Active Silver Mine Tour

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  • Опубліковано 11 бер 2022
  • A few months back I was able to go tour an active working silver and lead mine in North Idaho in the Silver Valley. This mine is the Lucky Friday mine and in this video, we travel down to a depth of over 6000ft to go see one of the main silver veins they are currently mining.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 22

  • @gabrielcain8975
    @gabrielcain8975 2 роки тому +4

    Hooray! Thanks!

  • @EnergyTRE
    @EnergyTRE 14 годин тому

    Some very nice looking materials in that mine. Beautiful isn't the word. Nice work ill have to give the rest of your content a look. 🙏🏼♾️

  • @CurrentlyRockhounding
    @CurrentlyRockhounding 2 роки тому +2

    Sweet tour!!! I hope to scoop up a piece for myself at a future tour if I can.
    Congratulations to Gabe!

  • @casedoumasr656
    @casedoumasr656 7 місяців тому +1

    Nice tour thank you never been in a modern day operating mine⛏️🤔

  • @alexrice3498
    @alexrice3498 2 роки тому +2

    Great video. Thank you.

  • @ZE0XE0
    @ZE0XE0 2 роки тому +3

    I've toured the galena mine and the bunker hill mine in the same area. I've still not gotten to tour lucky Friday yet. I think a friend works at the lucky friday though.

    • @GeoForge
      @GeoForge  2 роки тому

      I'd say galena mine is my favorite out of the two just because we got to see a lot more and it was cool seeing some old mining equipment and technology still in action. I have yet to tour bunker hill. Lucky Friday is more modernized but it was cool being able to go down over 6000ft.

    • @ZE0XE0
      @ZE0XE0 2 роки тому +1

      @@GeoForge when i went to Galena we visited the 4900 foot level.
      Bunker hill is still in its re-development phase so the water table prevents one from going very deep. But bunker hill has some really cool mineralogy. To enter the bunker hill mine you have to take a several mile trip on an old electric engine. Was pretty cool. A friend works at bunker hill and gave me a private tour. Their office is really cool too. Lots of cool old mementos and mineral specimens.

  • @GREEKEXPLORERS
    @GREEKEXPLORERS 2 роки тому +1

    Great video!! Thank you for sharing!!

  • @catherinescanlan7707
    @catherinescanlan7707 2 роки тому +1

    Nice very nice

  • @romellojames6690
    @romellojames6690 5 місяців тому

    Gotta have balls to do this.

  • @catherinescanlan7707
    @catherinescanlan7707 2 роки тому

    btw can you make a vid of plutonium by any chance

    • @GeoForge
      @GeoForge  2 роки тому

      I have no current plans to make a video on this. You might be able to find some info elsewhere on UA-cam though.

  • @synapticaxon9303
    @synapticaxon9303 Рік тому

    Is there an atmospheric pressure difference down there? Any risk of decompression sickness coming up to the surface, or flying in an airplane later?
    What about all that lead, is there a risk of lead poisoning being exposed to all of that, or the flotation devices?
    Pretty fascinating place and apparently an untapped geothermal resource too! When they're all done there, I'd like to make it my home along with any other dwarves who want to join me. :)

    • @GeoForge
      @GeoForge  Рік тому +1

      There is a difference in pressure down there but I don't think there is a risk of decompression sickness. Most of the lead is in the form of the sulfide galena so its not pure lead dust but, breathing in rock dust is not good for your health especially if it contains a lot of silica. I think it would be awesome but expensive to have an old mine as a home. They just need to keep digging it out and make it a whole city down there with great halls of stone. They can never dig to deep right?

  • @JohnSmith-mt8fd
    @JohnSmith-mt8fd 2 роки тому +1

    This elevator is hauling down

    • @johntowne1199
      @johntowne1199 Рік тому

      Its called a skip or a hoist. Not an elevator.

  • @darrellsmith5395
    @darrellsmith5395 Рік тому +1

    I call BS , that elevator is not big enough for those equipment parts

    • @GeoForge
      @GeoForge  Рік тому

      Its true. They take them apart and reassemble them below ground. This is not the same place but a good example sanfordlab.org/article/rigging-underground-construction

    • @johntowne1199
      @johntowne1199 Рік тому +1

      Its called a skip or a hoist. Not an elevator.

    • @johnbradley3860
      @johnbradley3860 10 місяців тому

      Sometimes they haul the stuff down below the cage on a hook

    • @shanecochran4632
      @shanecochran4632 3 місяці тому +1

      I work at the lucky friday, it is very true. Hard to wrap your mind around it, I still do sometimes.