Exploring a Hidden 1890s Mine in a Middle-Earth Setting Rare Artifacts & Blasted Miners Trail

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

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  • @abandonedminehunters
    @abandonedminehunters 4 месяца назад +9

    Very cool picturesque location! As well as a very cool mine. 👍⛏️🔦

  • @CasualObserver99
    @CasualObserver99 4 месяца назад +7

    Thanks for going in so we don't have to. I always wanted to explore this, so great to see.

  • @milesbeavis4252
    @milesbeavis4252 Месяц назад +2

    Extraordinary place, thank you for showing!

  • @MegaSilverStacker
    @MegaSilverStacker День назад

    Amazing explore! The PNW is very beautiful.

  • @westmontable
    @westmontable 4 месяца назад +5

    What a fantastic location. Thanks for another cool video.

  • @TekieD-Rogers
    @TekieD-Rogers 4 месяца назад +5

    First visit to your channel; IMPRESSIVE! ( I plan to review previous vids, & expect to sub within 48 hours! Thanks for original content!) Channels, similar to yours, are growing fewer, & farther between!! ( Not too many wanna put in the time, effort, & cash it requires, to create such an amazing end result! 🥂 cheers!
    T.D-Rogers
    ( here I am, back to say “Thanks” to all the commentors ! This is a GREAT stress relieving way to spend time AWAY from my beloved Country’s”issues”!
    You’ve captured BEAUTY, which comes from the Creator- not only in the Video, but in the comments made after it!

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  4 месяца назад +1

      Very kind of you to say and welcome. Thanks for watching and your comments. We are glad to have you along.

  • @IanBrodie-bg1lu
    @IanBrodie-bg1lu 2 месяца назад +2

    Got to admire the first man that found this,and the first men that worked this mine,tough cookies the lot of them!

  • @richardbrobeck2384
    @richardbrobeck2384 3 месяца назад +2

    Great trail !!

  • @rons1566
    @rons1566 4 месяца назад +2

    Very enjoyable! Your video quality is remarkable!

  • @paulcooper9135
    @paulcooper9135 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

  • @CornishMineExplorer
    @CornishMineExplorer 2 месяца назад +2

    That wheelbarrow was something else! Most of our old ones are entirely made of wood!

  • @LawnMower-hu9pw
    @LawnMower-hu9pw 4 месяца назад +2

    What you have found is really cool especially the trail along the mountain where it was blasted out

  • @donhoughton271
    @donhoughton271 2 месяца назад +2

    Beautiful spot😊😊

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +5

    Oh I'm on the east side I've been al over these mountains but his was the coolest lol once he said he only blasted in thunderstorms so people couldn't find it lol

  • @Victorm.Robinson
    @Victorm.Robinson 4 месяца назад +11

    At the base of the waterfall that is the place I would choose to start my digging for pieces of gold FYI and you should too😅😮

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  4 месяца назад +4

      Don't disagree. Thanks

    • @TekieD-Rogers
      @TekieD-Rogers 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Victorm.Robinson I’d love to know what drew your eye to that SPOT, specifically! ( no! I have no interest in digging, I’m just an old woman, learning! The minute I stop learning, I’ve stopped living!)
      Once a Q comes to mind, I MUST answer it one way or another! Just hoping you’ll make this journey the short way around!
      T.D-Rogers ( from the Ozark Mountains )

    • @magicone9327
      @magicone9327 4 месяца назад +3

      Good chance any heavy’s would be up the ravin caught within a hundred feet where it was liberated

  • @debzj5021
    @debzj5021 4 месяца назад +2

    Lots of huckleberry bushes on the way in. Theres an active mineral claim in the Gifford Pinchot just above Sunset Falls. Would be interesting to find out what all they are mining.

  • @nosay2069
    @nosay2069 4 месяца назад +4

    Cool video. I was wondering when you filmed this because It hasn’t been raining much here in western Wa this summer.

  • @geobrower3069
    @geobrower3069 3 месяца назад +1

    It's a wheelbarrow mine, that's why the boards are running up the centre of the adit, used to make rolling the barrow easier, hence the possible lamp on the rusty barrow (illuminates the planks)

  • @JaredBalmer-i3k
    @JaredBalmer-i3k 28 дней назад +1

    You should try taking a pan and small bucket up there next time to see if there's any gold on those tailings. You might be surprised

  • @loosehandle1
    @loosehandle1 4 месяца назад +5

    Amazing site, could have filmed Rambo there

  • @joedebosco3047
    @joedebosco3047 3 месяца назад +2

    It would be interesting to know two things about this mine: 1) what type of bridge did they have to get to this adit? 2) where are the waste piles for this mine?

  • @bryankerr9462
    @bryankerr9462 4 месяца назад +2

    Do you think there used to be a small trestle leaving that mine to cross the falls? Didn’t see a huge tailing pile below the adit.

  • @apeters911
    @apeters911 4 месяца назад +2

    Awesome video guys.
    Have you ever found any gold in the old mines ?

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  4 месяца назад +1

      No the majority of the lode mine gold around here is not "free milling" It is not easily visible to the naked eye and hast to be extracted from the host rock through a complex milling process in large quantities of ore.

  • @charlesdeilke8364
    @charlesdeilke8364 4 месяца назад +9

    Might be a stockpile of ore they never bagged to a mule train out.

  • @rexroad9917
    @rexroad9917 4 месяца назад +1

    That is the 2nd wheel barrel I have seen in a mine today. The other was in Wales on the "Lost Mines" YT channel. Both have spoke wheels. When I see boards end to end on a mine floor, I think wheel barrel mine.

  • @speedfreak8200
    @speedfreak8200 4 месяца назад +1

    Well worth Googling the area. Thanks for your hard work, rewarding as hell, but lots of tramping. Will the Copper stay that bright color when it dries ?

  • @Drogothehusky
    @Drogothehusky 2 месяца назад +1

    16:33 upper right looks like a candle or lantern ledge that was chiseled into the wall?

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  2 месяца назад +1

      Interesting very possible. Thanks for pointing out that observation appreciate it.

    • @Drogothehusky
      @Drogothehusky 2 месяца назад +1

      @@ghosttownsandminesofwashington I can only imagine how it must have felt walking through there lit only by candles and the dancing of flame on the walls!!! I wonder if things sparkled more in candle light and made the shiny things easier to spot 🤨🤔 Thanks for the video! Looks like it’s in my neck of the woods 🤫

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  2 месяца назад +1

      That would have been very cool. ​ Might need to try that one day. @Drogothehusky

  • @Glenn-em3hv
    @Glenn-em3hv 2 месяца назад +1

    You know with the waterfalls and all the water period you could easily go off grid and have all the power you wanted!!!

  • @bethintexas9678
    @bethintexas9678 4 месяца назад +1

    What a wonderful adventure!

  • @thomasdurant7907
    @thomasdurant7907 4 месяца назад +2

    I wonder what the development of the mine and the camp site was like. They had to have made a claim and started the tunnel before anything else I would think? Or at least surveyed out how they were going to put that trail in from the camp. I wonder if the went on foot and climbed down from higher up initially? Somebody had to have found this site on foot originally I would think, just boggles the mind how this all might have played out with level of technology that they had.

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  4 месяца назад +2

      In the 1800s, miners and investors used a variety of methods to find areas to mine, including luck, geological surveys, and looking for evidence of minerals. Washington commissioned geological surveys to find new coalfields and mineral deposits.

  • @mikespangler98
    @mikespangler98 3 месяца назад +5

    Too bad Nick Zentner isn't along for the geology commentary.

  • @ronbarnhardt5201
    @ronbarnhardt5201 4 месяца назад +2

    Even back then they tried to avoid taxes. If they were gold and silver mines they claimed it was a copper mine. I am from the Motherload of Cali. Did a lot of mining and dredging. Don't claim anything!! 😂👍 Dredging became illegal here in 2009. I still have my 3". Thanks 👍

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +2

    I was around copper city lots of hols dug into pure false gold and lots of copper

  • @donaldperson948
    @donaldperson948 4 месяца назад +2

    Grab the ceramic thing!

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    Oh I did hunt bears and found a couple exploring them

  • @magicone9327
    @magicone9327 4 месяца назад +1

    Any minerals that would be seen with UV light?

  • @aaronmiles2030
    @aaronmiles2030 2 месяца назад +1

    That mess on the ground was probably good ore the miners knew was paydirt that they didnt want to send outside to the boss they were gonna come back and get it later but never did you should run a few buckets

  • @thereissomecoolstuff
    @thereissomecoolstuff 4 месяца назад +1

    Is this on Private or public land. I know you won’t say… lol. Would like to see the medallion. You can have the death tubes.

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  4 месяца назад +1

      We can say public lands.

    • @thereissomecoolstuff
      @thereissomecoolstuff 4 месяца назад

      @@ghosttownsandminesofwashington it looked like it has had very little traffic. That has to be some tough sledding if that’s all they did in 5 years.

  • @donaldperson948
    @donaldperson948 4 месяца назад +1

    20 per ton back then or now?

  • @terryrempel68
    @terryrempel68 4 месяца назад +1

    Looks like some rich material at 25:30, but rich in what minerals? Iron for sure but what else? Seems to be a decent amount of it. Thanks for the vid.

  • @gradyyokeley9930
    @gradyyokeley9930 2 месяца назад +1

    That shovel is for emergency use. If there is a cavein you can dig yourself out

  • @thomasjones1778
    @thomasjones1778 4 месяца назад +1

    1:04 someone was trying to take this home bt realized ho much work it wold tae

    • @ghosttownsandminesofwashington
      @ghosttownsandminesofwashington  4 месяца назад +1

      Well if someone were to try they would need to bring it down cliffside where its all brush and no trails or roads for over a mile

  • @LawnMower-hu9pw
    @LawnMower-hu9pw 4 месяца назад +1

    I was mistaken Washington cool

  • @magicone9327
    @magicone9327 4 месяца назад +1

    Think about how the workers suspended themselves on the wall to drill for blasting!

  • @Lucysdad66
    @Lucysdad66 4 месяца назад +1

    I guess we're not going to see any minner shadows today

  • @daleolson3506
    @daleolson3506 4 месяца назад +3

    That toad looked like my mother in law

  • @allengray5748
    @allengray5748 4 месяца назад +2

    Holy Smokes! That wheelbarrow looks like it was heavy empty let alone full of rock and going over wood and ground through that narrow path!!?! These guys must have came from Tunnass City!!?? Cool exploration! Great Job! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎

  • @JaredBalmer-i3k
    @JaredBalmer-i3k 28 дней назад +1

    We're there's cortz there's a possibility of gold

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    He once told me after we drank some risky he was involved in a survey of all the areas but he didn't tell anything or any one about the hidden mine he started with viles and bags of nuggets he would show me a different kind of metal but would not tell me it's Nam he was up there for 20 years I ran into him then one year he was gone he was very old but he said he found it after the war

  • @JaredBalmer-i3k
    @JaredBalmer-i3k 28 дней назад +1

    You might come across a bear or a mountain lion too.

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    He had a 3/4 wolf and he never feed it I watched it catch alot of fish out of the river man I have story's he told me about the area and I no that

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    What I regret most is the 45 years I hunted goat's elk deer I didn't pay alot of attention to all the mines back then I met aa so called professor and he alway had gold but told me where a mine was that hat more expensive thing to mine I did find the mine but I was young and dumb I didn't ask enough about it I'm thinking that it might have been platinum

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    Western Washington or up very hight

  • @lizjohnson3956
    @lizjohnson3956 3 месяца назад

    Olympic Peninsula?

  • @chris-nwue_B
    @chris-nwue_B 4 месяца назад +2

    Found a wheelbarrow like that in a mine in E wa years ago. It was rusted but in amazing shape due to a mine that was dry year round. I figured it would be about 120 years old today

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    He didn't like to talk about his mine but I no where it is he hid it well no one has ever found it

  • @scottdilley356
    @scottdilley356 4 месяца назад +1

    I'd be willing to talk with someone and show them the mountain it's in I'm to crippled up to ever go look again it's kinda funny every year he cam back with new stuff and the wolf invact the wolf was how I found him up there one year it graweld at me when I was coming by hunting it set by the opening guarding the entrance

  • @aaronmiles2030
    @aaronmiles2030 2 месяца назад +2

    Be safe good show man dot get ur butt kicked by papagaeuno

  • @020Dutchy
    @020Dutchy 4 месяца назад +1

    Looks like they wheel barrowed the ore out, see the single board in the center of the tunnels
    Weird they tunneled left where the vein went straight at 34.00

  • @LawnMower-hu9pw
    @LawnMower-hu9pw 4 месяца назад

    With all the greenery and the water flow you must be in California

  • @donaldperson948
    @donaldperson948 4 месяца назад +2

    Just use a metal detector!