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- We explain and show you how a massive landslide underground happened and what was revealed after the dust settled in the Yankee Boy Mine!
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When Franklin says: "Some of the nastiest stopes you've ever seen." 🤣
Hollowing out your mountain
The Yankee Boy keeps on giving, great to see all this Frank
Hello from Caliente Nevada!
Thank you, Frank & Sharon. It seems the inside of your mountain is still changing, can you imagine what the Yankee Boy will look like after all the stopes are empty? WOW! Take care, been following you for 5+ years I want MORE! lol
It is a little hard to imagine! I think there is a huge stope up near the top where most of the waste rock is coming from.
More fearless badassery from the EAM team!
You're definitely getting more than you bargained for in this mine. Cheers!
YAAAYYYY!!!
REALLY LOVE THIS SERIES!!!
REOPENING MINES, EVEN IF THEY ARE ONLY MUSEUMS IS JUST EXCELLENT!!!
I dare say, there is no better way to inspire people than to let them go into a real live, genuine mine, even if it is not actually being worked.
At one point in time, at least 175,000 people made their living mining here in the USA...
I do not know how many it is now, but it SHOULD be MANY MORE!
WE DO HAVE THE MINERALS between Canada and the US, to be entirely self sufficient and NOT dependent on China!
We SHOULD be independent of ANY other country!
Very well said!
Being a miner is not a good job
@@chompers11 So YOU say.
I personally prefer it over everything else I could be doing.
Merry Christmas & Rock On!
Merry HO HO to you as well!
Well damn, now I gotta wait another week 😂
Hello Frank, Sharon and all mining geeks.
Hey! Im not a geek you geek! Im a nerd and don't you forget it!
@@MarkHill45 I'll keep that in mind. Sorry didn't mean to offend .
@@lindabeck6549 Isn't hate speech fun to play with? LOL
@@jimmime ya. That's the problem with texting, you can't see the person's facial expressions. 😊
Good stuff !
Thanks!
Been waiting all week!
Wow Frank that is some crazy stuff and I love it. Stay safe. Thanks for sharing
Thank you, I will
I can't believe how extensive this is becoming and so interesting to hear how the miners would have worked the mine. I love that EAM are sharing the adventures from the Yankee Boy. Love and greatest respect to you both ❤👷🏻♂⛏👷🏻♀⛏ ❤.
Thanks Barbara for your support over the years. I hope you are enjoying the holidays.
@@exploringabandonedmines Thank you it's good to have a bit of down time and enjoy some EAM, Hope you are both enjoying the season too 🎄🎁❤️
Nice work and interesting stuff. Just an idea - maybe put up some kind of basic map showing the mine layout. Might give the subscribers an overview of where you guys are in the mine and exactly what we’re looking at. Until next week 👍
Thanks for the tip!
Yes, please!
keep digging boys!
Thanks Frank and Sharon, interesting as usual!
Our pleasure!
So cool! At this point the possibilities seem almost endless, to me anyway. It is all so interesting, just watching as things unfold. You guys never fail to amaze me! All the years I have followed, never once have I thought any of your adventures were a waste of time watching. Happy Holidays to all!
Awesome, thank you!
This time of year I would expect heaving.
Getting pretty wild in there. 👍Stay safe
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
First time I comment on one of your videos. First, thank you for bringing us to Yankee Boy and for awesome work you do there. I wish that the museum project really works out for you and as always, stay safe. Secondly, first time I took the time to listen to that awesome outro. Not sure if it is punk or thrash metal, but awesome. :) And lastly, Good Luck! (This is a proper miner's greeting in my area, instead of hello.)
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks Frank and Sharon! Yes, a bit confusing knowing where you were, but you always make it interesting! You're followup will be appreciated. I've never heard anyone describe the different techniques/strategies to mining stopes - so many thanks for the lesson! Please stay safe and well!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Must have been a rich seam to mine even though being so small . Great explore as always !
Thanks 👍
rollercoster cart ride wow track ? toor
good stuff, thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing your discoveries and adventures. It would be great to see a map of the mine in the museum.
You bet!
Thanks frank for another great video of the yankee boy.keep em coming im addicted to your channel and your adventures.
Will do
With you in that area of stopes. There may not be much left over your heads higher up, just guessing. Happy hunting between you and Sharon, "The Diggers".
Hi, could we see a map of the mine so far, so we can visualise it. I live your films and the work you do. Amazing stuff 👏
In our new video!
Very cool Sharon and Frank. Be safe. And happy happy holidays!!!
Right now that seems like the sketchiest mine you've been in. All that waste rock just randomly sliding out of stopes... You never know when one may let loose!
As you remove it from the bottom anything it is holding in place slides down.
Wishing you and sharon a very merry Christmas. Enjoying your show here in NH. Take care
Same to you!
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18:20 You should throw "Tennis Balls" bright colours with big numbers on them. Then when you find one you can trace it back
We just did that with Golf balls!
Yankee boy is full of surprises and keeps getting better and better . Will it be hard to make the mine safe for people to visit with all the health and safety madness we have in this world now
It will be a challenge.
Is this part on the map of the mine?
The stopes are not really on the mine maps that we have. The #2 shaft isn't on any maps.
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Country rock? 🤔 IDK looked like urban rock to me 🤷♂️ but I could be wrong , I’m still a novice 🤦♂️🤪 … so cool YB turning into yrs of vids!! 🤗 ✌️🤙
It is looking that way!
Ok Frank, I'm just a bit confused. All that waste changing addresses, I'm not sure I'd want to be in there. At least it is not as wet as some of the mines you have explored. BTW, who owns the mineral rights, Crown or private?
Private
How much gold did they extract from Yankee Boy?
Over 400 ounces in some years. I would have to add it all up.
At the beginning, you said you were roping down some of the nastiest stopes you have ever seen,is that just in the Yankee boy,or is it in any mines you have been in?
In any mine.
Yes Frank buy a metal detector and go over the waste heaps. Great work you two .
Or just pick out the white rock that is what the old timers did.
Fantastic stuff! But if you don't take out all the waste risk, can you be sure you've found everything....?
We will probably take out most of it. There is a lot!
Frank man
All those stopes are unsupported now , will you replace the stulls ?
The stope never was supported. The timbers held up planks that the miners worked on.
🏴🤔😱😳🤯. 👍🤗
Where's the slide footage? I recon it's full of cursing and praying. That's a LOT of material! Good thing it ran out when it did, eh?
Unfortunately when it slid I was on one side and my camera on the other. It was like a river, I couldn't cross until it stopped.
Would love to see Jason from mbmm go in and test some of those spots. You might be sitting on a gold mine (see what I did there) at today’s values. Either way great job on the winter content, super interesting.
Around 1900 Gold was $18 an ounce but the miners were paid only $3 a day so in in real terms Gold isn't worth any more than it was back then.
@@exploringabandonedmines Agreed, do you happen to know the values they were getting? Guessing with as much rock as they moved it had to be profitable…until it wasn’t of course.
@@ohnonotthatguy1465 Some ran 9 ounces of Gold to the ton!
I sure hope all that shifting muck doesn't cause a hanging wall collapse, but I don't remember seeing any collapses like that in your mine. Is there any?
There are some slabs that sheared off near the surface in an open stope.
That fault must have been loaded.
Frank and sharon are there countries mines you like to check out if money was no option. Do you think in the future mankind will mine asteroids.
If they found minerals that were valuable enough
Frank, with all the waste rock, are you eventually gonna get an electric mucker to help clean all that out? I don't know what kind of power requirements are needed but it seems it would help you out a lot to get rid of all that waste.
Muckers run on compressed air. I t really does not male sense to drop the muck on the floor and then shovel it into an ore car. Much more practical to load it right into the ore car.
@@exploringabandonedmines I do apologize. I am from the panhandle if Texas where there is no mining. So I don't know how alot if the mining tools work. But I am learning. So thanks for letting me know. Keep up the good work and look forward to the next video.
Do you think you can find enough gold and silver to mine? Stay safe Sharon and Frank. Always hear for you. See ya.
No if we started to mine it we would have a lot of rules to follow permits. inspections and so forth. It would be too much trouble.
Much love from Alaska frank the tank
Frank, those 800 plus carts of ore is it worth trying to Mill them? thanks for video. be kind.
No they are waste rock. The minerals are in the quartz. We have been sorting that out. However we don't own the mineral rights and there are no mills that we know of that we could ship the ore to.
@@exploringabandonedmines You could have MBMM come up and take some samples back and crush and run through his machines, he's done that for Jeff Williams, Dan Hurd, and even for the guy that owns the Cerro Gordo mine. As someone once said, It Never Hurts To Try!
@@jimmime Since we don't actually own the mineral rights technically it would be theft. The way he does it actually costs more than the minerals are worth so what is the point?
@@exploringabandonedmines I see your point, lol in this case it would hurt to know.
Great video do you guys plan on doing some minning or just fixing it up.
Not planning on mining.
Thanks for another Great video of the world mining ⛏️ and the work you , Sharon are doing to make your own hard rock mine you both are rehabbing inside the mine yous are both making safe to open as a mining museum that the two of yous are very passionate about ⛏️💡🦺⛓️🔗⚒️⛏️. RESPECT FOR ALL THE WORK YOUS ARE DOING IN AND ON YOUR OWN MINE.
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We really do enjoy it!