The views at the beginning along with the ice tunnel at the end were really cool! The old winch still mostly intact. From the looks of the stopes, it appears the miners did a lot of belly crawling. Strange life forms. All in all, a pretty nice explore. Thanks Justin and friend!
Every spring I go above Silverton co and look at the avalanche deposits and the tunnels the river carves through them. Nature is savage and beautiful at the same time. Thank you for another great exploration vid.
Talk about a smash cut. Scenic rolling hills scene into: all hell breaks loose in the flooded incline. Hahaha. Love your work as always TVR. Always watching from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘
All that water made me think of a show I watched, about a mine in the UK that was on the edge of land. It was deep and extended far out under the ocean. They had a HUGE STEAM PUMP that removed the water, but sadly it broke down and a few people drowned. The steam pump is a museum now.
Dude, you must be in pretty good shape. every one of these videos you're miles in the bush, only to hike around for what feels like miles underground, and then _back out_ I want to see your fitness tracker stats lol I wish there was emptyness like this in the northeast, but you can see houses from our nature trails usually ☠
Thats a great looking hoist engine. I'm glad it hasnt been scrapped. I think you're in the right ballpark about the age of it judging by the flywheel and other clues.
Thanks for another great explore and video. These mines with large quartz veins always fascinate me because the gold content is not consistent. They follow a vein for a while and then stope upwards a few feet, or quite a ways. I always ask myself why didn't they go down in addition to up at the same point on the vein?
They often do, if they think it is worth the effort. Going up is generally easier, as gravity assists you with getting waste rock (and the good stuff) out of the mine. Even this mine had a shaft going down the dip (the angle of the strata/fault line). We don't know what was down there.
Old steel wasn’t as uniform as it is today. Maybe the reason why that incredible mechanical contraption hasn’t completely disappeared. What a landscape, what a view. Thank you very much for taking us along!
Awesome video thank you 😊 maybe grab a black light and try shooting some of those minerals for the next one 😊 thank you for bringing us along!!! The work you guys do for the videos. When you know you know my friends stay safe 🙏
Nice scenery, nice mine. Must be an artifact of the camera, but at 16:58 it looked like the drill hole was drilled Towards the incline shaft. From then on I was expecting the drift to end in a collapsed shaft or similar. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
First, Love your work. 2nd, I've often wondered why YT mine explorers don't take a dive mask or similar item so you could get shots down the flooded winzes. I know you guys already are packing a ton of gear but having a way to look through the water glare might expose things no one has seen for a century or better.
There is the factor of carrying extra gear that you mentioned, but, primarily, because most of the flooded stopes and winzes that we see are filled with murky water. So, it becomes a matter of carrying extra weight, carrying expensive equipment that we will definitely break at least once or twice in a season, murky water, etc.
Those joist gears (if I spelled it right) were pretty amazing. I wonder how they made them. Id assume they were cast in a sand mold or something, then machined on. But 1800s I wonder how they did that. Really interesting.
Thx again, Justin and explorer friends. You certainly have been finding tons of quartz in the recent videos, and it seems to be very thick at times. If what some of the other mine explorer guys (who seem knowledgeable in what they say) can be trusted, there is seemingly a good possibility of parallel veins. Do you ever do prospecting on these exploration trips for a new area to mine looking for untapped parallel veins? Or are you done with your mining career(s)?
One thing you may want to try when it comes to water in the mic. If it is an external mic use a ziplock bag covering it. I do a lot of audio collection in the woods identifying the different animals in the region and haven’t ruined a mic since I started it. It will also help with the wind noise too. It doesn’t have an appreciable loss of mic sensitivity with this method.
TVR, I enjoy your videos. You should consider getting one of the newer Apples or Go Pros and do your videos in 4K. The colors would REALLY pop. You are preserving history. A lot of these mines will be lost.
Nice looking vain there, but did they throw everything down it ? I would love to get a bucket of the quarts still there. I can't believe how much quarts is left, why wouldn't someone be working it with today's prices. The flow-stone is really cool. That's a Great looking ice cave. Thanks for the video.
That is a rather early steam engine, I'd say 1850s give or take, with that stile of flywheel and spindly frame. Of course it does not date the mine as they used what they could find and it could have been run on air. nice find..
One curiosity I always have about extensive workings in quartz. It is clear that the previous miners worked very hard on these veins. They must have been profitable. We can see the veins on either side of the drifts. Why does no one attack those veins to the side? Is the vein not proven?
Hey, start to finish is a video, plan, organizing, grouping, planning, packing, traveling, traveling, hiking, hiking, hiking then maybe Adit? Lots of videos you don't provide! And why not clear out all the Quartz? Are you collecting the gems and cashing in? Again, you'll make more showing it and it will be generational unless you re already living that.
Judging on the performance of past videos that touched on these topics, I believe many viewers would find the process of planning, preparing, traveling, hiking, etc. to be dull. I find them interesting and that interest would carry to seeing how others do it. However, you and I seem to be in the minority in that regard. There is one other consideration in that I often feel the need to preserve the anonymity of the mines we visit and that limits what can reasonably be shown of the above. Why don't we clear out the quartz ourselves? Small-scale mining is no way to try and make a living... It is almost unheard of for such operations to be profitable.
You might find an occasional speck, if you search hard enough. A few issues though. The old miners wouldn't leave anything worthwhile, at least not deliberately. The walls (back and ribs) of the drifts are often covered in dust from blasting or minerals deposited later, making searching difficult. Your best chance would be with a collapse exposing new rock/vein. If Justin and friends found worthwhile gold, I'm not too sure they would tell us. At least not for a while. If you have been watching Justin's videos, you will know he was involved in rehabilitating and core drilling an old hard rock mine. It didn't pay out. Give those videos a look if you haven't seen them.
@@daveg2104 that sounds miserable!!!! The guys who did that work were incredible people. I cant imagine doing that day after day and being out in the wilderness with very little comforts of home. They were a different breed!!!!
@@Rainmaker60LM Yes. It's interesting seeing some of the really old mines in the UK. They look so "organic" and narrow. The miners obviously didn't want to take out any more rock than they needed to.
The views at the beginning along with the ice tunnel at the end were really cool! The old winch still mostly intact. From the looks of the stopes, it appears the miners did a lot of belly crawling. Strange life forms. All in all, a pretty nice explore. Thanks Justin and friend!
Awesome
It would have been miserable working up in those stopes!
That went quite a long way in. Lot's of iron horses in there. Love it.👍
Every spring I go above Silverton co and look at the avalanche deposits and the tunnels the river carves through them. Nature is savage and beautiful at the same time. Thank you for another great exploration vid.
This one looked like a great trip. You’re the Mr Wizard of mine exploration. Mother Nature handles the rest.
Cool explore Guy's, awesome snow tunnel... Thank you for the share.
Take care and stay safe out there... Till the next! ⛏⚒⛏ Cheers Y'all 🍻
Talk about a smash cut. Scenic rolling hills scene into: all hell breaks loose in the flooded incline. Hahaha. Love your work as always TVR. Always watching from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘
Aussies 🤙🏻
Thank you very much. Ha, yes, that was a bad time of year to be perched in the incline... I hope you're enjoying your summer down there.
I got to say Justin you sure do find some amazing/Awesome abandoned mines to adventure into and tell us what's inside etc 🙏🏻
Amazing colors in that one! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome colors
That ice tunnel was SO cool! Thank you for sharing it with us!
All that water made me think of a show I watched, about a mine in the UK that was on the edge of land. It was deep and extended far out under the ocean. They had a HUGE STEAM PUMP that removed the water, but sadly it broke down and a few people drowned. The steam pump is a museum now.
Could you comment more? I'd like to know
The one i think of us the Severn Tunnel between wales and England. Stevens was an engineer on that dig. Great documentary
Stephens.
Ive heard about that. Theres also an old mine under one of the great lakes that they let flood.
@davelarson6094 Superiour. Outdoor Rob of thunderbay went there.
Awesome stuff! Even that Snow tunnel was super cool! Cheers
i was just about to go to bed, but i can stay up a little longer!
lol 'the last thing i want is water in the microphone...'
cracking video what gorgeous colours! very intersting! stay safe!
Justin that was a very nice one, nice machinery out side, a bit of a non inviting entrance but a very beautiful mine indeed thnx.
Dude, you must be in pretty good shape. every one of these videos you're miles in the bush, only to hike around for what feels like miles underground, and then _back out_
I want to see your fitness tracker stats lol
I wish there was emptyness like this in the northeast, but you can see houses from our nature trails usually ☠
Thats a great looking hoist engine. I'm glad it hasnt been scrapped. I think you're in the right ballpark about the age of it judging by the flywheel and other clues.
Makes you wonder about the gold content of the remaining quartz.Great vid.Thx
Looks promising
Lots of bull quartz. If it had the values it would be long gone. You can see where laterday samplers have been at it I think.
Cool mine thanks for showing the snow tunnel in that creek!!Good Stuff!!!!
Enjoy watching your videos, There is an old chalk mine in north Mississippi dating back to the civil war.
Thanks for another great explore and video. These mines with large quartz veins always fascinate me because the gold content is not consistent. They follow a vein for a while and then stope upwards a few feet, or quite a ways. I always ask myself why didn't they go down in addition to up at the same point on the vein?
They often do, if they think it is worth the effort. Going up is generally easier, as gravity assists you with getting waste rock (and the good stuff) out of the mine. Even this mine had a shaft going down the dip (the angle of the strata/fault line). We don't know what was down there.
Old steel wasn’t as uniform as it is today. Maybe the reason why that incredible mechanical contraption hasn’t completely disappeared.
What a landscape, what a view.
Thank you very much for taking us along!
Great adventure looking forward to seeing your next one.
@@stevenhigby3512 love adventures 🤙🏻
Awesome video thank you 😊 maybe grab a black light and try shooting some of those minerals for the next one 😊 thank you for bringing us along!!! The work you guys do for the videos. When you know you know my friends stay safe 🙏
That needs to be in a museum. Thanks for the video
Nice scenery, nice mine.
Must be an artifact of the camera, but at 16:58 it looked like the drill hole was drilled Towards the incline shaft. From then on I was expecting the drift to end in a collapsed shaft or similar.
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
What awesome geology in this mine. Something for every body!
Nice video! Thanks for taking us along.
The "support timbers" you refer to are called "stulls".
Be safe!
That's a dope stope, but I have had it with the adit.
It's nice to see open unspoiled views. An ice cave? Cool.
another cool video with a good view of the ice cave nature surely as some quirks at times..
Hi Justin, WOW, that's cool, that is a beautiful sight I wish I could fly my long-range quad and wing there and video it.
It was WORTH IT Thank's!!!; )
What is the Black Stuff ? Did you touch it ?
First, Love your work. 2nd, I've often wondered why YT mine explorers don't take a dive mask or similar item so you could get shots down the flooded winzes. I know you guys already are packing a ton of gear but having a way to look through the water glare might expose things no one has seen for a century or better.
There's a couple guys in England that use a submersible drone , it's pretty neat
There is the factor of carrying extra gear that you mentioned, but, primarily, because most of the flooded stopes and winzes that we see are filled with murky water. So, it becomes a matter of carrying extra weight, carrying expensive equipment that we will definitely break at least once or twice in a season, murky water, etc.
Those joist gears (if I spelled it right) were pretty amazing.
I wonder how they made them. Id assume they were cast in a sand mold or something, then machined on. But 1800s I wonder how they did that.
Really interesting.
Thx again, Justin and explorer friends. You certainly have been finding tons of quartz in the recent videos, and it seems to be very thick at times. If what some of the other mine explorer guys (who seem knowledgeable in what they say) can be trusted, there is seemingly a good possibility of parallel veins. Do you ever do prospecting on these exploration trips for a new area to mine looking for untapped parallel veins? Or are you done with your mining career(s)?
One thing you may want to try when it comes to water in the mic. If it is an external mic use a ziplock bag covering it. I do a lot of audio collection in the woods identifying the different animals in the region and haven’t ruined a mic since I started it. It will also help with the wind noise too. It doesn’t have an appreciable loss of mic sensitivity with this method.
Excellent Explorations!
TVR, I enjoy your videos. You should consider getting one of the newer Apples or Go Pros and do your videos in 4K. The colors would REALLY pop. You are preserving history. A lot of these mines will be lost.
Nice looking vain there, but did they throw everything down it ? I would love to get a bucket of the quarts still there. I can't believe how much quarts is left, why wouldn't someone be working it with today's prices. The flow-stone is really cool. That's a Great looking ice cave. Thanks for the video.
The ice cave was awesome.
That is a rather early steam engine, I'd say 1850s give or take, with that stile of flywheel and spindly frame. Of course it does not date the mine as they used what they could find and it could have been run on air. nice find..
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Another great mine!
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Great video
There was a lot of iron in some of that quartz. What is the saying? Gold rides an iron horse.
You are correct! I saw tons of iron with that quartz.
25:20 this ice formation reminds me of one that Jason showed on a video a few months ago over on his mbmmllc channel
Hope I don’t get water in the microphone….lol Another really cool explore. Thanks for sharing the experience with us all. Take care.😊
You should have tried THIS MINE. Looks way better than the money pit you worked. ;-P
Will be hard to beat that scenery :)
Is the blue mineral copper sulphate or just a trick of the light ??
Could there be gold sulphate ???
Or is the yellow stuff sulphur ??
One curiosity I always have about extensive workings in quartz. It is clear that the previous miners worked very hard on these veins. They must have been profitable. We can see the veins on either side of the drifts. Why does no one attack those veins to the side? Is the vein not proven?
Hey, start to finish is a video, plan, organizing, grouping, planning, packing, traveling, traveling, hiking, hiking, hiking then maybe Adit? Lots of videos you don't provide! And why not clear out all the Quartz? Are you collecting the gems and cashing in? Again, you'll make more showing it and it will be generational unless you re already living that.
Judging on the performance of past videos that touched on these topics, I believe many viewers would find the process of planning, preparing, traveling, hiking, etc. to be dull. I find them interesting and that interest would carry to seeing how others do it. However, you and I seem to be in the minority in that regard. There is one other consideration in that I often feel the need to preserve the anonymity of the mines we visit and that limits what can reasonably be shown of the above. Why don't we clear out the quartz ourselves? Small-scale mining is no way to try and make a living... It is almost unheard of for such operations to be profitable.
Have you ever seen quartz with discernible and visible gold in it?
You might find an occasional speck, if you search hard enough. A few issues though. The old miners wouldn't leave anything worthwhile, at least not deliberately. The walls (back and ribs) of the drifts are often covered in dust from blasting or minerals deposited later, making searching difficult. Your best chance would be with a collapse exposing new rock/vein. If Justin and friends found worthwhile gold, I'm not too sure they would tell us. At least not for a while. If you have been watching Justin's videos, you will know he was involved in rehabilitating and core drilling an old hard rock mine. It didn't pay out. Give those videos a look if you haven't seen them.
How do I get that moechine in muh pickup?
Loving all the TVR videos. Thank you
That Fraser and Chalmers later became Allis Chalmers.
The metal back then must have been of a better mixture of alloys.
What state?
when they do the stope and raises are they drilled and blasted or is that all done by hand?
It depends on how old the mine is. Single jack or double jack hand mining (hitting a drill steel with a hammer) was used in really old mines.
@@daveg2104 that sounds miserable!!!! The guys who did that work were incredible people. I cant imagine doing that day after day and being out in the wilderness with very little comforts of home. They were a different breed!!!!
@@Rainmaker60LM Yes. It's interesting seeing some of the really old mines in the UK. They look so "organic" and narrow. The miners obviously didn't want to take out any more rock than they needed to.
Pretty small drifts eh. But they knew how to cut costs. Not their first rodeo😅
I'm assuming all the flags and tags in the mine are from surveys, who is actually doing it and why?
I wonder if that jug contained something other than water… nitro glycerin maybe?
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Sure wish that was ..mine 😏😳
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California?
Salute
Steam hoist
To call it a wet mine is an understatement🤣👍
Haha fr