You get Full Credit for the effort of exploring that lower section .... But -10 points for Not opening the fridge!!! LOL Awesome explore! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Um, Way up there on the Sporty Scale? Just a tad mate! Wow! It would take days to write an appropiate response. That was Nuts! Beyond Sketchy! Glad you filmed it though. Can't fake that! Cheers for nearly 10 Years as a follower. Brushy.
A very interesting and beautiful explore with a few nice cliff hangers, literally at the start with that hanging slab and the last part were would gladly send my MIL into because i am a coward and would not dare lol A great explore Justin.
Old city water services worker here. You can get a silicone spray that you put on your boots that'll water proof them pretty well. If you look for boots with an attached tongue you can usually get into six inches of water no problem. It only lasts three to six months depending on how much you use your boots. But as you say, putting on waders is a pain! I got it from the place I got my boots. But any camping store should have cans of silicone spray water proofers. Just give them a good spray the day before, get all the nooks and crannies, and you'll be good to walk in surprisingly deep mud. I would work in twelve inches of mud pretty regularly even though my tongue was only about seven or eight inches above the sole.
Hi Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed your latest adventure. With the level of dryness present, I know that unfortunately the miners were creating SiO2 particulates in the air as they tore through these veins. Hope that some of them didn’t get sick. Here in North Georgia, many families including my own had Dads, Uncles and Brothers who suffered from Silicosis in these Gold mines surrounding Dahlonega. Life happens, eh? By the way, I’ll never forget how amazing your adventure was in that GA placer mine😮 Best wishes, Dr. Lauren ( sorry all, too many words from this old lady)
Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed this one... It immediately became one of my favorites. Yes, the miners that worked in the 1800s here would have had a pretty grim time of it. They had a rough life.
Those lower workings are not for the faint of heart. It's literally fodder for my claustrophobic nightmares. Can't even begin to imagine working that, no way!!
One heck of an investigation into an incredible mine. Thanks for taking us along. I cant help but wonder how much gold is still down there, and will it ever be worth the effort and cost to recover it.
Hi Justin, WOW ! That is a ton of quarts still. I guess it didn't have enough gold per ton to keep going. This reminds me of the 16to1 mine with all the quarts. If I was 40 years younger, I would like to pan that river to see what I could find. Did I hear GOLD ? lol. No, not serpentine, I hate that stuff. Squeeze through that ? No turnaround, I can't believe they were working in that. Thanks again, Justin, for taking us along with you.
Let’s do a drinking game, take a drink every time you say quartz. Lmao. Love your vids, keep up the good work. You do what I cannot. I’m old and broken. I have been in a couple of mines here in Colorado. The one that I remember the most was i think was a copper mine. Went to go into the adit and as soon as I touch the top of the audit it collapsed. Yep I was done after that!
Sporty factor level 9… this was above your usual riske undertaking. Quartz gallore is not doing this site justice. Please be safe as always and thank you so much for bringing us along for this epic explore. I do wonder what the different minerals are in the colored flowstone formations
Just amazing! The veins are absolutely massive! Ive been enjoying your videos for, must be close to a decade now!, man how the time flys. Thank you for sharing your amazing adventures Justin!
Ive been here since the beginning of it and your one of the best mine explorers on here as well dammit man watch going into those sketchy places that was some sketchy shit in their now too stay safe and ill be waiting for the next one now @TVRExploring
I would love to see you either come back to this mine or another gold mine and bring a metal detector. I bet you find a piece of gold, that looked like a very productive mine you were in there. The stats on these mines would be very interesting, like years worked, and tonnage taken out.❤❤
Thats an impressive amount of quartz, but most of it looks quite barren of mineralization, which would explain why they left so much behind. Awesome exploration!
Really enjoyed this one Justin. I could see the structures when i went through the main road about ten years ago but the spur road leading to it was totally gone where it crossed the scree slope. Was always curious about it
Wow , super sketchy , can't believe you did that. But as the video shows you made it out, thank you for all your effort always a pleasure watching. Man be more careful .
Hey. Love the content. I'm wondering if it would make any sense to have a small camera drone to go up or down areas that have rotten ladders etc? I feel like this could add to these videos but if you know why not to do this I'd love to hear that as well.
Would be interesting to see if that quartz is truly barren or if the numbers just weren't high enough to continue mining? Might be worth sampling to see where it's at with todays gold values.
I am also curious about the fluorescent orange spray paint markings and flags. Were these from survey crews (USGS?) mapping the tunnels and remaining resources?
@1:02:20 that looks like a drinking water can with a nice brass pour spout on the side. With all the think layers of quartz in this mine I wouldn't be surprised if there's still lots of gold but maybe some other factor caused it to not be worked. Economics of the time, or maybe worker shortage due to war or something. Today probably nearly impossible to reopen it due to permitting issues. That ladder looked pretty new though, like someone was in there recently extracting those pockets of large quartz crystals.
I'd say you've really pushed forward the exploration in a very unstable section with so much loose material and other hazards . But I totally get it , I've love mine exploration and have since I was a kid quite along time ago with some unfortunate situations that came to pass , but you have exceeded expectations in this video for sure
Thank you very much, Bryan. Your generosity is immensely appreciated and helpful. You are not mistaken on the familiarity of the surface. And, yes, that lower level was definitely sporty at the end...
Hi diamondtman, of course, I am not answering on Justin’s behalf, but somewhere in my foggy memory I recall him once saying that he does not remove any minerals from mines. Now that’s integrity…Best wishes, Dr. Lauren
39:49 there's a former racing legend by than name, now deceased, lived in a city at the base of The South Sierras. He would have been 20 something at the time of the graffiti. 48:55 someone was up there as recently as 2005. Acorna's World (2000) and the Clinton book (2005)
Been watching Jason at Mount Baker mining. He found some rich ore that had free gold. The quartz had a black mineral ribbon and iron (rust) and where all 3 meet there was visible gold. Never seen as much quartz as in this mine. Be careful. The last bit of explore was a sketchy
Y'know, I'm curious. In the Lower Workings, towards the sketchier section that was falling apart, did ya spot any drill holes that would indicate which way the level was blasted from in relation to what you came down to reach it?
Wow haven't seen quartz veins that fat since your 16 to 1 mine video! Were the veins in 16 to 1 the fattest you've seen? Either way this mine is impressive, surprised I've never heard of it. Is it just me, or does the hanging wall rock in the antler stope look a lot darker than the hanging wall in other sections?
I am always curious why, after all the work to open underground access to the mineral deposits these workings and often a lot of infrastructure are just abandoned, often while still viable resources appear to still be available?
I think one of those dates said 46 but that wouldn't be right due to war boarding if I'm not mistaken. When you say it doesn't assay out well or be profitable would that be different for today's prices?
Those lower workings would seem like they would have required a haulage adit that led outside as there doesn't appear to have been any infrastructure for hauling ore& wasterock up to get it out?
That was our thinking as well. The assumption was that that lower level led to a lower adit because, as you correctly observed, there were a lot of ways for ore to be dropped down, but nothing indicating a way to bring material up. So, the best guess would probably be that the portal for the lower adit was covered by additional waste rock from the main level.
at $2600/oz do some of these mines get reworked because they might now be worth taking out the quarts that was not worth takin out when gold was $200/oz or can these not be reworked due to environmental reasons?
That antler, along with the burnt stuff in those pockets, makes me think of someone doing rituals down there. Could be a superstition miner, wiccan or even the dark stuff. They would put the stuff they are offering on the spoon like tape and then dump it into the fire. Or there was a dear that somehow got into some tape and then shed it's antler in that mine ... People are weird, never forget that lol
I've never understood why most of the mines that you explore have so much ore still in them that they just left. They've already spent the money and labor to mine it. Why don't they finish the job and get some money out of it before they pack up and leave. Unless the mine has been deemed unsafe, why walk away from it leaving money behind?
Okay someone please explain how tunnel straight down that far through solid rock? I mean there's rail going straight down it. I get they blasted the rock but still how did they haul it straight up. Crazy
Great adventure! But i have to tell you, I was not really interested in you moving past that very last bit with the clump of rocks over your head. That was WAY too high on the sketch factor! But yes, i do give you a ton of credit for running it all the way out. Next sketchy section is definitely not your turn to explore though.
@TVRExploring so the road going down stream from there turns and goes up as you know and that property going up just changed hands. And last time we went through they were doing tractor work on the road.
You should really carry a lighter or matches to show air flow on camera If I rember right you have a multi gas detector so anything flammable would alert, so hopefully this suggestion isn't too dumb Also, have you seen MBMMLLC and his mine? It might be fun if you stopped by next season, He's got some seriously good looking ore coming out of the wall and he's trying to drift over to an existing raise to cut about half his travel out 24:19 "It's pink so you can't read it" LMAO what?!
Quartz is massive. NF service should get rid of that 1990's shack and garbage nothing historic about seeing an old 1980's Frigidaire along with a nasty plastic porta-potty. I rather see the turn of the century stuff I'm in favor of returning some of these later mines back to nature.
Could you email me the location of this Mine so I could look to see who owns it or if it is available and its history. Because i would love to get some samples from it.
A new TVR Exploring video pops up in my queue AND it's more than an hour long? Now THAT's what I call a WIN-WIN!
What great video guys!
You get Full Credit for the effort of exploring that lower section ....
But -10 points for Not opening the fridge!!! LOL
Awesome explore!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Um, Way up there on the Sporty Scale? Just a tad mate! Wow! It would take days to write an appropiate response. That was Nuts! Beyond Sketchy! Glad you filmed it though. Can't fake that! Cheers for nearly 10 Years as a follower. Brushy.
A very interesting and beautiful explore with a few nice cliff hangers, literally at the start with that hanging slab and the last part were would gladly send my MIL into because i am a coward and would not dare lol A great explore Justin.
You blow my mind sometimes with the sketchy sh-t you accomplish. You actually document a mines every nook and cranny.
Thanks, J!
Old city water services worker here. You can get a silicone spray that you put on your boots that'll water proof them pretty well. If you look for boots with an attached tongue you can usually get into six inches of water no problem. It only lasts three to six months depending on how much you use your boots. But as you say, putting on waders is a pain!
I got it from the place I got my boots. But any camping store should have cans of silicone spray water proofers. Just give them a good spray the day before, get all the nooks and crannies, and you'll be good to walk in surprisingly deep mud. I would work in twelve inches of mud pretty regularly even though my tongue was only about seven or eight inches above the sole.
The 4 connected 8x8s were probably an anvil stand! G'day from Tasmania
Hi Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed your latest adventure. With the level of dryness present, I know that unfortunately the miners were creating SiO2 particulates in the air as they tore through these veins. Hope that some of them didn’t get sick.
Here in North Georgia, many families including my own had Dads, Uncles and Brothers who suffered from Silicosis in these Gold mines surrounding Dahlonega. Life happens, eh?
By the way, I’ll never forget how amazing your adventure was in that GA placer mine😮
Best wishes, Dr. Lauren ( sorry all, too many words from this old lady)
Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed this one... It immediately became one of my favorites. Yes, the miners that worked in the 1800s here would have had a pretty grim time of it. They had a rough life.
You keep that up and one day, we just won't get any more videos from you. Stay SAFE.
Those cave pearls 28.20 are very interesting. Thanks again Justin.
I've seen them before in a Whales mine on the Lost Mine channel.
Those lower workings are not for the faint of heart. It's literally fodder for my claustrophobic nightmares. Can't even begin to imagine working that, no way!!
One heck of an investigation into an incredible mine. Thanks for taking us along. I cant help but wonder how much gold is still down there, and will it ever be worth the effort and cost to recover it.
Great mine love all the quartz .thanks for braving through that climb and those lower workings.
What a amazing Video.
Absolute great stuff.
Thank you for all your work and risk
Greetings from Germany
Yours Frank Galetzka
Hi Justin, WOW ! That is a ton of quarts still. I guess it didn't have enough gold per ton to keep going. This reminds me of the 16to1 mine with all the quarts. If I was 40 years younger, I would like to pan that river to see what I could find. Did I hear GOLD ? lol. No, not serpentine, I hate that stuff. Squeeze through that ? No turnaround, I can't believe they were working in that. Thanks again, Justin, for taking us along with you.
Awesome video and full credit to you sir!!
Echos of the “16 to 1 Mine”
Your content is always so good.
I’d love to see an assay on some of that quartz.
Thank you for these great videos 🙏
Let’s do a drinking game, take a drink every time you say quartz. Lmao. Love your vids, keep up the good work. You do what I cannot. I’m old and broken. I have been in a couple of mines here in Colorado. The one that I remember the most was i think was a copper mine. Went to go into the adit and as soon as I touch the top of the audit it collapsed. Yep I was done after that!
very cool display of the flowstone ,thanks for all you're hard work!
Sporty factor level 9… this was above your usual riske undertaking. Quartz gallore is not doing this site justice. Please be safe as always and thank you so much for bringing us along for this epic explore. I do wonder what the different minerals are in the colored flowstone formations
Wow, so much to see!! Hope the knee is better.
Epic explore! The end of that was sketchy to say the least! Can't wait for the next one!
Wow, just wow! Thanks for showing everything.
Another great one,thanks for showing us,keep em coming😊
You do good work. ❤❤
Another great video always enjoy coming along on your adventures !
Now thats a Damn GOLD mine$
Great stuff as always Justin
Whoa dude. The whole floor in there was cave pearls some of which formed into cubes. Friggin wild . What a phenomenal mine
Awesome work Justin! Monster workings.
This was a great one... Very sporty when we're on that lower level at the end though!
I'm still watching. Its getting pretty hectic 😂😂😂
Total Payday right there! ⛏
Great work Guys!
Just amazing! The veins are absolutely massive! Ive been enjoying your videos for, must be close to a decade now!, man how the time flys. Thank you for sharing your amazing adventures Justin!
Thank you for being with us for so long! You have been here since the beginning!
Ive been here since the beginning of it and your one of the best mine explorers on here as well dammit man watch going into those sketchy places that was some sketchy shit in their now too stay safe and ill be waiting for the next one now @TVRExploring
I would love to see you either come back to this mine or another gold mine and bring a metal detector. I bet you find a piece of gold, that looked like a very productive mine you were in there. The stats on these mines would be very interesting, like years worked, and tonnage taken out.❤❤
J. Graves was there too.. If that guy had just left a notebook, you‘d be the first person I‘d give it to 😊
Thats an impressive amount of quartz, but most of it looks quite barren of mineralization, which would explain why they left so much behind. Awesome exploration!
Really enjoyed this one Justin. I could see the structures when i went through the main road about ten years ago but the spur road leading to it was totally gone where it crossed the scree slope. Was always curious about it
Wow , super sketchy , can't believe you did that. But as the video shows you made it out, thank you for all your effort always a pleasure watching. Man be more careful .
This is the closest hard rock mine I've seen that resembles an anthracite mine. Super rad.
With those giant quartz veins everywhere , wouldn't that still be a profitable, viable mine?. That is some seriously good looking stuff!
Quartz does not automatically equal gold. Some quartz is barren or does not contain enough gold to make it economical to extract.
Hey. Love the content. I'm wondering if it would make any sense to have a small camera drone to go up or down areas that have rotten ladders etc? I feel like this could add to these videos but if you know why not to do this I'd love to hear that as well.
You have balls of steel, jesus. That ending area was sketchy as fuuuuck lol.
Would be interesting to see if that quartz is truly barren or if the numbers just weren't high enough to continue mining? Might be worth sampling to see where it's at with todays gold values.
I'm glad you're doing that and not me. Enclosed places give me the willies.
Check out the last part of the video - that section at the end was extremely sporty.
I am also curious about the fluorescent orange spray paint markings and flags.
Were these from survey crews (USGS?) mapping the tunnels and remaining resources?
@1:02:20 that looks like a drinking water can with a nice brass pour spout on the side.
With all the think layers of quartz in this mine I wouldn't be surprised if there's still lots of gold but maybe some other factor caused it to not be worked. Economics of the time, or maybe worker shortage due to war or something. Today probably nearly impossible to reopen it due to permitting issues. That ladder looked pretty new though, like someone was in there recently extracting those pockets of large quartz crystals.
I'd say you've really pushed forward the exploration in a very unstable section with so much loose material and other hazards . But I totally get it , I've love mine exploration and have since I was a kid quite along time ago with some unfortunate situations that came to pass , but you have exceeded expectations in this video for sure
Please just once sample that quartz vein 😂😂😂
Those surface video shots look real familiar, but I could be mistaken. Some sketchy, mine exploring, not for me kudos.
Thank you very much, Bryan. Your generosity is immensely appreciated and helpful. You are not mistaken on the familiarity of the surface. And, yes, that lower level was definitely sporty at the end...
Justin I know you don't have the mineral rights but do you ever take samples and test them? Thank you for another wonderful trip.
Hi diamondtman, of course, I am not answering on Justin’s behalf, but somewhere in my foggy
memory I recall him once saying that he does not remove any minerals from mines. Now that’s integrity…Best wishes, Dr. Lauren
As the other person said, Justin made clear in an older video that he does not take samples or artifacts.
39:49 there's a former racing legend by than name, now deceased, lived in a city at the base of The South Sierras. He would have been 20 something at the time of the graffiti.
48:55 someone was up there as recently as 2005. Acorna's World (2000) and the Clinton book (2005)
In the early seventies my boss told me " You have got to know when to punt". The sketchy areas are yelling this.
Been watching Jason at Mount Baker mining. He found some rich ore that had free gold. The quartz had a black mineral ribbon and iron (rust) and where all 3 meet there was visible gold.
Never seen as much quartz as in this mine. Be careful. The last bit of explore was a sketchy
That bus is one for Vice grip garage.
you REALLY don't like unfinished business!
The loose quartz rock on the floor should have good samples EZ Pickings...
Y'know, I'm curious.
In the Lower Workings, towards the sketchier section that was falling apart, did ya spot any drill holes that would indicate which way the level was blasted from in relation to what you came down to reach it?
You’ve always said “gold rides an iron horse” but it seems it most often rides a quartz horse.
at 48.09 old solar panels there's more later as well
Wow haven't seen quartz veins that fat since your 16 to 1 mine video! Were the veins in 16 to 1 the fattest you've seen? Either way this mine is impressive, surprised I've never heard of it. Is it just me, or does the hanging wall rock in the antler stope look a lot darker than the hanging wall in other sections?
I am always curious why, after all the work to open underground access to the mineral deposits these workings and often a lot of infrastructure are just abandoned, often while still viable resources appear to still be available?
Yikes that end was sketchy at best . Thank you
I think one of those dates said 46 but that wouldn't be right due to war boarding if I'm not mistaken. When you say it doesn't assay out well or be profitable would that be different for today's prices?
So a dumb question, would any of those quartz veins have visible gold or would it have to be crushed and processed?
Lay that little deer shed in the flowstone!
Was this one n hlthe sirara mountains l? Just looking at the thumbnail
Those lower workings would seem like they would have required a haulage adit that led outside as there doesn't appear to have been any infrastructure for hauling ore& wasterock up to get it out?
That was our thinking as well. The assumption was that that lower level led to a lower adit because, as you correctly observed, there were a lot of ways for ore to be dropped down, but nothing indicating a way to bring material up. So, the best guess would probably be that the portal for the lower adit was covered by additional waste rock from the main level.
Composting toilet there, posibbly incinerator. Fascinating information I know.
when i get my family in a fortress of solitude , id like to meet you and the crew for a night of bs and beer
Only one cart for all of that work? Where did the rest go?
In your opinion would it be worth the effort to work this mine again ?
1:00:07 you walk by a box and I think you were focused on the cart down the drift. What was it/?!?!!?
at $2600/oz do some of these mines get reworked because they might now be worth taking out the quarts that was not worth takin out when gold was $200/oz or can these not be reworked due to environmental reasons?
Fucking hell man! That's $$$$
That antler, along with the burnt stuff in those pockets, makes me think of someone doing rituals down there. Could be a superstition miner, wiccan or even the dark stuff. They would put the stuff they are offering on the spoon like tape and then dump it into the fire.
Or there was a dear that somehow got into some tape and then shed it's antler in that mine ... People are weird, never forget that lol
We see some interesting things underground...
I've never understood why most of the mines that you explore have so much ore still in them that they just left. They've already spent the money and labor to mine it. Why don't they finish the job and get some money out of it before they pack up and leave. Unless the mine has been deemed unsafe, why walk away from it leaving money behind?
War Production Act closed down all the gold mines during world war 2
Is it constantly testing ore that guides the miners digging? They chase the vein in places and leave it in others.
Yes, frequent sampling will avoid a lot of heartache from wasted time, effort and money chasing unprofitable quartz veins.
Okay someone please explain how tunnel straight down that far through solid rock? I mean there's rail going straight down it. I get they blasted the rock but still how did they haul it straight up. Crazy
Great adventure! But i have to tell you, I was not really interested in you moving past that very last bit with the clump of rocks over your head. That was WAY too high on the sketch factor! But yes, i do give you a ton of credit for running it all the way out. Next sketchy section is definitely not your turn to explore though.
Lots of gold left there. I think alot of these old mines are closed due to todays heath and safety standards.
1:05:17 looks like a bottle cap on top that rock.
The old stuff was slower and more inconsistent.
That's a cool one , was the dozer parked in the road when you were there?
No, there was no sign of any activity at all for a long time when we went. We visited a while ago though.
@TVRExploring so the road going down stream from there turns and goes up as you know and that property going up just changed hands. And last time we went through they were doing tractor work on the road.
@@adambatchelder4121 threes a dozer at the other mine near the bridge
did you hit the mine with the dozer near the bridge was lots stuff there
@@TVRExploringdid you hit the mine near the bridge with the old dozer was lots stuff there
bet your guys assumption of another adit by the bridge is probably right. it's just buried under all the waste rock from the upper workings.
There was still so much quartz left. Is it because it didn't contain much gold?
Do you ever see gold in those quartz veins?
Someone was sleeping inside a mine?! Wtf😁
Ha, it wouldn't be the first time!
If quartz is what they were after, why is there so much quartz laying around?
Do you think there's much in value in that old mine to be worth getting it back running?
You should really carry a lighter or matches to show air flow on camera
If I rember right you have a multi gas detector so anything flammable would alert, so hopefully this suggestion isn't too dumb
Also, have you seen MBMMLLC and his mine? It might be fun if you stopped by next season, He's got some seriously good looking ore coming out of the wall and he's trying to drift over to an existing raise to cut about half his travel out
24:19 "It's pink so you can't read it" LMAO what?!
That wasn't cloth that was mule tape
Quartz is massive. NF service should get rid of that 1990's shack and garbage nothing historic about seeing an old 1980's Frigidaire along with a nasty plastic porta-potty. I rather see the turn of the century stuff I'm in favor of returning some of these later mines back to nature.
its abandoned because its not finished making new victims.
Tine to take the equipment from your mi e and move it
Dont Worry! I will still be sitting here on my butt, eating, while watching you risk your life.
Must be low grade quarts.
Could you email me the location of this Mine so I could look to see who owns it or if it is available and its history. Because i would love to get some samples from it.
Dang long one 😂 what ever will I do you always impress me 🫡 this was pretty cool mine and im halfway thru thanks 🤗