Descending a Dangerous Inclined Shaft at the Abandoned Anderson Mine
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2024
- Have you ever discovered something that was dangerous, frightening, or intriguing and couldn’t get it out of your mind? Almost 3 years ago, I stumbled across a narrow, rubble-filled inclined shaft on top of a hill at the old Anderson Mine. I was exploring solo at the time, so I did not descend into the abandoned mine. In the months and years afterward, I would sometimes think about the sketchy inclined shaft I had found and what it might lead to. Needing to put an end to the mystery, I recently joined forces with Jeff and Kelli from @otgexploring and James from @Overboard141 to make the grueling 6 mile hike to the Anderson Mine where we finally descended the sketchy shaft.
The Anderson Mine dates back to the 1870s and was pretty much dug entirely by hand using pickaxes. Those old-time miners sure had a lot of determination. While exploring, we discovered lots of classic timbering, stopes, a unique canister, square-headed nails, and more. I hope you enjoy this video adventure and everything we saw down in those underground drifts. It was quite an adventure!
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NOTE: This video was shot in stunning 4K resolution at 60 fps. If your viewing device can handle it, be sure to watch this video in 4K to experience cinematic supremacy!
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Man I have missed you. Thank you for this awesome Anderson mine show
Frank's one of the O.G.s!
More to come! Thanks for your support.
Damn good to see you out there my brother. I was getting worried
Yeah, I really slacked off the last year or so with exploring abandoned mines. But I’m back now.
@@AbandonedMines11 people don't realize how much goes into exploring and more importantly, editing.
Glad to see you back Frank.
Nice hearing from you, too! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Frank returns with another amazing explore in a sketchy underground mine.
Never knew Queen played concerts back then in mines and selling their famous syrup!
Great explore....
Thanks for stopping by! Yes, the Queen Syrup was a strange find. Seemed kind of rare, too. Glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for your support.
I believe I have seen your posts on Chris Halton's videos. A, "shout out" from, across the "Pond."
@@Unit38 Chris Halton. The man in a hat!
Yes, the air switches here too depending on the season. Wild stuff!
That's good to know. I only became aware of this phenomenon several years ago.
@@AbandonedMines11 👍that's a healthy sign too because it shows that there's another opening moving the air.
Good explore Frank, crazy portal
Definitely was an uncomfortable portal. It's no wonder I was too scared to enter it when I first discovered it almost three years ago. Was worth the wait, though.
Hell yeah !!!! Another visit here is needed could get a couple weeks Worth of vids just in this are
Thanks, Jeff! Lots to see here, that's for sure.
Wow, you are here again, in a dangerous but interesting mine! I miss you. All this mining work for a living, just waiting for 150 years, thanks for 3 trees to retain all these rocks in place!
Hi, Muriel! Nice hearing from you! Yes, I’m back in the saddle, so to speak. Thank you for being a long-time supporter here. I appreciate your support very much. I hope all is going well with you. Thanks for taking some time out of your day to check out my latest video. More videos coming soon!
Beautiful mine! Frozen in time! I got my husband to watch this one with me. Another great video Frank! 👍🤘⛏🦇
That’s a great way to describe this mine: frozen in time. Thanks for stopping by and checking out the video and sharing it with your husband!
Living the dream Frank!
Thanks, man! I see you've been a subscriber here for nine years. I appreciate that. Thanks for hanging with me all those years. More vids coming soon!
This was one interesting explore frank, thank you for taking me on your adventure 🙏🏻
No problem! Thanks for following along! I had been wanting to get back to this particular mine for almost 3 years now after initially finding it. Was glad to get it done.
Welcome back, king. 👑
Thanks for checking out the video and taking the time to comment, Adam. I appreciate it.
Always excited to see a new video on this channel!
Thanks for the enthusiastic support! More vids coming soon.
Good to see you back in action Frank. I hope all is well with you.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out the latest video! I appreciate it. You’re another viewer who has been a long-time supporter here, so thank you for that. I’ll have some new vids coming very soon!
God to see your videos again and to hear your voice. Thanks for the Explore!
More to come! Thanks, George, for being a subscriber here for seven years -- I appreciate it.
So cool the way they used those timbers I could never go inside and so nervous when I watch y'all but thanks for the awesome video
Thank, Mandy, for watching and commenting!
I have definitely missed you! Looking forward to seeing updates on the old Corolla (if it hasn't fallen apart hahaha!)
Thanks, Brad! I appreciate you spending some time here on my channel and leaving a comment. It’s funny you mentioned about the Corolla because, yes, I still have it and still drive it. However, I have to take it the next few days and get the front bumper replaced. Somebody hit the bumper while my car was parked in the street. I didn’t find out about it till the next day when I went out to the car and found half of it hanging off. So I have a little cosmetic damage that I’m going to get taken care of here sooner rather than later, and then I’ll make a video showing off the car. I don’t drive it as much anymore because I have a second car that I’ve been using, but the Corolla still gets around! In two more years it will be 20 years old! Isn’t that when cars are considered “classics?” LOL Stay tuned!
Thanks Frank, I hope all is well.
Thanks for checking out my latest video! All is going well here. Stay tuned for more new videos coming soon!
I'm sad I haven't watched this when it was out, but I'm super happy to see this new video. This entire mine is slanted and it makes me so nervous for you, but it's clear you had a great time. Thanks, Frank, for this great video.
Glad to have you following along in all the underground adventures! Yes, this was an inclined shaft I found almost 3 summers ago but was too scared to go in because I was by myself. Finally got to it recently with Jeff and Kelli from OTG Exploring and the new guy James from Overboard141.
Great to have another video on my feed. Good to see you're still out exploring.
Hey, thanks! I appreciate your support. More videos coming soon!
Nice old mine sadly filled everywhere, was there a big waist rock pile? not the safest of entrances wow. Nice too see you around again Frank
Hey, Rolf!! We believe this mine connects up to other underground workings in the same general area but, as you saw the video, a lot of backfilled passages prevented us from getting all the way through. Yes, there was a substantial waste rock pile for this particular opening. Might have to go back up there one of these days and do a little bit more exploring.
Whoa! Those filled stopes look perilous! I'm glad to see you out and about again. Finding and sharing the info on that syrup container was really cool! I definitely see the difference with the 60 frames per second you're shooting in now! There's no going back now, lol! Looks amazing!
Thanks for watching and commenting, Justin! Yeah, that syrup can was quite a rare find. Had it been in much better condition, it would’ve been worth bringing to the surface for more people to see. Yes, you have been an influence on me regarding my filming these last couple of years. I’m learning from one of the best! Thanks for letting me know about the improved quality at 60 FPS.
Man I’m glad you are back! But please be careful while exploring mines!
Thank you very much for taking the time to watch and comment! Cheers!
Hey Frank, thought about you today as I was returning from an exploration here in AZ, wondered where you had been. Welcome back, and I must say that was a *ragged* mine. Lots of rubble, fractures, etc. Always gratified to see the video, which means you are topside once again!!
Hey, Stan! Good hearing from you again! Yes, I’ve been slacking off this past year with exploring abandoned mines and posting videos. But I think I’m back now on a more regular basis. The mine in this video was one I initially discovered almost 3 summers ago but only finally got back to it within the past month. It definitely was kind of ragged going down the entry tunnel as you pointed out. Thanks for checking out the video and for stopping by here. Glad to hear you’re out exploring in Arizona. Will have to drop by your channel and see what you’re going to post.
What a spectacular presentation my friend! This looks amazing!
Thznks so much for watching and commenting!
Dear Explorer Man: I was brought here under some very unusual circumstances. You're comment to a Classical pianist over 11 years ago on his performance of the Haydn, piano sonata in E minor (- Sergey Kuznetsov). I looked so see who it was that was commenting, and I found you in an abandoned mine!
I want to share that I am a pianist and I have a secret copper mines behind my property in Bent, New Mexico. This is in Southern New Mexico, between Alamogordo/White-Sands and Roswell. It has a shaft mine and two cave mines, the latter each having a little pool of water deep down inside.
Fascinating channel. And all that being said, I'd also like to invite you and your viewers to explore my note to color-shape associations with the musical keys, and how I have developed this into what I call my Theory of Pitch Psychology, which includes a new honey-comb keyboard invention of mine.
Keep up the good work!
- _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Hey, Frank! Nice to meet another Frank who is also a pianist! I checked out your website and RUclips channel. Some very interesting content there! 👍
HEY Frank, glad to see you again, great video as always, i hope you are well, summer is a comin, stay safe, stay hydrated, see ya in the next one, great video my friend.
Good hearing from you again! Glad you’re still around. Thanks for supporting my channel. You’ve been a big supporter here for quite some time, so I thank you for that. Yes, more videos coming soon!
Hi Frank, I was wondering where you were, it's good to see you back. Whoa that mine was pretty sketchy, it was really cool to see the old timbers still doing their job though. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 😊💞
Hi, Sue! So nice hearing from you again. I haven’t been posting many videos these last six or seven months, but I’m back! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch this latest video and to write a comment. Sounds like you enjoyed the video, so thanks for letting me know.
@@AbandonedMines11 It's great to see you back on yt. xx
Awesome video Frank , alot of rubble in the tunnels from rock slides
Thanks, man! Yeah, all that rubble in the inclined entry tunnel is why I didn’t go in there three years ago when I first discovered it. I was by myself then and didn’t have any rope. Turns out we didn’t need a rope anyway, but when I’m by myself I don’t like to take extreme chances. There’s a lot of mining history up in that general area, that’s for sure. Thanks for your comment! It’s nice hearing from you again.
I don’t comment on yt videos… but I do on yours! Thanks for the vid, hope all is well and I always get excited to see when you’re still actively exploring.
Thanks, Josh! I appreciate your enthusiastic support. Yes, I’m still uploading videos. Will be doing it more frequently from here on out. Pretty much took a break overall this past year or so, but I’m back! Thanks again for your support - it means a lot.
Thank you for the video !☺♥
No worries! Thanks for taking some time to check them out and to comment.
Well nice to see you coming back like your adventures the detail that you point things along the way and lighting very interesting the exploring you do ⛏️🤔
Thanks for the feedback, Case! I appreciate it. Thanks for your support, too.
Glad to see you back!!
Thank you! I appreciate your support.
Fans de Colombia ❤
Hell ya!
It's nice hearing from a fan who's all the way in Colombia! Thank you!
Long time no see!! Hope things have been treating you well!
All is going good. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I see you've been a subscriber here for eight years. Thank you for that! I appreciate it.
Just your knowledge alone is worth the watch good sir!!! I truly enjoyed going with you and jeff. I look forward to more of your vids and tagging along in the future!!! That blue can was so cool!!!!! I can't believe you actually found something on the Internet about it!!!! Your a truly dedicated man to the things you love. And that's why people watch. I can't believe the can ended up there either!!!!
My knowledge is far from complete. As a matter fact, I was discussing with another explorer the other day whether or not the tunnels in this mine were initially blasted with dynamite or not. I had always assumed that with all those marks on the wall, they were dug entirely by hand with pickaxes using no dynamite whatsoever. But this other explorer implied that maybe they did use dynamite initially and finished off the rounding and smoothing of the tunnel walls with pickaxes. So I don’t know. All I’ve learned is what I picked up over the years tagging along with other explorers and whatnot. Yes, very cool getting to meet you! Welcome to the community! You’re off to a good start. Yes, let’s plan some future outings. I don’t think I did all that bad considering that was my first 6.3 mile hike in over a year. And I had no sleep the night before. And drove for seven hours to get there. LOL
@@AbandonedMines11 I don't think it was bad in anyway shape or form. Great video. That was a tough and steep climb. And the way down was so cold. I give ya props there good sir.
Not only are you knowledgeable, but your humble as well. Makings of a great man. Thanks for the welcome Frank!!! Much appreciated and I can't wait to see more of what you put out good sir.
I hope those poor guys had a little dynamite. That's a heck of a tunnel to pick at!!!
we have been waiting. great trip but that mine might not be there much longer, open that is.
later..
I agree. There are so many areas in that mine that are very prone to collapse. It’s just a matter of time…. Thanks for dropping by, checking out the video, and writing a comment!
That was interesting, I really like your videos, keep going!!!
Thank you, Erick! 😃 More vids coming soon!
Good evening from Southeast South Dakota
Hello! Nice hearing from you again!
Awesome vid sir! You were out there with my cousin on this one hope to see you alll out there together and even join you guys on a couple trips myself. Very good stuff!
Thanks, man! Yes, I saw where he mentioned that you edited his video for him. Nice job on that edit! He got some pretty good footage in some of those abandoned mines.
Frank is back 🎉🎉❤
Thanks for chiming in! And thank you for your support.
Sometimes when they cover up a tunnel it was because they were hiding a rich vein hoping they could come back and mining it.
Very true! I’ve also heard that when a mine closed they would sometimes backfill a tunnel with maybe only 15 or 20 feet of rubble behind which they stashed their valuable equipment like ore carts and drills with the intention to reuse them when the mine reopened.
interesting, i actually never considered that could be the case sometimes. i suppose we know that if they did do this, it wasn't worth as much as they thought back then because most of these old mines have since been analyzed by modern technology such as searching for magnetic anomalies or actual drilling exploration. still fun to imagine that there could be lots of gold or iron forgotten behind random backfilled walls
I was beginnin to wonder if I was gonna have to come in and get ya.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I know u have been asked many time before but please if u can afford, revisit the Waldeck mine. It’ll get u hella views and for some reason no one else has explored the cave and recorded since. Is Waldeck mine located in the west Australian Outback?
The only real fear I think I can ever think of having as being in a mind like this and not being able to get out the way I went in and having to crawl through a tunnel that's so small you have to just wiggle through if you breathe too heavy you get stuck like if it was the end of the world and we had to go into tunnels or die on the surface I think I might die on the surface Gatorade in the entrance LOL even watching videos of people crawling through little holes like that freak me out and give me anxiety attacks
Some cavers have died in caves in the manner you described. The horrible accident at the Nutty Putty Cave comes to mind.
It’s interesting that syrup seemed to be a common staple in mines. I’ve run across many.
Really? This was the first time I have ever found a can that used to contain syrup. It’s more common to find tobacco tins, carbide canisters, blasting cap tins, and oil cans. Maybe I’ve been going to the wrong mines! LOL Thanks for stopping by and checking out the video. Where are you based out of?
Yeah I think they probably reused them for oil or something. I’m up in NW Washington
Yes, I saw that you were based out of the NW when I went to your RUclips channel. From what I’ve heard, most of the mines up there are flooded or somewhat wet, right? Spectacular scenery up there, though!
Yeah lots of wet mines up here. There’s a few that would be pretty amazing explores if they weren’t flooded to the top.
We missed you man where you been
Abdullah! Nice hearing from you again! Yes, I’ve not been posting many videos this past year or so. But I’m back! You can look forward to more regular uploads from here on out. Thanks for your support here on my channel - I really appreciate it!
Good video frank.
Glad you enjoyed it! Haven’t posted a new video in about six months, so I’m a little out of practice. More videos coming soon, though!
7:27 looks like a locking rabbet joint
The old-school technology certainly is something to see! Thanks for providing the name.
@@AbandonedMines11 it’s funny Frank, even things like the rabbet joint is thousands of years old. So the creator of that style of joint would have been shocked to see that way off in the distant future they used their idea. And we see it as being an old joint that’s over a hundred years old! 😂
Fantastic video of the exploration, Frank! How old is this mine? Was the timbering cedar? As a kid we called that “Swamp Cedar” where I live, we used it for wood working projects because of its beautiful color when varnished.
Every time I see your videos showing pick marks, I’m always amazed by the breed the old time miners were, the incredible labor that went into it.
Thanks for sharing, Frank, stay safe.
Hey, Dan! This mine dates back to somewhere between 1860 and 1870. As far as the timbering goes, I’m not sure what kind of wood that is. Where this mine is located, there aren’t many trees so the lumber had to be brought in from elsewhere. The lumber industry must’ve been a thriving business back in the day! Some of those stopes we looked down into and up into I believe connect to another mine that’s at a lower elevation on the other side of the hill. My curiosity about this abandoned mine still isn’t satisfied even though it took me almost 3 years to finally go down this inclined shaft. I may scoot back up there one of these days and check out some of those stopes and see if they do, indeed, lead to further workings.
Hi Frank, I hope you do get a chance to go back and explore those slopes.
It might sound corny but besides your videos being really interesting and great to watch, you’re documenting the back breaking work of people long since passed, that in part is why I’m fascinated with mine graffiti and artifacts you come across, every video shines a light on those forgotten people, their work, their methods.
Again, thanks for doing what you do, stay safe.
Thank you for your kind words, Dan. Yes, the men who worked in these mines in the late 1800s have all been pretty much forgotten about, unfortunately. That’s why it’s nice to get down in these mines and document where they worked, their graffiti, and any artifacts they left behind. As you know, modern mining is nothing like what you see in this video. I’m glad to hear that you enjoy the videos and are getting something out of them. I appreciate hearing that. Thanks again!
Where is the Anderson Mine. Love your videos by the way.
It’s here in California at the end of a very long, arduous, uphill, 6 mile hike. Thanks for dropping by and checking out the video!
I’ve missed your videos Frank! Also, I feel like maybe that Queen’s Syrup ended up there because perhaps one of the miners moved there to California from Philadelphia? Unless it was possibly gifted/given to them from somebody else.
I was thinking the same thing, Josh, that perhaps one of the miners was originally from southeastern Pennsylvania and brought the syrup with him. Either way, it’s somewhat of a mystery because that brand of syrup seems to have been a very localized product confined to the Philadelphia area in the mid to late 1800s. Somehow a can of it got all the way out to California - and not via Amazon Prime, either! LOL Thanks for watching and commenting! More new videos coming soon!
@@AbandonedMines11 I was also thinking, perhaps the miner was from California, visited Philadelphia, and possibly brought this back as a novelty/souvenir
That’s another good deduction! On a related note, another abandoned mine explorer based out of Washington state left a comment on this video saying that he has seen a lot of syrup cans in the abandoned mines he’s explored there. This was my first time seeing a syrup can in over 15 years!
@@AbandonedMines11 Sounds like syrups were a main-staple I suppose at those times. Adding on to my deduction, the miner was probably in Philly, saw the local syrup, and thought “Oooh! The boys back at the mine are gonna want to try this!”
How often are you in Arizona for stuff like this?
Not too often.
How's it going Frankie
It’s going well! How are things with you? Thanks for checking out my latest video. It was good to get back underground again where I belong. More videos coming soon!
Hiiii I love it
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Congratulations! LOL
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my doggies and i love you frank!
Thank you!