Strange Nevada Gold Mine In Incredible Setting
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2021
- We put some serious abuse on a Jeep taking a “shortcut” in to this strange Nevada gold mine, but, whatever… It was for a good cause. Jeeps are notoriously unreliable anyway, right? So, no big loss. And a Jeep with some rather significant cosmetic damage to the exterior simply demonstrates that it was being used as it should be, right? To be fair, I’ve been in some interesting places with Jeeps, but my years of running with various insurgent groups and rebel armies in some of the worst places around the world has given me an unwavering faith in Toyota 4WDs.
So, the strange mine we have here - approximately half a mile of workings, two shafts at a depth of almost 400 feet (the distance from the ridgetop to the haulage adit level) and that open stope… The shafts and open stope (which may have started out as surface workings) on the top of the ridge were pursued first. And what the miners found was obviously good enough to lead them to construct the cyanide mill (a big investment even a century ago) and to drive that large adit in for haulage as well as to access the deeper ore bodies and the convenience of hauling the ore out and right into the top level of the mill. For those of you that are not as familiar with mining, gravity makes it much easier to drop ore and waste rock down rather than to haul it out. Thus, you’ll see shafts often have a haulage adit connected to them to haul out the heavy material, stopes drop down to ore chutes, etc.
This abandoned mine is in a pretty remote area of Nevada, but what an incredible setting! I wish all of you could have been there in person to see the morning sun hitting those rocky cliffs, causing them to glow a brilliant red. I’m sure the miners never tired of that view. Really, I regret not thinking to pull the camera out to try and capture the sunrise because the scenery was amazing in every direction in that light.
By the way, in case it wasn’t clear in the comment above, we spent the night on the waste rock pile of this mine. If you find yourself camping in the desert often, but you’re not a mine explorer, you may not know this. However, it’s hard to beat a waste rock pile at a mine for a great camping spot. You’ve got a nice flat area to park and set up your camp, the rock makes it safer to have a campfire, you’ve got cool air blowing out of the adit… If you camp next to one though, please don’t fall down a mine shaft. Abandoned mines already have enough working against them. We don’t need more fuel on the fire. Oh, and one of my friends consumed too much tequila while we were there and was in rough shape the next morning. Be careful of tequila as well…
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them - nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand - bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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On the back (i.e. above) at 3:32 and 24:49, and in the rib (i.e. side) at 25:18 you can see breccia in a grey matrix. The grey mattrix may contain very fine grained pyrite, iron sulphide FeS2, and could be low or high grade ore. The veins at 8:19 could be very fine grained breccia in pyrite and quartz. The yellow stains throughout the mine are likely to be jarosite, KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6, whose SO4 sulfate is a common an oxidation product of pyrite in potassic rocks. The relatively wide and square drifts suggest the miners were driving through fairly soft rhyolite tuffs, some of which are likely to be welded. Rhyolite and rhyolite tuffs are typically white and contain Sanidine, K(AlSi3O8), which can be a source of the potassium, K, that is in jarosite. Those minerals and rocks are commonly associated with epithermal gold deposits. Some of these deposits are near rhyolite flow-domes, which are extruded or near-surface volcanic necks. The flow-domes can be round or lenticular or irregular when viewed from above. The domes can be flow-banded (i.e. plate-like), contain visible quartz crystals, and are very hard, forming prominent ridges or hills (surrounded by tuffs). Eruptions of rhyolite can be explosive when in contact with water, can cause stockworks of small gold veins, which may not be economic for underground mining, and the shallowest ones can be capped by hot spring sinters. Some of the best gold for open pit mining can be close to the domes, and can even be below a dome (in the adjacent tuffs). While this mine has been sampled (most of the spray paint marks rock chip sampling locations), a larger open pit mine target may be uphill, where a rhyolite banded flow-dome may exist at 28:52. It can be slow and expensive to blast a road on top of a rhyolite dome, Depending on the existence of flow-banded rhyolite and depending on seeing more evidences of breccias or stockworks, after staking claims I might (assuming I was an exploration geologist and could get the budget) place drill rig pads (to drill for an open pit target) above the highest workings and perhaps on the other side of the ridge, with its plate-like rock outcrops (as seen 28:52). On the other hand, I would expect to see more than one mine around the ridge, more breccias and stockworks than what was in the mine, plus that ridge may not be a rhyolite flow dome, so 28:52 may not be a good target.
Holy cow that's interesting!! I'm going to rewatch the video and re-read your post as I go. I often explore with Jeff Williams so I get a geology lesson every time out, but I have a very long way to go. Your discussion about the domes reminds me of the proposed open pit mine being planned on the outskirts of Goldfield. That area is part of a caldera, and I heard that drilling had found a dome and they were planning to mine it. The road has been rerouted but no mining yet that I'm aware of. Thanks again for the lesson!
Damn Bill do you have a life other than breaking down mine vlogs? That’s a damn novel you just wrote down! 😂
You don't know.
Fantastic info, thank you!
And the remainder of material would be Leav-o-rite ? Leave it right there cause it’s not worth anything …
You should look into a laser rangefinder as it'll give you info about the length of these tunnels past where your light can reach.
At 10:30 that's a reminder of the problem of false floors. That much dirt on the floor indicates it was used for quite some time. That's terrifying!
That's one of the cleanest mines I've ever seen.
Good morning from Southeast South Dakota
Top o da morning to ya, Oregon
Again perfectly done much appreciation love taking the journey with you ❤
Hi Justin, what a great mine to explore, I loved seeing all of those old tree's instead of the normal milled timbers we usually see, it definitely was awesome and fairly unique to see so many of them in one mine. I always enjoy looking at all the miners graffiti and different things left behind.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞
Thanks for the tour of this mine. Yet another great adventure and video. Thank you sir!
I love these dry mines just for the fact that everything is so well preserved. scary as hell thinking of the floor giving way to a pit like that though. Stay safe man!
This one little more sketchy then normal hard rock mines.
Thanks Justin Another great looking mine you found in Nevada. Thanks again for the video
19:56 Due to the apparent remoteness of the mine, it was probably cheaper/easier to cut down nearby trees than it would've been to have milled lumber delivered to the site.
That's a lot of cedar in that mine!
I'm so glad you brought the drone out to this one. These bird's-eye views are so helpful in adding context to the mine structures.
As for that shredded bark hanging down from the unmilled logs, I believe they were acting as runners, looking for soil to set root in. That would have taken place in the immediate aftermath of their emplacement within the mine. What surprises me is that they were left like that. They aren't really in the way, but I still would have figured someone would have trimmed them down. Of course, it's just speculation on my part. Perhaps the bark shredded for a different reason.
I've been in a barn from the 1840's. The under part of the loft was like that. Tiny beetles might be responsible. It was in my case, the beams were full of little holes.
@@napalmholocaust9093 Interesting thought! I wonder if beetles could shred the bark like that??
That is shredded juniper bark. Some of it on the logs (possibly shredded by rodents after it dried) and I suspect some pulled loose and used to chink the gaps between the logs by the miners.
Impressive workings. It surprising how stable some of the mine looks, until you shine a light from the other direction. 😱 Hard to wrap my head around that very thin "floor" not giving way. Appreciate the bonus drone footage and excellent write up! All together now... TEQUILLA!😂
When I see fluorescent spray paint surveyed in these mines ... it usually means the artifacts are gone. I appreciate you taking the time to film the carbide graffiti because I love a glimpse back into history.
Yes, unfortunately, the spray paint is always a bad sign. Sometimes, as is the case here, the layout of the mines can be interesting even without the artifacts.
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Another great video Justin! I love the surroundings and outside topo. This looks like one I'd enjoy exploring one day.
Do you have the mine's name
Thank you brother! you always deliver
Great mine, very clean. Thank you
You may be a bit jaded, I watch a lot of mine exploring videos and I never get tired of watching the initial walk into the adit. As someone who can't get out and explore these mines, I start to feel like I'm there with you until you cut me off with " I'll turn the camera off and get back to you when I see something interesting " it kinda breaks the third wall. Just keep in mind your audience may be broader than you know. Hanging on every shot for just a glimpse of everything you take for granted sometimes I want to take the camera from you so I can look at something that catches my eye! Lol can you tell that I'm obsessed?
The hanging bark reminds me of the Cedar Tree, that is here in Texas!
21:21 Fun Fact: In Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (listed here), they were Diamond Miners!
Gosh.so very intriguing . Very interesting,loved the video well done 👍🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome video Justin! Very scenic place, seems way remote!
That white is great for lighting! Always glad to see you've got some friends along with you on these incredibly isolated explorations
Surprised at the size of the tunnels. Looks like the materials are fairly stable 👍. Enjoyed the content.
Cool mine! I love the drone shots that show how things are connected. Also gives a sense of scale... I wanted to ask: Have you ever thought about doing a Q&A?
Yes, the drone really helped tie this one together. Yes, I probably should do a Q&A at some point...
Another great video
I started out thinking this mine looked much less sketchy than usual, then suddenly you're crossing a century old board over a deadly pit. Amazing site and mine, one can only imagine how much unexplored ground remains underneath. Not surprised but still glad to know you're not going without a helmet under these delaminating slabs.
You found a remote and interesting mine for us to follow you & your mates through. At 17:26, and again in the shute at 18:45, what is the powdery looking substance? Wow! the entire mine was shored up with natural wood....lots of work for the miners in that endevor. Lots of yellow sulfides through out the mine.....that means gold. Great drone shot of the powdery stone type on the waste rock pile and sloughing off into an old gulch. Thanks for your efforts in doing this explore. It was interesting.
That initial view is amazing, greetings from SoCal ☺️
Fricken awesome man, those old Tree's were incredible it would be awesome to be able to date them & find out where they came from as in local to the area or not. Cheers
Another awesome experience, really liked the timbers and shoring in this one. Looked like pine or blue spruce timbers with red ceder filing in the the rest. That alone was a god sized crew to log all that material, add in miners and mil crew and you've got quite a few people.
Pinion pine is native to the area. Wouldnt be anyone's 1st choice for timber
Very cool, thanks.
@13:00 when the rocks were dropped into the pit...I almost expected to hear "Fool of a Took!" and then war drums in the background!...Cave trolls...they've got cave trolls.
Hopefully no Balrog though .....
The trolls are called "tommy knockers"
I think of the same thing each and every time!
My Great Uncle owned a lot of land in Nevada and Texas, both had old mines on them. No matter what he did to keep people out of them, people would always find a way to break in. This was in the 1980s. After his death in 1992, his sons Filled up the mine shafts with rocks and block them up. In 1998 one of the old mines towards the edge of their land was dug out by illegal miners and it caved in. two families tried to sue them for their deaths. they claimed there wasn't any no trespassing signs or Danger signs lol Here is the funny part of it, they went there to mine for gold :/ There was never any gold found on that land. It was a very old copper mine
That's a hell of a thing to die for - looking for gold in a copper mine....
Darwin Award.
@@CryptidWalks Just clearing up the gene pool
great vid as usual. so what's the plan if that one section you all walked under and then shot from the ladder collapses?
nice explore. interesting color in the mine. that yellow green color to the rock. was there a sulfur smell in that mine?. or was that yellow-green from mineralizing? also what type of trees grow there on the mountains? looked like cedar.
A very nice and interesting explore, very nice woodworking lol and a few places were Mc Murphey could be waiting too create a little disaster.
Was the inside of the mine hot as well? You said you felt air flow so I would imagine it’s hot air from outside
Please add that how much gold was extracted from the mine and how many years?
Thank you
I’ve been going to northern Nevada every September to explore gold mines and ghost towns. I go solo so I don’t go far past the portal. Amazing how much cooler the mines are. I haven’t run into bats yet.
I worked in the Star Mine up Burke Canyon in northern Idaho for about 10 years, until it closed in June of 82, at a depth of 8300 feet. I don't really understand why they drove so many drifts in so many different directions in the mine you're in. The way they did it at the Star, Bunker, Galina, Lucky Friday mine was to sink a shaft about 100 feet off the ore vein. Then drive drifts, following the vein, but staying 100 feet away. We would drive cross-cuts off the main drift to about 50 feet past the ore vein. We would then start to mine up on the vein 10 feet and then mine out, following the vein. The cross cuts were usually 200 feet apart. The cross-cuts were driven 50 feet past the vein so they could get the ore cars under the shoots. This was, to me, a uniform way of mining. Not a bunch of tunnels going in random directions. And each level was 200 feet apart. I started on level 7500 in 1972.
Pretty clean.
you should invest in the Imalent ms18 flashlight when you explore caves...
Yes, the Dwarfs in Snow White were miners, their mine was called The Dwarfs Mine, where they dug for diamonds. Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs film came out in 1937, but the graffiti may have predated that since the story was written in 1812 by Brothers Grimm. That's wild how many trees were in this mine. They didn't even remove the bark.
Ah, yes, I forgot that they were mining diamonds... 1812? I hadn't realized the story was that old. Interesting.
If you see a deep hole on the ground when exploring Nevada’s old mines, stay away from it because the deep hole can be 200 or even 300 feet deep, and an instant death does occurred. They should put barriers around the deep holes for personal safety. And besides there is nothing and it is useless.😢
8:19 I think the black in the vein is a 'carbon leader'. It is well know in the east in lead and silver.
That would’ve my greatest FEAR getting LOST
I like cruise control set to 80mph and filming while doing that.
Very Cool....
If that delaminated rock came down on your head when you were wearing a hard hat, you would just end up looing like a domed boiler rivet, and just as dead.
I wouldn't want to try and find my way out of that mine with a dead flashlight. Looking at the end of some of those timbers it looked like the termites had turned them to powder.
Super cool, 🦘👍
What is the oldest mine you've explored, and could you give me the name of the video, or videos? I'm addicted to your adventures!
Probably the mine in Portugal or the marble mines from this playlist...
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Both were worked by the Romans.
@@TVRExploring thank you!
Incredible amount of timber in this mine.
Nice 👍
Very interested at least this one was Dry cheers
Indeed, at least it was dry... I'll happily take those small victories.
I cant imagine taking all those trees in there an installing them all
Where is this mine? If it's against your policy to say, that's fine but I'm curious. Knowing the state, I assume this is somewhere in northern Clark County or maybe Esmeralda or southern Nye county?
I was thinking Lander county , But yes they could share !
Is that yellow color stone sulfer!
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
Impressive looking mine; must have taken a huge amount of effort. Hopefully local forest has rebounded.
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Honestly, I was surprised to see even those bushes growing there in the middle of that obviously dry, 115°f desert. It seemed odd that the vegetation would be that thick in that area of the desert. 'Somehow' there must be more rain in that region, but even the soil looks too poor and rocky to support THAT much vegetation.
Surprisingly, that soil looks worse than our horrible, garbage native clay soil here in northern Delaware! Well, at least the humidity can't possibly be as high there in Nevada as it is here in summer....
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Yeah, i didnt necessarily expect a predominantly sandy soil there in those bush/shrub(??) covered mountains shown at the beginning of this video. But I guess I also didn't expect for the soil there to be mostly clay. I've never been to Nv, although I did ride from LA to the Phoenix/Tempe area on rt 10. But that was 1982-ish and I was only 14 or 15, and not yet so well-versed in soil geology! Unfortunately, that equates to me NOT accurately recalling the general soil configuration of the Tempe region of the Az desert...
😉👍 Although....... I did learn that its possible to dupe an Az convenience store clerk into selling you cigarettes when underage, simply by telling him they are for your grandmother, but especially by requesting a brand of cigarettes that ONLY an elderly woman would ever smoke(ie. "Eve 120 menthol lights").
What is all the green material on the walls. Is that serpentine
All of those natural log timbers make for good videos but it makes me wonder how much more amazing the scenery would be if the trees were still there.
11:18 Looks like where a sheave was mounted. See the grease stains? The platform with Bill's name might have had a winch on it?
Yes, I think you're right about that.
Sweet! :)
Cool video, but could use a map or even a mine name to share.
Looks like some sort of Explosives note at 11:35.
😕Despite having been subscribed to your channel for at least 2-3 years, I haven't received a single one of your videos in my daily YT feed for at least 6 months, until last night, when I received the recent video of the ancient placer mine covered by volcanic sediment. But somehow I DO still automatically receive lots of videos about "cryptids", "alien visitors", and other nonsense from channels I'd never subscribe to. Makes sense..... Great job YT! 😉👍
Same here
Yes, UA-cam's algorithm decides what you watch, not you! I find it frustrating as well... There are two ways around this. You can click the small bell next to the "subscribe" button on my channel and then you'll receive the notifications on UA-cam. Or, as I post a new video EVERY Wednesday, you can come by the channel each week and check out the video of the week. I appreciate the support.
Those "red" markings on the wall's have done well? Vibrant colours after a hundred years
Recently surveyed (red markings)
Was it all cedar?
Tequila and Cyanide? Only a man with a rabid case of Gold fever would swill that drink and come out better for it.
Your explores are always incredible. From the looks of it must be a bit central or east in Nevada. Doesn't look much like western at all.
Beautiful country either way.
Keep that Jeep rolling and the batteries charged.... Thanks.
those with loose bark are cedar trees
112° is TOO HOT 🔥!!
Yes, it is!
Can you share the location of this mine ??
So the turn back and danger sighs were real huh.
At 0:54, I noticed the mine doesn't have any timber supports. Why not? I thought you're supposed to have that to prevent a collapse.
How do you not get lost
Surprised they kept the bark on those natural timbers. Thought bark increased the risk of rotting, although maybe it's so dry there it doesn't matter
See that timber? That’s huge!
Ya.
How huge?? I live around huge trees
Those look like juniper trees because of the stringy bark.
Why not show the vein they were following?
Sounds like you got a cold.
So did all the pay dirt come from these nice straight level passages?? 98% good stuff must still be in there!
How in TF did those oldtimers muck that @21:50
Perhaps where that ore chute is now... This small stope could have been used before the larger stope above.
oh my gyawd, have had plenty of run ins with the "tequila"virus myself back in the day!!! can you say poops n pukes?!?!?!?? great video however!
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I live in coal mining country, and one of the mines here you can literally see foundations of houses inside the mine above you :) When i was a kid, we found one of the many collapsed sections and i slide down in hole inside while friend lowered me down using a garden hose we had (hey we was kids, not to bright). Needless to say when i got through the hole i used flashlight and i was standing on a pillar that all around it collapsed down further into the mine! I was literally standing in middle of a HUGE cavern filled with water...it was like straight out of a movie.
Needless to say i was lucky pillar was huge so was able to get back out and didn't drop to far down. That hole is still there to this day...the crazy part? New houses all around it. lol
THis area is ranked as of of the worse areas to live in if a earthquake of 7.0 or high hits they expect total loss of town...into the mine.
Sweet jeeus. Tell me where so i can avoid it like the plague.
YOU GOTTA GO BACK IN THERE AND VIDEO IT!!! Just bring several garden hoses this time, for safety. ;-)
Why do they build overtop of tunnels they have to walk through, do they know a cave in could happen above them? im referring to the miners or whoever plans this stuff (im not educated at-all in mining) 21:20
Jeez, all those dates and then you think about the guys that probably put those there, and all I can think is: Gone Lives. Imagine the history and the stories that those men would have told. I could swear one of the miners graffiti that you passed actually said "Absinthe" ! Was someone drinking absinthe while working in the mine or maybe afterwards at the local saloon? It looked very old and mostly faded but I could swear.....might have to go back in the video and see. Somewhere around 4:55 or so.
A very impressiv mine this trees as natural used timber is very unique.
Wearing a helmet Down below is always a good thing but the young guys had to learn it by pain and bumps .
Take care stay healty
Yours Frank Galetzka
unbelievable how tough the
folks were in the past, so much work,
im sure many backs wer broken,
just to put food on the table, a lot of the
big gold mines, people working the mines did not own the rights to the minerals, but worked for the mining company
wow thats hot
What mine is this?
Lot of sulphur here see the piles of greenish yellow ash.
That's about 32 degrees north of hell no for me.
If you could give little information about the mine when it was worked last not anything that gives it's location.
Read the description below the video
What you call a drift we call a drive or a shaft tunnel here in Australian mining
"Trees from outside" a.k.a. logs
The dates from the miners on the walls should of put the whole year instead of just two digits could be there for a few hundred more years before it fades completely.
It's like a Dr. Evil lair.