Secret Miner’s Cabin & Mines In The Sierra Nevada - Part 2
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- With this second video, we climb up the side of the canyon above the historic miner’s cabin. These are just some of the gold mines on this claim… The early miners were very busy in this canyon and evidence of their work is all over the place. Some of this evidence is just unusual divots in the earth or stacks of rocks and other times one can find old bottles or bits of metal. However, we also found the remains of a tram system and there are other mining equipment treasures scattered around that the claim owner has discovered over the years. And then, of course, there are the mines themselves. I wonder how many are covering these canyon walls that have eroded shut and have been lost to history?
Given how steep this canyon is, the tram system was not a surprise, but it is still an impressive level of sophistication for a mining area that is completely off the radar now. Waste rock would have just been dumped in front of the adit, but presumably the gold ore was trammed down to that stamp mill we saw in the first video for processing.
We had to drop down into the first adit that you’ll see in this video, but that is not the way the miner’s accessed this claim. Where we were standing looking back at the large mound of dirt obstructing the portal was the original floor level of this mine, but the portal has almost completely filled in with dirt since the miners were last busy here. We are fortunate that it is open at all. Completely obscured by that mound of dirt is another drift that took off to the right (from the perspective of facing the portal). We suspected something was back there based on the shape of the adit and so, as I was crawling out of the mine, I squeezed over to that side and there was a small gap where I could see into the short drift there. It didn’t run back that far and, in fact, I could see the end of it from where I was sprawled out on the mound of dirt. There weren’t any mining artifacts or anything like that inside. The rumored ore cart in that lower drift level was quite interesting to me though! Unfortunately, that was a particularly sketchy section of the mine. Those huge slabs around the side of that winze were very precariously balanced there and, as you saw, that winze goes vertical before reaching the next level. I would love to go back with proper gear to be able to get down to that level, but it would be sporty.
The last adit - again, completely different from the others - had the most amount of visible quartz, but it presumably was not particularly rich or it would have been a lot bigger. That adit seemed more exploratory in nature given how the miners were meandering off in different directions inside. They obviously did not run out of quartz. So, the gold content must have been too low to justify pursuing it. There were some nice crystals in there though!
Thank you again to the claim owner and his dog, Shade, for sharing this site with us.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: bit.ly/2wqcBDD
You can click here for my full playlist of abandoned mines: goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
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!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
The owner sure has it made! I think I would see civilization maybe once a year if I owned all that! Thank you for showing us! There was such a great vibe in this video.
Thank you. Yes, it is a great spot!
love all that beautiful Silica......some areas looked like good places to sample...keep'em coming cause me and Slim are loving them......
No shortage of silica at this site, to be sure! Yes, even my untrained eye picked up on the zones of iron and quartz and sites that looked promising to sample from. Glad I'm still keeping you and Slim entertained! I'll keep them coming...
I've explored old mines in California, Nevada and Arizona for over 45 years but too old and confused nowadays. The first mine you went in today, scared the pants off me! All the rotten stone and cave-ins, OMG! Thanks for sharing the adventure, awesome. My dog Howdy has the hots for Shade.
Dennis: I'm in that same boat. My grandpa took me exploring mines, Indian caves, and ghost towns at an early age. And did it for many years on my own since he passed on when I was 8. I would still explore a mine if the opportunity arose, but I've gotten too old now, and out of shape, to "get to" those remote locations.
My grandfather and his brother great uncle Orlando went off to the Klondike Gold Rush.... late 1890s to as town called Nome... met and ran a Saloon with a guy named Wyatt Earp and his wife Josie .. neither did any gold-mining. granddad came home to Utah uncle Lando stayed on and made a fortune... i have correspondence sent to grandma Thompson-Moore... from Alaska during grandads stay there with reference to Earp and his wife and the saloon they ran together... makes for some colorful. reading that's for sure... back in those days people didn't mind what they said or how they said it i can't believe i can sit and read today 2019 in a letter written 120 yrs ago and relive their experiences . i now live in Beverly Hills Ca... and only see these old abandoned ghost towns n mine on TV video thanks ...Ed
Great video! The mine appears really old, be careful, can't wait for part 3! Take care
Yes, this mine probably stretches back to the early days of California's "Gold Rush" era... I'll need to go back there again in order for a Part 3 episode to be produced. Given how much was there, I wanted to give more of a representative sampling than show every single adit. I would REALLY like to get down that winze and see if there is, in fact, an ore cart down there though.
Definitely gives the vibe of a really old operation. So much quartz!!!
Yes, this area was worked in the early days, that's for sure... And, yes, a LOT of quartz!
Fantastic video !! Good job !
I can't imagine the amount of work that went into creating those mines....I just hope the miners got wealthy and lived easy lives after that.
Thank you very much. The old timers were tough... I can't even imagine creating and working in these mines with only candlelight to see. I hope they got fabulously wealthy as well, but regrettably few did.
It’s real interesting when you have a miner with you telling you what he sees inside the mine.. awesome video
Thank you. Ha, yes, I wish we could have a miner along with us every time to narrate!
Man that adit you were in @ 8 minutes is wild with all that quartz, and that is the quartz they didn't bother with! The old timers must have been busting wires of Gold and blossom rock out of there. Excellent series thanks for sharing!
Thank you. Pretty amazing, huh?
Again really enjoy the mine tours and the geology there is quite interesting indeed....
Glad you're enjoying these... We've been in a lot of mines, but the geology in this complex is some of the most interesting that we've seen.
Awesome mine!! Thanks for sharing. I live in Vegas.
Man I'm in love with this place!
Yes, it's an awesome location.
Always like your videos.
Thank you!
Some very interesting geological formations.
Yes, the geology across this site as revealed inside the different mines is very interesting. I don't recall ever seeing such different conditions across such a small area. Usually, the way any particular mine is in an area will be matched by the other mines in the area...
So good I. Watched it twice
@5:50 This just shows how spoiled I became from your exploration. I'm actually (a little) frustrated for not knowing whats down there... ;)
Love these vids -keep em coming!!
Amazing that the old time prospectors, many of whom could probably barely read and write, if at all, knew geology so well and could locate things like quartz veins and gold. Let alone how tough they were to be so far out in the wilderness surviving with no easy way to get to town for supplies. -- The first adit with that vertical drop, he said an old timer said there was an ore cart down there, which would lead me to believe there is a lower adit somewhere. Though as unstable as it looks in there, may well be collapsed by now.
Yes, I am frequently amazed by the talent the old timers had for spotting promising sites to start digging. That is particularly the case when there is no vein on the surface to serve as an indicator. They also had a talent for survival since, as you mentioned, conditions were rough out there. Given that the portal we accessed the first adit through was almost completely eroded shut, it seems likely that there is a lower haulage adit that has eroded completely shut. The level we accessed may have been more of a stope that dropped the ore down to the haulage adit below since that vertical bit looked like an ore pass.
Yes, lower portal is what I meant to say. Too bad that lower haulage level is so unsafe to get to. That's probably where the good relics are.
Yeah, I'd love to get down there!
TVR Exploring that’s more of a confirmation bias though, you’re only seeing those who were successful, how many people died out in the wilderness or while trying to mine a claim, it would surely outnumber those who “made it” by a factor of a hundred if not more.
@@TVRExploring do you explore any mines in Arizona or New Mexico?
We were exploring above timberline on Monday. Climbed up to several waste piles but the adits were all caved in.
I really hate that esp when you find a LARGE mine dump.
@@ADITADDICTS It seems to be the norm here in the Rockies.
@@cclyon That's not fair. Whoever decided that should be fired! Lol well if they're in Rock then chances are it's just lose debris that come down in front. Might be open all way through past that point!
Thurber That is a frequent source of frustration for us!
hey glad you back with part 2...part 3 coming soon ??? and I've never seen such a large amount of quartz. !! stay safe my friends !!
I'll need to go back there again in order for a Part 3 episode to be produced... Given how much was there, I wanted to give more of a representative sampling than show every single adit. I would, however, REALLY like to get down that winze and see if there is, in fact, an ore cart down there. And, yes, definitely a lot of quartz in there!
There wasn't much to say about the portal or adit going into the mine; It was in pretty good shape and mostly straight. You could tell no one had been in here in a number of years. It was pretty remote, taking a good 6 hours to hike into it as the nearest still accessible road was miles away and all the old logging and mine roads had long since grown over or washed away. About 1500 ft back into the mountain the you hit the main incline shaft that delved deep into the lower workings. There were some small drifts going off to both sides with ore shoots coming down from some upper workings and stopes. Most of this mine was deeper down though. There were 4 total levels on the inclined shaft, with only the top 3 still accessible with the 4th being flooded. We explored the 1st and 2nd drift levels and didn't find much. Some old artifacts, a number of dead end drifts where they followed the ore. The timber down here was in remarkable good shape considering the flooding on the lowest levels. I found that a bit odd as the accessible drifts didn't seem to have an evidence of the water coming down from above. We found some older mining equipment, turn of the century at the latest. This was an old mine after all and from the looks of it they just left one day and never went back for any of it. Hell, it looks like some of it was just left where it was last used. Nothing seemed like it was put away or stored where it should have been.
The only thing we had left to check out was the 3rd drift level on the inclined shaft above the lower flooded 4th level so we got to it. The left side drifts where blocked by a collapse so we headed off to the right and followed that drive past a bunch of ore shoots coming from stopes and the drift level above us. This was by far the largest drift level in the mine and it seemed to stretch on forever. We followed it back for hundreds of feet when the tunnel straightened up and seem to go on forever into the darkness. There was nothing on either side for hundreds of feet. No ore shoots, no stopes, no winzes, nothing. It reminded us of the adit tunnel coming in. The main portal was higher up on the mountain so we though that maybe this would actually lead to another portal or entrance to the mine. It shouldn't though, all the documents I had been able to fine on this mine said it only had one entrance. About 400 ft back I noticed something shiny on the floor reflecting in my flashlight. At first I thought it must be either a piece of mining equipment or may some sort of mineral but as I got close I noticed that it was a single 9mm brass casing. How the hell did this get down here? We hadn't seen anything in this mine newer than turn of the century and there was zero evidence of anyone being in this mine in years in all the passages we've explored so far. That confirmed to me at least that this was an undocumented entrance to the mine and someone must have come back this far from the other end. Why they would have fired a shot from a pistol in here is anyone's guess. There was nothing else around, no bones or anything to indicate if someone had maybe stumbled upon a bear or cougar while in the mine. My friend wanted to turn back but I insisted on going forward, saying that there must be an exit this way if this is here.
It took some convincing but I finally got him to agree to keep going and we went about another 300 down this straight line tunnel towards the exit I was convinced was there. Had I taken the time to sit down and really think about the layout and maps for this mine I'd studied I'd have realized that it was collapsed left side that would have taken us towards the base of the mountain and a possible exit to the surface. This right hand drive was only taking us deeper into the mountain. If there was an exit in this direction, it would be a good 40 miles away on the other side of the range.
Another 500 or so feet we hit the first change to the tunnel. It expanded a bit into what looked like a slope. There was timber work around but what really slack jawed us was the solid wall that cut across the slope about 60ft in. It wasn't natural. It looked like poured concrete that had been polished smooth. In the middle was a door, made of metal with no visible hinges or handle. As I got closer I could hear a low murmuring sound that seemed to come from behind the door. It was muffled and hard to hear but it was clear as day two people talking, just inaudible due to the wall and metal door. My exploring buddy had completely frozen and looked to be about 3 seconds from bolting back the tunnel but I felt compelled to get closer. I put my ear against the metal door to see if it make it any easier to hear. It didn't help.
I don't know why I did it, it wasn't even something I consciously thought about the next thing I knew I knocked on the metal door 3 times.
The talking stopped.
and........ did they knock back? what a great xplore
what mine are you talking about? it sounds really interesting
Alright, you've got our attention... Give us more!
ok could be drug runners...and you stumbled upon their hideout....hope there's a part 3 to all of this...
I hate to break everyone's bubble but this is a work of fiction (I thought it was obvious). Nice to see it's convincing enough though that some thought it was real though.
The Claim Owner now has your video and knows where to use a shovel to get all of that loose material out of there. I noticed in the last video he had a metal Riffle Box near those artifacts. Time to get a wheel barrow and sluce the loose placer material and get some gold. Once the loose material is mucked out of the mines, that's when the "rich" work begins. I would bet my paycheck there is plenty of placer gold in that loose material.
Hey if the owner wants to know how to build a Stamp Mill out of the equipment the miners left behind, let me know! I'll be more than happy to get welding equipment, and build a new stamp mill out of the old material that is there. If he needs a jaw crusher, I know how to build that too. At this day in age, Briggs and Stratton, and/or Predator Engines can do that work.
Pump the water up from the creek, run the Riffle Box and get the gold! Woo Hoo!!!
At any rate, nice claim, and good luck!
-Shane McGuire
That second adit had a Big Foot nest.
nice one fellas hope we get to see the lower level thumbs up
Yes, I hope so too at some point in the future...
Top-right at 7:07 it looks like a gold nugget is embedded on the surface. Notice how it's bright, even in the shadow?
Love it. That mine doesn’t look safe. Thank you
No, probably not the safest mine...
Man that’s a lot of quartz! You guys are brave.
Yes, no shortage of quartz there!
great video you got balls
Heh, I was clambering up hills as steep as that yesterday in search of a mine. Too much water was inside so I couldn't go in.
Frustrating to get that close and then be blocked, no? That's what we haul the chest waders in for (even though it is a huge hassle). Sometimes even they are insufficient though. Personally, I draw the line at swimming in the mines.
TVR Exploring Not really. My trip was mostly a scouting expedition for the area.
Omg there is phallic quartz everywhere! Its in and around the portal!
8:06 gold! That quartz vein is huge.
I was impressed!
Wow, definitely a monster widow maker
Probably the worst I have seen!
That one guy needs a brighter light!
@Cornish Exploring With Alex his dog has night vision, ex-special forces and all.
I saw blue chrysocolla in the wall you was curious about.
Amazing so, those people have a claim there?
Holly cow, don’t do it! Love your voice by the way
Yes, the guy showing us around has had that claim in the family for generations...
With all the quartz and potential ore available, any idea why the mine was abandoned? Perhaps it was abandoned for your/viewers benefit. lol. I'd worry about the dog becoming M.I.A. however. Another great effort. Thanks.
Well, the quartz veins they were following must have turned barren or been barren all along... Not all quartz has gold. Or, like you said, they were being considerate toward us in the future.
Good video guys greeting from Germany
Baseline Photography
Thank you!
Man, when i think of a mine, i think of men to begin digging at a mountain face and tunneling in etc.. but this just seems like they found cave entrances and started mining
This is quite an old site - likely stretching back to the early days of California's "Gold Rush" era... So, the mining was more primitive at places like this. They were also probably on a fairly tight budget.
great video ....quartz quartz every where!
There sure was a lot of it...
*I subscribed to this already.*
what is all the bright blue I was seeing? Was that just the camera changing the rock color?
I'm not sure, but it really looked like that. It wasn't the camera...
I always thought where there is quartz there is gold but when Au is distributed throughout material in a liquid form it always runs with iron, which causes a rust color when fractured.
Quartz doesn't always equal gold. It frequently contains gold, but some quartz is completely barren. Iron and quartz together is an even stronger indicator for gold. They say gold rides an iron horse...
I used to live in a tin-mining area which I think began with following similar seams of quartz.Do tin and gold occur in the same seams?
That ground looked very unstable, amazing quartz, did you see any crystal formations?
Yes, there were a lot of crystals in that last adit!
Large veins tend to be low grade, or just have gold along the contact. Would like to do some assays on that quartz, nice mineralization.
That is likely why they didn't pursue those veins farther... I had the impression in the first adit that we were in more of a stope and that that vertical drop down to the level below was an ore pass. If that is the case, the level below is likely the main haulage adit that eroded shut. I'd love to get down to that level...
not the case for the 16to1 mine the veins that carried the bulk of high-grade ranged from 25ft wide on up to several hundreds of feet wide and 50-100 ft thick
yes, but by the contact like you said
Nothing is the case for the 16-to-1, the exception of exceptions.
The Giant King in Washington District has very wide veins but low grade. It's never been a big producer. Same across the river on the north ridge, huge veins, low grade, and same thing out the finger of a ridge down to the mouth of Poorman Creek. Some day when the state is free again those places are open pit heap leach targets.
As usual brillant vid as always pity couldn't get down to the lower level. You find quarts you find gold is it? Copper Iron you can see them vains. Dose quarts hav a value apart from grave & gardening use's? Some do be amazing beautiful colours shades help mines survive if so much taken out has a value. Loved it tks again👍☘🇮🇪
Yes, I would love to have been able to get down to that lower level. Quartz is an indicator for gold, but not all quartz carries gold. Quartz by itself has little value. In the past, quartz crystals would be used in radios, but that is no longer the case.
TVR -- Actually , Quartz Crystals can have considerable value to collectors , depending on the clarity , if they are perfectly formed , and in the case of Smoky Quartz if the color is uniform throughout the crystal .
So all that copious amount of quarts veins.
Why are they NOT being mined??.
isn’t gold found with quarts?.
Am I seeing things, or is that some really nice looking ore in the ceiling, at 3:30?
what kind of flashlight are you guys using? Very nice Video's
I'm using several lights, but I don't recall the exact model numbers. If you look in the description below the videos, you'll see a link to all of the gear that I use. The precise details will be there.
I thought the idea was to remove the quartz to get gold from it, but who ever mined that seems to have ignored huge amounts of it. It seems abit odd, then there's the fact its close to the surface. Wouldn't it be easiest to just open cast mine that hill side, or is it deeper than it looks?
Quartz does not always contain gold. It is an indicator for gold, but there are no guarantees. In this case, it would seem that the quartz was barren or they would have pursued it more. It would undoubtedly be easier with modern equipment and technology to open cast a site such as this. However, with hand tools and the steep incline of the slope, it would have been a monumental task to open this up. Also, they didn't know what they were working with here. The miners back then lacked the modern drills and such that allow modern companies to map out what is underground before the first shovelful of dirt is turned over. These early miners had to dig in to see what was there. If they had uncovered something quite promising, they would indeed have followed it to the surface...
Has any assey work been done on all that quartz?
Love your videos. Just wondering if they were mining quartz, why would they have left so much still in this mine and others that you have explored?
Well, this was originally a gold mine and so they left the barren quartz behind. During World War II, they were just after quality crystals embedded in the quartz, not quartz in general.
@@TVRExploring Thanks, I love watching your videos and I've learned quite a bit. Both of my Grandpap's were coal miners here in Western Maryland and mines like this interest me greatly.
Next new overused word for 2021: “swarm”.
Is all the Sierra madre occidental gold bearing ? Why is California so rich in placers , does it occur on all the occidental?
So, what is the significance of the quartz? How can you tell whats a vein and whats not a vein?
Quartz is an indicator for gold... The vein is the different color of rock threading through the native rock like a blood vein. In this case, we're talking about the vein or band of quartz running through the host rock.
I could here the words being said when you came upon that tree, "Hey, hold my beer and watch this..." and then the response, "Oh man, are you alright? I got it all and it's goin' on RUclips!" That sort of fits into the feeling I had seeing those adits. It looked like, "Ok, blow this up. And now this over here. And down there, blow that up." That may not be the exact statements made but there just didn't appear that there was a grand scheme laid out by the miners. That was a lot of quartz. Any idea of the profitability of the mines? I can't imagine how difficult it would be to walk away from that much quartz and mineralization, finding gold in one vein and not another, and finally having to give it up. Is the owner planning on any prospecting? I don't know how you place cribbing. It looks like you would have to support individual boulders and then you probably couldn't get in to work. Anyway, quite interesting. Thank you for sharing it.
Haha, yes, that widowmaker could definitely get someone in trouble! I had the impression that a good amount of the work done on these canyon walls was exploratory in nature. I'm sure the miners were frustrated by seeing all of that quartz and not consistently turning up big gold to go along with it. Like you said, one vein was probably profitable while the next two or three would be barren. I don't know about the profitability of these mines as, despite extensive research, I was never able to find anything more than a passing reference to them in a very old mining journal. That's a common problem with a lot of these very early mines - there is just no information out there about them... Cribbing would be tough in these, to be sure.
to mine this site, i would think it would be a good idea to start a new adit, lower around creek level. then drive a raise into and undercut the quartz above, removing the pay. much sampling of the vein through use of a gas powered core drill to sample the lowering vein strike
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Much easier to drop the waste rock and ore down to haul out rather than up and out too!
I don't think that you explained what they were mining-- quartz or gold because gold can be with quartz? Maybe I missed and explanation.
They were mining gold. Quartz is an indicator for gold, but, importantly, does not always contain gold... It is just an indicator.
@ 7:16 it looks like a natural room.
I had one of those once......until I started living in it.
Yeah, they were scratching all of that out with hand tools. So, things look a bit rough!
+ADIT ADDICTS yuup
+TVR Exploring incredible, but when you find 3 ounces per ton, I'd scratch it out with a tablespoon!!!!!$
Thank you , for follow up . A very interesting canyon . Is the Dogs name Shad or Shade ? 54 mins 194 in 268 out
Yes, there is a lot going on in this canyon, to be sure. Her name is Shade.
TVR Exploring do you explore any mines in Arizona or New Mexico?.
I have not explored any mines in those areas yet...
Why isn't someone minning that now ?
always wondered if some of those old mines had any ore worth taking in them. what was the price of gold when they closed it? 30.00 an ounce? I know a mining company wouldnt/couldnt but what about hobbyists?.... is that even feasable?
Yes, these old mines still have a lot of gold in them. The old timers pulled out the easy gold and either didn't find the rest (the technology of today can find a lot more gold) or they didn't bother with it given the lower price in the past. However, given all of the expensive permits and the often silly regulations that apply to any type of mining today, it is difficult for small miners to succeed. The larger companies that have the resources to jump through all of the hoops to obtain permission to mine need to have deposits worth billions of dollars for it to make it worth it for them to go through the effort. So, the gold in these smaller abandoned mines continues to just sit there.
what I figgured. .... shame. be a good hobby for a bored maniac like myself.
Yes, some people do quite well treating it as a side operation.
One of the things I've noticed in a lot of these videos, is that there never seems to be very many spiders in these mines. Is the camera just not picking them up, or do spiders avoid these places? I've seen them at the openings, just not really inside the mines.
I avoid the damn things that's for sure.
The BLM has a law prohibiting spiders in old mines.
@@maranti34b Dave!!!!! How the hell you been bud?!! Damn it we miss you, need to meet up again soon!
Yes, the spiders will hang out around the portal, but they don't go deeper into the mines. Insects don't seem to go very far into mines and so the spiders will only go in as far as the insects do. I can only think of a couple of mines we've visited where the bugs were deeper inside than just a few feet from the portal. Even with the exceptions, the bugs disappeared after forty feet or so.
My boys found a huge wolf spider in their tent near the entrance to an adit at the Yuba Mine. It fought back.
ASSSQUATCH! @ 5:27! Run!!
There are a lot of hazards in abandoned mines.
lmfao
Nice Quartz , but always remember -- '' Where ever you find Gold you will always find Quartz , BUT , where ever you find Quartz you will NOT always find Gold '' . -- < Doc , Miner for over 50 years > .
Very well said, Doc... I was just trying to explain this in response to another comment, but I took a paragraph to explain what you said in a sentence.
Ok I get gold=quartz and quartz does not = gold.. gold w/quartz can be seen and not be seen.. so if I’m a 49’er and I find quartz with no visible gold I take a sample.. (sorry just brain farted on the word for that) to the assayers office and he decides if there is gold? I imagine he finds the % go gold as well? To see if it’s worthwhile to chase the vein? Is gold found in anything else? Since granite (granitic) holds by definition quartz, could it be a crib for gold or is it just the pretty veins of quartz? One more.. what about like rose quartz?
I’m seriously sorry for questions like this but I’m curious and y’all seem to be willing to share your knowledge! I thank you for that!
@@destroya.5868 gold is where you find it, indicator /associated minerals can put you in the zone, but there's no foolproof way to tell that's why the mills were erected to process it all and remove any question. porphyry, mariposite, and others can carry gold too
aaron keeth Thank you Aaron! I totally get that it’s all a crapshoot and nothing is certain at all, be it containing any gold and if so how much! But generally...quartz has a chance to lug gold.. I’ll just use that like a puppy and a squeaky toy.. lol
Oh and thanks for tossing out those other two possible “rocks” that can carry Fe... never heard much less seen what the heck those are... lol off to do homework!
Thank y’all for yer help!!
DesTroy A. In some mining vids they explain which types of quartz have gold and which dont, i forget but there ARE answers to your questions. Do your research and remember me when you're rich!
surpriseed the current claim owner isnt activelly mining./
Ok I’m sorry but I have to ask another question stemming from inexperience and ignorance.. Quartz quartz quartz... I think I’ve figured out that quartz =gold.. but quartz is not gold.. what’s the handshake between gold and quartz? And what are miners looking for when they find the quartz?
But mostly I want to commend you on another fine vid! I dig these mining videos! (Yes pun intended) ✌🏻
I have yet to get an answer about that myself that I'm satisfied with.
Thank you for the pun and the kind words. Quartz is an indicator for gold, but not all quartz has gold. Some of it is completely barren. I have a very rough idea of how the gold/quartz handshake works, but I'm afraid I would confuse the answer even more by trying to explain it. So, I am really hoping that one of the old timers weighs in on that part of the answer to the question. As to what the miners are looking for in the quartz - not all gold embedded in quartz is visible as some of it may be abundant, but microscopic. So, the miners take samples from the quartz and have it assayed to determine its potential.
DesTroy A. -- See my Post to TVR & ADIT ADDICTS above !!!
ADIT ADDICTS -- See my Post to You & TVR above !!!
Veins are formed by mineral-rich hydrothermal fluids intruding along faults and joints...not all fluids contain gold.
Fuggy quartz
Hey Justin, the Coast flashlight was well recieved. To see the un-boxing it starts at 9:15
ruclips.net/video/Kv33-fNi1UI/видео.html This was an awesome video BTW.
Someone must have gotten rich there. Regards Ody
Glad to hear the Coast light went over well... Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Yes, given the amount of mining activity here as well as the stamp mill, I would imagine someone did indeed get rich here from the gold.
Is there a reason why some quartz is chunky like that is some is more like a vein? Sketchy sketchy !!! Lol
The quartz is pushed up through the earth's crust in a liquid form before it cools and hardens. So, the path that the liquid quartz follows up through the cracks and fractures in the earth's crust will determine how it looks to us millions or even hundreds of millions of years later.
ground is always terrible close to the surface, this mine is (speculation) less than a 100 ft from the surface
Thank you!
Do you really come to java island in the past????????? In java sulfur mine in the mountain??????
Yes, I did that in 2017.
shhhhhh! its a secret.
Don't tell anyone...
This dude must be independently wealthy, there is a lot of Au left there!
Surely the miners wouldn't have abandoned it if there was a lot of gold left
Bomb Twenty you could be right, I do know during WW2 all the gold mines were shut down completely then after that the price was so low the demand wasn't there. Then you had the BLM basically shutting down the mining industry, especially in Kali. like where Justin is.
All that oxidizing and sulfides means iron, and Au runs with iron?
I heard about the gold mines shutting down. A Major George Racey Jordan blew the whistle on it all apparently. All the mines were shut down by the US government, who confiscated all their equipment only to ship it all off to Russia to get them started in the Gold mining game post war. But I think this mine is way to old for all that
Yes, even if there is gold present, it is very difficult to be a (legal) miner in California these days...
Many, many Gloria Holes fer' sure. Watch yer' head.
Get out of there 😳
Are u sure u didn't inadvertently wander into Middle Earth's Lonely Mountain somewhere along the way? Much of this looks to have been dug out by dwarves!
It felt like it too! I was having to crouch down most of the way... The worst dwarf mine was this one though: ruclips.net/video/JQjqGW6rvLM/видео.html&list=PLWEW7ixiDkjSVIo5J19ucgF6_vjfLYb7p&index=64
so whats sketchy?"?? he wants to draw it??? or afraid to say dangerous or perilous??? man oh man these guys aberration of the English language is something else....how can an inanimate object be crazy???
For an aspiring pedant, your grammar and punctuation need some work. Furthermore, neither the use of the word "sketchy" or the word "crazy" were inappropriate in the context in which they were used.
Per Merriam-Webster: Sketchy =
"questionable, iffy got into a sketchy situation a sketchy character"
Also from the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Crazy =
"a : full of cracks or flaws : unsound
… they were very crazy, wretched cabins … -Charles Dickens
b : crooked, askew"
Different miners dug them
You better go to bed.
Not the best place for a dog.
Or a Mine Explorer !
Dog in mine! Thumbs down on that