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- The very best footage made from 3 years of exploring a huge 100 year old mine See a train, huge icicles, tools and 100 year old dynamite that we blow up.... the very best of Phoenix! #goldmine #exploringabandonedmines
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It was fun to revisit the Phoenix. Nice job consolidating it into a 25 minute video! The highlights! R.I.P. Max!
Did the same thing with Anyox.........it takes a long time to edit!
Excellent job on restoring the old wooden ore cart. Fantastic job. The wound on my leg after the total knee replacement surgery is healing now so I am looking forward to exploring the countryside, mines and caves. Watching your videos for inspiration Frank. My wife was born at La Mina a sulphur mine here in Central Mexico. It burned two months after she was born and all the people had to leave the area for many years. I've been there and there're are many old buildings and an open pit with a tunnel in the bottom corner. Gotta get in soon. The stories also about the Mexican Revolution and the bandits are rife here. A day or two ago I talked with a man who came from Buenavista and works in the US. He is building on his fathers land a very beautiful house. He told me about the bandits who watched the two sides of the valley leading to and from an old hacienda. They wanted to weaken the Spanish so they would rob everyone who came through. They had to dump the gold down into the old lava beds because they couldn't spend it in the hacienda stores. My wife's grandfather was a bandit.
This video reminds me of my uncle’s slide shows back in the ‘70s & ‘80s.
Thanks Frank!...Girls, dynamite and mines, what more do ya need?!
...oh yeah BEER!
What more do you need? Money...I hate being poor.
If you have money you have beer!
@@exploringabandonedmines I have no beer.
We drank homemade wine at lunch every Christmas in whoever's stope was having the party....this all came to an abrupt end when the Ministry of Labour found out, lol.
A glory hole?
Mining archaeology at its finest! Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
For sure RIP Max good old footage lots of things left there
Very cool. I haven’t had the chance to explore a mine yet. I think I will have to make a plan this summer.
Thanks for sharing. Gotta agree with your comments on some of the things you wouldn't do again. Tipping the dynamite outta the box, LOL. It must've been a very rich mine to get down to those small pillars and then to come over the whole area with an open cut. I used to have a tool like that for bringing down loose ceiling rocks..... Just kept jamming matches into cracks which would fall out over time and signal when it needed some attention. A phobia I had was squeezing into tight spaces, just couldn't do it... you've got plenty of guts old mate!.
Thank you. That was great.
That's the second time I've seen the dynamite go off. A fine display. If it weren't for you I'd never have seen such sites, love it, Thank you.
Good plane footage, plus the amazing closure drone footage, yep, still cool. Max the ATV, goes where Frank goes. Good info. So many artifacts. BOOOOOOM, goes the dynamite. Good thing you didn't loose that phone video, Wow. Hey Frank, these rodents are keeping an eye on you. Hey, the water is stiff, not moving. Huge empty areas would create an echo.
Glad you enjoyed it
"Most of it is probably mental" sooo true!
Watching your videos is very inspirational! I live within 3 hours of this location, and a lot of locations you've visited as well.
Next year, I'll be outfitting my extended Savana as the ultimate road trip machine and go check out some of these holes!
I live in north Phoenix , I'd go exploring with you. It's always safer than going alone
Frank, you are my hero. So fearless. So knowledgeable. Thank you for sharing your adventures. You have quickly become my favorite TH-cam channel. Please be safe out there and keep up the amazing work.
Thanks I appreciate your support!
Frank thanks for sharing.This is awesome man im glad I found your site you get down to the good shit be safe.
Brilliant edit Frank and well commentated it was very interesting and informative. I always appreciate the beautiful scenic shots, and seeing the amazing artefacts from mining history that you have discovered on your explores. I love the ice palace and those cool ice formations. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Phoenix is AWESOME! 👌 ❤️
“Gly”: Hey Frank! Congratulations on jumping over the 40K mark. Now on to 50!!
Your dedication to exploring these mines and bringing back this excellent content for everyone to view is nothing short of amazing! Thank you! Subscribed...
Not gonna lie, got a bit choked up seeing Max. RIP.
I did too editing it........poor Max!
What happened to Max?
Interesting fact about those ore carts, they're known as "Granby cars", because Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. were the inventors of it, all the way back in 1907.
Those aren't Granby cars. Granby cars are self dumping ore cars. They have two wheels on the side that run up on a ramp that dumps the cars automatically when they roll past the ore dump. Granby cars were indeed invented by Frank Knox in the town of Phoenix and are still in use today!
You need your own show on the Discovery channel. I would definitely watch!
Hello from the Isle of Man, another excellent vid Frank, can't wait for the next.
Awesome video!!!!!!!!!!!!! loved the narration.
thx
Excellent
Man! Another great delve. It was almost a documentary. So amazing and so rich in history down there in the dark
"We had to use paint because we kept getting lost". You said it like you took the wrong exit off of the interstate... If I was in a mine and even thought for a second that I was lost, I would lay down and slowly cry myself to death. Good work on the videos man. I admire your "set" and I appreciate the hard work so us 9 to 5ers can see some amazing stuff.
I don't think crying would solve very much..........unless you brought your mommy with you!
Great compilation of your visits here. You guys do such an awesome job! Keep up the good work and be safe as always. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you 😊
I must have dozed off during the part with exploding dynamite. You Sirs are truly brave and adventures. While I have no problem with going underground, that would give me the heebe heebe. Thank you for sharing
Great look into the Phoenix Mine Frank. I've flown over it several times and always wondered about what it looked like up close and personal like. Much appreciated good sir!.. Thanks for sharing this good stuff, take care cya next time.........Jay
Wow just unreal how many mines that have been built over the years ... Thanks for the great video once again ! Yea another 5 stars !
Very wild mine- thanks for the show !
Experience you have in the field of exploring old mines.. I agree from watching you, some object falling on you would be always in my mind, gawd just think, stop to take a break , lean against a wall and the whole dam wall falls down.. Getting lost in a mine seems like it would be a common thing to do, one shaft or tunnel would look the same as 20 others you walked passed, fine detail as you go would help a person return except now everything is 180 degrees out.. It would be an art as a person explores those mines. Well done with great information..
Thanks Norman!
cool,very nice video,thanks
Thanks Frank weer een mooie video
!!!!!!!!! THANK U !!!!!! Frank !!! Got my shirts the other day !! Very COOL !! Thanks !!!!!
Awesome I really appreciate your support!
In the late '70s at the Dome Mine (closed after 105+ yrs, Jan 2017) in Timmins ON, I had to muck-out the bottom of the glory hole twice a year with an Eimco 21 pneumatic rail mounted mucking machine. I had to blast the ice build-up to get to the bottom of the glory hole, a distance of about 80', so I could muck-out the loose muck and tree branches, as the glory hole was one of the mine's ventilation entrances. I had to add 'kleen-flo' to the mucking machine's air hose to prevent the mucking machine's air motor from freezing-up because of all the moisture to the air pipe. Anyways I had a 5 ton Granby car and a 5 ton Mancha battery locomotive to haul the ice and muck to the ore pass, btw, I did it all alone, easy peasy…...ahhh, those were some of the best days in all my 43 years as an underground miner.
It sounds like a lot of fun!
@@exploringabandonedmines it actually was fun, but a bit chilly lol.
This is so insane to see I live in Miami Florida and never seen stuff like this love doing things like this. Man this is so freaking awesome
Yes, very fascinating mine! Thanks again for sharing! Stay safe! Older and wiser! 😉😁
be safe thank you
What an amazing complex of mines! I wish I had the opportunity to go explore it myself. Amazing video Frank!
Been watching your content long enough I figure I should subscribe. You've earned that much man.
THE best exploring channel on TH-cam bar none!
Glad you enjoy it.......share on your Facebook your friends will enjoy it too!
Amazing. I've been looking for these types of videos on TH-cam for years now. Had to subscribe when i found out that you have over 200 videos of these explorations. Absolutely amazing! Also just heard about Max, Rest In Peace buddy.
I want one of those dynamite boxes. Pretty sweet
Thanks Frank, keep em comin.
I have to say that you have balls of steel. Would never go into the bowls of the earth. That is where i will end up when the good lord takes me when my time has come. But, I have to thank you for showing us flatlanders how things are down below. As for the sticks of dynamite, I have blown up old sticks a hundred years old and they still blow up great. Please be a little more careful with them as life is a good thing. Keep on making videos and peace too. As for the women who followed you, they are really brave souls most would never go underground.
you have the best Mining exploration Channel on youtube.
I think so but thanks for saying so!
Great show Frank!
greeting from cornwall home of the cornish tin miners
That was fun Frank very informative. Good to see old Max again (R.I.P.)
It was a little hard going back and editing some of that even though it has been almost two years since he passed.
I am not meaning to come across as mean or anything but have you ever thought of possibly going down and recovering him? perhaps giving him a nice place to lay rest?@@exploringabandonedmines
When I first started reading comments I thought Max was a person, then I realized he was a good boy. These mines are so huge I wonder if he camps in the mines so he can get up early and go further into the mine.
keep them vids coming frank
I like the Phoenix videos, it's a sweet mine! Lots of ours have ice in them year round, but we have more winter than we do summer I think. The Phoenix is like Cobalt in an even smaller nutshell as far as the workings go and going back to open pit one later etc. LoL
One day Ill get out there to visit, one day...
Cripes Frank I would have been stuck like Whinny the poo going down that opening, Geez that's all you'd need to hyperventilate pretty Skoocum ! Cool Vid though.
I have been in a few tight holes!
When me and a buddy went there no idea where we were but there was about a foot of snow in one of the caves and I have no idea how the heck snow got there. My only guess is frost that collects and drops down cause it wasn’t on the wall at all.
There is ice year round in some parts of those mines
I might weekends and days off with my son when you go through mines all the time in the state of Washington coal mines gold mines Silver Mines you got to be careful going through those places we have ropes lanyards all the gear that we need but sometimes it's much deeper than what you have for materials ropes etcetera these guys know what they're doing
Brilliant! One of your best videos frank. I keep watching a new one (to me) every day or so, this video seems to have everything! Totally cool place. Thanks for sharing it with the world. Best regards from the Scottish Borders!
It took a while to edit!
Fantastic. I'd love to see it. Great to have you share all these cool places
How great this ! I usta go night-ski at Phoenix when i logged from republic WA--
Loved it, thanks for the tour. I saw your dog there too, sorry to hear about him in one of your other videos. Stay safe and keep the mine exploration coming!
Very cool and interesting. Some of those shutes look pretty narrow. I wonder when the mine was in operation if they ever plugged up and how they unplugged them. I picture them having to start at the top and digging down to the plug spraying it wouldn't let loose dropping them to the bottom. Thanks for sharing another great episode. Take care and be safe.
Lots of times they sent someone in with a bar it was dangerous many men were killed doing that! Sometimes they used explosives.
You are the ultimate adventurer good job bud
This mine feels like home
awesome video Dude!
you have chosen a really good subject about exploring mines, there is no end to the possibilities. I mean for example I live in east Tn. not far from KY. Virginia. just some amazing history on mines in this area, there is no way you could run out of mines to explore I believe that it would take a few lifetimes to even think about exploring the mines in the south. if your ever in KY. look up bloody Harlan, it could make a interesting video. although ill be honest I don't really see how it would be possible to improve on you videos because if its not broke don't fix it. just a suggestion as I'm sure you are fully aware coal mines in my area is somewhat over whelming. I can really appreciate all the struggles the minors had to go thru and are going thru my neighbor is about 52 and he worked for years in the mines and now because of black lung he has to have portable oxygen every where he goes, the work this man did in the mines was hard work, but his struggles today to breath is the hardest thing he has faced yet.
I would never go in an abandoned coal mine.
@@exploringabandonedminesI can understand that I guess it is a lot more dangerous I've been in few coal mines and a few natural caves, the coal mines seemed fragile more unpredictable when I went in the coal mines I went with my brother in law who some yrs. back was a mine rescue something not sure of the exact title, those guys would risk death to get you out if all hell broke loose under ground. and even though he had a lot of training it made me no less scared and I felt no safer being with him. you don't have to have mine rescue training to tell someone's family that your dumbass nephew got buried in a coal mine that they told him was to dangerous and he needed to keep his ass out of. all kidding aside my granpa worked for his brother n law who owned a strip mining out fit and was the one who set the charges and basically changed the scenery for generations to come. and some how those were the good ole days. I would love to be able to go back in time and tell grandpa that in the future is something like a tv with buttons you type on and can watch all the porn he could ever imagine seeing, and after I explain to him what porn is get back to the future before he is able get ahold of me and beat my ass. oh well ive had my fun, I apologize I let this get away from me. one more thing I hear people sometimes say what they wouldn't give to be able to go back in time and listen to the stories that for example their granpa could've told them, well I am one of those people who did take the time to listen to all my grandpas stories about Vietnam and other things that was not really meant for the ears of a kid in grade school, and something that should not be repeated in the class room, it was yrs. later that I understood why my teacher got so upset and refused to tell me what is the clap. I think grandpa was raised a lot different then me obviously I honestly don't think any kid in the 3rd grade needs all the details of what someone who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam did, looking back im thinking maybe I had ptsd before I got out of the 4th grade. maybe he thought that by sharing the nightmare he lived thru would be less haunting if he shared it with me. thank you granpa may you rest in peace as your Vietnam nightmare lives on.
WOW MAN WISH I COULD GET IN TO THE MINES HERE IN UK LOVE THIS STUFF
ANOTHER GREAT ONE MAN STAY SAFE
Great informative summary, love your videos.
EXCELLENT! Ya know as we get older we do get smarter and wear head protection...although youngsters do have hard heads. No matter what age...getting the "Boys" cold breaking through ice...made me cringe. ROCK ON!!
Fascinating episode! Going under the ice was very cool. It makes me sad that Max fell into a hole and met his end. Were you able to retrieve his body?
I wonder what the old miners would have thought about a couple of cute girls exploring their mine!
Who would complain?
When I retired from the mining industry after spending almost 40 years, I have no desire to go back UG I didnt lose anything and Im noting looking for it
Great video. I would love to explore abandoned mines but I doubt if I would have the kind of physical stamina needed. Also I can see places where my claustrophobia could be a bit of an issue. Thats why I appreciate these videos. I can get a look at what's down there.
Rip Max
Well-edited Phoenix retrospective, Frank. I don't recall seeing any former footage from yr not-so-waterproof suit segment. Looking fwd to Anyox companion. Cheers!
It is coming up in the next week.
Amazing mine! Great vid👍
Bad ass video... not sure about Lettin your dog run loose like that he needs a strob and a harness or he may end up down a shaft. My dad use to take me into mines in California and West Virginia. Good memories.
You are right that is what happened to him.
Sorry to hear that.. I’m sure that was a tough day.
17:41 that’s a birds nest?WOW!
Oh, and you lit 100 year old dynamite off IN THE MINE 😱! Odin’s Brass Balls man!!
Well not a real birds nest..........the calcium pebbles just look like eggs.
Love your vids,stay safe
Hello and good day well good luck with that
It would be the most awesome thing if I could ever meet up with you and go through a couple of them mines. I have a little rope and experience from doing tree work anything else I'm sure you could quickly teach me I'm a good learner okay. Maybe consider it in the future I have family in Michigan I can get that close we could take it from there Frank it's just a thought man it's something I always wanted to do. stay safe brother maybe think about it. Thanks for all the videos I love it I love what you're doing!
Michigan? That is thousands of miles from here. I live on the other side of the continent!
@@exploringabandonedmines wow oh, I had no idea. Way Northern Canada?
@@spidykat7188 Actually only a half mile from the American border near Washington
@@exploringabandonedmines well that's not too bad my sister lives in Southern Michigan in the Nashville area. Believe It or Not There is a Nashville in Michigan. Yeah you're not that far from Michigan. That's cool
Great video, as usual.
As always your videos are fascinating, very Interresting. Must have been very hard dangerous work, then & now.
You go to the mine maybe when the suns coming up get out of the mine & the suns down, must have messed up folks inturneral body clocks.
Be safe !!! 🤗🤗🤗🖒🖒🖒
It really don't matter much what the sun is doing when you are in a mine!
@@exploringabandonedmines Hi! I'm just thinking about all the different times people had to work. Yup, once you're in a mine you're busy doing whatever has to be done. I guess they really wouldn't think about sun/moon ect. ...You're right. Stay safe.😙
Hopefully I can make it to one of your return trips
Nice.
Loving these videos! Never seen them ever then one popped up been hooked for 3 days now while I’m sick haha. Love exploring vids might even have the sac to tag along some day. Cheers from Maine
As a rule I don't like voice overs but this one was Really Good! Good Job Frank!
Excellent video, thanks again Frank...!
Haha the waterproof suit wasn’t waterproof 🥶🥶🥶LoL
I would get an old diving dry suit and you will be warm and dry :)
Great Channel
Be safe !
Have fun 🤩
Great video keep up the good work 👍
love your vids alot good history in mines
Awesome Video Frank … TYVM I super enjoyed this one the most so far. You Rock Bro :) Pun Intended LOL Keep up the good work and above all be safe … Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next ;)
The Very best of Anyox is real good too!
indeed im on the last part of it as we speak lol :)
Damn. I logged that mountain in the 1990s and had no idea the top of that hill was capped. I sure hope to join you this year for some cave ratting.
Up through where the tram line was?
@@exploringabandonedmines I was just a young fella and couldnt see the mountain through the trees. My bush boss would drive me up there and I would sleep most of the way, run saw all day and sleep through the ride home... winter logging means its dark when you pull in and when you pull out again. Never saw much from the landing.
Only tram I ever found over there was at rock candy
Hey Frank have you guys ever explored mines in the cripple Creek in Victor area in Colorado?
No.
Your much stronger than I would Ever would want to be!
Specially when it comes to throwing 100-year-old dynamite around💪😜~😎☝️💥
I liked this a lot!
I would like to see same kind narrated style videos more. Narrated version of the "ladders of hell" mine would be one to watch
Always interesting be safe ❤️
Found your channel a week ago and I'm hooked! Love what you're doing Frank! Really glad to see someone documenting all this awesome history that could have eventually been lost without all your hard work. Stay safe out there!
Glad to have you join us!
Hi FrankGreat video put together from others and narration was great.How is the document ox anyox mine coming a long.
It is about Phoenix and Anyox, it is a great film but it can't be released until July 18th.
21:28 - mining for chicks- I am in lol