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NORTHWEST UNDERGROUND: Exploring Abandoned Mines
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Exploring the abandoned underground gold, silver, and copper mines of the Pacific Northwest, Washington State and beyond...since 1987 !
The CASCADES CONSOLIDATED: North Cascades Washington State abandoned gold mine - full video soon!
The Cascade Consolidated abandoned gold mine - 1891 to 1940. We were underground in one tunnel for 2 and 1/2 hours!
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ACTIVE MINE!! 5200 ft down: IDAHO SILVER MINE: A day at work in the mine in Idaho - not abandoned
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IDAHO SILVER MINE: A day at work in the mine in Idaho - not abandoned - guided working tour
LOST MINE FOUND / Ore Car / Camp : The PICANTE Abandoned Complex Found At Last !
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LONG LOST...... The Picante abandoned mine and camp had eluded Northwest Underground Explorations for 25 years....until now....
The SULTAN MINE: COMPLETE History of this 1889 Hard Rock/Placer abandoned MINE... River rerouted!
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The SULTAN MINE: COMPLETE History of this 1889 Hard Rock/Placer abandoned MINE... River rerouted!
The 1776 MINE: 1st MINE in the Monte Cristo region ... private property not abandoned ..130 yrs old
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The 1776 MINE: 1st MINE in the Monte Cristo region ... private property not abandoned ..130 yrs old
1895 RELIC TIME CAPSULE Abandoned Gold Mine - Washington State ... The El Monte
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1895 RELIC TIME CAPSULE Abandoned Gold Mine - Washington State ... The El Monte
The SEARCH for the SULTAN MINE COMPRESSOR...keep watching after the backbground information!
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The SEARCH for the SULTAN MINE COMPRESSOR...keep watching after the backbground information!
Death Valley: SWISS CHEESE Abandoned Mine 😆 ...incredible workings
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Death Valley: SWISS CHEESE Abandoned Mine 😆 ...incredible workings
Death Valley: INTACT Remote Miners Cabin! (At abandoned mine complex)
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Death Valley: INTACT Remote Miners Cabin! (At abandoned mine complex)
The SILVER LADY Mine: EPIC Water from the Golden abandoned mine above
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The SILVER LADY Mine: EPIC Water from the Golden abandoned mine above
Death Valley EPIC Complex: Abandoned Mine mill site, fully intact!
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Death Valley EPIC Complex: Abandoned Mine mill site, fully intact!
VINTAGE Mine Exploration: The Wall Sreet Abandoned Mine Liberty Washington...not quality...vintage!
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VINTAGE Mine Exploration: The Wall Sreet Abandoned Mine Liberty Washington...not quality...vintage!
Death Valley: MINE TRAM intact @ Abandoned Mine...Tram bucket STILL attached !
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Death Valley: MINE TRAM intact @ Abandoned Mine...Tram bucket STILL attached !
Death Valley: TRAM SYSTEM INTACT - abandoned mine
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Death Valley: TRAM SYSTEM INTACT - abandoned mine
DEATH VALLEY MINE: TRAM wheel, Brakes, Cable, Tracks + railroad of the abandoned NOONDAY
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DEATH VALLEY MINE: TRAM wheel, Brakes, Cable, Tracks railroad of the abandoned NOONDAY
The Seattle - Tacoma: Dynamite Box discovered up above in raise in abandoned mine
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The Seattle - Tacoma: Dynamite Box discovered up above in raise in abandoned mine
Mine POWERHOUSE DISCOVERY: The Pinnacle abandoned mine complex
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Mine POWERHOUSE DISCOVERY: The Pinnacle abandoned mine complex
Death Valley: Sun setting on abandoned mine
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Death Valley: Sun setting on abandoned mine
MONTE CRISTO: MINING HISTORY SIGN we DESIGNED at Abandoned Mining town and mine site
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MONTE CRISTO: MINING HISTORY SIGN we DESIGNED at Abandoned Mining town and mine site
Pt 2: Abandoned WA Mine: Monte Cristo EQUALITY - 2018
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Pt 2: Abandoned WA Mine: Monte Cristo EQUALITY - 2018
Pt 1 of 2: VINTAGE Abandoned Mine: Monte Cristo EQUALITY - 2018
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Pt 1 of 2: VINTAGE Abandoned Mine: Monte Cristo EQUALITY - 2018
Abandoned DEATH VALLEY mine: One minute of variety
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Abandoned DEATH VALLEY mine: One minute of variety
The FLOODED Parrot: ABANDONED Mine in Idaho
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The FLOODED Parrot: ABANDONED Mine in Idaho
The Del Campo: VINTAGE 1989 ABANDONED mine exploration
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The Del Campo: VINTAGE 1989 ABANDONED mine exploration
The Seattle -Tacoma: Sketchy Abandoned Mine adit
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The Seattle -Tacoma: Sketchy Abandoned Mine adit
The Seattle - Tacoma Mine: Abandoned with ladders, dynamite boxes, ore chutes, a raise, and more
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The Seattle - Tacoma Mine: Abandoned with ladders, dynamite boxes, ore chutes, a raise, and more
Mystery...? MINE COMPRESSOR discovery: Sultan River Water Tunnels
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Mystery...? MINE COMPRESSOR discovery: Sultan River Water Tunnels
VINTAGE Abandoned Mine Exploration: 1989. Underground building, now gone, Monte Cristo Washington
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VINTAGE Abandoned Mine Exploration: 1989. Underground building, now gone, Monte Cristo Washington
Massive Stopes and rails: Gunsite Mine, private property tour of abandoned mine
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Massive Stopes and rails: Gunsite Mine, private property tour of abandoned mine
1905 Abandoned Mine Powerhouse: Pelton wheel, speed governor, spare cups...it's all there!
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1905 Abandoned Mine Powerhouse: Pelton wheel, speed governor, spare cups...it's all there!
7:51 NOTICE the colour change and the band to the left.
3:27 The straight wall on the left, is the fault, Google!
2:45 This a fault Breccia. Google
Quite a good example! Eh?
2:12 They were following a fault and alteration zone (ore), they then split off to try to see if parallel fault zones exist.
0:15 Tis very weird, to me it outlines a geological grid, the coloured sections are anomalous to ? mineralization? Retired now but the spark for science and how each thing finds it place, at times closely associated with others. Arsenopyrite is a companion as is mercury being proximal to gold in specific deposition environments. You got to be a Shirlock Holmes and absolutely loving it to peruse the quest for understanding of how this gets here, a gift for the earth?
Why does your sound always sound muffled? Is your camera enclosed or something? Awesome videos though! So interesting to think people were digging these without the heavy machinery of today
Mud in the microphone!
Please remove the verbiage, abandoned mine as that is not an accurate statement. The 76 Mine is Private property.
awesome, thanks!! 😎
Man I want to go so bad I can taste it 😢
1st
Looks interesting but can not seem to find this in your list of videos 🤔
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@@NWUEmines thank you
Nice!
Great find looking forward to the full video soon ⛏️🤔 thank you for the preview
This 1 tunnel is absolutely huge. Several levels!
Looks like an amazing drive and hike to get there too
Beautiful day and quite the brushy bushwhack to get there at times:-)
Hats off to artifact preservation; good on you! TY
Thank you! It didn't harm it one bit didn't change anything and I think that's the way it should be done :-)
Quite the feeling of discovering something with all that research done that's absolutely incredible
The “love you” as your descending 😂
My brother in laws' father owned and operated the Lucky Day mines up there. Palo was his name. Are you familiar? Beautiful area, grew up camping out there
Actually don't know of those offhand. Where are they?
@@NWUEmines cougar gulch. A dirt road off to the right, believe next to Williams creek? I'll have to Google earth it tomorrow. He had an old cabin on the hillside, I believe the ruins are still there.
@@NWUEmines excuse me, it's right across the meadow from Robinson Gulch, right along Boulder creek
I'm the guy referred to below who, along with my partner, owned this mine from 1966 to 1968. The Ace of Diamonds was not its original name. The mine was claimed again sometime in the 1970's or later. The so-called small stope referred to in the comment from 7 years ago was actually a cave in. We excavated 155 carloads of waste at the end of the workings and found nothing further. Supposedly the tunnel ran another 175 feet past that and there was supposed to be a raise connecting this level with another one higher up the hill. Not so. We also excavated the upper adit and it had very bad shale rock and again, no evidence of a connection to any other workings. We checked it out briefly and quickly got out of there! That was the end of our activity. I appreciate the mine tour provided by this video. Oh, and I did graduate from the U of Washington in 1970 with a BS in mining engineering. Did an obligatory stint in the Navy and then spent 28 years in the mining industry. Retired in 2000. For me the only money to be made in mining was taking advantage of my company's savings and investment program and growing that over time so that when I retired we could live a comfortable retirement. For light in the mine, we used an auto headlamp and a car battery. It would last the time we spent on a weekend dig. We each had a mine car and when loaded, the other guy would wait until the load passed him and he would rerail his car and start digging. There was no need for light during the trip with the mine car, we just pushed them along in the dark. It was a brief but little bit of exposure to what mining was like.
Wow that is so cool. I remember going with my parents with some friends of ours to Monte Cristo as a kid back in the mid to late 1970's I do remember seeing a mine up on a hill from the store front and we tried to hike up to that mine. But I don't we even made it. Also there was a mine not far from the Big Four Picnic area right on the road that hidden by ferns and I would go check it out. I could only see inside but I couldn't go inside. Thanks for sharing your video.
I know exactly the mines you are talking about ! Still there @
I’d love to get back through that water someday. I hear it goes all the way into the next basin and connects with those mines.
I can show you an easier way to get there.
Definitely your neck of the woods MW!
Location?
Hey just curious where is this? I need to check this out. Amazing video btw
Right off Hwy 2
Hi, This reminds me so much of my own life. Im from an old mining family in Australia. Where I lived as a child was a mountain out the back of our house with family mines from 1916ish & earlier. These were all abandoned & there are no roads, tracks or maps. Im the only one of my generation that knows where they are., I remember picking metal chunks out of the rock walls as a kid. They mined silver, lead, gold, molybdenite from super hard light grey granite. The last time I was there was 1991, we found 2 of them but there are others still in the area. We were tramping through the bush just like you are here in this video. Cheers Daniel.
I love stories like this. feel free to tell us any more experiences you know of!
This location was accessible by car back in the '90s. I went there a couple time around '94-'95. I drove in using my old Jeep CJ7. The road wasn't bad, but I was till surprised when I got to there and found a class C motorhome and a Honda sedan in the parking area. On one of my visits there was a guy in the river using a vacuum dredge. I did a little prospecting and found a small flake of gold about 1/8th inch round when popped open some cracked bedrock. At the time that section of the river was open to public prospecting. I don't know if it still is today. I never tried to enter the tunnel. I found the opening for the tunnel exit, but the up-river tunnel entrance was choked by lots of old logs that had been washed down the river. It's a very neat place.
VERY interesting to hear, and I will pass it along to the authors
I would like some side information about how many men worked that mine. Who laid the tracks, who brought the supplies up to them.
No track at all ,all hand drilled. They used black powder and was hauled out in sacks ! VERY early days.
Climbing the shaft up the ore chute must have been one helluva trip, I tried to climb past the cave in at the end, wedged in the rotten timbers and soggy clay it didnt look passable however there's a lot of water pouring out. There's also another small opening in the cliffs.
Right up above!
The blue bulb was a flash bulb from the 1950's, they were used for indoor or low light film photography.
Did not know. ..thx!
Where in colorado I live there,very curious,keep her a guarded secret,as I'm sure ya know😊
You know it!
The fabled cart gasm,rare but fulfilling to find one in the wild,WHEELS and all!😮
Yeah...SO rare up here in the PNW!
Been there done that !! it sure is satisfying when you get to the top , makes it all worthwhile.
It's a haul !
@@NWUEmines one day we'll do lunch.
Nice find !
Full video shows how we found it all !
@@NWUEmines in 4k saw it 👍🏻
This is so cool and looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing. I enjoy all of your stuff.
Thx U !
very cool, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Guy Starbucks exploring, Golden Spur mine, it's no secret. Why delete ?
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Well done very impressed with the findings. Very cool
Corona
Jail Canyon Crona mine.
Jail canyon Corona
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Sweet !
Awesome!!
I should have noted that a guy was working in this tunnel in the 1890s when they released water, and it punched him out of the tunnel all the way to the river...yiiipes!
It's been a long time since I read Hodges' report on the claim. The placer workings there predated later focus upon mostly lode workings when the book was published. I knew that the miners had diverted the river flow, but I actually didn't recall that it was done via tunneling. Somehow, I had formed the notion that it was a trench. Your video was informative. However, I will not try to emulate your method of exploring in shorts through underbrush that harbors devil's club patches...ditto the yiipes!
Pants are BEST! 😁
I've been curious about that site ever since I spotted the claim on a vintage map (in Hodges book). Thanks for uploading a video that features some historical photos I hadn't seen previously!
I found an original Hodges Mining In The Pacific Northwest book, but it went for over $1000 ...in retrospect. I should have put a bid on it!
@@NWUEmines My copy is a Shorey's Bookstore "facsimile edition" (reprint) that cost me over $30 in 1970. That was a princely sum when I earning only $2.50 per hour doing nasty fiberglass laminating work for boat builders in the Marysville area. With what you say about an original, I'm glad that mine was not such, as I would have severely diminished its value with all the underlining and highlighting I've applied to it pages over the years!
It's an amazing place ... when you go through the tunnel, and it breaks out to the surface....it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen ... ! 5 stars! 😉
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I see reprints of the Hodge book on eBay , $10 or so now.? It's amazing how they've come down!
Very cool & interesting. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
More coming!
How do I get involved with you guys? You're in my neck of the woods. I have the book and the resources to do this stuff but I want to go with experienced explorers.
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Well done Craig!
Good content but you need longer videos..
Exactly. That's what's happening from now on...check the latest
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