Solving the Mystery of an old Gold Mine - Following the Clues
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- This video details the evolution of an old Gold Mine from start to finish located in the Rocky Mountains. In this video you will learn about the following Geological and Mining Practices;
Metamorphic Schist Rocks.
How to test for Quartz, Feldspar and Calcite minerals.
The use of Dynamite in old mines, to include its inventor Alfred Nobel.
How Horses and Mules were used in mining, also referred to as Pit Ponies.
How Stamp Mills operated to crush Ore.
Thank you! I'm in Arizona have been interested in history and mining my whole life! I stumbled across one of your videos purely by accident and am just buzzing with excitement to watch everything you've ever put out! Twice! Thank you! I've watched hours and hours of videos and dabbled in all kinds of research, yet watching just one video of yours, so many of my questions have been answered! Example, I came across an old sheet metal dwelling along a creek that had a separate structure calapsed beside it. I wondered about what this separate structure was, finally deciding it must have been a shelter for the miners animals. Wrong! I now realize it was a stamp mill! Looks exactly like the structure in your video! Something that has bothered me, curiosity wise, for a long time, was answered immediately just from one video from you!
I'm your new biggest fan!
Not only that, but the Spanish caches, I've also been real interested in and long ago heard about markings made on Saguaros.
Anyway Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Much appreciated!
Thanks Jeep. I wish you the best of luck out there and please be safe.
Only stumbled across your channel today but am about 7 videos deep already. Amazing content and am appreciate of you sharing with us viewers!👍👍
Thank you and welcome to the Channel.
Good info. I’m vacationing right now in Southwestern Colorado. I love exploring old mines
Love ❤❤ the video,my family livedin smartsville ca next to timbucto and the old mine was right behind our house.
Very cool.
Great video. Thank you
So nice to find videos that are based on facts.
Most are always trying to make us believe in GOLD BARS STACKED TO THE CEILING!
And in today’s world it’s even harder to make a go at Gold mining rules,permits,epa,MSHA environmental regulations ,insurance,equipment and so on. We’re hard rock mining with modern technology and equipment which makes us much more efficient but the costs are extremely high. Good video and information, 👍🏻🇺🇸
I feel for you guys and can only imagine the headaches you have to put up with from layers of bureaucracy and associated operating cost. I wish you the best of luck and hope you strike it rich, or at least have lots of fun trying.
Great video's, thank you..
I just love @basinite's work. Truly look forward to each and every episode. Again, thank you!
Many thanks Kahn and I appreciate the compliment! I wish I could post videos weekly, but it's hard to find this sort of stuff. I feel blessed just to have found what I have found over the years.
@@LowBudgetExploration I will always be a student of this kind of history and can tell you that I, and likely each of your subscribers am extremely grateful that you share this knowledge.
One day soon, I'll follow those faded footprints alongside you.
Id be testing all around that stamp mill. You know darn well theres some gold left under it or right around it. Also would look look around for high grade ore piles stashed..
My understanding is dynamite is TNT soaked in cellulose as a stabilizer. TNT was notoriously unstable and killed lots of miners and tunnel builders by going off accidentally.
Awesome video. I love decoding abandoned mines and this helped a lot.
Very cool and many thanks.
Thanks for the great tour and history. Greatly appreciated!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment.
Nice video your geology is spot on. It is still a little early to get into the Uinta's but soon I will head up.
Awesome. Be safe my friend.
@@LowBudgetExploration I am alwayys safe , I have learned not to wander too close to the boundry of the res. Good luck in your continued search. Carrie shin ob is probably off limits but there are a few nice igneous and metamorphic intrusions that might have some good assays in the area and worth sampling.
Great video! ... Maybe that drill hole is still there because the powder didn't go off! Hit it with a sledge and see if it might!
Looks very familiar!
The mine was located in Colorado.
Great job narrating while you climb. Terrific video. I'm now a subscriber.
Helps keep my lazy butt in shape, LOL. Appreciate the comment and sub.
Am I 10 away from a $Million in Gold, or am I a Million feet away from $10 in gold????? Keep diggin'.....
Great rundown. That's what is fun about this stuff. I've seen more than one mine totally disappear from sight in my short lifetime. When that old timer says: there's a mine somewhere on that hill, a person should strongly consider it. A lot of the really old as in Spanish colonial era mines were open-faced. They used fire setting as an extraction method. I only have one really good example, but it is perfect, down to the way they marked the claim. Still ore in there that "beeps", but it's likely just high-silver Galena. Another clue for age is if it is not in USGS and it is extensive. Many prospect type digs of any age are not recorded, but the big stuff usually is. Transporting a stamp mill from back east or Cali could cost more than the mill in the old days! Also, they were very loud. Yuck. Beautiful area in your vid.
As always, great perspective my friend.
Nice work.
Thanks Jeff
That was amazing information. Thank you sir . Blessings
Great video, thanks
Thank you sir and appreciate the comment.
Nice video, thank you, loved your analytical approach to the why of things, new sub from a old mining geek. ⛏⚒⛏ Till the next, take care and stay safe. 🍻
Many thanks OG Rocker and appreciate the sub. I just got back from Utah a bit ago and will be posting a video on old Spanish mines tomorrow. I think you will enjoy it.
I really liked this video a lot. Good story!
Many thanks SubaruOffRD. Glad you enjoyed it and found value.
Another good and informative video. Keep up the good work and thanks for the video
Hi Clay. Hope your doing good my friend.
Great video! Good point about nature takes over you could be standing on top it.
I live near cripple creek, there are a few rich mines,lots of those that aren't so,thanks for the video😊
I had a 80acre claim on lookout hill past the maintenance department about a mile past town loved the area
Cool stuff thanks for sharring
Fantastic video 👏👏
Great presentation new sub here from down under opal miner so old mines do fascinate me.
Thank you sir and appreciate the sub. Welcome to the channel.
I'm curious to where exactly it was that you were raised in the Uintah Basin? I was born and raised in the Ashley Valley, I no longer live there however my favorite place on earth are the Uinta Mountains. I have hiked hundreds of miles through those mountains during my lifetime and hope to one day hike from the Ashley Valley all the way to Wolf Creek Pass. What an adventure that would be!
That would be a great adventure. I grew up near Ft. Duchesne.
13:07 You have your hand on a pegmatite vein, and you are touching muscovite mica. More to the right, around the edge, looks like tourmaline crystals.
Great video sir, I wonder if that lady who foamed up the old mines kept a record of locations she found. Always enjoy your content! Thanks for the share
Many thanks Silver Stacker. I'm sure she did, but getting anything out of those guys would be akin to asking the wind to please quit.
Dunno about the states, but abandoned mines in Canada are cataloged and the records are available for all.
@@canadiangemstones7636 You guys are lucky, the Forest Service here in the States is determined to destroy all our old mining history. They hate folks like you and me finding old mines and exploring around. They even destroy old cabins built by the prospectors if found in designated Wilderness Areas.
Very awesome. Cool old mine. New subscriber here.
Dirty Paws, welcome to the channel and thanks for the sub.
Just noticed you have a channel and watched some of your shorts. Sorry bout your house.
@@LowBudgetExploration yeah lost 2 in the past 6 years to fire. No fun. Atleast now I live closer to my gold claims and have a lot more opportunities to enjoy nature where I'm at now.
Thanks Fellow American for your time, insight, research, thoughts, energy, intelligence, but most of all thank you for putting all them things together specifically for me🥳, and everybody everywhere ever after it will give you a very enjoyable foot print into digital immortality, and in my rather broad minded spectrum of personal option "Your a fine man for such a immortal undertaking,.. but this could also be the first time I was mistaken, because I know I'm never wrong. so to make a short report real fine set of digital 👣👏🏼 dinosaur tracks for the distant future. Excellent use of your time traveling reminder that those old timers you and I often speak of will some day be myself, because you will always be whom you are right NOW to those future younguns.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👣🥳✌🏼🤞🏼
Right on. Great stuff sir. New subscriber to your channel. Thank you.
Thanks Timdunk and appreciate the sub.
Excellent video. Your logic is sound. Is shist that elusive, that you can't predict how much is there? Since it's metamorphic are there other clues that may be evidence of a small, or massive find? Thanks!
Hi Chris. Schist is a fairly common rock and nothing special. In modern times, I'm sure they have many methods of determining the size and girth of Ore Deposits located underground. Back then it was different, I think they just had to wing it on many occasions. Kind of like the "Wild Cat" days of oil drilling.
Mr. basinite, quartz is petrified tree sap. Provably. Change my mind.
Hopefully Jededia found a rich load deposit somewhere else, moved all the equipment there, struck it rich, and retired happy. 😁
Nice,,,,!
Looks like alot of sulfides in that ore
Did you know he actually practiced that spin as a defensive move? His body did it out of muscle memory.. 👀 There’s some good breakdowns about it. ✌️
Who's that big jug of water of a man at the end?
For some he is a mere legend, others he is real. He is known by my people as the Great Wild Man of the North......LOL.
Can you recommend any good pdf downlodable books on geology and mining
AskJeffWilliams is a great guy on youtube to learn about mining and geology. He is a great teacher (IMHO). I use Libraries a lot for books, usually if they don't have a book I am interested in they will borrow from another library for me. I'll typically go through about one book every two weeks, so Libraries save me a lot of $$$ and space. I've never read any e-books before, so can't help you with that.
I can't think of any specific titles, I usually just browse through them until I find something interesting to take home and read.
Metal detect that entire trail area. If it beeps dig it! Likely some spilt gold around there. Coins. Artifacts.
My dad had a metal detector when I was a kid. We'd go camp out at old Ghost towns and he would find old coins and cool stuff like that. Very good memories. I agree with you 100% and there is probably some really cool stuff buried a few inches in the earth.
Truth be known, I'm worthless as a treasure hunter and prospector. Don't own a metal detector, gold pan, heck....I even forgot to throw that piece of ore I showed in my backpack and ended up accidentally leaving it in the grass. LOL.
I'm mostly just into the thrill of the chase and the history of it all.
Fellow Utahn here. Love the videos. We have been hunting the uintas the last few years. My boys want to go for a few weeks camping this summer. Thanks for giving us something else to look for while we are exploring.
Its not unusual to see quartz veins or quartz pods in a feldspar or pegmatite deposit which this is. My guess is that the mine was a tungsten, tantalum, or possibly rare earth mine. The wild card in this discussion is that you think there was a stamp mill present. All i can see in the video is some sheet metal on a slope. What evidence is present to think otherwise? Basinite, i love your videos and I'm not being argumentative, but this is what I see watching the video.
Hi Walter, good question and no offense taken. Bear with me, typing from phone. You can still see remains of the hopper/loader on top of the Mill where the ore was directed to stamp. A couple of the large post holding the stamp are still upright, but others have fallen over. The tin on discharge was holding the amalgamation table (they are now gone). I think only left side of stamp was used and right side was built in case they needed added capacity. The reason I believe this is because the wood channels they built to direct the ore into the stamp is not in place on that side. Thats about all I know from whats left.
This mine specifically was mined for feldspar and mica. I know right where this is and did research on it in April.
Thank you for verifying the ore type! My guess now is that this mine was originally a feldspar and mica mine later used as a scam gold mine to fleece investors just like Basinite said. Good work everybody...
Many uranium prospectors put in many test digs...some near older dig sites/mines. Love the color of the rock.
Was the stamp milled shared with other local miners? Great video, great information..thank you for sharing your time and knowledge.
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Did you confuse schist with shale?..me thinks
No sir.
How do we contact you?
If you click on the "About" icon on my channel, it should bring up my email address. I would put the email here for you, but it gets blocked.
I’m reaching out to meet if you possible
Thanks!