Greetings from Nevada , USA . Nice explore there mates , enjoyed watching , Thank You . ---- Mining terminology is so confusing . The miners REMOVE ore and waste rock , so instead of an "Adit" , technically shouldn't it be called a "Subtract-it" . LOL . --- < Doc , Miner for over 50 years > .
G'day, mate. Oh, we are envious of YOUR location. The second the world resembles some sort of normality, my wife & I on a plane straight to Nevada. Packing our cameras and equipment! Thanks so much for tuning in. Some cool episodes coming up with some large scale Copper Mines we are exploring this weekend
Just watching 20th August 2023 ... great video. no wonder you were hot doing this on 15th January summertime - hot and humid !! Terrific watch though.... was there no gold in that mine or did they give up too soon ... 1 foot more and the Eureka hit !!! It must be so very hard to walk away.... loved the bats too. Well done intrepid trekkers.
Thankyou mate! This was a tough hike. We are lucky we didn't get bitten by snakes in retrospect. The rivers and creeks around these adits paid off with decent alluvial gold won. They never did find the source. It does not mean the source of the gold is still undiscovered, it may mean the gold bearing reefs have weathered over hundreds of millions of years. At nearby Brookfield, the reefs paid very well in comparison. They could afford a decent standard milling and processing plant down that way. Some of that gear is still.there I believe, although we remember it being on a freehold lot
We never found them. Spent hours looking them and that was the start of our dehydration. Those hills are no joke. I have no idea why we executed this mission in the peak of summer.
I just stumbled onto your channel. I watch a couple of channels from Canada and the USA. The presenters often talk about iron/rust stained quartz views. In their situation, the gold follows the iron into the quartz. Did you have a cursory pick through the rubble down from the entrance? Just after finishing I realized that our mountains would be much older than in British Columbia and that would be the reason for all the aluvial gold and the absence of hard rock gold.
@@StephanieElizabethMann Hi Stephanie. We have not researched much of the Victorian Gold Triangle, but I think I read a few articles stating what you referenced above as a big issue in Ballarat. Monster eluvial and alluvial deposits and then comparatively, very low grade underground gold won from the quartz reefs. There was not much gold in these reefs (in this video) at all, infact the main source has either weathered away or is yet to be discovered. Even the gold from the creeks very close to these old adits were extremely rich and that's who made all the money. Hardrock mines that were first on the field (following alluvial) we have found a LOT of them to be named "perseverance" We initially thought that was odd, but now we know the first Hardrock miners "persevered" longer than the alluvial miners, thus they named their mine "The Perseverance" In all likelihood these miners started blasting one solitary working once everyone had left that field and moved onto other locations. I think we have found about a dozen "Perseverance" mines in Australia now. The ones we have found are alnost always the oldest adits in the field. Thanks for tuning in to our adventures. We have a VERY special episode airing tomorrow morning you should try to watch. It's pretty epic we think! Eb. QAM.
Your house is safe, that on the left behind the timber props a 16 m deep winze with a 4 m underlie at the bottom. I have never seen it empty of water, only know those details from mine maps.
Great video guys! I've been to those two mines a couple of times. Once I hit the bats I turned around. Thanks for showing all the way in. So many bats. I didn't think of oxygen levels when I went in. A few more mines around Camp Mnt as you probably know. Easy ones (covered) at Bellbird Grove. Two others easy. One goes 10-15mtrs another off Lanita Crt & one fenced on the left hand side of Sutton Crt climb. Others on the northern side of Sutton Crt climb from my explore are filled in. A very hilly area. It's were they hold the Qld Mountain Running Championships after all. A few mine videos on my channel (not as epic as yours). Just scroll down a bit.
Hey mate. No question you ask is silly. No, the yellow you see is just the colour of the country rock in some mines. In the case of this particular cluster of small Goldfields (Brisbane Ranges) I do not believe the miners ever found the auriferous reefs. They followed the faults they saw as outcrops that housed almost zero gold. We inspected the quartz in that second mine and found zero traces of minerals. That is why they sunk the winze, they were desperate to see if the vein paid at a deeper level. It didn't. That means they blasted for years and got nothing for it. The quartz they mined was barren. This means that the main lode is still up in the hills somewhere. The alluvial creek gold was everywhere so somewhere must be the main deposit. Nearby Brookfield was different. The miners there did hit the payable reefs and made some money. Brookfield as a result housed more infrastructure and even had its own 10 head stamp mill.
@@qldabandonedmines thank you for your reply, I didn't realise that Brisbane area had such an amazing and interesting gold prospecting history. All the best on your adventures!
Diaguillar Nation Park, Brisbane Ranges mate. That's about as specific as we get, as there are no actual trails leading to the workings. The Rangers in this park won't appreciate people going off trail if we shared anything more specific.
That was really interesting! Will have to check out some others later (would subscribe, but as I comment, you're at 666, and I don't want to ruin that cool number).
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Greetings from Nevada , USA . Nice explore there mates , enjoyed watching , Thank You . ---- Mining terminology is so confusing . The miners REMOVE ore and waste rock , so instead of an "Adit" , technically shouldn't it be called a "Subtract-it" . LOL . --- < Doc , Miner for over 50 years > .
G'day, mate. Oh, we are envious of YOUR location. The second the world resembles some sort of normality, my wife & I on a plane straight to Nevada. Packing our cameras and equipment! Thanks so much for tuning in. Some cool episodes coming up with some large scale Copper Mines we are exploring this weekend
Just watching 20th August 2023 ... great video. no wonder you were hot doing this on 15th January summertime - hot and humid !! Terrific watch though.... was there no gold in that mine or did they give up too soon ... 1 foot more and the Eureka hit !!! It must be so very hard to walk away.... loved the bats too.
Well done intrepid trekkers.
Thankyou mate! This was a tough hike. We are lucky we didn't get bitten by snakes in retrospect. The rivers and creeks around these adits paid off with decent alluvial gold won. They never did find the source. It does not mean the source of the gold is still undiscovered, it may mean the gold bearing reefs have weathered over hundreds of millions of years.
At nearby Brookfield, the reefs paid very well in comparison. They could afford a decent standard milling and processing plant down that way. Some of that gear is still.there I believe, although we remember it being on a freehold lot
Exploring abandoned mines Aussie style. Champion effort boys. Really interesting stuff.
Remote rural NSW here opal miner luv these abandoned mine vids.
We appreciate you tuning in and following bud! So much more to come from the guys here at QAM. We are really only just getting started.
Eb.
Good video mate! There's always interesting finds in your local areas if you look around aye. Gotta love those Lantana weeds...
Good one guys ,,, enjoyed the song too 👍
Would love to see the ones around ipswich
We are currently researching some old Coal mines out that way! Stay tuned!
Mate there are two horizontal shafts on the other side of the road that goes up to camp Mountain picnic area, northern side.
We never found them. Spent hours looking them and that was the start of our dehydration. Those hills are no joke. I have no idea why we executed this mission in the peak of summer.
Another beauty mate. Must be a bit freaky in them places. Throw a few hundred bats on top of that for good measure. Good effort once again.👍👌😉
They were scertainly Keen, back in the day, of Old.🤠
I just stumbled onto your channel. I watch a couple of channels from Canada and the USA. The presenters often talk about iron/rust stained quartz views. In their situation, the gold follows the iron into the quartz. Did you have a cursory pick through the rubble down from the entrance? Just after finishing I realized that our mountains would be much older than in British Columbia and that would be the reason for all the aluvial gold and the absence of hard rock gold.
@@StephanieElizabethMann Hi Stephanie. We have not researched much of the Victorian Gold Triangle, but I think I read a few articles stating what you referenced above as a big issue in Ballarat. Monster eluvial and alluvial deposits and then comparatively, very low grade underground gold won from the quartz reefs.
There was not much gold in these reefs (in this video) at all, infact the main source has either weathered away or is yet to be discovered. Even the gold from the creeks very close to these old adits were extremely rich and that's who made all the money.
Hardrock mines that were first on the field (following alluvial) we have found a LOT of them to be named "perseverance" We initially thought that was odd, but now we know the first Hardrock miners "persevered" longer than the alluvial miners, thus they named their mine "The Perseverance" In all likelihood these miners started blasting one solitary working once everyone had left that field and moved onto other locations.
I think we have found about a dozen "Perseverance" mines in Australia now. The ones we have found are alnost always the oldest adits in the field.
Thanks for tuning in to our adventures. We have a VERY special episode airing tomorrow morning you should try to watch. It's pretty epic we think!
Eb. QAM.
@@qldabandonedmines I'm usually up about 4am so I'll watch for it.
@@StephanieElizabethMann sweet! See you then!
Ebenezer. QAM.
great vid guys.is a little bit wetter and there are heaps more bats since i was in there last.
Nice. Special spot. Thanks for tuning in & happy Australia Day Brother
Nice work.... thanks for showing this!
Welcome my friend. Thanks so much for tuning in
Wow, that was great, I would to check it out some day…
Absolutely fascinating!
Great video guys 👍
Your house is safe, that on the left behind the timber props a 16 m deep winze with a 4 m underlie at the bottom. I have never seen it empty of water, only know those details from mine maps.
Great video guys! I've been to those two mines a couple of times. Once I hit the bats I turned around. Thanks for showing all the way in. So many bats. I didn't think of oxygen levels when I went in. A few more mines around Camp Mnt as you probably know. Easy ones (covered) at Bellbird Grove. Two others easy. One goes 10-15mtrs another off Lanita Crt & one fenced on the left hand side of Sutton Crt climb. Others on the northern side of Sutton Crt climb from my explore are filled in. A very hilly area. It's were they hold the Qld Mountain Running Championships after all. A few mine videos on my channel (not as epic as yours). Just scroll down a bit.
Oh well, its scertainly Rich in one thing,.....
Bats😂
Waoooo...what is it yallow color
Silly question, is the gold colour in the tunnels fools gold?
Hey mate. No question you ask is silly.
No, the yellow you see is just the colour of the country rock in some mines. In the case of this particular cluster of small Goldfields (Brisbane Ranges) I do not believe the miners ever found the auriferous reefs. They followed the faults they saw as outcrops that housed almost zero gold. We inspected the quartz in that second mine and found zero traces of minerals. That is why they sunk the winze, they were desperate to see if the vein paid at a deeper level. It didn't. That means they blasted for years and got nothing for it. The quartz they mined was barren. This means that the main lode is still up in the hills somewhere. The alluvial creek gold was everywhere so somewhere must be the main deposit.
Nearby Brookfield was different. The miners there did hit the payable reefs and made some money. Brookfield as a result housed more infrastructure and even had its own 10 head stamp mill.
@@qldabandonedmines thank you for your reply, I didn't realise that Brisbane area had such an amazing and interesting gold prospecting history.
All the best on your adventures!
Well done guys, braver than me. I’m not into confined spaces, or bats!
Subscribed!
Hi,what area was this mine
Diaguillar Nation Park, Brisbane Ranges mate. That's about as specific as we get, as there are no actual trails leading to the workings. The Rangers in this park won't appreciate people going off trail if we shared anything more specific.
Awesome
That was really interesting! Will have to check out some others later (would subscribe, but as I comment, you're at 666, and I don't want to ruin that cool number).
wow 👏👏👏
love it go for school
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"