Fantastic video, enjoying you walk us through history and picturing how people worked these mines. Tried to sketch this one too m.imgur.com/IIXCDgc?r Any thoughts on whether there may have been another level of workings at the base of the winze which then also fed into the ore shoot?
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your sketches and your comments... You know, I just really don't know about there being another level of workings at the base of the winze. That crossed my mind too, but I just couldn't tell.
Thank you. Yes, it is hard to beat the Nevada desert for great views. I thought it was cool to see the descendants of the burros the miners brought out there as well... I was just thinking that I should have filmed the burros and wild horses with the drone as well.
The termination between the two types of rock at 6:56 is amazing! I think they might have been after the beautiful blue-white rock see throughout the mine.
Hello very nice view over this wally , those burros must be remains from the miner let them free when they finish her. you always do great explore of the inside.
I love these shows, probably because I'm a rock hound to begin with but I under stand the stories and the people who made this their lives, I should have been a miner myself.
Nice little mine that, love the incline shaft, although I expect the ladder was pretty useless looking at the rock in the rungs? Nice to see a mine untouched like that, no footprints in the mud and most importantly no modern trash. Love the drone footage! :)
Haha, yes, the ladder was just something else to slip on by the time we went down it... This was a pretty remote mine in a pretty remote section of Nevada and so, yes, I imagine we were the first people down the shaft in quite a while. It is pretty nice to discover a site with no footprints or modern trash at all! Glad you liked the drone footage... It is great for sweeping desert scenes. It is a little more tricky to use in dense forests and I've inadvertently trimmed a couple of pine trees, but I haven't crashed it yet and I'm getting better.
You'll occasionally see those in abandoned mines... They are survey flags left from when a geologist or mining company (or someone else that was interested in this mine at some point) was mapping it out.
Thank you! Yes, the site was apparently discovered in 1903 and the majority of the mining activity seems to have taken place in the 1930s. The equipment and the state of the buildings seems to match up with that. So, yeah, definitely an older mine by our standards.
After a LOT of research I ended up buying the DJI Mavic Pro as opposed to the Phantom 4 Pro, which I was originally contemplating. I think you'll find the Mavic Pro a better fit for mine exploring unless you drive right up to the mines you explore (which I know you don't).
Yes, exactly. I'd hate to try and backpack in a Phantom 4 to some remote abandoned mine. It is unbelievable how compact the Mavic Pro is when folded up.
if there is no current claim you can prospect including the waste rock and ore or even the tailings which with modern recovery methods can be economically significant since its already mined.
Oh, that is certainly a benefit of rails, but I have a nostalgic attachment to the rails. I think mines with rails and ore carts have a lot more character than featureless modern mines without them.
I've got to give the war wagon the respect it is due. It behaved like a champion on this trip... Ha, and, yeah, it certainly was not a quick trip up to that spot! It is a remote place in an already remote part of Nevada and we took a rough road in.
Fascinating mine, and dry! It didn't really appear to be 'hard rock'. It looked more like amalgam, the small rocks and mud that solidifies on the bottom of an inland ocean. Supposedly, President Teddy Roosevelt visited the Molly Kathleen mine in Cripple Creek and was taken with the mules that pulled ore carts. When he was told that they were stabled in the mine and didn't leave until they were too old to work he ordered that they be let out of the mine for an hour each day. The mules apparently liked the sun light and many, unwatched, wandered off creating the herds of wild mules that propagate throughout the Rockies. It may be funny now but back then a mule cost from $150 or $225. That was a sizeable investment back then.
Haha, yes, a dry mine is ALWAYS appreciated! I believe you are correct about the geology of this mine if memory serves correctly from when I was researching it (meaning that it does involve the bottom of an inland sea). That's a good story about Teddy Roosevelt. I suppose there are really a lot of good stories about him... And, indeed, the cost of a mule was a big investment back then. In some parts of the world it still is. We've visited some artisanal mines in Africa and the Middle East where the mule or donkey was the biggest expense at the mine by far. I suppose it is the equivalent of a small miner in the U.S. buying an expensive excavator.
I watched this video again and tried to figure out why I would say the country rock looked like amalgamation. Maybe I was impaired. It just looked like a sedimentary rock in places. What I missed before was the drift following the vein at around 8:23. I was also impressed with the fact there didn't appear to be any streams close by that would have trapped float and eventually led a miner to start looking for the source. In this case someone had to simply start wandering over that huge expanse of barren landscape until he came across an outcropping. The prospect of wealth drives people to do strange things.
Haha, it is REALLY easy to miss details when I am going through a mine. Often when I am editing the videos afterward, I notice all sorts of things that I missed even when it was right in front of me. In the third video of the Vulture series I'm doing now, I walked right past two live charges set in the wall that had just been left there and I did not notice them on the way in because I was looking past them. Yes, I am absolutely amazed by some of the places that the miners ended up going to and by some of the mines they established.
Thanks about the Joke. Hey, I got my Coast flashlights today. Ordered the Polysteel 1000 by mistake but really love them. The Polysteel also has the focus function so I am happy. This is what I have been looking for. I bought one for a You Tube Buddy, he will be happy too. Thanks for recommending it!! Regards, Ody
One more thing to carry and worry about was an initial deterrent for us... However, we picked one up at the end of the season. So, you'll see it used (to good effect) in a couple of upcoming videos and then much more so next year.
What at 1st appears a barren landscape is actually full of life's mystery upon closer inspection. Yr encounter w/the ridge-top stallion reads like a Native guardian spirit visitation. Who can say? Perhaps his equine ancestor stood watch atop that same spot as our "old-timers" 1st excavated the mines u two are just now getting around to re-discovering? All that open space widens my perspective, allowing for less-than-practical ponderances re time. Even so, all I could think of as u navigated dirt & wire was, "is that a teeny little lizard on that dried out wooden plank?" & "geez, what a way to trash a good clean pair of dungarees!" LOL.
The stallion was very interesting. I'm not exaggerating when I say that he was there motionless for a good 45 minutes and then I looked up and he was gone... Haha, and, yes, exploring abandoned mines is an excellent way to trash dungarees!
Let me just say that the shot at 4:06 is just straight freaky. My crew can handle anything ABOVE ground haha but this is just crazy! Well done guys. We were happy to drop a sub and a like. Whenever you get a second swing by and check out our content! Looking forward to more from this channel for sure.
Thank you for watching, subscribing and liking! Although it started late this year because of a heavy winter, we've had a great exploring season so far and so there are some great videos coming up... Ha, yeah, being underground definitely creates a different dynamic - especially when the mine is flooded and/or the dangerous gas detectors are going off. Urban exploration can have its intense moments as well though. We explored an abandoned hospital in Rome last year where the Italian police had just hauled out a psychotic homeless man living in a black hole in the basement. In the completely dark room where he was living, they found the walls covered with drawings of death and killing along with thousands of pictures from magazines and newspapers of people being killed. To really round it off, he had several knives and scalpels that he had scavenged from the hospital on him when they dragged him out. So, it would certainly have been interesting to have encountered someone like that on an urban exploration adventure! That is one thing we don't have to worry about in abandoned mines (Ha, famous last words, right?) Anyway, I'm really kicking myself for not filming that abandoned hospital...
Oh my gosh...literally I hope we never ever encounter someone like that living in a dark hole... That is crazy. Mines have such a creepy feeling to them though...we didn't even think about flooding. That is so wild.
Well, I certainly don't think that encounters with dangerous psychopaths are the norm in urban exploring. I was just saying that urban exploring is not without its moments of excitement either! Yes, flooding in abandoned mines is regrettably common. The water was up to my neck in a mine I explored a couple of weeks ago...
Up to the neck is definitely not something I enjoy, but that desire to see what is around the next bend is pretty powerful... I definitely prefer dry mines though!
Yes, Mr. McBride really deserves a lot of credit for jumping up that high and spinning around as he did. All while holding the camera as steady as a rock, I must add! It really helps take mine exploring videos to the next level...
Fantastic video, enjoying you walk us through history and picturing how people worked these mines.
Tried to sketch this one too m.imgur.com/IIXCDgc?r
Any thoughts on whether there may have been another level of workings at the base of the winze which then also fed into the ore shoot?
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your sketches and your comments... You know, I just really don't know about there being another level of workings at the base of the winze. That crossed my mind too, but I just couldn't tell.
TVR Exploring, glad you appreciate / like the sketches I'm enjoying making them :).
I'm glad to hear that. I hope you keep doing them.
Love your stuff, Brother! Just when I think I’ve watched them all…. 👍👍👍
Glad you're enjoying them! You're getting into some of our fun, early mine exploring adventures...
Thank you for your bravery, curiosity and perseverance. Fascinating!!
Thanks for the tour. Makes me want to do some exploring myself.
Good video and great scenery it's cool to see the burros out their the miners of the past buddies.
Thank you. Yes, it is hard to beat the Nevada desert for great views. I thought it was cool to see the descendants of the burros the miners brought out there as well... I was just thinking that I should have filmed the burros and wild horses with the drone as well.
The termination between the two types of rock at 6:56 is amazing! I think they might have been after the beautiful blue-white rock see throughout the mine.
Hello very nice view over this wally , those burros must be remains from the miner let them free when they finish her. you always do great explore of the inside.
Thank you. Yes, that is exactly where the burros came from. The miners are long gone, but the burros are still out at the abandoned mines...
I love these shows, probably because I'm a rock hound to begin with but I under stand the stories and the people who made this their lives, I should have been a miner myself.
I think it beats sitting behind a desk!
Great stuff :)
Too awesome1 Keep'em coming &stay safe doing it...
Thank you. It's been a great season so far and we've got plenty more on the way...
Nice little mine that, love the incline shaft, although I expect the ladder was pretty useless looking at the rock in the rungs?
Nice to see a mine untouched like that, no footprints in the mud and most importantly no modern trash. Love the drone footage! :)
Haha, yes, the ladder was just something else to slip on by the time we went down it... This was a pretty remote mine in a pretty remote section of Nevada and so, yes, I imagine we were the first people down the shaft in quite a while. It is pretty nice to discover a site with no footprints or modern trash at all! Glad you liked the drone footage... It is great for sweeping desert scenes. It is a little more tricky to use in dense forests and I've inadvertently trimmed a couple of pine trees, but I haven't crashed it yet and I'm getting better.
great video, just wondering what are those red and yellow tags you can see occasionally like the one at 5:38?
You'll occasionally see those in abandoned mines... They are survey flags left from when a geologist or mining company (or someone else that was interested in this mine at some point) was mapping it out.
you need to take samples ....saw a lot of places for free mill Gold in the Porphyry structure...
You put wild burros but my brain sees wild burritos.
Nice video! Seems like a pretty old mine.
Thank you! Yes, the site was apparently discovered in 1903 and the majority of the mining activity seems to have taken place in the 1930s. The equipment and the state of the buildings seems to match up with that. So, yeah, definitely an older mine by our standards.
TVR Exploring Interesting! I just thought of one more thing: what drone did you buy? I'm going to try to buy one this summer as well, can't wait!
After a LOT of research I ended up buying the DJI Mavic Pro as opposed to the Phantom 4 Pro, which I was originally contemplating. I think you'll find the Mavic Pro a better fit for mine exploring unless you drive right up to the mines you explore (which I know you don't).
TVR Exploring Dude! I'm jealous! That is my ideal choice too, it's so lightweight and small - very convenient for us...
Yes, exactly. I'd hate to try and backpack in a Phantom 4 to some remote abandoned mine. It is unbelievable how compact the Mavic Pro is when folded up.
Are the claims still held on these old mines?
Can someone excavate the bits and pieces that were left over or behind in the mines?
Even if the mine is abandoned, it can sometimes be on part of a larger claim that is still active. And some of them are not claimed at all...
if there is no current claim you can prospect including the waste rock and ore or even the tailings which with modern recovery methods can be economically significant since its already mined.
Amazing 😍👍🏻
Thank you!
Im assuming you love rail coz you know the going is firm under foot atleast between the rails?
Oh, that is certainly a benefit of rails, but I have a nostalgic attachment to the rails. I think mines with rails and ore carts have a lot more character than featureless modern mines without them.
That's quite the spot ... must of takin' a few days just to get there.
I see the war wagon still up for the task.
I've got to give the war wagon the respect it is due. It behaved like a champion on this trip... Ha, and, yeah, it certainly was not a quick trip up to that spot! It is a remote place in an already remote part of Nevada and we took a rough road in.
Fascinating mine, and dry! It didn't really appear to be 'hard rock'. It looked more like amalgam, the small rocks and mud that solidifies on the bottom of an inland ocean. Supposedly, President Teddy Roosevelt visited the Molly Kathleen mine in Cripple Creek and was taken with the mules that pulled ore carts. When he was told that they were stabled in the mine and didn't leave until they were too old to work he ordered that they be let out of the mine for an hour each day. The mules apparently liked the sun light and many, unwatched, wandered off creating the herds of wild mules that propagate throughout the Rockies. It may be funny now but back then a mule cost from $150 or $225. That was a sizeable investment back then.
Haha, yes, a dry mine is ALWAYS appreciated! I believe you are correct about the geology of this mine if memory serves correctly from when I was researching it (meaning that it does involve the bottom of an inland sea). That's a good story about Teddy Roosevelt. I suppose there are really a lot of good stories about him... And, indeed, the cost of a mule was a big investment back then. In some parts of the world it still is. We've visited some artisanal mines in Africa and the Middle East where the mule or donkey was the biggest expense at the mine by far. I suppose it is the equivalent of a small miner in the U.S. buying an expensive excavator.
I watched this video again and tried to figure out why I would say the country rock looked like amalgamation. Maybe I was impaired. It just looked like a sedimentary rock in places. What I missed before was the drift following the vein at around 8:23. I was also impressed with the fact there didn't appear to be any streams close by that would have trapped float and eventually led a miner to start looking for the source. In this case someone had to simply start wandering over that huge expanse of barren landscape until he came across an outcropping. The prospect of wealth drives people to do strange things.
Haha, it is REALLY easy to miss details when I am going through a mine. Often when I am editing the videos afterward, I notice all sorts of things that I missed even when it was right in front of me. In the third video of the Vulture series I'm doing now, I walked right past two live charges set in the wall that had just been left there and I did not notice them on the way in because I was looking past them. Yes, I am absolutely amazed by some of the places that the miners ended up going to and by some of the mines they established.
Nice pic of the Borros. If you had to eat one it would be called a Beer-eat-o!
Haha! That's a good one...
Thanks about the Joke. Hey, I got my Coast flashlights today. Ordered the Polysteel 1000
by mistake but really love them. The Polysteel also has the focus function so I am happy.
This is what I have been looking for. I bought one for a You Tube Buddy, he will be happy too.
Thanks for recommending it!! Regards, Ody
I'm glad you're happy with it. They've never let me down.
A little surprised that no one is taking any UV (ultraviolet) light sources in the mines to see what rocks fluoresce.
One more thing to carry and worry about was an initial deterrent for us... However, we picked one up at the end of the season. So, you'll see it used (to good effect) in a couple of upcoming videos and then much more so next year.
Interesting
Yes, this was an interesting little mine...
0:05 Chuck, ladies and gentlemen .....lol
LOL!
What at 1st appears a barren landscape is actually full of life's mystery upon closer inspection. Yr encounter w/the ridge-top stallion reads like a Native guardian spirit visitation. Who can say? Perhaps his equine ancestor stood watch atop that same spot as our "old-timers" 1st excavated the mines u two are just now getting around to re-discovering? All that open space widens my perspective, allowing for less-than-practical ponderances re time. Even so, all I could think of as u navigated dirt & wire was, "is that a teeny little lizard on that dried out wooden plank?" & "geez, what a way to trash a good clean pair of dungarees!" LOL.
Fantastic comment... Thank you.
The stallion was very interesting. I'm not exaggerating when I say that he was there motionless for a good 45 minutes and then I looked up and he was gone... Haha, and, yes, exploring abandoned mines is an excellent way to trash dungarees!
Let me just say that the shot at 4:06 is just straight freaky. My crew can handle anything ABOVE ground haha but this is just crazy! Well done guys. We were happy to drop a sub and a like. Whenever you get a second swing by and check out our content! Looking forward to more from this channel for sure.
Thank you for watching, subscribing and liking! Although it started late this year because of a heavy winter, we've had a great exploring season so far and so there are some great videos coming up... Ha, yeah, being underground definitely creates a different dynamic - especially when the mine is flooded and/or the dangerous gas detectors are going off. Urban exploration can have its intense moments as well though. We explored an abandoned hospital in
Rome last year where the Italian police had just hauled out a psychotic homeless man living in a black hole in the basement. In the completely dark room where he was living, they found the walls covered with drawings of death and killing along with thousands of pictures from magazines and newspapers of people being killed. To really round it off, he had several knives and scalpels that he had scavenged from the hospital on him when they dragged him out. So, it would certainly have been interesting to have encountered someone like that on an urban exploration adventure! That is one thing we don't have to worry about in abandoned mines (Ha, famous last words, right?) Anyway, I'm really kicking myself for not filming that abandoned hospital...
Oh my gosh...literally I hope we never ever encounter someone like that living in a dark hole... That is crazy. Mines have such a creepy feeling to them though...we didn't even think about flooding. That is so wild.
Well, I certainly don't think that encounters with dangerous psychopaths are the norm in urban exploring. I was just saying that urban exploring is not without its moments of excitement either! Yes, flooding in abandoned mines is regrettably common. The water was up to my neck in a mine I explored a couple of weeks ago...
hahaha. We're glad its not the normal either. Up to your neck....? Yea idk how you can do that...pretty sure I would have a panic attack.
Up to the neck is definitely not something I enjoy, but that desire to see what is around the next bend is pretty powerful... I definitely prefer dry mines though!
The barbed wire was to keep the host burros out of the mines......lol
Haha, that's not very friendly of the BLM, is it?
It was so hard getting way up in the air to film the opening shots! Your welcome! Ha!
Yes, Mr. McBride really deserves a lot of credit for jumping up that high and spinning around as he did. All while holding the camera as steady as a rock, I must add! It really helps take mine exploring videos to the next level...
TVR Exploring Mad hops McBride! Great video!
Prospector Josh Lmao!
Haha, thank you! I couldn't do it without him...
Can’t believe you saw desert donkeys. They are so whiley you almost only see their carcasses.
Yes, we were impressed.
Pyramid area?
Farther south...
I was thinking east... Love watching these. Be careful. Safety first absolutely!
Red and yellow tape.
Presumably from a mine survey
And then after I mind the 💎 the next gem I will mine will be rubes.
I think that is actually how most mines work.
heheh... so how often have you torn your clothes on barbed wire when chasing mines?
All the time! Barbed wire, brush, sharp rocks... Mine exploring is really hard on gear. And us sometimes too!