A Wilderness Museum Frozen In Time!! Amazing Abandoned Gold Mine
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2023
- One of the best sites to explore, the most amazing and preserved abandoned mine sites in all of Washington state. This site has it all a turn of the century miners bunk house, gravity stamp mill with stamps intact and last but not by any means least a abandoned mine with cool ore car. This place is a wilderness mining museum frozen in time!!
Come along with us on this amazing adventure, take a step back in time to a bygone era of Washington States gold mining history as we take you on an exploration of the surface mine structures and underground abandoned mine.
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Abandoned mines and ruined structures have many hazards and can severely injure or even kill you. Do not attempt to copy or re-enact situations or scenarios seen in this video. - Наука та технологія
I’m a local and hadn’t been out here in a few years. Very disappointed to have visited this spring and saw how the current claimant has torn up the floor of the bunkhouse and discarded original wood in a debris pile outside-along with those cool beds and other artifacts. Would rather see this place reclaimed by nature than fall victim to someone who doesn’t know what they are dealing with. This video is so cool. Great to see it documented how I last remember it.
We have visited this site four times over the years and had heard about that and are absolutely furious that this. This claim holder is irresponsible to preserving history and really should be called out on it. We are debating this issue with our FB reach and other social media platforms.
Great footage!!! Thanks for the video!!
Thank you!
What a place to build building
Yes it a very interesting and cool location.
I know a guy who lives in Carbonado who has a mine on his property, he has a nice large door that he keeps locked, but he gets his water for his home from the mine. He has it lighted inside, and it also has about three feet of water only he has a small row boat, he uses to traverse the mine area He tested the water that runs into the ground from above on the hillside ands its pure drinking water. Also had the pleasure of going up to Chancellor old town site up past Mazama WA past Hearts pass area. Pretty neat area and there are still people mining there.
We are familiar with the Carbonado one you mentioned. Chancellor and Harts Pass are great. Several years back, we had permissions and camped next to the Mammoth mine bunkhouse site and spent a couple of days exploring. We just weren't doing video then.
Every state has it's beauty, but I'm still prejudice when it comes to our state...WA...ron......I'm the new guy
It's a great place to enjoy and explore!!
That mining was very hard work. No doubt.
Yes, it most certainly was. Thanks
Good find
Thank you
It's a good thing that the Okanagan is so aired, if that was in my county (Skagit) or on the west side of the Cascades I am sure it would have been gone by now.
I sure miss, Washington and the North Cascades, I have been away from home for a while now.
Do you guys also do any gold prospecting or mining yourself?
You are correct. Things like this don't survive the west side. We have friends who placer mine, but we do not. Thanks for watching and the comments.
Must have mined from the other adit Tim. No stoping in that one. Been years since I was there and I didn't go in the tunnels for lack of waders.
As far as we know, that's the only one still open.
OK, if I recall there is another adit there somewhere. I thought is was either to the right or left of that one, but may be above it. Just been too many years.Sure not anything that came out of that adit to warrant a mill. @@ghosttownsandminesofwashington
Surprising, there wasn't more to the actual mine. No ore chutes, steopes, etc.
Yes, it is very surprising.
My friends in Mazama told me that the hunting scenes in the movie The Deer Hunter were shot in the
Okanagan.
Had heard it was filmed in the Mt Baker area of Washington.
Hella work for 3000 lbs of ore. There’s virtually no tailings below the mill. Always figured that one was a money looser.
Looks like someone hiked in a chainsaw since I was there-maybe keeping trees from falling on the bunkhouse?
Yes, we think you're right that it is unofficially monitored by locals to protect the structure from blow downs, etc.
Post 10 would have that draining in no time
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13:00 Are you sure that's not an old mercury amalgam table beneath the stamps?
It is possible. We identified it from historical information that named it as a Vanner being at the site.
I would rebuild that cabin
It's a great structure.
I'd like to take my son on an adventure like this. Any way to share the location?
Unfortunately, we don't post locations publicly.
i wonder what the ethics would be of sweeping the bunk house out to slow moister damage/decay and reduce weight.
Well, a claim holder recently took out the entire floor we believe under the ethics they were going to fix the joists. But we heard that they may not have preserved the original hand hewn planks when they removed them.
oh, that's terrible.@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington
With the price of gold today, would be fun to sift that waist pile!
There has been a lot of that going on in the past decade or so at old mine sites.
There must be other workings. Can't justify a bunk house and a mill for that 100m, or less, adit. No significant vein/ore body, stoping, etc. There's got to be more. Unless they suckered an investor.
According to the plat maps, survey, and historical records, there was a prospect tunnel, but no other workings.
Could you see a significant vein, or mineralization? Didn't see much from the video. I wonder if the mill was even used.@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington
Not into looking for gold ore.
Most of the gold ore around Washington is not free milling and is complex. This means it is fused into the host rock, and you are not going to see it.
I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this, but I have to ask- Did you have a microphone mounted to each shoe? The noise from your feet is very distracting. I gave up watching...
It kind of is what it is in certain terrain and scenarios. Sorry it didn't work for you.