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Cheers mate, hope you enjoyed the final episode of this gnarly mission!

@@markkilley2683 Thanks mate. Beautiful part of QLD!

Thanks mate! It was definitely something a bit different.

We definitely could have kept crawling through. Chris even tested the collapsed timbers by climbing on top of them. IMHO we just needed more positive thinking 🍺 Ebenezer won't admit it, but he loves worming through collapses. It's his natural element.

@@wayneiona Thanks Wayne. Have a great 2025 and thanks for following our adventures. QAM.

@@OGRocker1 thanks for supporting us all year my friend! Hopefully I get the US one day soon and we can go on a mission together in person. Happy New Year to you and your Family OG

Cheers buddy!

G'day mate! Pretty bloody exhausted to be honest. Relentless year with work, exploring & home improvements. I hope you have had a tremendous New Year's, mate, and all the best for 2025.

@@qldabandonedmines I did have a really good New Year thanks mate. 2025 promises to be a good year for me. I start a part time job at a school looking after their safety on January 15. Only 42 weeks a year. That'll be hard to take after working in jobs where I worked up to 90 - 96 hours a week. It's good to be able to slow down.

@@detecting_Nathanael you have earned it. Save a couple of your winter weeks leave as we may be going on some Tin adventures down New England way

@@qldabandonedmines Sounds good to me.

@@wayneiona Thankyou and Merry Xmas! Hopefully you can join us in two weeks for the final episode.

@@andrewbarker9773 indeed. The water is flooding up from the levels below, up and out of the main shaft. As it's so far underground, the water is creating a positive-pressure invironment. If the water recedes and the mine was to dry out, the workings would all fail we would say.

​​​​​​​​@@qldabandonedminesnot true - Chris (lead explorer) advised that it was perfectly safe. The timbers get stronger as they metamorphose over time. Similar to dinosaur skeletons - a well studied area of science 💎

@@markkilley2683 Cheers mate. Glad you enjoyed our mission. Terrifyingly Beautiful was going to be the original title for this series! Haha. We didn't think anyone would get it!

@@markkilley2683 Primaries were Tin & Tungsten but also some lenses of copper.

​@@qldabandonedmines Hydrozincyte mate get your facts right.

Sometimes you just have to take a chance.

@@justsomebloke460 Merry Xmas bro to you and your Fam!

@@mikewinings4120 Walking out was a little grim! We had a few moments on the way out that pushed our limits. Then a 2 hour walk back to our camp for the night. Merry Xmas Mike and thanks for watching and supporting all year.

Cheers mate! We had a few close calls on this one, but thankfully no casualties and all the gear survived. Buck saved at least one of us from falling into the spicy water. That part is in the next and final episode. It's the best we saved for last. Merry Xmas brother from the QAM crew

@@qldabandonedmines Merry Christmas to all my QAM mates, Cheers Eb...

Thanks mate - it'll be tough keeping up this pace of exploration next year, but we have some ideas 🍻

@@buckchancey The collapsed Theodore adit?

@@qldabandonedmines get back in your hole

Thanks Kev and Merry Xmas mate! Final episode of this big one up in the next fortnight. From Eb & The Gang.

Absolutely my friend. Bad vibes.. but glad we got to see what was in the mountain. We were on level 4 of 9. What I would pay to see the lower workings. The relics down there would be phenomenal. Merry Xmas mate and see you once it cools down for a mission! Eb.

@@qldabandonedmines Hi Eb, happy Christmas to you and your family too. Also to Buck, John & Chris. Maybe the mission could be considered for school holidays? I have just accepted a part time safety job at a school. 42 weeks a year and five mornings a week. If we can swing the school holidays, that would work really well.

Yes that was a first for us. I am certain some things we find would be very unique species as these environments, the dark and the mineral sediments would create some bizzare lifeforms. If it puzzled John, then it most certainly is a rare find. I am pretty sure it was listening to us 😂😂😂 Eb. QAM.

Hannah says the wire fungus looks like my back hair.

One strand was definately looking at you John! That stuff gave me nightmares

@@TheSilmarillian thanks bud and I've pinned this comment for all to read as we agree on all of it. We hit bad 02 in two zones of this mine that without bump tested and calibrated 4 gas metres, could have led to a situation miles from the portal. I see countless people cruising through old workings in various places online, stating they will "see if they get dizzy" and retreat or "smell the bad air" and that's not the way bad atmospheres work, as you would well know. Stay out and there is no risk. Eb & the QAM crew

@@qldabandonedmines Yep and to add - the bad air is rarely where we would have expected it to be. Stay out, stay alive.

We never found them. Spent hours looking them and that was the start of our dehydration. Those hills are no joke. I have no idea why we executed this mission in the peak of summer.

Thanks Ledge. Add me on insta and I can kick you some shots of the old mill and tails sights from this one. As well as the city sized dump piles. They are a sensational sight. We kept it out of the edit to keep the location obscured. This beast has had major issues with subsidence up topside in the 1990s. The giant stope chambers in level 1 up near the surface started to give way.

@@MrRj7926 Hey bud. It was over 4 hours of footage that in total took 10 months to finish editing, as other explorations were easier to produce. There was also two audio channels and 2 b-roll cameras to synch & edit together. This one was an enormous chore to edit down to an hour.

@qldabandonedmines fair enough mate, I was just curious is all.

@@35andsolid The frothy part was really nasty. I kept thinking a mine monster was going to grab my leg when we walked through that part. The mud is the sediment that settles everytime the mine floods over the last 50 years. The red would mean it's high in iron and that precipitates out of the waters leaving a thick sludge. It ruins your clothing permanently and stains your feet for weeks if your not wearing waders.

@@qldabandonedmines Yes I have seen the the mud in some of the mines where I live ,I always thought it was rust , cheers

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@johncarter3521 it's Hydrozicide mate!

GED mined the Gympie Monkland reef via a huge decline (The Lewis) in the 2000s, so if there was a cache, it would have to be moved a very long way away from that area mate. They were blasting truck sized helix's down, so any munitions would have been cleared out. BHP pumped the Gympie workings dry in the 1990s too, so if it's down there they would have had to remove it all to operate.

@@colindeer4908 Thanks mate! We really love what we do and hearing our viewers enjoy them keeps us going!

Cheers Mark. Wait until you see the tungsten deposit deep underground. It's bonkers! Thanks for tuning into our adventures my friend. Eb & The QAM gang.

Thankyou Glen. The QAM crew pushed hard on this day! I think I'm still exhausted from it 😂😂😂😂

Thanks mate. We were well prepared for this one and I think we had enough lighting to make it a movie set!

Thanks brother. Part 2 and 3 are great episodes. We think they represent the best stuff we have possibly ever shot for RUclips. Wait until you see the "Soviet Escape Hatch" it's a really weird find!

Glad you enjoyed it Bob. This one sapped our energy and effectively crushed out plans for the remainder of the trip! Getting out and back to our camp site at night was a quite the ordeal 😂😂😂

Thanks Nadie! The massive torch is the Imalent MS32. It's 200,000 lumens!! That's Bucks though. Mine is the Olight Marauder 2. 35,000 lumens. I've had mine for 4 years and tortured it. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a reliable bright torch. Hope you can join us over the next few weeks. Kind Regards. Eb. QAM.

Thankyou RJ. Two more episodes of this old beast over the next few weeks. We get very deep underground!

Thanks mate!

The mountain kicked our arses bad on this mission. I felt it was telling us not to return 😂😂 If we ever head back, I'll hit you up mate. Thankyou find the kind offer. Eb. QAM.

@qldabandonedmines trust me I know that feeling. The first time I went up to that mine with a mate we run out of water on the way there so it was a bad experience. I didn't go back up there for almost a year because it was traumatic haha my cardiovascular capacity is pretty good now because I go up there solo hiking every week. I hit the spurs on the northern side last week! It was alot more difficult 😂

@jarroddeeth567 after this hike we had to pull the car over urgently outside of town as two of us were very ill. We were rolling on the grass spewing up pretty bad. It was quite the scene. The passing motorists looked quite concerned. Brophy didn't come good for several days afterwards. 😂😂😂

See you in the morning brother! Much love from all the QAM crew.

@@mickhelliar2502 Hey Ledge. You can message one of us via the QAM insta page. We closed all of our emails down as we were getting daily requests for locations and it was getting extremely annoying. I've spent over 3 years exploring Burgowan and have roped down over a dozen shafts that never hit the coal seam sadly. They are impossibly dangerous and all un-collared, so I'm happy to say we have closed that book. Eb. QAM.

drop me an email as I would love a yarn about this......

@@Mark_The_Magnificent Thanks Mark. Please tune in next fortnight mate. Your going to really dig it. Giant workings! Eb.

Thanks ledge. Stay safe out there!

@@OGRocker1 Cheers OG. Shame about this one. We dropped down to level 2B of an 11-level network of workings. The lowest stuff would no doubt have some awesome relics from the 1980s. Sadly, almost 200 metres below the water table these days. Hope you are well ledge! Eb.