Discovering the Abandoned Eldorado Gold Mine
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2019
- In this video, TVR Exploring and I visit the 'Eldorado Mine' in Nevada. This multi-level mine produced primarily gold during the early 1900's. The mine's 250-foot vertical shaft connected the levels together. In this video, we explore the 50-level of the mine. Much of the underground workings are only accessed via the vertical shaft which we did not climb. This mine is in very great shape despite being over 100 years old. The mine features numerous ore chutes, some artifacts and some gut-wrenching winzes (shafts) leading down to the lower levels.
I hope you enjoy!
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Very exciting interesting video, thank you. Greetings from Germany
Whew. That's a tight spot. Good stuff
Nice tunnels..and Shfts..😎👍🍺 unbelievable so many exist and entrance tunnels.
Beautiful place......😎👍🤝
Another great video! Nice looking mine, nice and dry!
Those timbers were In great shape!
Thanks again!
Those tattered newspapers are always some of my favourite finds
Yes it's really interesting to see the difference in headlines between then and now, people were living completely different lives back then.
toilet paper
Great!
Wife and I did the tourist Teachatticup mine last fall. Subbed!
Great video. Thanks for explaining some of the things that you found. Too many people just go in and have no idea what they are showing everyone. I just subscribed.
Thanks a lot!
@@MinesoftheWest ,, Osmium '' Rarest precious metal on Earth
Always interesting love it thank you 😊
Great video! Thanks! Thanks 😊☺️
Thanks for watching, John!
Ha ha, that's funny seeing old Manuel Tobey's name there! He only worked with us in the mine for maybe 3 months in 1921, then he was fired. What a slacker that guy was! He was only 22, and I worked harder than him, although I was 47 in 1921! He used to complain about President Harding all the time too! 😂
Patrick Mcleod...and might there be a noblewoman to accompany a 145yr old on your nightly walks to the John?
I love your videos! Hi from Brazil!
Hello! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Scary mine dude. Here in the UK that would be sealed off with big yellow signs screaming “DANGER DANGER”😂😂
You could actually get LOST in a mine that extensive! Nice vid.
Great mine, great video.
The belt on the wenz was the brake for the hand crank to slow it down or to hold it in place....
If you have ever swung a pick you know you need a good swing to do any good. Imagine driving a drill for dynamite with a sledge in these tight quarters. Amazing amount of work
Very cool video...I was soooo hoping you were gonna climb down that winze at 16:00~
Sanddab Z Yeah I wish I did too now! This one would be good to revisit
Nice one
Ever think about getting vertical gear? I’ve found most of the best stuff to see is down the shafts and winzes that the ordinary person can’t get to.
Great video as always though!
Definitely! Really my only hold is that I'd like to learn from someone who has experience in abandoned mines. I actually do know how to rappel, but have only practiced it in a gym. It's a bit more complicated when you have to tie off to old timbers, and whatnot. Hopefully I'll make some progress this year though!
@@MinesoftheWest If you are in the San Diego, CA area contact Underground Explorers and SoCalX. We are all into repelling.
John Doe Hopefully I get a chance to meet those folks at some point! Amazingly I still haven’t met any members of either group despite doing this for so many years. But you’re 100% right, those groups know what they’re doing - I’d love to learn from either.
Mines of the West if you ever make it out to Utah let me know. Don’t know if you’re on the group Mojave underground but if not you should hop on and search for me there. I know a bunch of the guys around here and they are helping me get into the vertical stuff it’s pretty new for me
Lovely mine nice and dry
Great job! Thank you for showing us around. I look forward to the next video. Regards from Ody
Very cool ! I wonder what the lifespan of a miner was back then ?! Great vid .
Great video, it would be good to see you climb or go down a ladder etc. With safety equipment of course.
Bristol UK.
Great Vid! Your stills are f'n fantastic man! Are you selling them?
Great vid! Would love to go there if you don't mind shooting the location
Man I wish you went down the shafts or up in the stopes.. sweet videos
I do sometimes, and I'm a little disappointed in myself for not going up some of those ladders. Oh well!
Mines of the West well it’s really easy for me to say that when I’m not the one in a abandoned mine in the middle of the desert haha definitely takes some balls just to go into the mine let alone climb a 100 year old ladder
Good looking mine...wonder what the status is of it ....would love to get in there and sample.
Ask Jeff Williams get er done...
you betcha
There are gold and silver viens everywhere
Grazie.
What era is the spray paint from?
How many miners would be down there on any given day? This being a bigger mine would it have been 5-10 people or a lot more? Cool video!
Just curious why you guys don't rappel or climbdown the shafts.
Any chance you can share the location? I am in Pershing Co NV and would love to find this one. I'm not a verticle explorer and have really only seen one good winze. I'd love to check out this place. Great videos I enjoy everytime I see a new one pop up!!
Он не упомянул этого в начале ролику???
Tobey worked well!
Золотодобыча - это опасный место но в истории человечества имела важный роль
I wonder where the miners dumped their "deposits" deep down there, if you know what I mean
Oatmealman Ha, I’ve seen plenty of miner’s toilets, but not in this one...
@@MinesoftheWest I found miners' poop at the Gun Sight Mine. The poop was next to a Sear Roebuck catalog. The miners were definitely looking at the bra section of that catalog. That might of been the only images of women they saw in a very long time. Of course I took a look at them myself. That section of the catalog didn't get used as toilet paper.
@@JohnDoe-bf1fw can't help but ask what the turd looked like. Don't suppose you poked it.
@@stavinaircaeruleum2275 They were dried out and nearly 100 years old! I carefully put them in a zip lock bag to take them home to ad to my collection of mine artifacts. I'm looking for a lab to have them analyzed to find out what the miners ate. I deposited my own more recent poop next to the Sear's Roebuck catalog. The guys complained that I stuck up the mine. Of course I blamed it on Mike and Lee. "Its wasn't ME. It was Lee!....ha ha ha".
You guys going to try to go down the winze?
The wood on them shoots look pretty well new still
At 16:00 that seems more like a track for a car. The rungs are on the back rather than the front. The top edges of the ladder are very beveled as if to make it easier to tilt a car? I have noticed over many videos the rungs were notched to prevent racking I suppose. Very few ladders have just nails to hold the rungs. Keep up the good work.
Go back and explore the lower levels.
Lots of gold left. Mine it and be a millionaire.
Takes a million to make 2 million in gold mining
@@nhragold1922 how much gold per ton would you need to make a living? I live in a part of the country where gold mines were left during world war 2 and pretty much forgotten about. some of the mines were making millions when gold was 20 dollars per ounce. At almost 1300 right now could you dig and blast by hand or with a really small crew and profit? what equipment costs 2 million to make 1 million with?
@@mattsmith1568 Yes, I've wondered about this as well. I heard a life long miner say that an ounce of gold per ton of ore was considered a good pull. It's a bit of work to blast or pickaxe a ton of material and then process it all for the $1300 ounce. You need lot's of industrial size equipment to make it worth while, and be willing to do all the work yourself or split the amount of gold you find with the workers you'll need. This is why most mines are in rough parts of the world where labor is cheap and people are willing to die to make a buck.
Dr. Matty PhD of all Greenery - you need ventilation fans and tubing, drills, core samplers, jacks, jackhammers, a winch (or four), something to power all of that, track, ore carts, an ore crusher, classifiers, pumps, something to power all of that, food, water, shelter and safety equipment... not mentioning any incidentals here either...
you do not sound old enough, to no what you know about mines,makes me think you have read a lot of books before you started searching mine. but good for you, not getting in trouble is a good thing. keep searching, and good luck, and be careful.
brian bloom Thanks for the kind words!
All the people who inscribed their names within the mine are long dead. Their fingerprints are probably still present on the timbers. Think about it... people used to be here. A world different from the one we know today. Makes you stop and close your eyes in rememberance of the lives that once were.
Ladder is backward, at the end
Right rule?
I violated that rule quite a bit in this video... uh oh!
Never see square-set timbering anymore.
#1920sThugLife
Why not a detector?
40' winz? That looks more like 100'
If that shoot opens your stuck.
Are you wearing a giger counter
Pan the dirt ....
You and your video's are going to get somebody killed one of these days. I have seen several of these type of video's. In almost all of them all you do is show how "cool it is to explore this mine shaft" which some are over 100 years old. However, almost never do you explain in this video, to people watching one of your videos. How dangerous it can be to go into one of these old mines. You never explain to people what they could run into and what steps need to be taken to protect themselves from the 2 things which could kill you before you hit the ground. Worse yet if you are seen going down and a person tries to rescue you without the proper protection they will wind up dead also. These minds are subject to collecting high concentrations of H2S, Hydrogen Sulfide or dead air, which is a space void of breathable oxygen. This is what a person could run into at any point while roaming around within one of these old mines. Then to top it off you have the possibility large drop off's people fall from and cave in's which could leave you trapped, injured or dead from falling debris. I don't want you to think exploring an abandon mind can't be done safely, however it requires knowing and using air sampling equipment to test the air quality within the mines to keep yourself safe. Another thing which is never mentioned is it is not uncommon to find wildlife living towards the front of the cave. This could be snakes, cougars, bears and other wildlife which would use the cave for cover or to hibernate in.