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@@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 )
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
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)
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.
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?
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 👍
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.
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.
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 ?
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 🕊️☮️♾️😎
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Very cool picturesque location! As well as a very cool mine. 👍⛏️🔦
It absolutely is, Thanks!
Thanks for going in so we don't have to. I always wanted to explore this, so great to see.
Glad we could share it with you. Thanks!
Got to admire the first man that found this,and the first men that worked this mine,tough cookies the lot of them!
Without a doubt.
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!
Very kind of you to say and welcome. Thanks for watching and your comments. We are glad to have you along.
What a fantastic location. Thanks for another cool video.
Thank you!
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😅😮
Don't disagree. Thanks
@@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 )
Good chance any heavy’s would be up the ravin caught within a hundred feet where it was liberated
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
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What you have found is really cool especially the trail along the mountain where it was blasted out
Yes, it is. Thank you for your comments.
Beautiful spot😊😊
It absolutely is. Thanks
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Thank you!
Very enjoyable! Your video quality is remarkable!
Thank you very much!
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)
Appreciate the comments.
Great trail !!
Yes it is.
Amazing site, could have filmed Rambo there
No doubt....Thanks!
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.
Interesting, know the area will have to look into it. Thanks
Might be a stockpile of ore they never bagged to a mule train out.
Very possible.
Maybe there's a Privy Pit full of old bottles? Video idea 💡
Cool video. I was wondering when you filmed this because It hasn’t been raining much here in western Wa this summer.
It was July of this year. Thanks for the comments!
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?
First great question. Second the waste piles mostly washed down the gully.
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 👍
Thank you for the comments.
Too bad Nick Zentner isn't along for the geology commentary.
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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.
Very possible. The majority of the tailings have washed down the gukch.
Awesome video guys.
Have you ever found any gold in the old mines ?
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.
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.
Thanks for the comments!
Wheel barrows remind me of wheeling concrete when I was 18 early 70's no more wheeling.
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 ?
Yes, the stain or wash maintains the green/blue. Thank you for watching.
I was around copper city lots of hols dug into pure false gold and lots of copper
Very cool area.
16:33 upper right looks like a candle or lantern ledge that was chiseled into the wall?
Interesting very possible. Thanks for pointing out that observation appreciate it.
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 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Appreciate that, thank you!
What a wonderful adventure!
It was a great site to visit. Thank you!
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.
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.
Grab the ceramic thing!
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That toad looked like my mother in law
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Oh I did hunt bears and found a couple exploring them
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With all the greenery and the water flow you must be in California
Western Washington
That shovel is for emergency use. If there is a cavein you can dig yourself out
Thats a thought.
1:04 someone was trying to take this home bt realized ho much work it wold tae
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
Any minerals that would be seen with UV light?
It is very possible.
I was mistaken Washington cool
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I guess we're not going to see any minner shadows today
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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.
We can say public lands.
@@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.
Think about how the workers suspended themselves on the wall to drill for blasting!
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20 per ton back then or now?
Back then.
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
Very interesting!
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
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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.
Appreciate it. Thank you!
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
Understand that for sure we wish we would have started exploring these sites sooner as well.
Western Washington or up very hight
Yes Western Washington
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
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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
They are very cool.to find and see. We find them somewhat frequently.
Just use a metal detector!
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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
Thank you for watching and the comments.
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
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Olympic Peninsula?
Mountain loop Monte Cristo area.