@25:00, that tool for clearing drill holes is referred to as a "spoon". It is used for removing debree from the hole so the powder can make it to the back of the drill hole.
21:00 This mine is ready to be mined again. 2 ore carts, slusher, tracks and the air compressor already there. maybe the air blower from the other mine in the previous clip could be used too
The drill steel at 7:40 is called a Swede Steel. It is a less preferred chisel type carbide steel. A more preferred drill steel has a 22 degree taper and uses knock off star or cross bits.
Absolutely loved Part 1 and 2....Those mountainous views are Beautiful!...The ore car ride you all took, looked fun..Great inside views of the adits as well..Awesome job Guys!..Im looking forward to part 3..Thank You!..
We went to Panamint back in the 70's. We met was a caretaker and his wife Very Cool. There was a Pond in front of their cabin fed from the creek, which was running that summer. We drove a 4WD Toyota all the way from Death valley to Panamint, there was a road with rock foundation's for tents on both sides of the road . Big difference from now.....That was a good time, have not forgotten all these years.
Hi guys, such fantastic scenery there, a very cool explore of the workings there and I loved the design that slusher had for emptying the slusher bucket, pretty neat how the old miners used to find solutions for getting the ore out. Some very cool machinery in the area and that generator was huge. Awesome to see the old tram towers still standing, imagine all of the history they have seen come and go, if only they could talk. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖
So you explored the Wyoming mine, but have you ever explored any mines in Wyoming? That rolling mine cart was a great find. Rare to see them in such good shape.
Very well put together and narrated! Really enjoyed this video, and didn't once go, "Point the camera! SHOW US!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??" ... which is very rare for me, as most producers do some really annoying stuff from time to time. Plus, you actually know what you're talking about, and always get your terminology right! Great job!
The glass vile that you found was quite possibly a vile with dried nitroglycerin crystals ( was liquid originally), and was put into drill holes ( that were single jacked ) for blasting. If so you were quite lucky that it didn't go off when it was shakened . It was used before dynamite was around.
I think I liked the part about the countryside, old buildings and machinery more than the mine itself. Very interesting ! Would love to visit and explore there some day. Thanks
I went down the tramway tunnel about 50 years ago with my dad, back before all the new construction. It's amazing how much most of it still all looks like I remember. Except for that collapsed section covering the track; that was just a small semi-solid section to one side of the tunnel and much less broken up. I also don't remember so much wood covering the drop just before the rise. It was mostly just a gaping opening in the floor and scared the heck out of my 9 year-old self. Anyhow, thanks for sharing this video!
I love how at the end of the drift, under the graffiti,you can actually see the funnel like scattering of the rock and the striations in the drill hole, lots of force to leave behind visual marks of the blast,thanks guys😊
Lots of mines, ghost towns across Panamint valley and up in the Argus mountains ! A trek to Darwin Falls would be cool ! Literally ! I use to live out there. PS. Panamint City is a ghost town in Death Valley National Park !
WOW .! DID ANYONE ELSE CATCH THAT ORB APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR AT 2o.37 time stamp it was about 8 or ten seconds behind the ore cart moving down the track . I think when moving around the ore car it brought it out . It is a perfect capture with no smoke or mirrors .
Great complex! What is your information source for the mine history? It's clear you already know a lot about the mines when you go in. Especially the mine maps??
I got the mine maps from an old Cal Tech thesis on the geology of the area. A great site for finding info and maps is the "California Mines Geological Collection" on the Internet Archive website. Also just searching the internet can get you good results if you dig deep.
@22:00 loading cars with a slasher is not ideal but has been done using a ramp to slush up. It is done sometimes for mucking out a cross cut drift a short distance, or if the vein splits with a dike of waist in the center. In the latter case you stand rail in one drift and use your mucking machine it and slush out the out the other drift without rail.
I've found slusher setups similar to the ones you mentioned. I'm guessing in this mine they were lacking a mucking machine and decided to try the slusher out.
loader slusher setups are old school ways to load ore cars, i have set them up many times in a small mining operation where we did not have a mucking mechine.
When I visited Colorado in 1979, I was taken up Mt Evans and on the side of the road out of Idaho Springs, there was large number of mine adits with clearly dumped tailings. This was the first time I had ever seen anything like this and would have loved to taken a look inside some of them, but we did not have the time. I assume that they were gold mines but have not been able to find any information about them or whether they still exist and would be keen to know where to look.
Good video, but you should have zoomed in on those equipment data plates at 8:02 and 21:52. The second one could have easily been dusted off, so it could be read. Both of these data plates probably had manufacture dates on them, but now will never know. Yikes!
When you were panning down on the 2nd and 3rd tower with the chimney there was a large chunk of metal to the right of it on the ground. I wonder if that is an old tram bucket?
gardner-denver company originally was a steam unit, garder-denver only made steam units, compressing air to the workers in the mine, that jimmy diesel is 70's model i think by the looks of a in line 6- 2 stroke or a v-8 model only saw it briefly? they NEVER CHAINED UP THE ORE CARTS THEY DRIFE PINNED THEM TOGETHER, MINES DONT TAKE THE CHANCE OF CHAIN , CHAIN BREAKS AND KILLS, .
@@josephlipetzky2825 It means exactly what it says: "PAY ATTENTION, SON!!!!" If you watched (paid attention to) the video, you'd know the answer to your question!
@@SteveKasian and you are being an asshole, a lot of these mines are not reworked due to federal safety acts, so know your roll boy, and yes I said boy
@@SteveKasian I've seen perfectly legible date codes on trailer tires made in 1958, that had spent their entire life in the desert. (In fact those tires were still roadworthy in 2012... the power of Made In USA.) The numbers used to be rather more prominent than they are today.
Oh gods that’s fucking awesome. Minecraft rollercoaster for adults hahaha. Just watching that put a big ole grin on my face that I suspect will be plastered there for a good minute. Goddamn great.
Xavier is definitely the best dressed mine explorers that ever was,great explore guys once again 😂
He really dresses up for the occasion!
@25:00, that tool for clearing drill holes is referred to as a "spoon". It is used for removing debree from the hole so the powder can make it to the back of the drill hole.
21:00 This mine is ready to be mined again. 2 ore carts, slusher, tracks and the air compressor already there. maybe the air blower from the other mine in the previous clip could be used too
The ore car ride was a classic! Good job on balancing the scenery and mine workings.
You're presenting excellent coverage of Panamint City area mines.
At 7:12 the bracket holding the timber cap up without posts is referred to as "Bullhorns" in the mining trade.
Cool. Thanks!
The drill steel at 7:40 is called a Swede Steel. It is a less preferred chisel type carbide steel. A more preferred drill steel has a 22 degree taper and uses knock off star or cross bits.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
Absolutely loved Part 1 and 2....Those mountainous views are Beautiful!...The ore car ride you all took, looked fun..Great inside views of the adits as well..Awesome job Guys!..Im looking forward to part 3..Thank You!..
Gotta love seeing some fellow mining history nerds enjoying a good ole’ ore car ride haha. Nice work guys!
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We went to Panamint back in the 70's. We met was a caretaker and his wife Very Cool. There was a Pond in front of their cabin fed from the creek, which was running that summer. We drove a 4WD Toyota all the way from Death valley to Panamint, there was a road with rock foundation's for tents on both sides of the road . Big difference from now.....That was a good time, have not forgotten all these years.
It's awesome you got to drive up there. Thanks for the comment!
Hi guys, such fantastic scenery there, a very cool explore of the workings there and I loved the design that slusher had for emptying the slusher bucket, pretty neat how the old miners used to find solutions for getting the ore out. Some very cool machinery in the area and that generator was huge. Awesome to see the old tram towers still standing, imagine all of the history they have seen come and go, if only they could talk. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖
So you explored the Wyoming mine, but have you ever explored any mines in Wyoming? That rolling mine cart was a great find. Rare to see them in such good shape.
This four part series is really incredible! I had no idea that the Panamint City area concealed such rich mines. I look forward to the next two parts.
Very well put together and narrated! Really enjoyed this video, and didn't once go, "Point the camera! SHOW US!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??" ... which is very rare for me, as most producers do some really annoying stuff from time to time. Plus, you actually know what you're talking about, and always get your terminology right! Great job!
The glass vile that you found was quite possibly a vile with dried nitroglycerin crystals ( was liquid originally), and was put into drill holes ( that were single jacked ) for blasting. If so you were quite lucky that it didn't go off when it was shakened . It was used before dynamite was around.
Nice seeing the old GM Detroit up there, everything up there is exciting, can’t wait for the other videos!
Nice work, show more of the rock inside the mine, it would be great to see good pics of ore.
Thats a $500 dollar DC motor.
I think that the Panimint valley is one of the most beautiful places Ive ever seen.
Geat document.
Thanks! The panamint valley is an amazing place with lots more to see.
I think I liked the part about the countryside, old buildings and machinery more than the mine itself.
Very interesting !
Would love to visit and explore there some day.
Thanks
Looks like it was late 70s or even 80s constructions its amazing how well stuff stays perserved out their
Great video and excellent dialog as always! California history and some nice mine shots.
I went down the tramway tunnel about 50 years ago with my dad, back before all the new construction. It's amazing how much most of it still all looks like I remember. Except for that collapsed section covering the track; that was just a small semi-solid section to one side of the tunnel and much less broken up. I also don't remember so much wood covering the drop just before the rise. It was mostly just a gaping opening in the floor and scared the heck out of my 9 year-old self. Anyhow, thanks for sharing this video!
I like watching these guys in mines. They don't take stupid risk or touch things they shouldn't.
I love how at the end of the drift, under the graffiti,you can actually see the funnel like scattering of the rock and the striations in the drill hole, lots of force to leave behind visual marks of the blast,thanks guys😊
It's always neat to see the fracturing left from a blast. Thanks for watching
Thanks Nick
Lots of mines, ghost towns across Panamint valley and up in the Argus mountains !
A trek to Darwin Falls would be cool ! Literally !
I use to live out there.
PS. Panamint City is a ghost town in Death Valley National Park !
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WOW .! DID ANYONE ELSE CATCH THAT ORB APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR AT 2o.37 time stamp it was about 8 or ten seconds behind the ore cart moving down the track . I think when moving around the ore car it brought it out . It is a perfect capture with no smoke or mirrors .
I did, I’ve seen three in the second episode.
I appreciate your knowledge of mining machinery and engineering.
excellent coverage of these mines :)
Ore car ride, yeh! That's always so fun. Neat explore guys. The fault zones in that mine were cool.
Y’all riding in the mining cart made me more happy than it should have😂😎👍
Nice video guys! Keep up the good work!👍
Excellent footage my friend. That was a fun trip, we need to do more backpacking trips.
look at the spirit orb at 20:37. The mine custodian appeared to go after you when you were crying in that ore car.
What an incredible place! I can’t wait for parts 3 & 4. Thank you so much for taking along in this awesome channel, Xavier.
hello my good friend i enjoy your show keep up good work i would love get back in to mineing again sometime this years
I absolutely love your videos! You guys are clearly having a blast!
Great video guys thanks so much for sharing been waiting on this one big thumbs up great work
Great complex! What is your information source for the mine history? It's clear you already know a lot about the mines when you go in. Especially the mine maps??
I got the mine maps from an old Cal Tech thesis on the geology of the area. A great site for finding info and maps is the "California Mines Geological Collection" on the Internet Archive website. Also just searching the internet can get you good results if you dig deep.
I have a Gardner denver stoping drill,found it down 300 ft in a mine at my friend's property in Colorado, still runs
Still have yet to find a drill inside of a mine. Hopefully someday
Great work guys. The ore car ride looked like fun.
Really great video here. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Nice detective work on these mines
thanks, very nice. scenery is spectacular.
🤣🤣🤣Gravity power, very good that ore car must have been so happy playing with you both, after many years there alone.
@22:00 loading cars with a slasher is not ideal but has been done using a ramp to slush up. It is done sometimes for mucking out a cross cut drift a short distance, or if the vein splits with a dike of waist in the center. In the latter case you stand rail in one drift and use your mucking machine it and slush out the out the other drift without rail.
Slusher, not slasher, autocorrect doesn't like slusher.
I've found slusher setups similar to the ones you mentioned. I'm guessing in this mine they were lacking a mucking machine and decided to try the slusher out.
Nice explore guys. 👍
Great video; thanks for posting.
loader slusher setups are old school ways to load ore cars, i have set them up many times in a small mining operation where we did not have a mucking mechine.
Good job, always interesting content.
Can't wait to see part 3 and 4 coming !!
When I get a new video notification from you I'm always glad because I know you have made it out of your latest exploration in one piece.
That was a great shot.
Really well done. Thoroughly enjoyed it all. 😎✌🏻
Those Bristlecone Pines are the oldest trees on Earth.
Great Job the Narrating and video!
That miners graffiti looks like it said
" Siuslaw "
When I visited Colorado in 1979, I was taken up Mt Evans and on the side of the road out of Idaho Springs, there was large number of mine adits with clearly dumped tailings. This was the first time I had ever seen anything like this and would have loved to taken a look inside some of them, but we did not have the time. I assume that they were gold mines but have not been able to find any information about them or whether they still exist and would be keen to know where to look.
can't wait for your hemlock explore!
Good video, but you should have zoomed in on those equipment data plates at 8:02 and 21:52. The second one could have easily been dusted off, so it could be read. Both of these data plates probably had manufacture dates on them, but now will never know. Yikes!
Cool Thank Gly Nice video and intro .
Wow is so beautiful there which can be part of your team man. Keep going and make a lot of fun.
amazing i am very happy to see you working greetings from me traditional indonesian gold miner👍🔔👈🇮🇩🙏🏻🤝
Is it cooler down there?
Great video ! Very informative.
if you use metal supports for the overhead timbering, you do not have to make the tunnel as wide as would be needed if you used timber supports.
How much would it cost to build a chimney like that?
When you were panning down on the 2nd and 3rd tower with the chimney there was a large chunk of metal to the right of it on the ground. I wonder if that is an old tram bucket?
I wonder where their water source was for working the slush box and equipment?
Desert areas are so amazing for atifacts!
gardner-denver company originally was a steam unit, garder-denver only made steam units, compressing air to the workers in the mine, that jimmy diesel is 70's model i think by the looks of a in line 6- 2 stroke or a v-8 model only saw it briefly? they NEVER CHAINED UP THE ORE CARTS THEY DRIFE PINNED THEM TOGETHER, MINES DONT TAKE THE CHANCE OF CHAIN , CHAIN BREAKS AND KILLS, .
still got the blower unit on the GM motor.
Do they ever rework some of these mines
Pay attention, son!!!!
@@SteveKasian , what's that supposed to mean, asking a serious question,
@@josephlipetzky2825 It means exactly what it says: "PAY ATTENTION, SON!!!!" If you watched (paid attention to) the video, you'd know the answer to your question!
@@SteveKasian and you are being an asshole, a lot of these mines are not reworked due to federal safety acts, so know your roll boy, and yes I said boy
Maybe the small room with the metal door was explosives storage.
That's what it was
That was a lot of fun!
some impressive stuff way up sourdough canyon too, looks like it was worked until the road washed out in the mid 80s
Well, did you paint him?!
Well done video! Do you know about Chris Wick, who lived in the ruins of Panamint City in the 1920's and 1930's?
19:47 I wanna Go! Fun Video.. Regards from Ody Slim
Very cool thank you
Just awesome!
Thanks for identifying fissure and type of rock🇺🇸🤗
20:35 there’s an orb following them👀
It's obvious the tram towers were part of a ski lift before the mining operators used them.
You might be right lol
Nice job guys you guys are in better shape than me I would've collapsed and rolled to the bottom lol
OUTSTANDING.THANK YOU SO MUCH! FANTASTIC! SAFE TRAVELS..
Nice video
There should be dates on the tires on that compressor, or at least date codes.
I doubt the rubber is in any condition to give up any tiny, raised DOT code lettering .
@@SteveKasian I've seen perfectly legible date codes on trailer tires made in 1958, that had spent their entire life in the desert. (In fact those tires were still roadworthy in 2012... the power of Made In USA.) The numbers used to be rather more prominent than they are today.
Awesome!!!
I think you deserve more subs
if you want to find out how old that fan is, look at the motor plate, it will say, date of manufacture
Oh gods that’s fucking awesome. Minecraft rollercoaster for adults hahaha. Just watching that put a big ole grin on my face that I suspect will be plastered there for a good minute. Goddamn great.
That tramway is a riblet lift
Did you notice the oar car bye the portal was a 55gal...........
you two are pretty different personality, your buddy is alot for silly and your more chill and apathetic
I would like to have that compressor.
Around here all the mines have been stripped of any mechanical artifacts.
Awesome.........
Ok did anyone else see that orb at 20.38 after the cart goes by wth was that
hemlock mine, reminds me of sally on jack skellington
awesome
again, I seen Charlie Manson at the very end of the road up there just four days before the clan got busted four days later... I was 13
Cant help but think of Indiana Jones when i see those mining carts 😂