My best memories as a kid, were exploring abandoned things. Now, much of that has been covered with suburban sprawl, including a lot of woods. I live in Bucks County, PA, and there are still plenty of woods left. Thanks for Sharing! 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It will never cease to amaze me that people feel they must tarnish everything up with colourful paint. The paint makes it look like an eyesore. This mine reminds me a bit of the Kimberley Diamond Mine in South Africa. It's a huge hole in the ground and is filled at the bottom with water. Anyway, I enjoyed watching your video and hearing how you were able to climb down the mine back in the 70's. It certainly doesn't look very safe now. I also enjoyed your drone footage and was mesmerised at how small your shapes looked inside those round things (whatever they are). I hope you had a great weekend and I wish you a great week ahead. (^_^) Take care now. Kind regards. Liz.
Very interesting. I really thought that you would fly down into or at least over the pit. Instead, you kind of just teased us. 😟 That’s a lot of paint sprayed!! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼 Ram
Hi Ram. I really wanted to fly over the open pit mine but.....when I shot this video I had only owned my drone for about a month and I was still learning to fly it and I was very apprehensive about losing my drone in the pit and not being able to recover it. I am a lot more comfortable flying my drone now and maybe next spring I'll fly it down into the pit and see what is down there.
Nice! We got a lot of smart self defenders in here who take the time to watch and see what can and does happen to us in life/death fights. Righteous. 😎
I am like the old dog. I love road trips. Tail wagging ears flapping in the wind running from side to side don't want to miss a thing. And can't wait for the next one.
My vote,...shocking eyesore! Having said that,... I chuckled when I thought,...in large circular 'rink', if you stood against the wall, and fired a shot from your rifle, close to the wall, would you hit yourself in the ass?
I love to go to old mines. There is a few old asbestos mines where im from, i used to go there for swimming during summer. It's now filled up with green water. I used to go crazy there during winter with my arctic cat M8. Its a beautiful scenery. Thanks for sharing this video.👍
Interesting and original artwork....That is one large open pit mine. I remember getting to climb up in the big dump trucks which we called "haul packs" out near mineral park as a kid. What a huge truck! Thanks, sir!
Wow. Strangely compelling. What is/was the purpose of the paved circles with monoliths at their centers? Eerie place. If you've never been to the impact crater near Grand Canyon: another place worth a visit.
I used to work in an open pit mine in Cupertino Ca. it isn’t as dramatic as that one, but it’s still in operation, they mine lime stone and manufacture cement. It was opened by and operated by Kaiser for a long time, during WWII it had a munitions plant on it. Kaiser kept a cabin on the property for hunting.
Thank you for the content here! Alot of concentrates were processed rapidly at this site. When did it operate? I read a comment that it was crucial to ww2
That's quite a hole in the ground. I can almost visualize those big 45 ton dump trucks crawling up and down the sides of the pit. They had an open pit molybdenum mine near Clayton, Idaho years ago. I nearly went to work there - got to see it and the big dump trucks hauling ore out of the pit. Nice aerials with the drone. Stay safe out there.
When I lived in northern Nevada there was a large copper mine outside of that town that used those 45 ton trucks.....very impressive. Hope you had and yours had a great Thanksgiving.
Amazing video shots, and fascinating find! I wonder if they could refurbished lightly for cultural, sport or recreational purposes. In any case, this was again a great exploration video. Thanks!
Hello Jorge...I think the area is to dangerous and contaminated to turn it into a recreational area. The federal government as talked for decades about cleaning up this area and filling in the pits but apparently it doesn't want to spend a billion dollars to do so.
@@mixup98 Thanks for the info. Billion bucks is a lot of money! I was thinking about some sum .5% of that--inflation, hehe. In any case, I see your point, just way too much, so it makes sense to see it like that. Still, at least it doesn't take away from the awesome shots you guys did down there. Stay healthy!
There is not a lot of information available on the operation of this mine and I don't know exactly what the round pits were used for other than making some type of pulp.
@@mixup98 Ah, that's probably it...the placed the ~stuff, stone they were mining in the pits, the drove around some wheel which crushed the stone which made the further breakdown of, manganese? easier to process.
I personally like graffiti. It's art. However tagging is just dumb and silly. There was some decent art at this site. The wheel of fortune wheel was prob my fav.
It didnt look that bad! Here in the north we have mines ruins everywhere and mine residue where trees have hard time to grow, it look like the wasteland from the last mad max movie. Near that we also had retention pond with flashy color until the government took action to prevent an ecological disaster. Two of these mines are near the city and are on islands.
@@michaelfoxx6881 Our government allowed the mining company to lease the land and they were suppose to be responsible for their waste... until bankrupcy!
@@northman77 Interesting! The reason I asked, a small town I once lived in, there was an abandoned gold mine. A friend and I used to go exploring there, plinking with our .22 rifles, and such. There were pools and streams of water that were swimming pool blue. Story had it that arsenic used to separate the gold from dirt back in the early 1900's was the cause of the blue color. No fish and no plants grew in the blue water. This was early 1980's.
The round circles were called thickeners and they were used to leach a processing pulp. Here is what I also found: ”in a series of seven thickeners, the first two of which are acid-proof construction and 250 feet in diameter, thus making them the largest acid-proof thickeners ever constructed.”
The road leading down into the pit has been blocked with tons of loose dirt which can be seen in the video and it would be very dangerous trying to get around the blockage.
The land owner originally planned to do just that and build a residential community, but this was nixed after the real estate collapse of 2008. The land is contaminated and requires extensive cleanup to do anything with it. For a while, this area was pretty distant from everything else but now it is adjacent from other newer big communities nearby being built so you can probably bet money this tract will get developed in the next decade.
Great video as always ... I have never seen that place before. I'm in my 50s and should have seen that by now so I don't know what gives on that. What's the big secret!
No secret. This area is only about 400 yards from a very busy road but unless you know it's there then you would never expect something this large to be so close. Every summer thousands of people headed out to Lake Mead drive right past this area and 99% of them don't even know it's there.
Hey the wheel of Fortune was Unique , but the rest, well chalk it up to the Ignorance of MAN and his need to leave his mark on the world wherever he goes !! Kinda Like a dog marking his territory !
As co-workers and myself used to say to each other when meeting in areas of questionable safety while off-duty, "I hope you both have your "💩" with you", when out in those desolate places. As a side note, have you ever encountered any ghosts or spiritual activity in these remote excursions?
Trust me, we are always well protected when exploring areas like this. I don't know if we have ever encountered ghosts or spiritual activity but we have heard strange noises and observed shadows and movements while exploring, especially in old underground mines.
@@mixup98 Good! Glad to hear that you do! Interesting on the mines! If/when you are fortunate enough to capture that kind of activity on video, I would love to see it posted. I used to wonder if such was real or not. Then, at the tender age of 29 I had my first (of many) encounters. Thankfully, none of mine were hostile or evil, but I understand such are out there. Keep up the great videos and stay safe!
Well you can throw tomato sauce cans up and over that pit. Shoot the hell out of the can. Then the can goes in the mine. This is how to dispose of range trash.
I would have to say that it's a shocking eyesore ........ that Giant White House in the middle of the District of Criminals, that's what we're talking about, right? OH, OH, the open-pit mine, yes..... also a shocking eyesore.
How do you propose to get strategic minerals? Manganese is an important metal used to strengthen steel, it was vital in WWII. That site, while not pretty, is a minuscule part of Nevada. Evidently some people have made some use of it since the mining ceased. Until now I was totally unaware of it, now that I know my reaction, and my desire to "fix" it is the same as before I knew of it, nil.
The old brodie manganese alloy helmet , and in drinking water , my dumb a** nephew , the walking tree stump are the only 2 examples I can think of off hand . outstanding video work , very nice.
Circular areas look like waste water aeration pools, like one sees at water treatment plants today. The water would be shot out a pipe through that center pylon and the cap acted like a sprinkler head to divert the waters path to spray horizontally out over the pond surface.
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 oh the steel pans? Those are thickeners used to condense concentrates which are then pumped thru dewatering system then to a drier. Typically.
Those things that look like a giant tea candle and a roulette wheel.... God help us all if our duly elected President gets cheated out of this election. God bless you Mixup98!
That was pretty cool Mix! You and your son do some great adventures together....Say, were those buildings, parking lot, and cars I saw when the drone was passing by? If so, what kind of business would they be doing out there?
My best memories as a kid, were exploring abandoned things. Now, much of that has been covered with suburban sprawl, including a lot of woods. I live in Bucks County, PA, and there are still plenty of woods left. Thanks for Sharing! 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A very interesting place. Thanks for showing us that.
Holy 💩 i was telling my dad about this mine over Thanksgiving!!! Crazy thanks for your content I really enjoy it all!!
I know exactly where that’s at. It was crucial to WW2.
How so?
Nice drone footage. I just wish people would pick up their trash.
You and me both!
Forgot to mention : Excellent video work and editing!
It will never cease to amaze me that people feel they must tarnish everything up with colourful paint. The paint makes it look like an eyesore. This mine reminds me a bit of the Kimberley Diamond Mine in South Africa. It's a huge hole in the ground and is filled at the bottom with water. Anyway, I enjoyed watching your video and hearing how you were able to climb down the mine back in the 70's. It certainly doesn't look very safe now. I also enjoyed your drone footage and was mesmerised at how small your shapes looked inside those round things (whatever they are).
I hope you had a great weekend and I wish you a great week ahead. (^_^)
Take care now.
Kind regards.
Liz.
Agreed, the paint makes it pretty ugly. On top of it being an environmental problem.
I really like your Nevada exploration videos keep them up
Glad you like them Justin and we'll keep making them....thank you.
I’ve seen this from the air many times, nice to see closer up. Thanks for sharing!
Very welcome Ted and thank you for watching.
EPIC drone flying and awesome cool abandoned area! Il be checking out google earth on this bad boy now!
Thanks for nice relaxing contents. An abandoned town, mine...
Really enjoying.
Glad you like them and we thank you for watching our videos.
Good stuff thanks for posting
The Wheel of Misfortune
Very interesting.
I really thought that you would fly down into or at least over the pit. Instead, you kind of just teased us. 😟
That’s a lot of paint sprayed!!
Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼
Ram
Me too, but I figure maybe if something went south with the drone he wouldn't want to fish it out of that mine.
@@antoniodelrio1292
That had crossed my mind as well.
Hi Ram. I really wanted to fly over the open pit mine but.....when I shot this video I had only owned my drone for about a month and I was still learning to fly it and I was very apprehensive about losing my drone in the pit and not being able to recover it. I am a lot more comfortable flying my drone now and maybe next spring I'll fly it down into the pit and see what is down there.
It Looks like you are on another planet !!!!!!!!!!!
I thought I clicked on an ASP video by accident at first! 🤣
Mannys9130, please help me out. I don't get the reference. Is it about expandable impact batons?
@@grigorirasputin5020 active self protection, it’s a YT channel with the same music
@@Mrcaffinebean
D'oh! (Slaps own forehead) I shoulda picked up on that! Thank you for the memory jog!
@@grigorirasputin5020 took me a second too lol
Nice! We got a lot of smart self defenders in here who take the time to watch and see what can and does happen to us in life/death fights. Righteous. 😎
1:00 yup legend has it there's lots of gold nuggets down there amongst the gravel at the bottom there if you can get down there
I am like the old dog. I love road trips. Tail wagging ears flapping in the wind running from side to side don't want to miss a thing.
And can't wait for the next one.
Right on....stay tuned my friend, we have more.
Should have flown it into the pit that's what I wanted to see.
I will when I do a follow-up video.
What were those circular structures used for ?
Leaching tanks
@@rsuninv Thanks for the information ! I wondered if it had to due with processing the ore.
My vote,...shocking eyesore!
Having said that,... I chuckled when I thought,...in large circular 'rink', if you stood against the wall, and fired a shot from your rifle, close to the wall, would you hit yourself in the ass?
I love to go to old mines. There is a few old asbestos mines where im from, i used to go there for swimming during summer. It's now filled up with green water. I used to go crazy there during winter with my arctic cat M8. Its a beautiful scenery.
Thanks for sharing this video.👍
Hello Seb_G...my son and I are going out tomorrow to explore some old mines and we should have a video posted in a few days.
Interesting and original artwork....That is one large open pit mine. I remember getting to climb up in the big dump trucks which we called "haul packs" out near mineral park as a kid. What a huge truck! Thanks, sir!
Must have driven right past it, thx for the vid.
Wow. Strangely compelling. What is/was the purpose of the paved circles with monoliths at their centers? Eerie place. If you've never been to the impact crater near Grand Canyon: another place worth a visit.
Those are leaching tanks.
@@rsuninv
Must be some big-assed leaches in that part of the country!
😁
Perfect landfill.
I used to work in an open pit mine in Cupertino Ca. it isn’t as dramatic as that one, but it’s still in operation, they mine lime stone and manufacture cement. It was opened by and operated by Kaiser for a long time, during WWII it had a munitions plant on it. Kaiser kept a cabin on the property for hunting.
Hello Bill. Thanks for the comment and we appreciate you watching our video.
Excellent footage when your son walks along the edge of that crater
Awesome....thank you.
Thank you for the content here! Alot of concentrates were processed rapidly at this site. When did it operate? I read a comment that it was crucial to ww2
The mine was in operation from 1916 until 1962 so it produced manganese for use in World War 1, World War 2 and the Korean war.
@@mixup98 awesome! Thank you for your time!
So why didn't you fly down in it?
GREAT JOB on the new opening 🤠⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Outstanding video
Thank you so much 😀
Its an eyesore because of the 'modern art'. Good video! Sweet drone!
Thanks Bruce.... 👍
pretty cool place !! there been some really good artist that left their work behind !!! thanks for the video guys !!!
The music makes it seem like the mine is going to be used for some nefarious purpose
Like covering their ASP
Wow incredible scenes 🤘
That's pretty amazing to see. Thanks for sharing the footage Brother ~John
Glad you enjoyed it John...Happy Holidays!
That's quite a hole in the ground. I can almost visualize those big 45 ton dump trucks crawling up and down the sides of the pit. They had an open pit molybdenum mine near Clayton, Idaho years ago. I nearly went to work there - got to see it and the big dump trucks hauling ore out of the pit. Nice aerials with the drone. Stay safe out there.
When I lived in northern Nevada there was a large copper mine outside of that town that used those 45 ton trucks.....very impressive. Hope you had and yours had a great Thanksgiving.
Very nice vid you got some real cool things to look at out there great job
Thanks DAn 👍
I worked at the Borax mine in Boron Ca a couple of hundred miles from there. A lot of similarities
I used to drive past the Borax mine when I would travel to Bakersfield. Lots of mining history in that area.
@@mixup98 My neck of the woods
Nice video bro keep up the good work you and your son
Thanks! Will do!
The title says eyesore. Not any different than thousands of acres of solar panels
@El Guapo mas macho No Sir, I’m not miner.
@llkidd I guess they’ll have great place to dump all the solar panels and wind turbine blades😀😂🤣
what are all the vehicles in the lot next to this
It's a boat storage off Lake mead drive to the lake Mead National Park. Just down the road is one of 3 entries....
Clifford Burdick, I had wondered that, too! Thought it was a big tourist attraction at first.
@@mattmcdermott4766
Thank you for answering!
@@grigorirasputin5020 i know it looked kind of out of place considering where you were thanks for the info
@@cliffordburdick6049
That was Matt McDermott that answered but thanks for the reply.
Amazing video shots, and fascinating find! I wonder if they could refurbished lightly for cultural, sport or recreational purposes. In any case, this was again a great exploration video. Thanks!
Hello Jorge...I think the area is to dangerous and contaminated to turn it into a recreational area. The federal government as talked for decades about cleaning up this area and filling in the pits but apparently it doesn't want to spend a billion dollars to do so.
@@mixup98 Thanks for the info. Billion bucks is a lot of money! I was thinking about some sum .5% of that--inflation, hehe. In any case, I see your point, just way too much, so it makes sense to see it like that. Still, at least it doesn't take away from the awesome shots you guys did down there. Stay healthy!
Would have been nice if you had mentioned something about those round pits.
There is not a lot of information available on the operation of this mine and I don't know exactly what the round pits were used for other than making some type of pulp.
@@mixup98 Ah, that's probably it...the placed the ~stuff, stone they were mining in the pits, the drove around some wheel which crushed the stone which made the further breakdown of, manganese? easier to process.
there's actually quite a bit of gold nuggets down there in the gravel at the bottom
someone really painted a whole roulette wheel on one of those. kinda impressive
Great video
Thanks!
WOW very interesting .
👍How cool is that!
Very cool!!!
Very cool. Is it owned by a particular company?
Cigarette Smoking Man ring a bell?
Very cool cinematography 👍great subject! Musical score works! Never seen this or even heard of it.
Thank you very much Trevin for the great feedback.
I think some of the graffiti is nicely done, but I can understand wanting to keep it as it was.
I personally like graffiti. It's art. However tagging is just dumb and silly. There was some decent art at this site. The wheel of fortune wheel was prob my fav.
Local "artists" have used this area for years and yes, some of them are very good.
that looked like a nice day
It didnt look that bad! Here in the north we have mines ruins everywhere and mine residue where trees have hard time to grow, it look like the wasteland from the last mad max movie. Near that we also had retention pond with flashy color until the government took action to prevent an ecological disaster. Two of these mines are near the city and are on islands.
Was that flashy color by chance something approximating what I would call "swimming pool blue"?
@@grigorirasputin5020 some of it yes, blue and really opaque, some were red and yellow.
I’ve heard that Canada for the most part doesn’t repair their land nearly as well as America does when finished mining!
@@michaelfoxx6881 Our government allowed the mining company to lease the land and they were suppose to be responsible for their waste... until bankrupcy!
@@northman77
Interesting! The reason I asked, a small town I once lived in, there was an abandoned gold mine. A friend and I used to go exploring there, plinking with our .22 rifles, and such. There were pools and streams of water that were swimming pool blue. Story had it that arsenic used to separate the gold from dirt back in the early 1900's was the cause of the blue color. No fish and no plants grew in the blue water. This was early 1980's.
Looks like a great place to film a war movie. lol
I was thinking of that old film while uploading this video. Maybe I'll repost it again. Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving.
What are those large concrete circles? Have they been silos?
The round circles were called thickeners and they were used to leach a processing pulp. Here is what I also found: ”in a series of seven thickeners, the first two of which are acid-proof construction and 250 feet in diameter, thus making them the largest acid-proof thickeners ever constructed.”
@@mixup98 Thanks
So creepy...😪
I always picture mines as them old, creepy shaft mines held up by a few wood beams. Lol. Nice video and take care.
Thanks, you too , James 👍 I have several videos of old, creepy shaft mines held up with rotten wood beams and maybe I'll post them in the near future.
Thanks. Happy Holidays.
Same to you JVC!
Is it too dangerous to wander down into the mine now?
The road leading down into the pit has been blocked with tons of loose dirt which can be seen in the video and it would be very dangerous trying to get around the blockage.
Thanks. Enjoyed the video.
Amazing!
Haha iconic spot to take pictures at and raves occur there too weird place
Wonder why they don't filll It in?
It’s essentially a waste site that you really can’t just fill in.
The land owner originally planned to do just that and build a residential community, but this was nixed after the real estate collapse of 2008. The land is contaminated and requires extensive cleanup to do anything with it. For a while, this area was pretty distant from everything else but now it is adjacent from other newer big communities nearby being built so you can probably bet money this tract will get developed in the next decade.
We’re those round things silo foundations?
The only information I have is that they were leaching ponds for making pulp.
They are called thickeners
Here on active self protection...
I knew I recognized the song from somewhere
Great video as always ... I have never seen that place before. I'm in my 50s and should have seen that by now so I don't know what gives on that. What's the big secret!
No secret. This area is only about 400 yards from a very busy road but unless you know it's there then you would never expect something this large to be so close. Every summer thousands of people headed out to Lake Mead drive right past this area and 99% of them don't even know it's there.
@@mixup98 It's a nice place ... I like it.
can anyone visit that location Mixup98?
Weren’t you here before?
Yes, this video was posted on our outdoor channel last year.
Open pit with the wheel of fortune too 😆 💪😎👌
Oh yeah!
Those circular disks look like they'd be a good place for post apocalyptic Rollerball LOL
Hello Michael. I appreciate you watching our outdoor videos.
Hey the wheel of Fortune was Unique , but the rest, well chalk it up to the Ignorance of MAN and his need to leave his mark on the world wherever he goes !!
Kinda Like a dog marking his territory !
As co-workers and myself used to say to each other when meeting in areas of questionable safety while off-duty, "I hope you both have your "💩" with you", when out in those desolate places.
As a side note, have you ever encountered any ghosts or spiritual activity in these remote excursions?
Trust me, we are always well protected when exploring areas like this. I don't know if we have ever encountered ghosts or spiritual activity but we have heard strange noises and observed shadows and movements while exploring, especially in old underground mines.
@@mixup98
Good! Glad to hear that you do!
Interesting on the mines! If/when you are fortunate enough to capture that kind of activity on video, I would love to see it posted. I used to wonder if such was real or not. Then, at the tender age of 29 I had my first (of many) encounters. Thankfully, none of mine were hostile or evil, but I understand such are out there.
Keep up the great videos and stay safe!
A little more info of what we were looking at and history would have been appreciated
But then you could google it yourself.
@@CraigArndt why? When I'm watching it already! Not that interesting of a hole in the ground
3 kids mine.
@@milotorres6894 🙏
That crater was made by my first bb gun.
That's Isengard
Well you can throw tomato sauce cans up and over that pit. Shoot the hell out of the can. Then the can goes in the mine. This is how to dispose of range trash.
👋☕️⚖️
Just what ( h### ) are the U FO ‘s going to think of human circles?
Also, great place to do donuts. The blackened soil from the diesel isn't very healthy to inhale however.
How deep is the hole?
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Are you going to visit Area 51 or are you are scaredy cat HMMMM?
Trust me....I've been to Area 51 and yes, I would be scared to sneak in there lol.
On second thought, it would make for a very interesting video.
I would have to say that it's a shocking eyesore ........ that Giant White House in the middle of the District of Criminals, that's what we're talking about, right? OH, OH, the open-pit mine, yes..... also a shocking eyesore.
How do you propose to get strategic minerals? Manganese is an important metal used to strengthen steel, it was vital in WWII. That site, while not pretty, is a minuscule part of Nevada. Evidently some people have made some use of it since the mining ceased. Until now I was totally unaware of it, now that I know my reaction, and my desire to "fix" it is the same as before I knew of it, nil.
@@3ducs Wonderful, 3ducs. You know we shouldn't fear failure...we should fear succeeding in things that are pointless.
The old brodie manganese alloy helmet , and in drinking water , my dumb a** nephew , the walking tree stump are the only 2 examples I can think of off hand . outstanding video work , very nice.
Circular areas look like waste water aeration pools, like one sees at water treatment plants today. The water would be shot out a pipe through that center pylon and the cap acted like a sprinkler head to divert the waters path to spray horizontally out over the pond surface.
Awesome!
Generally I'm not fond of graffiti, but that huge Wheel of Fortune bit was hilariousness!
What were the large round pits for?
@Carne De Lagarto That makes total sense!
That's where the ore was removed
@@sixtyfourchebby4507 Not the pit, the shallow, perfectly round pits. But, thanks any-hoo.
@@cluelessbeekeeping1322 oh the steel pans? Those are thickeners used to condense concentrates which are then pumped thru dewatering system then to a drier. Typically.
@@sixtyfourchebby4507 Thanks!
man, when your son walked up to that edge, i had a heart attack. cool place. thanks
Those things that look like a giant tea candle and a roulette wheel....
God help us all if our duly elected President gets cheated out of this election. God bless you Mixup98!
I don't have anything like this in my area. Really enjoyed the drone footage!
Glad you enjoyed it Mr. Anderson and we thank you for watching.
Wow!👍🏾😀❤️🇺🇸
That was pretty cool Mix! You and your son do some great adventures together....Say, were those buildings, parking lot, and cars I saw when the drone was passing by? If so, what kind of business would they be doing out there?
I believe it's an RV storage yard.
@@oldtwinsna8347 that’s exactly what it is
@@oldtwinsna8347 Thank you for the info
Great place to party and take psychedelics