my favorite. Until they open pitted it. It had over 50 miles of workings with several cabins with wood burning stoves on Mineral Ridge Esmeralda County. That was a great place to spend weeks of adventure. Keep on exploring TVR!!!
The colors in that 3rd adit...I was amazed by the shading and the whole deal. The quartz, the iron, the fault face...all clues you have shared before that make a guy wonder what they left in there. Regarding the longer videos, I enjoy them..and if I need to break away for some issue around here I come back...I am sure most of your viewers do the same. Thank you!
Hello Justin. Thanks once again. Whether it's a 10 minute video, a 30 minute video, or a 3 hour video if it was put out by you I'd watch them all. The content, the commentary, the pace and the quality are what keep me coming back.
Highly suggest doing more videos where your following, lets the viewer see the true scale of everything as its all but impossible to tell without something for scale. Another great video!
I thought for sure you were coming out with the Lost Ark! I think longer videos are better. You see so much that other can't. So instead of making two small ones make two BIG ones! Great job, I loved the video.
Those oak trees are amazing. When I was about 9/10 we moved to Northern California. Someone on the property we bought had taken a 2x4 and nailed it at the v of the tree. Fast forward year later when we owned the property the tree had grown around the 2x4 and in fact the board was just coming out of the middle of the trunk of the tree. It was amazing how it just grew around the 2x4 and kept growing. So yes I can imagine the tree just grew around that pick.
This mine, likely, has remaining values, particularly concentrated at the contact zone, between the quartz vein and the altered country rock. Also the contact zone between the ancient gravels and country rock. This would be a very difficult project, due to the highly mineralized, blocky nature of the serpentine, combined with the water intrusion. Highly unstable back, and ribs. DANGER! The chemical soup that you were walking thru was likely minerals dissolved in water. I expect a lots of iron, decaying sulfides, asbestos and other metallic compounds. Fairly toxic. Great video. Thank you for the experience.
VERY satisfying part 2!!! Again noticing the lack of geological markers here, however the find in the placier material of someone working at it is the ONLY evidence of any visits after intial mining was done. Hoping you got a sample for curiosity assays, appearances tell me that'd assay pretty good(middle of last adit). Love finding the artifacts guys!! VERY cool pair of videos!
I watched part 1 and now part 2. This must be a very old mine district. It date from my point of view in the 1700 to 1800 ad . Still worked in modern times again. Thank you for your work. Glück Auf and best wishes. Yours Frank Galetzka
RESPECT ! How revolting wading through all that gunge - and not knowing if you were about to suddenly drop down a winze somewhere😮. And Im wondering if that water and gunge sometimes harbours (releases) dangerous gasses/air? 🚢🇬🇧🚂⛏
Well I’ll be a monkey 🙉 uncle , for years I’ve watched underground exploration of caves ad by golly I thought to myself I’ve never seen these chaps before so I thought I’d check the details of your channel out and jeepers creepers I was not subscribed I’d fallen asleep watching a previous podcast and was awoken by this delightful channel, I’m subbed with notifications on and seldom do I find a channel that keeps me interested for more than 40 Minutes, great film footage/action nice and smooth good talk through giving the viewer a good idea of the obstacles and dangers yous all face,bearing in mind I’ve not seen any of your films I’m certainly looking forward to watching more , good luck with your future projects.❤️💚🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏👍🙏🏻🇬🇧
With that much iron rich quartz I wouldn't be surprised if the payout was actually still viable but perhaps there was another reason for the mine to close, such as onset of a war or regional disease. Would be interesting to see those 3 addits roughly done up as a 3D map. Were they chasing the same vain from different starting points, or are there multiple layers of rich vain.
Its so nice to see everything they left behind. Although who knows whats under the backfall and muck. But still its a rarity. Thanks for sharing another piece of this mine. With the ending im hoping that you have found yet another adit to explore.
Absolutely right ! Iowa west trees we used to have timber Was in patches . There was a lot of ranch land with very few trees like paradise there wasn’t enough trees to build a cabin . They’ve tried to blame the minors for cutting all the force down all the old growth timber during the gold rush it’s a crock of shit. It took 45 man a week to cut 5000 board feet that’s if they had a set up at the sawmill I’ll that’s rough cut lumber and not shipped. Sierra pacific in Quincy one sawmill if they’re cutting Doug for they can do a million board feet in a Day that’s plane trimmed dried and shipped. I was at Sierra city last year at the museum lotta cool mining stuff but the guy that runs the place was trying to say the minors cut down all The timber he was showing the big picture on the wall how there were no trees well if you read the history books there was no trees they’re just like a Johnsville. Big big picture on the wall my question to him was those minors must’ve been awful tough because not only did they cut the trees down they dug all the stumps up where is the stumps , Miners did an incredible amount of work for 300,000 people there was a lot to deal with I didn’t have time to cut down the whole forest by hand and dig the stumps out to by hand . Every time I get a chance to look at a old picture of somewhere I know I always look at the timber it wasn’t there! Well that’s with the environmentalist want it they wanted to go back to be natural fire is natural specially when you have let it burn for a while. Of course I have lost everything in the campfire in the bear fire in the Craig fire three years in a row! Couple houses dogs horses all my Equipment except for a couple of people pieces people safe during a fire fight fire with shop oh my mining equipment and mining artifacts basically a museum but better in one of the first cabins it was built in Plumas County the lady was born in it lived in it her whole entire life Rich bar but the artifex for $275,000 just for the mining Artifacts. I invited you over it was the last big fire we had it cook it at all equipment and everything there were Civil War saddles in guns and buckles and all that that the minors are traded to this lady she lease the property out so they keep mine boy did she have some treasures and she kept a record every day of everything for her whole entire life it was so cool. The forest service burnt down over 95% of the Mine sites mill cabins even completely bulldozed them we concentrated on it made it a mission we would hike in miles to burn down cabins the minors the people around the area used to do the upkeep and not let hippies move into them like that’s what you’re trying to say they did not want a piece moving out it was incredible a lot of them still had to mine carts and the stuff from the stamp meals and everything the forest service destroyed most of it A lot of local men we get together when they were doing this and go out and get mine carts and whatever other artifacts They could rescue I think they had like 23 complete mine carts and then a whole bunch of parts and then a whole bunch other stuff and they had it stored on private property it was a mine that was Pat. The forest service went in there when there was nobody around and gathered up all that stuff even the stuff that belong to this guy he’s my equipment and they took it to the scrap yard and said it belong to the forest service even though my dad and a bunch other guys had worked with the forest service so they could save the stuff do you know how it goes different ones have different opinions specially the environmentalist. Probably why I get so upset when you blame it on looters or bad people your mike been some of that but mostly it’s our government and if anybody saved any artifact it would be a blessing most of the time that stuff would get donated to the museum anyways oh no that’s a whole Nother topic . There was most beautiful mining museum you’ve ever seen at Jonesville that was all donated stuff from the public actually it was on loan the public did all the work the museum and they turn the museum into a campground office and through and lost all the mining artifacts that didn’t even belong to them that’s our government from Families that it put the stuff on loan with their grandparents for 49ers had stuff from the different mines pictures gold just all kinds of stuff mineing records all gone. Believe it or not it just happened again once it’s donated to the public well actually was donated to the local The lady that donated place was one of the first ranches in the whole area just beautiful stuff I’ve been around it our whole lives it was for us locals well once it becomes public and people from the city know what they’re doing but they formed a committee for that museum none of them knew the lady we all knew her for years and years they took it over nothing we can do we’ve been working on it we have equipment putting in new sewer systems fixing the Hot Springs with all swim there or home lives been around there we knew her a bunch of mine carts were people donate or we’re going to set up a Stampmill their whole bunch of stuff not without their approval we all left took the stuff we brought with us left the ground in the hot range dug up everything tore apart because we’re not supposed to Cut A blade of grass without their permission and they were serious it came there with a list of stuff they wanted I don’t know there’s probably 10 contractors i’ll donating everything and who knows how many people and they literally had to. Six of these people from the city I don’t know anything and they walk just around and told us exactly what they want us to do and nothing more what is the most stupidest thing fixing the parking lot now I’m fixing the bathrooms actually fixing the bathrooms that were outside separately . But is funny as hell Tony he looked at them people I told him I don’t think his mom folk hillbillies whatever you call us are smart enough to figure this out I think you got a hire somebody to do it. Think I’ll pack up I’m pretty much everybody else is on the same page I am only take what we brought Man there’s 100 people working on that place and we all packed up her shit make up did you other dump trucks equipment everything mine carts looking Stampmill it been brought in there packed it up and left I don’t take a local went back in that place I don’t know it’s been over six years ago and still setting exactly like we left it which is a shame because we’re all friends with the lady that owned it and we’re all kids swim there all summer‘s place is called McClair‘s Hot Spring ranch from the 1840s by The town of Clio.
Johnsville it’s a state park! Almost 60 miles I’ve tunnels or added it to whatever you wanna call them all done and 1800s in hard rock . You got to get into the shaft you got to go up to ski hill parking lot like you’re going up to Eureka Lake and you can go up to the top of the left part or when you first start going up on the dirt road past the ski hill parking lot you can hang a left towards the top of the hill act like you’re back packing . You won’t be disappointed! You can even walk around not like a tourist check the Stampmill out all the rest of the stuff of course the workings are way up on the hill from Stampmill easier to go by the ski hill and then turn on the dirt road to go up to Eureka lake. Look at her topo map with LiDAR you’ll figure it out have fun... like a tourist you fit right in...
A very colorful and a bit muddy mine, i guess if that mud was outside you could call it quicksand, this was a surprising mine, i wonder how big it really was.
Kind of interesting they didn't stope out more of it. Seems like it was paying well enough. Also interesting that the pick is stuck like that, which suggest they were in there when it happened (or someone other explorer did that). I often assume most of the collapses you find happened well after you were out of the mine.
With all the delaminating from the back, my guess is they shot the adit in under the placer material and just missed it,, then the delaminating uncovered it. Just think, "missed it by that much"! With the pick marks looking like they are more recent, I wonder if picking at it caused some of the cave ins? Then I wonder if it caved while they were picking at it? Maybe they’re still there!😳 that pipe outside the mine looks like the top of the smokestack for a steam boiler.
Exciting visit. Curious what keeps you from trying to grab a bag of that fresh rich placer(besides fear of death). Looks like that one would be rich if someone decided to risk it and chip away. That mud is hideous though😂😂
That last adit was a crazy slog! Thanks for sharing with us as always. Question: at around 17:12, right after you say "I hope that's not the end..." there's a strange sound and I can't identify it. Any idea what that might be?
ok Thank you @trinketsmusings I thought I was hearing things. Listened to it multiple times either an inhale from the camera man or a screech from a creature or bird or something. I have no idea although I too am curious.
30:37 We cut a white oak little bigger than that oak. It had 116 growth rings. I would bet there's enough left in there to pay today. I don't know how hard to haul away.
You ever happen upon some random gold in these mines? A errant nugget or quartz with a ribbon of gold? The quality of the light you have access to blows away what they were working with.
I think i know what happened to the second mine where that ore cart is half pancaked. My guess is the miners were piling up the ore ready to be removed from the mine and once that pile was removed they would add more straprails to the next ore pile waiting to be removed and so on, but when that big collapse happened the miners just left it as it was too dangerous to keep going.
I can't help thinking that the mushy crusty slurry you are wading through in some of thee mines is absolutely loaded with minerals. There must be tons of the stuff washed out of the roock and I feel certain its rich in something......what it is..... Is another question LOL 🤣 🦄 Thankyou for sharing
Hey man, what that Pick slammed into the tree tells me is "DIG HERE". An "Uninitiated/Uneducated" miner's way of leaving a clue only a Layman or Miner would surely understand. I'm Blue Collar, but also educated. I say y'all should run a good quality, sensitive Metal Detector around the base of the tree maybe at least 20'-30' radius around and up to the base of the trunk. Could be a stash around. Or it might be as simple as a Miner's Coat Hook, using what he had. My money is on a Stash Marker. He picked a tree that he knew had a long life expectancy, and drove it in halfway, meaning he wanted it to stay. Either way, you guys are only out your time and decent metal detectors can be had relatively cheap from Pawn Shops if you don't want to buy knew. GO GET THAT STASH👍
You know there have to be stashes like that all over the place in those mountains... We've tortured ourselves by thinking of how close we've come to some of them without having any idea.
I bet that pick sticking out of that oak was originally hung on a bent nail long ago, then left behind and the tree grew around it. Also, there must be a good reason you guys don't carry a pole, like a PVC pipe section, to probe the water depth in front of you? Just in case somebody dug out a little winze?
Actually, it doesn't really smell. I know it looks horrible, but when you're pushing through it, the water/mud doesn't smell any different than the already earthy smells underground.
Very interesting, i figured if it didnt stink it would be like you said earth/rusty metal smell! thanks guys and good to see ya as always! @@TVRExploring
Hey, I know where this is. Didn’t know this mine was there though. Were aware of the mine up above it. We camp here in the clearing each year. They logged the area up above it recently.
The flooded mine where you were walking through the mud is full of beautiful gold ore,it has all the indicators ,you guys should show some prospects,take a few pans and see if you find gold while you explore...
Not sure if anyone caught the scream in the background, but listen when the video hits 17.00 or 17.15 min in you can clearly hear what sounds like a woman shrill... scream right after the words "I hope that's not the end is spoken" . This was even more clear than the video from the Russian mine. My husband and I both heard it and replayed the video twice to double check we weren't hearing things. It was very creepy
that was rail in the water at the second mine and I love your videos.
I have never been in a mine in the Sierra Nevada Range of California.
Much less a water flooded one.
You guys are much more adventurous than me.
Thanks for taking me along!
I explored many Southern California and Nevada mines from the 1960s through the 1990s. I liked the dry desert mines.
The Mary Mine near Silver Peak, Nevada was my favorite. Until they open pitted it.
It had over 50 miles of workings with several cabins with wood burning stoves on Mineral Ridge Esmeralda County.
That was a great place to spend weeks of adventure.
Keep on exploring TVR!!!
The colors in that 3rd adit...I was amazed by the shading and the whole deal. The quartz, the iron, the fault face...all clues you have shared before that make a guy wonder what they left in there. Regarding the longer videos, I enjoy them..and if I need to break away for some issue around here I come back...I am sure most of your viewers do the same.
Thank you!
Hello Justin. Thanks once again. Whether it's a 10 minute video, a 30 minute video, or a 3 hour video if it was put out by you I'd watch them all. The content, the commentary, the pace and the quality are what keep me coming back.
Thank you for the supportive comments and positivity!
Thanks for the Sunday afternoon upload. Merry Christmas!
The colors in those mines were really bright. The rock hound in me wanted some for my collection. This was a great explore Justin!
Highly suggest doing more videos where your following, lets the viewer see the true scale of everything as its all but impossible to tell without something for scale. Another great video!
What a treat video on Sunday
Amen
I thought for sure you were coming out with the Lost Ark!
I think longer videos are better. You see so much that other can't. So instead of making two small ones make two BIG ones! Great job, I loved the video.
Those oak trees are amazing. When I was about 9/10 we moved to Northern California. Someone on the property we bought had taken a 2x4 and nailed it at the v of the tree. Fast forward year later when we owned the property the tree had grown around the 2x4 and in fact the board was just coming out of the middle of the trunk of the tree. It was amazing how it just grew around the 2x4 and kept growing. So yes I can imagine the tree just grew around that pick.
This mine, likely, has remaining values, particularly concentrated at the contact zone, between the quartz vein and the altered country rock. Also the contact zone between the ancient gravels and country rock. This would be a very difficult project, due to the highly mineralized, blocky nature of the serpentine, combined with the water intrusion. Highly unstable back, and ribs. DANGER! The chemical soup that you were walking thru was likely minerals dissolved in water. I expect a lots of iron, decaying sulfides, asbestos and other metallic compounds. Fairly toxic. Great video. Thank you for the experience.
VERY satisfying part 2!!!
Again noticing the lack of geological markers here, however the find in the placier material of someone working at it is the ONLY evidence of any visits after intial mining was done. Hoping you got a sample for curiosity assays, appearances tell me that'd assay pretty good(middle of last adit).
Love finding the artifacts guys!! VERY cool pair of videos!
I watched part 1 and now part 2.
This must be a very old mine district.
It date from my point of view in the 1700 to 1800 ad .
Still worked in modern times again.
Thank you for your work.
Glück Auf and best wishes.
Yours Frank Galetzka
That pick in the tree is realy cool !
Love the history from the gold rush days.
Im digging this mine and location and the longer format thanks much.
great video. thanks for the sunday video
pyroclastic placer?
beautiful mineralisation, thank you for taking us along!
Great video. The colors are awesome.
thanks for the update _ always grateful and happy to see your content :)
That ore cart looked to be riveted construction , definitely pre 20's. Well over a hundred year old workings, really cool find.
RESPECT ! How revolting wading through all that gunge - and not knowing if you were about to suddenly drop down a winze somewhere😮. And Im wondering if that water and gunge sometimes harbours (releases) dangerous gasses/air? 🚢🇬🇧🚂⛏
Well I’ll be a monkey 🙉 uncle , for years I’ve watched underground exploration of caves ad by golly I thought to myself I’ve never seen these chaps before so I thought I’d check the details of your channel out and jeepers creepers I was not subscribed I’d fallen asleep watching a previous podcast and was awoken by this delightful channel, I’m subbed with notifications on and seldom do I find a channel that keeps me interested for more than 40 Minutes, great film footage/action nice and smooth good talk through giving the viewer a good idea of the obstacles and dangers yous all face,bearing in mind I’ve not seen any of your films I’m certainly looking forward to watching more , good luck with your future projects.❤️💚🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏👍🙏🏻🇬🇧
With that much iron rich quartz I wouldn't be surprised if the payout was actually still viable but perhaps there was another reason for the mine to close, such as onset of a war or regional disease.
Would be interesting to see those 3 addits roughly done up as a 3D map. Were they chasing the same vain from different starting points, or are there multiple layers of rich vain.
This reminds me of the mine that had endless mud dams but by far my favorite.
Please start another channel planning and going to the mines and after.
Its so nice to see everything they left behind. Although who knows whats under the backfall and muck. But still its a rarity. Thanks for sharing another piece of this mine. With the ending im hoping that you have found yet another adit to explore.
Got a chuckle at the mylar baloon, come across several of those in the high country.
It is unbelievable how often we see them and in the most remote places...
Absolutely right !
Iowa west trees we used to have timber Was in patches .
There was a lot of ranch land with very few trees like paradise there wasn’t enough trees to build a cabin .
They’ve tried to blame the minors for cutting all the force down all the old growth timber during the gold rush it’s a crock of shit.
It took 45 man a week to cut 5000 board feet that’s if they had a set up at the sawmill I’ll that’s rough cut lumber and not shipped.
Sierra pacific in Quincy one sawmill if they’re cutting Doug for they can do a million board feet in a Day that’s plane trimmed dried and shipped.
I was at Sierra city last year at the museum lotta cool mining stuff but the guy that runs the place was trying to say the minors cut down all The timber he was showing the big picture on the wall how there were no trees well if you read the history books there was no trees they’re just like a Johnsville.
Big big picture on the wall my question to him was those minors must’ve been awful tough because not only did they cut the trees down they dug all the stumps up where is the stumps ,
Miners did an incredible amount of work for 300,000 people there was a lot to deal with I didn’t have time to cut down the whole forest by hand and dig the stumps out to by hand .
Every time I get a chance to look at a old picture of somewhere I know I always look at the timber it wasn’t there!
Well that’s with the environmentalist want it they wanted to go back to be natural fire is natural specially when you have let it burn for a while.
Of course I have lost everything in the campfire in the bear fire in the Craig fire three years in a row!
Couple houses dogs horses all my Equipment except for a couple of people pieces people safe during a fire fight fire with shop oh my mining equipment and mining artifacts basically a museum but better in one of the first cabins it was built in Plumas County the lady was born in it lived in it her whole entire life Rich bar but the artifex for $275,000 just for the mining Artifacts.
I invited you over it was the last big fire we had it cook it at all equipment and everything there were Civil War saddles in guns and buckles and all that that the minors are traded to this lady she lease the property out so they keep mine boy did she have some treasures and she kept a record every day of everything for her whole entire life it was so cool.
The forest service burnt down over 95% of the Mine sites mill cabins even completely bulldozed them we concentrated on it made it a mission we would hike in miles to burn down cabins the minors the people around the area used to do the upkeep and not let hippies move into them like that’s what you’re trying to say they did not want a piece moving out it was incredible a lot of them still had to mine carts and the stuff from the stamp meals and everything the forest service destroyed most of it A lot of local men we get together when they were doing this and go out and get mine carts and whatever other artifacts They could rescue I think they had like 23 complete mine carts and then a whole bunch of parts and then a whole bunch other stuff and they had it stored on private property it was a mine that was Pat.
The forest service went in there when there was nobody around and gathered up all that stuff even the stuff that belong to this guy he’s my equipment and they took it to the scrap yard and said it belong to the forest service even though my dad and a bunch other guys had worked with the forest service so they could save the stuff do you know how it goes different ones have different opinions specially the environmentalist.
Probably why I get so upset when you blame it on looters or bad people your mike been some of that but mostly it’s our government and if anybody saved any artifact it would be a blessing most of the time that stuff would get donated to the museum anyways oh no that’s a whole Nother topic . There was most beautiful mining museum you’ve ever seen at Jonesville that was all donated stuff from the public actually it was on loan the public did all the work the museum and they turn the museum into a campground office and through and lost all the mining artifacts that didn’t even belong to them that’s our government from Families that it put the stuff on loan with their grandparents for 49ers had stuff from the different mines pictures gold just all kinds of stuff mineing records all gone.
Believe it or not it just happened again once it’s donated to the public well actually was donated to the local The lady that donated place was one of the first ranches in the whole area just beautiful stuff I’ve been around it our whole lives it was for us locals well once it becomes public and people from the city know what they’re doing but they formed a committee for that museum none of them knew the lady we all knew her for years and years they took it over nothing we can do we’ve been working on it we have equipment putting in new sewer systems fixing the Hot Springs with all swim there or home lives been around there we knew her a bunch of mine carts were people donate or we’re going to set up a Stampmill their whole bunch of stuff not without their approval we all left took the stuff we brought with us left the ground in the hot range dug up everything tore apart because we’re not supposed to Cut A blade of grass without their permission and they were serious it came there with a list of stuff they wanted I don’t know there’s probably 10 contractors i’ll donating everything and who knows how many people and they literally had to. Six of these people from the city I don’t know anything and they walk just around and told us exactly what they want us to do and nothing more what is the most stupidest thing fixing the parking lot now I’m fixing the bathrooms actually fixing the bathrooms that were outside separately .
But is funny as hell Tony he looked at them people I told him I don’t think his mom folk hillbillies whatever you call us are smart enough to figure this out I think you got a hire somebody to do it.
Think I’ll pack up I’m pretty much everybody else is on the same page I am only take what we brought Man there’s 100 people working on that place and we all packed up her shit make up did you other dump trucks equipment everything mine carts looking Stampmill it been brought in there packed it up and left I don’t take a local went back in that place I don’t know it’s been over six years ago and still setting exactly like we left it which is a shame because we’re all friends with the lady that owned it and we’re all kids swim there all summer‘s place is called McClair‘s Hot Spring ranch from the 1840s by The town of Clio.
Sooo rad. Extra stoked on the bonus part 2 video.
Somewhere off in the distance mr. McBride was laughing when you said you had a pinhole in your waders.
Looks like you're heading INTO the mosquitoes! 😂
Very scary lookin'! Love longer videos, Thanks! ❤
One of the best mine I have seen on uTube!
That mine was far from rubbish, so many cool things. Kudos for trailbreaking in that waist high mud.
Johnsville it’s a state park!
Almost 60 miles I’ve tunnels or added it to whatever you wanna call them all done and 1800s in hard rock .
You got to get into the shaft you got to go up to ski hill parking lot like you’re going up to Eureka Lake and you can go up to the top of the left part or when you first start going up on the dirt road past the ski hill parking lot you can hang a left towards the top of the hill act like you’re back packing .
You won’t be disappointed!
You can even walk around not like a tourist check the Stampmill out all the rest of the stuff of course the workings are way up on the hill from Stampmill easier to go by the ski hill and then turn on the dirt road to go up to Eureka lake.
Look at her topo map with LiDAR you’ll figure it out have fun... like a tourist you fit right in...
Looks like the Foresthill area. Great video, thank you.
Best mine content on TH-cam. Look so forward to your posts. Thank you
Hi Justin, that was one cool mine, so much quartz and the ore cart was a nice surprise.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
Hello from Australia opal miner here nice explore indeed.
A very colorful and a bit muddy mine, i guess if that mud was outside you could call it quicksand, this was a surprising mine, i wonder how big it really was.
Those birthday balloons are attracted to mine entrances it seems... I found a purple one at a mine entrance in Hachita, NM!
40 min video from TVR?
*clears schedule*
Kind of interesting they didn't stope out more of it. Seems like it was paying well enough.
Also interesting that the pick is stuck like that, which suggest they were in there when it happened (or someone other explorer did that). I often assume most of the collapses you find happened well after you were out of the mine.
Great tour!
Another familiar looking stack of tools. Maybe stacked by the same miner?
With all the delaminating from the back, my guess is they shot the adit in under the placer material and just missed it,, then the delaminating uncovered it. Just think, "missed it by that much"! With the pick marks looking like they are more recent, I wonder if picking at it caused some of the cave ins? Then I wonder if it caved while they were picking at it? Maybe they’re still there!😳 that pipe outside the mine looks like the top of the smokestack for a steam boiler.
That pick probably marks where the treasure is buried.
Maybe Excalibur
Wow such a beautiful mine
Excellent job you guys. Enjoyed this series. First class again.👍
Exciting visit. Curious what keeps you from trying to grab a bag of that fresh rich placer(besides fear of death). Looks like that one would be rich if someone decided to risk it and chip away. That mud is hideous though😂😂
The colours of minerals and what ever are so beautiful ! Thank you so much for sharing your videos so an old gal like me stays nice and dry 🤭😘😏
That last adit was a crazy slog! Thanks for sharing with us as always. Question: at around 17:12, right after you say "I hope that's not the end..." there's a strange sound and I can't identify it. Any idea what that might be?
ok Thank you @trinketsmusings I thought I was hearing things. Listened to it multiple times either an inhale from the camera man or a screech from a creature or bird or something. I have no idea although I too am curious.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. When to going gets tough, the tough get going.
30:37 We cut a white oak little bigger than that oak. It had 116 growth rings.
I would bet there's enough left in there to pay today. I don't know how hard to haul away.
You ever happen upon some random gold in these mines? A errant nugget or quartz with a ribbon of gold? The quality of the light you have access to blows away what they were working with.
You'd hope that the collapse wasn't triggered by some poor soul pushing the empty ore cart back in for another load ...
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
They were walking through deep thick mud with a smile on their faces.
That looks a lot like one that one of our motorcycle trails goes right by.
You stated this mine appears to be typical placer. What ore is being mined?
That looks like a lot easier to walk in rather than that old muck y'all were in a few minutes ago. Good luck fellas
Looks like that adit made a beeline for that Placer conglomerate. Looks very much like the Foresthill Divide (Hidden Treasure, Baltimore, etc).
I think i know what happened to the second mine where that ore cart is half pancaked. My guess is the miners were piling up the ore ready to be removed from the mine and once that pile was removed they would add more straprails to the next ore pile waiting to be removed and so on, but when that big collapse happened the miners just left it as it was too dangerous to keep going.
Cool video. I don't like water in mines......
Part 3 was awesome...seems no one's been around that area in a very long time before yall huh?
Thanks for sharing. Always very interesting. I hope you carry H2S detectors.
I'm surprised that you fellows don't use walking sticks in case there is a vertical shaft under water.
One hand has a flashlight and one hand has a camera... Not enough hands for a walking stick (as nice as it would be to have).
I always thought the mud was never that deep, Now I know👌👍
"Why is this more spacious?"
Because the back of the addit is a later working?
That mud is ugly looking. I imagine your concerns, although not fully voiced.
I wonder if the pick was hung up in the tree and it grew up?
I can't help thinking that the mushy crusty slurry you are wading through in some of thee mines is absolutely loaded with minerals. There must be tons of the stuff washed out of the roock and I feel certain its rich in something......what it is..... Is another question LOL 🤣 🦄
Thankyou for sharing
Hey man, what that Pick slammed into the tree tells me is "DIG HERE". An "Uninitiated/Uneducated" miner's way of leaving a clue only a Layman or Miner would surely understand. I'm Blue Collar, but also educated. I say y'all should run a good quality, sensitive Metal Detector around the base of the tree maybe at least 20'-30' radius around and up to the base of the trunk. Could be a stash around. Or it might be as simple as a Miner's Coat Hook, using what he had. My money is on a Stash Marker. He picked a tree that he knew had a long life expectancy, and drove it in halfway, meaning he wanted it to stay. Either way, you guys are only out your time and decent metal detectors can be had relatively cheap from Pawn Shops if you don't want to buy knew. GO GET THAT STASH👍
You know there have to be stashes like that all over the place in those mountains... We've tortured ourselves by thinking of how close we've come to some of them without having any idea.
I saw the walker mine video. The senator highway mine is not to far so wondering if you cover arizona
A wader repair kit would stop the leaks. I always carried a couple of them when trout fishing in Michigan. They are small and light and fast.
That looks like a pretty deep drop off. I could've sworn that I saw some little flakes of gold back there.
15:27, what are the carvings on that tree?
I bet that pick sticking out of that oak was originally hung on a bent nail long ago, then left behind and the tree grew around it.
Also, there must be a good reason you guys don't carry a pole, like a PVC pipe section, to probe the water depth in front of you? Just in case somebody dug out a little winze?
What does the crusty water smell like? It can’t be pleasant
Actually, it doesn't really smell. I know it looks horrible, but when you're pushing through it, the water/mud doesn't smell any different than the already earthy smells underground.
Very interesting, i figured if it didnt stink it would be like you said earth/rusty metal smell! thanks guys and good to see ya as always! @@TVRExploring
Hey, I know where this is. Didn’t know this mine was there though. Were aware of the mine up above it. We camp here in the clearing each year. They logged the area up above it recently.
Yea that slushy mud is nasty to get through, meanwhile, praying that you don’t fall down !
That crust could also be their inside out house remnants is what it looks like. Lol😅
Yep all those narrow cut logs on the way in was us.
What is plaster? You mean Gypsum?
I'm saying "placer", not plaster.
Beautiful colors. Lots of yuck lol. Ore cart was very cool
The flooded mine where you were walking through the mud is full of beautiful gold ore,it has all the indicators ,you guys should show some prospects,take a few pans and see if you find gold while you explore...
thanks
guys research petrified giant trees, that are all over the US but you have to have eyes to see
Have you ever found gold on youre expeditions?
What did that smell like?? 🤔
Not sure if anyone caught the scream in the background, but listen when the video hits 17.00 or 17.15 min in you can clearly hear what sounds like a woman shrill... scream right after the words "I hope that's not the end is spoken" . This was even more clear than the video from the Russian mine. My husband and I both heard it and replayed the video twice to double check we weren't hearing things. It was very creepy
Man, I would love to hit that with a detector, have you thought about going back with one? Great adventure guys, thanks!
full of iron. You'd be quite busy.
Discriminate it.
I would fear falling thru a false floor...
Which region west of the Missouri river is this mine in??
The Sierra Nevadas of California...
That looks like a pretty deep drop off.
How do you deal with poison oak?
It's part of the fun! Seriously, we just have to deal with it and hope for the best...
Are you saying placer or plaster?
So....dare i ask...
Did you find any gold. Great video
I've got a very important question. Why don't y'all do a little mining yourself while you're in there to make it worth your wild?
DANGEROUS PLACE THIS SCARY ASS MINE WATER DEEP WITH CRAP TO WALK ON AND DAMN UNSTABLE CEILINGS 😢
Who owns the land?