@ 13:12 One of 3 things. A Hit and Miss Engine, a Steam Engine or an Air Compressor. That's my opinion which can't buy a cup of coffee. I just love the machinery even if I don't know what it is. It's fun trying to figure it out. Great Video! It never ceases to amaze me how they got this equipment to such remote locations.
The metal unit on the landing with the 2 flywheels is the Remains of an old diesel hit and miss engine, you can see the cylinder bore, above which the cooling cast iron bin that held water to cool the engine is missing. Used for running drivebelt driven equipment, early generators etc. The strange belled out wheel could be a rope friction winch, same as you see on boats, which when you put tension on the rope it friction grips the drum and pulls in but the drum rotates all the time.
Mr. McBride back in the action! Woohoo! Wet feet ,brutal hangover and all. He's tough, he'll be fine. His brutal hangover would more than likely be death to the rest of us, but he's out hiking over a mountain, through the forest and crawling in cave. He's a 'Tougher than us, spider kill'n, cave dewell'n, clues and hidden treasures story tell'n SOB'. Nice mine, well documented. Thanks for showing the old equipment, always interesting to see and pounder on how the hell they got it there. Hats off to ya and take care of Mr. McBride.
😄 My neighbor was having a party and invited me over the night before this. They're all around 25-6 years old. Well they were taking shots of Jameson and chasing it with pickle juice idkwtf. Soooo I decided to show them how to really drink it ( just a bit under half the 750ml bottle) straight out of the bottle. Took about five min it was gone, I'm feeling good, they're in shock....I'm not....until I look at the clock and see it's 4:30am and I told Justin I'd be at his house at 6-7am. FML Get to Justin's around 8:30-9am😅 he gets a small buzz from alcohol haze still surrounding me. After we did this site I let him talk me into hiking cross mountain to another site. I just about threw in the towel about halfway there, out of water, kickdrum headache, wet boots and then God has glorious mercy on me by throwing a creek that's -0 in temp across the trail. Been a believer ever since! 😄🛐 We never find the other site that day but the trip back I knew the creek was there so at least that was inspiration.
Welcome home comrade . As others have said , a upside down Hit & Miss . I "wonder" if the welded pipes were used as compression / Storage tanks for air ?! Actually I just zoomed in on those pipes . They look Factory to me , have 1" weld-o lets showing and those concave ends are seen on lots of Pressure vessels . IDK , maybe I'm not getting a good look at those ENDS !? If they are made of FLAT steel and NOT concave / bowlish shaped MB they aren't Factory ?! As usual , a nice video . Love the quartz !!!
Hey there Justin, Thanks for showing the mine & especially the machinery that was left behind. That thing you mentioned at 10:20 is really cool. Please ship is UPS 2nd day to my P.O. Box. It was great to see the Chuckster again. Please have him tell me what kind of boots not to buy when I venture out this fall. Best regards from Ody Slim
the equipment with the two wheels is defiantly a hit and miss engine, the third piece has a belt pulley on it and it looks like it was a gold shaker table mechanism, the two weights in the middle would have spun to move the table back and forth.
Thank you. Yes, I know it gets confusing with shooting from all of the different locations and so I try to be very clear about how things relate to each other. I'd love to know how much gold came out of this one too, but I have been unable to find any records on production.
Agree with the evaluation of the machines...hit and miss engine for sure. Love the quartz as well. When I see that on one of your adventures I try to imagine the excitement the miners must have felt when they discovered a run like that.
Wish I knew what I was looking at, I know nothing about mining operations, was the hit and miss used to pull the ore out of the mine? What where the two capped pipes used for, seems like they were the most expensive pert of the boondogle
I'm glad you like the pics. I almost always take still images as well, but don't always think to include them in the video... The fancy maps like Mines of the West does are way beyond my technical skills.
G-Day Justin thanks for the video. That adit or drift must have originally gone back a long way, otherwise the miners would not have hauled all that gear in there, judging by the waste pile. Looks like they broke through the load into plaser. Good one.
There's a black coloration at knee level on the left wall. It looks like pitch or exhaust from an engine. You can see it well at 1:13. Any chance the equipment you found outside had a motor that might have caused the stain?
Looks like somebody had a tunnel made straight into the hill. Then years later the miners discovered it. I would be interested to know if there was some fantastic alignment with the straight tunnel. I imagine if that was lined with megalith stones from the far past and that it leads under ground to there homes.
The first piece of machinery at 10:30 looks like a cone crusher, the second looks like a horizontal single cylinder diesel engine, like a Tangye or Lister and the third is powered by a flat belt, probably from the engine, but I am not sure what it is.
@@TVRExploring I can't answer that for sure. We were there hunting elk and did come across a couple that were open above the tree line which is approx. 11,500 ft. I know lower down the larger ones do have barriers. There are a couple hundred miles of jeep trails in the area and you don't have to travel very far to find structures from old mines some with machinery that was left behind.
@@TVRExploring For a look at the area watch youtube video published by Tom Grancey titled " Exploring the San Juan Mountains with Dan Mick " Very good video with history. He mentioned the mines being fenced near the major jeep trails. Then toward the end he told about open mines and their dangers. Tons of mines in the area as you can see all the tailings piles on the mtn sides throughout the video.
Nice video , we wonder how things were done thousands of years ago , and we wonder how the miners did all of these things , huge mines and moving giant pieces of equipment , it had to be Blood ! Sweat ! Tears ! And a Barrel full of Brains !
hi i think the wheels are a part of a compressor,i just saw a video from frank from the abandoned mines and unsual places channel and there were also those kinds of wheels and there were from a compressor just like the ones(only bigger) in your vid,belgian greetings,nice vid as Always ;)
I believe there could be nice gold specimens around that old mine The thing you asked help on identification looks like a spool for the cable.🙂 The miners cabin seems like a good place to metal detect.😉
Yes, I doubt the inside of that mine has ever been metal detected. Too small of a mine for a big mining company to be interested in, but I'd imagine a small operator could do quite well... And, yes, I'd imagine the area around that cabin would also keep someone with a metal detector busy.
Well, after an enormous mine for most of the past month, I thought it'd be appropriate to mix things up a little... Of course, I wish we'd been able to see more of it as well, but what can you do?
TVR Exploring Oh wow. Thanks for the reply! I wasn’t expecting you of all people to reply since it’s on one of your older videos lol. Great content btw man
I think those parts you found were part of pully or belt system.Ill look at my books,i have books that my great grandfather had show a lot of the old mining equipment that was used.
Are those little pools of clear water safe to chill in. Was gonna say swim but obviously not enough space for swimming. I think it would just be cool to lie down in one of those pools and smoke a cigar.
Pretty sparkles @ 8:33. Thanks for sharing this! Hey, by the way, what happened to the rest of your Alaska trip? To my knowledge, you only uploaded one video from that expedition.
Yes, you're correct about just one Alaska video so far. Waiting for things to settle down a little this summer before working on the remaining Alaska videos because they're going to take a lot of editing... We're returning to Alaska in September for more.
WOW! I'd love to get an electric hammer drill with a long carbide bit in there, and have the cuttings assayed. That's some crazy quartz - bet it's bonanza-grade for sure. It just doesn't matter how rich your ore is if your mill can't recover it, which might have been what shut this one down.
There's another mine that had a stamp mill and tram line which is very unique for our area. Loads of equipment, very remote location so you know it was a bitch and a half getting it there. The ore was pretty ideal with decent assays in almost every sample. They could never get the mill dialed in correctly or the sorting tables etc. Mine closed and the stamp Mill sat for sixty or so years until they recovered it for the museum in town. The mine is claimed now but I don't believe any assessment has been done.
Yes, which is why the mine is here... However, not all quartz has gold in it. Sometimes quartz can have so much gold in it that it can be seen with the naked eye and other times quartz can be completely barren of any gold.
Interesting that they would leave so much quartz, and go on past it. The quartz must not have been as high grade as we now envision it could have been. If it was it seems they would have put more effort into getting every bit of it.
Given all of the effort that would have been required to get that mining equipment in there and the work that was done in creating that chamber where the quartz was, we had the impression that they might have started out with some promising results. However, as you observed, they would not have left all of that quartz behind if it was assaying out well. So, perhaps whatever they found petered out... Or perhaps they were just wildly overoptimistic when they saw that quartz. You know what, I'm going to dig around some more in my history books and see if I can come up with anything more on this mine. I'll post another response here if I find anything... Thanks, as always, for the great comment.
I'd do horrible things for that hit an miss engine. Good size one-- missing the water hopper, rod, and piston, but the flywheels, crank, and block are there. Want. First thing, caspian winch? Might be the thing to haul carts with rope. Ya got me on that last whoosit.
That equipment around 10 minutes is an old rusty hit and miss it's just upside down lol so it's hard to tell at first 🤜🤛 (Edit; clearly you've already been told lol I'm a day late and a dollar short.)
Lots of quartz! That ground looked familiar to what I have seen here too, very loose and crumbly, I don't think the water flowing down through it helps either. Some interesting machinery outside, hopefully someone can make out what it was.
Hi, Cornish. As others have said, the machinery looks like a Hit and Miss engine. That's heavy stuff. It must have taken the old miners a huge amount of effort to haul it up the side of that remote canyon
Yes, indeed, there was some nice quartz in there... I hate that crumbly serpentine/slate rock though. That stuff always caves. And even in sections where it hasn't caved yet, it FEELS like it could cave at any time. The word from other viewers is that the equipment outside was an old hit and miss engine. I'm not sure how that fits into the broader picture of how things worked there, but it brings us closer to an answer.
As high as gold is why aren't people reopening these old mines? There has to be gold still in some of those mines. Is it purely because people are scared of hard work?
Hard work + extensive rules and regulations = mines staying abandoned... If the price of gold gets high enough, it'll bring people back out to the abandoned mines. There is definitely still gold in many of these mines - sometimes a lot of it!
Of all the things in this vid, the only one my wife deemed important is " what does that writing say on your helmet? " So I tell her it says " Hello! My Name Is S.T.F.U. " which is exactly what I painted on there. She thought I meant her. Rough night. 😅
Yes, I think you're right. I'd imagine it has not ever been metal detected. It is too small for the big companies, but a smaller operator could conceivably do quite well.
*When you troll through those mines unknowingly in your boots, like 99% of youtubes mine explorers, you are destroying microbes by transferring them into other areas of mines and contaminating those microbioms. Respect our World and all lifeforms please, good sir!*
New watcher here admittedly i know nothing about mining or spelunking . but i have to state the obvious here . your title says out of the way Gold mine and all yall are talking about is Quartz. so where the evidence of gold in the gold mine ? seeing is believing right . have a good one i enjoy yall stuff .
@ 13:12 One of 3 things. A Hit and Miss Engine, a Steam Engine or an Air Compressor. That's my opinion which can't buy a cup of coffee. I just love the machinery even if I don't know what it is. It's fun trying to figure it out. Great Video! It never ceases to amaze me how they got this equipment to such remote locations.
Ha, I agree completely... Thanks for the comment.
You are indeed paying tribute to the miners of old. The machinery looks really cool too . Thanks again to you and Mr McBride.
The metal unit on the landing with the 2 flywheels is the Remains of an old diesel hit and miss engine, you can see the cylinder bore, above which the cooling cast iron bin that held water to cool the engine is missing. Used for running drivebelt driven equipment, early generators etc. The strange belled out wheel could be a rope friction winch, same as you see on boats, which when you put tension on the rope it friction grips the drum and pulls in but the drum rotates all the time.
Thank you.
Thank you for the Video , It is nice seeing Backup Chuck along with you again . He is a Good Man to have around . I Like that Quartz .
He is indeed...
Mr. McBride back in the action! Woohoo! Wet feet ,brutal hangover and all. He's tough, he'll be fine. His brutal hangover would more than likely be death to the rest of us, but he's out hiking over a mountain, through the forest and crawling in cave. He's a 'Tougher than us, spider kill'n, cave dewell'n, clues and hidden treasures story tell'n SOB'. Nice mine, well documented. Thanks for showing the old equipment, always interesting to see and pounder on how the hell they got it there. Hats off to ya and take care of Mr. McBride.
😄 My neighbor was having a party and invited me over the night before this. They're all around 25-6 years old. Well they were taking shots of Jameson and chasing it with pickle juice idkwtf. Soooo I decided to show them how to really drink it ( just a bit under half the 750ml bottle) straight out of the bottle.
Took about five min it was gone, I'm feeling good, they're in shock....I'm not....until I look at the clock and see it's 4:30am and I told Justin I'd be at his house at 6-7am. FML
Get to Justin's around 8:30-9am😅 he gets a small buzz from alcohol haze still surrounding me. After we did this site I let him talk me into hiking cross mountain to another site.
I just about threw in the towel about halfway there, out of water, kickdrum headache, wet boots and then God has glorious mercy on me by throwing a creek that's -0 in temp across the trail.
Been a believer ever since! 😄🛐
We never find the other site that day but the trip back I knew the creek was there so at least that was inspiration.
@@ADITADDICTS Way to go!
Welcome home comrade . As others have said , a upside down Hit & Miss . I "wonder" if the welded pipes were used as compression / Storage tanks for air ?! Actually I just zoomed in on those pipes . They look Factory to me , have 1" weld-o lets showing and those concave ends are seen on lots of Pressure vessels . IDK , maybe I'm not getting a good look at those ENDS !? If they are made of FLAT steel and NOT concave / bowlish shaped MB they aren't Factory ?! As usual , a nice video . Love the quartz !!!
Thank you.
Thank you for taking us along.
Dude your videos never cease to enthrall me! Thank you!
Thank you, man... I appreciate you being here.
Thank you for the great video. That was amazing seeing the huge amount of quarts still in the mine.
You and mr McBride never disappoint- thank you for posting this
Hey there Justin, Thanks for showing the mine & especially the machinery that was left behind. That
thing you mentioned at 10:20 is really cool. Please ship is UPS 2nd day to my P.O. Box. It was great to
see the Chuckster again. Please have him tell me what kind of boots not to buy when I venture out this
fall. Best regards from Ody Slim
My O'Neal motorcycle boots. Last trip they made too! They were done after that trip+ten yrs old.
@@ADITADDICTS I always wore a hole on top of the boot where I would push up on the shifter lever. Take care Chuck!
@@OdySlim All my boots that aren't steel toe have the same thing! 😅
Love your vids dude. Thanks for sharing with the world
Thank you!
the equipment with the two wheels is defiantly a hit and miss engine, the third piece has a belt pulley on it and it looks like it was a gold shaker table mechanism, the two weights in the middle would have spun to move the table back and forth.
As always another great mine that you explored that piece of equipment with two wheels looks like it was a base of a hit and miss motor. 👍👍🇨🇦
Thank you.
Pretty cool quartz vein in this one. Thanks for the tour, Justin!
That quartz was wild. Love to know how many Oz. came out. Thanks for doing such a great job of keeping us oriented.
Thank you. Yes, I know it gets confusing with shooting from all of the different locations and so I try to be very clear about how things relate to each other. I'd love to know how much gold came out of this one too, but I have been unable to find any records on production.
10,44 Upside down Hit and Miss engine!!
Awesome. Thank you.
Or it could have been a natural gas motor like a hit and miss but on natural gas
From the looks of it id say its a 5 to a 9 hp. Economy or herculese hit n mis engine. The hopper is mising howevr. And the piston. Etc. .
Hey, do we got another drag racing Prospector???? Lol
The engine is actually right side up, it's just a lay down design and the cooling hopper is missing, as is the piston.
Great job guys. Man what cool old mine!
When I worked in the mines we had roof falls that landed on the floor. we sometimes would have a floor heave yet I never remember a ground fall.
Agree with the evaluation of the machines...hit and miss engine for sure. Love the quartz as well. When I see that on one of your adventures I try to imagine the excitement the miners must have felt when they discovered a run like that.
Wish I knew what I was looking at, I know nothing about mining operations, was the hit and miss used to pull the ore out of the mine? What where the two capped pipes used for, seems like they were the most expensive pert of the boondogle
I've been gone, so plenty of catching up to do. Enjoy your vids!!
That is some big quartz. WOW!!
I like the way you add still pics to what your blabbing about. Keep it up!!
Yeah I like the stills too! I know it's hard work editing but if Justin made maps it would be way cool!
I'm glad you like the pics. I almost always take still images as well, but don't always think to include them in the video...
The fancy maps like Mines of the West does are way beyond my technical skills.
G-Day Justin thanks for the video. That adit or drift must have originally gone back a long way, otherwise the miners would not have hauled all that gear in there, judging by the waste pile. Looks like they broke through the load into plaser. Good one.
Yes, I agree with you on the structure of this mine... Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Thank you!
This channel is awesome
There's a black coloration at knee level on the left wall. It looks like pitch or exhaust from an engine. You can see it well at 1:13. Any chance the equipment you found outside had a motor that might have caused the stain?
I believe that's just mineralization from the water. You see that in a lot of wet mines.
Wow! That's a nice quartz vein!
13:00 That is a hit and Miss engine. Flat belt pulley is on the right.
Enjoyed and gave a Thumbs Up
Thank you.
Looks like somebody had a tunnel made straight into the hill. Then years later the miners discovered it. I would be interested to know if there
was some fantastic alignment with the straight tunnel. I imagine if that was lined with megalith stones from the far past and that it leads
under ground to there homes.
Their homes.
Nice explore Big thumbs up 👍
The first piece of machinery at 10:30 looks like a cone crusher, the second looks like a horizontal single cylinder diesel engine, like a Tangye or Lister and the third is powered by a flat belt, probably from the engine, but I am not sure what it is.
Have you ever been to Silverton, Colorado? There are thousands of abandoned silver and gold mines scattered throughout the mountains there.
No, I haven't... Are any of them still open or have they all been gated?
@@TVRExploring I can't answer that for sure. We were there hunting elk and did come across a couple that were open above the tree line which is approx. 11,500 ft. I know lower down the larger ones do have barriers. There are a couple hundred miles of jeep trails in the area and you don't have to travel very far to find structures from old mines some with machinery that was left behind.
@@TVRExploring For a look at the area watch youtube video published by Tom Grancey titled " Exploring the San Juan Mountains with Dan Mick " Very good video with history. He mentioned the mines being fenced near the major jeep trails. Then toward the end he told about open mines and their dangers. Tons of mines in the area as you can see all the tailings piles on the mtn sides throughout the video.
Nice video , we wonder how things were done thousands of years ago , and we wonder how the miners did all of these things , huge mines and moving giant pieces of equipment , it had to be Blood ! Sweat ! Tears ! And a Barrel full of Brains !
Take a break from RUclips and find lots of new amazing explores stay safe and keep them coming
Just got back from a long trip with a ton of new videos...
I like these kind of mines, they have abit of everything interesting.
I agree!
Cool video 👍
hi i think the wheels are a part of a compressor,i just saw a video from frank from the abandoned mines and unsual places channel and there were also those kinds of wheels and there were from a compressor just like the ones(only bigger) in your vid,belgian greetings,nice vid as Always ;)
Pretty mine. Thank you b
I love your channel you are truly adventurers
Thank you very much.
I believe there could be nice gold specimens around that old mine The thing you asked help on identification looks like a spool for the cable.🙂 The miners cabin seems like a good place to metal detect.😉
Yes, I doubt the inside of that mine has ever been metal detected. Too small of a mine for a big mining company to be interested in, but I'd imagine a small operator could do quite well... And, yes, I'd imagine the area around that cabin would also keep someone with a metal detector busy.
Very cool would like to know more of the history of this mine looks like it is still profitable.
Yes, unfortunately, many of these small historical gold mines have a past that is impossible to track down...
Another fine doc. Looks like there was a little parent with that quartz, or a giant lense?
It could've been lenticular absolutely. Big whichever it was!
10:30 looks like some kinda huge pulley system maybe
That mine looked like something from an alien world. Great video, wish there was more to the mine.
Well, after an enormous mine for most of the past month, I thought it'd be appropriate to mix things up a little... Of course, I wish we'd been able to see more of it as well, but what can you do?
@@TVRExploring Would've loved to see past that collapse.
Interesting geology and equipment.
Yes, not very big, but I thought it was interesting...
Random question, but would the water at 3:14 be drinkable?
Yes, any use of mercury would have been outside. That water would be quite pure.
TVR Exploring Oh wow. Thanks for the reply! I wasn’t expecting you of all people to reply since it’s on one of your older videos lol. Great content btw man
@@dxwnfall4765 Thank you.
Winch drum?
I think those parts you found were part of pully or belt system.Ill look at my books,i have books that my great grandfather had show a lot of the old mining equipment that was used.
Thank you. Those old books are a great resource.
Are those little pools of clear water safe to chill in. Was gonna say swim but obviously not enough space for swimming. I think it would just be cool to lie down in one of those pools and smoke a cigar.
Haha, it is very cold, but, yes, you could chill in one of those pools... The constant temperature in a mine or cave is fairly low.
Awesome adventure thank you 😊
Nice video. Do you gold mine too or do you just explore?
Pretty sparkles @ 8:33. Thanks for sharing this!
Hey, by the way, what happened to the rest of your Alaska trip? To my knowledge, you only uploaded one video from that expedition.
Yes, you're correct about just one Alaska video so far. Waiting for things to settle down a little this summer before working on the remaining Alaska videos because they're going to take a lot of editing... We're returning to Alaska in September for more.
@@TVRExploring very exciting!
Thats a Fairbanks hit miss motor
That's what I thought but I couldn't see straight to save my life that day and should've looked for the Maker's Mark.
Detector?
A nice little mine with a nice chunk of Quartz
Yes, remote and quite nice...
Is it the way the light hits or is that a gold mineral throughout the mine? I runs in with the quartz and I know it is not real gold. Lol
The iron will stain the quartz lots of times to give it a yellow appearance. Makes me double take at times too.
WOW! I'd love to get an electric hammer drill with a long carbide bit in there, and have the cuttings assayed. That's some crazy quartz - bet it's bonanza-grade for sure. It just doesn't matter how rich your ore is if your mill can't recover it, which might have been what shut this one down.
There's another mine that had a stamp mill and tram line which is very unique for our area. Loads of equipment, very remote location so you know it was a bitch and a half getting it there. The ore was pretty ideal with decent assays in almost every sample. They could never get the mill dialed in correctly or the sorting tables etc.
Mine closed and the stamp Mill sat for sixty or so years until they recovered it for the museum in town.
The mine is claimed now but I don't believe any assessment has been done.
Does quartz like that have gold in it?
Yes, which is why the mine is here... However, not all quartz has gold in it. Sometimes quartz can have so much gold in it that it can be seen with the naked eye and other times quartz can be completely barren of any gold.
At 10:30, my gut is saying that's part of a cone crusher, but I may be wrong.
That piece you were unfamiliar with looked like the cone to a crusher.
Hi there - Wet Boot McBride
AKA Samsquanch!
Wet boots AND extremely hung over!
Old hit and miss motor maybe?
Thanks, guys... I had complete faith that you'd get this one.
Interesting that they would leave so much quartz, and go on past it. The quartz must not have been as high grade as we now envision it could have been. If it was it seems they would have put more effort into getting every bit of it.
Given all of the effort that would have been required to get that mining equipment in there and the work that was done in creating that chamber where the quartz was, we had the impression that they might have started out with some promising results. However, as you observed, they would not have left all of that quartz behind if it was assaying out well. So, perhaps whatever they found petered out... Or perhaps they were just wildly overoptimistic when they saw that quartz. You know what, I'm going to dig around some more in my history books and see if I can come up with anything more on this mine. I'll post another response here if I find anything... Thanks, as always, for the great comment.
Ohhh nice!
The first object is a spindle, the second is part of a motor flywheels and crank
Always tickles me why people want to carry and drink beer in old mines.. and then leave he beer cans there...
Same here! All I ever want after hiking my fat ass down or up to some of these sites is water!
I'd do horrible things for that hit an miss engine. Good size one-- missing the water hopper, rod, and piston, but the flywheels, crank, and block are there. Want.
First thing, caspian winch? Might be the thing to haul carts with rope. Ya got me on that last whoosit.
In before the Riff Raff! :-)
We try to...
Very nice find too bad it had collapsed, nice quartz in there.
Yes, I'm sorry we couldn't see where that ran back to...
Im so glad Norm Macdonald shows us his day to day life.
I think the article at 10:40 is the remains of a steam engine.
Looks like a hit and miss engine
Thank you.
That equipment around 10 minutes is an old rusty hit and miss it's just upside down lol so it's hard to tell at first 🤜🤛
(Edit; clearly you've already been told lol I'm a day late and a dollar short.)
I appreciate you identifying it all the same...
The two flywheel one looked like a hit and miss engine
Thank you! I knew you guys would be all over the answer to that one...
Should call this the Jameson mine.
Haha!! I didn't want to give you PTSD....
@@TVRExploring It's the one on the Western side of this mountain that gave me the PTSD!
Wouldn't a laser rangefinder work to help tell the length of the mine and help in navigation? 🤔🤔🤔
Yes, it would help with distances (which would be nice), but we don't have an issue with navigation...
That second piece of equipment with the flywheels is a single cylinder engine.
Lots of quartz! That ground looked familiar to what I have seen here too, very loose and crumbly, I don't think the water flowing down through it helps either. Some interesting machinery outside, hopefully someone can make out what it was.
Hi, Cornish. As others have said, the machinery looks like a Hit and Miss engine. That's heavy stuff. It must have taken the old miners a huge amount of effort to haul it up the side of that remote canyon
Yes, indeed, there was some nice quartz in there... I hate that crumbly serpentine/slate rock though. That stuff always caves. And even in sections where it hasn't caved yet, it FEELS like it could cave at any time. The word from other viewers is that the equipment outside was an old hit and miss engine. I'm not sure how that fits into the broader picture of how things worked there, but it brings us closer to an answer.
As high as gold is why aren't people reopening these old mines? There has to be gold still in some of those mines. Is it purely because people are scared of hard work?
Hard work + extensive rules and regulations = mines staying abandoned... If the price of gold gets high enough, it'll bring people back out to the abandoned mines. There is definitely still gold in many of these mines - sometimes a lot of it!
Of all the things in this vid, the only one my wife deemed important is " what does that writing say on your helmet? "
So I tell her it says " Hello! My Name Is S.T.F.U. " which is exactly what I painted on there.
She thought I meant her. Rough night. 😅
Haha!!
Ooh-wee. Hungover in the a.m., w/a damp sneaker afternoon, & in the doghouse after dark...some days u can't even buy a break, eh?
Better take some Ask Jeff Williams classes on gold panning
Hit or miss engine.
There's probably still a lot of gold in that quartz in that old mine.
Yes, I think you're right. I'd imagine it has not ever been metal detected. It is too small for the big companies, but a smaller operator could conceivably do quite well.
Hell yeah
Probably could show us a gold find by panning the loose on the ground.
*When you troll through those mines unknowingly in your boots, like 99% of youtubes mine explorers, you are destroying microbes by transferring them into other areas of mines and contaminating those microbioms. Respect our World and all lifeforms please, good sir!*
Steam powered trolly ?
😎
You pan your camera way to fast! I love this shit! Thank you but when filming slow down when showing the rock
It ain't yours buddy, it's MINE, lol..
Mr. McBride would go in barefoot think
HAHA!! Justin HAS done that before!
Convayor belt pully
New watcher here admittedly i know nothing about mining or spelunking . but i have to state the obvious here . your title says out of the way Gold mine and all yall are talking about is Quartz. so where the evidence of gold in the gold mine ? seeing is believing right . have a good one i enjoy yall stuff .
Thank you... You usually will not see visible gold in a gold mine. It is inside the quartz and must be crushed and processed to be extracted.