We Found a Treasure Inside an Abandoned Mine . It's Worth a Fortune.
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Can't believe we found a mine that still has all the equipment still inside and working . This is an Incredible Treasure and must be worth a fortune. You have to see it to believe it and I can't wait to go back.
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This mine explore was so epic because we got to see equipment left behind that you will never see anywhere else. We have more video of areas like this so if you would like to see more the smash that like button sonny Jim....Smash it HARD and we will post another one. So you know what I am gonna say huh .....So C'mon....let's Go !!!!!
That mine was very cool
Jeff I think I have seen another youtuber explore this mine. However they are not the geologist that you are!
I just love that you describe in detail what were seeing! Describing the minerals and so forth. So come on let's go bro, not go pro :)!
You are the best. Thanks again for the great video. :)
This video was awesome. How do you always stumble along such pristine locations in your videos it must take a lot of research great video. 👍. I learn something new in EVERY one of your videos. Thanks again, you know what I'm gonna say huh ... c'mon let's go
*Time machine-cool. Anvil prolly worth $2K @**6:00** Love your content and enthusiasm.*
@@MakingUsThink thanks John
That mine needs to be turned into a museum some how. What a fantastic snapshot of an old mine and infrastructure. Especially the machine shop and compressor room. It's got to be preserved. Fantastic!
they are working on it .....thanks
@@Askjeffwilliams - that’s incredible! Imagine the tours and potential!
It already is preserved, literally!
*Jeff Williams: "Say, this weekend do you want to load up the truck and .."*
*Me: "Yes, oh h311 yes. You don't even have to finish that sentence because I know it's going to be some Indiana Jones type 5hiznit!*
I can only imagine the insurance bill
What an amazing find, almost like steps backwards in time. Many of the old aircraft hangars were just like that machine shop when I joined the Air Force, the equipment was often the same but used for different reasons. I am sure the old timers could walk right in and just begin working as if they hasn’t missed a day of work. Thank you Jeff for taking us along.
yes it was and hope they keep it preserved .....you betcha
I love seeing inside buildings that look like they are still being used today! The machine shop is so freaking awesome, those were tool that were made to last. Thanks for the awesome adventure.
yes it was , I could spend a week in there and never get bored
That was amazing Jeff so much history. Some of those generators were huge. Can't believe how big some of that stuff is. Talk about earning ur pay checks. Thank you for sharing. Be safe my friend 🙏.
My name is Jeph
I know...right you betcha , glad you liked it
I had to pause this video at several points because Jeff's excitement, wonder and joy was giving this old man heart palpitations. I'll probably watch it again too!
I grew up in this area. There are so many old mine shafts in that hill country. These mines are still so intact because there’s always been a long standing hope that the mines would eventually reopen.
Wheres this located.? I live near Oatman Arizona
@@unclejack41 Pioche Nevada-the Pioche Castleton mine.
Great video Jeff! I'm kind of nerdy when it comes to seeing old mining sites. I've seen a quite few on my many road trips around the west coast. I'll always get out of the car and walk around. But usually all of the heavy equipment is long gone. You only see the mounting bolts. I'd always imagine the huge stuff that sat there chugging away all day while the crew worked. And sometimes you can find machines that they left behind. That's my favorite! You can almost hear the haunting sounds of the mine working. And you got to see an actual mine as it was when it was operational! That is amazing! Most of the mines I come across were operating in the late 1800's to early 1900's. I love checking out those old mine sites. But a modern mine with all of the equipment there? That's super special! Thanks for posting! Can't wait for your next video!
some places you can hear the chugging sound of the machinery running ( Virginia City - Gold Hill Yellow Jacket East shaft )
Excellent outro music! Truly some "hard rock"! HA! That was for YOU, Jeff!
hahahhahaha thanks
The only commit I can make about this video is, That was awesome! It's like they walked off one day and never returned. Although, It was war time.
That for sure is best intact mining operation I've seen yet!! You could just start mining If you had the claim! Thanks for the grand tour Jeff!
yes it was ....huge producer ......you betcha
@@Askjeffwilliams Ok, Did Ya get to stake your claim? 😁👍
I cant believe all that wonderful machinery, tools and documentation survived nature and recyclers. Thanks for sharing this treasure trove with us.
only because they locked it up right away and have a full time guard
Absolutely amazing. I could spend days in the shop alone. Thanks for bringing us along
me too ...so cool to have everything still there ....you betcha
JEFF AMAZING VIDEO ONCE AGAIN. That's gotta be your wife behind the camera she does 1 heck of a job filming and is she always behind the camera when you do these videos THANKS JEFF, CHRIS AND JOANNE FOR A AWESOME ADVENTURE 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
yep that is my Wife Lila behind the Camera.... thanks I will tell her....she will get a kick out of that
Gosh that’s a time capsule for the future miners! If they’re over 21 of course! 😜👌👍
To say that Jeff is in his element would be the understatement of the year 🤠🤣
*Jeff Williams' element has an atomic weight of 197 AMU.*
@@1nvisible1 haha yeah 🤣
Wow, what an amazing and beautiful place. So much history there. I sincerely hope that it's still being watched closely and is secure enough to keep the looters and vandals away. It would be such a shame for the things that are there to be stolen or broken by idiots that have no appreciation for the past. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! It's so awesome to see things like that still existing out there.
Those sample boards were awesome. Really nice idea, great representation with a fraction of the weight. Such a cool explore for sure!
yes it was
@@Askjeffwilliams I could hear the ghosts of all the men who worked in that room shouting in unison, "DON'T TOUCH THE GLUED SAMPLE BOARDS!" as you ran your fingers down them. You just know many a young man had their arse grilled for that. :P
Dang I wish I had more time to watch more of your videos one of my favorite prospectors, but I got to this one cheers Jeff love from Australia 🇦🇺
thanks for watching TBP
Hello Jeff- OMG I almost busted a gut with your soap joke! I have worked in copper mines in Southern Arizona for a good part of my life-that is still the prevailing joke- don't think your wife could believe miners all showered in a room like you filmed! I am not one to comment-but you are really awesome- I started watching your channel when my wife got sick with breast cancer, she finally succumbed to that dreadful disease-these video's took my pain away a bit...I am glad to see that you continued even faced with the loss of your Pops-it is my personal opinion that you have helped many people not only be successful in finding "that shinny" but to cope with life.
she thought that was weird of them to do that but she was never in the Military or worked in a mine.hahahhaha we are so sorry to hear that my friend and so glad we could help in some small way ..... we are happy to hear that and thank you for sharing it ....you take care my friend
Been watching since 2009, and watched all your videos, you are the man little boy.
It’s like it just stopped in time- and then you got to walk in and look through everything! It’s amazing the wealth of info you know Jeff! I’m just dying from all the museum quality treasures that we can learn from. Thank you so much for taking us through this amazing piece of history!
Both husband and my family were miners so this is super interesting for us🤓
That was one of the best mine tours I have had yet and I did not even have to pay for this one. Thanks. I love all the old equipment and how it looks like they just walked away for lunch and never came back.
thanks , glad ya liked it
Dude, I wish I was as enthusiastic about anything as you are about this abandoned mine operation. Your enthusiasm turns something that may otherwise be mundane into a real adventure. Like a kid on Christmas morning- I love it. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
Hey Jeff, I just wanted to say that I like your videos. I've learned more from you then any other guy on RUclips. I was a copper miner for 5yrs myself. I live on the richest hill on earth, know where that is? You may have been here. Anyway it's Butte Montana. If you haven't, I know that you would be like a kid in a candy store. You should come visit sometime and make sure you give yourself at least a week to see most of the mining history. That's all I have to say and keep up with your videos. I really enjoy the knowledge you give out. Oh, and my deepest apologies for you losing your dad. I know that pops is proud of you and all that you do. Respect,
Josh Maloney
thanks Josh ..we always love hearing that ....yes we do..... Anaconda Copper mine in Butte we would love too...thank you for that
That Place should be Preserved!
Thanks for the fuse demo,both the one that worked and the one that didn’t quite work.
You can tell how much he loves his life. Cheers!
That is an amazing mine! All that equipment, tools, buildings and records! You 1 lucky Son-of-a-gun!!!!!!! I could spend days/Weeks there just looking around. Coolest mine ever!
thanks and yes we are
Love the faulting in these mines. Makes the minerals pop right out. That silver vein was sooo coool. Thanks Jeff, Joann, and Kris.
I know...right . Thanks
My family has been running the churn drill rigs since 1926 and still running them today. We drilled for oil and water wells and prospect drilling for the lead mines in Missouri.
thats great , thanks for sharing that
That tour was way cool...thanks for taking us along.
WOW. Can’t believe how preserved that old mine is. Thank you Jeff. Love your style. Keep it up.
Thanks! Will do!
awe man Jeff that pick of you and the better half is priceless. love it man keep up the great work you two.
Thanks ...I know...right ....will do
I love that machine shop. What surprises me, is everything is still there and nobody has taken anything. That seems kind of strange to me. People can find the location of just about anything today.
this place is locked up tight and guarded
Was it always locked up and guarded?
Jeff, the phrase, "Kid in a Candy Store" comes to mind. You are definitely considering retiring at this mine and using the generator room as your living room! Make Slim hit those showers!
pretty much
I'm speechless. The engineering is impressive. Awesome episode
Mr Williams sorry I was driving so I can only do thumbs up what a great video. This is what RUclips was created for videos like this not a bunch of motivational speakers and everything else, you did great and it was wonderful to see the serious side of you I can't believe how knowledgeable you are. Well done sir I'm impressed
Thanks 👍 really appreciate that
Cool video. This place should be preserved and made into a museum. There is just so much still there that most people never get to see.
Jeff Williams, you seem like an awesome person to be around. Your energy is contagious. Love your videos! Lets Go!!!
thanks Jon
Great mine review. Those corporate mines, they always look like a abandoned at single point of time. People just walk away from the effort to keep the mine going.
My favorite machine was probably that massive drill press... remarkable tour! Thx Jeff!
you betcha
Just a final note, the large basin in the shower room was a hand washing basin that could accommodate a whole team of miners scrambling to get their hands clean for lunch.
And the "Battery casing" was a start capacitor for a large motor.
Those lathes and presses reminded me of my step dad's old machine shop in Osborn, Idaho in in the 79's and early eighties before the resession of that time shut all the silver mines down.
Wow I would spend weeks in that shop and offices!!! Outstanding. Thank you for the show!
Our pleasure!
Someone needs to make a museum there for sure
WOW !!! This is an incredible documentary!!! The most intact and semi modern mine I have ever seen that is abandoned. Fantastic video !!!
thanks
This is some cool shyt! As a machinist, I'm fascinated that you found an old machine shop at an abandoned mine, complete with drill presses and tools and everything. Would love to know where this is at
Cool video they should make a museum out of this old mine.
Jeff said they’re workin on it!
This would be amazing to tour that place. It's like time travel but back in time all the tooling there should be in a museum. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed this one
you betcha
Cool! Me and the wife are going off grid in Golden Valley Arizona. Can't wait to start mining in Arizona. Love your show.
Right on .I live here in Golden Valley arizona. Stop by 4852s Havasupai.rd off of Quartzite &rt66
Man, that's an awesome find.
In the high country of Colorado back in the winter of 70, we reopened an old mine shaft. The engineer brought in a diesel generator and showed me the schematic on the drum hoist and brake and said he would be back to wire it. I was 1 year in tunnels then but decided to see if I could figure out how to wire up the rig. I did and he used it through the old head frame.
It was so cold at night we had a small gas furnace blowing down a vent shaft but still had to chip off the ice daily. Well, sir we finally got down inside to about 500' but had to abandon the work because we ran into an underground river far faster than any pump arrangement we could figure.
Learned a lot and had a blast (in more ways than one) DYNAMITE!!!
thats great Steven , good memories right there and thanks for sharing
Have fun and take care and take it easy and enjoy it
thanks
Jeff I been watching you for years and this video rocked. You just keep getting better and better but when I started watching you years back you were already awesome. Now i know people might think your old antics, slim and you breakfast show were weird but I miss that humor. But if anything can you bring back the gold fever miners dance? I loved watching you pull that off while the video flashed back to that black and white footage of the rustic miner doing his happy gold fever dance. I forgot what you used to call that.
thanks for the long time viewership , really glad you liked the video ... we got lot of flack for that , not sure why . We can do that just for you
This was so fun to watch! I'd spend weeks there just exploring and looking at things. So cool!!
Always having fun fam. Keep on living the dream fam. Gold squad out!!!
thanks will do
That place is incredible, like a mining museum! And the ore cart, I know it don't seem like much, but like every artifact you would find in any type of museum, it tells a story, an awesome story of the history of hard rock mining.
exactly
I've watched a few of your videos, but have never been so impressed by your knowledge in this one. In spite of being the goofball you are!
Thank you for taking us through to these workings. Awesome tour!
Wow, thank you!
Kidding aside thanks for a beautiful tour of a spotlessly clean closedown mine it looked like it was in work days ago.
you betcha
Wow I'm impressed. I have never seen a mine 4hat is so compleat. I would love to have that shop as my shop. I could build some really cool cars and have a awesome wood shop there. I could build compleat houses in pieces and ship it out to be installed. I'm in love with that place. I would love to make a home under ground. It has always been my dream to buy a old German bunker and build a home in it. I would be able to do that there. I would definitely make a musium out of that place. The possibilities are endless. I bet there is silver or gold still in the ground. Man I could even have a 2,000 yard shooting range there. I am now a new sub to your channel. Thank you for bringing this place to us. Have a wonderful day.
This guy was like a kid in a candy store. Enjoyed seeing someone get excited like a little kid.
Really cool, finding all of the motors an equipment. So Jeff come on let's go...
Very Very interesting video thank you 😊friend please keep the great videos coming and please stay safe friend from Scotland 👍
thanks my friend from Scotland and we will
That is way cool! Been mining for 45yrs, always love the old stuff!
ABSOLUTELY love your enthusiasm! Nice find! thanks for sharing
16:35 the "I dont think its a urinal" is a hand washing station lol. The square opening had a bar that comes through it and you step on the bar and the water comes out into the "urinal part" like a fountain. They had one at an old cement factory I once worked at...
Man I watch people find a mine and have fun then there’s you and you encyclopaedic knowledge of everything mining it’s cool to watch someone who knows what he’s looking at
Guru, You are very lucky that your country gives you opportunity to explore your dreams and Talent
thank you and yes I am
There is a lot of equipment there. That's the most well equiped mine video I have seen. Don't you just love it? I'm getting all warm and fuzzy.
The Pioche Castleton. I've heard of it but had not idea of its amazing size and scale, and very historical. Great find and interesting with your informative commentary. Worked for their accountant in the 1970's.
yep it is a Monster and I bet you got stories too
Great Video, Sunny Jim..Jeff, is this place guarded?..This place is so Amazing...So glad its still intact..Very kool fine.....Looks like chris and Joanne are having fun also in this mine..WOW....Bet theres a lot more to see....Be worth spending money for a Tour of this mine...............Thanks old son...............JB......
thanks and yes 24/7 yes there is a lot more and we got more vids on the way
@@Askjeffwilliams Thanks Jeff.......
I work at a Gov't mine safety site. My job doesn't entail going into mines etc but this stuff is great too see.
WOW,,FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN A ORE DUMP,VERY COOL JEFF,YOU GUYS LOOK LIKE YOUR HAVING FUN..STAY WELL..
That's the best piece of mining history of a mine and its machines I've ever seen. Now when I see buildings with nothing in them I will be able to vision all that equipment inside and paint a better picture in my mind instead of bare walls with the odd box and barrel lying around.
Cheers for this great video sonny Jim Bob. 👍😉👏 I think this is one of the only videos you have made where you didn't say your catchphrases because you were that intrigued like a kid in a sweet shop😂🍺
thanks Ralph , yes I was so overwhelmed with joy and happiness to see all the things that I wanted to see in other mining sights but couldn't because they were gone .....great feeling
@@Askjeffwilliams I think you should buy that place and get it up and running again like it was just yesterday when it stopped. You could get subscribers to help you run it. Instead of having the detecting tours you could have the mining experience. It doesn't matter about silver not being worth that much because it will be about the experience rather than the profits from the metals. That's just a bonus for the helpers.👍😉🍺
Oh wow what a shop that must have been one sweet mine to work
Just amazing to see all this old history 👏👏👏👏👏🍻Jeff
I know...right
Jeff you going to this place is like a kid in a candy store. The really man I'm amazed with this place and how well it's kept.
Wow I didn’t know those ore buckets pivoted like that!!!! That’s freaking cool to see!!!!
yep they all do
Nice job y'all. Watched every minute of it. We poked around there a few years ago but couldn't get the access you have. The Mackay Muckers would be proud.
thanks Tom and Julie ..... we have another vid you are gonna love coming up here soon
Jeff, Joann, Chris... W0W what a cool place. The history, AMAZING! Please return and show us more. On another note, please forgive me if I've spelled ones name wrong. Outstanding guys, outstanding.
no worries and Lila was there to ( my Wife ) filming everything
it is nice to see a place untouched through time, so that we can do there and see how things were.
Oh man that was a great tour.
Right? Those depth core samples were incredible!
I don’t Mine these kind of videos cause it’s fun looking at the old things and the way they did it. Thanks Mr. Williams for the video it was a Blast to watch and the ending was grate too. Have a grate weekend, Boy !!!
thanks Johnny and you too
Jeff! Come to Minnesota and tour the Soudan Mine. 2400ft deep iron ore mine. Possible alot of the tools in this video were made with Soudan Mine ore
wow
Fantastic tour! That was so fun. You can tell Jeff could be a professor at School of Mines.
Always great content amazing work and views and information that is so cool good job
What a great area to explore. Mining history at its best! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
That shower room half round item is a hand sink commonly called a "birdbath". Fully round ones would occupy center space. A footbar operated them, missing in this one. A rookie might approach and see water flowing and start to wash. Others would simultaneously lift their feet and when the water stopped the rookie became "a freeloaded".
Seriously impressive mine. Great video 🙌👏🏻👍👏🏻
What a big kid :D Loving it Thank for sharing Yf..
Talk about a "stop work." I've only had one "all hands stop work" call, and it only lasted a day. It was kinda freaky to just have to leave all my stuff right where it was and just walk off. We were joking about what if the stop work lasted a really long time, but this video shows it. The maintenance being stopped mid job is kind of trippy. I wonder if the wrench turners took it as a nice break initially
thanks for explaining that so people can understand it better why all that equipment is still there
This Is why.i love watching you. I learn and get to see.history and I love these mines now I can't see them.any other way ty.jeff
thanks
@@Askjeffwilliams seriously I'm sure you thought.about for us who can longer get around either bad back legs or breathing getting to see this is adventure thru you and the crew plus you ad one hell of a twist you find great gold your teaching is easy to understand I thank you so much.its reall.priceless to me
I love to see how things were in the old days. Things were made to last. Great vid.
When my Grandpa was a young man he was a mule skinner in a wagon mine. Boss told him when he started, "I'd rather lose you than one of my mules. If you die I'll hire another man, that mule dies I got to buy a new mule." Did it for a long time going down I that hole with a mule and a carbide light to bring out coal.
Those compressors look like blowing engines for a blast furnace. Would love to reopen that machine shop!
I use to work for a mine although I dont care to much about the subject. Although I love seeing some one so passionate about a subject such as mining gives me joy to watch.
They just left that all there. I mean all the tools and stuff in the buildings. That's crazy. But cool too. Just up and left. Great information and video.
wow this is like a museum
What a time capsule! I totally enjoyed the machine shop. Like stepping back in time
The heaters at 9:20 are for sure from after the 70s... Very odd the only thing I saw in the video that looked totally out of place! Your content is top notch! Love the channel!!
Thanks