As a local of Plumas and an offroader and explorer of Plumas Lassen and Sierra, thank you for sharing. We enjoy seeing history and the workings of the old days.
If your flashlight was to have a UV ring light around or mixed in with the normal light, just enough to highlight the quartz, that mine would look magical. Thank you so much for braving it and filming your adventure for the rest of us to enjoy.
Now THAT is a mine! Incredibly large stopes for days! A bit on the high end of the sketch meter in spots, but so far so good. I look forward to seeing the rest of it Justin!
Wow! What a find! Are you planning to go back with more rope? It looks like they left a lot behind in some of the areas. Good going Justin and company!
I love when you stumble upon unexpected geology, especially quartz that contrasts so well against the grey or brown rock. It looks like that whole section of the hanging wall that they broke into was just pure quartz! It looks VERY promising 👌
Wow, that place is enormous. The minerals...amazing. I don't think you've shown us "purple quartz" in that quantity before. Going to have to look around and see exactly what that is. Looking forward to part 2!
Absolutely beautiful , great job on this one , always love the stoped areas , sometimes lead to some awesome artifacts !!! Very extensive workings , look forward to part two !!! ✔️😎👌
As extensive as that is, there has to a a lot of waste rock to alert people to it's presence yet it looks pretty unvisited. Those old school miners must have been very fit working on angles like that day in day out.
"Those are my gloves again" Rewatching with the audio off makes it appear that you are being stalked by a menacing pair of gloves. As for the dark soot looking colored rock, might be sulfates of one flavor or another. Seen stuff that looked like that at the edges of quartz veins. If that's the case, that may have been the edge of a quartz lens.
Wow! You found a diamond in the rough. Lotsa sketchy areas to be sure. All the stoles were dark in color. Were they rotten? There’s probably more track that’s been buried. The place is huge, it must have a name. Looking forward to the next video. Oh, those pillars were awesome! Thanks a lot! 😊
Wow this is a extensiv and very dangerous mine. There must be some buildings oitside. Do you find some? Thank you for taking the risks to go in There. Take care stay healthy Yours Frank Galetzka
It has to be super rad hunting for these portals and having success. I do the same thing but in Pa's anthracite mines. 99%are gated or completely covered and collapsed.
I often wonder how many of these miners returned from the Second World War. There seem to be so many old mines that were left the way they were prior to the war. I find it really sad that, more than likely, a lot of these incredible miners never made it back. 👍🏻🇦🇺
The economics of the post war era saw most mines, especially smaller ones shut down. Where I live, there are no working mines, and there are 153 mines in my county. Some are still loaded with ore, but since they were primarily lead/zinc mines back before mechanized mining, mechanized transportation and good roads, they were just too expensive to operate and they were just abandoned. Some of them employed over 100 men, but now they're all collapsed because people have no interest in going back and reopening them [except me, and since the price of land has gone so high, I can't afford to buy them because I would have to buy the whole land, not just the mines].
@@michaelpage7691 Eventually, if I am successful with a mine on my own property, I am going to AGGRESSIVELY seek to obtain ANY AND ALL old mines in my district, and I might even seek to hire people to help me work them. I know that a whole lot of people love mining and if I could help them live the dream, it would pretty much make my ego grow out of control because its a cause I feel strongly about and wish to champion. Making more natural born miners happy would make me happy. As 'Duh Bunneh Wabbut' I would consider all of them as my 'adopted bunneh famuhlee' of mining peoples. After all.. Dwarves are NOT the only beings historically known to live underground and live off of mining! It would be "Tha BLASTbunneh Warren" [strong emphasis on 'BLAST']. (~_^)-b
@@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542 I would love to become a miner, i live in the uk and next to my cottage I have the tavi river running through, Where my section is where i jump down it's on a corner, and it's got quartz and big chunks of iron, unfortunately im moving out soon back to the city 🙄 I've watched Chris on this channel for a long time now, and I'm glad all his hard work has paid off. Fortune favor s the brave 👍
Thanks for taking us along Justin. If there IS a haulage adit at the bottom will it still be high enough in elevation that you think it will lead straight out (if not caved) ? Or do you think it will lead to a main shaft (inclined or vertical) where they'd be pulling the ore/waste rock out from the very bottom of the mine?
Hi Justin, awesome, this one looks like it goes a fair way, I don't think they bothered too much with drifts though lol I think they just went in to get as much out as they can and that's why it's all stopes. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞
That definitely looks like Sierra foothills with the incense cedar, interior live oak, canyon live oak, etc…. Definitely a neat spot! What do you guys do after documenting these locations.
Nice find! Love how following those dodgy levels ended up in that massive stope paid off! Amazing to think just a few rock pillars are holding up millions of tons of rock above!
I love it when extremely low expectations turn into something brilliant like this... I wish it happened more often! There is actually still a lot more to drop down. At the end of this video, we were only about half of the way down.
Justin this mine just made me remember me too make my last will and testament wow, a very ehrm interesting first part, filled up and collapsed and some parts looked not that safe for the future, nice big stopes at the end, bit off a hassle to get out if you drop down with no rope, looking forward too the next part.
Very cool & surprising mine!! Kind of makes me think that IF you were able to follow the haulage out to open surface, you might be many miles from your origin. Somewhere downvalley(going by video beginnings), there's a mountain of wasterock
With that much stope removed, you gotta find where it was hauled out! With the amount of rot on the woodwork and timbers, wouldn’t you think it dates further back than 1948 compared to what you see in that area?
Wow scary stuff says this retired lode owner operator, you gotta watch out as that Peacock Quartz tends to be very unstable. When it come to extracting the lode minerals unfortunately it tends to have the Gold and Copper bound up with Telluride so you don't get much if any freemill from it and then it has to be Roasted to burn off the Telluride before Crushing but with current DEQ regulations most Mines today are to Cost Prohibited to Operate. Great Video guys but please don't take unnecessary risks just to please us armchair explorers.
Had to be a good chance to see some free mill gold in those colourful pillars. Must have been an extremely rich strike to pay for all that excavation work.
Man, with that much quartz showing, I'd love to know what it assays at. plus, as a bonus, if you tried to re-open this mine, the MSHA inspector would probably just have a stroke and you might be able to convince him to sign the paperwork before the ambulance arrives!
The size of this one would make me feel odd walking around above ground, all the caved areas but with so much empty space I would be expecting to fall into it at any moment. What are the chances of actually bringing a mine in that state back from the dead, it looks prohibitively expensive but the ore potential seems huge. The wood pillars in the stopes look like matchsticks, Is there any way to show scale besides putting a person in the picture? incredible!
this mine, looks really good, to claim, the quartz looks good, with iron stains, but were looking at 2-3 years worth of work, to get all the matrials out that has fallen, but at the same time, properly also free gold from said matrials, nature can help sometimes
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I came across a random website, backcountryexplorers, w/images courtesy of the Bancroft Library and the Kentucky Mine Museum. Perhaps these would be resources for more data?
i wonder if this land is currently staked / patented. Its tasty looking material, nice meter wide and larger veins. An exploration co would love this property.
Awesome mine and awesome that you guys were able to find it! Totally have to come back with more ropes Also I imagine this would be what a journey to the Center of the earth might be like
I'm not sure why, but this video does not show in your video list yet even 6 hours after upload. I only found it because of the suggestion list on the right.
That quartz looks pretty juicy. Bet if you took a sample at the bottom of the vein where it is really red it would assay out to be pretty high grade. If you looked closely there might be some visible gold too.
I noticed a complete lack of modern spray painted survey marks. So it's probable no one has prospected this mine since at least the 60's. I hope you picked up some more samples.
That's some old school TVR Exploring. Just like the good old days of wondering how Justin is still alive.
If a mine has been open for 100 years and survived many earthquakes why would it be dangerous ?
@@ExploringCabinsandMines because of the earthquakes, it's cracked up enough that now it can be unstable
@@pierreuntel1970 It's still been there 100 years , that's OK that's why you're a couch potato 🥔 , let the rest of us explore for you.
Wow! With the size and volume of those stopes, the must be a substantial haulage level somewhere ...
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
As a local of Plumas and an offroader and explorer of Plumas Lassen and Sierra, thank you for sharing. We enjoy seeing history and the workings of the old days.
Those workings are seriously impressive already! The volume of quartz still there is surprising too.
Very glad Justin did not tumble into the black abyss. Looking forward to part 2.
The energy, passion and material the miners put in this thing must have been imasureable..
I can't even comprehend crawling back out. You guys are amazing.
If your flashlight was to have a UV ring light around or mixed in with the normal light, just enough to highlight the quartz, that mine would look magical. Thank you so much for braving it and filming your adventure for the rest of us to enjoy.
What an amazing mine! Full of quartz (love seeing the 'big' quartz), the colors, pillars, quartz gobbing!, and just a really big mine!! Very cool!
That is quite the "to be continued" you left us with ! Thank you again for doing what you do !
Creamy,puffy ,delicious quarts,lol,great explore Justin!
Now THAT is a mine! Incredibly large stopes for days! A bit on the high end of the sketch meter in spots, but so far so good. I look forward to seeing the rest of it Justin!
What a extensive mine. Thanks for letting us tag along.
Looks like a big mine to explore, thank for making the videos for us to watch.
Truck sized haulage addit at the bottom!!!; )
Wow! What a find! Are you planning to go back with more rope? It looks like they left a lot behind in some of the areas. Good going Justin and company!
Wow, immense! Most of your videos don't sketch me out, but this one baffles both the mind and the ego!
Awesome mine!!
Amazing!!
👍👍👍👊😎
Great video! Can’t wait to see future episode(s). Thanks for taking us along.
This is looking Great. Thank you.
From one little hole to that! Amazing!
HOLY STOPES, what a sleeper. Would have never expected all this out of that tiny little opening. Won't be long before it's pinched closed.
I love when you stumble upon unexpected geology, especially quartz that contrasts so well against the grey or brown rock. It looks like that whole section of the hanging wall that they broke into was just pure quartz! It looks VERY promising 👌
Wow, that place is enormous. The minerals...amazing. I don't think you've shown us "purple quartz" in that quantity before.
Going to have to look around and see exactly what that is. Looking forward to part 2!
Absolutely beautiful , great job on this one , always love the stoped areas , sometimes lead to some awesome artifacts !!! Very extensive workings , look forward to part two !!! ✔️😎👌
Another great one. . .
Heck of a find.
Impressive!!! 🤠👍
P.s. I am reminded of the phrase that "Gold often rides a Quarts horse while wearing an iron hat!"
As extensive as that is, there has to a a lot of waste rock to alert people to it's presence yet it looks pretty unvisited. Those old school miners must have been very fit working on angles like that day in day out.
The title is very appropriate. Great video, can't wait for part two.
"Those are my gloves again"
Rewatching with the audio off makes it appear that you are being stalked by a menacing pair of gloves.
As for the dark soot looking colored rock, might be sulfates of one flavor or another.
Seen stuff that looked like that at the edges of quartz veins.
If that's the case, that may have been the edge of a quartz lens.
caved, caved, caved, I heard that a lot. Listen to yourself. Spectacular. Those stopes are massive and lacking in solid stoles.
Another amazing exploration with brilliant narration.
Great video! Thanks for taking us along with you Justin! These are places I would not dare enter...I'm too chicken.
That passage at 8.51 looked like a medieval torture device. There must be a heck of a haulage adit and waste pile somewhere.
Wow! You guys are incredible! Stay safe out there!
Wow! You found a diamond in the rough. Lotsa sketchy areas to be sure. All the stoles were dark in color. Were they rotten? There’s probably more track that’s been buried. The place is huge, it must have a name. Looking forward to the next video. Oh, those pillars were awesome! Thanks a lot! 😊
Wow this is a extensiv and very dangerous mine.
There must be some buildings oitside.
Do you find some?
Thank you for taking the risks to go in There.
Take care stay healthy
Yours Frank Galetzka
Awesome video but your crazy. All I could think of as you kept descending down into that mine was you have to climb back up all that.
It has to be super rad hunting for these portals and having success. I do the same thing but in Pa's anthracite mines. 99%are gated or completely covered and collapsed.
Cool mine, love seeing wide open stope chambers like these, really gives you a sense of the massive fault there is/was running through that hillside.
Would be cool to get some samples tested to see what the deal is with that quartz. Although unstable it might be worth a rehab .
I have a feeling, there is a lot of ore still in there. That vein is huge.
An amazing find.
I often wonder how many of these miners returned from the Second World War. There seem to be so many old mines that were left the way they were prior to the war. I find it really sad that, more than likely, a lot of these incredible miners never made it back. 👍🏻🇦🇺
The economics of the post war era saw most mines, especially smaller ones shut down.
Where I live, there are no working mines, and there are 153 mines in my county.
Some are still loaded with ore, but since they were primarily lead/zinc mines back before mechanized mining, mechanized transportation and good roads, they were just too expensive to operate and they were just abandoned.
Some of them employed over 100 men, but now they're all collapsed because people have no interest in going back and reopening them [except me, and since the price of land has gone so high, I can't afford to buy them because I would have to buy the whole land, not just the mines].
@@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542 It makes sense what you’ve said. Thanks. Happy ho ho.
It would make a good open pit mine
@@michaelpage7691 Eventually, if I am successful with a mine on my own property, I am going to AGGRESSIVELY seek to obtain ANY AND ALL old mines in my district, and I might even seek to hire people to help me work them.
I know that a whole lot of people love mining and if I could help them live the dream, it would pretty much make my ego grow out of control because its a cause I feel strongly about and wish to champion.
Making more natural born miners happy would make me happy.
As 'Duh Bunneh Wabbut' I would consider all of them as my 'adopted bunneh famuhlee' of mining peoples.
After all..
Dwarves are NOT the only beings historically known to live underground and live off of mining!
It would be "Tha BLASTbunneh Warren" [strong emphasis on 'BLAST'].
(~_^)-b
@@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542 I would love to become a miner, i live in the uk and next to my cottage I have the tavi river running through, Where my section is where i jump down it's on a corner, and it's got quartz and big chunks of iron, unfortunately im moving out soon back to the city 🙄 I've watched Chris on this channel for a long time now, and I'm glad all his hard work has paid off. Fortune favor s the brave 👍
Keep up the good work & stay safe . Cheers. 👍
Thank you very, very much. This sort of generosity is hugely appreciated and it is very helpful!
VERY COOL!LOTS NICE ROCKS,,STAY WELL
Thanks for taking us along Justin. If there IS a haulage adit at the bottom will it still be high enough in elevation that you think it will lead straight out (if not caved) ? Or do you think it will lead to a main shaft (inclined or vertical) where they'd be pulling the ore/waste rock out from the very bottom of the mine?
Hi Justin, awesome, this one looks like it goes a fair way, I don't think they bothered too much with drifts though lol
I think they just went in to get as much out as they can and that's why it's all stopes.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞
I loves the views awesome video thank you
Please be careful and cautious
Would a range finder work in there? Amazing the flashlight couldn't reach the bottom!
Thanks
That definitely looks like Sierra foothills with the incense cedar, interior live oak, canyon live oak, etc…. Definitely a neat spot! What do you guys do after documenting these locations.
My buddies and i have been trying to dig into the main level of the mine behind my house but its way deeper than we thought.
Nice find! Love how following those dodgy levels ended up in that massive stope paid off! Amazing to think just a few rock pillars are holding up millions of tons of rock above!
I love it when extremely low expectations turn into something brilliant like this... I wish it happened more often! There is actually still a lot more to drop down. At the end of this video, we were only about half of the way down.
Yes, those kind of explores are amazing to do. Would be awesome if you found a walk-in adit further down the mountain.
Thank you!
Have you ever considered taking a large black light with you on this trips to share with us all the phosphorescent minerals?
Very cool stuffs
Justin this mine just made me remember me too make my last will and testament wow, a very ehrm interesting first part, filled up and collapsed and some parts looked not that safe for the future, nice big stopes at the end, bit off a hassle to get out if you drop down with no rope, looking forward too the next part.
i wonder if a laser range finder would work down there itd be an awesome tool to give viewers a sense of the scale for these mines
No reason why it wouldn’t work.
They do
Very cool & surprising mine!! Kind of makes me think that IF you were able to follow the haulage out to open surface, you might be many miles from your origin.
Somewhere downvalley(going by video beginnings), there's a mountain of wasterock
With that much stope removed, you gotta find where it was hauled out! With the amount of rot on the woodwork and timbers, wouldn’t you think it dates further back than 1948 compared to what you see in that area?
Thanks for cave postings!
Wow scary stuff says this retired lode owner operator, you gotta watch out as that Peacock Quartz tends to be very unstable. When it come to extracting the lode minerals unfortunately it tends to have the Gold and Copper bound up with Telluride so you don't get much if any freemill from it and then it has to be Roasted to burn off the Telluride before Crushing but with current DEQ regulations most Mines today are to Cost Prohibited to Operate. Great Video guys but please don't take unnecessary risks just to please us armchair explorers.
I'm just glad to see that he is recording this piece of American history before it is lost forever!!! 📸🤠👍
By end of the video, I think its obvious they found money in this never ending pit.. awesome find!
Had to be a good chance to see some free mill gold in those colourful pillars. Must have been an extremely rich strike to pay for all that excavation work.
Thanks :)
very cool.
Man, with that much quartz showing, I'd love to know what it assays at.
plus, as a bonus, if you tried to re-open this mine, the MSHA inspector would probably just have a stroke and you might be able to convince him to sign the paperwork before the ambulance arrives!
The size of this one would make me feel odd walking around above ground, all the caved areas but with so much empty space I would be expecting to fall into it at any moment.
What are the chances of actually bringing a mine in that state back from the dead, it looks prohibitively expensive but the ore potential seems huge.
The wood pillars in the stopes look like matchsticks, Is there any way to show scale besides putting a person in the picture?
incredible!
this mine, looks really good, to claim, the quartz looks good, with iron stains, but were looking at 2-3 years worth of work, to get all the matrials out that has fallen, but at the same time, properly also free gold from said matrials, nature can help sometimes
Jesus can you imagine how rich the ore that makes up those support pillars are!?
It always fascinates me why some of these mines aren't marked on the map. Usually because they are pretty rich.
Love your titles Brother👍🏼❤️
@Hit me TVRExploring Justin, Thank you for all the Awesome vides Brother, Yours are the best and i had lots of fun but I had to recently unsub due to hearing someone use our Lord's name in vain, I recently found a unbelievable life in knowing God and it hurt to hear! 👍🏻❤️
Please be careful! Yikes that looked tight.
I came across a random website, backcountryexplorers, w/images courtesy of the Bancroft Library and the Kentucky Mine Museum. Perhaps these would be resources for more data?
"Big Things Have Small Beginnings - Part 1" - now there's a teaser.
Wow.
Just wow.
i wonder if this land is currently staked / patented. Its tasty looking material, nice meter wide and larger veins. An exploration co would love this property.
that is a maze, wow
I've seen mines that are not on USGS maps but are on BLM maps.I would bet its on some map somewhere maybe a local historical map
Huge !
Must be on heck of a waste rock pile some place.
Awesome mine and awesome that you guys were able to find it! Totally have to come back with more ropes
Also I imagine this would be what a journey to the Center of the earth might be like
I'm not sure why, but this video does not show in your video list yet even 6 hours after upload. I only found it because of the suggestion list on the right.
What we don’t find in our backyard!
Sketch factor? Man be careful!
You two are cool, but your gloves really steal the show
You should think about getting one of those lasers that tells you the distance.
Doesn’t really look like a cut and fill mine so somewhere on that mountain I would think there’s a huge waste dump.
That quartz looks pretty juicy. Bet if you took a sample at the bottom of the vein where it is really red it would assay out to be pretty high grade. If you looked closely there might be some visible gold too.
I love your videos. I think you need jeff willams to roll with ya.
"Definitely wasn't on that map I showed you..."
😂🤣😂 I feel like your lying 😂🤣😂
Bro probably found a massive gold vein 😂
“A Forrest of stolls.”
How many times have you found a body in those mines
Wish there were recorded what came out of the mine s
Ok what is carbide used for in mines?
It is used to power the acetylene lamps the miners used back in the day.
I noticed a complete lack of modern spray painted survey marks. So it's probable no one has prospected this mine since at least the 60's. I hope you picked up some more samples.
What is stratification? Anyone answer please? 😊
What state are u in, and city/town u near.
This one looks damn scratchy