Dropping The Blue Shaft
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- I had a invite to drop down through this amazingly colourful copper mine shaft with fellow mine explorers the Carbis Bay Crew (Thanks Pat!!). This old haulage shaft has still some timberwork guides from when the skip cart was hauled up and down, sadly not all of them are in place and some have rotted and fell to the bottom. The shaft is a vertical 300ft drop from the surface to the adit level below, on the way down there are a couple of small levels going off but I was told they do not go far. The minerals in the surrounding rock, mostly copper related, have been pushed out by water over the years and deposited on the sides of the shaft, leaving this amazing blue colour colour.
A amazing experience, one I would love to do again one day!
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Oh wow what a nice repellering (descent), 90 meter is deep!!
Beautiful blue color in the shaft. Thanks for sharing this to us!
Thanks for watching my friend, good fun descending, the biggest shaft I have done on ropes to date!
That was just an amazing descent down sir. Incredible colors. You have a great team with you on these adventures deep underground. Many thanks for the upload!
Thanks my friend, this one was really just to drop this particular shaft, been wanting to do it for ages, missed out on doing it earlier in the year due to working, but this more than made up for it, it was also a lot drier than it usually is at the bottom.
@@CornishMineExplorer All good things come to those who wait sir :) Excellent Job!
Love all your videos dude. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers bro!
A very beautiful mine and my personal favourite just because of the colours. I bet that took hours to ascend back up, thanks for sharing. xx
Thank you Sue, no, we cheated getting out and went up a incline ladderway, there is also 2 adits to access this mine too, but we left the cars at the top. Still, really good fun!
@@CornishMineExplorer Haha, I think I would have done the same. x
Epic mate, Well done.
Cheers!
Wow pretty shaft, do envious, nog of the getting out bit though. At first, second half of video, I thought you were ascending at super human speed lol
Only go up that speed if there was a giant spider lol
Did you have fun frogging back out of that one? That must have been a real workout! Great descent video!
@Adventure Ticket I'm a big fan of Cornish Mine Explorer. I view him as an undiscovered gem that deserves far more subscriptions and views...
Cheers, we cheated, there's a ladder way back out of this mine, as well as 2 adits. This was all about the doing this drop, it was nothing short of amazing!
@Adventure Ticket Many thanks my friend!
@@CornishMineExplorer love Cornwall we would go there evry year but we didnt go this year cause if covid 19 but I love all the mines like south Crofty wheel cotes there beautiful buildings. South Crofty was the last ever cornish mine to shut
Wow!! That place is stunning. Wouldn't get me on the rope mind you at that depth hahaha.
I guess it's just a case of experience, I personally can't stand hights, but dangle me over a 300ft shaft and I am fine, I have total faith in the equipment I wear which helps, but there is always a "what to do if something goes wrong" worry as well as no mine is safe running through my mind.
Just subbed btw, will have a looky later !
@@CornishMineExplorer thank you mate. Well your videos are awesome and gives a different look at how other explorers captures things. Awesome stuff
Last time I dropped a blue shaft I almost got divorced.
LOL I can only imagine what that is :) Good to hear from you, out doing any mine exploring lately?
@@CornishMineExplorer Will be soon! Been down all damn summer, my gear box went out in my jeep but new one will be here fri!
That's what will really get me divorced my wife said, if I don't fix it and get out of her hair! Lol
lol, yea, mines the same, I get "ain't you got a hole to go down??" when she's had enough of me.
@@CornishMineExplorer lol!! Indeed. My only saving grace is my shop behind our house. And the deadbolt I put on the door!
Going down into a hole, Mr. Gravity is your best friend. Coming back up out of a hole, Mr. Gravity suddenly becomes your worst enemy ! And did I hear someone whistling ? Whilst in a mine ? ?
Yes, it was the person before me at the bottom whistling. Getting back up was ok, via the laddered incline shaft.
Good job , nice rappel . Did you get a chance to explore the Drift at the bottom of the Shaft ?
Cheers, yes, we done loads of trips down this mine, not sure if I have it in the video's list, im sure there are 1 or 2 from here. Anyways, there are at least 4 ways into this mine that I know of, it's a pretty good through trip too.
I'm loving watching your videos. I've had a fascination for Cornish tin mines since i was a kid. Got to have a look around the Geevor mine and museum a couple of weeks ago whilst visiting friends in Trewellard. Those old mines look like proper rabbit warrens. How do you know where you are and find your way back to the shaft?
Not had a problem with our local mines, just know them and able to map them in my head quite well. The larger mines are the problem where it all starts to look the same after a while.
@@CornishMineExplorer imagine digging that all out by hand with just candles and lamps to show the way. Have you ever tried that? Maybe not moving around but staying in one spot. To see the lighting the old timers worked with. Bit too dangerous I would think?
I'm new here. Love mine explores. Is this a copper mine. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, yes, it is a copper mine, pretty big workings although some of them are below water now.
How deep?
Ok then, 90m? That's a good depth. Just on 300ft.
Yes, 300ft give or take a few feet
Blue is chalcanthite and green is melaterite.