That is the most comprehensive, detailed tour I have ever seen. The mine & equipment are all just impressively gigantic. It was so nice to see everything is in tact & in working order to. Duane did an excellent & thorough job with the tour. Thank Justin for the videos. Hopefully there will be another video! Regards from Ody Slim,
Hi, I am thoroughly enjoying watching these episodes, it really interests me to see the actual process of how the gold is extracted and milled then refined, so cool. You can see that he is really passionate about what he does. Thanks for sharing, I can't wait till the next one. x
Thanks, Sue. I'm glad you're finding these interesting... I agree with you in that most of the time we just get a hole in the ground with an abandoned mine. So, it is interesting to see how all of the different parts - such as the workshops and mills - work together to get the gold to its final form. Thanks for watching and commenting.
What a great thing to be given a tour like this. Great information and historical information as well. Thank you to the mine and mine personnel for doing this and letting us get a glimpse into their world.
I love this stuff. Thank you. I used to work with slurry pump salesmen. With the mining industry, every punctuation mark is replaced with F* or S*. Every time there's a mining disaster, I get glued to the story because it feels like those miners are family.
It's such an eye-opener to hear a real miner say whats happened in the mine, and what the parts are called and why certain things were worked in a certain fashion. Thanks for taking us along once more.
That’s an awesome place and just imagine the amount of gold still in there. I would love to work for Duane, just to listen to him talk about the history alone is worth it. Heck I’ll even crawl thru the manhole into the ball mill just to hear him talk. Thanks for sharing
Thankyou for the video work.Big shout out to your guide.I have been in the 16/1 Mine and have personally met Mike Miller.I still remember the day going down into the mine.At the time I went ,they allowed you to look and pick a little in the large ball room area.They had magnificent ore samples on display.i have found gold in the Downyville area.Nothing to retire on.The amount of work and energy that goes into an operation like the 16/1 is phenomenal. I was there about 2003. I left California in 2014 to CoeurDAlene,I’d. I have been to the town of Wallace and up to the old mining areas there. I love the mining history and have been on my own treks in California and Nevada.Now I’m in Alaska and have already scoured the areas from Fairbanks to Anchorage and will continue.This visit of yours brought back fond memories of the area.54 years in California but the political atmosphere was too much for me.Stay safe.
Thank you for watching and for the comment... It is an impressive site, to be sure! I'm glad you found some gold around Downieville. I wish more people were still mining, but it is hard now with all of the rules and regulations. It sounds like you've gotten around a fair amount. Which was your favorite area?
TVR Exploring I lived in the Placerville area.I contracted electrical from 1984-2014 in Sacramento.I had an outcropping of quartz on my property in the Omo Ranch area.Too busy to do anything but tinker.I am fascinated with the mining history and would go to sites and do the research. Took my daughters with me but never got crazy enough to do something with them or myself and get injured. As your detailed video shows,mines are extremely dangerous.Your guide did give you the primo tour.He loves the work or he wouldn’t still be there.I’ve watched other videos on mines where they give pretty good coverage.The gold crystalline formations mixed with the quartz are beautiful specimens there. The bank vault,the newer gold processing areas are nice to see.I took a shorter tour which included that massive chamber. Yes,the gold is there but getting to it is very expensive. However as was in the recent past they did have a huge payday. That is the fever that drives one on.God bless you and your friend in your adventure.
The difference in the timber is oak vs softwood (fir, pine). The softwoods will expand when wet and the cellulose opens up so much that fungus can penetrate. With oak when it’s wet it swells and the cellulose gets tighter and won’t let anything penetrate it. Hardwood is becoming harder to get and way more expensive and just isn’t cost effective to use so they just use softwoods now.
@@eaglewi Concrete tends to snap if impacted and won't bend with loads. Wood bends with loads and won't snap quite as often when impacted. Plus costs. Factor it all together and using wood is cheaper/easier. PLUS can't really do concrete arches in unusual bends/angles, where with wood just nail it in place + cut to fit.
Simon Tay actually in those mines the water has minerals in it. Those minerals will leach into the wood and pretty much petrify them over time. Think stalactites and stalagmites. The cost of oak is $3.85 a bd ft were the cost of pine is about $1.50 a bdft. It’s not like the wood is above ground exposed to UV light and has a lower oxygen level. Softwood will get the job done and is a more renewable resource than oak. 5 years vs 50.
erik litchy just to add to what Christopher said, concrete also gets soft as it gets damp. If you put any pressure on it then it would just snap. It would have to be reinforced and the cost of steel is just too great. Understand that the more it costs to mine the more valuable it becomes. Price of gold would escalate so much you couldn’t afford it.
Thanks for another amazing installment of this mine series. You are a very lucky guy to get such a detailed description of the whole process and a amazing guide
Many thanks, I really like this series, have watched it several times. Question about the finishing room, at time 25:43 to 25:45, there seems to be a huge shaker table under the stairs, it's like 3x the size of the 5 X 12 that Duane points out. Is that like a triple wide 'industrial strength' production table? Yeah, it looks like a reinforced wall, it was on the 3rd or 4th viewing that I noticed it! Plus, can't believe the size of the Ball Room, seems like one sizeable earthquake and the entire mountain would collapse on it! Thanks again.
“Gly”: Now that’s a big spiral classifier! The one we used at our gold claim was only 24” in diameter. They work well for recovering coarse gold but like he said you really need a shaker table to recover the flour gold.
That rock that you refer to as "sheety" [@ 10:12] - the Boriana mine outside Kingman is full of that stuff. It's dangerous as hell! A sheet of it comes down on you and either cuts you in half, or squashes you flat as a pancake!
Its amazing to me that over the century they have upgraded and retrofit new equipment right into or over the old original stuff. I can only imagine how much gold is still in all of the ore laying around on the floor of that mill.
Yes, miners recycle and innovate with a lot of old equipment. We've seen that time and time again... And, yes, there is still a lot of gold at this mine.
That is very interesting. Wallace Idaho is part of the Silver Valley which the Bunker Hill Mine where I worked is at. There are still a number of gold lead silver mines running in the valley. If any of you get up that way there are a number of museums with some great stuff. Back in the 50's much of the underground machinery was built in the area.
There were foundries in the area, Nevada City Foundry, and Joshua Hendy Iron Works in San Francisco, for example. It is interesting that the hoist ended up in Alleghany California.
Simply amazing seeing all the equipment still there. What I would give to get in there and do some cleaning in the mill. All that material still laying there😳
Fascinating and well done series with a great guide! I've been hearing of the 16/1 since I first got interested in gold mines. Now I'm getting to see it!! Many many thanks (and a big dose of envy!)!
This is just awesome! By the way, I actually reclaim abandoned mines under the AML Program. It's just awesome to see how these old operations worked. Thank you!
These videos are excellent. It's great to see this still in operation, plus what a great guide! You can tell he truly loves the place. How many miners are left at this mine?
@@muleskinnermining8661 I saw another video on RUclips from the 90's and there were quite a few people working there. It was amazing the difference from then till now. Thanks for the info.
At 19:20 it's stated the the belt is simply turned off and the ore just remains, it completely ceased it mid-process, could you elaborate or the abruptness of the stopage? Very interesting!
I wish some of these old mom and pop mines would start back up. I know it would take money but these older mines still have a tune of potential to make some serious money
"This white mold ain't gonna kill ya" and he makes it sound like there is some kind of mold that will kill you but he ain't tellin'. Interesting tour but it kind of takes the mystery out of the abandoned mines. Did he take the day off just to give you the tour? How many others work there besides the mechanic? I was having a bit of trouble figuring out what part of the mill he worked in since so much of it had ore hardened on conveyers and in machinery. Thanks for sharing.
Fibroporia vaillantii, also known as mine fungus, white pore fungus, Antrodia vaillantii, Polyporus vaillantii, and various other names is a wood-decaying fungus which can occur on timber in humid conditions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroporia_vaillantii To see a severe case of this on mine timbers, see: ruclips.net/video/44m-L9Xq_Gk/видео.html
@@muleskinnermining8661 I had a neighbor who had a washing machine feed line explode while they were away. They came home to almost two feet of water in their ranch style home that caused a brown mold to grow inside the walls they had to tear down. The wife became sick and ended up in the hospital for two months where they thought she was going to die, all due to the mold. She never could come back so they sold the house and 180 acres. It really sucked since they sold it to someone I don't get along with. Nasty stuff.
Yes, Duane kindly took not one, but TWO days off to show us around... The number of people that work there fluctuates considerably and often. The area of the mill that is still active is the last section where they process the high grade material.
Very interesting I work in Rammelsberg mine as a mining guide It very interesting to see how you mill tue ore and separate the Gold from the stones We do it the same in the Rammelsberg but then the milled ore go into flotationscells to get the minerals kupferkies bleiglanz und zinkblende Go on Yours Frank
Ah, I visited Rammelsberg a couple of years ago... How much more of the mine is accessible than what visitors can be taken to? I wish I could have connected with you.
@@TVRExploring good morning to you Well you can go into the Röder stollen to see the water wheels Or you can go with a mining train into the mine to see the old shaft and mining Equipment. A extra Tour is the ratstiefsten Führung.it Last 4 hours an on this Tour you go to places a normal tourist cant go You were Outfitet as a miner and After the Tour a sherpameal is ready to eat Let me know when you will visit the Rammelsberg again then i guide you Yours Frank PS the 4 hour Tour is not a regulär Tour you had to book this separately
@@TVRExploring I worked at one of the smaller mines while going to college and even that was huge when compared to gold mines and such. During several summers I ran the washing plant and then drove trucks until I quit. These trucks were very small only 65 tons. In time I even drove one 200 ton truck for one summer. The problem was the shovel couldn’t reach up high enough to fully top off the box. The other issues were driving up to the mine dumps. This truck weighed so much that you could never dump a load over the dump sides. You had to dump in the middle of the dump and the two d9 cats would push that load over the dump sides before you got back with another load of over burden. There is no natural ore mining in Minnesota. But mining is still a major undertaking. The largest gold, copper and other valuable mining is being develop next to a LTV mining operation on duluth complex. This will be a massive operation if they can get the permits. This will be an open pit mine. In fact the ore body sits right next to a 45 year old mine pit and will use the old mines crushers and mill. Right now I believe they are looking at mining 6-7 minerals. There are many other massive deep deposits in the area that could also be mined. Sadly the operations are near the boundary waters and many groups are fighting the mining of these deposits. Back in 1995 I brought my ten year old daughter and found outcroppings of ore within the BWCA. I could tell these were massive even back then. These were found within four mile of the mine sights that are being studied right now.
Funny... 3 years old, and the mold is growing. Exactly the same for us in our mine... on th eother side of the globe. Brand new timbers now rotting, after just 3 years. We cut it off and cut it off, and it keeps growing like crazy. Kinda funny, but also frustrating. Anyways, I really enjoyed this. Very interesting. Would be awesome to work there if it ever reopens. Weird how the ore actually still is present even at the conveoyr... they just shut it down and left. Didn't even process the rest of it.
I was a sawmill engineer a long time ago and we ran all the cut timber through a bath containing a "sap Stain" prevention chemical to prevent mold growth. As the mold feeds on the remaining cellulose in the wood ,you can stop it growing by treating the wood. I don't if it's politically correct these days though...
Yeah, it is possible to treat the wood... But it's surprisingly expensive in somewhat of a large scale. And it's hard to be politically correct these days anyhow...
@@alohathaxted, some of the really old mine timbers down in the lower sections of the mine were placed in the 1930's, not a lick of mold on them! And most are still rock solid!
I think the white fuzzy mold on those 3 year old timbers is the sporophore (spore producing thingy) of fibroporia vaillantii, and the fuzzy veins are its mycelium
this is one extensive mining site justine. very impressive milling operation. sorry, we didn't get to see any raw gold in the ore. i'm learning more and more in each video. whooooo to jake. cp.
I wonder how much it would cost in electricty and man power to run the entire mill per hour and how many tons per hour it would process? Great great series! Thank you and Duane for taking the time to walk me around the 16 to 1
It would be cool if you could keep us upto date on this mine maybe if they get through to the collapsed part or even a video on them mining ore if they still are?
The best way to stay up to date is probably through their website. I show the area they are working now in upcoming videos, but video of miners working doesn't work well because of the noise and the drill throws out clouds of vapor that make it hard to see.
Imagin to miners its was awesome when you see the day light coming closer to doors at then end of the day the wormth of sun ive done some dirty jobs but mining closest thing to relate is building wind turbines its like working in mine before power is on its pitch dark and your climbing all day long
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Amazing video friend thank you and please keep the great videos coming friend from Scotland 😊🎉🎉
Wow, some very interesting mining machinery of yesterday, big thanks to Duane. More please.
Duane is a gold mine of information. Fantastic series!
I see what you did there...
That is the most comprehensive, detailed tour I have ever seen. The mine & equipment are all just impressively
gigantic. It was so nice to see everything is in tact & in working order to. Duane did an excellent & thorough job
with the tour. Thank Justin for the videos. Hopefully there will be another video! Regards from Ody Slim,
Lots more videos to come... At the end of this video, I was talking about the 800 level where we are going next.
@@TVRExploring I cant wait for the next video. Where was Chuck?
Hi, I am thoroughly enjoying watching these episodes, it really interests me to see the actual process of how the gold is extracted and milled then refined, so cool. You can see that he is really passionate about what he does. Thanks for sharing, I can't wait till the next one. x
Thanks, Sue. I'm glad you're finding these interesting... I agree with you in that most of the time we just get a hole in the ground with an abandoned mine. So, it is interesting to see how all of the different parts - such as the workshops and mills - work together to get the gold to its final form. Thanks for watching and commenting.
What a great thing to be given a tour like this. Great information and historical information as well. Thank you to the mine and mine personnel for doing this and letting us get a glimpse into their world.
Yes, we feel incredibly lucky to have connected with Duane and to have been granted the access we got.
I love this stuff. Thank you. I used to work with slurry pump salesmen. With the mining industry, every punctuation mark is replaced with F* or S*. Every time there's a mining disaster, I get glued to the story because it feels like those miners are family.
Haha, yes, that's very well said about the f* and the s* replacing punctuation! You'll hear a lot of creative swearing around miners...
It's such an eye-opener to hear a real miner say whats happened in the mine, and what the parts are called and why certain things were worked in a certain fashion. Thanks for taking us along once more.
That’s an awesome place and just imagine the amount of gold still in there. I would love to work for Duane, just to listen to him talk about the history alone is worth it. Heck I’ll even crawl thru the manhole into the ball mill just to hear him talk. Thanks for sharing
Haha, I agree!
Thankyou for the video work.Big shout out to your guide.I have been in the 16/1 Mine and have personally met Mike Miller.I still remember the day going down into the mine.At the time I went ,they allowed you to look and pick a little in the large ball room area.They had magnificent ore samples on display.i have found gold in the Downyville area.Nothing to retire on.The amount of work and energy that goes into an operation like the 16/1 is phenomenal. I was there about 2003. I left California in 2014 to CoeurDAlene,I’d. I have been to the town of Wallace and up to the old mining areas there. I love the mining history and have been on my own treks in California and Nevada.Now I’m in Alaska and have already scoured the areas from Fairbanks to Anchorage and will continue.This visit of yours brought back fond memories of the area.54 years in California but the political atmosphere was too much for me.Stay safe.
Thank you for watching and for the comment... It is an impressive site, to be sure! I'm glad you found some gold around Downieville. I wish more people were still mining, but it is hard now with all of the rules and regulations. It sounds like you've gotten around a fair amount. Which was your favorite area?
TVR Exploring I lived in the Placerville area.I contracted electrical from 1984-2014 in Sacramento.I had an outcropping of quartz on my property in the Omo Ranch area.Too busy to do anything but tinker.I am fascinated with the mining history and would go to sites and do the research. Took my daughters with me but never got crazy enough to do something with them or myself and get injured. As your detailed video shows,mines are extremely dangerous.Your guide did give you the primo tour.He loves the work or he wouldn’t still be there.I’ve watched other videos on mines where they give pretty good coverage.The gold crystalline formations mixed with the quartz are beautiful specimens there. The bank vault,the newer gold processing areas are nice to see.I took a shorter tour which included that massive chamber. Yes,the gold is there but getting to it is very expensive. However as was in the recent past they did have a huge payday. That is the fever that drives one on.God bless you and your friend in your adventure.
Wow, Gets more awesome every week. Kudos out to Duane. Nobody can beat this series
Thank you! We were very fortunate in having an awesome guide at an awesome mine...
The best explanation of a mill I have ever seen! This guy's knowledge is incredible!
The difference in the timber is oak vs softwood (fir, pine). The softwoods will expand when wet and the cellulose opens up so much that fungus can penetrate. With oak when it’s wet it swells and the cellulose gets tighter and won’t let anything penetrate it. Hardwood is becoming harder to get and way more expensive and just isn’t cost effective to use so they just use softwoods now.
Soft wood will be rotton in less than a year in those constantly wet conditions unless treated.
Why cant concrete be used
@@eaglewi Concrete tends to snap if impacted and won't bend with loads. Wood bends with loads and won't snap quite as often when impacted. Plus costs. Factor it all together and using wood is cheaper/easier. PLUS can't really do concrete arches in unusual bends/angles, where with wood just nail it in place + cut to fit.
Simon Tay actually in those mines the water has minerals in it. Those minerals will leach into the wood and pretty much petrify them over time. Think stalactites and stalagmites. The cost of oak is $3.85 a bd ft were the cost of pine is about $1.50 a bdft. It’s not like the wood is above ground exposed to UV light and has a lower oxygen level. Softwood will get the job done and is a more renewable resource than oak. 5 years vs 50.
erik litchy just to add to what Christopher said, concrete also gets soft as it gets damp. If you put any pressure on it then it would just snap. It would have to be reinforced and the cost of steel is just too great. Understand that the more it costs to mine the more valuable it becomes. Price of gold would escalate so much you couldn’t afford it.
I really enjoyed this series, thank you.
This is the second time watching all the segments .. absolutely incredible tour, and what a great guide .. seems like super cool people.
Thanks for another amazing installment of this mine series. You are a very lucky guy to get such a detailed description of the whole process and a amazing guide
Many thanks, I really like this series, have watched it several times. Question about the finishing room, at time 25:43 to 25:45, there seems to be a huge shaker table under the stairs, it's like 3x the size of the 5 X 12 that Duane points out. Is that like a triple wide 'industrial strength' production table? Yeah, it looks like a reinforced wall, it was on the 3rd or 4th viewing that I noticed it! Plus, can't believe the size of the Ball Room, seems like one sizeable earthquake and the entire mountain would collapse on it! Thanks again.
Hats off to you and of course Duane for a great tour, can't wait for next installment.
wheres this mine located ?
@@nannettemackenzie5108, the mine is located in Alleghany California, in Sierra County.
Incredible series. Enjoyed this immensely. Thanks for the tour Duane!
Worked in the mine for a few years, the Ray rock was my claim to fame. Good times for sure!!
It's so beautiful around there. I would go camping in Downieville and explore the old diggings. So much to see and explore around there.
This is real gold seeing a tour like that cheers to all involved from uk
Great job man thank you for taking us along! What an amazingly rich old mine, imagine how much Gold is still there.
There's a lot of gold still in there!
“Gly”: Now that’s a big spiral classifier! The one we used at our gold claim was only 24” in diameter. They work well for recovering coarse gold but like he said you really need a shaker table to recover the flour gold.
Yes, I was impressed by the size of that wheel as well!
Such a great place for so many reasons. Thank you for sharing it for everyone
You can definitely tell Duane has a passion for what he does.
The amount of engineering and sweat equity that went in to building out this mine is astonishing.
Yes, it is an amazing gold mine.
One of the best videos I've ever seen!
Thank you very much. Hopefully, you'll like the others in this series as well - especially when we get to the 800 level underground and below...
As far as mining videos go doesn't get any better than this thank you
Great video. Lots of excellent information given first hand; can't beat that. Thank you!
A very nice part 3 that guy tells great stories, hope they open that place again.
Yes, he was a great guide. The mine is still operating.
Ok. That process is amazing. Lol. Our glorious bucket. He's a passionate man.
My dad used to work in this mine! He worked in this mine, my grandpas mine, and the big mine in Grass Valley, Ca., the Empire Mine!
Those are pretty much the two premier mines in Northern California. So, that's an impressive work history! Which mine did your grandfather have?
That rock that you refer to as "sheety" [@ 10:12] - the Boriana mine outside Kingman is full of that stuff. It's dangerous as hell! A sheet of it comes down on you and either cuts you in half, or squashes you flat as a pancake!
I take it that 'Duane' was they guy running the tour for you? He was the absolute star of the video. No nonsense, easy to understand. I loved it.
Yes, Duane is the guide. And, yes, I agree.
Its amazing to me that over the century they have upgraded and retrofit new equipment right into or over the old original stuff. I can only imagine how much gold is still in all of the ore laying around on the floor of that mill.
Yes, miners recycle and innovate with a lot of old equipment. We've seen that time and time again... And, yes, there is still a lot of gold at this mine.
Thanks for the information on this mine,I like when you give history of the mines you vist.
That is very interesting. Wallace Idaho is part of the Silver Valley which the Bunker Hill Mine where I worked is at. There are still a number of gold lead silver mines running in the valley. If any of you get up that way there are a number of museums with some great stuff. Back in the 50's much of the underground machinery was built in the area.
There were foundries in the area, Nevada City Foundry, and Joshua Hendy Iron Works in San Francisco, for example. It is interesting that the hoist ended up in Alleghany California.
Simply amazing seeing all the equipment still there. What I would give to get in there and do some cleaning in the mill. All that material still laying there😳
Fascinating and well done series with a great guide! I've been hearing of the 16/1 since I first got interested in gold mines. Now I'm getting to see it!! Many many thanks (and a big dose of envy!)!
Thank you very much.
Really cool tour series and nice editing! We couldn't even see the part when you filled your pockets with that high grade ore!😉 hahahaha
Haha, thank you! Glad you're enjoying the series... Wait until you see the cool stuff underground!
Been there, done that, got the t shirt. Many years in the "big mine"😎
Wow! Very cool 👍🏽
Wow this man is such a wealth of knowledge.
What an awesome view. Massive set-up.
It's nice to see someone wearing their self rescuer and H2S monitor. Great video.
14:00 The The Coeur d’Alene Hardware and Foundry Co. is still around, they’re called Cda Metals
This is just awesome! By the way, I actually reclaim abandoned mines under the AML Program. It's just awesome to see how these old operations worked. Thank you!
Unfortunately, there aren't many of them left...
Very cool listening to a real miner.
He knows his stuff, to be sure...
Fascinating video.
Thank you for taking us along.
Really cool series, never knew this was in Alleghany. Been camping out there a few times.
Thank you. Yes, this mine is the crown jewel of Alleghany.
2:18 3 years old brand new timbers. The top timber is new but the board nailed on the bottom with most of the mold looks older.
Fantastic..Enjoyed the mill tour..STay well
Really enjoying this series, thanks for documenting the mine for us. very cool.
Glad to hear that... Thank you.
I've worked underground, in the mill. And gold room. Love it all haha
It's a hell of a mine...
These videos are excellent. It's great to see this still in operation, plus what a great guide! You can tell he truly loves the place. How many miners are left at this mine?
As of August 2019, there are three miners and a mechanic working there.
@@muleskinnermining8661 I saw another video on RUclips from the 90's and there were quite a few people working there. It was amazing the difference from then till now. Thanks for the info.
@@glennpupino4890 , in the 1990's there were 60 or more employees.
Man. some of the best footage I have ever seen.. Great work Guys....!!!!
Thank you very much!
AMAZING ! So glad you got this footage !
Me too!
Simply facinating. It's mind blowing to see innovate thinking compared to educational teachings of today.
I agree 100%
Thank you for this series! Amazing!
Thanks for coming along...
22:30 Give me one hour in that ball mill with my crevicing tools
Haha, yes, I would think that especially you could do a lot more than cover the gas money for the trip!
This is like BARN FINDS old cars except it a GOLD MINE WITH GOLD JUST SITTING AROUND
27:16 I think all this stuff is so amazing
At 19:20 it's stated the the belt is simply turned off and the ore just remains, it completely ceased it mid-process, could you elaborate or the abruptness of the stopage?
Very interesting!
I don't know why they stopped so abruptly.
I wish some of these old mom and pop mines would start back up. I know it would take money but these older mines still have a tune of potential to make some serious money
Gold fever is strong with this one.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Digit , bedrock metal detecting is my thing but this process ROCKS Ty TyVm
Blow the hell out of that slab and keep going. Forget the gold keep blasting. This is an awesome video thank you!
I agree. I'm sorry they didn't keep running through this one... Thanks for the comment.
🙂👍👀😎 that is very cool. I’m looking forward to next week 😀👍
"This white mold ain't gonna kill ya" and he makes it sound like there is some kind of mold that will kill you but he ain't tellin'. Interesting tour but it kind of takes the mystery out of the abandoned mines. Did he take the day off just to give you the tour? How many others work there besides the mechanic? I was having a bit of trouble figuring out what part of the mill he worked in since so much of it had ore hardened on conveyers and in machinery. Thanks for sharing.
Black mould is the nasty stuff.
Fibroporia vaillantii, also known as mine fungus, white pore fungus, Antrodia vaillantii, Polyporus vaillantii, and various other names is a wood-decaying fungus which can occur on timber in humid conditions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroporia_vaillantii
To see a severe case of this on mine timbers, see: ruclips.net/video/44m-L9Xq_Gk/видео.html
@@muleskinnermining8661 I had a neighbor who had a washing machine feed line explode while they were away. They came home to almost two feet of water in their ranch style home that caused a brown mold to grow inside the walls they had to tear down. The wife became sick and ended up in the hospital for two months where they thought she was going to die, all due to the mold. She never could come back so they sold the house and 180 acres. It really sucked since they sold it to someone I don't get along with. Nasty stuff.
The miners have been told that the fungus growing on those timbers is non-toxic. Sorry to hear about the mold problem.
Yes, Duane kindly took not one, but TWO days off to show us around... The number of people that work there fluctuates considerably and often. The area of the mill that is still active is the last section where they process the high grade material.
This is cool having a guide!
I agree 100%.
New video. Looking forward to watching when I get home. Thank you. 🙂
Very interesting
I work in Rammelsberg mine as a mining guide
It very interesting to see how you mill tue ore and separate the Gold from the stones
We do it the same in the Rammelsberg but then the milled ore go into flotationscells to get the minerals kupferkies bleiglanz und zinkblende
Go on
Yours Frank
Ah, I visited Rammelsberg a couple of years ago... How much more of the mine is accessible than what visitors can be taken to? I wish I could have connected with you.
@@TVRExploring good morning to you
Well you can go into the Röder stollen to see the water wheels
Or you can go with a mining train into the mine to see the old shaft and mining Equipment.
A extra Tour is the ratstiefsten Führung.it Last 4 hours an on this Tour you go to places a normal tourist cant go
You were Outfitet as a miner and After the Tour a sherpameal is ready to eat
Let me know when you will visit the Rammelsberg again then i guide you
Yours Frank
PS the 4 hour Tour is not a regulär Tour you had to book this separately
Interesting,Thanks for the look, Cool mill man too.
Unreal man unreal great footage
Thank you!
Im all in and ready to quit my day job. Ill get her running and no time😂
Beautiful place
Great tutorial on the mill operations.
So cool. Thanks
Such a cool place!
It is indeed!
Just love watching these episodes amazing
Thank you for sharing this knowledge .
Great tour, thanks for
Watching this, I need some coffee. Strong coffee.
Maybe you could fine a gym show on RUclips? Or a dog show, specifically a poodle dog show.
That would honestly be alot of fun.
It was...
Loved the series so far, can't understand why they are not processing all that high grade ore!!
Thank you. Glad you're enjoying it... They're not processing the ore due to California's onerous rules and regulations.
Crackin stuff!
I’ve operated a classifier at a natural iron ore mine. They were invented in Minnesota to separate the fines .
There are some big mines up in that part of the world!
@@TVRExploring I worked at one of the smaller mines while going to college and even that was huge when compared to gold mines and such. During several summers I ran the washing plant and then drove trucks until I quit. These trucks were very small only 65 tons. In time I even drove one 200 ton truck for one summer. The problem was the shovel couldn’t reach up high enough to fully top off the box. The other issues were driving up to the mine dumps. This truck weighed so much that you could never dump a load over the dump sides. You had to dump in the middle of the dump and the two d9 cats would push that load over the dump sides before you got back with another load of over burden. There is no natural ore mining in Minnesota. But mining is still a major undertaking.
The largest gold, copper and other valuable mining is being develop next to a LTV mining operation on duluth complex. This will be a massive operation if they can get the permits. This will be an open pit mine. In fact the ore body sits right next to a 45 year old mine pit and will use the old mines crushers and mill. Right now I believe they are looking at mining 6-7 minerals. There are many other massive deep deposits in the area that could also be mined.
Sadly the operations are near the boundary waters and many groups are fighting the mining of these deposits.
Back in 1995 I brought my ten year old daughter and found outcroppings of ore within the BWCA. I could tell these were massive even back then. These were found within four mile of the mine sights that are being studied right now.
Funny... 3 years old, and the mold is growing. Exactly the same for us in our mine... on th eother side of the globe. Brand new timbers now rotting, after just 3 years. We cut it off and cut it off, and it keeps growing like crazy. Kinda funny, but also frustrating.
Anyways, I really enjoyed this. Very interesting. Would be awesome to work there if it ever reopens. Weird how the ore actually still is present even at the conveoyr... they just shut it down and left. Didn't even process the rest of it.
You should paint/treat the wood before installing it to make it last longer.
I was a sawmill engineer a long time ago and we ran all the cut timber through a bath containing a "sap Stain" prevention chemical to prevent mold growth. As the mold feeds on the remaining cellulose in the wood ,you can stop it growing by treating the wood. I don't if it's politically correct these days though...
The difference old growth timber made in the old mines. Dense heart wood.
Yeah, it is possible to treat the wood... But it's surprisingly expensive in somewhat of a large scale.
And it's hard to be politically correct these days anyhow...
@@alohathaxted, some of the really old mine timbers down in the lower sections of the mine were placed in the 1930's, not a lick of mold on them! And most are still rock solid!
great info thanks fellas
I think the white fuzzy mold on those 3 year old timbers is the sporophore (spore producing thingy) of fibroporia vaillantii, and the fuzzy veins are its mycelium
this is one extensive mining site justine. very impressive milling operation. sorry, we didn't get to see any raw gold in the ore. i'm learning more and more in each video. whooooo to jake. cp.
Thank you, Carmine. Yes, we were very fortunate to have Duane as a guide since he was so incredibly knowledgeable.
I wonder how much it would cost in electricty and man power to run the entire mill per hour and how many tons per hour it would process?
Great great series! Thank you and Duane for taking the time to walk me around the 16 to 1
Don't know what it would cost to run the mill, but on average the mine is paying PG&E over $5,000 a month just for running the pumps and compressor.
It would be cool if you could keep us upto date on this mine maybe if they get through to the collapsed part or even a video on them mining ore if they still are?
The best way to stay up to date is probably through their website. I show the area they are working now in upcoming videos, but video of miners working doesn't work well because of the noise and the drill throws out clouds of vapor that make it hard to see.
would be fun to clean-up the that mill - wonder if they need volunteers? :-)
Imagin to miners its was awesome when you see the day light coming closer to doors at then end of the day the wormth of sun ive done some dirty jobs but mining closest thing to relate is building wind turbines its like working in mine before power is on its pitch dark and your climbing all day long
I love the passion for the trade. I could watch a video about sweeping floors if the guy explaining it cared this much.
Cool video 👍