Found a video to supplement TVR's, it even has some of the machinery in operation. ua-cam.com/video/xIg69ced52c/v-deo.html If they only went down 280 feet is it then likely given the shutdown order that it's still got some of the shiny in it?
@@spikedamore3445 We don't vandalize any mines. That wasn't us. I've never even been to a mine in New Mexico... There is a specific troll out there that doesn't like mine explorers and goes out of their way to make them look bad by doing things like that.
@@spikedamore3445 Like Justin said, we've never been to a New Mexico or an Old Mexico mine period. Might want to find evidence next time before you blindly go spouting off at the mouth on a repeat spree over something you know little or nothing about.
Cool site man!!! Sounds like Jeff Williams has been there too.. I know its hard to do but a collaboration sometime maybe? Lol.. He s my mad rock scientist hero!! If anyone had told me growing up that rocks were so fascinating I would've thought they were crazy lol.. Keep up the awesome work guys!!!
@@S.L.O.P. Yes, there was a time I wouldn't give things like this a second thought.. Now its all I think about!! Best of luck and know I'm jealous. Lol. I would love to go out there and explore and see the abandoned beauty of the mountains and the things left behind .. Its a downright shame the blm and forestry service is destroying our history too. I live in Kentucky and anything we were able to see is long gone and they're using mountaintop removal to get to the coal now. The once beautiful Appalachian mountains will be nothing more than a plateau when they're done. Have fun exploring
You're onto something sonny jim. The 4th level had an opening that drained (maybe still drains) into a nearby creek: ua-cam.com/video/xIg69ced52c/v-deo.html
amazing to see all the machinery still in position and not trashed or pulled apart for scrappers, it gives you a real sense of what it would have been like back in the day when it was last operating, I can imagine how loud it would have been in the hoist room there.
@@andrewbarker9773 The cable and mechanism is kept heavily (and I do mean HEAVILY) greased, and electric motors are quiet. I have a video of a hoist running at a mine I'm involved with showing the noise level, but it probably won't be uploaded for a while. You could carry on a fairly normal conversation in the hoist house while the hoist is running.
That was a nice touch, to be sure... It is great to come across mines where one can still get a good sense of how things were because enough artifacts have been left behind.
Another excellent all out go. It's quite a testament to the builders that anything still stands. The quest for gold brings out the blood, sweat, and tears in man!!
Very nice drone footage, too bad the war ended that place, nobody too look after it and do repairs kills the place, but still a very nice explore and lots too see, thank for hiking all the way up there
Strange that they had a slusher at the shaft. Maybe it was being used after the headframe was condemned, to salvage equipment? Wouldn't be the first time I've seen one used for unusual purposes, but a single-drum air tugger is more appropriate for a hoisting application. Based on the layout of the rollers and control levers, I believe that's an Ingersoll-Rand slusher. I own an Ingersoll-Rand HNN1J 4-cylinder with about a 32" blade; it's in good shape but we've not put it in service yet.
i am from New Zealand and i just love looking at all that old American machinery and lumber with all that weathered patina its just beautiful...you cant fake that it takes time to get that look...i would love to disassemble one of those buildings and reassemble it on a piece of land in the country...i would be able to feel the spirit of the men who who worked that place...i am a builder and ive built houses over here that are 3 to 4 million dollars for client's but i've never wanted to live in any of them...they just don't do it for me...a house built from classic american materials with a huge fireplace made of stone....my dream!
That drone footage was really magnificent! You were smart to use it; it really helped give me a better perspective of the scope of the operations. PS - thanks for the volume warning. 👍
Great work! very amazing place, the hoist room was incredible. I love sites like this, they almost speak. The drone overview was a huge help in understanding the scope of the place. Been busy around here, I need to catch up with your videos!
Imagine this populated by miners and mill operators and the accompanying noises and smells. Gold and silver mines were ordered to cease operations during WWII as precious metals weren't considered necessary for the war effort. In the years after the war, the search was on for mines just like this one. Those most desirable were mines with a single owner or owned by a small local corporation that became available as owners opted not to return to mining or sadly failed to return from their service over seas. The mines were known to be of value and the search for mines that closed under these conditions actually continue today but nothing like what occurred in the 1950s to 1970s. It's curious why this mine wasn't refurbished into a profitable operation unless it was reaching its profitable end in the 1940s. Remarkable video for the number of artifacts that remain intact. Even when new I can't imagine climbing the headframe on what could loosely be called a ladder consisting of planks of wood nailed only in the center. They can only get just so many nails in that small area without corrupting the integrity of the wood. Braver men than I. Thanks for sharing.
I know of several gold mines that were just hitting their stride in the 1940s and, after being forced to close down, never reopened... It was just too hard to bring the mine back into decent shape and people had moved on with their lives. Now, the rules and regulations make it too expensive to put anything but the largest projects into production even if a lot of these old mines still have gold in them.
@@TVRExploring Yes, it has to be regulations since gold was selling for $35.50 when the mines were forced to close in 1942. You do see a lot of mines that have evidence of geologists so someone will find a mine with gold value worth meeting regulations if they are not impossible to meet.
As a history buff of California Gold Mines, how did this one escape me? Probably because it wasn’t directly on or in the Mother Lode belt? Awesome mine site. Too bad the shaft was caved in. Was there a second shaft or portal to this mine? Most large mines had one or more entrances in the interest of safety. Neat to see such an intact hoist room. That hoist should be in a museum.
You have actually filmed similar winding gear like that, that was uploaded to your channel way back in December of 2016,(The Ah Tye Mine) great video there mate, and hope to see more on this mine in an up and coming video. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
@@TVRExploring Think I have been subscribed since 2016 or it might have been before that. All I know is it's been a while and I enjoy watching all your videos. Keep up the good work stay safe and will see you on Wednesday! 👍😁
Really waa impressive to see so much intact. Thank you. One negative...your abrupt end. Give us more please. And it always seems like my date got cut off. BOOM, Quiet.
I don't believe in wasting the precious time of viewers with tedious intros and outros. So, when the video is over, I end it. The majority of my editing is cutting a video down rather than dragging it out. I'm not sure what you mean by your date getting cut off. I didn't follow that...
@@TVRExploring sorry Jason. Auto correct.....data..... And don't get me wrong, love your hard work and you doing this....I just want more. Haha. Cannot wait until the next ones!
I have taken my family there a few times. It’s one of our favorite places to go for a quick ranger ride. Hoping you check out those mines above laurel lake as this mine is just 30 miles away! Great video
To add to Duck Landes's excellent coverage of Hendrie; the company was also acting as agents for Wellman-Seaver-Morgan. Hendrie also controlled the Helena Foundry and Machine works in Montana, and either there or in Iowa almost certainly did all the iron work for at least the first five stamp mills in what would become montana. With Harvey Ray Jr. (Orchard City Agricultural Works; and Ray Plow Co.) he took over and modified Ramsdell's and Park's smelter and shipped the first 1.5 tons of copper pigs from Butte, Montana to Swansea, Wales in 1868. They did not own the mine so they shut down shortly thereafter. So he also kicked off copper production in Butte.
The style and design of the buildings is very similar to the Thaynes Mine outside Park City, Utah. It was developed in the 1930s and employed long conveyor belts to remove the waste rock. The shaft house there is also quite intact like this one.
That is a source of continuing wonder to us. Sometimes, there is an obvious vein outcropping to the surface, but, often, I have absolutely no idea how they located these sites.
@@TVRExploring I can say the same about places that you've been to and I haven't! We all aspire to achieve what you have. Thanks for filming and sharing your adventures.
Nice to see such a complete setup that hasn't been stripped General question - how often do you find graves or graveyards in the real remote locations?
Awesome to see so many structures and their contents still somewhat standing! Guessing a few more harsh winters and it'll be flattened... Thanks for the tour! 😊 P.s. Are you using a Mavic for the drone shots? The stabilisation and fov is great!
The size of that operation becomes clear when you compare it to the wooden buildings. They even had floodlights up on a pole! They had an interesting way of protecting electrical (mains) cables, inside aluminium tubing! Incredible everything in the hoist house is still in place, all of the hoist, compressor and electrical stuff, even the operator's chair still in place, after all that time.. that is totally incredible! I must say they did make - and leave - a mess though, as far as he surroundings are concerned. Fantastic footage! I only wondered why it ended so abrubtly, almost in the middle of a sentence.. did something go wrong with the upload?
No, nothing went wrong with the upload... Time is the most precious thing that all of us have and so I don't like to disrespect you by wasting your time with intros or outros. When the video is over, it is over. And, yes, this was an impressive operation.
Would be so cool if someone could restore one of these operations for a tourism even if the mine is caved in the buildings would be really cool to see operating in some fashion. Amazing condition people haven't vandalized it worse stolen everything.
Actually, it has suffered from some vandalism and theft. So, imagine how it looked before that! This location is not easy to reach, but there are certainly accessible mines that could be restored for tourism. Look at the park in Tonopah.
5:50 - When it comes to personal safety, I'm a pessimistic guy. So naturally I immediately had this scene in my mind where the cable snaps and cuts the operator vertically in half because he sits right behind the cable reel without any protection. 🤕😅
That's the standard layout for a hoist operator, but, yeah, I would have had that cross my mind more than a few times had I been the one sitting there...
So I’m guessing that since it was still operating before the order to shut down there is still plenty of gold there. One of the possible reasons it couldn’t restart was the value of gold potentially left is just too little compared with modern costs and operating requirements to make it viable these days?
@@Porty1119 You mean this? "Statue of colonizer John Sutter removed after being defaced in Sacramento." That's all I could find in a search. That's Commiefornia for ya'.
@@c103110a Sutter Gold Mining permitted and opened the Lincoln Mine fairly recently in northern California. I'm sure the permitting was a royal pain, but they did it.
Has there ever been a documented case of miners working in a heavily mined area randomly coming upon an old forgotten cave in that trapped and killed miners. Example- have any Roman era miners been discovered by modern Spanish miners in Spain? I know some years back Roman soldiers were discovered who were trapped underground while trying to undermine a Parthian fortification. They were ambushed and overcome by burning bitumen pumped using some kind of bellow. But have any actual old miners been happened upon or for that matter... an old network of ancient mines broken into like some kind of Lord of the Rings Dwarven underworld type creepy sheet. Anything like that? I know-Odd question but where can I go for answers? Since America has such a short history Im thinking this would have to be in Europe, Asia or north Africa
Zero CC weirdness.. in most recent 2 vids (2 part mine so far at least) both those vids have odd [Applause] and [Music] on closed captions and there is NONE going on. sometimes CC adds words, phrases and entire sentences said by no one or no one living I should say..lol.
I don't think that was a drum filter in the beginning I think that was a roller to roll the snow for a sleigh in the olden days my mom and dad told me of them rolling the roads not plowing them mission impossible for a horse and sleigh
@@TVRExploring During one of the videos near the Afghan border you mentioned you did some type of writing on national security issues in some capacity. I assumed you were a writer for a news organization or something. I have an interest In Afghanistan and whats going on there.
Found a video to supplement TVR's, it even has some of the machinery in operation.
ua-cam.com/video/xIg69ced52c/v-deo.html
If they only went down 280 feet is it then likely given the shutdown order that it's still got some of the shiny in it?
Very informative video on the mine and miners -thanks
Nice find, I'll watch it later.
Good stuff. Thanks for posting that... Yes, a lot of these gold mines that were abruptly closed down had not been tapped out.
@@spikedamore3445 We don't vandalize any mines. That wasn't us. I've never even been to a mine in New Mexico...
There is a specific troll out there that doesn't like mine explorers and goes out of their way to make them look bad by doing things like that.
@@spikedamore3445 Like Justin said, we've never been to a New Mexico or an Old Mexico mine period.
Might want to find evidence next time before you blindly go spouting off at the mouth on a repeat spree over something you know little or nothing about.
great shots.....now me and Slim know there is more vid on this mine and you must have found another way in
Ask jeff williams. And yeah your gonna get wet!!!
Cool site man!!! Sounds like Jeff Williams has been there too.. I know its hard to do but a collaboration sometime maybe? Lol.. He s my mad rock scientist hero!! If anyone had told me growing up that rocks were so fascinating I would've thought they were crazy lol.. Keep up the awesome work guys!!!
@@S.L.O.P. Yes, there was a time I wouldn't give things like this a second thought.. Now its all I think about!! Best of luck and know I'm jealous. Lol. I would love to go out there and explore and see the abandoned beauty of the mountains and the things left behind .. Its a downright shame the blm and forestry service is destroying our history too. I live in Kentucky and anything we were able to see is long gone and they're using mountaintop removal to get to the coal now. The once beautiful Appalachian mountains will be nothing more than a plateau when they're done. Have fun exploring
You're onto something sonny jim. The 4th level had an opening that drained (maybe still drains) into a nearby creek:
ua-cam.com/video/xIg69ced52c/v-deo.html
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Thank you for showing this mine. I build miniature models of old mines and towns, so this is good for providing me with ideas.
amazing to see all the machinery still in position and not trashed or pulled apart for scrappers, it gives you a real sense of what it would have been like back in the day when it was last operating, I can imagine how loud it would have been in the hoist room there.
They're actually surprisingly quiet.
@@Porty1119 far out ok, something that big I just assumed it would be loud I guess.
@@andrewbarker9773 The cable and mechanism is kept heavily (and I do mean HEAVILY) greased, and electric motors are quiet. I have a video of a hoist running at a mine I'm involved with showing the noise level, but it probably won't be uploaded for a while. You could carry on a fairly normal conversation in the hoist house while the hoist is running.
@@Porty1119 cool, yeah that's interesting, I will keep an eye out for when you upload the video.
There are air compressors right behind the hoist operator, so yes, I think it would be quite loud in there.
Lots of topside artifacts! Love the lift operators gloves still on the chair as if he went home a couple of hours ago
That was a nice touch, to be sure... It is great to come across mines where one can still get a good sense of how things were because enough artifacts have been left behind.
More footage of the interiors of the buildings please I love stuff like this thanks for doing what you do!
Another excellent all out go. It's quite a testament to the builders that anything still stands. The quest for gold brings out the blood, sweat, and tears in man!!
I work at Empire Mine State Park in California so seeing things like this always makes me happy to see things are still around.
You work at a very interesting site... I'm assuming that you have access to areas of the park that are not open to the public as well!
OMG! So much there is preserved on almost a museum piece level. (And if this would be in Central and western Europe, it would be one)
its a shame, i remeber seeing photos of the place only 10 years ago and it was in far better shape than it is today.
I like how you cared about a saw blade
Really slick old mine....great drone footage... fantastic video, thanks again...!
Absolutely amazing! Great Find!
Very nice drone footage, too bad the war ended that place, nobody too look after it and do repairs kills the place, but still a very nice explore and lots too see, thank for hiking all the way up there
Cool.....Love the old buildings and the amazing amount of equipment still in situ (until the scrap guys get wind of it).
If it gets scrapped out, I'd love to give that slusher a good home! Already expecting to buy one from a guy near Sacramento this summer.
Great exploring enjoyed the Drone footage is well thanks for sharing
Great job on the Video....Especially like the DRONE shots....Like to see more from the drone....Thanks...................JB..........
Strange that they had a slusher at the shaft. Maybe it was being used after the headframe was condemned, to salvage equipment? Wouldn't be the first time I've seen one used for unusual purposes, but a single-drum air tugger is more appropriate for a hoisting application.
Based on the layout of the rollers and control levers, I believe that's an Ingersoll-Rand slusher. I own an Ingersoll-Rand HNN1J 4-cylinder with about a 32" blade; it's in good shape but we've not put it in service yet.
Absolutely fantastic condition knew how to build stuff then, Great video 🇬🇧🛸👍
Thank you. Yes, considering the winters that this mine endures, it is a testament to the men that built this that everything looks as good as it does.
i am from New Zealand and i just love looking at all that old American machinery and lumber with all that weathered patina its just beautiful...you cant fake that it takes time to get that look...i would love to disassemble one of those buildings and reassemble it on a piece of land in the country...i would be able to feel the spirit of the men who who worked that place...i am a builder and ive built houses over here that are 3 to 4 million dollars for client's but i've never wanted to live in any of them...they just don't do it for me...a house built from classic american materials with a huge fireplace made of stone....my dream!
Great video. The charging rack for the miners lamps looked like for Thomas Edison battery pa.cks
That drone footage was really magnificent! You were smart to use it; it really helped give me a better perspective of the scope of the operations.
PS - thanks for the volume warning. 👍
Love seeing the old blogs. Thank you
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Absolutely amazing I love your channel. I can't get enough
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you very much...
Great work! very amazing place, the hoist room was incredible. I love sites like this, they almost speak. The drone overview was a huge help in understanding the scope of the place. Been busy around here, I need to catch up with your videos!
Thank's enjoyed the views and got slushed at the end my first time!!!; )
Great filming on location!
Hi, what a cool site and fairly well preserved too, will there be more video's on this site ??. Thank you for sharing this unique find. x
Thanks, Sue... No, I'm afraid this is the only video for now.
Imagine this populated by miners and mill operators and the accompanying noises and smells. Gold and silver mines were ordered to cease operations during WWII as precious metals weren't considered necessary for the war effort. In the years after the war, the search was on for mines just like this one. Those most desirable were mines with a single owner or owned by a small local corporation that became available as owners opted not to return to mining or sadly failed to return from their service over seas. The mines were known to be of value and the search for mines that closed under these conditions actually continue today but nothing like what occurred in the 1950s to 1970s. It's curious why this mine wasn't refurbished into a profitable operation unless it was reaching its profitable end in the 1940s. Remarkable video for the number of artifacts that remain intact. Even when new I can't imagine climbing the headframe on what could loosely be called a ladder consisting of planks of wood nailed only in the center. They can only get just so many nails in that small area without corrupting the integrity of the wood. Braver men than I. Thanks for sharing.
I know of several gold mines that were just hitting their stride in the 1940s and, after being forced to close down, never reopened... It was just too hard to bring the mine back into decent shape and people had moved on with their lives. Now, the rules and regulations make it too expensive to put anything but the largest projects into production even if a lot of these old mines still have gold in them.
@@TVRExploring Yes, it has to be regulations since gold was selling for $35.50 when the mines were forced to close in 1942. You do see a lot of mines that have evidence of geologists so someone will find a mine with gold value worth meeting regulations if they are not impossible to meet.
As a history buff of California Gold Mines, how did this one escape me? Probably because it wasn’t directly on or in the Mother Lode belt? Awesome mine site. Too bad the shaft was caved in. Was there a second shaft or portal to this mine? Most large mines had one or more entrances in the interest of safety. Neat to see such an intact hoist room. That hoist should be in a museum.
Fabulous record of history. Many thanks for sharing. Especially the informative background stories, real good.
Wonderful video, 👍🏼
You have actually filmed similar winding gear like that, that was uploaded to your channel way back in December of 2016,(The Ah Tye Mine) great video there mate, and hope to see more on this mine in an up and coming video. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Thank you. Wow, you went way back with that one! Have you been subscribed since 2016 or did you stumble across that Ah Tye video later?
@@TVRExploring Think I have been subscribed since 2016 or it might have been before that. All I know is it's been a while and I enjoy watching all your videos. Keep up the good work stay safe and will see you on Wednesday! 👍😁
@@PBRJOHN684 Thank you. I have a special fondness for those that have been along since the early days!
What's cooler is the view east from the ridge - overlooking Mono Lake.
I'm amazed the wind cooperated enough for you to use the drone.
Sometimes, the mine exploring gods smile even on me... I wish they'd grant me your eyesight sometimes.
@@TVRExploring Its my cross to bear brother. A blessing and a curse I've come to find.😆
Excellent video! Just Way Too Short!
Fantastic views
Great video, thanks
Really waa impressive to see so much intact. Thank you.
One negative...your abrupt end. Give us more please. And it always seems like my date got cut off. BOOM, Quiet.
I don't believe in wasting the precious time of viewers with tedious intros and outros. So, when the video is over, I end it. The majority of my editing is cutting a video down rather than dragging it out.
I'm not sure what you mean by your date getting cut off. I didn't follow that...
@@TVRExploring sorry Jason. Auto correct.....data.....
And don't get me wrong, love your hard work and you doing this....I just want more. Haha.
Cannot wait until the next ones!
I have taken my family there a few times. It’s one of our favorite places to go for a quick ranger ride. Hoping you check out those mines above laurel lake as this mine is just 30 miles away! Great video
Love the video we had one of those air compressors where I worked they sure could pump out some air
Did they make a lot of noise?
To add to Duck Landes's excellent coverage of Hendrie; the company was also acting as agents for Wellman-Seaver-Morgan. Hendrie also controlled the Helena Foundry and Machine works in Montana, and either there or in Iowa almost certainly did all the iron work for at least the first five stamp mills in what would become montana. With Harvey Ray Jr. (Orchard City Agricultural Works; and Ray Plow Co.) he took over and modified Ramsdell's and Park's smelter and shipped the first 1.5 tons of copper pigs from Butte, Montana to Swansea, Wales in 1868. They did not own the mine so they shut down shortly thereafter. So he also kicked off copper production in Butte.
The style and design of the buildings is very similar to the Thaynes Mine outside Park City, Utah. It was developed in the 1930s and employed long conveyor belts to remove the waste rock. The shaft house there is also quite intact like this one.
Wow, I'd love to buy a property like this and assemble a cabin from some of the scrap. What an amazing place.
Great video. Also, I'd love to see you and Boxy do more collabs in the future if possible.
Thank you. I expect that'll happen.
A tag that Frank can't rip off for himself, nice😝
Ingersoll-Rand is the name of the compressor company. Their headquarters were pretty close to where I grew up
So how could they even find that isolated gold spot in such a remote area? How do they know there isn’t another one 400 yards away?
That is a source of continuing wonder to us. Sometimes, there is an obvious vein outcropping to the surface, but, often, I have absolutely no idea how they located these sites.
Wonderful place. Makes you wonder how much gold is still down there.
Probably a fair amount... They had to shut down because they were ordered to, not because the gold ran out!
Thanks for the heads up on the audio level change.
Very impressive. I think the "Sunrise" mine is around the hill to the east, maybe even richer?
I hope there is a part 2 to this.
I was there quite a while back, The fence around the mill is new (to me) as is the damaged/collapsed areas of the mill
Always better to visit these kinds of places sooner rather than later because they degrade very quickly... I wish I could have seen it when you did!
@@TVRExploring I can say the same about places that you've been to and I haven't! We all aspire to achieve what you have. Thanks for filming and sharing your adventures.
Nice to see such a complete setup that hasn't been stripped
General question - how often do you find graves or graveyards in the real remote locations?
At the older sites (1800s) it is pretty common. Not so much at the more contemporary mines...
Imagine having an IR Camera on the drone, and 'HOT' images in the woods show up on camera. =O
Awesome to see so many structures and their contents still somewhat standing! Guessing a few more harsh winters and it'll be flattened...
Thanks for the tour! 😊
P.s. Are you using a Mavic for the drone shots? The stabilisation and fov is great!
Cool video! The hoist house needs to be preserved!🙁😉
I would love to see it preserved...
The size of that operation becomes clear when you compare it to the wooden buildings. They even had floodlights up on a pole! They had an interesting way of protecting electrical (mains) cables, inside aluminium tubing! Incredible everything in the hoist house is still in place, all of the hoist, compressor and electrical stuff, even the operator's chair still in place, after all that time.. that is totally incredible! I must say they did make - and leave - a mess though, as far as he surroundings are concerned. Fantastic footage! I only wondered why it ended so abrubtly, almost in the middle of a sentence.. did something go wrong with the upload?
No, nothing went wrong with the upload... Time is the most precious thing that all of us have and so I don't like to disrespect you by wasting your time with intros or outros. When the video is over, it is over.
And, yes, this was an impressive operation.
@@TVRExploring Thank you dude you are amazing. I believe you when you say time is precious for you, you go anywhere all the time !
I wonder if they leached out the old tailings. Could be fair amount of shiny still there.
0:08 Looks like a snow packer. A team would pull these to pack down roads for sleighs.
Really nice work with the drone! Have you ever tried on in a mine?
Was there power lines run to this mine or was there a generator on site?
Thanks for the video.
Would be so cool if someone could restore one of these operations for a tourism even if the mine is caved in the buildings would be really cool to see operating in some fashion. Amazing condition people haven't vandalized it worse stolen everything.
Actually, it has suffered from some vandalism and theft. So, imagine how it looked before that! This location is not easy to reach, but there are certainly accessible mines that could be restored for tourism. Look at the park in Tonopah.
The hoist was in such great condition
Cool!
5:50 - When it comes to personal safety, I'm a pessimistic guy. So naturally I immediately had this scene in my mind where the cable snaps and cuts the operator vertically in half because he sits right behind the cable reel without any protection. 🤕😅
That's the standard layout for a hoist operator, but, yeah, I would have had that cross my mind more than a few times had I been the one sitting there...
But was there syrup at this mine? And if so, is there enough left to warrant a viable reopening?
Only way to find out is to dig in and open up the taps!
So I’m guessing that since it was still operating before the order to shut down there is still plenty of gold there. One of the possible reasons it couldn’t restart was the value of gold potentially left is just too little compared with modern costs and operating requirements to make it viable these days?
California regulations would never allow a mine to reopen.
@@c103110a Not true, look up Sutter Gold.
@@Porty1119 You mean this? "Statue of colonizer John Sutter removed after being defaced in Sacramento." That's all I could find in a search. That's Commiefornia for ya'.
@@c103110a Sutter Gold Mining permitted and opened the Lincoln Mine fairly recently in northern California. I'm sure the permitting was a royal pain, but they did it.
There must be another entrance.
Has there ever been a documented case of miners working in a heavily mined area randomly coming upon an old forgotten cave in that trapped and killed miners. Example- have any Roman era miners been discovered by modern Spanish miners in Spain?
I know some years back Roman soldiers were discovered who were trapped underground while trying to undermine a Parthian fortification. They were ambushed and overcome by burning bitumen pumped using some kind of bellow. But have any actual old miners been happened upon or for that matter... an old network of ancient mines broken into like some kind of Lord of the Rings Dwarven underworld type creepy sheet. Anything like that? I know-Odd question but where can I go for answers?
Since America has such a short history Im thinking this would have to be in Europe, Asia or north Africa
I'm not aware of any incidents like that, but it certainly seems possible...
Zero CC weirdness.. in most recent 2 vids (2 part mine so far at least) both those vids have odd [Applause] and [Music] on closed captions and there is NONE going on. sometimes CC adds words, phrases and entire sentences said by no one or no one living I should say..lol.
What is the altitude?
It's just below 10,000 feet.
I think we are in for a good explore but I should have read the intro first...
I don't think that was a drum filter in the beginning I think that was a roller to roll the snow for a sleigh in the olden days my mom and dad told me of them rolling the roads not plowing them mission impossible for a horse and sleigh
Can your professional work be found anywhere? 1st like
Which professional work are you referring to? I operate in several sectors.
@@TVRExploring During one of the videos near the Afghan border you mentioned you did some type of writing on national security issues in some capacity. I assumed you were a writer for a news organization or something. I have an interest In Afghanistan and whats going on there.
I was thinking more on the line of your correspondent work.
@@worldtraveler930 yeah I'm thinking of anything. If it is writing, filming, speaking. I like the straight forward delivery.
Possibly plugged on purpose so no one goes scavenging for remaining gold?
Easiest way to plug it would be to dump fill down the shaft with a loader. With how the track was left hanging in air, it naturally caved.
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This mine must still be owned by someone....or the scrapers would have cleaned it up for the steel and other valuables long ago long ago...
Yes, it is owned by all of us. It is on public land...
Wasn’t gold used in the merlin fighter engine? Think Spitfire and P51.
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Next time could you not record the voice-over stuff in the bathroom?
One must work with what they have sometimes...
too far for idiot vandals
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