It's amazing the motivation that the fear starving to death will give one. Whack away with a pick at solid rock all day everyday, no hydraulics, no mask, safety measures, no oxygen.
I live in Las Vegas, Pahrump is only 30 mins away, go there every year to buy fireworks, been out to that Museum, if you're plannin on coming out here to Vegas, do as we say and go over the hump to Pahrump, it's worth it.
Awesome video Jeff! I like those B---IG timbers. Great idea to have Tim from the museum there for a history lesson about the Johnnie Mine - very interesting!!! Good to see Nevada Jack there too. Thank you very much - you the man!!! Look like I'll be visiting Pahrump. Say hi to the crew. Take Care my busy friend. See ya soon.
This is like a nice tv show that i dont want to miss. Keep it up jeff. It's a long way from Sweden to arizona. Otherwise i'd stop by and bring a 6 pack with me.
Another great historical education. What is the mills name stamped in that timber? We up here in WA state sent a lot of old growth south to S.F., and L.A., curious Jeff, do you remember the name?
Well Sunny Jim, I would have like too seen that mine back in its hay day... Jeff any gold in the mine today?..And can you get in there?...This mine is very interesting, thanks Jeff...........Guess Bone daddy was on camera?..Did you brake out the metal detector?
That's cool Jonnies mind he sold it at the hmmm time ...&).Awesome structure that's the stuff I like seeing love your videos hi Slim Nevada Jack and History guy ...&).Jeff to ....So come on let's go....&)
Very cool Jeff. The guy who I was looking into filing that claim over on Shadow Mountain with lives in Pahrump. By the way that claim was claimed just a couple days before we filed on it. Bummer but now I'm living in NV so it's all for the better I suppose. I sent him your video to watch. I should be in Pahrump sometime in the fall so I'll be sure to go see the museum and the Johnny Mine. I'd love to see more videos like this. I'm really more into the history of mining and all the camps and people than I am in the gold.
Do you know if there are any old gold mines near the Verde Valley or Prescott? I know there's a bunch of copper mines on Mingus Mtn, but it would be cool to check out more!
Could you get a few bucket of ore from the tail piles and see if its got anything in it or take samples from the breacheated quarts and shale? You forgot your five gallon buckets.
Have you ever fantasized about having a super-power? Most folks wish for the ability to fly, or super strength or speed, perhaps x-ray vision, or maybe psychokinesis. Me? I would love the ability to touch an object, and be able to see into it's past, back to when such things were in their prime. Imagine the chance to see this mine and mill in full operation! To see how people lived, how they worked, and how they survived!
I thought I'd take a look and see if you caught a pic of the house I built in 91'. Actually, I built two, a temp. and then the main house. By the way, I named the road "Butch Cassidy Pass" and registered it with Tonopah.
Jeff, whenever you do one of these historical mine tours, I always wonder if, with gold at $1,300 / oz, if it would make sense to remobilize any of these mine using modern technology? Someone should round up some investors and go all Barrick on them.
Stope is the Hole the miners created as they were digging and following the Gold.....Stoping is the actual work of digging into a mountain with a table spoon like Jeff does..lol or drilling, blowing it up...or just willing it to leave the ground like Jeff has been practicing....
First, a shaft is sunk, next tunnels are struck following the ore vein, then stopes follow the vein upward, sometimes to the surface. The process is repeated until the ore vein runs out. AEDD PS. I worked the Johnny Mine for 14 years.
Ask Jeff Williams I thought so but the size of some of those stoped out rooms is amazing . And for the most part no evidence of scoffolding. Well, that answers the question Jeff. 👍 And till next time, come on now, you know what I'm going say " so come on, let's go ! " I'm anxious to see your mine shaft progress. Interesting stuff, thanks again👍✌
Jeff bring a crew come to oyr mine in cali quartz bearing ore by the tons. My brother a mining song writer of metal riffs has enough guitars for all. Work the day play the night
PAHRUMP VALLEY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S MISSION is to collect, preserve and study those objects, photographs, local crafts and documents that will serve to illustrate the story of man and nature in the area which includes Nye county and related surrounding areas. Selected items will be placed on exhibition in a museum to be located in Pahrump, Nevada. The understanding of our heritage is basic to an understanding of the world we live in and gives us a better appreciation of our state and county. The Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society was created by a small group of people dedicated to collect, preserve and study those objects, photographs, local crafts, and documents that will serve to illustrate the story of man and nature in the area which includes Nye County and related surrounding areas. Selected items will be placed on exhibition in a Museum located in Pahrump Valley. It is the Society's belief that the understanding of our heritage is basic to an understanding of the world we live in and gives us a better appreciation of our state and county. pahrumpvalleymuseum.org/index.html
I was thinking the same thing...there was a couple of those shafts they showed were I was like...o heck yah--just start working the roof with a chisel to make sure you can come back out the way you went in....
With some of the awesome modern tools we now have for mining it would be a breeze to clean out collapse and make a nice clean smooth path to move in and out of [carbide tipped face cutting machines] And with rubber treaded crawlers one could pull rubber wheeled ore carts or just make a crawler with a dump bed on it and drive in and out, even on grades way too steep to use carts! That says nothing about conveyor belts! With those, you just keep on digging and the ore just keeps on rolling! (~_^)-b So Come-ON! Let's GO!
I heard Slim was at a "Fat Camp" ..but those are just rumors....Do not quote me on it..until i see a picture in the enquirer I am hoping he is just tanning on some beach...
Hi JEFF.. Thanks for sharing this information.. Mate check out my latest video.. I Guarantee you will love it.. Cheers Tony.. P.S Slim and Navada will also..!
Jeff, don't be so hard on Nevada Jack. He"s not a sissy. He knows a lot more than nothing. Stop picking in him. Don't be funny or try to bring funny at his expense. Your personality is strong enough to carry it's self. You should be able to see he gets his feelings roughed up a bit at some of the shit you say to him. Sooooooo.
Jeff is a freaking legend. He needs his own tv show . I’m going to talk to my peeps about him .
If it works, don't fix it. TV and especially Hollywood corruption would ruin him. Just sayin.
@@barnowlboxes35 true! true!!
I can only imagine the amount of grit and determination those ole time miners had. Simply amazing. Thanks for the tour, Jeff.
It's amazing the motivation that the fear starving to death will give one. Whack away with a pick at solid rock all day everyday, no hydraulics, no mask, safety measures, no oxygen.
Watching Jeff got me excited to go to the field and the gold I mined was the happiness on my kids' faces. Thank you Jeff.
You amaze me with how quickly you spit out all that knowledge.
thanks
Wow lov that book video i want all those books ...super coool
Jeff. I'm so glad to have seen Slim and Nevada Jack. we don't get to see them as much as we use to. Thank you sir.
Great to see Nevada Jack again, and thanks for carrying around them rocks lol
I live in Las Vegas, Pahrump is only 30 mins away, go there every year to buy fireworks, been out to that Museum, if you're plannin on coming out here to Vegas, do as we say and go over the hump to Pahrump, it's worth it.
Thank You for this video -- love the scenery -- love getting out into the Great Western spaces. You're the best!
Great video Jeff!
Love the rich old mining history out country was built on! "If we don't grow it, we mine it"!
I needed me some Jeff Williams!
Hey you should help him re-timber that mine. I’ll come out n help...
" Hello Jeff, Your Nothing But A Big Kid At Heart, You Get So Excited. Excellent Video, Thank's.!! "
Very cool and educational. Thanks Jeff!
Awesome video Jeff! I like those B---IG timbers. Great idea to have Tim from the museum there for a history lesson about the Johnnie Mine - very interesting!!! Good to see Nevada Jack there too. Thank you very much - you the man!!! Look like I'll be visiting Pahrump. Say hi to the crew. Take Care my busy friend. See ya soon.
awww shucks son !! I wanna see some gold in them thar mines !! soooooo...let's go !!! love your vids Mr.Jeff...!!
Fun and fascinating as always - thanks Jeff!
This is like a nice tv show that i dont want to miss. Keep it up jeff. It's a long way from Sweden to arizona. Otherwise i'd stop by and bring a 6 pack with me.
I'm lucky Jeff and Nevada Jack!
Richard Warnock I'm just Jeff
Your both crazy 😲 LoL
Great history out there still. Its awesome folks are keeping it alive!
Yeah BUB getting pretty good at your documentary style SONNY BOY! SO COME ON LETS GO!
Thanks
good video. Thanks for history Tim.
Seems cool. Never knew about it
Another great historical education. What is the mills name stamped in that timber? We up here in WA state sent a lot of old growth south to S.F., and L.A., curious Jeff, do you remember the name?
Great Show Another 500% Jeff Great Show !!!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your day.
Well Sunny Jim, I would have like too seen that mine back in its hay day... Jeff any gold in the mine today?..And can you get in there?...This mine is very interesting, thanks Jeff...........Guess Bone daddy was on camera?..Did you brake out the metal detector?
That's cool Jonnies mind he sold it at the hmmm time ...&).Awesome structure that's the stuff I like seeing love your videos hi Slim Nevada Jack and History guy ...&).Jeff to ....So come on let's go....&)
Lol Jonnies mind ...MINE. ...
Nice to see Nevada Jack........''In the Flesh!''....so to speak Jeff!
Wow Jeff..... great as always... good info and keep it up..... where's slim? Is he stealing my gold!
JEFF! HEY JEFF, JEFF OVER HERE! C'mon LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
GREAT STUFF JEFF ...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK FROM AN AUSSIE
Awesome old mine Jeff ,you should be getting samples under where those ore carts travelled , I would be lol.
Nevda Jack Yee haw howdy right behind you goodnight to you and Jeff and Slim and family see you all tomorrow God willing
The Museum is great way bigger than it looks.
Yay! Nevada Jack! I missed him!
My dad was an investor in the Johnnie Mine back in 1929. The Great Depression caused the other investors to bale out.
I worked the Johnnie and Crown Point mines from 1992 to 2005, I took out a lot of high grade ore.
Great video (as usual). I wish I had your balance. You hop around on those boards, etc, like a leprican.
Jeff, great show. Looks like any future mining possibly not going to happen on the claims belonging to the museum. Too bad.
Great video. I see years of $$$$ through a TV program "The Curse of The Johnnie Mine"
Great show. I'll visit.
awesome video love this history
Glad you enjoyed it
Like 👍 like 👍✌ Jeff...l'love Gold the histori
Jeff should be in a documentary about gold mining in the American West.
great video
just a shame there's no gold in my back yard in Essex UK
Great show Jeff
Very very interesting--better than some of your crazyness in the past .
Llamo river in Texas has pink granite and vanes of quartz.
Fools gold.
Very cool Jeff. The guy who I was looking into filing that claim over on Shadow Mountain with lives in Pahrump. By the way that claim was claimed just a couple days before we filed on it. Bummer but now I'm living in NV so it's all for the better I suppose. I sent him your video to watch. I should be in Pahrump sometime in the fall so I'll be sure to go see the museum and the Johnny Mine. I'd love to see more videos like this. I'm really more into the history of mining and all the camps and people than I am in the gold.
Do you know if there are any old gold mines near the Verde Valley or Prescott? I know there's a bunch of copper mines on Mingus Mtn, but it would be cool to check out more!
I'd like to hear some stories from Nevada Jack too!
Nice history lesson
Pahrump home of the late great Art Bell
Google "Southern Talk In The Midnight"
Jeff: Like to see you in the Black Hills, SD sometime. Check out the Black Hills prospectors club too
Could you get a few bucket of ore from the tail piles and see if its got anything in it or take samples from the breacheated quarts and shale? You forgot your five gallon buckets.
That's too funny, he even got Tim France to say the jingle ("so come on, let's go!") 8:02 & 11:38
Have you ever fantasized about having a super-power? Most folks wish for the ability to fly, or super strength or speed, perhaps x-ray vision, or maybe psychokinesis.
Me? I would love the ability to touch an object, and be able to see into it's past, back to when such things were in their prime. Imagine the chance to see this mine and mill in full operation! To see how people lived, how they worked, and how they survived!
Jeff is working on the ability to dig a mine shaft with his mind alone..I heard he is up to 5 stone at a time now...wont be long!!!
Come on let's go
Climb down there and open the mine back up.
Jeff I would like some advice on AMRA if you have a opinion. Much appreciated.
great bunch of folks working hard to keep the rights of the small scale miner
Thanks , I sent them a text last night wanting to know which six states they have claims in. You guys be safe and please say hello for me.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!
My name is Jeff/Jefferson/Jeffrey ......or Dirk
OMG how big is this thing !!!!
And its all from wood!!!
Nice video 😍
That historian museum guy looks a little freaked out by Jeff
Jeff, I was looking for a follow up on the mine, did Rulon Bunker tell you to keep out?
just have not been back there so we need to get ahold of them to do some sampling.
@@Askjeffwilliams What kind of sampling? I worked the mines in the area for 14 years.
Good video.
thanks Nora
i just got 40 ac. in NV. AND ALL THE GOLD RIGHTS ON IT....
Life. Liike. Slim
I thought I'd take a look and see if you caught a pic of the house I built in 91'. Actually, I built two, a temp. and then the main house. By the way, I named the road "Butch Cassidy Pass" and registered it with Tonopah.
would love to see the pics.
Show me the rocks! (: lets go!
Followed the link below to the video awesomeness more historical content and 1st hand accounts of operations into the 1960s
Great video. Jeff what was that big cevis at 9.13? Was that caused from a collapse or a earthquake or what??
open stopes.
cool
Jeff, whenever you do one of these historical mine tours, I always wonder if, with gold at $1,300 / oz, if it would make sense to remobilize any of these mine using modern technology? Someone should round up some investors and go all Barrick on them.
Stopes Jeff, explain stopes please. And until then " so come on, let's go" !
Stope is the Hole the miners created as they were digging and following the Gold.....Stoping is the actual work of digging into a mountain with a table spoon like Jeff does..lol or drilling, blowing it up...or just willing it to leave the ground like Jeff has been practicing....
First, a shaft is sunk, next tunnels are struck following the ore vein, then stopes follow the vein upward, sometimes to the surface. The process is repeated until the ore vein runs out. AEDD PS. I worked the Johnny Mine for 14 years.
The chase is better than the catch....
Cool to see Nevada jack rather than just the voice xD
And just exactly how do they go up when they stope out a room a couple of hundred feet high?
they build scaffold to do that
Ask Jeff Williams I thought so but the size of some of those stoped out rooms is amazing . And for the most part no evidence of scoffolding. Well, that answers the question Jeff. 👍 And till next time, come on now, you know what I'm going say " so come on, let's go ! " I'm anxious to see your mine shaft progress. Interesting stuff, thanks again👍✌
@@Askjeffwilliams and "cribbing".
Is the site closed to the public?
I always wonder if the person who plays “Nevada Jack” is the same person who plays “Slim??” 🤠💀🤣
Jeff bring a crew come to oyr mine in cali quartz bearing ore by the tons. My brother a mining song writer of metal riffs has enough guitars for all. Work the day play the night
You just said nope? Have you used VR 10000 or you are saying they are not any good
PAHRUMP VALLEY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S MISSION is to collect, preserve and study those objects, photographs, local crafts and documents that will serve to illustrate the story of man and nature in the area which includes Nye county and related surrounding areas. Selected items will be placed on exhibition in a museum to be located in Pahrump, Nevada. The understanding of our heritage is basic to an understanding of the world we live in and gives us a better appreciation of our state and county. The Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society was created by a small group of people dedicated to collect, preserve and study those objects, photographs, local crafts, and documents that will serve to illustrate the story of man and nature in the area which includes Nye County and related surrounding areas. Selected items will be placed on exhibition in a Museum located in Pahrump Valley. It is the Society's belief that the understanding of our heritage is basic to an understanding of the world we live in and gives us a better appreciation of our state and county. pahrumpvalleymuseum.org/index.html
Looking for something to watch and look where I got stuck
we hope you like it.
widen them last too then ???
I Wana start mining and get RICH
You ever find any meteorites out there.
Gimme the tools and I'll dig shafts any place you can find ore!
I was thinking the same thing...there was a couple of those shafts they showed were I was like...o heck yah--just start working the roof with a chisel to make sure you can come back out the way you went in....
With some of the awesome modern tools we now have for mining it would be a breeze to clean out collapse and make a nice clean smooth path to move in and out of [carbide tipped face cutting machines]
And with rubber treaded crawlers one could pull rubber wheeled ore carts or just make a crawler with a dump bed on it and drive in and out, even on grades way too steep to use carts!
That says nothing about conveyor belts! With those, you just keep on digging and the ore just keeps on rolling! (~_^)-b
So Come-ON! Let's GO!
BE NICE TO NEVADA JACK LOL
I want to find the gold shiny and the platinum indium shiny's.
8:00 cringe grandpa is back
luv it Jeff :D
10:07 :,D
To bad I live in Norway, and stuck at home 🇳🇴👍🇺🇸
2.3 mill in wood
some places earl some take er 50oz another 19 months????
JEFF I KNOW YOU HAVE A DEGREE IN ROCKOLOGY (GEOLOGY). IS IT A BA., MA., OR PHD. IS SLIM RETIRED OR ON VACATION?
I heard Slim was at a "Fat Camp" ..but those are just rumors....Do not quote me on it..until i see a picture in the enquirer I am hoping he is just tanning on some beach...
All them aliens came from Uranus!
to wipe out cling on
Hi JEFF..
Thanks for sharing this information..
Mate check out my latest video..
I Guarantee you will love it..
Cheers Tony..
P.S Slim and Navada will also..!
Sadly I can´t find any gold in Denmark :-/
can anyone walk up to that and take video???????????
nope this one is on Private Property..
Jeff, don't be so hard on Nevada Jack. He"s not a sissy. He knows a lot more than nothing. Stop picking in him. Don't be funny or try to bring funny at his expense. Your personality is strong enough to carry it's self. You should be able to see he gets his feelings roughed up a bit at some of the shit you say to him. Sooooooo.
Come on let’s go where is the gold???
there was payments 4 er what and who chipped ore
I can't keep these mine names straight