Some Refuse To Explore This Mine? We Find Out Why!
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2022
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This channel is based in the North East of England ( UK ) and documents our explorations of both the underground and above ground workings of abandoned, and sometimes operational mines within areas such as the Northern Pennines, North Yorkshire and the Lake District, sometimes a little further. We now and again throw in some caving too. Our intention is to document these abandoned mines, show how they worked and talk about the history behind them. Unfortunately, due to politics, or the need to preserve the site, we can not always name the mine location. If the location is not shown in the video, please do not ask as refusal to divulge often offends.
THE DANGERS OF ABANDONED MINE EXPLORATION :
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Abandoned mines contain dangers for which equipment and training are required. Hazards can include false floors, open shafts, low oxygen, poisonous gases, collapsing or rotten structures, explosives, flood risks, bacterial infection and of course, rock falls. NEVER enter alone, ALWAYS thoroughly research your destination, ALWAYS alert a third party to your plans and timings. STAY OUT, STAY ALIVE.
This video SHOULD NOT be considered instructional or used for navigation within this mine. Video is for historical documentation and entertainment only.
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You never fail to produce the very best of abandoned mines, in the old country. Keeps one riveted, from go to throw..
Thanks, glad you enjoyed :)
Wow what a mine amazing that amount of work they put in there back in the early days! Thanks for showing us
Thankyou sir, nice to get feedback :). Yes, people forget that there were not just miners working in these places, but other trades such as stone masons, who created these amazing arches, which are now putting up with such serious abuse from the shale. Glad you enjoyed :)
Your comment about considering things over twenty years old reminded me: here in the states, Nevada to be exact, anything over fifty years old is considered an artifact. So even when modern mining intercepts older workings, a historian has to be brought in and make sure things are documented and preserved as much as possible. Great video and fascinating how different, but also similar, mine structures in the UK are compared to their contemporaries in the US
Wow, I didn’t even know they documented old mines they come across in America. Thanks and yes, even within the uk, techniques vary on different regions. Glad you enjoyed :)
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores oh yes! I’ve worked on several sites that contained historic mining districts that were open for public tours
A few years ago I watched a video part of the extreme archeology series. It was a 1800's copper mine in North Wales, UK, where they had by pure chance, cut through and discovered a bronze age mine. The end of it had been investigated and mapped, but they had no idea where the entrance was. The people who explored it were scientists and they had a mine guide with them, you could see they were scared stiff in places, but were brave enough to explore all of it. It had to be pumped out because it was otherwise completely flooded. Gave me an anxiety attack just watching them crawl under old beams that were basically just a memory of their former glory. The wood timbers were as soft as oatmeal and completely distorted. They did find the entrance which was blocked higher up, a shaft with platforms, the ladders of course had long since rotted away. It turned out the entrance had been covered over with modern mine spoil.
Yes, I often wonder how much is buried now.
Excellent explore, Stephen. This mine is really beautiful. Shout out to Curtis.
Thanks Joseoh, our pleasure :)
Definitely worth the effort! Beautiful mine!
16:00... looks like the miners were taking lessons from M.C.Escher !!
Had to look him up but now I know what you mean. We need to return to this place, more yet to explore, bits we forgot due to technical failures not shown in the video and we need to cross that traverse :)
Carling Black Label beer was considered a cheap beer in New York State, USA in 1969. In the States, those hip-hop pull tabs were outlawed by the mid 1970's, I bdlieve.
Yup, it was a budget beer here too, still is. But mineral collectors will have left them behind.
I turned 18 in 1975 and was able to buy beer, it was gone by then.
Amazing to see where men fought with picks and shovels to get coal out for fireplaces and foundries. Those areas would be very well known to the tough men who worked them, if they were to come back imagine what tales they could tell. The mine seems little changed- while in the outside world, we have went from horses & carts, to the first world war, WW2, went to the moon in 1969, and are now in the age of computer technology. And still the mine stays the same.
Yes, an unbelievably hard life, this was a lead mine though.
This was a very interesting mine. I love the bricked block ceilings below false floors. Great video. Im trying to catch up after being very busy.
Yup dangerous this one, we are returning to cross the collapse at some point
Really enjoy your videos and commentary. Thanks!
Thanks very much Mark, my pleasure :)
That is an amazing mine. Excellent video.
Thanks very much :)
My claustrophobia is spiking wildly with this video, I have no idea how you can do this, honestly. Damn, my heart is racing...
Props in doing what you love. You are a lot braver than I am. Beautiful mine tho
I was claustrophobic when I started all this, we work up yo mines like this, start with easier ones, thanks :)
Another fantastic explore cheers Alan
Thanks :)
Awesome masonry, didn't expect that rat's nest at the end. Cool place.
That's where it joins the vein, may get even worse if we csn get across the traverse.
Nice one, a bit sketchy in places, just don't go swinging on any rocks and you'll be fine 😆 Interesting mine, lots more possible down there too!
Yes, on the plan it goes on a whole. A few bits we forgot to poke our heads in too due to being tired.
I know what you mean, we recently done a similar thing, aimed for one thing and found another, but never had time to get back to the new thing. Ah well, a excuse for another trip.
There was so many things you could and and SHOULD of Explored More.,..
Thanks, suggest you make the video next time ;)
You fail to take into account equipment carried and bingo time.
Nice one Ste some nice colors in there
Cheers Keith, I forgot how amazing that part was.
As an ex potholer of many decades experience, in the pursuit of relative safety, I wouldn`t take the risks that these gentlemen have taken.
Sensible or irresponsible ? I`ll leave you to decide. For myself, I have my own opinion.
Thanks, we take our safety very seriously, and only take the most experienced to locations such as this, we have other places we can take people to prepaid them for the more extreme environments such as this, show them how to 'read the rocks' etc. Nobody started at this level, its worked up too.
🎼🎶🎵 So many fantastic colors🎵🎶
Indeed, I'd forgotten how colourfull it is even more colourful in real life
5:10 that looks like galena / silver
Indeed it is galena, it was a lead mine :)
What would you do if it collapsed and you couldn't get out?
even mine explorers need ventilation to let the mine gas escape, hence the handy hole
England was rich in Tin mines...I imagine the mine workers had heavy lead poisoning...
Indeed, many did not survive past the age of 40 due to poisoning from the dust.
18:00 How do you place rocks like that?????
They use supports which are removed once the arch is complete. You see examples of them in some of the videos.
What month was that Friday the 24th in? 1992 had three such--January, April and July. I clearly remember the latter two myself!
I can't remember that month unfortunately :(
Just watched footage again, it was July :)
Could someone explain to me why they made "arching" in mines? It looks very elaborate. Why didn't they use timber to hold up the mine, like American mines do?
That's because of lack of wood in this area, wood used in hoppers etc had to be imported, often from America.
With the beautiful masonry work in those lead mines, it must have cost a fortune even back then. Was lead that valuable to warrant that much labor? Gold or silver would be understandable.
Yes, it was, it was used in many applications :)
Yes and still is
Steel cans, dated from 70s definitely, been told that a slab used to weigh a ton 😂
Probably, hadn’t thought about it lol
The normal practice was to pull the can tab then drop it in the can. I can only imagine how many were swallowed.
Hmm no risk there then guys?
Apart from the roof, the sumps, the collapses and the false floors to lower workings
Brave explore folks thank you
Thanks, need to re-do this with latest recording kit :)
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores And I'll be watching when you do 👍
What about the co2 level down there?
It's all fine down there, meters picked nothing up, likely due to large sumps and large collapse at the end connecting it yo another very well ventilated mine.
What type of mine was it for salet oil
Salet oil? It was a lead mine.
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores see how you can get oil from rock slate old
Yup old ring pull's
Yup, used to be all over our school.plauground.
Yeah! You can count me as another refusenik!
We do it, so you dont have too :)
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Glad you enjoyed.
Damn that place looks horrid mate haha The graffiti at 15:17 looks like it says WM RG 14-6-04
It's funny, I've been to the left branch end once before and walked right past the writing. Apparently it was years before anybody reached as far as us as they kept turning back. Off course, if you want to see it for real, giz a shout :)
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores I'm not surprised people kept turning back in there- that's just pure shale nightmare material lol
Brrr, serious heebee jeebees!
As I went into that crawl, I actually 2nd guessed myself if we should continue but took it nice and slow :)
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores kudos! You wouldn't have got me in there for any amount of fabulous, funky fungus or pretty coloursl
Black Label goes back to the 60s
Yup, but all evidence shows mineral collecting in the late 80s/early 90s :)
If i was in a cave you would not hear me, verbal vibrations and the walles will speak back and I'm yours, explosions and you can come back, how long.
Errm…
Need some more cardio, Sounds like you gonna croke.
Suggest you try the route before commenting, you only see a fraction of it in the video
Honestly, I don’t know why you do this. I watched because I know you must have survived but it’s soooooo sketchy in there, if anything goes wrong u r absolutely fuc…d. I actually think this is worse than pot holing because this is all man made through meddling with nature and bodging stuff together often hundreds of years ago.
That’s why we do it, so you don’t have too ;)
what i like is, this is proper urbex as it happens, ,raw dangerous ... but i can experience from home!|