Huge Remote Mining Equipment Bonanza, plus, Underground Explore ⛏️🔦💰
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- After climbing nearly 5000 feet in elevation on an old and challenging mine road, we parked the Jeep and were amazed at what we saw. A mountainside full of vintage abandoned mining equipment lay before us. There are two huge generators, a jaw crusher, beautiful winch powered by a gasoline engine, two ore bins, conveyor belt and much more. There is also a collapsed cabin with a lot of interesting artifacts strewn about. After checking out the lower equipment we climbed up the mountain to find the mine entrance where there is another ore bin and pneumatic winch. The mine workings were interesting with several hundred feet of drifts and a caved vertical shaft. While there is not much information available for this tungsten, molybdenum and uranium mine, I believe it was operated during the 1920's and was probably later re-worked as late as the 1970's.
Thanks to Matt and Lynn for suggesting that we visit this location.
We hope you enjoy the video!
Absolutely incredible what's been hauled up into the mountains and is still there waiting to be discovered !!
It is amazing, Dave. Lots of cool stuff at this one. 👍
I would love to know where it was so I could go and see it for myself as I am very disabled I lost part of my right leg and I have bitter bones that I can not stand on I want to copy there ways of putting the stone through the graders I have a gold mine can you please help me
@@conradrodgers3766 This is in upper Jackpot Canyon above Ballarat. It's not easy to get to.
@@conradrodgers3766 Good luck with your prospecting. If you get used to a prosthetic you could move almost as good as a man with all his limbs.
Julie,, u have the best genuine smile!! and u guys are jeepers,,, u win my heart,, love your blog,, fun to watch,, Thank You!
Thanks for watching and for the nice comment, William. We appreciate it!👍😊
You two would have to be the BEST mine explorers that I have seen so far on TH-cam .Thanks once again Tom and Julie
Well, we certainly appreciate that, Tony. Thanks for the nice comment!👍😊
THANKS AGIN NICE VIEWS
Glad that you liked it, Michael. Thanks for the comment!👍
And Good Morning Mine Explorers!!! Thanks for another great vid :)
Hello Kenneth. Thanks for watching and commenting!👍👍
Great video! Lots of goodies all over.
Beautiful views!
Fun explore.
Thanks J&T!
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Yes, lots of goodies at this one. Thanks, George!👍👍👊😎
Lots of equipment just left there. Cool find.
No doubt, lots of stuff. Thanks for commenting, Scott!👍
I am enjoying the channel thank you Julie and Tom. love all the views and scenes of the west i dont get to see. Anyone else a lil jealous of Tom, how lucky to be able to explore fun stuff and have a lady like Julie with him. She is so dang cute 😍
Glad that you're enjoying the channel, Mark. Thanks for the nice comment. I'm lucky to have a good exploring partner in Julie all right.
Tom & Julie,
Very nice find.
All that vintage and historic machinery still remains on the site and is mostly intact.
Many of these old sites have been pilfered and the old machinery taken and sold to scrap yards.
Essentially, stealing history.
Good camera work and documentation of the site. How it all worked together is a little like solving a jigsaw puzzle.
Would have been interesting to see it function when the mine was active.
Thanks for having us along .
Thanks for the comment, Rob. I'm glad that most of it is still there. It sure would have been fun to see it all going. 👍👍
Tom & Julie, thanks for another tremendous video! I always love the mines but seeing all this equipment and structures in such awesome condition is truly more than I ever imagined you would find out there! One of my favorite videos; which I have many of yours! Blown away by the remoteness of this location and the incredible views you showed us on the descent down the mountain; would love to see more! Have a wonderful New Year “2023” from here in Texas! Keep Safe & Healthy!!!
You're welcome, Cary. Thanks for the nice comment. We definitely appreciate it!👍👍
The croker-wheeler generator googled to be around 1805 to 1905. Very cool stuff
Thanks for that information, David. Much appreciated!👍👍
Totally awesome! Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome and thanks for watching, Richard!👍👍
Like the Standard Oil drum 🛢
Oh that drum was fantastic. Not a hole in it. Thanks for watching, Rich!👍
Again an amazing location to find huge equipment. No ladders to climb Tom!!! LOL. That was a barrel with the SO of Cal on it. Standard Oil of California . Thank you 2 for posting another visual treat. Stay warm and dry.
Haha, no ladders Jake. That Standard oil barrel was really nice. Thanks for watching!👍👍
right on cue when you said the sun will peek over them hills. love that old equipment , you found that cyl head & carb plus the gas can man I thought hey it ready to fire up now,
A few nuts to hold the cylinder on and we could have it up and running lol. Thanks for commenting!👍
you both are true detectives and find the coolest stuff. fun place.
Thanks for watching, Ken. We appreciate it!👍👍
Another awesome explore! Lots of really cool equipment! Nice touch with the guitar too.
Glad that you liked the equipment and the guitar! Thanks for the comment, Roger!👍👍
Awesome machinery and mine guys!
Thanks for watching!👍👍
Some really interesting surface equipment and lots of it... That drive looked very interesting indeed.. Hope you don't break your Jeep out there... Looks like a long walk..
We are always prepared to walk out if necessary, Max. Definitely some interesting equipment up there. Thanks for commenting!👍👍
Very much enjoy your video's! Would love to come south& explore with you! Be safe in your travels &God bless!
Thanks for the comment, Carl. We appreciate it!👍
Incredible relics up there, wow!!! Awesome adventure👍👍
Thanks, Mark. Glad that you enjoyed the explore!👍👍
That one was loaded with alllll kinds of goodies man!
Yes, it sure is. Thanks for commenting!👍👍
Really crazy how they can get all that stuff up there, couldn't have been easy, let alone setting it all up, they must have had alot of manpower to do it, thank you for another Awsome adventure on my favorite channel 😊
With two of my favorite explorer's
Thanks for the nice comment, Rick. It is amazing seeing all that heavy stuff so far up in the mountains. 👍👍😊
Thank you for sharing, there are some great shots in the video.
The separation seems to have been with forced air.
That fine net you found creates an upward laminar airflow (very homogeneous). I wasn’t sure until you showed the muffler below (steel with many holes and an insulation material behind it).
The whole box looks like it also shook the finely ground ore over the laminar flow. The laminar flow has a precise velocity and volumetric flow. The heavies are separated like with a shaker table.
Good on you wearing a respirator, I hope you got rid of it after and washed all your clothes 😉
The base metal ore is often very beautiful.
Thanks for the very informative comment. Much appreciated!👍👍
Hello ! New to your vidios and have been watching one after another. Love em. My late younger brother and i use to do a lot of exploring together. Now hes gone and im not able to do this stuff anymore. However, yhat old excitement came back watching your excellent shows. vicarious thrills. guess I need to learn to type and spell!Thanks (Brian)
Sorry to hear that your brother is gone and you're not out exploring anymore. However we are happy that you get some excitement vicariously through our videos. You made my day. Thanks for the comment, Brian!👍👍😊❤️
Wow that’s a bonanza of equipment, in fact I’ve never seen equipment like this in the middle of nowhere !
I think trams in the middle of nowhere had to have been quite a feat to pull off !
Like the Trout mine in the middle of nowhere, what’s impressive to me is the bull wheel laying on a ridge unbelievable equipment up there ! Miles of cable !
This is a great find , thanks for this one !
Hi Norman. This one is pretty special with all that heavy equipment up there with a steep road for access. You don't see them like this every day. I'm not familiar with the Trout Mine, but I will look up some information on it. You're welcome. Glad that you liked it, and thanks for commenting!👍😁
Ariel trams from what I’ve read had teams that put the tower up a rigged them , they didn’t mine themselves!
That had to have been a feat with towers on the mountain sides and cliffs ! I can’t wrap my head around some of those routes !
Agreed. Pretty amazing achievements.
Fantastic documentation of an amazing mine location. You guys are the best for sure!
Thanks for the nice comment, Henry. We appreciate it!👍👍😊
Nice
Thank you!👍
Thank you for sharing that is some pretty scenery to go on down and that road looks kind of narrow and steep and you guys be safe.
We only showed the tame parts of the road. It's fairly challenging. Thanks for the comment, Bob!👍👍
The round discs were part of a hammer mill with it's hammers missing. Incredible how much equipment they brought up there just to process on site. The shaker tables sifted the ore by density to the different pipe chutes on the end. They only kept the heavy stuff and left all the lighter stuff and waste rock on the mountain. Really appreciate you taking us along!
Thanks for your input, Ryan. Much appreciated!👍👍
Another good one as usual, I can't help but wonder how they got all that heavy equipment up there. That was a dangerous looking road leading up to the mine with some great views. Looking forward to next week, until then God bless.
I don't know how they got that stuff up there either. Thanks for the comment and blessing, Jimmy!👍👍
Awesome explore!
Glad you enjoyed it, Bill!👍
#Tom&Julie that was a awesome video. All the old motors made me want to do a well it start. I know the motors are 75 to 125 years old. It would take a lot of work to get one of them running again. Some of the motors that hasn't had people going in a taking parts off. One thing about a diesel engine they are easy to get running then a gas motor. I still enjoy watching your videos. Last time I talk to you, You was working on your well. Yhat been a year ago. Hope you to are doing great. That is a Beautiful place you was at. I would love to take my CAN-AM x3 XDS max turbo R . I do a lot of rock climbing I have 35x10x15 tires on it. Keep up the great work.
I missed this comment until today. Yes, the old motors and equipment here are great to see. I wouldn't be surprised if some could be made to run again. The well is still working fine. Thanks for watching and commenting. We appreciate it!👍😊
Ya need to start getting grab samples of each mine. An by the time ya go thru a bunch ya have ore to show what came out of where..good idea an recording info for years to come.!! Just a thought.. Stay safe an godbless y'all
That's an idea. Thanks for the comment, Jesse!👌
Hey guys! Impressive! It’s great to see the ore bins, trestle etc That wheel was massive! Pretty flowers at the beginning too. One thing I’ll say though is that we’re grateful to have some trees in our landscape lol One wrong step on those narrow switchbacks and that’d be quite the tumble! We’d hit a few trees on our way down here and at least that’d slow us down! Great explore you two :)
Hi Chyanne and Adam. This comment must be for a different video, the one with the big trestle. There are some big parts there like those bull wheels. Haha no trees to stop a fall, only rocks. Ouch. Thanks for watching!👍👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring Sorry! We watch them on our tv and then go to your channel from our phone to comment lol Must have clicked on the wrong one! Take care and be safe you two :)
Hello Julie and Tom. Wow, those 2 generators are pretty impressive. Must have put out a lot of power for it's day. There must have been some very big workings there. I imagine there must be some big upper workings, it's too bad you couldn't find it. That Standard Oil barrel is very impressive too. When I was in HS I lived in El Segundo by LAX and there was a big Standard Oil refinery there. Chevron now. Beautiful views from the top of the mountain there. That for sure. Great find there with all the workings outside. Take Care.
Hello, Stephen. Aren't those generators great? That Standard Oil barrel is awesome, too. Thanks for the comment!👍👍
Im wondering if the smaller generator units where phase convertors for different operations.
Julie / Tom, Thank you for the effort to make a great video. The diesel engine you documented is built by the German company M.A.N.(Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg AG). Please continue developing the creat content, much appreciated.
Thanks for your input, Ted! I appreciate the information.👍👍
Woow >> If I was there with you, I could tell you everything about what it is , what it did and why. Lastly, that is a beautiful area and part of the Country >> Raw Beauty !
Sounds good, Graham. Thanks for the comment!👍😁
Very nicely done tom & Julie, you've just completed what I would call the treble, nice journey, above mine artefacts, and mine explore.
Yes, it's fun when you find that combination for an explore. Thanks for commenting!👍👍
@24:27 when you look into the second ore chute, there are two blue rocks in there. That's Scheelite the Tungsten ore. After the crusher it was sent into the gravity separation which was all the stuff @10:03, It's UV reactive also so modern separators use UV light. There was a neat video on the process somewhere on the YT. Thank you for what you do to document these places.
I didn't have my UV light with me or I could have tried to flouresce the Scheelite. Thanks for another good comment, Jason!👌
I have no actual mine experience other than tours, but I did work for the Union Carbide Mining and Metals divison. The UC plants did metal furnacing and sizing. Much of the equipment around mines looks familiar. As others have commented, it amazes me that they would set up that much sizing equipment at the mine site. I worked with furnacing and sizing tungsten metal. It's extremely hard and very heavy. Our jaw crushers for sizing the furnaced metal had a heavy "pillbox shaped" metal cover. The feed opening had hanging heavy metal chains. The chunks of tungsten would be pushed in through the chains to feed metal into the crusher. The resulting bangs as some pieces "squirted" out and up to bang on the pillbox top was deafening. Jaw crushers on your mine site used for breaking down rock ore wouldn't need a cover. Not that anyone aksed... Finely divided material like metal dust can be highly explosive. A primary explosion in a metal sizing plant will shake loose metal powder from the beams and structure. If that cloud of dust ignites the secondary explosion is worse than the first one. Rock dust isn't explosive. In some facilities rock dust was applied to the tops of beams and flat surfaces to the "angle of repose". Any metal dust landing on the surfaces would shed off. That helped to keep the explosive dust from building up. Granaries and flour mills need to worry about explosive dust also. Thanks for the great videos!!! Much appreciated.
Thanks for the awesome and informative comment. That's interesting that the beams and flat surfaces would be covered to the angle of repose to keep explosive dust from collecting. I come from the Midwest, and it seemed like every year a farmer would get hurt or killed in a grain dust explosion. We always also surprised at how much big equipment we see at the old mines and how they managed to haul it all in is amazing. Thanks again!👍😁
I have said it before and will say it again...I am in awe and agree with you Captain Tom...how did they get all that up there? I think you said it was a uranium mine. Were you and Julie glowing when you came out. Very very interesting artifacts. Enjoyed it very much.
We probably were glowing a bit for a couple days after being there. Thanks for watching, David!👍
Amazing location .
The ore was crushed and grinded almost to dust. Together with water the ore-dust was separated by shaking the separation-table. You can see the water separator behind the crusher.
Many greeting again from Germany.
Thank you for your input on the equipment. We appreciate it!👍👌
S.O. CO. of CAL...................Standard Oil Company of California. Another great video......thanks !!
Thanks, Arthur! That was a cool barrel and in great condition. 👍 😁
Very cool great work, 👍
Glad that you liked it!👍👍
Nice interesting video. Hi from🇫🇮
Hello Pentti. Glad that you found the video interesting. Thanks for watching from Finland!👍👍
Uranium prospecting was big in the 1950s. I knew a woman who wore aluminum foil on her head and kept her window blinds shut because her and her husband had been prospectors and she did'nt want to absorb any more radioactivity. She was crazy of course.
I should have wrapped myself with foil lol. Thanks for the fun comment, Roger!
Hello from St. Paul Minnesota. Just wondering how many people would have worked at that mine in its peak of operation? 24 inches of snow on Monday. It was some fun running the snowblower. A million thanks for entertaining me every Friday. JD.
Hello in St. Paul, JD. I saw on the news you got hit with a pretty good snowstorm. That's how it should be this time of year. I would guess it would take about 10 people to work this operation. Thanks for commenting!👍
That's Chambersburg, Pennsylvania where those flywheels were cast. A lot of Civil War history in Chambersburg also
Thanks for that information, Jason. Much appreciated!👍👍
that machine that had a name on it Chambersburg thats a small town not far from me around Gettysburg Pa nice video
That's a big jaw crusher. Thanks for the information, Jerry!👍👍
It's really feel sad the see the abandoned stuff
It's been there a long time and will still be there for a long time to come for all to see. It's like a living museum. Thanks for watching!👍👌
That's a lot of equipment up there those are some huge engines I bet you if someone was determined they could get those things running and get that mind working again. I love the guitar during the photos of the video you should do that every time. All that equipment and all those tubes in moving parts looks like a mad scientist project I sure would love to see it working back in the day. It's amazing to think how they got all that stuff up there? Maybe on the back of mules? When you're walking in the mine and you come across a pile of rocks a cave in it's got to get your heart beaten fast right? Danger danger!! Very cool to see all that equipment. Again I say you should just add music to the sections of the photos in the video and adds a lot to the video. Plus I enjoy listening to your guitar playing. Now that I see the road at the end of the video I know they use trucks to get all that stuff up there. I really enjoyed this video keep them coming , and be safe out there.
Hey Eddie! Thanks for the detailed comment. Yes, lots of huge equipment up here, how they got it all up here is an amazing feat. We are used to seeing dangerous conditions inside the mines so it's not that scary. Glad that you enjoyed the guitar. That was played on a 4 string tenor guitar. They are tuned different than normal and have a nice sound. Hope all is well at Happy Together and it's always good to hear from you!👍👍😎🍻🎸😁
Good evening, Tom and Julie hope you had a great Christmas, happy new year , how did they get all this heavy equipment up into these mountains one of the generators I believe was made by Henry ford company, very interesting videos I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos better than the main TV programmes it would be interesting to know if our ancestors worked these mines both of you take precautions
Hi Paul, it's a huge task to get all those heavy pieces up that steep mountain. Happy New Year to you and thanks for the comment!👍
There must have been some good ore in there somewhere to make it worthwhile to drag all that big machinery up the mountain. Awesome stuff!
That's what I was thinking, too. It seems like a lot of work to haul all that equipment. Thanks for watching, Ed!👍👍
Happy New Year. 8:11 Shot Jig normally used to separate fine Gold from Crushed Ore. Sad to see that the Copper thieves have been there. 10:31 Rock Dust Separator also used for removing Fines (small gold particles) from Crushed Ore Dust. From what I see it is my opinion that this is more than likely a Copper Mine with byproducts of Gold, Tungsten, Molybdenum and Uranium. If you ever come across any Mines in that area with Miners Graffiti of W.R. that is my Uncles Initials and he had many Copper, Gold and Uraninite Claims in this Region.
Thanks for all that information. Very valuable to us and others who like to read comments. I think I've seen WR somewhere over the years.👍👍😊
GO MONING YOO TOOO
Good morning, Michael.
7:31 could that be a pony motor? Just imagine hauling all that stuff up the mountain.
I think it was the injector pump. I can't imagine the work it took to get all that stuff up there. Thanks for the comment, Brommear!😁
The green barrel is a Standard Oil Company of California,1920ish. Believe its a 60 gallon barrel. I have one similar to it. They are rare. I have a dozen pot belly barrels. Only one riveted. barrel.
I really enjoy seeing those green 60 gallon barrels. Glad that you like them, too. Thanks for commenting, Don!👌👍
Studabaker had aluminum heads on engines in 20s. May be power plant to winch. Didn't get a good look at it.
Thanks for your input on that engine, Don. 👌
Best find yet so toke cm
There is a lot of cool equipment here, Charles. Thanks for watching!👌😊
The box with the screen and the chutes out the bottom may be a drywasher. It's like a sluice but used in arid places.
I believe that is correct. A high end drywasher. Thanks for the comment, Timothy!👍
I know what all that piping is and how it works: You drop a small steel ball in near the top and it falls through all the tubes and bends and at the end it sets off a mouse trap. Or maybe not. haha Very interesting ruins at this one and so many bits of history. I'm so glad to see you and Julie continuing your mine exploring adventures. Very Best wishes and Happy New Year! Keep up the great work on your channel!
That makes as much sense as anything else I've heard. Thanks for the nice comment and Happy New Year to you, Craig! I'll try and get over to your channel to see what kind of mischief you've been getting yourself into.😆👍
Thanks for sharing. I get the impression that this operation cobbled together a bunch of old equipment, old even for their time. Looks very amateur.
I believe it was first operated in the 1920's and probably worked in at least a couple different eras after that. Thanks for the comment!👍
If this was a Uranium mine; you should take a Dosimeter to measure the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation. You don't wanna be exposed to too much radiation! Just found you two today, and will be watching old/new videos of your adventures. Thank you for sharing, and safe travels!
No, you don't want too much radiation. Thanks for checking out our back analog of videos. You might enjoy our favorite mines playlist. Thanks for the comment, David!👍👍
I have to admire the engineering design and the manpower that put this mine in operation. Thank you guys for bringing us along.
You and me both. Thanks for watching, Don!👍👍
I would assume back when the mines were operating they cut in decent roads with dozers and graders as they had to haul out the ore with large for the time trucks. You see this in CO. where the mines are in impossible places. If truly impossible they used trams to get the ore down to a road. In CO. the counties maintain those roads in exchange for tax revenues. I really marvel at the many miles of power line laid in in Nevada to remote locations. Where I live the cost would be astronomical. Nevada must subsidize this.
Yes, I'm sure the road was in good shape back in the day. It still climbs nearly 5000 feet in elevation which is not easy. This one is in California. Thanks for the comment, Roger!👍👍
Pěkné videa, dokumenty. Už jsem zhlédl aspoň 10videi. Náhodou jsem to objevil a dívám se a dívám. Jste odvážní a zdatní. Je to opravdu hodně náročné... Moc sypatičtí. Přeji hodně pěkného a další pěkné zážitky. Moc oba pozdravuje Karel a hlavně zdraví !!😁👍👍👍
Thank you, Valky and Karel, for watching our videos. We appreciate it and thanks for commenting!👍👌😁❤️
Go get'em t.d. Jakes
Haha, okay. Thanks, Robert!
Where did all the money come from to purchase all the equipment?
Good question. Sometimes, wealthy investors would put up money for a piece of the return from the mine profits. Thanks for commenting, Dale!👌😄
Tom, I have seen a setup like those rotating discs to remove oil from water, a kind of skimmer, I don't know if that relates here.
I guess that is s hammer mill according to the comments. Thanks, Mick!
The small generator produces DC current for the magnetic field in the big AC generator. Its called an exciter.
Yes, that right. Thanks for your input, Max!👍👍
I agree with Julie about not getting close to the left.
Fantastic scenery, with an amazing sunrise that looked like a painting 🎨
The two huge engines with the generators are incredible. I am pretty sure about all the chutes, belt, and shaker table. From the crusher to the disk crushing, they pulverized to shaker table size. Which would get gold and some sulfides from the far left collection chute. The 2nd up from it would collect mostly sulfides. I watch mbmmllc yt videos and that's what he's doing.
Sn awesome mine and I can imagine more large stopes up above. Maybe levels too?
Great explore!
Thanks for the great comment, Rick. Good information.👍👍
Can’t help. Never seen anything like any of the equipment.
Thanks for watching, Ed!👍😊
You are quite adventure
Thanks for watching, Robert!👍
happy ramadhan fasting
Thank you, and to you the same!👌
Do you take a Geiger counter on your trips?
No, we do not. Thanks for commenting, Bruce!👌
I'm guessing 1950's, 60's for that one? I have to wonder with some of the stuff left, if they hoped to reopen, so left all the equipment or just grabbed their money and left and left all that as a tax right off.
I think this is much older that that. Probably 1920's and later reworked in the 70's. Hard to know for sure though. Thanks for your input!👍👍
Deutz Allis?
I'm late to this video. Re the "TurbinAir" hoist drum. It might be from the Sullivan Machinery Company, model HA-3 made in the 1920's. Used for car pulling and derrick work, it could lift one ton vertically on a single line at 110 feet per minute or pull a 50 ton car on level track.
There is so much equipment here I had almost forgotten about that pneumatic hoist. Thanks for your input on the TurbinAir, Teo. We appreciate it!👍😁
Do you guys ever sweep them places with a detector, or is that just too much with everything else 🤔
We don't do any metal detecting, not that I'm against it. We seem to be hauling around enough gear already. Thanks for the comment!👍😄
Any estimation when electric started to be used for crushers, conveyer belts, etc?
Good question. I would guess that by the beginning of the 1900's it would be common to be using electricity. I'm not a history expert though. Thanks for the comment, Larry!👍
That engine on the generator is a MAN which is the make of truck in Germany and they do make engine's the name was on the fuel pump, MAN 97 it said, a hell of a thing to get to somewhere as remote, visiting the old mine I worked in this weekend should be interesting as it's still being worked,
Thanks for that. Have fun in your old mine.👍
I have read that where you see that blue copper staining, it can mean that it ore with gold. Or richer than other ore from the mine.
Generally when we see blue mineral veins we think of copper. Like many mines there is usually more than one valuable metal present in the mineral veins. Thanks for commenting!😎👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring True. It sure looks pretty. One of the cooler mines I have ever seen. I have watched lots of mine exploration videos and that one may take the cake. Copper is gorgeous in ore.
the one with round disk as you called them is a hammer mill. the hammers are missing. you should know? that a hammer mill comes after jaw crusher?
Jaw crusher then that roller mill up top and I couldn't follow the ore path to get to the hammer mill. Thanks for your input!👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring after roller mill a little [vent pipe] feed the hammer mill. there was two [vent pipes] coming from roller mill. the hammers would have bolted on the disk you talked about seeing and i saw in the video. you could see the cover that covered the hammer mill if you would have closed it you would have seen it was the hammer mill. good video though
@@getreal1702 I saw the cover for it. Thanks for your input.👍👍
Hi Tom and Julie happy new year to you guys, I'm wanting a little help from you, do you film with a GoPro,if so what fps do you use, do you film in 4k or 1080 and do you use the low light setting, also what flashlight do you use so you seem to have plenty of light when filming underground, regards Tom
Happy New Year to you, too. I don't use a GoPro. I use Nikon AW120 cameras, although they're older models(we have 3). The W300 is the new version of this very rugged and good quality Nikon compact camera. I've destroyed every other camera that I've had in the mines. Dust, dirt and sand, dropping them on rocks, and everything else that happens hasn't stopped any of the three from working. I use 1080 resolution because I travel in an RV and don't have good internet most of the time and 4K is a bear to edit and upload. I use a Coast HP10R light for my handheld and another light that is always aimed where the camera is pointing because they are both mounted on the same piece of wood, like a piece of dowel. It's a custom setup that I made. The Coast model might not be available anymore. It has a focus lens that goes fom flood to spot. Hope that helps.
@@TomandJulieMineExploring brilliant thanks for the info never thought about using a camera that is a fantastic idea, keep safe the pair of you and I hope that the weather is better than over here very windy cold and wet,
air clarifier, use air instead of water to separate minerals
Thanks for your input. That makes sense.👍👍
The two large engines are MAN diesels made in Germany, I think the disc would have had swinging hammers between the discs.
Thanks for your input, Brian. I think you are correct on both items.👍
3 phase and single phase generators
Hi Jerome. Thanks for watching and for your input on the generators.!!👍
Would there have been buildings were all that machinery is? I may not have been paying attention but it sure seem silly to leave all that out in the open
I hear what you're saying, but, these are desert mountains and very dry. I didn't notice any sign of the equipment being housed. Thanks for the comment!👍
@@TomandJulieMineExploring wow I can’t imagine it! I live 30 mi north of Phoenix and oh boy ya leave anything outside for more than a week it’s as good as liquidated. Wood and leather especially
That one piece of equipment at the base of those huge hoppers with all the discs in a row across the shaft was a “ Hammer mill” that someone removed the top cover off and removed all the flinging weights ( the Hammers ) from . The ore would usually go in one end & literally be beaten into smaller & smaller pieces until it finally passed out the other end. That place is just FULL of treasures 😉. Oh and that drum that had SOCO on it belongs to the Snyder oil Corporation based in London at one time , probably around the time that barrel arrived up there . They were once considered one of the largest oil producers/ shippers in the world . Sorry I keep popping in with tidbits of information here ..
Yes, that's a hammer mill and I should have recognized it as such. I was a bit overwhelmed by all that cool equipment. No worries about adding comments, we appreciate you sharing. Thanks, Stephen!👍👍
Thats funny, yes I think miners had to be crazy, and I wonder all the time how did they get that up there??? If not a tramline, then how...lol Not all of it fits on a burro.
We always wonder the same thing, how all the equipment gets to these remote locations. Lots of back breaking work.👍
Ok so because the large generater doesn't have permanent magnets, it needs a smaller generater to provide "excitation " to the stator making a magnet field and thus power.
Thanks for that information, Ben. We appreciate it!👍
Where is this located?
Thanks for asking, Bill. This is in California. I don't generally give out exact locations of the mines we explore especially in a public forum. I'll give you my email address.
jwigren40@gmail.com
@@TomandJulieMineExploring wow I would have never guessed California looking at the mountains there.. I would have guessed Colorado, Maybe Montana
S. O. of Cal. Standard Oil....
It was too obvious for me to get. Thanks, Graham!👍
Standard oil Corp of California
Dietz engines Westinghouse generator 4 cylinder diesel
Thank you for you input, Fred. We appreciate it!👍
DRY SHAKER TABLE USES NO WATER FOR CONCENTRATION. NO WATER OF CONSEQUENCE THERE. SO USED DRY CONCENTRATION.
Thanks for that, Thames. Some others have commented the same.👍👍
I see no signs of water, so it's an air sepirator
Thanks for your input, James!👍👍
I Googled Sutton Steele and Steele, Came up with WAY TOO Much info to post. There is one article about a court case, and something about the Govt being involved. Back to the Video.
Thanks for doing the leg work on Sutton Steel company, Richard. I'll try to look into it when I get a minute.👍👌
Your first (2:30) and 2nd attempt (2:41) to place the small cylinder back on the crankcase were both incorrect. Your first attempt was 90 degrees off, 2nd was 180 degrees off. I guess you're not familiar with small flathead engines. Not a big deal; most people today don't know. And there is no real reason to know. I know because of my decades of restoring old motorcycles.
I really didn't spend much time on it and had a camera in one hand. It was fun to just find the parts laying around in the bushes. Thanks for commenting, F!👍👍
You mentioned that the mine was a uranium. Then all the equipment and yourselves are radioactive. Even the half life is in the hundreds of years. You may want to , for the future get a geiger counter. They sell for as low as 20 bucks for a cheapy at Amazon. All that dust in the mine is very unhealthy. Uranium is no joke.
Thanks for the suggestion. We don't see many uranium mines. If one thing doesn't kill you the next thing will.👌