The Comstock Lode was one of the nations richest Gold and Silver deposits from the 1870's. Its located in Virginia City but also includes Gold Hill, Silver City and the Sutro Tunnel. The Lode produced Bonanza Type Gold and Silver Deposits that were mines of or Propylite at depths reaching 3000 feet. If you have a story to tell about this place we would love to hear it and for more vids on this area watch this video ruclips.net/video/B6xfxEV5Tks/видео.html and smash that like button ..SMAS IT HARD !!!!
Working all day in a mine like that, with all that heat ,humidity, and all that soft dirt,it’s no wonder that they belly up to the Bucket of Blood Saloon. Thanks for the tour Cowboy.
Good to see you back up in the Virginia City area. Huge amounts of gold and silver came from those mines. Its funny too that "Silver City" was mostly an area of mines that produced primarily gold. They have made a lot of progress restoring the old Donovan Mill.
Hey Chris, it's real good to see that you are visiting your old buddy's RUclips page. I've been watching both of you for at least 7 years now. Much love Chris and Jeff!❤
“So, C’mon (oh you don’t know) LET’S GOOOOOO!!!” 😂 Also, that sound at around 10:00 of an actual steam #locomotive starting up was SURREAL! That train horn too! Thanks for sharing Jeff! Yet another great #adventure! 🙌🏼
I so enjoy when Jeff knows as much or more than the person his talking to, and Jeff turns to knowledge for the other person. This is a great way for to teach and learn sumptin?
I spend 90% of my time working...so when i take out 45 minutes to watch something it has to be tremendous...that is what you gave with this...thank you
Jeff, you're the right man to come along just in time to preserve this record of human will, innovation, and spirit. You've honored all the lives involved, and shown future generations their potential.
If it were me, I'd be removing all the artifacts asap, build a mock tunnel structure above in one of the old buildings replicating the main ore body you referenced. This mine is dangerous sketchy for tourism at this point. Thanks for taking us along, only way i'll be experiencing that particular mine.
Every time I see our history being preserved by people who love America and its heritage. Im grateful to be one. Keep spreading the word folks. This is how Americans handle things! Yeeee haww!!
I don’t know if it’s just me, but there’s something super cool about the spirit of the olden days gone by like these surrounding the mines and the gold rush era. The myths, the legends, the stories, the memories, and all the brave people in acts of heroism, can’t really be put into words…. You just,,,,, “feel” it ! ⛏😎
Love the history Jeff, talk about knowledge, you're a walking time capsule! Thanks for sharing all this awesome stuff with the viewers... keep it happening! 🪱⛏️⚒️👷👍🤠
I remember the seepage trying to burst up the mine. As u said the clay expands as it grabs up the water. It imparts a hydraulic force. And then the rot 😮. "I can fix this". I love that mans attitude.
I lived in Big Bend Texas for 14 years, and the road to my place had a section about 4 inches thick of dry packed bentonite, an anionic clay. They mined bentonite for sealing earth ponds and cat litter about 20 miles away. When it rained, that four inches of dry packed clay turned into 12-18 inches of thick, slippery, mud. There was one place in the road where you had to hydroplane the mud at just the right speed in 4WD, or you could not get through until it dried, and that could be a awhile. If you sank into it, mixing it up made it expand even more and you could find yourself sitting on the bumpers. In the dry, you would never know it was a slew when wet.
Thank you for that beautiful tribute to the minors❤ such a tragedy❤ we must never forget❤ keep them in our hearts❤ but thank you for the video I enjoyed the video I will see you on the next one❤😂
Jeff, I have a general geology question for you. Why does my home state (arkansas) have a lot of the same geological markers (i.e. sandstone, silica, etc, but there is no precious opals? Virgin valley new Mexico has wood opals. I can't find the actual reason why no one has found them here. We have diamonds, gold (not much but some).. there's a bunch of premium geological processes going on here, but no opals? What gives?
My great-grandfather Roscoe Lafayette Bradley won a pocket watch for single jack drilling from a contest held in the Old Dominion mine in Globe. Back in the day. His nickname was "Popeye" because of his forearms
Loved the train ride. One of my most memorable experiences was taking a steam locomotive from Williams, AZ to the rim of the Grand Canyon (and back) circa 1991. Nothing else like it.
I like your strong feeling of positivity and joy. You always motivated 100% and you love what you do. And be lucky to have a charmed wife by your side. 👍 One of the coolest, most interesting channels in the world wide web. 🔝
Thawing dynamite was always risky. Most accidents happened when they were in a hurry and the heating fire was too hot. This issue happened because nitroglycerin freezes at a pretty high temperature above that of water. It forms two types of crystals. One that is unstable and sensitive to sudden shock or temperatures. The other crystal was stable but required much bigger blasting caps to detonate. The stable crystal is the ultimate form when the dynamite is left undisturbed. This freezing problem was solved by adding ethylene glycol dinitrate . This the nitration product of antifreeze. It is one carbon down from nitroglycerin which is actually glycerol trinitrate. The ethylene glycol dinitrate has a much lower freezing point than nitroglycerin. This would keep the dynamite from freezing until extremely cold temperatures.
I grew up and still live in the area. At 10:40 in the video you can see the house I lived in as a kid. These days Im down closer to the Sutro. Loved the video Jeff. As always super informative and packed full of great information and the best part is you always make it all fun. Keep it up dude!
dude trying to keep that mine from collaspe, is fighting a losing battle. Once something begins moving it tends to keep moving, especially when it's trillions of tons. water, 6lbs a gallon. i wouldnt be going in there.
Howdy Super dude! Possibly using a short deepsea rod and reel with dacron line for strength for go pro drops would be good nuggets 😀 👍 As always learn a lot every vid. ❤
I'm going to go try n convince the wife to go for a walk and fill some buckets of red and black sand to run back at home. I don't know if I could spend that much time in that mine Jeff. It's too sketchy for me. You are brave Sir 🏴☠️ ⛏️
I watched another video about the coal mines in Virginia they had their own money, community and if the woman's husband died in the mine, they gave her 1 wk to get re- married or they kicked you out, I can't believe America allowed a foreign company to treat American citizens that way, the video talked about that happened about 40 years ago 🤔 😮
thats only a small piece of it ....do your research about how they would break up coal miners who were striking ...look up how the National Guard would be brought in to shoot them ..... and the beat goes on
Great job putting this video together Jeff... Really good cinematography. Enjoyed the train, the deep dives into the mine, seeing the ore body... It was great!
The Comstock has been a fascination for me since grade school social studies class, possibly from a Weekly Reader article. From the wealth generated, to the new honeycomb type timbering they had to invent, to the blue sludge they were throwing away at first and later found to be rich silver.... So many interesting things about the region. I'd never had cut it as a miner though, paranoia and claustrophobia woulda got me. I'd rather face a pissed off grizzly while only armed with a pointy stick than go 3000 feet underground! Very interesting vid, Jeff, looks like a fun trip.
In the clay areas drill up and install drain pipe with holes. 2”-6” pipe 20-50’ into the high water pressure areas. Holes large enough to allow water and some mud to drain the water and some of the mud to release pressure. It’s what we did in the kennecott copper pit in Utah. Dug a two mile loop between the north and west walls. Spurs along the drift loop where Boart would set up and drill. Drilling the holes drains the water from that entire section of that wall. That was done and was successful in reducing pressure on the wall. That was done to prevent rock sliding off the walls Very successfully. We were going to move to the south and east walls. Kennecott decided to postpone the move because they had a huge payoff to make for another mine. They started several years later but a little late. Soon after they started the south west wall collapsed. I was an electrician working there from a commercial/industrial contractor. High voltage lines feeding into the 480 transformers which supplied power to Atkinson drilling rigs for making the loop and Boarts bore hole drills.
I had family in Virginia city and spent a lot of time there when I was little. If you were there before 2000 or so, we had a store on Main Street, Grant’s General Store that had a museum in the back, and a massive gold and silver potbelly stove in the front. The Sazerac was ours too which used to be a bar, but was rented out and turned into a rock shop at some point. They recently retired too. Weird seeing all this again.
My lady and I went on the underground tour at the Chollar Mine 3 years ago, it was really something to experience. Plus, the store, and all the old equipment at the site was really cool. Highly recommended! Another great video Jeff, and team, many thanks!
Nope nope nope nope nope nope I'm not watching this I'm addicted to panning and this is underground damn you Jeff I'm addicted to your channel I got to watch it thanks for the Saturday morning entertainment
@@Askjeffwilliams lol as a painter by trade I call my fellow trades people Brothers and sisters of the brush so I'm guessing Brothers and sisters of the pans⛏️⛏️🤠
Hello Jeffybaby. Lukeybaby is having trouble getting Nuggies from the river 🤣🇦🇺 so i was just awonderin if y'all are flying over to the old gold mines here south east of the World Heritage Gibralta Range. We can scrape out the mountains and get LUKEYBABY( WHERE'S WINKS) AND ME SOME NUGGIES. JUST AN IDEA FOR A VIDEO OF COURSE . Really informative like Rob Parsons
3:59 I'm kind of curious who took that recording of the Yellow Jacket East mine. Was that just randomly taken present-day or somehow back during the time of the fire? So to go back another 3 miles, they need about $8.5 million. Going to be a while.
I think I'd see about casting the timbers in concrete with a tensioned set of 1/4" rebar. Say a 4x4" x 1/4" steel plate with a 1" bolt in the center to tension the rebar, inside a 12' 8x8" it could possibly be cheaper and definitely last longer. Set up an assembly line. Use a 1/2" rebar frame with with a 1/4" rebar grid welded together inside a 2.5" thick panels of concrete. As the lagging. Then bolt the rebar together with bolts and steel with holes welded to the rebar. Use a micro excavator to set the the beams and panels in place, it would possibly last 100's of years! Or bolt the rebar together in place, then spray with shot crete.
I think I already know the answer, and this is probably a very ignorant question but I'm curious if steel "I" (eye) beams for some of the more dicey spots wouldn't be a better support system? I get it would be VERY expensive and unrealistic to do the whole thing that way, but is cost the primary reason they aren't used? They could be coated with a polymer to reduce oxidation too.
Damn I was getting real dizzy watching this on a big screen monitor when you were dropping the camera down those shafts lol. Absolutely love the exploratory/history episodes ol'mate. Keep 'em coming, luv ya work
There is fiberglass/wood lumber that never rots. Some telephone poles are used nowadays. Half wood, half fiberglass. Ofcourse its probably more expensive.
LOL , I swear the title of this was "dropping a gopro down the deepest hole at NVIDIA"... I mean they could be ontop of a gold mine the way their stock has been performing *LOL*
As amazing as the hand drawn dumps are, I find that all of the timbering was hauled INTO the mine and then trimmed and assembled into sets or lagging or whatever. Those 12x12s? Dayum.
I also remember the Ponderosa Ranch up in Tahoe..we had 4 generations visit there..gunfights, gold panning, pony rides and a real blacksmith made it a memory that lasts forever 😊
I explore the deserts of Cali and Nevada all the time but have trouble finding reliable maps of old abandoned mine shafts out in the desert. you'd be surprised how many times I've come upon a old vertical mine shaft that looks like a Sarlacc pit. One of my greatest phobias is falling in and no knows one knows I fell in it.
Ive lived in Reno for many years. VC is always a fun ride and spend the day. The Collar mine is always on the ta do list. Riding the V & T is great and the Christmas Express is even better. Kids of all ages love it. And a cold one at the Bucket of Blood is a must.
I've lived in the area my entire life and spent over 35 years squeezing in and out of places most would never even think of going. Any of the places in VC. are haunted if you let yourself believe they are it is completely up to what you let yourself believe..
Beautiful narrated Jeff.. To get permission as you do show the respect you have with in the mining ⛏️ community and industry. Yes . Many lost their lives.. Thanks for sharing this. Say hi to Lila.. Cheers Tony Famo59 👍🍻⛏️
Wet mines....yikes! Especially where there's sulfide ores oxidizing.....when you think of the megatons of mud surrounding those tunnels it is scary...but I'd trust your friends work there.... I'd love to visit someday. You mentioned shock tubing - the history of that material is pretty interesting. It sure eliminated a lot of primacord! Cheers...
for those of you that may not know that ecv e clampus vitus dedicated plaque on the wall, the bottom of the plack reads, credo quia absurdum, is a fack Latin that means, to be absurd, its a clamper thing. ... PATCHES ECV chapeter 3 aka Tim Lange
Jeff, I absolutely love watching these teaching videos that you share with us! Thank you, brother. I hope that you and your gold digging wife are doing well. Much love! Peace out!
The Comstock Lode was one of the nations richest Gold and Silver deposits from the 1870's. Its located in Virginia City but also includes Gold Hill, Silver City and the Sutro Tunnel. The Lode produced Bonanza Type Gold and Silver Deposits that were mines of or Propylite at depths reaching 3000 feet. If you have a story to tell about this place we would love to hear it and for more vids on this area watch this video ruclips.net/video/B6xfxEV5Tks/видео.html and smash that like button ..SMAS IT HARD !!!!
Smashed it hard brother!! Thanks for the share sir. You have any silver for sale 🤔
Working all day in a mine like that, with all that heat ,humidity, and all that soft dirt,it’s no wonder that they belly up to the Bucket of Blood Saloon. Thanks for the tour Cowboy.
@@EnergyTRE nope , we are collecting it
@@NorCalNeel exactly
@@Askjeffwilliams 🫡💯🇺🇸 very smart. Lmk if you do 😉
Great history lesson and a good looking into those old mines man get some kind of excited
Nevada mining history and old fashioned steam trains all captured with drones... Super cool. Loved it, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
I still remember driving through Nevada at night 35 yrs ago..you could see lights scattered all through the hills from the many mining sites!
@askjeffwilliams Why don’t miners use pressure treated wood to support mine shafts, please?
some do
So everything you make on the gold and silver goes into lumber and other materials
Good to see you back up in the Virginia City area. Huge amounts of gold and silver came from those mines. Its funny too that "Silver City" was mostly an area of mines that produced primarily gold. They have made a lot of progress restoring the old Donovan Mill.
Just got my book the other day... Actually it's more of a tome!
thanks my brother ..... yes they have ....glad to see them doing that
Hey Chris, it's real good to see that you are visiting your old buddy's RUclips page.
I've been watching both of you for at least 7 years now.
Much love Chris and Jeff!❤
Great video Jeff. I appreciate your willingness to share and your expertise.
You two are great!
To see a 12x12 rough cut bending and split is pretty erie.
“So, C’mon (oh you don’t know) LET’S GOOOOOO!!!” 😂
Also, that sound at around 10:00 of an actual steam #locomotive starting up was SURREAL! That train horn too! Thanks for sharing Jeff!
Yet another great #adventure! 🙌🏼
pretty cool ....huh
Jeff is very knowledgeable, a kick in the butt and larger than life and that's why we love him. All the best to you and yours Jeff!
thanks my brother
I really love these videos because I know I'll never get to see these mines and Jeff does it for me.
I so enjoy when Jeff knows as much or more than the person his talking to, and Jeff turns to knowledge for the other person. This is a great way for to teach and learn sumptin?
thanks
may need to learn spell check my dude
@kalechristianson5207 I misspelled for, "Slim!"
I spend 90% of my time working...so when i take out 45 minutes to watch something it has to be tremendous...that is what you gave with this...thank you
you betcha
I was in Virginia City about 25 years ago but that was before I learned so much about mining from Jeff, so all I saw was the old town.
Jeff I found my first gold. I am proud to say I'm learning from the best. Thank you sir
Fantastic! Congrats , we love to hear that
Thanks Jeff, I'll never get to visit as many beautiful places as you....I truly appreciate the scenic stories❤
Jeff, you're the right man to come along just in time to preserve this record of human will, innovation, and spirit. You've honored all the lives involved, and shown future generations their potential.
thanks my brother...much appreciated
All they wanted to do was provide for their families,r.i.p. men.
That was amazing to see how things were done back in the day and how tuff life was
If it were me, I'd be removing all the artifacts asap, build a mock tunnel structure above in one of the old buildings replicating the main ore body you referenced. This mine is dangerous sketchy for tourism at this point. Thanks for taking us along, only way i'll be experiencing that particular mine.
I admire his work, but imo its history!😮
Every time I see our history being preserved by people who love America and its heritage. Im grateful to be one. Keep spreading the word folks. This is how Americans handle things! Yeeee haww!!
exactly my brother
I don’t know if it’s just me, but there’s something super cool about the spirit of the olden days gone by like these surrounding the mines and the gold rush era. The myths, the legends, the stories, the memories, and all the brave people in acts of heroism, can’t really be put into words…. You just,,,,, “feel” it ! ⛏😎
exactly
This really is History Channel worthy 😮 on so many levels. The EVPs in the beginning were crazy 😮
thanks...much appreciated
Love the history Jeff, talk about knowledge, you're a walking time capsule! Thanks for sharing all this awesome stuff with the viewers... keep it happening! 🪱⛏️⚒️👷👍🤠
you betcha
I remember the seepage trying to burst up the mine. As u said the clay expands as it grabs up the water. It imparts a hydraulic force. And then the rot 😮.
"I can fix this".
I love that mans attitude.
I lived in Big Bend Texas for 14 years, and the road to my place had a section about 4 inches thick of dry packed bentonite, an anionic clay. They mined bentonite for sealing earth ponds and cat litter about 20 miles away. When it rained, that four inches of dry packed clay turned into 12-18 inches of thick, slippery, mud. There was one place in the road where you had to hydroplane the mud at just the right speed in 4WD, or you could not get through until it dried, and that could be a awhile. If you sank into it, mixing it up made it expand even more and you could find yourself sitting on the bumpers. In the dry, you would never know it was a slew when wet.
Incredible to think if the old timers replanted the trees they would have some timber to offset replacing the old sets by now.
Could not click fast enough.
Notification is slow.... Just got mine. Clicked in .25 sec
Thank you for that beautiful tribute to the minors❤ such a tragedy❤ we must never forget❤ keep them in our hearts❤ but thank you for the video I enjoyed the video I will see you on the next one❤😂
always our pleasure
Fun to watch Jeff talk about those Bolts 🔩!!!; )
Jeff, I have a general geology question for you.
Why does my home state (arkansas) have a lot of the same geological markers (i.e. sandstone, silica, etc, but there is no precious opals? Virgin valley new Mexico has wood opals. I can't find the actual reason why no one has found them here. We have diamonds, gold (not much but some).. there's a bunch of premium geological processes going on here, but no opals? What gives?
Can't blame old boy for quitting. If you're scared 😱 you are more dangerous to everyone around you than the work itself.
What’s wrong all that soft dirt you nervous, Don’t blame you, me too
C'MON, LET'S GET SOME LESSONS OF PURE GOLD FROM JEFF!
Blessing to you Jeff and your wife!❤❤
thanks Michael and you to my brother
So it's probably better to do open pit mining, unless you have a tunnel boring machine that puts up concrete after it makes the hole.🤑💰😎
Ever since reading 'Roughing It'-Mark Twain, been wanting to see the Comstock. Bucket list !
It´s not mold, it´s wood eating fungus. Serpula lacrymans
Damn, that sounds even worse. Is it also dangerous to humans if spores are inhaled, as is the case with household black mold?
My great-grandfather Roscoe Lafayette Bradley won a pocket watch for single jack drilling from a contest held in the Old Dominion mine in Globe. Back in the day. His nickname was "Popeye" because of his forearms
wow ....that is pretty impressive ..... people have no idea how hard hand drilling is
I have a question an it might be a dumb one , other than chasing the gold was another way of keeping there sense of direction way down under ?
the Ols Timers were very good at underground directions ....you can use a compass to help but most just knew
At 42:30 timestamp, looks like some metal something way in the corner and to the left of that. Also, the stick leaning against the side. Fascinating!
Loved the train ride. One of my most memorable experiences was taking a steam locomotive from Williams, AZ to the rim of the Grand Canyon (and back) circa 1991. Nothing else like it.
THANK YOU GUYS,,WOW LOOKS LIKE YOU HAD GREAT FUN AND RIGHT IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT..STAY AWESOME..
Man I hope they complete it and restore it. It's awesome history that is a must to preserve.
Oh my.!! Fascinating.!! Thanks for taking me along…..
I've stayed at that cabin by the headframe. And hiked the area and check out all the old mines, shafts , and equipment. Pretty awesome to see
I like your strong feeling of positivity and joy. You always motivated 100% and you love what you do. And be lucky to have a charmed wife by your side. 👍
One of the coolest, most interesting channels in the world wide web. 🔝
Thank you so much 🤗
Thawing dynamite was always risky. Most accidents happened when they were in a hurry and the heating fire was too hot. This issue happened because nitroglycerin freezes at a pretty high temperature above that of water. It forms two types of crystals. One that is unstable and sensitive to sudden shock or temperatures. The other crystal was stable but required much bigger blasting caps to detonate. The stable crystal is the ultimate form when the dynamite is left undisturbed. This freezing problem was solved by adding ethylene glycol dinitrate . This the nitration product of antifreeze. It is one carbon down from nitroglycerin which is actually glycerol trinitrate. The ethylene glycol dinitrate has a much lower freezing point than nitroglycerin. This would keep the dynamite from freezing until extremely cold temperatures.
good info
I grew up and still live in the area. At 10:40 in the video you can see the house I lived in as a kid. These days Im down closer to the Sutro. Loved the video Jeff. As always super informative and packed full of great information and the best part is you always make it all fun. Keep it up dude!
thanks and I bet you got stories to tell
I love these videos, Jeff!!! I love the mining history that made our country great. Keep up the great work my friend and of course, Lila!!!
thanks Ed , really appreciate that
Dangerous work. Thanks for sharing with us Jeff 🤠⛏️ God Bless 🙏
dude trying to keep that mine from collaspe, is fighting a losing battle. Once something begins moving it tends to keep moving, especially when it's trillions of tons. water, 6lbs a gallon. i wouldnt be going in there.
8.34 lb/gal, actually
Howdy Super dude! Possibly using a short deepsea rod and reel with dacron line for strength for go pro drops would be good nuggets 😀 👍 As always learn a lot every vid. ❤
Cool idea
I'm going to go try n convince the wife to go for a walk and fill some buckets of red and black sand to run back at home. I don't know if I could spend that much time in that mine Jeff. It's too sketchy for me. You are brave Sir 🏴☠️ ⛏️
let us know what you find
I watched another video about the coal mines in Virginia they had their own money, community and if the woman's husband died in the mine, they gave her 1 wk to get re- married or they kicked you out, I can't believe America allowed a foreign company to treat American citizens that way, the video talked about that happened about 40 years ago 🤔 😮
thats only a small piece of it ....do your research about how they would break up coal miners who were striking ...look up how the National Guard would be brought in to shoot them ..... and the beat goes on
Nice Vid! I really appreciate the old photos an historical story. Thanks for this...
Glad you enjoyed!
Great stories well delivered. Thanks Jeff Williams
Hey Jeff, why don't they use rebar and gunnite to reinforce these old workings - not enough gold left to warrant the expenditure?
they figure its faster with timber
Great job putting this video together Jeff... Really good cinematography. Enjoyed the train, the deep dives into the mine, seeing the ore body... It was great!
Thank you very much!
I know let's start a central bank print paper and later we can outlaw ownership of people's gold,yeah great plan Mordachai
next is CBDC's
Great video. I'm glad that I toured the Chollar mine I used to live in Reno.
FIRST! GET THAT SHINY
Outstanding and very educational video. Keep up the great work.
Thank you very much!
The Comstock has been a fascination for me since grade school social studies class, possibly from a Weekly Reader article. From the wealth generated, to the new honeycomb type timbering they had to invent, to the blue sludge they were throwing away at first and later found to be rich silver.... So many interesting things about the region. I'd never had cut it as a miner though, paranoia and claustrophobia woulda got me. I'd rather face a pissed off grizzly while only armed with a pointy stick than go 3000 feet underground! Very interesting vid, Jeff, looks like a fun trip.
thanks and I have always been drawn to that town
In the clay areas drill up and install drain pipe with holes.
2”-6” pipe 20-50’ into the high water pressure areas.
Holes large enough to allow water and some mud to drain the water and some of the mud to release pressure.
It’s what we did in the kennecott copper pit in Utah.
Dug a two mile loop between the north and west walls. Spurs along the drift loop where Boart would set up and drill.
Drilling the holes drains the water from that entire section of that wall. That was done and was successful in reducing pressure on the wall. That was done to prevent rock sliding off the walls
Very successfully.
We were going to move to the south and east walls.
Kennecott decided to postpone the move because they had a huge payoff to make for another mine.
They started several years later but a little late.
Soon after they started the south west wall collapsed.
I was an electrician working there from a commercial/industrial contractor.
High voltage lines feeding into the 480 transformers which supplied power to Atkinson drilling rigs for making the loop and Boarts bore hole drills.
The holes drilled were 700-1000’
Call that guy who left his phone no in the vid?!
Cool history 😎 👍👍
Crazy! That chollar mine!
I had family in Virginia city and spent a lot of time there when I was little. If you were there before 2000 or so, we had a store on Main Street, Grant’s General Store that had a museum in the back, and a massive gold and silver potbelly stove in the front. The Sazerac was ours too which used to be a bar, but was rented out and turned into a rock shop at some point. They recently retired too. Weird seeing all this again.
My lady and I went on the underground tour at the Chollar Mine 3 years ago, it was really something to experience. Plus, the store, and all the old equipment at the site was really cool. Highly recommended! Another great video Jeff, and team, many thanks!
you betcha
Nope nope nope nope nope nope I'm not watching this I'm addicted to panning and this is underground damn you Jeff I'm addicted to your channel I got to watch it thanks for the Saturday morning entertainment
hahhahhahaha you betcha my brother
@@Askjeffwilliams lol as a painter by trade I call my fellow trades people Brothers and sisters of the brush so I'm guessing Brothers and sisters of the pans⛏️⛏️🤠
Hello Jeffybaby. Lukeybaby is having trouble getting Nuggies from the river 🤣🇦🇺 so i was just awonderin if y'all are flying over to the old gold mines here south east of the World Heritage Gibralta Range. We can scrape out the mountains and get LUKEYBABY( WHERE'S WINKS) AND ME SOME NUGGIES. JUST AN IDEA FOR A VIDEO OF COURSE . Really informative like Rob Parsons
3:59 I'm kind of curious who took that recording of the Yellow Jacket East mine. Was that just randomly taken present-day or somehow back during the time of the fire? So to go back another 3 miles, they need about $8.5 million. Going to be a while.
I think I'd see about casting the timbers in concrete with a tensioned set of 1/4" rebar. Say a 4x4" x 1/4" steel plate with a 1" bolt in the center to tension the rebar, inside a 12' 8x8" it could possibly be cheaper and definitely last longer. Set up an assembly line. Use a 1/2" rebar frame with with a 1/4" rebar grid welded together inside a 2.5" thick panels of concrete. As the lagging. Then bolt the rebar together with bolts and steel with holes welded to the rebar. Use a micro excavator to set the the beams and panels in place, it would possibly last 100's of years! Or bolt the rebar together in place, then spray with shot crete.
I have stayed at those haunted cabins. There were a lot of strange noises. Really cool place
I think I already know the answer, and this is probably a very ignorant question but I'm curious if steel "I" (eye) beams for some of the more dicey spots wouldn't be a better support system? I get it would be VERY expensive and unrealistic to do the whole thing that way, but is cost the primary reason they aren't used? They could be coated with a polymer to reduce oxidation too.
Damn I was getting real dizzy watching this on a big screen monitor when you were dropping the camera down those shafts lol. Absolutely love the exploratory/history episodes ol'mate. Keep 'em coming, luv ya work
There is fiberglass/wood lumber that never rots. Some telephone poles are used nowadays. Half wood, half fiberglass. Ofcourse its probably more expensive.
LOL , I swear the title of this was "dropping a gopro down the deepest hole at NVIDIA"... I mean they could be ontop of a gold mine the way their stock has been performing *LOL*
As amazing as the hand drawn dumps are, I find that all of the timbering was hauled INTO the mine and then trimmed and assembled into sets or lagging or whatever. Those 12x12s? Dayum.
Awesome video as per.
I also remember the Ponderosa Ranch up in Tahoe..we had 4 generations visit there..gunfights, gold panning, pony rides and a real blacksmith made it a memory that lasts forever 😊
I explore the deserts of Cali and Nevada all the time but have trouble finding reliable maps of old abandoned mine shafts out in the desert. you'd be surprised how many times I've come upon a old vertical mine shaft that looks like a Sarlacc pit. One of my greatest phobias is falling in and no knows one knows I fell in it.
Ive lived in Reno for many years. VC is always a fun ride and spend the day. The Collar mine is always on the ta do list. Riding the V & T is great and the Christmas Express is even better. Kids of all ages love it. And a cold one at the Bucket of Blood is a must.
I've lived in the area my entire life and spent over 35 years squeezing in and out of places most would never even think of going.
Any of the places in VC. are haunted if you let yourself believe they are it is completely up to what you let yourself believe..
Beautiful narrated Jeff..
To get permission as you do show the respect you have with in the mining ⛏️ community and industry.
Yes . Many lost their lives..
Thanks for sharing this.
Say hi to Lila..
Cheers Tony Famo59
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TONY !!!!! my brother ...really glad you liked it and will do ...say hi to everyone out there for us and of course Wendy too
Wet mines....yikes! Especially where there's sulfide ores oxidizing.....when you think of the megatons of mud surrounding those tunnels it is scary...but I'd trust your friends work there.... I'd love to visit someday.
You mentioned shock tubing - the history of that material is pretty interesting.
It sure eliminated a lot of primacord! Cheers...
for those of you that may not know that ecv e clampus vitus dedicated plaque on the wall, the bottom of the plack reads, credo quia absurdum, is a fack Latin that means, to be absurd, its a clamper thing. ... PATCHES ECV chapeter 3 aka Tim Lange
A wise man once said, "The desert is full of holes. The holes are full of problems..." I don't advise looking in holes.
HEY, THEY MAKE DRONES NOW; that you can fly underground in mines! No gps, no wifi. I have one.
Wow they have come a long way recovering those mines. a tunnel boring machine could make short work of some of that 😂.
Another great video Jeff! Cool to see your impact capability! Hope this helps them out!
When I went to the widow maker in 2004 in July outside was about 108 degrees at the main entrance was like 40 degrees.
Jeff, I absolutely love watching these teaching videos that you share with us!
Thank you, brother.
I hope that you and your gold digging wife are doing well.
Much love! Peace out!
thanks MIchael .....
May our lord and savior bless her surviving families be blessed and those who have died may they rest in peace.😢😢😢
A wonderful place, where are they and what is left behind
i have to watch something for 35m before you actually show your title? sheeesh man!
Go to 35:45 if, like me, all you care about is the drop, not the other 45 minutes of whatever.
I would had named the second mine "Yellow Jacket mine that's over in that direction mine."
Lol wtf he said to the guy " he's going to die in here!" That's kinda cold to say in front of him.
I love big ole machines. Back when they were super dangerous 😂
Jeff...the AI is awful! But, thanks for playing...
i would say that mycelium growing is eating the rotting wood decomposing the wood faster