Frank was born without the fear bone in his body! I just shook my head when he said "I'm gonna' have a look up there" [@8:47]. There was so much weight pressing down on the back of that mine, you couldn't have paid me enough money to crawl through that passage!
"Gly": I'm guessing it would be kind of like taking a bug and putting it in the center of a really thick phone book and closing it hard and fast. Thwuck!!
As someone that lived in the desert for years and used to explore the old mines I check out all the vids on TH-cam by the explorers. However since finding yours the others can't compete! Your production and vid quality are the BEST I've seen. And it's apparent yous are having a great time out there.....awesome! Keep em coming guys, cause I'll be watching!!!
Gly - @ 2:24 , in your Heap Leach explanation you forgot to mention putting down an impervious liner , otherwise your Gold bearing Cyanide solution just goes into the topsoil and you lose everything . Also the Cyanide piping is normally put on top of the leach pile and sprayed through Rain-Bird Sprinklers , not buried in it . - < Doc > ( Leach Plant Operator when i worked for Goldfield Ltd. ) .
"Gly": Hi Doc! Yeah, I know... I could have spent more time on that explanation but I've been cutting my videos down to 30 minutes instead of an hour. More people are watching now that I've done so. Hope your staying warm up there and chasing all the ladies. ;)
When I was in South Africa 1981-83, they would heap leach the old mine tailings to get the gold out and shut down the underground mining whenever the price of gold dropped below $400USD/oz. Half the gold was still left in the tailings that had been processed in early 1900's. The gold mines were 2000' to 2 miles below the surface and to cost for pumps, cooling, hoisting, working and wages made the minimum price for mining at $400/oz. The SA government received 50% of the value of the gold above $400/oz. The processes tailings looked like sand hills the size of the hills you are exploring. The gold rich ore was at about 1oz/ton that they were mining, so the old tailings contained gold at 1/3-1/2 oz/ton. The reserved the old tailings for the periods when the price of gold was below $400/oz.
2nd generation electrician coal miner here from eastern ky you can look up videos that a few of my friends have posted when we have been on" pillar retrieval",which is when we are done with a section of coal we go in and remove the pillars of coal that are the only thing other than some timbers or cribbing holding the top up. Its nothing less than scary every single time,we watch in awe as the timbers bend,moan and pop as the mine collapses right in front of us.
There is another where as advance is made, metal stales are put up and when a section is mined out, these are taken out as the retreat is made, allowing the back to collapse.
Dude you and Frank are doing great great to see you unmasked!!!Gly like totally awesome guys. I've allready watched both channels three times lol...see ya next week!!
I worked underground for Peabody in southern il for 8 years ..our unit was 9.2 miles in .....I’m so jealous when I watch your vids ...you guys do a excellent job ...and like you said unless you have a multi air spotter and travel in a pair and letting someone know wher your at stay out .....bad air and your done ..!!
Knew it! Knew when you guys got together it would be great! Waiting for the next ones with great anticipation! Thanks for telling us about how the metals were recovered; I always wonder what the tenor of the veins were (ounces of what per ton) and how the ore was processed to recover the values (heap leach, free milling, sulfide roasting, or whatever). Thanks for any and all info you can give! 👍👍❤️
Great to see you guys developing your friendship in these videos! Gly bopping along to rock music, both sharing your love of beautiful geology in the mines, the adventure spirit and enthusiasm. Hope you guys stay friends and do more videos for years to come! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us overworked city folk 😊
Jenna Bowyer “Gly”: All that day Frank and I were jamming out to Black Sabbath Live and that’s what inspired me to make the video this way. It was a rockin good time. 🤘🏼
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Great to hear you enjoyed it so much and thanks for the effort in theming on this! Really puts across the camaraderie well 😊
I had absolutely no interest in mines until I came across your videos, now I’m hooked!, it’s more the Geological side that I find fascinating the colours are so vibrant! I think you’re crazy and Frank is a bad influence lol, Stay safe
“Gly”: Thanks! And welcome aboard! These places are fun to explore and there even more fun when you have a second person with you. Having Frank around allowed me to turn up my crazy meter a bit.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces "you’re crazy and Frank is a bad influence" Dam, fell off my chair again, got'a get a seat belt, not safe when it gets hilarious here>
Great to see the Gly behind the mask. Frank needs some plumbers putty though. Neat explore folks. You guys are so frickin funny together. It's like the Arizona comedy mine tour. Have a blessed week and c ya next Saturday. 💜
"Gly": I teased Frank and told him I was going to get him a red G-string and one of those fake tramp stamp tattoos if he didn't start pulling his pants up. Lol
Interesting I really expected a big old bushy beard but glad to finally have a face to the voice cheers. Man you are a big guy im surprised you fit in some of the mines you've gotten through. Stay safe and keep adventuring
Man the stealth technology on that airplane! It was nowhere to be seen and then as you pass that large cactus it just appears out of nowhere and buzzes you before returning back to Video Editing AFB....super cool!
So what is a "miner's cat"? Was it a feral cat that decided to live in the mine, a particular breed of desert cat, a cat that miners took with them to kill mice, or something else?
Gly can I share some of your mine pictures with my friends and family? Just some of the mine pictures not any of you. Maybe Old Bob. LOL We are trying to find a jeep or tracker or something to tow behind our RV so we can get to some of these places. You gave me the bug again to explore some of these mines. I've explored some back in the day in the gold rush area of California. Calaveras County is packed with old 1849 miners claims. We found cairns everywhere with a tin cans under them with old claim papers. All hand written. Very cool to find. And every mine is picked by hand. I even found a small one room house picked right into a bank on an old creek. That was my coolest discovery and it's still there! He picked small notches in the walls to hold things like lamps I guess.
"Gly": Absolutely! Please share! And please tell all your friends to subscribe to both Franks and I's channel because we want to build a special rig for getting into impossible vertical locations.
Thanks for the story of the origin of Old Bob. I always thought as a child must have watched Sky King too much because I got a pilot license and a Jeep.
Thanks Guys for sharing this mine. Now I might be able to go down this mine. Instead puddy I figured spackle, it's more permanent. Frank must be dying from the heat all his places are frozen. Thanks again for the show and laughs.
"Gly": Yes, I showed him how to use the PVC 2000 and he caught on pretty quick. It did get kind of chilly here about a week ago but that was like a summers day for Frank.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Well Gly, as they say this episode isn't "my first rodeo!" I was hoping we'd get a face reveal here too. I knew right away when I saw the pants over on Frank's video! 😎
What is that Chris Ackerly flashlight, and does it do both wide and narrow beam like the little one you use. Also what is your little flashlight that you narrow beam down the adits with frequently.
Very cool mines. That last one looked like you could drive Bob inside. You sould a little like Mike Rowe from discovery channel. Yall be safe out there
Darn, no snakes for Frank. Love to collect some specimens of the dendrites for my private collection. The flooded inclined shaft would be no good for Frank to wade in. He likes the water 33*F, not 33*C. Lots of beautiful area there, I love it each time I travel through there. This winter I'll plan on stopping in Gemfield on my way down to my claims. I wonder if you will get a chance to see some rattlers sooner or later. Frank might prefer his rattlesnake pan fried in bacon grease - tastes "just like chicken". In the "Black Rock Mine", it looks like a Manganese deposit. The smell of guano drives me "bat shit crazy". I could get to hate the taggers and their spray paint - I'd be tempted to take away their paint can and tag them for a change.
"Gly": Frank eventually did find a western diamondback. It was coiled up right at the portal when Frank tried to exit a mine. He was forced to turn around an go back the way he came. You'll probably be seeing that in one of his upcoming videos. Yep, that was a big manganese deposit in all that lava rock.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Thanks Gly, it's cool to see you in front of the camera for a change. Caught Frank's video and encounter with the rattlesnake on his channel !!
Yey, a new video to cheer me up at work! Glad you explained heap leaching, I'd never heard of that technique before, always learning new stuff from your vids. Aha, so that's what you look like. People never look like what you expect them too lol Wow, that was one sketchy looking workings, reminded me of the mines in the Swaledale valley here in the UK. Water smorter, get in there!! lol. Should come do some UK mines, you soon won't care about water, although the complete filling, more of an issue lol
When you research these old mines, are you able to discover what they mined? The geology is always of interest. Cool stuff you and Frank are doing. Is Frank going to become an American now?
“Gly”: Yes, I have data on some of these mines and I’ll be incorporating that information more in upcoming videos as well as more geology and why the miners did what they did. Regarding Frank.... no, there’s not enough soap in the world to wash out that much Canadian. Lol. I’m pretty sure he’ll be a Canadian for life.
Probably one of the more dangerous mines is a hard rock placer mine. Digging in an ancient stream bed consisting of round river rock held in place by luck, wishful thinking and centrifical force generated by the Earth's rotation can be, unfortunately, very rich in gold. Unfortunately because if it weren't rich in gold no one would dig in the crumbly stuff. The key is mining the surface of the bedrock, the deepest the gold could settle. I would like to have known what the structure was in the first mine at 12:05 on the right side. It kind of looked like a stand for something but I couldn't tell. That bat guano in the last mine used to be worth quite a bit of money many years ago. Peru was the major exporter of bat poop from 1840 to 1870 until their supplies were finally depleted. Bat guano is primarily potassium nitrate, (saltpeter) the major component in gun powder and explosives but no, it is not used to make Doritos or mascara, common rumors. Thanks for sharing.
"Gly": Your right, hard rock or underground placer mines are extremely dangerous especially if you have ground water penetration. For me, mines like that are just too dangerous to explore but I've watched others do it and just shook my head. The thing you saw on the right side at 12:05 was just a block of wood that that light was sitting on. Yep, no shortage of bat guano in that last mine. I'm happy your enjoying the show! Take care.
Another quality presentation Gly, can you please explain what you think they were actually mining for (or is it always gold?) in the various types of veins that the miners follow? Also, how about a visit to a working mine to show how they did work if such a thing still exists using similar methods?
"Gly": The first location was gold. The second location with the dead cat was also gold. The third location was fluorite, that's what all the blue stuff was. And the fourth location was manganese. I'm working on possibly visiting a working hard rock gold mine this coming summer when I return to Nevada.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Near the end they give him the offer to walk out of the door with a gold brick that he had pored and cleaned. See what happens, precious! th-cam.com/video/uMbmqQvZTjM/w-d-xo.html
I have seen almost ever one of Franks vids, Reilly enjoyed yours and hope to see more, PS tell Frank the only crack I seen was the one he was sporting !!!! LMAO
Holy Macro You exposed your face😲 To be honest GLY, I thought you were in your late 50’s 👴🏻. It’s must have been the voice😂 Those holes frank was seeing near the portal of the second mine are dry washing diggings. There should have been a header pile & tailings pile close by. A lot of current prospectors are working a lot of the dry washes that the old timers missed in that region. There’s still plenty of gold being pulled out of the washes today. I was prospecting some of the late 1890’s-1930’s dry wash tailings and around some of their mining camps just northwest of phoenix about 1 1/2 weeks ago. I did go to an open pit and checked it out but never got a chance to visit some of the mines and a mill in the area.
Woukd you please tell Frank that if he wants to go first, in front of the camera, that he needs to tuck in his t-shirt. This is a family friendly show!
That’s the first time we have seen that other guy in front of the camera besides Frank. I wonder if that would make a good place for a homestead and to drill for water?? That stuff leached in the ground should be fine for a water well right?
"Gly": I was thinking the exact same thing! That song would have been perfect but TH-cam would have de-monetized my video. Gotta make some money..... Frank keeps drinking all my beer! Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces You brought him to a hot dry place, he's got'a stay hydrated. He might get grouchy if you offer juice, which is not exactly cheap either.
@Bru Rred How many zany expressions can you people come up with that are imbedded in Gly's & Frank's videos and post here as a compilation. If you find one from someone else, copy it and add yours, so that they keep growing in numbers as people see them. In the end should have them all together.
"that's not crazy steep" means 70 degree angle or less as in a inclined shaft, different story inside stopes with unconsolidated material under foot then it becomes 45 degree or less and nice to have a CLIMBING ROPE, Eh! How can you tell if someone is a Canuck. Eh? Copy pasted, "Don’t touch anything, even with your light." Also, "bat shit crazy". And "pointless and unnecessary risk"
Holy crap! Frank's like "look at me I'M IMMORTAL HA HA HA" "Gly ol buddy let us go and climb up and take a peak under these friggin dangerously heavy rocks that may fall on us at any moment, or on us just for spite! Weeeee Look at me Frank I ARE IMMORTAL TOO! Ha Ha Haaaa! Then 3 weeks go by without a new video post from either one of them, then someone posts a news video online: Top Story: Two Ninkumpoops enter a mine without harnesses, thought they were immortal. Squished like grapes.
Now there's something you don't see everyday, two guys, one bare chested and inked and one mystery man via the face mask, in a Jeep, driving on a remote, desert road, rocking out to Black Sabbath.....lol! But, what a great segway from adit #l to adit #2....."cool".
ello gly ive just watched all your videos in one week so i think im hooked , one thing i will ask tho is with each mine can you tell us what thay were mining or looking for and if its not gold or silver is it possable to tell us what the rock / stone thay were mining was used for .. meany thanks from the uk
stu gill “Gly”: WOW! Thanks! I’ll do my best but some of these locations don’t have records so I have to use my geology expertise to try and figure out what they were mining. I’ll try and incorporate more of that into my videos. Thanks for your support and input!
One thing I always wondered. At the mines where it was used, is there any danger of the cyanide being still around in large enough quantities to be of danger? In the ground or groundwater maybe? Idk
Hello gly you alto film all the main drifts and let Frank film all of the other places in the mine that way you guy's can film the whole mine inside and out there have a great day and bs and bc too now awesome mine there now
"Gly": Thanks! Frank and I have been trying different techniques on how to film these locations together and I think your going to like what you see in coming episodes.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces id love to be out there with you guy's a exploring those mines it would be awesome to see it for myself here too i like the way you guy's are just aggravating each other too having a good time a doing it too hey by the way tell Frank to check out my messages from me cause I wished he had a camera like that on those videos to be able to show the mines here too have a great day now and thanks for sharing the vedio too now
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces In the first one, with the 2 you, could hear you, but most of Frank's comments were lost in a muffle. You got to mic him, its possible to do! WE loose out on his precious classic comments and rhetoricals.
Those LEDs must have been for exploration, or a hobbiest at the most. Couldn't run a strong current through that wiring without burning up the first kink or without constantly tripping the breaker (fuse if it's older).
Darrell Goodman “Gly”: No, long expired. Probably didn’t pay there yearly fee to the BLM and let it lapse. I see this all the time where claimants let there mineral claims lapse but never remove there things. Or, there mining without a proper claim in place so that they can avoid the yearly fee.
Hi Gly, those timbers look as wiggly as Bobby lol. Great face reveal, now I can see the person I'm talking to while the video is playing. You two are like naughty little kids playing hookey from school lmao, you really bounce off of each other too which makes for some hilarious footage, loved it. Take care both and grab a snakeskin and give it to Frank to use as a belt lol. Thank you for sharing. xx
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Hahaha great idea, what about one of those hats you see in the movies I forget which one but they had a hat with a bottle either side and a straw lol. x
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces With a little research, should be able to find someplace that sells OLD clothes and hats to outfit the 2 of you in late 1800s style clothes, so you look like 2 hard working down & out miners.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Absolutely bring one with you when you go back into the one you broke out the pick & shovel to dig out the entrance, the one with flat lying multi coloured formations. Same with that resent video that was over an hour long.
Frank was born without the fear bone in his body! I just shook my head when he said "I'm gonna' have a look up there" [@8:47]. There was so much weight pressing down on the back of that mine, you couldn't have paid me enough money to crawl through that passage!
"Gly": I'm guessing it would be kind of like taking a bug and putting it in the center of a really thick phone book and closing it hard and fast. Thwuck!!
I think they both were born missing a few marbles. lol. Gotta luv 'em tho.
As someone that lived in the desert for years and used to explore the old mines I check out all the vids on TH-cam by the explorers. However since finding yours the others can't compete! Your production and vid quality are the BEST I've seen. And it's apparent yous are having a great time out there.....awesome! Keep em coming guys, cause I'll be watching!!!
"Gly": Thanks Rex! I really do appreciate the kind words and I'm happy your enjoying the show. Thank you!
Gly - @ 2:24 , in your Heap Leach explanation you forgot to mention putting down an impervious liner , otherwise your Gold bearing Cyanide solution just goes into the topsoil and you lose everything . Also the Cyanide piping is normally put on top of the leach pile and sprayed through Rain-Bird Sprinklers , not buried in it . - < Doc > ( Leach Plant Operator when i worked for Goldfield Ltd. ) .
"Gly": Hi Doc! Yeah, I know... I could have spent more time on that explanation but I've been cutting my videos down to 30 minutes instead of an hour. More people are watching now that I've done so. Hope your staying warm up there and chasing all the ladies. ;)
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces - Yep , staying warm , but the Ladies are chasing ME . Lol .
When I was in South Africa 1981-83, they would heap leach the old mine tailings to get the gold out and shut down the underground mining whenever the price of gold dropped below $400USD/oz. Half the gold was still left in the tailings that had been processed in early 1900's. The gold mines were 2000' to 2 miles below the surface and to cost for pumps, cooling, hoisting, working and wages made the minimum price for mining at $400/oz. The SA government received 50% of the value of the gold above $400/oz. The processes tailings looked like sand hills the size of the hills you are exploring. The gold rich ore was at about 1oz/ton that they were mining, so the old tailings contained gold at 1/3-1/2 oz/ton. The reserved the old tailings for the periods when the price of gold was below $400/oz.
@@001desertrat3 They're usually high maintenance and you get restricted what ya wanna do, get done, got'a see!
2nd generation electrician coal miner here from eastern ky you can look up videos that a few of my friends have posted when we have been on" pillar retrieval",which is when we are done with a section of coal we go in and remove the pillars of coal that are the only thing other than some timbers or cribbing holding the top up. Its nothing less than scary every single time,we watch in awe as the timbers bend,moan and pop as the mine collapses right in front of us.
“Gly”: I’ve seen that. That’s incredibly dangerous work, be careful out there.
There is another where as advance is made, metal stales are put up and when a section is mined out, these are taken out as the retreat is made, allowing the back to collapse.
Dude you and Frank are doing great great to see you unmasked!!!Gly like totally awesome guys. I've allready watched both channels three times lol...see ya next week!!
Love when you and Frank team up
Donate some plumbers putty...That gave me a good laugh! 😂 You guys make a great team! Thanks for sharing your underground adventures!
I worked underground for Peabody in southern il for 8 years ..our unit was 9.2 miles in .....I’m so jealous when I watch your vids ...you guys do a excellent job ...and like you said unless you have a multi air spotter and travel in a pair and letting someone know wher your at stay out .....bad air and your done ..!!
You guys make a great team. Hopefully you will continue to collaborate in the future. Thanks for taking us along.
3:12 look where Frank's helmet is, how cracked the entrance in the back is, and a little later your talking about crumbly. Oh, MY!
Great video. You and Frank are awesome together. Love seeing your face!
Brilliant 2 out of my FAVE mine explorers now all we need is TVR Explorer with Frank and Abandoned and im not kidding id be in Heaven with joy!
"Gly": It's entirely possible. We have been in contact with Justin.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces PLS PLS PLS hope you 3 do explores together
Knew it! Knew when you guys got together it would be great! Waiting for the next ones with great anticipation! Thanks for telling us about how the metals were recovered; I always wonder what the tenor of the veins were (ounces of what per ton) and how the ore was processed to recover the values (heap leach, free milling, sulfide roasting, or whatever). Thanks for any and all info you can give! 👍👍❤️
"Gly": Were having as much fun making these are you are watching them. Get ready, because things are about to get a whole lot crazier.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places And I am definitely lovin' it! Wish I could be there to help!👍❤️✌️
Great to see you guys developing your friendship in these videos! Gly bopping along to rock music, both sharing your love of beautiful geology in the mines, the adventure spirit and enthusiasm. Hope you guys stay friends and do more videos for years to come! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us overworked city folk 😊
Jenna Bowyer
“Gly”: All that day Frank and I were jamming out to Black Sabbath Live and that’s what inspired me to make the video this way. It was a rockin good time. 🤘🏼
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Great to hear you enjoyed it so much and thanks for the effort in theming on this! Really puts across the camaraderie well 😊
I had absolutely no interest in mines until I came across your videos, now I’m hooked!, it’s more the Geological side that I find fascinating the colours are so vibrant!
I think you’re crazy and Frank is a bad influence lol,
Stay safe
“Gly”: Thanks! And welcome aboard! These places are fun to explore and there even more fun when you have a second person with you. Having Frank around allowed me to turn up my crazy meter a bit.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces "you’re crazy and Frank is a bad influence" Dam, fell off my chair again, got'a get a seat belt, not safe when it gets hilarious here>
Great to see the Gly behind the mask. Frank needs some plumbers putty though. Neat explore folks. You guys are so frickin funny together. It's like the Arizona comedy mine tour. Have a blessed week and c ya next Saturday. 💜
"Gly": I teased Frank and told him I was going to get him a red G-string and one of those fake tramp stamp tattoos if he didn't start pulling his pants up. Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Break out the suspenders!
Interesting I really expected a big old bushy beard but glad to finally have a face to the voice cheers. Man you are a big guy im surprised you fit in some of the mines you've gotten through. Stay safe and keep adventuring
1115devon
“Gly”: Nope! No bushy beard. Just a portly fellow with a crooked nose and a love for aged whiskey. Lol.
Plumber approved...LOL Frank is great and has such an awesome demeanor.
Thanks for the laugh Gly, the plumber's putty comment was on point.
Man the stealth technology on that airplane! It was nowhere to be seen and then as you pass that large cactus it just appears out of nowhere and buzzes you before returning back to Video Editing AFB....super cool!
Saphire Throated Carpenter Ant
“Gly”: Piloted by Captain Adobe Premier Pro! Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Did'ya do the same with that horse on the horizon that I commented about. Eyes wide OPEN! OR was that for real?
I said it on Franks channel and I'll say it here on yours Gly, holy snappin ducksh*t ! your unmasked,
"Gly": My voice sounds like something out of a nature documentary with butterflies but my face is like something out of Chainsaw Massacre 3. Lol!!
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces could be worse. you may have looked like Frank lol I like the commentary Gly works well in my opinion.
andrew barker 🤣
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces your a handsome man. Great vids thanks👍🏻
Great video, nice seeing you and Frank exploring together!
Think you guys missed grabbing a couple supports on the way in. Thanks for testing them for the next guy.
Oh No Not That Guy!!!
“Gly”: Swinging off of them like Tarzan probably would have been over dramatic. Lol
Glad you are collaborating
Great video you and Frank make a great team always love watching.
Great episode and tunes!!
You guys are the #1 team. Yeah safe with two!!!!
Lol. This one was great. Y’all together was fun.
Frank sent me here. That area is my old stomping grounds.
"Gly": Welcome aboard Eric! Yes, this part of the country is just awesome. And the best part... no snow!!
Nice to see the face of the person who has entertained me, thanx!
Perfect mine for a space movie...
So what is a "miner's cat"? Was it a feral cat that decided to live in the mine, a particular breed of desert cat, a cat that miners took with them to kill mice, or something else?
Gly can I share some of your mine pictures with my friends and family? Just some of the mine pictures not any of you. Maybe Old Bob. LOL We are trying to find a jeep or tracker or something to tow behind our RV so we can get to some of these places. You gave me the bug again to explore some of these mines. I've explored some back in the day in the gold rush area of California. Calaveras County is packed with old 1849 miners claims. We found cairns everywhere with a tin cans under them with old claim papers. All hand written. Very cool to find. And every mine is picked by hand. I even found a small one room house picked right into a bank on an old creek. That was my coolest discovery and it's still there! He picked small notches in the walls to hold things like lamps I guess.
"Gly": Absolutely! Please share! And please tell all your friends to subscribe to both Franks and I's channel because we want to build a special rig for getting into impossible vertical locations.
Would be WAY cool if you could get pictures of that house to share here. Oh, and to send a copy to Frank to hang in his Mining Museum, way cooler!
Your videos are great to watch,but Frank and you together take it over the top excellent,thanks for sharing.
"Gly": Thanks! It only gets crazier from here!
Been wondering when you finally showed your mug lol
This was another cool mine !!
Miners cat was pretty cool actually. You take it with you?? Be a great year round Hallows Eve piece.
Thanks for the story of the origin of Old Bob. I always thought as a child must have watched Sky King too much because I got a pilot license and a Jeep.
Thank you
Old Bob needs his own channel
"Gly": That's not a bad idea!
Love these video's nobody does anything like this in Australia. Thanks again.
Thanks Guys for sharing this mine. Now I might be able to go down this mine. Instead puddy I figured spackle, it's more permanent. Frank must be dying from the heat all his places are frozen. Thanks again for the show and laughs.
I just *knew* you guys collab'd in videos. Great spelunking duo!
Frank makes a pretty good cameraman. He seems to be handling the Arizona heat pretty well considering he's got cold weather Canadian blood.
"Gly": Yes, I showed him how to use the PVC 2000 and he caught on pretty quick. It did get kind of chilly here about a week ago but that was like a summers day for Frank.
Totally Amazing Big guano piles, great fertilizer for growing plants
Great Karate kick at 13:45 Gly 👏 👏
“Gly”: Jackie Chan!
cool explore, nice editing and a face to the voice....your on your way
"Gly": Thanks!
Thanks Glys your videos are so cool
Came here directly from Frank's channel!
"Gly": Thanks! And welcome aboard!
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Well Gly, as they say this episode isn't "my first rodeo!" I was hoping we'd get a face reveal here too. I knew right away when I saw the pants over on Frank's video! 😎
"Gly": It's like Phantom of the Opera! Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces People usually go shirtless in the desert during the summer not the winter. Dam Canadians!
Me to
thumbs up good explore
What is that Chris Ackerly flashlight, and does it do both wide and narrow beam like the little one you use. Also what is your little flashlight that you narrow beam down the adits with frequently.
BTW Gly, thanks for the PM. This is the first video I have seen your mug shot in!
Ody Slim
“Gly”: I have a voice like Paul Harvey and a face only a mother could love. Lol.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Ha Ha! You do have a good broadcasters voice.
You must listen to SW
Good to see your smiling face ;)
I'm always amazed that those mines are always empty of creatures and artifacts too.
Very cool mines. That last one looked like you could drive Bob inside. You sould a little like Mike Rowe from discovery channel. Yall be safe out there
Loved it.
Lol frank plumbers putty lol 😝, wow there’s a lot of mines in your state cool,
Darn, no snakes for Frank. Love to collect some specimens of the dendrites for my private collection. The flooded inclined shaft would be no good for Frank to wade in. He likes the water 33*F, not 33*C. Lots of beautiful area there, I love it each time I travel through there. This winter I'll plan on stopping in Gemfield on my way down to my claims. I wonder if you will get a chance to see some rattlers sooner or later. Frank might prefer his rattlesnake pan fried in bacon grease - tastes "just like chicken". In the "Black Rock Mine", it looks like a Manganese deposit. The smell of guano drives me "bat shit crazy". I could get to hate the taggers and their spray paint - I'd be tempted to take away their paint can and tag them for a change.
"Gly": Frank eventually did find a western diamondback. It was coiled up right at the portal when Frank tried to exit a mine. He was forced to turn around an go back the way he came. You'll probably be seeing that in one of his upcoming videos. Yep, that was a big manganese deposit in all that lava rock.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Thanks Gly, it's cool to see you in front of the camera for a change. Caught Frank's video and encounter with the rattlesnake on his channel !!
Loyal Kuhn
“Gly”: You’ll be seeing more of me in front of the camera as I try new camera techniques in coming episodes.
Copied and pasted "bat shit crazy".
2 cool men- ;-) super video. :-) -Hilsen Denmark...
Yey, a new video to cheer me up at work! Glad you explained heap leaching, I'd never heard of that technique before, always learning new stuff from your vids. Aha, so that's what you look like. People never look like what you expect them too lol Wow, that was one sketchy looking workings, reminded me of the mines in the Swaledale valley here in the UK. Water smorter, get in there!! lol. Should come do some UK mines, you soon won't care about water, although the complete filling, more of an issue lol
UK Abandoned Mine Explores
“Gly”: Wouldn’t you have been surprised if I looked like David Attenborough? Lol
Naa, I expected a bead at least lol. Maybe I'm too used to watching Frank.
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores Did your drop and loose an R?
Awesome stuff my 2 favorite mine explores definitely holy bat 💩 as always be safe
Very interesting !
When you research these old mines, are you able to discover what they mined? The geology is always of interest. Cool stuff you and Frank are doing. Is Frank going to become an American now?
“Gly”: Yes, I have data on some of these mines and I’ll be incorporating that information more in upcoming videos as well as more geology and why the miners did what they did. Regarding Frank.... no, there’s not enough soap in the world to wash out that much Canadian. Lol. I’m pretty sure he’ll be a Canadian for life.
I love franks voice
every ones dream team ,
clive kibbler
“Gly”: Hell yeah!! 🤘🏼
Awesome stuff!!! This Duo is so good! :)
It's nice to see your face after hearing your voice =).
Where did you get that mas? It's great! I want one! LOL.
“Gly”: I found it on Amazon
Probably one of the more dangerous mines is a hard rock placer mine. Digging in an ancient stream bed consisting of round river rock held in place by luck, wishful thinking and centrifical force generated by the Earth's rotation can be, unfortunately, very rich in gold. Unfortunately because if it weren't rich in gold no one would dig in the crumbly stuff. The key is mining the surface of the bedrock, the deepest the gold could settle. I would like to have known what the structure was in the first mine at 12:05 on the right side. It kind of looked like a stand for something but I couldn't tell. That bat guano in the last mine used to be worth quite a bit of money many years ago. Peru was the major exporter of bat poop from 1840 to 1870 until their supplies were finally depleted. Bat guano is primarily potassium nitrate, (saltpeter) the major component in gun powder and explosives but no, it is not used to make Doritos or mascara, common rumors. Thanks for sharing.
"Gly": Your right, hard rock or underground placer mines are extremely dangerous especially if you have ground water penetration. For me, mines like that are just too dangerous to explore but I've watched others do it and just shook my head. The thing you saw on the right side at 12:05 was just a block of wood that that light was sitting on. Yep, no shortage of bat guano in that last mine. I'm happy your enjoying the show! Take care.
Another quality presentation Gly, can you please explain what you think they were actually mining for (or is it always gold?) in the various types of veins that the miners follow? Also, how about a visit to a working mine to show how they did work if such a thing still exists using similar methods?
"Gly": The first location was gold. The second location with the dead cat was also gold. The third location was fluorite, that's what all the blue stuff was. And the fourth location was manganese. I'm working on possibly visiting a working hard rock gold mine this coming summer when I return to Nevada.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Near the end they give him the offer to walk out of the door with a gold brick that he had pored and cleaned. See what happens, precious! th-cam.com/video/uMbmqQvZTjM/w-d-xo.html
I have seen almost ever one of Franks vids, Reilly enjoyed yours and hope to see more, PS tell Frank the only crack I seen was the one he was sporting !!!! LMAO
"Gly": Will do! "Hey Frank, our fans are saying say no to crack man"! Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces But he's not a Plumberman!
Holy Macro You exposed your face😲 To be honest GLY, I thought you were in your late 50’s 👴🏻. It’s must have been the voice😂
Those holes frank was seeing near the portal of the second mine are dry washing diggings. There should have been a header pile & tailings pile close by. A lot of current prospectors are working a lot of the dry washes that the old timers missed in that region. There’s still plenty of gold being pulled out of the washes today.
I was prospecting some of the late 1890’s-1930’s dry wash tailings and around some of their mining camps just northwest of phoenix about 1 1/2 weeks ago. I did go to an open pit and checked it out but never got a chance to visit some of the mines and a mill in the area.
"Gly": That's what everybody says, I sound allot older than what I really am. I'll be 48 December 1st.
Woukd you please tell Frank that if he wants to go first, in front of the camera, that he needs to tuck in his t-shirt. This is a family friendly show!
like the music and the mask
Two bits of steel were ground anchors, to oppose the hauling forces
That’s the first time we have seen that other guy in front of the camera besides Frank. I wonder if that would make a good place for a homestead and to drill for water?? That stuff leached in the ground should be fine for a water well right?
"Gly": As a matter of fact there is a water well nearby.
That BIG flashlight from Chris, what kind is it. Would like to get one of those!
I didn't even think about the rattlesnakes until you mentioned it.
Canada is spoiled.
No barking frogs heard in this video, I will never get this half hour back!!!
You mean barking spiders?
here we go again, GLY n Frank adventures, hard rock week ! should have had an AC/DC intro Gly . it's a long way through the rock lets rock n roll !
"Gly": I was thinking the exact same thing! That song would have been perfect but TH-cam would have de-monetized my video. Gotta make some money..... Frank keeps drinking all my beer! Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces ha ha ha yeah I figured that about frank, and yeah copyrite hey, cool music edit anyway mate, loved it
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces You brought him to a hot dry place, he's got'a stay hydrated. He might get grouchy if you offer juice, which is not exactly cheap either.
Look at that bowing and compressed timber...... let's crawl under it !!!!! Ahhhhhhh
Beth Marek
“Gly”: 10 tons of fun!
@Bru Rred How many zany expressions can you people come up with that are imbedded in Gly's & Frank's videos and post here as a compilation. If you find one from someone else, copy it and add yours, so that they keep growing in numbers as people see them. In the end should have them all together.
"that's not crazy steep" means 70 degree angle or less as in a inclined shaft, different story inside stopes with unconsolidated material under foot then it becomes 45 degree or less and nice to have a CLIMBING ROPE, Eh! How can you tell if someone is a Canuck. Eh? Copy pasted, "Don’t touch anything, even with your light." Also, "bat shit crazy". And "pointless and unnecessary risk"
Holy crap! Frank's like "look at me I'M IMMORTAL HA HA HA" "Gly ol buddy let us go and climb up and take a peak under these friggin dangerously heavy rocks that may fall on us at any moment, or on us just for spite! Weeeee Look at me Frank I ARE IMMORTAL TOO! Ha Ha Haaaa! Then 3 weeks go by without a new video post from either one of them, then someone posts a news video online: Top Story: Two Ninkumpoops enter a mine without harnesses, thought they were immortal. Squished like grapes.
Nice video
The audio staying the same as you walked away was super trippy was way ahead on the beer!
derk nobit
“Gly”: Folks...🍺 Cool... 🍻
awesome intro
You said "folks" at the huge bat guano pile in the open pit mine. lol.
Excellent Puma
“Gly”: Well, ya know what ya need to do then. 🍺
Now there's something you don't see everyday, two guys, one bare chested and inked and one mystery man via the face mask, in a Jeep, driving on a remote, desert road, rocking out to Black Sabbath.....lol! But, what a great segway from adit #l to adit #2....."cool".
Mickie
“Gly”: Good guess! How did you know we were rocking out to Black Sabbath Live that day? Lol 🤘🏼
Best wishes from INDIA
I'm new to this channel I did subscribe and I'm not too familiar with mines, somebody please explain to me what gobbing is and does? Thank you
“Gly”: Rather than hauling waste rock out of the mine gobbing is used like a retaining wall to hold back waste rock when backfilling a drift.
Drinking Game, I'm in! Already wasted, thanks kind sir.
ello gly ive just watched all your videos in one week so i think im hooked , one thing i will ask tho is with each mine can you tell us what thay were mining or looking for and if its not gold or silver is it possable to tell us what the rock / stone thay were mining was used for .. meany thanks from the uk
stu gill
“Gly”: WOW! Thanks! I’ll do my best but some of these locations don’t have records so I have to use my geology expertise to try and figure out what they were mining. I’ll try and incorporate more of that into my videos. Thanks for your support and input!
👋👍 only two drinks ? When do we “shotgun “ the beer? 👀😎 Your getting a lot more adventurous with Frank around 🍻
"Gly": Having a second person around that understands this type of exploring allows me to turn my crazy meter up a few levels higher.
Right on
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces But, Safety has to be the Prime Directive! You have the cooler head, let it prevail.
in canada we bring BEER! he got that part right!
3rd time I try this the other 2 disappeared! Frank would correct you, "we Canadians bring Real Beer, not that 3.5% piss water that has no taste"!
One thing I always wondered. At the mines where it was used, is there any danger of the cyanide being still around in large enough quantities to be of danger? In the ground or groundwater maybe? Idk
Hello gly you alto film all the main drifts and let Frank film all of the other places in the mine that way you guy's can film the whole mine inside and out there have a great day and bs and bc too now awesome mine there now
"Gly": Thanks! Frank and I have been trying different techniques on how to film these locations together and I think your going to like what you see in coming episodes.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces id love to be out there with you guy's a exploring those mines it would be awesome to see it for myself here too i like the way you guy's are just aggravating each other too having a good time a doing it too hey by the way tell Frank to check out my messages from me cause I wished he had a camera like that on those videos to be able to show the mines here too have a great day now and thanks for sharing the vedio too now
I'm a fan.. End of rant.
Very nice. You must have a wireless mic on you, great sound
"Gly": Thanks! Beginning with this episode the new microphones are being used.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces In the first one, with the 2 you, could hear you, but most of Frank's comments were lost in a muffle. You got to mic him, its possible to do! WE loose out on his precious classic comments and rhetoricals.
FRANK IS RIDING WITH DEATH!!!
“Gly”: Yeah, but later that day death cooked him a steak and served him cold beer. 🍺
Those LEDs must have been for exploration, or a hobbiest at the most. Couldn't run a strong current through that wiring without burning up the first kink or without constantly tripping the breaker (fuse if it's older).
"Gly": Yep, someone had big dreams and spare light bulbs.
Those are CFL spiral bulbs & filled with mercury vapor , an energy saving option for lighting
@@KubotaManDan True. 🤔 "Someone" called them LED at first and it stuck in my mind....
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces So was that mine with the pvc pipe ,extension cord's ,and light's and the No Trespassing sign a active claim .
Darrell Goodman
“Gly”: No, long expired. Probably didn’t pay there yearly fee to the BLM and let it lapse. I see this all the time where claimants let there mineral claims lapse but never remove there things. Or, there mining without a proper claim in place so that they can avoid the yearly fee.
Hi Gly, those timbers look as wiggly as Bobby lol. Great face reveal, now I can see the person I'm talking to while the video is playing. You two are like naughty little kids playing hookey from school lmao, you really bounce off of each other too which makes for some hilarious footage, loved it. Take care both and grab a snakeskin and give it to Frank to use as a belt lol. Thank you for sharing. xx
"Gly": I'm going to get him some old man suspenders made out of snakeskin with a beer bottle opener built right in. Lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Hahaha great idea, what about one of those hats you see in the movies I forget which one but they had a hat with a bottle either side and a straw lol. x
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces With a little research, should be able to find someplace that sells OLD clothes and hats to outfit the 2 of you in late 1800s style clothes, so you look like 2 hard working down & out miners.
Can't paste picture here, so this, the first one with the long beard. www.pinterest.ca/pin/349380883567213438/
Are you guys planning to hit any of the mines at South Mountain park, in Phoenix?
"Gly": Were hoping to make it over to that area but we still have allot of mines to film where we are right now.
You two make a great team, can you bring a blacklight in the mine with you sumtime?
Frank keep that cat for a souvenir?
"Gly": Thanks! I wish we would have taken a blacklight into that 2nd mine because as it turns out all that blue stuff was fluorite.
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces Absolutely bring one with you when you go back into the one you broke out the pick & shovel to dig out the entrance, the one with flat lying multi coloured formations. Same with that resent video that was over an hour long.
Someone needs to tell Frank that low rise jeans are sooo 2001. Lol