#30 120 year old train discovered underground old mine carts and lots more!
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- In one of the many mines at Phoenix we travel under a glacier and find a ten car train parked 100 years ago. Visit my shop and I explain the radical advances in mine cars, machines, equipment and mining technology since the 1890s.
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Any other experiences like the Horton Mine ?
Hey! That layer at around 19:30-19:50. I am pretty sure you stumbled on charcoal, I am no specialist, but that could have been the remains of a forest burned down from maybe a volcanic eruption or something, who knows. But it definitely looked like pure charcoal.
Hi Frank. Geez, that mine looks familiar. This is episode 30 and you are up to episode 246 now? Something like that, anyway.
You keep going into those adits you will wear them out! So, that was your rope in there! I little inflatable dingy would be good for the pond.
You could be a member of the Gold Drop yacht club!
I like that you still heart comments after 4 years
Kat Para 😘😘
We had a local firm in our village that made mine locomotives for use in gold, coal and other mines for decades. Clayton Engineering still are in business but moved to Burton on trent. Its great having had a connection to mining all over the world.
You take me where I could never go.
You teach me what I could never know.
From the beginning to the end, you explain how it started and how it ends.
Thank you Frank and especially thank you Max!
It's great to see people like you documenting these tunnels before they become completely impassable. There's some lost craft to how they did their timbers, and those carts, and it's great to see. Thanks so much for your videos!
Thank you for your comments. You are so right the history is important. This whole part of the country was built by these miners. Without them the cities and railroads would not be here it is important to document what is left before is is all gone.
It scares me to think that some do-gooder might try to sanitize all this stuff for the public good and in so doing destroy such an important part of our history.
Caver461 Pressure-wash a mine?
Sweetcheeks Babycakes
There's all sorts of odd people out there - its more those ones who use the sani-wipes and then leave them scattered all over the stopes - ruins the experience for those of us who like it pure from the 1900's
The Phoenix sure is an awesome mine!!! Great job!
It sure is!
Amazing how much survived after so much time. Fascinating, thank you.
At age 71 and never again will I be able to do what you are doing. In 1964 Myself and other friends explored the Rawhide mine At Rawhide, Nevada and the surrounding area. Now all the mine shafts and adits are gone. The land was sold to another modern and destructive mining company. They strip mined all of it and all of that history is gone. I miss being able to do this, and fully enjoy your explorations. It's funny if I go for an MRI or a CT scan and they ask if I am claustrophobic I think of where I have been and laugh at them.
Thank you!
Yes slowly but surely the underground mines are disappearing!
@@exploringabandonedmines That's tragic...!
Blessèd be, dear brother.
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you do have adventure in your blood to keep exploring these old mines. Pretty amazing what they did a 120 years ago.
Good Stuff. Oldie but new to me, Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the education and the exploration. I won't go in those mines ,so I really enjoy watching your videos.
Very cool old artifacts! Thanks for the tour!
Glad you enjoyed it. I think it is important to film this stuff before it is gone!
I just discovered your channel when this video showed up in my TH-cam feed. Very interesting ! Great video,commentary and content. I look forward to watching the rest of your vids ! Thankyou for the chance to see this kind of stuff !
You are welcome I am glad you enjoy the channel!
I like that sign "Welcome to Gold Drop" at 3:23. That whole ore cart train at 9:30 was pretty awesome. Ore carts are extremely rare down this way. That chicken graffiti was also pretty cool. And so was a lot more! Great video, Frank!
when will you finally collab on a cool mine?
The ore carts disappear around here if they are accessible. But when they are behind cave ins, glaciers and down ore chutes in remote cross cuts you can find them. The mining stopped so suddenly here in 1920 and then the smelters closed so there was nobody who wanted to buy them.
You deserve more than 5k likes.... especially with 780k views. Thank you frank, I only just found you but I’m hooked and watched and liked every video for the last 3 years worth of uploads
Thanks for the support!
Love the old insulators in the background, it reminded me of when I used to collect them and dig for old bottles with my dad
If you visit historic sites you might as well grab all the artifacts you can before the mines collapse and the do gooders fill them in!
Me and dad used to walk along railways and collect the glass insulators that dropped off poles. Was fun times
Mark Lawrence I've got a couple insulators the size of gallon milk jugs that I found on an abandoned rail siding in the New Lead Belt...they're huge!
Amazing videos, this type of content can even be shown in a classroom to teach American history. You're very knowledgable.
He might be Canadian eh
One of the best channels on you tube!
Glad you think so!
Love this old stuff...for a 40-year-old machinist. Those old guys did a lot with relatively little.
These are intrepid guys with a deep appreciation of mines and mining history.
A 120 year old train! That's kind of amazing. When I look in the mirror these days it's like looking at a 120 year old train wreck...!
Blessèd be, my brother. /|\
Sooo much knowledge and so educational. Those poor poor miners. I cannot even imagine the drudgery of knowing I had to go do that every single day! Thanks for making and sharing this video. Super interesting; you’re an awesome narrator as well!
glad that you are saving history
You are a brave guy. My father was an explosives expert and spent many years in mines throughout the western US. He took me with him on occasion. He often explained how dangerous unused mine shafts were. Especially when mine structure technology was crude and very unsafe. You seem unusually calm for someone walking through the valley of death.
Really? I get tired of hearing that! Sure there is some risk when entering an old mine as there is with any activity that involves getting your sorry ass off of the couch. What about all the people that die from dirt biking, killed in avalanches skidooing or skiing or mauled by a bear on a hike? Way more people are killed every year drinking, smoking or doing drugs. One thing for sure death is certain life is not......have fun, live your life do what you want. No point worrying about death it will come sooner or later one way or another!
Love the 3:15 minute intro, Frank is a mine-star. Artifacts galore. Nice tour, thanks.
Just discovered your channel and wow. What a cool mine explore! Like seeing a glimpse of the past. Very awesome!
Thank you for sharing. I love these kinds of videos.
You are welcome.....I enjoy producing them!
Love the phoenix area. Haven’t explored yet but it’s on my bucket list this summer.
Those carts needs to be recovered and put into a museum
It would be a big project they are a long ways underground past quite a few collapsed ore chutes and they are big heavy carts. It would be hard to do unless the new mine owners wanted to help. Golden Dawn Minerals is taking over in January. The former owner was a real nasty piece of work.
We called the manually dumped cars as rocker dump cars and the auto dump cars were called camel hump cars. I worked at the Star Mine up Burke Canyon in Idaho in the 70's and early 80". I started working on level 7500 as a days pay hand. We were driving drift on level 8300 when they shut it down. That's 8300 feet under ground. I was told it was the deepest mine in the U.S.
And then I saw you standing next to the car and realized with that perspective that cars were about ten times larger then I thought!
I understood you perfectly (so not sure what previous comment referred to), and I enjoyed your commentary. Thanks for making something that has shown me a place I otherwise would never be able to see! Kind regards, LVoss
Thats kind of the idea.......record history for everyone whether is has disappeared, fenced off or folks just aren't interested in taking the risks associated with visiting the site.
great vids. thanks for risking your health and safety to show all this cool history.
Your welcome however........ no greater risk than sitting on the couch, watching TV, eating junk food, smoking, drinking and doing recreational drugs. If anything they mines are keeping me safe!
Fair enough, still appreciate ya sharing the history and the adventure. Don't have anything like this close enough to me that I could regularly venture to, your vids are the next best thing.
There is an old compressed air locomotive in a mine near the top of Engineer's Pass near Ouray Colorado. We were shining a light down the mine up there and there was a reflection, and we walked down to see. Just sitting there in a silent vigil.
I have one in my museum!
Greetings. I am sure, that maybe 7 years ago ? I found an article or video, that featured a kind of office, or work room, abandoned in in a mine, or possibly an underground subway or train facility. With an intact door, tools, possibly a desk or work table. Ive not been able to find it again. Frustrating. Thanks for the great video!
If you do find it please let me know..I'd love to see that
U are my new hero and fav channel!!! Loved this. 😉
It’s just unbelievable how brave you are. Awesome show Frank.
Those ore carts were so cool. Great relics!!
They are!
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Awesome history thanks for the history lessons! I'm fascinated by your exploring, same time it scares me , I'm scared of the possibility of something happens! Stay safe!
Don't know how i found your videos. Subscribed immediately. That is brilliant footage. Couldn't do that here in UK even if knew where to look. Excellent 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Phoenix British Colombia old ghost town.Copper mining 1890-1919. Always interesting watching your videos.
Had a Joshua Hendy ore car in the yard years ago- looked great with flowers growing in it!
I bet it would have looked even better filled with gold
Awesome tour you guys have brass balls.Thanks
Thanks!
Thank you so much for showing us this mine it was amazing!!!!!
You are welcome glad you enjoyed it!
Here we go again., im drunk and on ur channel...whats facinates me is the deep dark abyss...reminds me of my ex wife...love this channel!!!
You dirty trucker...!!!
Awesome video. Good to see antiquities frozen in time (pun intended).
Though I now have the urge to play Minecraft.
Bro you are a beast and a lovely guy. Love from uk
Well thanks.......I think.
Thank you for doing this. I'd love to explore a mine like you do. Keep it up! Be safe.
Fun fact, they used ponys as well in the mines. Now these days ponys are used for kiddy rides.
They used mules and donkeys as well.
Maybe one day out in Arizona youll find the rumored viking ship in the desert.... That would just be nuts....
very informative and fun to watch
Great channel. Just discovered it. Thank you for the experience. Loved the music at the end. Cheers from Denmark!
Thanks for your comments. While there are many great historic mines in Europe sadly the freedom to explore them has vanished. They are trying the same thing here and I fight them as hard as I can!
I was born in 1808 and I must say that those were the good old days I remember them well!
So your about 120 years old? Right
@@beadlebb22 you're not good at simple math!
@@beadlebb22 212 years old *
Great mines think alot. 😄
unbelievable! Of all the mines I have been in I have seen only one ore cart. Great find. Thanks for posting.
Wonderful Find.
Besides the ten in the train there are at least 10 more singles of different sizes plus lots of parts scattered in various places.
I love this! Thanks for showing old mining equipment.
Really love this, you explained everything in a very interesting and understandable way! Thanks for sharing, it's super cool!
Wonderful video with an exceptional presentation. It's refreshing to watch something that is done in a mature and professional manner without foul language and obscene references. Thanks so much!
Well thanks..........good thing you didn't watch some of my other videos, I can get pretty excited!
. Thank you for the voyage.💯👍
Love your videos. Lots of hard work getting to some of these mines. I live in a mining community and have always loved the history.
Glad you like them!
You guys are awesome, I couldn’t do that in a million years
Zouhair Suleiman me either I do not like to feel closed in
Real enjoyable video, loving it!
Thanks again for sharing life with enthusiasm and passion my friend aware nice view
Thanks for visiting
Great find!
Yes i was you never know what is around the corner in those old mines. Thanks for watching!
Excellent vid gents..thanks for the entertainment..watchin while self isolating during covid
GREAT SCOTT
Frank you and your wife are so brave to go to those minds I enjoy watching your videos please be very careful lots of the mind you go into a very unstable and flooded keep up with the good work on filming your adventures thank you
Thanks so much
@@exploringabandonedmines so do you believe that the mines that you explore are all played out and there's nothing worth materialize exists or are they just too expensive to continue mining
you do a great job. this helps me enormously.
I'm glad I found your channel by chance & subbed, I luv learning new things. Have a blessed New Year sir.
Love this channel 👍
Thanks for the tour!
You are welcome Tom. I am restoring an old wooden mine cart from the 1800s similar to the one in the video. I will post some video of it next week.
+Exploring Abandoned Mines In BC looking forward to it!!! we're out of Seattle Washington, I have lots of family in BC! I have been a treasure hound for almost a half of a century!
Nice informative video. I like to see the old stuff that was built without power tools of any kind. It's amazing how far they blasted there way into the mountain and shoveled it into those cars by hand.
They didn't shovel it all that much. They built railways under the deposits and then used gravity to funnel ore down chutes and load it into rail cars below
A Phoenix girl here...We used to see lots of these abandoned mines!
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This is in Canada
Yes I know it’s Canada but I was just saying we saw lots of abandoned mines in the Phoenix area and it was cool watching this because we didn’t get to go into too many mines. Great video! Thx...
I REALLY appreciate Gly now, as his camera work is so much better than this. No jerking and much less blurry content.
This is fascinating and frustrating at the same time.
Well this was shot many years ago in my first season with a poor quality camera. Also Gly doesn't go the places where we film. Him and his equipment would never get that far into mines. If you want to go deep and see some really cool stuff cinematic production isn't possible
@@exploringabandonedmines: Appreciate the response.
Hi Frank my name is Kyle. I live up in Merritt in the nicola valley. We've got an extensive coal mining history here but unfortunately, there are no open or stable shafts to explore. (that im aware of, and probably for the better or I'd have died as a kid lol) I've had a long lasting interest in mining. But I have never had a chance to explore that curiosity until I found your videos. And incredibly you are fulfilling every bit of my curiosity and teaching me everything I'd ever want to know; short of actually experiencing it for myself. Thank you so much for the very personal history lesson! You remind me of the men I've seen in old mining photos and watching you share your wisdom is extremely enjoyable. I might add that I enjoy seeing things from your perspective. I don't feel as though you leave out any detail and I truly appreciate your attention to every detail.
I'm looking forward to exploring all of your adventures with you. I'm just getting started but I think I'll be up late every night watching for a while
Thanks for all your kind words Kyle ! There is so much to learn when I first started many of the assumptions I made were wrong learning the history and methods of these historic minors is really like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. The more pieces you have the easier it becomes to see the whole picture.
I am trying to get the show produced into a TV show with a professional camera crew, better equipment and post production the show could be much better but haven't been able to find a producer interested yet. I think it would fit well on Discovery.
Coal mines are a whole other kettle of fish. There are poisonous gases and fire hazards as well as much softer material there. What I do here in these mines may not work in other types of mines.
Exploring Abandoned Mines In BC Historically speaking coal mines were very dangerous. I'm glad you mentioned the poisonous gases because it leads me to tell you about our coal mine here in merritt. Way back in the day a miner struck a spark of some sort and ignited the mine. To this day the coal still burns underground and in the winter you can see the bare ground where the heat is closer to the surface. It's really quite intriguing. I'll see if I can find some information about the explosion and report back. As for the show. I think that would be grand! Your content is excellent, and I could see you doing very well. The biggest problem would likely be permissions and insurances. Do you watch "Highway thru hell"? My dad works for highways, plowing and spreading brine in the winter. Some of the shots filmed from the front of the truck or attached to the plow were my dad's plow. I've got a few family members involved on fact. My uncle Lorne, my dad and I believe even my cousin lee have all taken part in the filming. Also I believe my cousin Jackie will be on next season.
Amazing stuff 👍
Thank you
like your video ..love exploring stuff like that ...sad when you just want to share your find and you get bad comments ..sad
You can't make everyone happy. I am actually quite happy with the responses to the channel. Sure maybe 5% of the people don't like it but nobody is holding a gun to their head. They can watch cartoons on another channel if they want! The comments I really enjoy is when someone corrects me or tells me something I didn't know about the mines. I learn a lot from that.
Found an old top break revolver in a mine once....it still works
Fermin Valdivia I'd like to see pics
korbyn 1 do you have a link I posted it on saas forum
I found it in a mine in good hope California wrapped in cloth
Fascinating, thanks.....
Thanks again Frank. I love your segments. Pretty much watch one every night before going to sleep. I love how you have all the historic info too.
So my videos are putting you to sleep? The same thing happens to me if I watch too much!
Lol. The opposite
I like your videos and i thank you for show us so many from the bc abandoned mining!
Greatings from Germany!
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You are welcome, glad you enjoyed the show!
O.k.!
I take the next bus! ;-))
You're a legend. I know you know other people like yourselves, but still...
Thanks for the peek underground, but guys, you're in a dangerous spot there.
There are miles of underground canals and deep pits where I live, in Manchester, UK, but everything's well sealed off.
Probably a good thing, but I've always found it fascinating.
Stay lucky, and don't bang your head.
love what you do to document this stuff
I am trying to add some history to the show so people don't get bored.
I was actually looking for some type of train locomotive! Lol! Good stuff though!
Awesome!
Glad you think so!
Love it when people have this much respect for history...you sir have eaened my subscription 😊
Fascinating. Thankyou.
You are welcome!
Amazing 👍
Thanks 😄
Great channel! We do a bit of mine/mill exploration half a world away in New Mexico USA. Mines in this area are mostly much older and much smaller. Mines we explore were in an area that died about 1920.
Phoenix is the mine you were commenting on. It closed in 1920 but then reopened in 1956 as an open pit mine until 1978. We also have many smaller mines that closed around 1920.
John Harlacker I grew up in SE Arizona, around Tombstone and Bisbee - we had hundreds around the around the area, and some of them were decent sized.
Not like this, but the last one I explored did have the wiring for the electricity, along with some of the tracks left over. What I did explore was no where near as impressive as this.
Awesome. Very interesting.
cool thanks for posting and be safe
I toured a lot. Gramps always stopped at mine tours. I remember shiny rooms in Dakota said didn't pay enough ton. today.. worth millions. nice to tour with someone knows what they're doing... I'm way to tall to go down underground...or fly fighter planes. And when I drive the bosses Ferrari my head sticks up like a hawain private detective
hello i currently live in the kootenays and this sort of stuff is a personal favorite as i love exploring and would love to explore more mines myself! Also did you know that the blue glass telephone pole cap behind you was actually invented by my great great grandfather! Found that out when i was 12 homesteading on a 61 acre property directly below bridesville b.c.
Actually it is an telegraph insulator. I have some in my museum
Ahh fair enough. That would explain their size and why the poles were so small and short.
Thank You....I long to travel and discover...
great tour..
I just subscribed! This is super cool
man you find some great mines
I am lucky to live in an area that has hundreds of great mines!
Amazing!