Love it. I was just thinking, 'Must be stale air down there' but you obviously know what you're doing. I am glad there's someone to find and explore our old mines. Thank you gentlemen.
A only stumbled upon your channel few weeks ago by accident a love it thank you lads and a massive thank you to the farmer for letting you do this that man is a legend for that extremely kind gesture a bet the is not many would let you do that free of charge . Keep up the good work lads take care . Liam
I know of a mine entered on the side of a hill in the Swansea Valley. I spoke to a guy living close to the mine and was told that when it was sealed, everything inside was left as a time capsule for people like you to explore.
He could drain that water off, down the hillside.... trenching a channel away from the adit and down the hill rather than leaving it backed up that way in a pit. They found quartz... were they mining for gold? It was amazing that they knew exactly where to dig on the first try.
Fantastic work! I've dreamed of doing this for several promising mines I know of that are badly eroded shut, but you actually did it... It is a pretty amazing feeling to lay eyes on something that you know no other living human has seen. That was a good idea to let the mine breathe for a bit after being sealed up for that long. I've only dug open (by hand, not in a civilized manner like you) a couple of mines, but we let them sit for a week before going in because of possible air issues.
It's amazing to think that the last people to dig in that mine used hand tools - now it's being opened up using a machine that they couldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams. I love that contrast.
This is the one I've been waiting for! Wow, never heard of these pits before, seen them, but never had a name for them. Nice friendly farmer, we have one like that, willng to use his jcb when we get around to it. Fair amount of water coming out, good sign.
Awesome dig. Opening the time capsule. I could not wait one week to go in and explore. You met a very nice land owner that had an exploration spirit. Lost mines are very special. Cheers.
Found this channel today and im hooked. I appriciate the amount of information you guys provide on the age and way the mines work/were created. Im hooked guys, please keep this up. Definitely helps my claustrophobia and complete and utter interest in this stuff.
Hi Al and Ioan. I've been off TH-cam for a little while now, but boy this is quite something to see! Your aspiration to discover these beautiful places is beyond me. Incredible work guys! Your passionate ambition reminds me of the Williamson Tunnels Trust in Liverpool, they are some interesting things, but I have to say, nothing can beat a coffin level for me! ⚰ ⛏ This is what Ioan does in his spare time, researches and explores these wonderful places, but never did I know that he also crouches in JCB buckets 😂 The views are just great in this part of Wales - it's lucky I know this area well, some very interesting things to see around here - always keep my eyes open for any possible dangers though whilst out exploring on walks! Keep up the great work lads! 😀 👍 Stay safe both, kind regards GWR
Reading the landscape to see signs of old activity like this excites me, I spend time walking the moors of Lancashire trying to figure out what went before - lots of small mining and industry from before coal. Well done!
This is quite interesting. As well that my great-great-grandfather emigrated to the US from Wales in the late 1860s and was apparently a miner in his native land. He seems to have done some mining work in the Pennsylvania area before heading west to Kansas to help found a Welsh town there named Bala. I think a lot of the settlers there were also miners - there's a record of them hand digging a well for the new town, found a pocket of bad gas so started digging elsewhere and finished the next day.
@@LostMines I don't know if my ancestor left from the Bala, Wales area or not, but there's some evidence he was a slate miner - at least while in Pennsylvania.
I just stumbled upon your channel!! Brilliant job of researching and finding the mine. I really like the enthusiasm you all show at doing what you do! Subscribed!
Well done guys,very exciting video,looking forward to the explore😊.ive never dug up anything as exciting as that in 18 years of being a excavator operator,I did shout at the tv where Ioan put his hand👀.thanks to the farmer for letting us all see this lost mine😊diolch yn fawr iawn
Brilliant video well done! Homework and experience really paid off! Have you done much further north? There is some lovely lead and copper mines around Snowdon/Betws y coed.
Thanks everyone for checking out the channel also look at our other videos loads there and if you want to see awsome pictures from within the mines go check my Instagram @lost__mines or my Facebook Alan tansey.
Interesting, but it's actually quite risky simply clearing away debris in front of an adit. A long tongue of water might be underground and when it starts to move it can create a runaway situation where the velocity of released water washes all the obstructing material away. Safer to drain the water away with a siphon.
Great find. Looking forward to the next video. You mentioned in past videos about people possibly being able to join you guys when you explore. Is there a way I could contact you about possibly doing so? Thanks
Was there any wind going in or out of the portal to indicate it was connected to other levels? If not it could be just a short prospect explore like the lower adit. Seeing quartz by the portal is a good sign though. --- I used to live in Northern California Gold Rush country and explored a lot of abandoned gold mines. My friends thought it was funny to get me drunk and turn me loose in one of their 4x4 vehicles. I guess I did alright... I never wrecked or got (too) stuck :>
Even if there is no air flow, it still has potential to be a good-sized mine. Given how old it is, ventilation shafts could easily have become plugged or eroded shut. Some of the big mines we have explored had no air flow anymore. And one of the biggest I explored had no air flow and no waste rock pile. I thought it was going to be just a little prospect running back for fifty feet or so.
@@TVRExploring: Good point. And the mines there are most all older than anything we have here, so more likely to be caved or eroded if it ever did connect to anything or have an air shaft.
Where you put your hand had me screaming. Im an operator an that would have taken your forearm off. You're doing some dangerous stuff already , don't let your guard down.
Not toxic at all stream already running out of the level has been for years fills up a water containers for the livestock all the mines we explore have streams running out of them and lots run into rivers.,
I mean, you’re speaking english but your accent is so thick that I need the captions on to clear it up to comprehend it. A little repetitive trying to add false suspense in order to fill in the silence. Sometime silence isn’t so bad.
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What a great farmer, to be so kind. I never thought I'd be so interested in mines! I now cannot stop watching
Draining it was awesome! Love to see you video a complete draining of a flooded mine
Earthmoving machinery at work just never gets old!
Love it. I was just thinking, 'Must be stale air down there' but you obviously know what you're doing. I am glad there's someone to find and explore our old mines. Thank you gentlemen.
Fascinating. Mining and social history in one video.
Wow. I appreciate all the history and explaining the technical side of what the miners were looking for and how they did it.
That's one hellava nice farmer to let you guy's tear up his "Backyard". Pretty exciting to find and dig up mine. Pretty cool!!
Vraiment bon, dynamique et c’est beau dans votre coin de pays! 🇨🇦❤️👍🏼
That is a beautiful sight to see. You guys are very lucky to see what do. 👍😁👍
Well what can I say, that was so exciting ! And Ioan got to ride in the diggers bucket ! Great can't wait for the next one
kid in a candy shop
A only stumbled upon your channel few weeks ago by accident a love it thank you lads and a massive thank you to the farmer for letting you do this that man is a legend for that extremely kind gesture a bet the is not many would let you do that free of charge . Keep up the good work lads take care . Liam
Glad you like the channel please share far and wide, the farmers around here are very kind that's for sure.
Look how fast that digger works. I bet the old miners would have loved that.
I know of a mine entered on the side of a hill in the Swansea Valley. I spoke to a guy living close to the mine and was told that when it was sealed, everything inside was left as a time capsule for people like you to explore.
He could drain that water off, down the hillside.... trenching a channel away from the adit and down the hill rather than leaving it backed up that way in a pit. They found quartz... were they mining for gold? It was amazing that they knew exactly where to dig on the first try.
Fantastic work! I've dreamed of doing this for several promising mines I know of that are badly eroded shut, but you actually did it... It is a pretty amazing feeling to lay eyes on something that you know no other living human has seen.
That was a good idea to let the mine breathe for a bit after being sealed up for that long. I've only dug open (by hand, not in a civilized manner like you) a couple of mines, but we let them sit for a week before going in because of possible air issues.
We where very lucky with this one , we also left it for about two weeks before we went back in , we have also opened a few by hand .
It's amazing to think that the last people to dig in that mine used hand tools - now it's being opened up using a machine that they couldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams. I love that contrast.
This is the one I've been waiting for! Wow, never heard of these pits before, seen them, but never had a name for them. Nice friendly farmer, we have one like that, willng to use his jcb when we get around to it. Fair amount of water coming out, good sign.
Such a beautiful place. I had to watch it again. I think this is my 3rd time.
Awesome dig. Opening the time capsule. I could not wait one week to go in and explore. You met a very nice land owner that had an exploration spirit. Lost mines are very special. Cheers.
Found this channel today and im hooked. I appriciate the amount of information you guys provide on the age and way the mines work/were created. Im hooked guys, please keep this up. Definitely helps my claustrophobia and complete and utter interest in this stuff.
Hi Al and Ioan.
I've been off TH-cam for a little while now, but boy this is quite something to see! Your aspiration to discover these beautiful places is beyond me. Incredible work guys!
Your passionate ambition reminds me of the Williamson Tunnels Trust in Liverpool, they are some interesting things, but I have to say, nothing can beat a coffin level for me! ⚰ ⛏
This is what Ioan does in his spare time, researches and explores these wonderful places, but never did I know that he also crouches in JCB buckets 😂
The views are just great in this part of Wales - it's lucky I know this area well, some very interesting things to see around here - always keep my eyes open for any possible dangers though whilst out exploring on walks!
Keep up the great work lads! 😀 👍
Stay safe both, kind regards GWR
Reading the landscape to see signs of old activity like this excites me, I spend time walking the moors of Lancashire trying to figure out what went before - lots of small mining and industry from before coal. Well done!
There are hill forts and a Roman road near by, check out the detecting videos.👍
Awesome first video I have seen loved it can't wait to see what's in their........... You have a new fan for sure.....
Thanks for looking us up, please go check out our other videos we have lots of awsome ones . 👍
So exciting. I can't wait.
This is quite interesting. As well that my great-great-grandfather emigrated to the US from Wales in the late 1860s and was apparently a miner in his native land. He seems to have done some mining work in the Pennsylvania area before heading west to Kansas to help found a Welsh town there named Bala. I think a lot of the settlers there were also miners - there's a record of them hand digging a well for the new town, found a pocket of bad gas so started digging elsewhere and finished the next day.
Bala is just up the road from me, plenty of money nes up that way mostly slate mines .👍
@@LostMines I don't know if my ancestor left from the Bala, Wales area or not, but there's some evidence he was a slate miner - at least while in Pennsylvania.
Man this is so exciting 👍 can't wait for the adventure to continue . Take care guy's 🙏✌️
I just stumbled upon your channel!! Brilliant job of researching and finding the mine. I really like the enthusiasm you all show at doing what you do! Subscribed!
And thanks for the history lesson in regards to the unemployed miners who still went out to look for veins. I had no idea.
What a great video and channel, this camera quality is amazing too.
Thanks, GoPro hero 7 black, need better lighting though.
bring it on. awsome find wonder how many more like this there is? mesmerizing watching the JCB at work gentle at times when needed
Well done guys,very exciting video,looking forward to the explore😊.ive never dug up anything as exciting as that in 18 years of being a excavator operator,I did shout at the tv where Ioan put his hand👀.thanks to the farmer for letting us all see this lost mine😊diolch yn fawr iawn
Brilliant video well done! Homework and experience really paid off! Have you done much further north? There is some lovely lead and copper mines around Snowdon/Betws y coed.
So exciting! But it is also a very good job for wildlife, bats certainly like to get more places to live
Exciting video guys, have fun and stay safe!
Such a cool find! Congrats!!!
Looks like it will be interesting for sure.
Da iawn bois very interesting we have plenty of old mines down here in the Gwendraeth Valley but too dangerous to explore
Well that was a new tack! The excavator operator was great, what a deft touch! Looking forward to the exploration! Be Safe! Oh, and paint the view!
Already painted the view a few times 😁
Fantastic short video. In the USA on privet land you can not open any mine even the owner says you can with out some finding out and telling on you.
Wow I am amazed the someone would tell on you that's awful
Da iawn lads! Can’t wait to see what you find in there
hellava view indeed and well done!
Great stuff! I'm a gold prospector and can't wait until the next video so I've subscribed👍💛😉
Thanks for checking us out.
Brilliant find. Amazing work. Thanks for sharing. Paul in Lower Boddington
Thanks everyone for checking out the channel also look at our other videos loads there and if you want to see awsome pictures from within the mines go check my Instagram @lost__mines or my Facebook Alan tansey.
Hey I know him! Hello fellow Morrison's worker!
awsome exciting stuff there be interesting for you to be the first ones in it , hope you find good stuff .
What is "driving a level"? Are they talking about following a vein?
Yes following a vein digging out the level. 👍😁
A drift mine
Interesting, but it's actually quite risky simply clearing away debris in front of an adit. A long tongue of water might be underground and when it starts to move it can create a runaway situation where the velocity of released water washes all the obstructing material away. Safer to drain the water away with a siphon.
The water was actually flowing out down below the adit , there is an underground stream running through it, we just opened it up a bit more,
Jeez, it's like the Welsh aren't even scared of dragons anymore
Wow !! 😁👍
Great find. Looking forward to the next video. You mentioned in past videos about people possibly being able to join you guys when you explore. Is there a way I could contact you about possibly doing so? Thanks
contact us on facebook ~ Alan Tansey
Was there any wind going in or out of the portal to indicate it was connected to other levels? If not it could be just a short prospect explore like the lower adit. Seeing quartz by the portal is a good sign though. --- I used to live in Northern California Gold Rush country and explored a lot of abandoned gold mines. My friends thought it was funny to get me drunk and turn me loose in one of their 4x4 vehicles. I guess I did alright... I never wrecked or got (too) stuck :>
No wind coming in or out
Even if there is no air flow, it still has potential to be a good-sized mine. Given how old it is, ventilation shafts could easily have become plugged or eroded shut. Some of the big mines we have explored had no air flow anymore. And one of the biggest I explored had no air flow and no waste rock pile. I thought it was going to be just a little prospect running back for fifty feet or so.
@@TVRExploring: Good point. And the mines there are most all older than anything we have here, so more likely to be caved or eroded if it ever did connect to anything or have an air shaft.
That's nice
Good job, cant wait too see inside the mine.....Was it at one time a gold mine?...................JB...........
Lead, iron , zinc would have been found in the mine. 👍
next video plss...so excited what's inside...
that is fantastic
Brilliant
If I have a lost mine on my property? What would be the best way to get someone to help me out with it? I'm located in Tennessee.
This is amazing guys 👏 👏 👏
Thank you for the share
You bet!
So what kind of a mine was it?
Where you put your hand had me screaming. Im an operator an that would have taken your forearm off.
You're doing some dangerous stuff already , don't let your guard down.
Following up on this comment. That was very dangerous. And then no hardhat after...please use some basic safety.
*Torch?*
so what ever hapend to this place did you guys go in it and make a video of it
It's always amazing how there's so much stuff under our feet that we're unaware of! Great stuff!
Coolbeens
How was the air in there?
We left it for almost two weeks before we went back in it was ok then . 👍
When can we watch the next video from inside?
It will be up very soon 👍
What did they mine?
Lead, iron , zinc . 👍
@@LostMines
Thank you
Loads where I live if you ever up here come and have a look 👍
Where about are you
@@LostMines north west Lancashire
Has excavator doesn't dig a daylight?
Risk a cave-in and stretch the farmer's kindness by disturbing more of his land than is necessary?
Most mines are closed for a reason, you know to keep people out so they don't get hurt or trapped.
So, who owns the water rights and the responsibility for cleaning it up if it's toxic?
Not toxic at all stream already running out of the level has been for years fills up a water containers for the livestock all the mines we explore have streams running out of them and lots run into rivers.,
big digger hahahah love it but
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George hall would of been proud.
Maybe you should put some more ads in
Shouldn't be messing with mines, leave it to Bomb disposal
Where's part 2?
th-cam.com/video/1zYaMVuEvgc/w-d-xo.html
@@LostMines Thank you
Tamos juntos 3 A detectorismo é show
Da iawn!!!
Be safe guys. This has got the makings of accident written all over it.
Interesting but way to many ads for a 12 minute video !
Sorry about that figuring out this TH-cam thing
I mean, you’re speaking english but your accent is so thick that I need the captions on to clear it up to comprehend it.
A little repetitive trying to add false suspense in order to fill in the silence. Sometime silence isn’t so bad.
Hello do you guys have bmws or just a high education that you can not take your own vehicles ?get some thing 4x4 get some adventure in your video s case wash state 🇺🇸🤔😷 later have your cup of tea and talk about your fun day later.😎
State of survival advertisements are disturbing.
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Way to many ads.