Looking for a Lost Mine

In today's video I'm on an adventure to find an old abandoned mine and also found a second mine in the area.
Here's a list of most of the gear & equipment we use.
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[@AMProspecting]

Fun times...you will find it!

[@Ethan-xm4fv]

With those tailing piles they must of been finding somethng. Keep up the search

[@Matt_the_Miner]

I hope to go back and dig out the entrance so I can get inside. With a little luck I’ll be able to figure out what they were chasing.

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

The old mine cart upside down was missing an axle, most likely a wooden axle, and from what I can determine, the box down the hill side was the top of the same cart.
The mine cart box on its side, with the wooden box inside it, looks like it would make a really cool place for a wild animal to raise some babies, out of the sun, wind and rain.

[@Matt_the_Miner]

I was a little worried I’d find animals living in that second mine cart.

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

@@Matt_the_Miner Seasonally, the odds depend a lot on what animals will be in the area and reproducing, naturally.
But it certainly looked a lot like a nesting box for a large bird, a rabbit, or a fox, because, as I own a farm, deep in a lush forest, I have seen all of the above, at one time or another in my life.
But then, I also have a large vein of minerals under my land, and some day hope to be able to sink a shaft and check for silver, as some really large silver deposits were reported in my district, about a century and a half ago.
[see "Rush Creek Mining District, Marion County, AR"]