I really like the videos with you and Duane(?). Pairing your natural curiosity with someone who can explain, demonstrate, and relay old timers' stories is awesome. Where he pointed out the 2 ft shots in the rock was impressive. Excellent episode! (Take care in the / with the fires!)
I would have to agree with you the videos and mines with him in them are amazing especially to have explanations of everything it just makes it fun to watch. The 16 to 1 mine was my favorite the quartz was breathtaking and good quartz in this mine too.
I think the 16 to 1 mine series you did with Duane has been my favourite of all the different mine exploration channels. Very interesting and great to hear how things were done from a genuine miner too! Awesome! Be safe out there...
driving hard rock drift , raise and mining stopes with jacklegs and stopers was amazing and gratifying as hell . sadly 20 years of it and my back and lungs were done . I would still be at it, if I could . hand steeling - you had to be tough as it gets .
Incredible man! You got me researching mines where I live in NE and although there are a few, nothing very accessible or dry, and not many that are really old. What I did learn was if you were working in a mine you were in the shit, one story up here was they went on strike and in the end got nothing
bet there is still of the Yellow goodness down there....fire up them pumps and lets get to drilling ..... love them old mines with rehab work done in them...... me and Slim are waiting for the next vid so you know what we are gonna say huh ...ooooh you better ...So C'mon....Let's Go !!!!!
I've learned that it's a good idea to read the descriptions you write about each video first. There is so much to see in this series. The descriptions help me internalized as I watched the video play out. Sorry that so many fires are going on and you guys are there in the middle of all that. Thankful for all the firemen Prayers for everybodys safety, thanks for sharing and traveling.
Backfilling with a slusher? Clever! Slushers in general are severely underrated in most of the industry; I think the majority of active slushers in the Southwest are owned by one of my associates. One mine I worked with had an arrangement with two slusher drifts at right angles to each other, to slush ore from one machine to the other, which then scraped it into the shaft pocket. The ore was being mined in a creeping-cone open stope and drawn down with the slusher as needed until the stope was complete. I've proposed the same technique using a small LHD in another mine.
I'm of the opinion, that Mule Skinner, and TVR, need to partner up on more ventures in the future, because you two young men make a hellofa team. TVR's curiosity, and questions go along with all those of us, and Ole Mule Skinner's knowledge, and humor falls right into making excellent combination, as well as highly entertaining for everyone. Even reading the comments, I see Mule Skinner is still passing on information, which adds another asset to making it even better match up. Thank you all for your time and efforts, and look forward to the next adventure with y'all
Awesome view of the Rainbow Mine. Not a view you often see when researching these often forgotten, but important bits of American history. Hope you stay safe with all the fires out that way. Can’t wait for next week.
Awesome video! I am SO lovin' the BIG quartz in there. I just love seeing those gigantic veins! It reminds of that video awhile back that had the crushed quartz all on the floor, and the sound when walked on was wonderful! I think that was also in a 16 to 1 mine? Looking forward to #3.
What a great mine somebody has to save this at all But as i see someone had documentet the mine I am looking forward to see the next Episode Stay save Yours Frank Galetzka
One of those little RC underwater rovers, it would be neat to see what's down in the water. I have a crippling fear of deep water and water I can't see into, especially if it's deep. Just you looking into the water and saying it went down 300' gave me anxiety. If I was on that false floor and realized that water was below me I would have freaked the f out
Sorry , but you need to rethink your Math . Precious Metals & Precious Gem Stones are weighed with TROY Weight in which there are only 12 ounces to the Pound . So 500 oz. = 41.6666 Pounds .
I still think someone should bring in a tethered submarine drone to explore flooded levels in such mines. Probably a high chance of getting the wire stuck on something, but it would be amazing to see what these submerged levels now look like.
Absolutely spacious for being hand drilled. Even by today's standards that haulage adit seemed roomy. The only thing bigger than those guys arms would've been their mustaches!
Thank you. Yes, one of the fires burned to within less than a mile of our home, but we were able to stop it. I've been running a lot of shifts out on the fire lines the past month!
Very cool. If quartz was valuable they hit the mother load. Amazing the skills these guys from the past had. So many different types of trades in each guy. 18:14 in commenting on the patterns of that rock. Imagine the money that would pull if harvested for countertops?
There was, earlier this year, a three story house for sale in Allegheny, California. The lower story was a two bedroom apartment. Built by the mining company in the 1920's. $89,500. I considered it but, it's 50 minutes to the nearest store and they had 5 feet of snow on the ground at Christmas, 2019! I passed.
Ah, but the real question is how close it was to Casey's Place? That's the saloon in town if you didn't know... Seriously, even with the remote location and the snow, that sounds like a good price. What kind of shape was the building in?
@@TVRExploring Very good shape. And it's within a block of Casey's. Actually, the only renter in town was the Bartender! I considered it. I had the money but I would have needed to rent the apartment. So, no genius me, I bought a place in Challenge. Now I get to sit in Paradise and watch the fire move closer and closer to my new purchase. Damn it! I can't get in there. Mandatory evac. Well, that's what insurance is for.
@@TVRExploring It might still be on the market. As I said, built by the mining company in the 20's, there's 3 identical homes in a row between the town park and Casey's on Miners street. Built on a steep slope, the street level floor is the 2nd floor with a flight of stairs going down to the 2 bedroom apartment below. Three bedrooms on the 3rd floor. Upgraded electric and plumbing. Metered water. The photos showed the interior. Looked nice. A family from Utah had purchased the home next door. Metal roof but all electric. Yikes! Probably could have offered $75k. Casey's was closed due to covid. I tried to get somebody to go in on it as a "fuck you" place. The remoteness scared them off. I'm almost 70, so a little tough for me. All alone. Gorgeous in the summer. You'd have to stay there. No going to the store for a pack of smokes. So, I bought a cabin in Challenge. $62,500. Built in 1948, the property had been in the same family for 84 years. 9/10th of an acre. The cabin sits on 2/10th with Dry creek running through the corner of it. There's 7/10's across the road. Interesting that there's a 10' diameter Redwood tree on the 7/10's. I'm told that there's grinding stones across the creek. I'll have to clear the Blackberries to find out. Massive Madrone across the creek. Had to tear down the deck. A lot of rot. Have to raise and level the place. New piers and posts. Wood heat, North Yuba water district water, has electric but I have to do all new plumbing and add gas. Plumber for 45 years, so shouldn't be a problem. I'd been commuting back and forth from Paradise when I had spare time(hour and ten minutes each way), but now? Sitting in the smoke waiting for the place to either burn or the evac to be lifted. I suspect you work for Cal-Fire. I hate them for no rational reason. I know, I know. All chiefs and no Indians. Of the ten homes on the cul-de-sac where I lived, one didn't burn. A Cal-Fire captain's. As I said, an irrational hatred. Prick! Lol. Not really hatred, but I have to blame someone for global warming. I had an opportunity to check out the Dix mine @ Forks of the Butte. 3 cabins on a patented claim of 40 acres right on Butte creek. Beautiful place. Lucky bastard. They're not giving out patented claims anymore. More is the pity. So, if my Challenge property burns I have plenty of insurance and if it doesn't, I think I have enough left over cash to fix it the way I want. Paradise isn't the same as it was for the 39 years I lived there. Challenge is, or was. Green! Rain, and plenty of it. I need the proper amount of rain and sun that only the foothills of the Sierra Nevada provide. I realized that when I was running, irrationally, from the Camp fire. I can't think of living anywhere else. I'd miss the splash of bright colors of the Western Tanager, the steel blue green of the creeks in the spring. The yellow of the big leaf maple and bright red of the poison oak in the fall. The continuous rain, or liquid sunshine as I call it, in the winter. I'm a native northern Californian(Berkeley My great, great grandfather, Rueben Rickard was the first city manager and his son, Thomas, the second)as was my mother and her mother before that. It's here, despite the fires, that I'll pass my last breath. P.S. Keep up the videos. They're classic. I'm right about the eerie noise in that Soviet mine. Expansion and contraction of 1,000's of feet of rail pinned to sleepers. Nah! I don't know
@@TheNimshew Haha, you are so close to us! The Dry Creek watershed runs through our property and we're in the North Yuba Water District for our irrigation water... Oh, and, no, I do NOT work for CalFire, so feel free to maintain your hatred of them. I am with our local volunteer department... It sounds like a good price for the house in Alleghany and a good deal for the cabin you purchased as well (even if it does need some work). I don't have any control over it, but I really hope your cabin does not succumb to fire and that you're able to get back there soon. I hate those damned blackberries... They are invasive as hell and are not a native species. I don't particularly like stuff like poison oak, but it is not too difficult to control and doesn't completely take over an area the way those blackberries do. I'm with you on this area being "home" in may ways... I took it for granted growing up here, but having lived all over the world now, I really appreciate it.
Hi Justin, I found this about Ryan McDonald manufacturing - archive.org/details/ryanmcdonaldmfgc00ryan/page/n3/mode/2up Absolutely awesome to see that huge head frame they built there and they ore cart too. A real shame the lower levels are flooded out though as it would have been cool to see. I can't get over just how much quartz was in that mine, it was more quartz than anything else, the old timers certainly knew what they were doing. Thanks for sharing this with us and please stay safe with the fires there, I didn't know you were a firefighter, big respect to you it's a really tough and dangerous job. thanks to Duane also for the tour, much love. xx💖🤘
Great video! What an amazing mine! Out of curiosity, do you know what turned the water at 12:21 blue? It looks like it has copper dissolved in it to me, but i am in no way a chemistry expert.
Dayum. 300' down and full of water! I wonder when the water started running into it, like did they have issues with water in the 1910's? And the old timers just drained it out as they were going? OR did the mines start filling with water between the 20's and the 90's? ORR did the operation in the 90's run into the ground water flow and cause the flooding? ORRRR did surface conditions change the flow of some body of water? Like a damn or reservoir?
The head frame may have been from 1990 as stated, but the hoist system that we get to see next (12:30) certainly is a century old, if it is not from 1890 or some of the years directly following that year
The rock is completely fractured at the start of The Flood 4,350 years ago and the cracks filled with liquid quartz and dissolved gold whuch all then cooled and made the quartz veins in which gold is found.
I think a more descriptive name for this mine would be the Spaghetti Quartz mine. And what about the fog in the beginning to of drift that was spooky. Lots off stuff to take in for sure.
Very interesting mine, especially with Duane's commentary. Are there other mines that were blended into the 16 to 1 mine that you'll be exploring in the future?
Quartz is lighter than Gold , so when you come across a large mass of Quartz you always sink a Winze to get under the Quartz where you will usually find the Gold . < Doc , Miner for over 50 years > .
Anyone know some books listing using and explaining the mining terminology he uses Or books on historic mining in states like California Nevada and Arizona
First one on the right. Yeah, they followed that foot wall? until it petered out. Then... wow! You were walking down the center of a fault! Again to the right. Now you know what they were aiming at. Where two faults intersect. That's where it's said the gold is.
I'm a logger, on the cable comming from my skidders winch we have bitch links we hook our choker chains into. Thank you Duane and Justin for taking me along underground. I'm grateful to you both.
Parker Rowe , interesting to hear that terminology is used in other industries. Back in the day, mines relied on the timber industry to supply all the needed lumber for use underground. There was a saying “ If you don’t mine it, then you grow it” or something similar. Glad there is still a timber industry.
I'm hoping these tragic, totally avoidable, predicted fires will serve as a warning of environmentalism gone wrong thru feel Good activism turning into litigation turning into law based an bias peer reviewed BS funded by special intrests resulting in the return of common sense mining and logging on OUR land. My heart goes out to everyone out there affected by the results of these fires. Stay safe
Anyone else have issues with the video playing? I tried my phone (Samsung) and also my PS3. It plays, but stops every 5 seconds or so to buffer. No other videos do this to me
Sometimes equipment is left in the last place it was used. On many occasions, a mine would shutdown and never reopen, so the item was left right there, never to be used again.
Was kind of odd that nearly everything in the first part of the mine had yellow nylon rope tied to it. Once you got back to the headframe your gimbal was really whining and complaining. I have a wearable gopro gimbal that does the same thing.
The gimbal was still pissed off at me from the abuse I subjected it to the day before... I have a new gimbal now that doesn't seem to whine and complain. The area past the headframe was not worked in the 1990s. So, I believe, that is why all of the yellow rope was in the beginning.
The gimbal was still pissed off at me from the abuse I subjected it to the day before... I have a new gimbal now that doesn't seem to whine and complain. The area past the headframe was not worked in the 1990s. So, I believe, that is why all of the yellow rope was in the beginning.
As I continue to watch. I think back to the idea that 300 ounces was pulled out of there. That’s $360,000 of today dollars. Doing that work today wouldn’t be worth the money it would cost to extract it. Be a losing cause. Just goes to show how inexpensive things were back then.
I took a metal detector with me into a friends mine in the 70s. They laughed at first. That evening we ate beans. I'm certain he's never eaten beans since. Where's your metal detector?
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Wow! It's a shame the lower levels are flooded. Love the Head Frame! They weren't playing!
I bet it was a bear to pump out in the 90's
Amazing stuff. Seeing Duane operate that winch piston control gave me goose bumps, LOL.
So much history.
I really like the videos with you and Duane(?). Pairing your natural curiosity with someone who can explain, demonstrate, and relay old timers' stories is awesome. Where he pointed out the 2 ft shots in the rock was impressive. Excellent episode!
(Take care in the / with the fires!)
I would have to agree with you the videos and mines with him in them are amazing especially to have explanations of everything it just makes it fun to watch. The 16 to 1 mine was my favorite the quartz was breathtaking and good quartz in this mine too.
Yes, it is great to have Duane along...
I must agree. You both make an awesome team.
I think the 16 to 1 mine series you did with Duane has been my favourite of all the different mine exploration channels. Very interesting and great to hear how things were done from a genuine miner too! Awesome! Be safe out there...
I'll never forget that run of maripozite down in that one. Simply incredible.
driving hard rock drift , raise and mining stopes with jacklegs and stopers was amazing and gratifying as hell . sadly 20 years of it and my back and lungs were done . I would still be at it, if I could . hand steeling - you had to be tough as it gets .
The black rock and the vivid quartz was an amazing contrast. Great looking mine, and all those hidden secrets deep below in the cold wet dark.
Incredible man! You got me researching mines where I live in NE and although there are a few, nothing very accessible or dry, and not many that are really old. What I did learn was if you were working in a mine you were in the shit, one story up here was they went on strike and in the end got nothing
bet there is still of the Yellow goodness down there....fire up them pumps and lets get to drilling ..... love them old mines with rehab work done in them...... me and Slim are waiting for the next vid so you know what we are gonna say huh ...ooooh you better ...So C'mon....Let's Go !!!!!
Jeff, your crazier than a skunk on a hot skillet juggling frog legs...
You know there is! I can smell it through the video
Given the vein system in that area, yes, I think it is a pretty safe bet that there is still a good amount of gold in there!
@@TVRExploring gold in them their hills 😉
Be so neat to go through with a miner/guide "EXPLAINING" how this all worked.
I've learned that it's a good idea to read the descriptions you write about each video first. There is so much to see in this series. The descriptions help me internalized as I watched the video play out. Sorry that so many fires are going on and you guys are there in the middle of all that. Thankful for all the firemen Prayers for everybodys safety, thanks for sharing and traveling.
Backfilling with a slusher? Clever! Slushers in general are severely underrated in most of the industry; I think the majority of active slushers in the Southwest are owned by one of my associates. One mine I worked with had an arrangement with two slusher drifts at right angles to each other, to slush ore from one machine to the other, which then scraped it into the shaft pocket. The ore was being mined in a creeping-cone open stope and drawn down with the slusher as needed until the stope was complete. I've proposed the same technique using a small LHD in another mine.
The minds of men never cease to amaze me. Amazing
Your friend there, the beard of knowledge!
I'm of the opinion, that Mule Skinner, and TVR, need to partner up on more ventures in the future, because you two young men make a hellofa team.
TVR's curiosity, and questions go along with all those of us, and Ole Mule Skinner's knowledge, and humor falls right into making excellent combination, as well as highly entertaining for everyone.
Even reading the comments, I see Mule Skinner is still passing on information, which adds another asset to making it even better match up.
Thank you all for your time and efforts, and look forward to the next adventure with y'all
Thanks for the vid. Awesome as always.
Stay safe out there during the fires, they are crazy right now.
Awesome view of the Rainbow Mine. Not a view you often see when researching these often forgotten, but important bits of American history. Hope you stay safe with all the fires out that way. Can’t wait for next week.
Awesome video! I am SO lovin' the BIG quartz in there. I just love seeing those gigantic veins! It reminds of that video awhile back that had the crushed quartz all on the floor, and the sound when walked on was wonderful! I think that was also in a 16 to 1 mine? Looking forward to #3.
Thank you. Yes, that was the 16 to 1 Mine you'e talking about...
What a great mine somebody has to save this at all
But as i see someone had documentet the mine
I am looking forward to see the next Episode
Stay save
Yours Frank Galetzka
One of those little RC underwater rovers, it would be neat to see what's down in the water. I have a crippling fear of deep water and water I can't see into, especially if it's deep. Just you looking into the water and saying it went down 300' gave me anxiety. If I was on that false floor and realized that water was below me I would have freaked the f out
What a great mine! Shame the lower levels are flooded, we get that a lot in our mines.
There are some amazing mines in this district.
You hit the jackpot with such a fascinating above ground facilities and the remains below.
Incredible video
Another great Video guys !
Thank you!
18:14 quartz is amazing! It was dissolved in the superhot water inside Earth and flowed out and cooled during The Flood 4,350 years ago!
Wow they left some very nice stuff in there, great explore mate thnx.
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Awesome. Thanks from Australia! it is 3;30 am here.
That 300 ft drop on the winz WOW! And that water is a beautiful blue. The amount of quartz is amazing. 500 oz on the lower levels - 31 1/4 lbs. WOW!
Sorry , but you need to rethink your Math . Precious Metals & Precious Gem Stones are weighed with TROY Weight in which there are only 12 ounces to the Pound . So 500 oz. = 41.6666 Pounds .
Those guys or miner's sure spent a lot of their life blasting out to get the ore. Hard working 💪 humans
I still think someone should bring in a tethered submarine drone to explore flooded levels in such mines. Probably a high chance of getting the wire stuck on something, but it would be amazing to see what these submerged levels now look like.
Absolutely spacious for being hand drilled. Even by today's standards that haulage adit seemed roomy. The only thing bigger than those guys arms would've been their mustaches!
Duane's Back and on track!!!Justin is there more coming on this dark wet play Misty for me Mine!? Thanks nice Quartz!!!; )
As always... Fascinating stuff....Thank's
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It’s good to see mr McBride he has a wealth of knowledge of mining 👍👍👍
great job guys hope you staying safe in the fire zone justin
Thank you. Yes, one of the fires burned to within less than a mile of our home, but we were able to stop it. I've been running a lot of shifts out on the fire lines the past month!
Great video guy's! Thanks for making great content.
Excellent video....!
The claustrophobia hit me hard watching this one
This one doesn't disappoint.
If its near the 16 to one, it will be mined again. Most amazing specimen mine on earth.
Just across the canyon... Really, all of the mines in that district have incredible quartz and gold. But, yes, the 16 is in a class of its own.
Enjoying this one 🤪🐿
Very impressive! Wish we could see down the shaft..
Very cool. If quartz was valuable they hit the mother load. Amazing the skills these guys from the past had. So many different types of trades in each guy. 18:14 in commenting on the patterns of that rock. Imagine the money that would pull if harvested for countertops?
always interesting to see the rail.
Awesome video! Thanks!
What are all those types of minerals like that dark purple rock? That looks like a great vein. Take care
Fantastic Video. I live in PA not far from Baltimore Maryland.
There was, earlier this year, a three story house for sale in Allegheny, California. The lower story was a two bedroom apartment. Built by the mining company in the 1920's. $89,500. I considered it but, it's 50 minutes to the nearest store and they had 5 feet of snow on the ground at Christmas, 2019! I passed.
Ah, but the real question is how close it was to Casey's Place? That's the saloon in town if you didn't know... Seriously, even with the remote location and the snow, that sounds like a good price. What kind of shape was the building in?
@@TVRExploring Very good shape. And it's within a block of Casey's. Actually, the only renter in town was the Bartender! I considered it. I had the money but I would have needed to rent the apartment. So, no genius me, I bought a place in Challenge. Now I get to sit in Paradise and watch the fire move closer and closer to my new purchase. Damn it! I can't get in there. Mandatory evac. Well, that's what insurance is for.
@@TVRExploring It might still be on the market. As I said, built by the mining company in the 20's, there's 3 identical homes in a row between the town park and Casey's on Miners street. Built on a steep slope, the street level floor is the 2nd floor with a flight of stairs going down to the 2 bedroom apartment below. Three bedrooms on the 3rd floor. Upgraded electric and plumbing. Metered water. The photos showed the interior. Looked nice. A family from Utah had purchased the home next door. Metal roof but all electric. Yikes! Probably could have offered $75k. Casey's was closed due to covid. I tried to get somebody to go in on it as a "fuck you" place. The remoteness scared them off. I'm almost 70, so a little tough for me. All alone. Gorgeous in the summer. You'd have to stay there. No going to the store for a pack of smokes.
So, I bought a cabin in Challenge. $62,500. Built in 1948, the property had been in the same family for 84 years. 9/10th of an acre. The cabin sits on 2/10th with Dry creek running through the corner of it. There's 7/10's across the road. Interesting that there's a 10' diameter Redwood tree on the 7/10's. I'm told that there's grinding stones across the creek. I'll have to clear the Blackberries to find out. Massive Madrone across the creek. Had to tear down the deck. A lot of rot. Have to raise and level the place. New piers and posts. Wood heat, North Yuba water district water, has electric but I have to do all new plumbing and add gas. Plumber for 45 years, so shouldn't be a problem. I'd been commuting back and forth from Paradise when I had spare time(hour and ten minutes each way), but now? Sitting in the smoke waiting for the place to either burn or the evac to be lifted. I suspect you work for Cal-Fire. I hate them for no rational reason. I know, I know. All chiefs and no Indians. Of the ten homes on the cul-de-sac where I lived, one didn't burn. A Cal-Fire captain's. As I said, an irrational hatred. Prick! Lol. Not really hatred, but I have to blame someone for global warming. I had an opportunity to check out the Dix mine @ Forks of the Butte. 3 cabins on a patented claim of 40 acres right on Butte creek. Beautiful place. Lucky bastard. They're not giving out patented claims anymore. More is the pity.
So, if my Challenge property burns I have plenty of insurance and if it doesn't, I think I have enough left over cash to fix it the way I want. Paradise isn't the same as it was for the 39 years I lived there. Challenge is, or was. Green! Rain, and plenty of it. I need the proper amount of rain and sun that only the foothills of the Sierra Nevada provide. I realized that when I was running, irrationally, from the Camp fire. I can't think of living anywhere else. I'd miss the splash of bright colors of the Western Tanager, the steel blue green of the creeks in the spring. The yellow of the big leaf maple and bright red of the poison oak in the fall. The continuous rain, or liquid sunshine as I call it, in the winter. I'm a native northern Californian(Berkeley My great, great grandfather, Rueben Rickard was the first city manager and his son, Thomas, the second)as was my mother and her mother before that. It's here, despite the fires, that I'll pass my last breath. P.S. Keep up the videos. They're classic. I'm right about the eerie noise in that Soviet mine. Expansion and contraction of 1,000's of feet of rail pinned to sleepers. Nah! I don't know
@@TheNimshew Haha, you are so close to us! The Dry Creek watershed runs through our property and we're in the North Yuba Water District for our irrigation water... Oh, and, no, I do NOT work for CalFire, so feel free to maintain your hatred of them. I am with our local volunteer department...
It sounds like a good price for the house in Alleghany and a good deal for the cabin you purchased as well (even if it does need some work). I don't have any control over it, but I really hope your cabin does not succumb to fire and that you're able to get back there soon.
I hate those damned blackberries... They are invasive as hell and are not a native species. I don't particularly like stuff like poison oak, but it is not too difficult to control and doesn't completely take over an area the way those blackberries do.
I'm with you on this area being "home" in may ways... I took it for granted growing up here, but having lived all over the world now, I really appreciate it.
Hi Justin, I found this about Ryan McDonald manufacturing - archive.org/details/ryanmcdonaldmfgc00ryan/page/n3/mode/2up
Absolutely awesome to see that huge head frame they built there and they ore cart too. A real shame the lower levels are flooded out though as it would have been cool to see. I can't get over just how much quartz was in that mine, it was more quartz than anything else, the old timers certainly knew what they were doing.
Thanks for sharing this with us and please stay safe with the fires there, I didn't know you were a firefighter, big respect to you it's a really tough and dangerous job. thanks to Duane also for the tour, much love. xx💖🤘
Now Uncle Lees Szechwan Kitchen. Though, I think they used the address of their Bank for the company.
Awesome! Thanks for looking that up for us...
@@TVRExploring You're very welcome, I thought you might like to read more about it. x
You sure need to watch where you're walking in mines like this. Being somewhat of a Tanglefoot I'd be AOH in no time .lol
Great video! What an amazing mine!
Out of curiosity, do you know what turned the water at 12:21 blue? It looks like it has copper dissolved in it to me, but i am in no way a chemistry expert.
It could have been so many things that it is hard to say without testing it.
Do they have any records on how much gold this mine produced?
Dayum. 300' down and full of water! I wonder when the water started running into it, like did they have issues with water in the 1910's? And the old timers just drained it out as they were going? OR did the mines start filling with water between the 20's and the 90's? ORR did the operation in the 90's run into the ground water flow and cause the flooding? ORRRR did surface conditions change the flow of some body of water? Like a damn or reservoir?
The head frame may have been from 1990 as stated, but the hoist system that we get to see next (12:30) certainly is a century old, if it is not from 1890 or some of the years directly following that year
The rock is completely fractured at the start of The Flood 4,350 years ago and the cracks filled with liquid quartz and dissolved gold whuch all then cooled and made the quartz veins in which gold is found.
I think a more descriptive name for this mine would be the Spaghetti Quartz mine. And what about the fog in the beginning to of drift that was spooky. Lots off stuff to take in for sure.
Very interesting mine, especially with Duane's commentary. Are there other mines that were blended into the 16 to 1 mine that you'll be exploring in the future?
Yes, he sent us to check out some others. Unfortunately, he was not able to accompany us on any others.
@@TVRExploring What other ones did you explore?
With all that quartz running everywhere, how did they choose which areas to concentrate on?
Quartz is lighter than Gold , so when you come across a large mass of Quartz you always sink a Winze to get under the Quartz where you will usually find the Gold . < Doc , Miner for over 50 years > .
Wow the engineering of Ryan McDonald of Balt. MD
Pretty cool, huh?
Anyone know some books listing using and explaining the mining terminology he uses
Or books on historic mining in states like California Nevada and Arizona
ventilation pipe is newer so who was pecking away in that mine after it reopened in the 1970s-1980s
Great Video there mate. Is this a large mine or just your average mine?
I would say that this is an average mine.
That's a lot of quartz !
I always wonder when they took a sample How long before they got the results back.
It depends on where they sent it, how much they paid, etc. If they really wanted it, assay results could have been sent back within hours.
First one on the right. Yeah, they followed that foot wall? until it petered out. Then... wow! You were walking down the center of a fault! Again to the right. Now you know what they were aiming at. Where two faults intersect. That's where it's said the gold is.
The old timers seem to have been very good at locating such places.
TVR, did I ever tell you what that plate at 20:28 is called? In miner slang, it's called a "Bitch Link".
I'm a logger, on the cable comming from my skidders winch we have bitch links we hook our choker chains into.
Thank you Duane and Justin for taking me along underground. I'm grateful to you both.
Parker Rowe , interesting to hear that terminology is used in other industries. Back in the day, mines relied on the timber industry to supply all the needed lumber for use underground. There was a saying “ If you don’t mine it, then you grow it” or something similar. Glad there is still a timber industry.
I'm hoping these tragic, totally avoidable, predicted fires will serve as a warning of environmentalism gone wrong thru feel Good activism turning into litigation turning into law based an bias peer reviewed BS funded by special intrests resulting in the return of common sense mining and logging on OUR land.
My heart goes out to everyone out there affected by the results of these fires.
Stay safe
Haha, thanks for letting me know. I was wondering what it was...
That ain't no crude cart. It's a tool cart. Ain't no crude in that whole mountain.
what was that noise at 1:10
Anyone else have issues with the video playing? I tried my phone (Samsung) and also my PS3. It plays, but stops every 5 seconds or so to buffer. No other videos do this to me
Can you and/or your partner comment on gear and equipment like the ore cart at 4:04 being left in random places?
Sometimes equipment is left in the last place it was used. On many occasions, a mine would shutdown and never reopen, so the item was left right there, never to be used again.
Why did that dude leave the 16 mine
Was kind of odd that nearly everything in the first part of the mine had yellow nylon rope tied to it. Once you got back to the headframe your gimbal was really whining and complaining. I have a wearable gopro gimbal that does the same thing.
The gimbal was still pissed off at me from the abuse I subjected it to the day before... I have a new gimbal now that doesn't seem to whine and complain.
The area past the headframe was not worked in the 1990s. So, I believe, that is why all of the yellow rope was in the beginning.
The gimbal was still pissed off at me from the abuse I subjected it to the day before... I have a new gimbal now that doesn't seem to whine and complain.
The area past the headframe was not worked in the 1990s. So, I believe, that is why all of the yellow rope was in the beginning.
What was under the blue tarp
As Duane said it was bags of concrete. They going to put in refuge chamber since the mine only has one way in.
As I continue to watch. I think back to the idea that 300 ounces was pulled out of there. That’s $360,000 of today dollars. Doing that work today wouldn’t be worth the money it would cost to extract it. Be a losing cause. Just goes to show how inexpensive things were back then.
Maybe you could bring Duane to your current mine site
I took a metal detector with me into a friends mine in the 70s. They laughed at first. That evening we ate beans. I'm certain he's never eaten beans since. Where's your metal detector?
If TVR brought a metal detector with him, he would never leave a mine!
Do you ever wonder if you're under body's of water?
We often are!
@@TVRExploring does that possibly explain the mist in this video? Or some other phenomenon?
Where the block and chain was the other object is what we used to call a jews harp
Thank you.
Gold has virtually no practical value.
Modern electronics use gold.
@@TVRExploring What percentage of mined gold becomes material for electronics?
@@brushbros That's different than saying it has no practical value...
@@brushbros Not saying I disagree with the spirit of your overall point...
@@TVRExploring What does "virtually" mean?
Not sure if anybody else has already said but the miners graffiti looks like W.I.E.G and possible something like ‘zey’ before the date.
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