Very Sketchy mine..Not for Amateurs....Glad too see no dynamite in this one...This mine dosent look like its going to be here much longer....Like to see old artifacts from a buy gone era.....Good job on the vedeo, thanks for bring us along.........................JB.............................
That was a heat reduction capacitor. Really old school, used to dissipate the heat when the drift wheel was sending a bucket down. The older wound motors would produce electricity when they free wheel, so they could divert that power generation to the cap to run out the buildup. helped keep from frying the windings in those big motors.
Long time watcher, and don't really comment much, but just have to say; if you ever say "Happy little mine" you'd be the Bob Ross of mine exploration. Love your videos and your tone makes me feel like I'm walking a few steps behind.
At 38.21. This a starter bank for a large motor. It's basically a way of limiting starting current to a large electric motor in an effort to keep extreme loads off the motor windings while starting. It's basically a bank of resistor wire and yes it can get very hot. These generally were connected to what is called a manual starter. I'm guessing the scrapers took the starter because I didn't see it. These starters have a handle on one side. When pulled on one direction the resistive load is in line. When the motor reaches operating speed the handle is thrown the other way taking the resistive bank out of line allowing the motor to be fed directly across the line. This is old school stuff.
@thomas talley You are correct. Some were oil coolerd. I have seen oil cooled elements in the bottom of manual starters as I described. I have also seen air cooled units such as this. I know this because a long time ago I worked in a very old manufacturing plant for ten years. It was built in 1888. This was a time when everything was powered by steam. When the change to electric came, a lot of the old electric stuff that replaced steam was still there and still in use because it worked. I recognize all the leather belt line shafts as well. I served my Millwright Apprenticeship in this factory. All the machinery was built to last for ever. Everything could be rebuilt and put back in service. There was no such thing as throw away equipment in those days. There was a down side to a lot of it. It was dangerous. This included the electrical equipment. I have seen high voltage 3 phase panels with open knife switches. One had to be very careful. One slip and bye bye.
love the intro .....good info......pretty sure this one is for sale through GoldcRush Expeditions..... that long piece of equipment that looks like a Trommel is a roaster for sulfides..... surprised you didn't smell the sulfides ....good looking mill
Hello from the UK Gly, that has to be one of your best explores to date. The way you push yourself to the limits to show everyone what was going on in the mines amazes me. Can’t wait till your next explore love your channel take care respect Geoff 🇬🇧🛸👍👍👍👍
Gly , you have the best videographer of of all the mine exploring channels. Love seeing all the details and your commentary of what you encounter. Thank you and be safe, always wait for Saturday morning for the new video.
I remember watching your early videos back then and I enjoyed the content and your narration, but coming back to youtube after a pause and watching your production effort having gone up I'm incredibly happy for both you and your viewers. Thank you for the exploration, many of us are super interested but could't do what you do without being in harms way due to our ignorance. PS. I love Old Bob, I gotta get one of those for myself some day.
“Gly”: Thank you! I’ve listened to my viewers and I’ve definitely made a lot of changes to the channel. I have some new things I’m working on I think will make it even better.
as DesertRat mentioned in a video, cyanide and floatation are two different processes. Both cyanide and floatation used fine ground ore to maximize the surface area so either the cyanide could dissolve the gold or it could stick to the bubbles. The four floatation cells 40:15 were inside the building and had a paddle agitator (maybe some other way in more modern cells, like the bells in the other video?) that made air bubbles. Chemicals made soapy like bubbles and the ore attached to the bubbles and floated to the surface where paddles skimmed it off the side. at 40:15 the horizontal things that look like venetion blinds at the top edge of each cell rotated and pulled the bubbles (wet concentrated ore) off. I'm not sure how they feed the ore in or took the waste out of the cells, but since each cell was lower than the previous I would think it moved down through all 4 cells and if not floated off by the last cell, exited. The big tanks outside were for cyanide 43:10. The cyanide solution leached through the fine pulp in the tanks. Cyanide in liquid dissolved the gold and was passed through zinc powder to recover the gold. I think it plated out onto the surface of the zinc. Cyanide was usually about the last process of the very fine remains. I don't know why they aerated the cyanide (if they did). It seems like you would want liquid to touch the ore and dissolve the metals. Bubbles would prevent that, unless it was a way to agitate the pulp. The round white things were filters that slowly rotated counter clockwise. The wet concentrate was sucked onto the surface of the filter and as it rotated around was scraped off into the trough next to them. at 44:13 in the middle you can see the partitions bent inward toward the section where the filters should have been. To the left, you can a black (rubber) scraper next to the filter. As it rotated, it would scrape the concentrate off and it would drop into the tough and then be somehow removed. The white filters would rotate back into the watery mix at the bottom of their trough and suck more concentrate onto the surface. That could have been for the output of the floatation cells -not 100% sure about that. The shaker table separated by ore density and size and was usually the first process after crushing (stamp mills in the old days) and amalgamation tables, and treated coarser ore (like sand), after that the less concentrated ore would go be finer crushed and sent to cyanide tanks. It seems odd that the shaker table would be on the lowest level, below the floatation cells, unless it was left over from earlier days. Not sure exactly where floatation would fit in the process. I would guess the "waste" from the floatation went to the cyanide tanks. Different methods were used to separate different ores and metals and at different times as processes improved. And I don't know how the chemicals used for floatation would (or not) react with cyanide solution.
The plant was really interesting. I worked 16 years in a coal prep plant and now I can actually see how the old ways carried over to modern times. Another great video
When I was about 20, (like 24 years ago lol in the late 90's) my best friend and I hitchhiked from here in Seattle to Carson City, Nevada for a couple months during the late summer/early fall because we were young and had no real responsibilities yet, going on in our lives. Upon arrival, we met a couple girls who worked at the little local ice cream shop/deli downtown, and they put us up in their apartment with them as we all partied together and had a blast for a while. (The girl's' father was the head curator at the Carson City Museum, on the main street downtown near the Capitol building, at the time.) Anyway, the girls had their own group of friends, all who grew up together around there, and on the weekends would all go out of town to drink and explore at a place on the way east towards Virginia City called "American Flats." American Flats was an abandoned cyanide mill that had been torn down as much as possible decades earlier, leaving giant hulking buildings and tunnels all over the hillside in the desert out there full of graffiti accumulated over the past few decades, old rusted out vehicles full of bullet holes, and of course rumors of mysterious urban legends about satanic gatherings lol you know, the usual stuff. Anyway, the place has been completely destroyed since, and is only a slightly discolored scar on the desert hillside nowadays, compared to what it was back then. But, there are plenty of images and even drone videos on RUclips showing the place in all its glory. (If you're interested, that is.) I had hitchhiked to many different places back in my late teens and early 20's, from Fort Lauderdale and New Orleans to Missoula Montana and Mountain Home Idaho, but the strangest memories I have from that period of my life still come from my brief time spent in Carson City. We had a blast, explored a BUNCH, and it left me with profound memories I will carry for the rest of my life. And I'm thankful. It's a beautiful State. Sometimes I long for those days as I daydream nowadays while I'm at my boring job lol watching these videos helps tremendously. So, thanks, man. 👍😇
My dad feels the same way. He hitched hiked his way all over the usa and would jump the rail cars and ride those all over too. Different world! He misses those days a lot. Being free, young, strong and the ease of just grabbing a bag and sleeping bag and just going!
That was like exploring the innards of an anthill! Thanks, Gly! I would give a lot to see a time-lapse of the mill being built, working, and shut down to get to the condition today! A truly amazing amount of work to build only to be abandoned when the ore ran out, but, of course, the same is true for all these mines. Makes me sad, but even more appreciative of your efforts to show us what they did! 👍👍❤️✌️ Stay safe!
I really love going thru the mines with you. I always did love to investigate areas that looked interesting. thank you for doing this because sometimes I feel tied down because I do my traveling in a powerchair now. God Bless you and keep you safe
Fantastic job climbing up that stope Gly. Most explorers would have said “yeah....nah” once they saw that sketchy hanging wall. Cheers from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺⛏.
Let's see what we can see. You guys are crazy for even going down into the old mines. Taking a huge risks for us viewers...appreciated though. Thanks for your videos! Just be safe and you are...just be safe.
GLY I love your camera work to me it's like seeing through your eyes. The phrases you say when you come up on some crazy and dangerous. Still my favorite phrases are when you find dynamite stick or stuff to make a kaboom. Theres some latters I would say my 210lbs or my 200lbs butt won't go up but you still do it gets me nervous. Tell your friends no beans a week before you go with them to a mine barking spiders may scare away the cool stuff
Bob, what I am finding out to be most interesting about your videos, is how you get your big self up the ladders...It just blows me away....This mine sure had a lot of crap in it...hahahahha...........Good job Bob Thanks.............JB..................
Hey Gly thanks for another great adventure into another cool mine found it funny that you ended up back in the first mine ,,,, thanks and stay safe my friend...
Love the geology in that mine. The zinc snowflakes were cool, just don't touch them and then touch your face, it can kill ya. Lots of sulphur in there too. Cool seeing the silver and gold together. That was funny when you entered that last adit and realized you have been there. Another chutes and ladders mine. That stope was stopalicious. Have fun Gly and see ya next week.
Another awesome mine shop area was really cool can you imagine how loud an all the sounds of everything running great stuff geology in there was pretty cool gotta say I like the outside of the mine better on this one all the cool machinery etc inside was cool thanks gly mr.m as always be safe 👍👍
I really love the way that you point everything out this is all new to me and I love it and I'm learning a lot from you thank you and keep up the great work you and Mr M
Blessed content, been looking forward and binging on your videos. Cant wait for the next one already. The video work and descriptions are honestly a mood
I Used to Love Exploring The Silicone Silicate Mines in South Jersey In the Late '80's, Early '90's, They Were Above Ground(Sometimes The Processing Plants Would Be Nearly 180 Feet Tall), Cool, But Very Different...
What a great mine and great job exploring it. It always amazes me when I think of all the work that went into getting all that equipment for the mill and then putting it all together and making it all work. Wow!
Really nice mine, I think Sarah Jane was there a few years back, I would like to see more equipment and how it works, there should be some film out there some where that shows how all this works.👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸
That has to be one of the best intros ever! Great job, Gly. Looks like Old Bob has a friend there. That mine looked like it would take very little to start it collapsing. Cool and interesting but unstable looking. I didn't think there was much there until you climbed that first ladder. That really led to some interesting stuff! That mill building was great, I think I could crawl around in there looking through all that stuff all day. Thanks for another fun adventure, Gly. Stay safe.
Gly, had a really bad day today. Got screwed over during a car deal. Anxiety has been level 100 all day. Decided to come back and rewatch some episodes before bed because your voice had an amazing calming factor. Can’t wait until tomorrows episode!
After opening with great drone footage you get through the portal and what does Gly see!!??, a ladder...ha,ha. Kinda crumbly material you were moving through. Definitely a "don't touch anything" type adet. Holy Cow! thats alot of electrical boxes and goes on through out the bldg. Where does the main source (electricity) come from? Not too many segways in this wk's. video. We go from mine to mill to down the road to another portal and surprise!, you're back to where you came from...ha,ha. Your videos are always full of surprises. Thank you. (I miss Quackers).
The smell you were asking about is burnt lacquer, The lacquer was used to coat the wires and was an electrical insulation, if you smell it, things have gotten pretty hot and usually hot enough for failure.
Gly sorry I haven't posted much lately. But I have enjoyed every program you have up loaded. I truly enjoy everything you post.😀👍Thank you so much for this.
I just subscribed after stumbling into your video "The Most Death I've Ever Found in a Mine...". You're so brave and daring to enter an abandoned mine that is so deep. I'll be watching most if not all of you videos. Thank you for a great video. Stay safe.
Guess you can tell by the address i live close to the old copper quarter where the ore came. My son in law is project manager restoring some of the old buildings involved in the processing one is going to be a whisky distillery. The river still has the visible remnants of the docking areas for the boats that brought ore from the U.S . Ore sample arrived yesterday thanks
Those large tanks are called thickener tanks and those disk filters aren't for good but they would mostly use them for sucking up and drying the lead/silver/zinc concentrate and it then falls off into a bin. They don't skim it but rather its suctioned and then falls off. After drying its trucked to a smelter.
Yes, I would love more descriptive input on what minerals were seeing also, its beautiful but all looks yellow and gray mostly to us, but the blue crystals showed up good and that one mine back awhile ago the rusty mineral deposits were really cool, what does the hot pink spray paint signify today? Thanks for the great adventures.
Wow that was really cool. Really enjoyed going in up out and all the places you took us to. Pretty intense. Thanks for taking us through the that building and explaining the process of how the extracted the gold. Very cool. Ok Gly thanks for the adventure and as always, you da man!!
Thanks for the extra time spent in the mill, especially the slow pans of the electrical equipment. I would gladly watch an entire episode showing a detailed explore of that mill. Some of the really old boxes looked like 1940s to early 1960s vintage, the stuff on the plywood backers is a bit newer it appeared? Also appreciate your explanation of those odd filter/dryer devices out back. I saw one at a museum last year but didn't know what it was at the time. Also I've been researching mill processes recently by digging through old mining journals on Google Boosk, and AFAIK the flotation process would use a blend of around 1% oils and acids by volume. Some early flotation mills experimented with floating previously cyanided ores, but once they figured out how to selectively float by the early 1920s or so, cyanidation was abandoned by all but the heap leachers if my research is correct. Hard to say where the shaker tables fit in -- they could be variously used before flotation, after, or both depending on the mill's flowsheet. Too bad the ball mills weren't still around to examine!
These places may have been abandoned, but they are not forgotten, thanks to you Bob..Thank You!
I am a new fan what I find amazing is that you don’t get lost in those mines ❤️❤️🇦🇺
Wow that mine went all over the place inside that hill. Thanks for climbing all those ladders for the viewers.
These are my favorite videos, thank you!
Spectacular for sure I'm sure you gentlemen were like kids in a candy store thank you.👍👍👏
Very Sketchy mine..Not for Amateurs....Glad too see no dynamite in this one...This mine dosent look like its going to be here much longer....Like to see old artifacts from a buy gone era.....Good job on the vedeo, thanks for bring us along.........................JB.............................
That was a heat reduction capacitor. Really old school, used to dissipate the heat when the drift wheel was sending a bucket down. The older wound motors would produce electricity when they free wheel, so they could divert that power generation to the cap to run out the buildup. helped keep from frying the windings in those big motors.
Man, im getting a kick out of this channel. Thank you very much for the content!
The drone work really adds a lot of wonderful perspective to your episodes 👍👍
A beautiful adventure.
Long time watcher, and don't really comment much, but just have to say; if you ever say "Happy little mine" you'd be the Bob Ross of mine exploration. Love your videos and your tone makes me feel like I'm walking a few steps behind.
At 38.21. This a starter bank for a large motor. It's basically a way of limiting starting current to a large electric motor in an effort to keep extreme loads off the motor windings while starting. It's basically a bank of resistor wire and yes it can get very hot. These generally were connected to what is called a manual starter. I'm guessing the scrapers took the starter because I didn't see it. These starters have a handle on one side. When pulled on one direction the resistive load is in line. When the motor reaches operating speed the handle is thrown the other way taking the resistive bank out of line allowing the motor to be fed directly across the line. This is old school stuff.
Thanks for the information
better description than mine or a transformer only got three seconds to look three phase limiter
@thomas talley You are correct. Some were oil coolerd. I have seen oil cooled elements in the bottom of manual starters as I described. I have also seen air cooled units such as this. I know this because a long time ago I worked in a very old manufacturing plant for ten years. It was built in 1888. This was a time when everything was powered by steam. When the change to electric came, a lot of the old electric stuff that replaced steam was still there and still in use because it worked. I recognize all the leather belt line shafts as well. I served my Millwright Apprenticeship in this factory. All the machinery was built to last for ever. Everything could be rebuilt and put back in service. There was no such thing as throw away equipment in those days. There was a down side to a lot of it. It was dangerous. This included the electrical equipment. I have seen high voltage 3 phase panels with open knife switches. One had to be very careful. One slip and bye bye.
@@williamwintemberg Thanks that's interesting.
Star Delta motor starter with current limiting maybe! I used to work in a rubber goods factory, the mills all had them.
love the intro .....good info......pretty sure this one is for sale through GoldcRush Expeditions..... that long piece of equipment that looks like a Trommel is a roaster for sulfides..... surprised you didn't smell the sulfides ....good looking mill
“Gly”: Your correct Jeff, for 80K this one could be yours!
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces 80k for the roaster or for the entire property?
Michael Free
“Gly”: All of it including the equipment on site I was told.
Gly old fox's Mine Sales, Navada 💰😁
Hello from the UK Gly, that has to be one of your best explores to date. The way you push yourself to the limits to show everyone what was going on in the mines amazes me. Can’t wait till your next explore love your channel take care respect Geoff 🇬🇧🛸👍👍👍👍
“Gly”: Thank you!
This was a real cool show !! Seeing all the machinery left behind and the work put into that mine is impressive !! Thanks for making these videos Gly
Gly, Thanks for the History into the past - Stay Safe, Stay Strong - God Bless
Gly , you have the best videographer of of all the mine exploring channels. Love seeing all the details and your commentary of what you encounter.
Thank you and be safe, always wait for Saturday morning for the new video.
“Gly”: Thank you very much!
I remember watching your early videos back then and I enjoyed the content and your narration, but coming back to youtube after a pause and watching your production effort having gone up I'm incredibly happy for both you and your viewers. Thank you for the exploration, many of us are super interested but could't do what you do without being in harms way due to our ignorance.
PS. I love Old Bob, I gotta get one of those for myself some day.
“Gly”: Thank you! I’ve listened to my viewers and I’ve definitely made a lot of changes to the channel. I have some new things I’m working on I think will make it even better.
The burnt smell comes from a resistive starter of a big motor.
Thanks so much for videoing and sharing. Prayers for safe travels.
as DesertRat mentioned in a video, cyanide and floatation are two different processes. Both cyanide and floatation used fine ground ore to maximize the surface area so either the cyanide could dissolve the gold or it could stick to the bubbles.
The four floatation cells 40:15 were inside the building and had a paddle agitator (maybe some other way in more modern cells, like the bells in the other video?) that made air bubbles. Chemicals made soapy like bubbles and the ore attached to the bubbles and floated to the surface where paddles skimmed it off the side. at 40:15 the horizontal things that look like venetion blinds at the top edge of each cell rotated and pulled the bubbles (wet concentrated ore) off. I'm not sure how they feed the ore in or took the waste out of the cells, but since each cell was lower than the previous I would think it moved down through all 4 cells and if not floated off by the last cell, exited.
The big tanks outside were for cyanide 43:10. The cyanide solution leached through the fine pulp in the tanks. Cyanide in liquid dissolved the gold and was passed through zinc powder to recover the gold. I think it plated out onto the surface of the zinc. Cyanide was usually about the last process of the very fine remains. I don't know why they aerated the cyanide (if they did). It seems like you would want liquid to touch the ore and dissolve the metals. Bubbles would prevent that, unless it was a way to agitate the pulp.
The round white things were filters that slowly rotated counter clockwise. The wet concentrate was sucked onto the surface of the filter and as it rotated around was scraped off into the trough next to them. at 44:13 in the middle you can see the partitions bent inward toward the section where the filters should have been. To the left, you can a black (rubber) scraper next to the filter. As it rotated, it would scrape the concentrate off and it would drop into the tough and then be somehow removed. The white filters would rotate back into the watery mix at the bottom of their trough and suck more concentrate onto the surface. That could have been for the output of the floatation cells -not 100% sure about that.
The shaker table separated by ore density and size and was usually the first process after crushing (stamp mills in the old days) and amalgamation tables, and treated coarser ore (like sand), after that the less concentrated ore would go be finer crushed and sent to cyanide tanks. It seems odd that the shaker table would be on the lowest level, below the floatation cells, unless it was left over from earlier days.
Not sure exactly where floatation would fit in the process. I would guess the "waste" from the floatation went to the cyanide tanks. Different methods were used to separate different ores and metals and at different times as processes improved. And I don't know how the chemicals used for floatation would (or not) react with cyanide solution.
A colorful mine, for sure. My favorite bit was the "elevated" curved section of track, straight out of Indiana Jones.
4:40 - i think it says - the assessment work has been done for this property for 1939
WORK...yes.
The plant was really interesting. I worked 16 years in a coal prep plant and now I can actually see how the old ways carried over to modern times. Another great video
Thanks for this! Most folks don't want to look at the buildings, but I find them so fascinating! Thanks for filming them. Take care, and be safe!
When I was about 20, (like 24 years ago lol in the late 90's) my best friend and I hitchhiked from here in Seattle to Carson City, Nevada for a couple months during the late summer/early fall because we were young and had no real responsibilities yet, going on in our lives.
Upon arrival, we met a couple girls who worked at the little local ice cream shop/deli downtown, and they put us up in their apartment with them as we all partied together and had a blast for a while.
(The girl's' father was the head curator at the Carson City Museum, on the main street downtown near the Capitol building, at the time.)
Anyway, the girls had their own group of friends, all who grew up together around there, and on the weekends would all go out of town to drink and explore at a place on the way east towards Virginia City called "American Flats."
American Flats was an abandoned cyanide mill that had been torn down as much as possible decades earlier, leaving giant hulking buildings and tunnels all over the hillside in the desert out there full of graffiti accumulated over the past few decades, old rusted out vehicles full of bullet holes, and of course rumors of mysterious urban legends about satanic gatherings lol you know, the usual stuff.
Anyway, the place has been completely destroyed since, and is only a slightly discolored scar on the desert hillside nowadays, compared to what it was back then. But, there are plenty of images and even drone videos on RUclips showing the place in all its glory. (If you're interested, that is.)
I had hitchhiked to many different places back in my late teens and early 20's, from Fort Lauderdale and New Orleans to Missoula Montana and Mountain Home Idaho, but the strangest memories I have from that period of my life still come from my brief time spent in Carson City.
We had a blast, explored a BUNCH, and it left me with profound memories I will carry for the rest of my life. And I'm thankful. It's a beautiful State.
Sometimes I long for those days as I daydream nowadays while I'm at my boring job lol watching these videos helps tremendously.
So, thanks, man. 👍😇
As I was reading your story....the song "Glory Days" was playing I my head.
My dad feels the same way. He hitched hiked his way all over the usa and would jump the rail cars and ride those all over too. Different world! He misses those days a lot. Being free, young, strong and the ease of just grabbing a bag and sleeping bag and just going!
As a kid....I drank a lot of beer at American flats.....I to had some crazy times there...
That was like exploring the innards of an anthill! Thanks, Gly! I would give a lot to see a time-lapse of the mill being built, working, and shut down to get to the condition today! A truly amazing amount of work to build only to be abandoned when the ore ran out, but, of course, the same is true for all these mines. Makes me sad, but even more appreciative of your efforts to show us what they did! 👍👍❤️✌️ Stay safe!
Mines have every phobia on Earth. Kudos for you being able to go in there!
I really love going thru the mines with you. I always did love to investigate areas that looked interesting. thank you for doing this because sometimes I feel tied down because I do my traveling in a powerchair now. God Bless you and keep you safe
I always love exploring things
Gly, Could you do a show on Minerals with Close Up Pictures found in Mines (With Discriptions) - Would be greatly Appreciated - Dave...
Dave, check out the mindat.org website and see some incredible specimens.
I woke up in the middle of the nite and this was playing , turned over and went back to sleep .
Catch you next time Gly !!!
Wow amazing site wish that stuff could be saved its priceless history thanks for documenting such an awesome location
Amazing people doing stuff like that deep underground. Digging through the earth like that. An interesting life.
Love this Intro. The first mine was cool, a second portal - air flow. all that equipment left behind, so many artifacts there.
Fantastic job climbing up that stope Gly. Most explorers would have said “yeah....nah” once they saw that sketchy hanging wall. Cheers from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺⛏.
Thank you very much.
Let's see what we can see. You guys are crazy for even going down into the old mines. Taking a huge risks for us viewers...appreciated though. Thanks for your videos! Just be safe and you are...just be safe.
The production of this guy's videos are dope as hell!
GLY I love your camera work to me it's like seeing through your eyes. The phrases you say when you come up on some crazy and dangerous. Still my favorite phrases are when you find dynamite stick or stuff to make a kaboom. Theres some latters I would say my 210lbs or my 200lbs butt won't go up but you still do it gets me nervous. Tell your friends no beans a week before you go with them to a mine barking spiders may scare away the cool stuff
Bob, what I am finding out to be most interesting about your videos, is how you get your big self up the ladders...It just blows me away....This mine sure had a lot of crap in it...hahahahha...........Good job Bob Thanks.............JB..................
“Gly”: I can still move around pretty good for a chubby guy. Actually, the ladies call me cuddly... lol
@@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces hahahahahaha, ok then.......
Good to see all that equipment intact enough to be able to figure out how it was being used.
Thank you Gly, have a great safe week!
I would freakin' love the chance to go into a mine with you one day.
Do I see a business adventure for you?
Now thats a good one there sir. My Saturday can start now. Yall stay safe out there
You guys have way to good of a time on your adventures, stay safe love your channel.
Hey Gly thanks for another great adventure into another cool mine found it funny that you ended up back in the first mine ,,,, thanks and stay safe my friend...
This channel makes me so thrilled, I love old mines and the engineering of the mines.
Love Saturdays, thanks !
Thank god for going up the ladder awesome video again thank you so much you’re so lucky
Amazing intro! We all are thinking it.
... That was actually a Mad Max locomotive 😀
Your voice gets people's attention love your videos .it's like watching the History channel .👍👍😀😏🇺🇸🇺🇸
Love the geology in that mine. The zinc snowflakes were cool, just don't touch them and then touch your face, it can kill ya. Lots of sulphur in there too. Cool seeing the silver and gold together. That was funny when you entered that last adit and realized you have been there. Another chutes and ladders mine. That stope was stopalicious. Have fun Gly and see ya next week.
Getting my stope fix! At last!
Another awesome mine shop area was really cool can you imagine how loud an all the sounds of everything running great stuff geology in there was pretty cool gotta say I like the outside of the mine better on this one all the cool machinery etc inside was cool thanks gly mr.m as always be safe 👍👍
I really love the way that you point everything out this is all new to me and I love it and I'm learning a lot from you thank you and keep up the great work you and Mr M
Another awesome mine adventure !
That mill was big and I have never seen that many electrical boxes. I bet the copper is long gone.
Another great video....thanks again, Gly...!
Ha ha the contempt with which you said "Just a modern can of...peaches".
under the early red "OUT" was a "killroy" cartoon, popular military image from the 1940's
Thank you .
Another great find , thanks for the adventure Gly and the history. Its a great way to start a Sunday morning in Australia. Pete Australia
Blessed content, been looking forward and binging on your videos. Cant wait for the next one already. The video work and descriptions are honestly a mood
You expend all the effort getting around into impossible places and I just get exhausted watching! Stay Safe!
Another great episode there Gly, looking forward to next week. keep up the good work and stay safe.
I Used to Love Exploring The Silicone Silicate Mines in South Jersey In the Late '80's, Early '90's, They Were Above Ground(Sometimes The Processing Plants Would Be Nearly 180 Feet Tall), Cool, But Very Different...
Your adventure is beautiful.
What a great mine and great job exploring it. It always amazes me when I think of all the work that went into getting all that equipment for the mill and then putting it all together and making it all work. Wow!
“Gly”: Thank you!
Enjoyable as always! Thank you!
Once again, "Excellent" and stay safe. Thanks Gly!
Exciting adventure.
Really nice mine, I think Sarah Jane was there a few years back, I would like to see more equipment and how it works, there should be some film out there some where that shows how all this works.👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸
That has to be one of the best intros ever! Great job, Gly.
Looks like Old Bob has a friend there. That mine looked like it would take very little to start it collapsing. Cool and interesting but unstable looking. I didn't think there was much there until you climbed that first ladder. That really led to some interesting stuff! That mill building was great, I think I could crawl around in there looking through all that stuff all day. Thanks for another fun adventure, Gly. Stay safe.
Production quality is top notch.
Nice explore! Thanks for sharing!
Gly, had a really bad day today. Got screwed over during a car deal. Anxiety has been level 100 all day. Decided to come back and rewatch some episodes before bed because your voice had an amazing calming factor. Can’t wait until tomorrows episode!
Very interesting and beautiful ! Thank you !!
After opening with great drone footage you get through the portal and what does Gly see!!??, a ladder...ha,ha. Kinda crumbly material you were moving through. Definitely a "don't touch anything" type adet. Holy Cow! thats alot of electrical boxes and goes on through out the bldg. Where does the main source (electricity) come from? Not too many segways in this wk's. video. We go from mine to mill to down the road to another portal and surprise!, you're back to where you came from...ha,ha. Your videos are always full of surprises. Thank you. (I miss Quackers).
Just love these videos so professionally done especially the beginning of the video .👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸☺️
“Gly”: Thank you!
I agree. In fact the opening made me think of the ads I frequently see on BNN for mining outfits trying to entice punters.
This was the Jack of all mines.
Thanks.
The smell you were asking about is burnt lacquer, The lacquer was used to coat the wires and was an electrical insulation, if you smell it, things have gotten pretty hot and usually hot enough for failure.
Gly sorry I haven't posted much lately. But I have enjoyed every program you have up loaded. I truly enjoy everything you post.😀👍Thank you so much for this.
Very informative! Thanks!
Also very enjoyable!
I just subscribed after stumbling into your video "The Most Death I've Ever Found in a Mine...". You're so brave and daring to enter an abandoned mine that is so deep. I'll be watching most if not all of you videos. Thank you for a great video. Stay safe.
“Gly”: Thanks for subscribing and welcome aboard!
Fantastic commentary again, enjoy the history and geology and interesting site buildings. Many thanks again 😊
Guess you can tell by the address i live close to the old copper quarter where the ore came. My son in law is project manager restoring some of the old buildings involved in the processing one is going to be a whisky distillery. The river still has the visible remnants of the docking areas for the boats that brought ore from the U.S . Ore sample arrived yesterday thanks
I love the music in the beginning of the video. I like how you explain everything!
Those large tanks are called thickener tanks and those disk filters aren't for good but they would mostly use them for sucking up and drying the lead/silver/zinc concentrate and it then falls off into a bin. They don't skim it but rather its suctioned and then falls off. After drying its trucked to a smelter.
Good call on that ladder with the steps on the underside!! They should have put another strip of wood down each side underneath to keep them steps on!
Yes, I would love more descriptive input on what minerals were seeing also, its beautiful but all looks yellow and gray mostly to us, but the blue crystals showed up good and that one mine back awhile ago the rusty mineral deposits were really cool, what does the hot pink spray paint signify today? Thanks for the great adventures.
Wow that was really cool. Really enjoyed going in up out and all the places you took us to. Pretty intense. Thanks for taking us through the that building and explaining the process of how the extracted the gold. Very cool. Ok Gly thanks for the adventure and as always, you da man!!
Production keeps improving Gly, thank you for everything.
Stope-tastic Yes, like a museum site really.. Could/should be preserved as a historical industrial site of national interest. Very interesting. Cheers
Thanks for the extra time spent in the mill, especially the slow pans of the electrical equipment. I would gladly watch an entire episode showing a detailed explore of that mill. Some of the really old boxes looked like 1940s to early 1960s vintage, the stuff on the plywood backers is a bit newer it appeared? Also appreciate your explanation of those odd filter/dryer devices out back. I saw one at a museum last year but didn't know what it was at the time.
Also I've been researching mill processes recently by digging through old mining journals on Google Boosk, and AFAIK the flotation process would use a blend of around 1% oils and acids by volume. Some early flotation mills experimented with floating previously cyanided ores, but once they figured out how to selectively float by the early 1920s or so, cyanidation was abandoned by all but the heap leachers if my research is correct. Hard to say where the shaker tables fit in -- they could be variously used before flotation, after, or both depending on the mill's flowsheet. Too bad the ball mills weren't still around to examine!
Would I be incorrect to to venture, that the word he was trying for at the rotating filters was "slurry"?
Great video Gly always nice to the old buildings and cool workings in the mines. What baffles me is how they worked in the stopes
“Gly”: They laid planks down on top of the stulls to make platforms to stand on. Then later they remove the planks and leave the stulls.
Abandoned and Forgotten Places Gly thank you still blows my mind as too what how the miners does all that cool stuff
Fantastic mine site Gly! Great intro & thank you from Oklahoma City !
That was a loog trip. Thanks
I don’t want to just complain. This video was one of your best! I enjoy the buildings/houses as much as the mine. Your intro was good too!
The mystery word on the 1932 sign was , risk , great adventure still catching up.
Love these vids. Really chilled viewing. An area of the world I'd love to visit someday. Cheers!
Some fine Carpentry work at 6:12 ! You've pointed out before how they could 'hug' the surface od an irregular wall with some precision!