Winter Reveals Gold Mine Hidden By Tree
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- We sometimes find gold mines hidden away in very unexpected places… Winter made this one easier to find, but being located right next to a town makes the mine’s presence a surprise to say the least. The workings I followed run right up underneath people’s homes. If only people in Gold Country really knew what was under their houses! I’d imagine more than a few home owners would have been surprised to know that a dirty mine explorer was crawling around just a few feet below their living rooms…
Then, of course, there is the fact that a mine set into a dirt hillside like this is normally caved, but we have the grand old tree to thank in this case for the mine being preserved. This isn’t the first time that trees have saved mines for us.
This abandoned gold mine was a bit of an oddball. The haulage adit was quite large - and, blasted through solid rock of a good strength, it would have been quite a job to get it open. And, remember, given the evidence that we saw underground, they were doing that by hand! However, the underground placer workings seemed pretty minimal and exploratory in nature. Did the gold miners have big ambitions that didn’t work out? Did this mine intersect one of the many other large gold mines in the area?
The mystery, of course, could be answered by knowing what was behind that collapse we encountered at the farthest point we reached on the haulage adit. Was there much behind it? Maybe… However, given the geology of the area and the course of the river, I don’t think there could have been much back there in regard to placer material. As I said in the video, they were WAY, WAY below where the ancient river channels run through the area and so it is out of the question that they were going after any placer material other than relatively contemporary leftovers. Also, the sweet spot for gold in placer deposits is where it hits the bedrock. Those workings were trending up and away from the bedrock when we hit that caved section. That’s why the idea of this mine tapping into another mine doesn’t seem as outlandish.
Perhaps this wasn’t even originally an underground placer gold mine at all? Perhaps that adit was run to provide additional access to one of the other large gold mines I mentioned and when the miners saw the placer material, they decided to check it out a little, but soon determined that it wasn’t worth the bother? Tough to say… We may never know because I couldn’t locate any history on this mine or even a name for it.
Regardless, it was a fun afternoon out in the woods (aside from the wet boots)…
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them - nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand - bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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Whenever you say " that goes nowhere " about gobbing that is blocking a passage or drift, thats most likely where the oldtimers stash their equipment.
Thanks for the document!
Great to see you back dude!
We were all thinking of ya.
Martin Perth West Australia
Your feet must be made out of different stuff than mine. 🥶
Cool find. I found an air ventilation shaft that the BLM missed with a tree growing out similar to that one. Need a gas monitor before I go spelunkering there! :)
Sure glad to see you’re staying busy doing these videos. I hope you’re doing as well as could be expected. Stay strong brother.
Great to have you posting again. Trusting everything is going will with your family.
That american nature looks amazing. Love from Australia
Thanks. It is. Very diverse nature and climate.
@@judeodomhnaill9711 Im really starting to like American forests and canyon/ desert areas the more i see them
@@FLAGMACHINE11 nice, the thing about it here is, the country is over 3,300 miles wide, hah. I'm in the Pennsylvania mountains, pines and hardwoods. Coal producing country.
Glad you're back...
Man dude Im glad your back awesome hardrock hole there!!!
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
Love that you are back at it again. THANKS for another adventure.
That was cool .. no real artifacts, and small, but still a great piece of history .. single jacking & hand picking ... wasnt an easy adventure for those old miners.
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
Cool small mine. Cold walk home with wet feet
I feel that your last observation is most likely the best one to described this place.
Glad you back keep up the Good Work as always!!! 🤠👍
Cool mine, wet feet and all. Some neat colors! Nice explore Justin!
"Nothing to see here" ? Your videos would never be classed in that category Justin. Thank you as always.
Mom
Would a FLIR App on a phone help find possible covered openings, showing the temperature differences behind?
Hey I like your thinking, good question. 🤠👍
Hi Justin, this was a cool explore, thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Happy to see that your back at it. Looks like a fun mine to explore. Sorry 'bout the soggy feet.
Nice to see a video upload from TVR, hope you are doing well brother! :)
Love the channel. The Western mines always intrigued me.
Very cool little mine!! Must not be too awful far from yalls mine, judgin by yalls clothes. Could be a good place to pull a pan full. As always yall stay safe out there
Hello from Denmark
Always amazing to pick marks in the old mines. Could you imagine 10 hours a day doing that backbreaking work. Thanks for touring a really historic mine.👍
Loving your channel. I’d like to see a video of the process you go through to find these old mines.
It’s really good to see you back TVR!
Now Justin there's nothing wrong with a hard rack, or at least a firm one 🤗. Lol I know I don't comment much anymore but I'm still here lurking in the weeds. As always love your stuff, stay safe brother.
Dave , Jenny Milkowski ?
@@markcantemail8018 I didn't know who she was. I had to Google her. A very beautiful woman, and yes she would be a good example lol.
Nice explore Justin!
Thank you, that was fun!
Just thinking. "Doris do you hear someone talking and a metal noise?" It's just the TV dear!
Very cool find. TY
1:39 - that is a beautiful image!
2:44 - a fish _what?_
4:38 - that hanging fault line is so pronounced!
Good you have you and your team back. Cool snowy mine to see!
How are you doing man ? One foot in front of the other some days
Gold mine with defensive positions.....Interesting. Hideout?
Always cool to see placer, pretty rare
Glad you are back in the exploring game again. Hope things are improving...
Good explore.
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It doesn't get much better than this! Thank you all!
The portal is a great scene. Mother nature holding her ground.
This is a little nice mine
Do they search for Gold when it is a old river there must be Gold
Thank you for taking me with you
Take care
Yours Frank Galetzka
Looks fun!
Nice !
A very nice little mine, maybe a test location?
You showed how quickly mold grows on fresh lumber (white fuzz after only a month). Why don’t you lather them with oil to prevent the mold breaking them down so quickly? Or does that cause issues?
That's a good question, one I'd like answered as well. 🤔
Well then the oil would just go straight into the ground water= Polluted water.
Obviously Trolls live in that opening !
Love all the colors in the clay, looks almost like it was oil painted.
Hope you’re doing well with the family issues. What happened to the mine you were working on?
Nice to see you guys brought a ladder to get to the hidden spots . ⛏️
awesome!
I thought of you today while walking at Folsom Lake... The amount of exposed quartz would have driven a prospector crazy. It's amazing what's been exposed since the lake went in, eroding the banks away. Speaking of collapsing mines, do you remember the fatality in Alta back in 2006 when a house collapsed into a mine?
Nice explor you all did I was digging it. Your feet must have been freaking frozen by the time you got back to your vehicle. I've found a lot of the square nails and small track spikes in some of the older mines in upper Michigan's copper mines.
It looks like miners were working in the placer deposit on top of the bedrock. @13:45
11:26 is that a modern beer bottle? (Dark bottle with silver band on bottom of the screen)
Mines Are A-Maze-In''!
Cool 👍
Hidden gem 💎
Let's gooooo ... +A .. 💯love what y'all do... Love the content...fyi "just slide" I get to the fight club reference
Did you try panning in the water running through the mine.
Is that blue material copper ore?
There are dwarves down there
Pretty Middle--Earth portal!
We need more of them!
I'm curious do you take any confined space monitoring gear (O2, H2S, CO2, CO, Humidity etc.) with you? If yes then I wonder if there's a way to integrate the readings into the video.
That could be cool!
I remember climbing that raise 🤨 why wasn’t I in the video Justin!
Hope to see you soon bud wish you and the family the best
Was there minners in the water?
So that's were that ladder came from!
Great adventure. Could you tell about the cut nails? Why are they called cut nails?
It’s to do with how they are formed,literally cut from stock metal.
Looks like they found something there but not a whole lot of it.
2 faces on that tree at 1:13
cool and so interesting
Thank you.
It's winter and there are insects flying around in that cave.
I always wonder where in general these places are? At least the state? Is there an issue identifying that without being too specific?
Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California etc...yes, if he identifies the location the forest service will come close the entrances.
14:20 I think I would have had to get a sample.
What did you expect THAT TIME of the year
Where is this?
Does anybody else notice the face on the tree.. Long face... And the roots make up his decrepid body and Is arched over the hole
where's the gold?/
Anybody else see a bear's face in that tree??
Where's this at? ( Just a friendly spelunker)
Nothing to see here… move along,move along 😂🤣😂🤣😂
4:46 Looks like a hanging wall, just before the candles. The candles are a bit odd.. makes me wonder if someone was doing satanic ritual stuff in there. Though usually those weirdos bring spray paint.