Exploring a $40,000,000 Gold Mine?
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- This week, I head over to Nevada to explore the Bonanza King Mine! Currently on the market for $40,000,000!
This gold mine was first worked in 1868 with the open cut mine that is still visible today. Eventually a shaft was put in down to the 300 level. Over the years a variety of crews worked the claim until operations were shut down in 1910.
Since there, there have been a few studies done on this mine. The most recent exploration told to me was in 1993. The explorer that day studied 3 levels of the mine, the 50 level, 75 level, and 100 level. Upon returning, he called the owner, sat down to write up a full report, and died at his typewriter.
Nobody has been into the mine since. This week, I packed my bags to go explore this abandoned mine.
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Follow along on Instagram for more photos! / brentwunderwood
Mailing Address: PO Box 490, Lone Pine, CA 93545
Thank you all so much for your support and for subscribing!!
Thank you everyone so much for following along for the adventures! I'm back next week with a big update on the town's renovations! If you aren't already, I hope you'll subscribe to the channel to keep up with everything going on. Thanks so much!
Thank you for your hard work! Good luck!
Thanks for these videos they keep me going - you keep going too!!! Lots of love from the UK
Dude at the main shaft with the drone shot there's a tunnel going sideways at 20:46
thank you as always for sharing your Journey Brent! Gives me hope that there are still adventures and unexplored territory to be found in my life. Cheers! Hope to share you a beer sometime.
Love this mans story and love this channel.
No advertisements, no selling shit, genuine words of wisdom. We have so much respect for you, dude.
What I love about Brent, is you know if he hit a few million bucks, he would spend it on putting back the cable car system across the mountains, or something else equally important to the on going life of Cerro Gordo.
Could we get a fundraiser started for him/the town?
@@grafando he already has one I believe
i'd hope he does the smart thing and pay off all the debt first ahahaha
Ohh I just said this before - maybe we need to amp up the fundraiser - do we know how much has been raised?
He’s a millionaire already
THE ENDING MINUTES MONOLOGUE IS EFFING PHENOMENAL, BRENT! The editing has been getting so good too. I love this channel so much.
I was going to say the same thing!! I absolutely loved that! Really beautiful spoken words on myth, adventure and mystery.
This Man is single handedly making the best "documentary" I've ever seen and every time he manages to keep me at the edge of my seat.
Well, now that you have a mining town you have a TON of room for your swords
Swordo Gordo!
So much room for activities! Sword activities ofcourse ⚔️
😂😂
There's a lot worse out there that you can whine about besides someone choosing to Casa little bit and how old are you even anyway here complaining like a child but you're supposed to be under an adult
Your take on mystery took back to memories of my late father. He started a new career midlife as an archeologist. As a child I asked him why he chose that path. His answer was so close to the description you give for your motivation to chase the mystery in life, I could almost hear your voices laid like nestled waves together. Thank you for the lovely memory and a mystery of time folding synchronicities. Much love and many more mysterious breathes.
Can we get a hell yeah for Brent's camera work?
Hell yeah!
Hell yeah!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽supreme
Hell yeah brother !
Yup ... Though I am letting it slide the moment he dropped the camera. His drone shots are the best!
By far the best Channel on TH-cam. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Thank you for the support. Glad you enjoy the videos!
I agree 100% Brents so wholesome
@@GhostTownLiving love the channel dude, I was lucky enough to find your channel when it first started and to watch the journey unfold is magnificent you do a wonderful job with the videos, I hope one day to see Cerro Gordo for myself and shake your hand till then keep the videos coming and stay safe my guy, and if you could tell Johnny to to get some boots lol those ALL STARS look out of there element
@@GhostTownLiving can you please make more content?! I wish your videos were all an hour long! Great stuff thank you
@@gufredd9675 I mean he is lol
You keep us on the edge of our seats each week praying that nothing has happened during the week 🙏 So relieved to see you!
Amen to that!
Nothing better than pouring a beer and using Chromecast to put one of these great history and adventure videos up on the big screen TV. The video/sound quality and the narration are always top notch. These episodes should be packaged for replay on the History or Discovery channel. Thanks again.
You know someone is a good story teller when 25 mins feels like 5. Yet, you feel jipped because you want more!
Amen to that!
Yeah, I paused it to read a few comments and then saw that there was only 4 minutes left. I was fully convinced I was only about 5 minutes in.
I just took my 6 year old son down a local mine thats open to public this past weekend, he loved it and the passion for adventure is definitely rubbing off! Thanks for the awesome videos!
That's awesome! I love to hear more explorations being inspired. Be careful in those mines...
@@GhostTownLiving The mine we went to is in Bendigo Australia. Its been well engineered with industrial lifts to ensure safety and the tour guide had some great stories of his father and grandfather mining in that mine. Would be awesome if you could do that with the mines in Cerro Gordo, the history and stories in these places are fascinating!
Excellent!
@@WickedPaint The mine in Bendigo is still an active mine that's why it has industrial lifts. Brent would be looking at turning Cerro Gordo into something more like Sovereign Hill in Ballarat
@@andyl645 www.central-deborah.com/about-us/central-deborah-gold-mine-s-history#:~:text=After%20intense%20lobbying%20by%20the,historic%20golden%20past%20was%20maintained.
Doesn't sound like it to me. They make it clear there it's no longer an active mine and has been opened to the public since it was sold to the local authorities in 1970. I assume it's the same one because they're clearly proud that the tour guides have personal links to the mine.
Johnny is frickin’ fearless. And Brent, your storytelling is impeccable, as always.
@@thequietestrevolution9860well you are a fake.
Is Johnny prince's son. Great video kind regards Trev 🇬🇧.
Whatever happened to Johnny? He’s never in the newer videos.
Cerro gordo is secretly being used as Brent's plastic sword collection storage unit
You gotta love Johnny, that kid is too cool for school. You have to keep him close, he is a real asset.
@@rickobrien4025 NO HE DOES NOT its perfect
You mean Mango. That's who Johnny reminds me of - an early Chris Kattan character from SNL. 😊
Clearly not, he does not realize boots are a better option than converse shoes.
No one is too cool for school ;)
@@cvbattumhe definitely needs some boots and have bit more bass in his voice
I swear Brent is a philosopher with how profound everything he says at the end of his videos
I love his message and how he delivers it. Very prophetic!
i guess but anyone with half a brain and a platform can make themselves sound profound. the reality is that the amount of information we can say we actually know about this world is nowhere near the amount that is still out there to discover so i wouldnt even say our lives have a lot of definitive facts but that we have tricked ourselves into believing that's how the world is. also dont take this the wrong way lol i actually do agree that brent's vids are very interesting and thought provoking. maybe hes just closer to that mindset since hes out there in the desert all alone. theres a reason people take psychedelics in the desert i guess.
Very authentic and unpretentious and simple and profound.
You are right. And I see this evolution and he's becoming more philosophical with time.
Riigghhhttt
Aside from all the beautiful landscapes and interesting explorations, the thing that makes these videos really worthwhile are the writerly reflections and musings at the end of each episode. Brent, you not only are a skilled videographer, but you have a way with words.
Agreed.
I like Brent cause he sees Cerro Gordo as a historical place that everyone who loves history should experience such an amazing place where the old men that own everything else tell everyone to stay away
ANOTHER VIDEO! Thank you for giving me history lessons
You should visit Brent's Cerro Gordo , i'd watch that
@@FishFishTank I'd love to!
Not where I expected to see you pop up lmao
I love the history he tells about this ghost town.
I sold a diary I found in Needles, CA at an antique store in the 1990's. The woman who wrote it admitted she "worked" up at the mining camps in the area and would hide gold in "God's pocket" for women. After two years she had packed enough away for a house. I sold that diary ten years later for $4K
You're lying, or telling the truth, that's for sure.
I love this.
@@JokerrRuth lol, I've been an antique dealer for decades. I mainly sell old photos and film.
@@randomvintagefilm273 I tell the truth, 'cept when I lie. I believe you. But the rest of the world....? You just can't trust 'em.
Never heard it called gods pocket.
Man am I glad I’ve stuck with this channel since March last year. It’s an incredible story thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for sticking with it.
Not going to lie, I may have thought after ep1 I have to watch no2 just to watch this man implode with madness!. Shame on me. It was an impulse of someone not doing anything with their own life.. Brent is an awesome story teller and the town is so lucky to have him. I think 20k watching a live stream is testimony to that.
I've Been here since April/May? I remember wondering what to do in isolation, then... *Brent shows up with the ideal solution!*
I was planning to do something vaguely similar (abandoned huge ranch in the desert next to an awesome lake) even before this thing, but got stuck taking care of mom...
Kudos Brent!
You finally interviewed and share Johnny with the world..that partnership!!! 😀😀😀😀
I love that explanation at the end . Searching for adventure , mystery’s that you can’t just google.
I once went searching for a lost mine, I found it and it had the skeleton of a lost Nigerian prince whom was clutching a notebook that said he needed just $5000 dollars to be able to retrieve his $40,000,000 inheritance....
Alright dumb jokes aside, as always I love your videos and look forward to them! If you do someday find a silver ore stash that would be awesome and hopefully it could fund anything you want to do to restore the town!
I sure missed you last week, ya had me worried, glad it was just internet trouble. God bless you brother.
I messaged him to ask if he was ok. No reply. If I don’t see a video I automatically think of a mine collapse.
This is one of the busiest bodies I've ever seen and he's put himself in the appropriate position for it. I understand your sentiment, but I also understand why he's not too bothered to answer every non-business related message. This man is all business in all the best ways. That's for sure.
i was having ghost town living withdrawls
you can join the discord if you want more regular updates on videos and stuff
I'm back! I think I got everything sorted to be able to put out a new video each Saturday. 1pm PST!
Hi Brent.
i'm from Brazil, I sent you on instagram a little of my knowledge on how to produce concrete, I hope it will help you on your journey!
you mean, finding sand, limestone and clay deposits near to him, and making the powder mix him self from the elements?
@@MFTKR I'm not sure what secret concrete they could have in Brazil that requires a special knowledge
@@daraygona7058 Very shitty produce too
@Will Wallace 0
@@richardyoung4616 what does your reply mean? Zero?
It's always comforting to know that someone is living my dream. It may not be me but Brent is the most worthy I can think of to live it.
Missed my weekly fix of life at Cerro Gordo By far the best Channel on TH-cam
It’s Sunday mornings in Australia when I tune into ‘The Church of Cerro Gordo’ to watch the latest adventures of Brent the Philosopher 😁😆
Thanks Brent! Always a pleasure attending your ‘sermon’.
It is kind of spiritual isn't it? Been trying to figure out my attraction to the channel and I think you nailed it.
@@mikemasiello9625 Yes! Each week Brent captures the ‘hero’s journey’ of physical adventures, enduring the hardships. That combined with self inquiry and reflection always makes for a winning combination.
@@ElleAshterra When I was young comic strips were very popular in newspapers. Some of the comics were in serial form. I could not wait for the next days paper to see what would happen next. It's the same with Brent's videos can't wait for the next one. Your right he is heroic in the tasks he has taken on. Really hope to visit Cerro Gordo one day...
@@mikemasiello9625 I like your thinking 😊
@@ElleAshterra Hello! Please be aware this is not Brent. This is somebody pretending to be him. Thanks
I love how he explains the history and details of the mines and places instead of just going to them.
Hi! My family has been watching you for a few weeks now, since we discovered we look forward to your posting of new videos. We try to brainstorm along with you about how to fix or explore different areas you have shown us. Coincidentally, I used to work at the mine not far from Apache Junction called Resolution Copper Mine aka Magma Mine and watching your mine exploring makes me a little nervous for you because my job was Mine Rescue/Medic. :) In this episode, you speak of Jacob Waltz and The Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mtns. This is literally in my backyard. How cool! Keep on your track and maybe our paths will cross. It's such an adventure to watch you, thank you for allowing others to be a part of it!
So relieved to see a video this week. I think I am not the only one who worries if we don't have from you each week
Your channel is an actual goldmine. Thanks for taking the desert magic and mythos, and sharing it with the world. ❤️
Johnny exploring the mine with no helmet and wearing converse lol
@@iivanss3625 You need a helmet though one rock will be the last rock.
Reckless IMO, dude is a liability wearing converse. Obviously does not understand the risk.
@@iivanss3625 oh yeah, it definitely compares. Exploring a mine without helmet & chucks for the funnsies and youtube clicks vs. exploring a mine because you want to make a living
@@iivanss3625 poor deflection
You are a fantastic story teller. I love how, even though this mine was a bust, you encourage others to keep their excitement about what is possible if you keep your mind open to what could be.
What an incredible channel, I stumbled upon it last week, I have already watched through countless hours of your adventures, and I am 100% behind you! Thank you for bringing this history as well as the story of Cerro Gordo to my mind. : D
welcome to the cerro gordo family, friend.
No ads? If anyone deserves all the ad revenue its you! Keep up the great work/content!
Its on the end of the video
1000-16000 estimated income per month. With over 900000 subscribers in less then a year!
@@carlgruver695 yeah but he would get alot more if he put onein the beginning and middle. What a legend tho i love it
@@ryanscott2548 yeah he deserves way more. What a legend
@@StoneyVision I'm glad I found the channel.
Man the first 10 minutes had me completely captivated, loved the background music, the sound effects, the entire way the story was told about the 3 scenarios was so vivid. Excellent job. It will always draw me and others in, thank you for always sharing your passion with the rest of us.
Damn. That ending monologue gave me chills. That property won’t last another week on the market.
Johnny and his 3Ds treasure is fabulous! A beautiful adventure even if you didn't find a mine.
Love your work and helping the environment at the same time
Your writing/script/storytelling/narration just gets better and better. Keep it up!
Thanks a ton! Appreciate you noticing that.
Always look forward to your videos! Thanks for taking us along on this journey Brent 🙏
Brent, you are so enterprising and courageous! I truly love following your life at Cerro Gordo, thank you.
I love how all your videos are like a history lesson. Love watching your adventures and learning about the past! 💜
Just running across your blogs and couldn’t stop watching. I’m addicted with excitement through your eyes I’m a 56 year old wife and homesteader in Louisiana but we love the history especially west love every piece of artifacts and junk you find. So cool. Thanks for sharing but I gotta get busy working. Lol
hope all is well over there brent,you usually post something every week and havent seen anything this week.
I know. It always scares me when he's late.
Hes doing well don't worry, he's just took last week's video off as it was actually his birthday week. 🥳 Normal videos resume this Saturday
you've been one of the channels that's helped me get through this pandemic.. I truly appreciate you for making these videos!
Couldn’t agree more about the unknown making it so much more interesting. Few things in this world can’t be looked up on Google so this is a nice change.
Very interesting as always. My parents used to own a gold mine with 15 Acres in Grass Valley. It turned out to be a bust because near the bottom it was full of water. We used to go diving with masks and a snorkel for gold at the Yuba River also. My parents took me on many of them type of adventures. The best part of the day was always the adventure. Watching these videos reminds me of some of the things I did. Excellent video, Good Times! Love the channel!
The value of cerro gordo just went up after this. it's so much of cooler mine to explore and well preserved history in the hills. yet another end of a video that made me cry.
Brent, you are an incredible writer and your video presentations have become so professional over the last year. You have no idea how much I look forward to these weekly videos, I'm just mad at myself for missing today's live chat with you before the one hour premiere. Thank you so much, Brent! In the next month your will easily exceed 1,000,000 subscribers because of your incredible skills and your rugged good looks that fit your Ghost Town Living personality.
Does anyone else panic when there is no video released that he’s stuck in a mine somewhere and only relieved when you see the post on the community page.
Where is the community page??? We have been stressing out down here in NZ. When we don't see a post Sunday morning our time we start getting concerned... Now its Wednesday and no word. But seems Shane Willis knows something we don't so we are happy and less stressed now lol Bring on the next installment Brent. Hope your good and all's well. Much love Brother 👊
@@afish8797 go to the subscription click on ghost town living next to playlist you’ll see a community tab
@@shanewillis6681 Thanks Ive never noticed that bit before 👍 feel much better knowing our favorite you-tuber is not stuck down a hole with some Levis...
YES!! I hope everything is ok.
@@Tweetyandragu Yup, It was his birthday on the 10th so he's taking some time off. Next post will be this weekend.
There's many pages about mine exploration and adventures but this is the best. Brent is calm and wise and passionate. I hate those hyper immature flashy type of channels ugh.
I love watching you two explore. Just no holds barred no bs.
I have a treasure story for all of you in France, during the end portion of WWII my grandpa George collected a small weapons cache for about five to ten automatic weapons and buried them under a large flat rock next to a tree. In the 70’s when my grandpa was finally able to return he found the weapons cache, but the French government had outlawed firearms so he was never able to bring his treasure back to the states. If anyone finds this I would be glad to hear about it but never the less, Good luck!
31% of France is covered by trees, please be more specific 😂
He had me at potato
Pretty sure we are only at ww2 not 11 lol
You should try these guys!
th-cam.com/users/WW2HistoryHunter He is located in Switzerland ( I guess) and crisscrosses Europe finding quite extraordinary WWII places...
th-cam.com/users/ExploringtheUnbeatenPathvideos Germans, they do all sorts of exploring and produce great videos.
As to the gun prohibition, there must be an exemption for historical artifacts; I once heard/read something that if you make them useless, you can keep them. Something like that... Explosives though are a complete different story!
Can you give more details? Like what kind of tree, where in France, how big of a rock? Asking for a friend...
Brent you are a diamond geezer, sending love from London UK.
Thank you for taking us along.
Good for you! So glad you love this stuff. And happy you’re sharing!
love these stories so much, I love exploring untouched areas since so many things now a day are so unoriginal and picked over
"Figureoutable"
Hey Webster's, new entry for ya!!!!!!!
I liked it too! Lol.
This has become one of my all time favorite channels. Stay safe broski!
I bet you have a blast searching these mines !! Stay safe on your journey and thank you for bringing us along .
always love a good brent and johnny adventure.
This is so cool. I wish I could have known all the people that lived at the town so long ago!
judging by how often they killed each other im not sure if I'd actually want to but the idea is awesome
@@MrBlack-vg8rv ya
You are so good at capturing everybody's attention to follow your whole story.Can not wait for the next .
I cannot get enough of your videos! I look forward to them all week, so keep up the good work!
Found you from kara and Nate. Just want to say your channel is so inspirational and makes me get up off my butt lol. Hope you get a easy source of water soon!
I found Kara and Nate from Brent! They’re all so awesome!
Tell us more about the apaches. After all its theirs
@@charleslee1960 huh?
Hey Brent, another awesome vlog. Great to actually see Johnny completely and not just tufts of hair poking out of a helmet! lol Your little Q&A of each other was fun, would love to hear more. Mostly, I just want to tell you that I love all your vlogs, but, I know this sounds crazy, but I almost look forward to the end the most. You are such an eloquent speaker, you are thought provoking, always warm and heartfelt. You are wise beyond your years. You have become my Saturday treat. Stay safe and as always, big love from Sacramento.
I hold my breath everytime I see you explore these mines, more because I'm scared for you, but at the same time I'm also excited for what you will find and knowing how much you are doing what you love and the enjoyment of it all.
The ending soliloquy earned my subscription. Brent needs to write a book about his experiences, if he isn’t already.
Watching from Belgium, and really looking forward to your videos every week! Take care and stay safe during your explorations.
holy shit brent, your drone shots are just pure insane :)
You, your mission and your videos just lift me up every time man. Thank you 😊
man once again you give me chills . with true meaning. the last part of ur video is deep brother please keep going
I get so excited when i see a post! Im here cause i know your gonna find those Levi's!! Cant wait to see whats coming!
Brent, always there to save the day.
I was happy to see Johnny actually smile 🙂 in this episode. He has a nice smile. Thank you Brent for keeping mystery and adventure alive and well. Stay safe always. The production of these videos are wonderful , beautiful and the stories are exciting.
I am so glad I found your channel. I love history and I really enjoy listening to you talk about the history in your town. Thank you for taking us along with you on all your adventures. May you always be blessed and the very best of luck in all you do.
Ive already pressed like because i know its going to be great a video like always. Keep up the great work mate
That ominous music when Johnny was climbing down into the big hole had me on the edge of my seat. Thought for sure the rope was gonna snap or something
I love 💘 how you introduce yourself in each video. Always makes me smile
I love your energy and spirit!! Whenever I get stressed out on daily life, I turn to your videos. Thank you 😊
This is my favorite part of Saturday:)
Can we all just take a moment and appreciate Johnny’s amazing hair-do?
Literally my favourite channel on TH-cam the video are so informative and exciting. Some of the best content on the website in my opinion.
I love the enthusiasm in the opening clip. You have such an amazing sandbox in your backyard.
Pouring a cuppa and happy to start the day with this vid. Thanks Brent.
Hyped!
Greetings from Sweden 👍💪
Can't wait for this!
my favorite part of all your videos are the endings when you sum up the adventure and why it's so important to dream and find wonder in what life has to offer. bravo man!!
We enjoy watching the adventures you have. Thanks for sharing!
My mouth watered when I saw the Doritos bag 🤤
treasure can mean different things to different people
Who else is shocked that Brent isn't at a million subs yet? It can't just be me...
Hello! Please be aware the reply to your comment (that has now been removed) was NOT Brent, this is somebody pretending to be him. Please don't give any information away. Thanks 🙂
As always your words are so spot on. It's a pleasure following you and your adventures
Thanks for the continued explorations. Really need to check out this 2 part video exploration of the bonanza king mine.
Same here I been waiting for upload hoping nothing is wrong up there. Your support is here. 😃
I resonate so much with your closing thoughts here. We simply don't know everything about our world and even though we may think we know a lot, there's still lots to be discovered or rather re-discovered. I've always loved reading or watching stuff about ancient civilizations or the depths of the jungles and people's explorations of the unknown. It's fascinating overall to see what we can uncover. History lost or yet to be made.
Just binge watched all your videos. Love your channel and can't wait until the next episode.
Wow! Glad to see you again Brent.