It would be cool if mbmmlic filmed the tour of Hiddee Gold Mine Touring and Gold Panning, located at Central City, Colorado, that was known as being "The Richest Square Mile on Earth". It has an interesting history everywhere you go in Central City and Black Hawk City.
Honestly, some of his comments about warrants, state/public work, and getting tasered make me think he was a state trooper or sheriff at some point as a previous job. He's definitely a cool guy who knows his stuff and loves that job.
This is a good video but I have to say, I will forever be indebted to you Gardner 😇you’ve changed my whole life I’ll continue to preach about your name for the world to hear you’ve saved me from a huge financial debt with just little investment in money market, thanks so much Mrs Rose Gardner
I had little knowledge on predicting the stock market, but with Ms. Gardner weekly analysis and advise profits are guaranteed! I received thrice my initial deposit in a week!!
It was amazing at how well laid the supportive timbers were throughout the mine. These 'newer versions' found today can't hold a candle to it. Plus, the fact that it was only 2 men with 2 candles, that literally made progress in the dark!
I worked in copper mining across the southwest as a young man in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I worked with guys from Bisbee, Morenci, Silver City, Hillsboro and other little mining communities in Arizona and New Mexico. Some of the best people I ever worked with I met when I was there. I remember being the only guy in the bar that didn’t wear cowboy boots or hats!
Wow I never knew a lot of this happened and what they had to go through all the timber that they took down and set it up a lot of work 👨🦳thank you for the tour it was awesome😏 thank you for the video it's amazing how they did that because just Candlelight😊 is all they had water thank you so much 😃 see you on the next one⛏️🔨⚒️⚖️
What can I say Jason, great tour of a professionally run mine, definitely more to mining than meets the eye, the lumber alone would cost a fortune. So different to the small gold mining scratching's in the side of a hill. One could wonder the dollar value this mine produced when in operation.
WOW ! That was very interesting. Thank you for taking us deep into the rocks. I am grateful to you Jason and the folks like that tour guide for giving of time to those of us who may never be able to make that trip. Fifty years ago I made the trek through Burro Schmidt's tunnel in California and enjoyed that very much. But this video made that trek seem like going into a small root cellar. Work Safe, Be Well Stay Warm
Jason, Lived in S Az most of my life. Been through Bisbee a dozen times. Never had a chance for the tour. Thank you very much. Eva will be most interested when she wakes up.
Thanks for the great content Jason, always interesting watching your videos. I love exploring underground, plenty of old coal mines here in South Wales. 🏴
That was fun, I've been to Jerome, another mining town in AZ but not to Bisbee, now it's on my bucket list. FYI, in 1974 I started working, still in High School, a sophomore, I made 1.65 an hour if I am remembering accurately. I have worked every year for 47 years having to retire in 2020 due to health reasons. I thoroughly enjoy mining history and its processes. I cannot thank you enough for the videos you create and I am a rock nut!
Thanks for sharing Jason. It was like we were there by your side during the tour. I wish you could do more tours like this. There is an old zinc mine on the east coast that is now famous for the fluorescent minerals. That might make a real nice video tour.
Jason, what a wonderful and educational tour that you brought to us! I was amazed at how simple the 'work' was, while also the most profitable and productive. I paused and read the information around the lavender pit and was surprised that I didn't "see" the geological differences until it was pointed out. I'm not geology rich in knowledge, yet learned that I need to pay attention to the many things my eyes already pointed out (if that makes sense). Thus, I'm going to take the time and effort to appreciate what is around me. Thank you for this opportunity to learn more! Kudos to the guide as well.
Jason, excellent video! If you ever get to Michigan, I recommend The Quincy Mine in the Keweenaw Peninsula, also the mineral museum at Michigan Tech in Houghton Michigan. Most people don't realize Michigan has a rich history of mining iron and copper, along with other minerals like gold and silver.
"The equivalent of mining a historic "Brisbee" every 3 months"! Holy crap! I love gold and all but I'm thinking Dan is right. Copper is gonna be in huge demand.
Jason that was a really awesome tour of the mine, the guide was a hoot! I really enjoyed it because I would like to go to check out something like this one day. If I don't get to see one at least I got to see your experience in this mine. Thanks, Casey
Well, that was fascinating. He gave a very good tour and description of how it really was back then and how things operated and a wonderful sense of humor. too. Great video.
Wonderful History preservation of this mine. Thanks Jason. For me this was a pleasant experience I would never get to do and I will forever remember enjoying this.
My family was from Warren, part of Bisbee. My dad worked the Queen. He lost a thumb in a mining accident and wasn't taken for WW2. Mom was a nurse in Bisbee's hospital. I can remember spending summers with my cousins hiking the Mule Mts, which the Queen, the pit and citys are in. Your video brought back many memories. Thank you.
Thank you for the story, Mike. What a grand history your family was a part of! Until this video, I had never heard of this mine. Just think about how huge this mine would be if it had not closed in 1975.
When i could first remember visiting Bisbee, they had soap-box races down the hill right through Bisbee on the 4 of July. Along with parades, it was really neat. They stopped the racing in the late 60s after a spectator got badly hurt. I grew up in San Francisco but after I enlisted in the Air Force, they sent me to Tucson at Davis Monthan AFB. That was April 1967. So my history, so to speak, of the southwest continued for many more years. My aunt Jeanne even worked as a guide at the Queen mine. Yep on the very same ore cars. Cool stuff.
this was great glad to see new things but keeping to minning in some way hes good at his job was a good tour guide pretty cool thanks MBMM for the awesome content
That was incredibly interesting. I got answers to a lot of my questions. One I still have is, what about the turquoise mines in that area? I’d love to see one.
They used to give mine "digs" at the Turquoise pits. However, due to a few "bad apples" not following the rules it's now buried under 12ft+ of overburden and closed to public.
Very informative and great guide. My hubby is the same when sees “actors” doing his job he always says no driver worth his salt would drive like that or link trains that way. Always interesting to see how jobs have progressed and their tools.
Mayberry on acid, if I remember correctly we had paper acid that could be bought from another high school kid back in 1975. Cool tour, 2k miles of rail in that there mountain, I know I'd sure want to see more than what they offered.
Hi Jason, That was an incredible video. Being from Australia I am unlikely to be in Bisbee to do that tour. So thank you for bringing that to us. More videos on this type of thing would be great.
My great-grandfather rode into Arizona Territory in 1885. His first job was in the Copper Queen. I don't know if the company gave them out, or if he bought them, but my great-aunt Ella had several stock certificates.
Jason, I remember when you made that first cut a few months back, and you drilling your bores in that same pattern and explaining why. I thought to when the blast went off, and how fast it seemed to happen. I wonder if you were able to count each consecutive blast like the guide described. I wasn't able to.
This was a very awesome video, that gide was 100% awesome. I believe the world could use millions more men like him. He's making peanuts for bringing people into this mine and keeping everyone safe. What a great job he does.
Yep, Eva loved it. Thank you very much. The Asarco Mission mine has a good tour of a modern open pit just south of Tucson including some milling (assuming they are still operating).
I love your content but these videos are my favourite I know it's a lot of logistics to visit these places and upload the videos etc but I enjoy them the best
I have an old copper mine near my house it was a prison and they used to make the prisoners mine it they give tours but I don't know if you can go down in the mine anymore but it dates back to the early 1700's and is credited as the first chartered mine and first state prison in the country it's name is Old Newgate Prison if your ever out in New England you should visit it, it is seasonal though.
Freeport own the largest gold mine in the world in West Papua and it is also one of the largest copper mines. They are not very well liked by many West Papuans but the Indonesians love them though as they get a lot of revenue from them.
Ah Bisbee, it’s cool that the Queen mine is still open for tour. I’ve been inside once when I was like 8 years old. The town is interesting, mixture of mining history and hippies.
The lokie that pulls that little train looks like a Mancha Trammer. Weighing only 3,000 pounds, it was the smallest locomotive of any kind used in North American Industry
Jason I have recently found your channel. I love the content. Great Work. Let me say its content delivered differently than most. I am not really a fan of jazzy, sensational voices and musical sounds and call outs for "click-bait" gold. I know that's part of YT. But I like that you can take us places and share with us and inform us of what your doing, why and what to look for is special. Oh and I love the exploring in nature for beautiful areas as well as hidden and forgotten places. Keep at it. I'll keep watching.
Great tour. I used to work in denensional stone quarries. And visited mines throughout nevada. We shot blacl powder not 🧨 dynamite. Yep rock n roll. One hole not blowing was a BIG problem very dangerous. Thanks for posting this.
My Aunt and Uncle lived in Bisbee until 1975. Then they moved to Morenci. The house they lived in was built by my Uncle's father in 1921. Back when he was working underground many spectacular minerals were coming out. The house had columns that were faced with high grade ore samples and were a sight to see But they had to abandon the house and the hippies chipped all that rock away plus stole everything they could.
I love all of this mining stuff, but I could never go into these mines myself. It looks insanely risky. Imagine being down there and having the bad luck that an earthquake occurs.
Hey Jason, love your videos, your expertise and passion, I wish you narrated after the fact, though editing to let us know what you were observing along the travel, there was heaps the guide mentioned that I had learned through your channel, Maybe you can do a subsequent video on your thoughts through your own narrative, I'd definitely rewatch again... Cheers legend
I have about 80$ worth of silver in a lead ingot from a failed attempt at recovering it (it was sterling and some other mixed silver before hand) and my furnace broke and I have no way to recover the silver, Any ideas on what I should do?
Nothing better than a great tour guide. Built my life around guiding fishing and whitewater trips. I'm not an outgoing person who cares much for crowds but I am good at the things that matter, the rest developed over time.
A tour of a restored mine run by a former miner who worked there. Absolutely awesome. If I'm ever in the area I'd love to take the tour. Do they allow kids underground?
Everything seemed like a well put together and informative guide. Wish there was more people taking the time to learn history in these ways. The only thing i wish is that someone would purchase some grease guns or something for those carts
Bet ya wanted to ask a ton more questions! I sure did. Things like are there any quartz veins there, what did they do they do with the waste rocks, etc. That was fun, will take the tour when in the area next time for sure.
He's a great story teller and Tour guide. Kept it fun and light hearted.
It would be cool if mbmmlic filmed the tour of Hiddee Gold Mine Touring and Gold Panning, located at Central City, Colorado, that was known as being "The Richest Square Mile on Earth". It has an interesting history everywhere you go in Central City and Black Hawk City.
Honestly, some of his comments about warrants, state/public work, and getting tasered make me think he was a state trooper or sheriff at some point as a previous job. He's definitely a cool guy who knows his stuff and loves that job.
I was going to say the same thing. He made it educational entertaining and fun.
This is a good video but I have to say, I will forever be indebted to you Gardner 😇you’ve changed my whole life I’ll continue to preach about your name for the world to hear you’ve saved me from a huge financial debt with just little investment in money market, thanks so much Mrs Rose Gardner
I had little knowledge on predicting the stock market, but with Ms. Gardner weekly analysis and advise profits are guaranteed! I received thrice my initial deposit in a week!!
@ROSEGARDNERBIS
2 minutes in....I'm sold....this is already friggin' wicked!!
PS - this tour is very well-developed, and the guide was great
Great timbering
It was amazing at how well laid the supportive timbers were throughout the mine. These 'newer versions' found today can't hold a candle to it. Plus, the fact that it was only 2 men with 2 candles, that literally made progress in the dark!
I worked in copper mining across the southwest as a young man in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I worked with guys from Bisbee, Morenci, Silver City, Hillsboro and other little mining communities in Arizona and New Mexico. Some of the best people I ever worked with I met when I was there. I remember being the only guy in the bar that didn’t wear cowboy boots or hats!
Awesome, Brian! I bet you have great stories to tell, too! By the way, how were you initiated? Tee hee!
Awesome tour video! Bisbee is a beautiful place to visit 👌🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽♥️
Took that tour almost 30 years ago. Enjoyed seeing it again
The tour use to be a lot longer and deeper, but they had a cave in years back and it reduced the tour length etc.
Wow I never knew a lot of this happened and what they had to go through all the timber that they took down and set it up a lot of work 👨🦳thank you for the tour it was awesome😏 thank you for the video it's amazing how they did that because just Candlelight😊 is all they had water thank you so much 😃 see you on the next one⛏️🔨⚒️⚖️
That was awesome! I watched it all, so captivating. The guide is so funny, lovely old folk. Thanks Jason for sharing.
What can I say Jason, great tour of a professionally run mine, definitely more to mining than meets the eye, the lumber alone would cost a fortune. So different to the small gold mining scratching's in the side of a hill. One could wonder the dollar value this mine produced when in operation.
Awesome tour guide. Well educated in mining and great story teller.
WOW !
That was very interesting.
Thank you for taking us deep into the rocks.
I am grateful to you Jason and the folks like that tour guide for giving of time to those of us who may never be able to make that trip.
Fifty years ago I made the trek through Burro Schmidt's tunnel in California and enjoyed that very much.
But this video made that trek seem like going into a small root cellar.
Work Safe, Be Well
Stay Warm
Awesome video Jason. Best I’ve seen in years. I still can’t believe guys were paid 5 dollars an hour. That’s some back breaking work. Thanks again.
Thank you Jason for posting this neat field trip. :)
Jason, Lived in S Az most of my life. Been through Bisbee a dozen times. Never had a chance for the tour. Thank you very much. Eva will be most interested when she wakes up.
Jason this is a mine that I could go into thank you for showing this to us six stars brother
Great tour, such a knowledgeable guide.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Most people go through their whole lives without finding the any light at the end of the tunnel! Thanks for taking us along!
Thanks for the great content Jason, always interesting watching your videos. I love exploring underground, plenty of old coal mines here in South Wales. 🏴
Wattstown originally here small world 🌍
@@Stopbeingnosyffs Pontypridd... even smaller lol👍
AWESOME, I wish I went on the tour while I was there. verry interesting .
That was fun, I've been to Jerome, another mining town in AZ but not to Bisbee, now it's on my bucket list. FYI, in 1974 I started working, still in High School, a sophomore, I made 1.65 an hour if I am remembering accurately. I have worked every year for 47 years having to retire in 2020 due to health reasons. I thoroughly enjoy mining history and its processes. I cannot thank you enough for the videos you create and I am a rock nut!
Thanks for sharing Jason. It was like we were there by your side during the tour. I wish you could do more tours like this. There is an old zinc mine on the east coast that is now famous for the fluorescent minerals. That might make a real nice video tour.
They found the perfect tour guide, thank you Jason for sharing this bro💯
Jason, what a wonderful and educational tour that you brought to us! I was amazed at how simple the 'work' was, while also the most profitable and productive. I paused and read the information around the lavender pit and was surprised that I didn't "see" the geological differences until it was pointed out. I'm not geology rich in knowledge, yet learned that I need to pay attention to the many things my eyes already pointed out (if that makes sense). Thus, I'm going to take the time and effort to appreciate what is around me. Thank you for this opportunity to learn more! Kudos to the guide as well.
Jason, excellent video! If you ever get to Michigan, I recommend The Quincy Mine in the Keweenaw Peninsula, also the mineral museum at Michigan Tech in Houghton Michigan. Most people don't realize Michigan has a rich history of mining iron and copper, along with other minerals like gold and silver.
Iron mountain in mi has a lot of history also
@@daleolson3506 yes Iron Mountain is cool too. Went there about 5years ago now.
The history of mining is what got me into prospecting.
That was a great tour and tour guide. Thanks for taking us along.
Fantastic tour guide!!
Thanks Jason great video and tour
"The equivalent of mining a historic "Brisbee" every 3 months"! Holy crap! I love gold and all but I'm thinking Dan is right. Copper is gonna be in huge demand.
Jason that was a really awesome tour of the mine, the guide was a hoot!
I really enjoyed it because I would like to go to check out something like this one day.
If I don't get to see one at least I got to see your experience in this mine.
Thanks, Casey
That was really cool thanks Jason
Well, that was fascinating. He gave a very good tour and description of how it really was back then and how things operated and a wonderful sense of humor. too. Great video.
Great video Jason, learned a lot from it. :)
Wonderful History preservation of this mine.
Thanks Jason. For me this was a pleasant experience I would never get to do and I will forever remember enjoying this.
excellent tour!!!!
I was just rewatching your Cerro Gordo mine tour with Brent. You do a great job in all your vids!
Have you visited any mines in Utah?
Thanks Jason ! Awesome video as usual! Much appreciated 👍
Thank you for taking us on that tour. That was fun and interesting. Our guide was a very good story teller!
My family was from Warren, part of Bisbee. My dad worked the Queen. He lost a thumb in a mining accident and wasn't taken for WW2. Mom was a nurse in Bisbee's hospital. I can remember spending summers with my cousins hiking the Mule Mts, which the Queen, the pit and citys are in. Your video brought back many memories. Thank you.
Thank you for the story, Mike. What a grand history your family was a part of! Until this video, I had never heard of this mine. Just think about how huge this mine would be if it had not closed in 1975.
When i could first remember visiting Bisbee, they had soap-box races down the hill right through Bisbee on the 4 of July. Along with parades, it was really neat. They stopped the racing in the late 60s after a spectator got badly hurt.
I grew up in San Francisco but after I enlisted in the Air Force, they sent me to Tucson at Davis Monthan AFB. That was April 1967. So my history, so to speak, of the southwest continued for many more years. My aunt Jeanne even worked as a guide at the Queen mine. Yep on the very same ore cars. Cool stuff.
AWESOME!
Great guide, and you did a very good job with the filming and sound. Thanks
this was great glad to see new things but keeping to minning in some way hes good at his job was a good tour guide pretty cool thanks MBMM for the awesome content
That was incredibly interesting. I got answers to a lot of my questions. One I still have is, what about the turquoise mines in that area? I’d love to see one.
They used to give mine "digs" at the Turquoise pits. However, due to a few "bad apples" not following the rules it's now buried under 12ft+ of overburden and closed to public.
Thanks Jason that was awesome
Very informative and great guide. My hubby is the same when sees “actors” doing his job he always says no driver worth his salt would drive like that or link trains that way. Always interesting to see how jobs have progressed and their tools.
Mayberry on acid, if I remember correctly we had paper acid that could be bought from another high school kid back in 1975. Cool tour, 2k miles of rail in that there mountain, I know I'd sure want to see more than what they offered.
This is a very fun and interesting video! I'm sure you probably learnt something also even though you know quite a lot about mining. Cheers 👍❤️💛💚👌
Hi Jason, That was an incredible video. Being from Australia I am unlikely to be in Bisbee to do that tour. So thank you for bringing that to us. More videos on this type of thing would be great.
My great-grandfather rode into Arizona Territory in 1885. His first job was in the Copper Queen. I don't know if the company gave them out, or if he bought them, but my great-aunt Ella had several stock certificates.
This was a great educational video on mining and blasting. Thanks Jason!
Great video thx for that
Great Video!
Very interesting tour, and a bit different from your usual stuff, thanks for the view and the history lesson.
Jason, I remember when you made that first cut a few months back, and you drilling your bores in that same pattern and explaining why. I thought to when the blast went off, and how fast it seemed to happen. I wonder if you were able to count each consecutive blast like the guide described. I wasn't able to.
This was a very awesome video, that gide was 100% awesome. I believe the world could use millions more men like him. He's making peanuts for bringing people into this mine and keeping everyone safe. What a great job he does.
That was the most educational mine video ty,,did all those metals come out of that one big whole
Yep, Eva loved it. Thank you very much. The Asarco Mission mine has a good tour of a modern open pit just south of Tucson including some milling (assuming they are still operating).
They're operating although another strike is possible.
@@Porty1119 It would be a good companion video to this one.
I love your content but these videos are my favourite I know it's a lot of logistics to visit these places and upload the videos etc but I enjoy them the best
Having taken the tour several times as a youngster, it was good to see it again in video. I have tour many mines in AZ. Keep up the good work.
I have an old copper mine near my house it was a prison and they used to make the prisoners mine it they give tours but I don't know if you can go down in the mine anymore but it dates back to the early 1700's and is credited as the first chartered mine and first state prison in the country it's name is Old Newgate Prison if your ever out in New England you should visit it, it is seasonal though.
Freeport own the largest gold mine in the world in West Papua and it is also one of the largest copper mines. They are not very well liked by many West Papuans but the Indonesians love them though as they get a lot of revenue from them.
❤ Your channel
Thank you I learned a lot about underground mining you would need to a forest to supply all the timbers, I like open pit mining myself.
My home town!
Thanks !! As far as I know, there is still lots of exploratory drilling going on
That was a super cool tour. Thanks Jason!
Would be worth taking the tour for the dad-jokes alone. :-D
Such a wonderful video and tour. Its amazing how mining has evolved over the years
Ah Bisbee, it’s cool that the Queen mine is still open for tour. I’ve been inside once when I was like 8 years old. The town is interesting, mixture of mining history and hippies.
We did that tour in 2018. Pretty neat!
Kool video Jason... I felt like i was right there with ya riding along
Interesting to see how they opened up and went about things mining mountains
Thank you for taking us on the tour.
The lokie that pulls that little train looks like a Mancha Trammer. Weighing only 3,000 pounds, it was the smallest locomotive of any kind used in North American Industry
This was a very informative video, Jason. Thank you for taking us along on the tour.
Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. That was pretty cool.
Jason I have recently found your channel. I love the content. Great Work. Let me say its content delivered differently than most. I am not really a fan of jazzy, sensational voices and musical sounds and call outs for "click-bait" gold. I know that's part of YT. But I like that you can take us places and share with us and inform us of what your doing, why and what to look for is special. Oh and I love the exploring in nature for beautiful areas as well as hidden and forgotten places. Keep at it. I'll keep watching.
Great tour. I used to work in denensional stone quarries. And visited mines throughout nevada. We shot blacl powder not 🧨 dynamite. Yep rock n roll. One hole not blowing was a BIG problem very dangerous. Thanks for posting this.
My Aunt and Uncle lived in Bisbee until 1975. Then they moved to Morenci. The house they lived in was built by my Uncle's father in 1921. Back when he was working underground many spectacular minerals were coming out. The house had columns that were faced with high grade ore samples and were a sight to see
But they had to abandon the house and the hippies chipped all that rock away plus stole everything they could.
I love all of this mining stuff, but I could never go into these mines myself. It looks insanely risky. Imagine being down there and having the bad luck that an earthquake occurs.
JASON Thank for Sharing . I have been in Wenatchee , Washington mine
before it closed . 1800 ft deep mine shaft :-))
What a cool tour! I really enjoyed that!
Hey Jason, love your videos, your expertise and passion, I wish you narrated after the fact, though editing to let us know what you were observing along the travel, there was heaps the guide mentioned that I had learned through your channel,
Maybe you can do a subsequent video on your thoughts through your own narrative, I'd definitely rewatch again... Cheers legend
I have about 80$ worth of silver in a lead ingot from a failed attempt at recovering it (it was sterling and some other mixed silver before hand) and my furnace broke and I have no way to recover the silver, Any ideas on what I should do?
Very cool 😎 👌
Thanks for sharing. I never considered that they would have different crews that specialized in different types of work.
Nothing better than a great tour guide.
Built my life around guiding fishing and whitewater trips.
I'm not an outgoing person who cares much for crowds but I am good at the things that matter, the rest developed over time.
Thanks Jason, I appreciate the vicarious thrill from your viewpoint more than just about anyone else's.
Facinating tour thanks for sharing Jason. How big would you say that massive stope caven was. Looked huge
Took that tour around 2005. Very worth it then, and probably more so now. Thx for making this video.
They don't mine for copper like this anymore. They just take the whole mountain and leave a 1,000 foot deep pit.
Awesome show.
I work in the Red Chris pit mine and hope to see the new underground mine someday.
Thanks. 🖖🇨🇦✌️
Thank you Jason for Saturday history lesson on mining.
A tour of a restored mine run by a former miner who worked there. Absolutely awesome. If I'm ever in the area I'd love to take the tour. Do they allow kids underground?
This video is great for my kids, showing them skills and careers people had and still perform, fantastic Thanks!
Everything seemed like a well put together and informative guide. Wish there was more people taking the time to learn history in these ways. The only thing i wish is that someone would purchase some grease guns or something for those carts
I feel like you bit your tongue a lot on things you could have added.. lol
This reminds me of the log ride at Knott’s Berry Farm in SoCal.
Interesting
Thanks brother
Bet ya wanted to ask a ton more questions! I sure did. Things like are there any quartz veins there, what did they do they do with the waste rocks, etc. That was fun, will take the tour when in the area next time for sure.