The Bonanza Mine: An Artifact-Filled Mine Untouched for Years! (Part 1 of 2)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Part 2 is now out! You can watch it here: • The Bonanza Mine: Find...
In this video, you’ll see the most incredible mine featured on my channel so far. Not only is the Bonanza Mine absolutely massive, it is also packed full of historic artifacts. One area of the mine, a stope right below the 200 level, took our breath away. It was packed full of old bottles, cans, tools, and even a fully functional ore car! It really looked as though the miners just got up and walked away. After entering this room it became apparent that no one has been here for a long time, possibly even decades. As we continued down farther into the mine, the artifacts did not stop!
How does a mine like this even exist in this day and age? These artifacts are here simply because of how challenging and dangerous this mine is to enter. The main shaft is caved in, requiring a dangerous route to get into stable workings. Unfortunately, I will not be showing the outside of this mine or how we got inside. I believe this is necessary to protect this extraordinary time capsule. I also am not going to give a lengthy history write-up on this mine, as I don’t want to reveal it’s location. From the artifacts left inside, it looks like this mine was heavily worked in the 1930’s, but historically, the mine is much older. I would also like to say that we had no idea all of these artifacts would be in here, or if we could actually make it inside. In this case perseverance paid off, big time.
In Part 2, we continue down even farther into the Bonanza Mine. Spoiler alert: This mine stays just as awesome as it did in Part 1!
A special thanks to Xavier for not only joining me in this exploration, but also for helping me film the various shots of the ore car. Xavier also has a great mine exploring youtube channel. You can check it out and subscribe to it right here: / ercole746
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fantastic mine filled with everything you could want to see.....don't let anyone know where that mine is our it will all be gone ....if you can hide the portal .....good job sonny love the mucking demo sonny Jim....me and Slim can't wait for part 2 .....
I really appreciate the comment, Jeff! This was a gold mine so I knew Slim would like it!
@@forgottenmininghistory yes he did ....he might have even worked in that one at one time
They could use your geology knowledge regarding this video Jeff...
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I will be going there next week
Always enjoy the low traffic desert mines. Lots of history remaining there, a fair percent of the littler trinkets I'd not seen before either. The intact liquor labels were especially a treat. I'm encouraged by the growing number of channels withholding location information too, please continue that trend and spread the word; it means the preservation and continued access of underground like this for all caring, committed persons. Great video fellas, interested in seeing the next one.
There were many things in this mine I hadn't seen either. I'm definitely going to withhold info about this mine. It's for the best.
8:51 wow i was not expecting that swivel action feature for dumping
Bravo guys earned my sub
That is one of the best mine explores I have ever seen. Just Wow-
Thanks for the comment, Mike! Happy to share this explore with you and everyone else
Faked lol
@@yeahman147 Really?
Do you realize what that newspaper is documenting. Charles Lindburgh’s “kidnapped” child being ransomed. That newspaper in its condition preserved historically in its location is literally priceless
John Dillingers wooden gun escape as well
i love watching this type of thing, i just really like seeing super old things and learning about how people used to live their lives and what they wore and did for fun, and especially seeing the immense price difference from then vs today. I am so glad there’s people like these guys that go in and show off all of the things that they discover, and i especially love the fact that this one was pretty much an abandoned time capsule somewhat. i love this
Pretty cool the news paper talking about John Dillinger and Crown Point Indiana where he escaped after making a wooden gun.
Best part!!
Pretty cool knowing that I’m a distant relative of John Dillinger
"Do you have prince albert in a can? .. well you better let him out!"
Ha ha. My sister and I used to random dial people with this joke- 55 plus years ago.
Is your refrigerator running?
Well, you better go catch it.
Try the veal!
@@LP-gs3xj
Don't forget driving by a broken down car on the side of the road and yelling out the window, "YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A HORSE"
Imagine if you could go into spectator mode and just see the whole mine trailing everywhere
what about creative mode?.
noclip
@@blastermaniac creative mode was happening over 100 years ago. We're too late
@@Lebis150 darn
The amount of dust…
An amazing find! Such an artifact-filled mine really gives the viewer a sense of what it must have been like when the mine was still active. You guys did a great job of showing how the ore cart was used, not to mention explaining everything you saw along the way. Thanks so much for sharing!
So exciting to watch, I felt like I was part of the discovery, Thanks.
Thanks for the watch! I'm glad you liked it
I went into an old mine about 20 years ago in Ophir Utah. We walked in as it was open, went in several hundred feet. There were 4 railcars, one filled with old lead acid batteries as well as light strings and fresh air through it all. Arrows pointed the way out at every split.
We walked and walked until I nearly stepped into a shaft right in the middle of the track. Threw a rock down and never heard it hit the bottom. Never went to a mine since then. I seriously was 2 steps from death.
Damn thats wild!!
That's why it pays to watch where you step, in a mine or on the sidewalk 👌😎
In a lot of old mining states (Arizona, Colorado, etc.) they regularly warn people not to go into old mines for this reason.
I just discovered that it't great to play this video at 1/4 speed the second time around with the closed captions turned on! I am really able to see everything that Xavier is doing and not miss out what he is saying. It is awesome to see Xavier holding onto items and explaining what he thinks of them. Thank you so both so much!
This is my new favorite channel, the way you respect the artifacts and leave them there is so uncommon in today’s world. Most people would loot the whole thing and take the history with them just like modern day tomb raiders.. Thank you so much for sharing ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I wouldn't have been able to resist taking that newspaper and a couple of blasting caps. :)
Just being honest.
That belongs in a museum
This is a fine example of California's Gold. Huell Howser would be so proud. Good job!
I watched that show with my family growing up. Huell was a cool guy. Thanks for the comment!
That's a very rare mine!! It's either been long sealed up, or on a patented claim and closed off to public access, to remain so untouched for a hundred years. The dry conditions have made a big difference as well.
Imagine dumping material from that car and down deep below you hear a growl saying "Hey! Watch where yer dumping that"! Lol.
This is the kind of mine that I would love to find. Thanks for sharing this. I hope that those boxes have been saved..
so what I'm taking is miners were constantly smoking, drunk and on the job.
Apparentely marijuana wasn't widely available then. Let's be fair. Can you imagine mining in the conditions they had back then sober?
They used to drink to dull some of the pain from working. Alcohol relaxes the muscles.
No
They were constantly smoking, drunk, and on the job . . . with lots and lots of DYNAMITE
Sounds like every construction site haha
@@jayphillips4399 One person controlled the dynamite. It's not like everybody was mining with sticks of it sizzling out their back pockets.
Enjoyed every bit of it, in 1945 I was of course a little child that loved to listen to "The Lone Ranger " on the radio every Saturday. Up here in Western Canada at that time TV was completely unknown to even exist. The War was still raging on and we were short of many communications.Upon seeing the old box you found with the advert for the "Lone Ranger" it was nice to see one of my old Heroes being mentioned. Thanks for all you guys do and safe searching.
"An incline... but going down" so a decline... 😂 Loved this, so many cool trinkets and damn if I wasn't impressed at that ore core, i mean swivel action that's DOPE
I think it would actually be an anticline
Part I was absolutely incredible! Thank you Nick and Xavier so much for sharing this Ghost Town mine time capsule and for keeping it safe from those that have no business going there.
Gly was there I’ll let you know the name
Y’all are braver than me brother, I’m just glad you’re sharing your experience! Thanks
Interesting for sure!! But i would not be in there for nothing!!
That ore car was outstanding! And all those relics, wow! Those like new tobacco tins go for $150 a piece. Gotta keep this mine a secret, for sure..
GREAT, job on the video, and what Jeff said...This mine must be very heard to get to...So glad you made this video, for the Documentation, of the Artifacts...SO glad the pickers havent found this mine..or it will be all gone..Looking foreword to part too.........JB.....
Yep, I'm still amazing it hasn't been looted yet. Thanks for watching!
I think it’s astonishing that men once worked there everyday.
sounds fun
The same me lived, watched their children grow, and died wishing they had more time.
Men that lived to the ripe ole age of 50
@@OffendingTheOffendable seems like a decent age to call her quits
They still are. Not lol
Amazing artifacts... can't believe that ore cart!
What a great film of the Bonanza mine!..
I was a hard rock miner a year.
Been looking dreaming of exploring this mine past 5 years..
Amazing film work..great lights.
Thank you for sharing
Amazing mine with incredible artifacts! I didn’t want it to stop. Looking forward to part two. Good job and thanks!
Part 2 is gonna be good. Thanks for the comment!
Its so cool to think that men once lived and worked in those mines. So many great artifacts.
It's incredible imagining how everything used to operate. Thanks for watching!
Sometimes when I can't sleep my wife helps me build a blanket and pillow fort in the living room. Then I play these videos so it feels like I'm exploring mines with Nick and Xavier. I keep three flashlights while in the blanket fort because I'm scared of the dark. I keep wanting to explore the crawl space under my house but I'm still not brave enough yet. The last couple times I built the fort my wife got mad because I didn't clean up the mess. I want to leave it up so I always have a mine to explore, but she said it embarrassing explaining it to her friends when they come over. Last time we had company I stayed in my mine and watched these videos. She got super pissed, but she needs to realize I'm an explorer.
Your wife sounds mean. Nobody understands us mine explorers. I hope you got to eat some tendies at least
Cool, I worked in underground mine for 23 years. But open stope mining ,,that is dangerous!
Awesome video! The mine I worked at was in Tiger Arizona. It was the magma mine. The lowest level was 2015. The deepest level was 4040.
It’s like going back on time. Pretty amazing
Thanks for watching!
Binge watched your channel last night. I'm now back here where I started.
And I'm going in again.
Great job once again, you guys make a good team. Nice walk through history in the time capsule. I can't imagine the hard work the miners did at the time going down that deep every day. It must have been a tough way to make a living.
Appreciate the comment! Yeah, Xavier's a great dude to explore with. It was amazing to see everything pretty much left in place. It really lets you picture what a day in the life of a miner would look like.
I love how you guys stop and look at the articles you find. So many others just walk by them.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Incredible stuff. Crazy the glass is intact, and that Prince Albert can!
UNBELIEVABLE MINE!! I'm so totally jealous!! Thanks for sharing this amazing walk back in time!
It did really feel like walking back in time. Glad you liked the video!
Wow, what a museum! Hope others have the same respect as you guys have for history.
There are many people out there that would love to take all these artifacts just to make a quick buck on ebay. I don't plan on revealing anything about this mine. Thanks for the comment!
Amazing how well preserved everything is without moisture destroying everything. Just stunning.
Yes, these desert mines are incredible!
Can’t imagine filling up the cart, dumping it and not falling in the Schute all with only candle light. Especially with all the ore dust filling the air
That ore moving demo was incredible 🤯 Insane find, gentlemen 👏
This might be our greatest find yet. Thanks for checking this video out! I really appreciate it.
The condition of the artifacts is amazing!!!
One of the best mine explorers I’ve ever seen 👍😳😃
You guys hit the jackpot! Hope you are making a museum exhibit out of this stuff.
Leave everything as it is.
The stuff isnt theirs to take. They likely left it for the next explorer
@@carpo719 Whom will most likely not come
Wow... you guys got the Holy Grail of disused mines right there . I would have love to have been down there with you. Such a privilege to see and handle them museum grade artifacts. Great explore. One of the best I have found on UA-cam. Great work 👍🏻
Wow, Hercules Powder! That was from a company based out of Fresno, CA where I live.
When I was a kid in the 70's we built a tree house using grandpa's old "antique" dynamite boxes from the 1800's. The box of his funny shaped nails too...
We were kids, we didn't know...
You should of seen that explosion!
LoL!
I like how you explain things, take nothing & only leave foot prints. Enough to subscribe & learn about a subject I never thought I would be interested in.
Thanks hoss...from 🇨🇱
belle exploration j'ai passé un très bon moment, merci pour ce partage 👍😊
What a great mine and a great job filming it. Thanks for sharing it with us. Excellent job, boys!
Glad you liked the video!
This was incredible, the amount of artifacts is unbelievable. I do hope you kept most of those artifacts. Those left behind, someday, will be lost forever including their history.
Sounds like they left the nicer stuff behind in there to slowly rust away though. I never saw the point in leaving nice stuff like those wooden boxes or that Prince Albert can to rot just because they wanna "keep" some thing as is thats already been left abandoned, it never "keeps" in the long run anyway.
Back in 1959-1963, in a place, called Actus? Gardens. 7 miles out of Mojave and 7 miles out of Rosmond, CA. Is a hill called "The Goldend Queen", is on its east face is the Golden Queen Mine. Shut down in 1935. Anywho we boys explored it as fare we could go. In 1961, we reached the ?800/900? Foot leval and found a Complete Steam Drill, just as the miners left it, still with the bit in its drill hole. When they shut the mine down. In '62, we explored other drifts at the 400' leval up. Found outcasts of all kinds and also 2 pull engines. All complete as everything else. It was AWESOME and I will always remember the experience!!! 🐸
Yes the Golden Queen was a huge mine that has now become an open pit mine. Much of that equipment you saw has probably been destroyed in the blasting of the pit. Fortunately, I got to explore a small part of it with my dad back when I was a young kid, but I wish I still had the chance to see it now since I take documenting these mines much more seriously.
@@forgottenmininghistory were you from around the area?? You said you explored it with your Dad. As my Father/Mother live on Bacus rd.?? sp?? For yrs. Till about mid 70s. Just wondering if or folks knew each other?? 🐸
@@richardbuchs3815 It was the very early 2000s I explored it with my father. He grew up in Santa Clarita so I don't think our folks knew each other.
I’ve watched a lot of mine exploration videos but one this has some of the best artifacts I ever seen. Nice finds!
I was completely blown away by the amount of artifacts in here. Thanks for watching!
One of my favorite mines to explore. Nice to see the cart is still there. Thank you for not revealing the outside.
You have been there? Did you explore the entire mine?
@@scotturquhart4311 Yes I did. Down where the cart is there is this really narrow audit that goes back up to the first level. I climbed up that. Also, the entrance is really steep but wide. As you go down it, there are low audits on each side that you either have to lay down or crawl to get in. Its a very interesting mine.
Wow, so much cool stuff. Now I need to get into my upper adit to see if I have anything cool.
It wouldn't surprise me if there's some amazing stuff in there. I would like to help you get it open.
that mine cart is history. Probably worth a good amount of money...
Seeing all this has me thinking about how all that stuff got left down here.
All the workers went up one day and just never came back. Spooky.
That's pretty much what happened.
Really enjoyed the two parts of this video, has to be one of my favourite mining explores, ever!
The artefacts are soooo cool and in such great condition... unbelievable really!
Awesome
Thanks for showing us!
That was so cool you guys get a little demonstration of how they did stuff I've never seen anything like that. I was always curious what a great video
Thanks for watching!
@@forgottenmininghistory your welcome
Well done video Dude ! For a few minutes the mine was Alive again ! Thanks for posting !
That's what it felt like! Thanks for commenting!
If I where you I would have taken some of those things and donated them to a museum, because there is barely anything left from that era still in that condition, and If nobody takes it, It will probably rot away never to be seen again.
Depending on where that mine is located, you could get into some trouble for taking stuff. Also it’s sometimes just impractical to haul all that stuff out.
That stuff had to have been found and put back for the video. Items are too clean
I agree
Wow I'm speechless. I can tell how amazed you are and let me tell you, so am I. Although my experiences are much more minimal, when I go hiking in the woods I'll sometimes find cans and bottles from the 40's, even once a whole car. I love seeing how nature takes hold and how history gets preserved. I'm glad you didn't misplace things and just left it as is so others could potentially find it and see these. Maybe in the future 100 years from now, someone will find this stuff and hopefully leave it there.
Best mine explore I've seen in a long time. The demonstration of the ore cart was awesome.
Glad you liked this exploration!
Excellent was really great to see the ore cart in action.
20:26 Printed almost 50 years to the day before I was born. (Jan 10, '85) Neat.
Great work guys! Thanks for documenting this place for the rest of us!
Happy to show you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@forgottenmininghistory I really appreciate how you seem to leave things as you find them. Frank drives me crazy with his wholesale theft of anything around a mine including large equipment. Very refreshing so Great Job again...
When he rolled the cart around the corner donkey Kong came to mind lol
King Kong was addicted to wearing gold cuban chains. This is the real story hidden in video games 🎮 🕹
Thank you. This was a great journey to our past.thanks again guys
That house shaped container is the original Log Cabin syrup container. Over 100 years old.
12:38
I have a couple of them in pristine condition.
@@marcusaurelius8717 Sweet! No pun intended, lol.
Those syrup tins were in that form at least through the 50s...my very artistic sister used to repaint them and craft them into bird houses.
Wow! Fabulous. I just got into the world of mines. It just blows me away to walk into history. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for watching! The history is incredible and it's what I like the most about them.
6:45 Chase & Sanborn Coffee is an American coffee brand created by the coffee roasting and tea and coffee importing company of the same name, established in 1862 in Boston, Massachusetts by Caleb Chase and James Solomon Sanborn. It claims to be the first coffee company to pack and ship roasted coffee in sealed tins
Awesome. I appreciate all the info!
Thanks for taking us on the tour👍
Back in 1994, I went in a mine, either very close to this or might be the same. The way you would know if it is, is, I came out red. The clay neer the opening got into my skin and was 3 showers to get it all off. I found a sear catalog, I believe 1904, some old crispy levis, 2 helmets with candle lanterns, prince Albert cans all over, much of the same stuff. But I also found a oval tin with 3 slim cigars in it and a box of wooden matches. In a few of the sections, we had to use ropes, the ladders were broken. every 20' or so, there were tunnels branching off. It was seriously deap. We explored it from sun down and tried to get out before sun up, because we were tresspassing and had to get out and down off the mountain before sun up but denied! Came out to a blazing sun. Damn lucky to belly crawl the entire way down the mountain across the road to a weed bad to wait for dark again. So much fun but a one in a life time opportunity. Driving back to CA, is usually a 4.5 hour drive but due to a death on the freeway, and a chopper landing, it took us almost 8 hours, setting in a non running car in 112 degree heat, with the entire fwy stopped waiting for them to clear the road.
Sounds like an adventure! Finding a mine like you described is very rare today. We came out of this one pretty filthy as well, but no red clay.
29:15 is a Van Camp pork and beans. Tasty! One thing all these mines seem to have in common, is the Prince Albert Tobacco. Awesome find!
Thanks for the info! Prince Albert seems to be a miner's favorite.
I heard they put their 🪔 lamp wicks in them
13:18...PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER...STILL BREWED TODAY (4/22/21)
Great video. Im glad i found your channel. Can't wait to watch more videos
Thanks Mark! More to come.
Excellent hello from Lightening Ridge NSW Australia we mine opal here and some abandoned mines do contain artefacts
A very cool part one, I'm looking forward to finding out what cool stuff you see in part two. Thank you for sharing. x
Always appreciate your support, Sue! Glad you liked the video
@@forgottenmininghistory 💖🤘
Wait a minute...they actually had Prince Albert in a can??
Yes. He's been trapped in there the whole time.
@@Blisswoven lmao
@@Blisswoven - Looks like someone freed him decades ago..lol..
Man that newspaper would be really really hard for me to leave behind. It’s in such great condition. An that fact that it mentions John Dillinger in it is sooooo fricken cool to me!
Old comment, but I thought the exact same thing. Things like these really needs to be preserved. Several universities take old newspapers.
Untouched and unmolested mines such as this are now so rare! I'm a huge believer in access to public lands, but it should be closed off to access without a permit, before it's too late.
Most of these are on private deeded land as the patented mining claim. Many of them now fenced, and roads gated due to UTV popularity 1000 of people go into the BLM desert. They vandalize most of these sites shooting old vehicles and buildings. The sites reclaimed by the BLM they to have gated roads have to hike in generally people who vandalize are too lazy to hike.
Xavier is an awesome friend to have! I follow his great channel, too. It is really important to keep these time capsules of history safe from those that would not be careful and they would remove the artifacts for their own usage. I think that it is ok to take artifacts if you own the mine and you build a museum on the property for everyone to learn about your mine. These places are very fragile and will not last for another hundred years.
So young they don't know who Lindy or Bruno were.
Funny thing is, that front page could be highly collectible! Kept thinking, surely those boys gonna realize what they found......no, wowed by daily racing form!......😂😂😂
Nice old undisturbed mine, With decent condition artifacts Great find ⚒⚒ .
If only they were all like this.
My respects for not taking anything
winkwink
Rocks
I think that's the provisio.
Another GREAT VIDEO!!!
7:55 A koekepan / 'gholovan'
14:30 sliding rails we push it forward till it can fit a full length of rails, we then use this two sliding rail as the permanent rail and that two new rails as the next set of sliding rails.
16:03 A Cousin Jacks Box
Would have been nice if you had posted pictures of each page of that newspaper!
I was fascinated with the gold standard article on the feont page
That looks like such a nice find! Looks like you gentlemen enjoyed! :) Great video
Glad you liked the video! This find was very exciting for us.
Excellent find, lots of fun looking at all those artifacts. What was it that fell out of the blue fly spray can at 25:03 ?
Good catch! That was an artifact me and Xavier noticed after I shut the camera off. It's a hand-made tool used to poke holes in the ends of sticks of dynamite. Blasting caps would then be placed in the holes.
Amazing enjoy the video all the cool relics and ore cart was amazing thanks for sharing
Temple of doom car ride!
Was expecting to only spot check vid, wound up watching entire thing. Very cool stuff.
I remember those cabin shaped syrup containers. As memory serves, from the fifties, but maybe a little later than that?
Thanks for the info!
"Slide Rails" are placed on sides, then slid into muckpile as they cleaned up, then "stood up" and bolted into existing rails when they fitted up.
The old timers used to like a tipple or two eh? I bet they forgot where the mine was!
I'm fascinated with that newspaper, seeing as it was from 1933 right when the government forced everybody to turn in their gold and then inflated the price. There was an article on the front cover about it but I couldn't make it.
Standard Oil Consolidated and bought out all the other companies, they were the first antitrust issue that really made headlines.
That's a great find you guys, I wish I could have been there to check it out
it's cool that yall arent revealing its location but if you were able to find it, someone else will definitely find it too. wont be secretive for long i feel like. especially with people documenting this stuff
Thank you Mr. obvious
That Bananza Mine really has great Artifacts!!
man O man all that stuff looks like it was just abandoned just last year
I know right! It's like a museum. Thanks for watching!
Pretty incredible. Your rewards are well deserved.