The Mammoth Mine Part 2: A Decaying Underground Museum
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- The Mammoth Mine exploration continues with a look at a graveyard of old equipment, and a enormous collapsing winze. We also find numerous underground rooms; workshops, storage rooms, even offices and a miner's dry. This mine has many things I have never seen elsewhere and that I probably will never see ever again. The Mammoth Mine is an accurate snapshot in time from the time period in which the mine was operating. Not many abandoned mines are like this.
I hope you enjoyed this very special two-part series. Thanks for watching!
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That locker room area towards the end looks so creepy. I love it.
Nice. I've never seen this much old equipment in one place underground before. Glad you did not give out the real location as there are a lot of folk out there who would raid a site like this
I'm glad you emphasize the damage caused by folks who raid mines for artifacts. For example, I think Abandoned and Forgotten Places is a great channel and very respectful of the mines he documents, but sure wish he'd get out of bed with Frank. He gives Frank credibility, every time he does collaboration video with him. Frank is known for raiding mines and pilfering artifacts for his backyard museum. I guess its OK in Canada, but in the United States, there are BLM laws which protect mines over 100 years old. I've seen first hand the damage caused by trinket hunters, especially at the Tintic Mining District in Utah.
Yep, it’s only a matter of time before all the little components of the compressor and locomotives are ripped off. The brass fittings, gauges, lights, etc. People can be so selfish…
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I'm kinda torn on that subject. On the one hand, when people take stuff, then it's no longer there for others to see. But then again, with the way BLM and various state agencies are destroying mines, NOBODY will get to see or preserve this stuff.
I think the type of mine makes a difference. In mines like in AZ, where it tends to stay dry and artifacts are preserved, then leave stuff lie. If it's rotting away, by all means, preserve it.
And if you're preserving stuff in a museum that people can go see, whether it's backyard or not, then I say go for it.
What good does it do anyone rusting away??? Wouldn't it be great to see all that stuff in a museum especially completely restored?
dude this is the maddest mine I've seen yet on here! The full blown bathroom!
Just amazing what they did back in the early mining days how they moved all the ground an rock to get all the machines in there. I bet that mine was amazing before all the stuff fell down. That size of them cars wow.
It’s just amazing how everything associated outside of a mine is in the mine..amazing! Thanks!!
Agreed, I probably will never see anything like it again.
Great job videoing. Thank you for showing us little thing.
Hi Graham, wow absolutely stunning finds in this episode, that has to be the first time I've seen such a big drill bit workshop and that drop was just terrifying.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed!
AMAZING explore…and the photography and video so good…shows all the tones and textures of the rusting, decaying materials. BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for taking us on this journey. Oh by the way, I’m a mine addict for sure…and hello from UK 🇬🇧
What is the average depth of a mining core sample back in the day? How many feet to a sample tray of core samples? What type of carbide did they use back in the day? The carbide in use today does not rust.
Love your still shots you give during the video! No one else does that and it makes for a great place to pause and really take in the scene in great detail. Keep up the awesome work!
This is amazing...this is a time capsule. Very very cool.
Hard to understand why a million dollars worth of equipment would be left to rust and ruin when this mine shut down. Even if they couldn’t remove the heavy things, there are so many other bits and pieces. A museum of mining will drool when they see your video and stills. And, for this amount of engines and ore cars there is very little actual mine so I assume it is all beyond the collapses? Great two-part series!
I've been subbed to this channel for a long while now as well as allot of other mine exploration channels and again i just have to say i absolutely love your videos and it's the best video quality out of every channel i watch and the still images "my favorite" are absolutely stunning !, fantastic video, see ya in the next one.
Artifacts for days, but the pièce de résistance has got to be that acetylene generator. I've never seen one of those before.
Absolutely
That mine so cool. Looked like that winze pulled out some serious ore and deep too. That mine needs some organization done big time. Seeing the locker rooms down in the mine was unusual with flushing toilets. Amazing artifacts everywhere, a live museum. Nice explore Graham.
Hello from Australia much kudos for keeping this location 2 yourself
You didn't fancy climbing up the ladder on left of big railed winze then? 😂
Made me smile seeing an Eimco rocker shovel bucket on floor, wouldn't be a mine without one of them 😂
fantastic video! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing I've never been in the mammoths... They're all private property I would love to go with you on the next excursion
With so much stuff left behind the rest of the mine must be huge. To bad you couldn’t go any further due to all of the Collapses. Everything looks so deteriorated and unsafe. I can only imagine what it looked like when it was being worked.
Yes the workings of this mine were immense, but in really bad ground...
Great video footage and still shots.
amazing place.
may be that I missed the entrance to this unbelievable mine
. I am taken by the sheer tonnage of equipment that will be lost. Reminds me of the liner Titanic in its process of being dismantled by nature. You have done a great service to the history of mining by documenting this mine. I take in to account you risking your all in doing so. Thank you!
I think I do remember that you had to keep a low profile as to where the mine is. Safety first!
Wow I have hiked and explored the tentix silver City dividend mammoth eureka and North tintic......
Wow that's an amazing mine😍
That was a "Timken" bit grinder, that is what it says on the door. I suspect made by the Timken bearing company that is still in business? They still make bit grinders and carbide rock bits according to an Internet search.
Yes they are still in business, good eye. I didn't catch the 'Timken' lettering. Thanks for watching.
The history of this mine is incredible especially how long it was in business!
It must go on for miles and miles!!!
Absolutely amazing, and to think everyone who ever worked here is no longer with us. The amount of work and man hours it would have taken to accomplish just the parts we can see. Now we need someone with ropes to go down into the great unknown. Keep up the great work. This is a part of the world that without you I would never get to see.
What year/s was this mine worked? There was some major collapsing within this mine, more than once....earthquake? or just deteriation? At 19:36, was that the hanging wall that you were walking along side of thru that narrow "hallway". The level that you showed throughout #1 & 2# videos appears to have been the main operation area of the mine (offices, etc; even) also the pass throughs for the engines & mine carts. The small directional map you showed gave alittle sense to the workings. Thank you again for documenting this massive mine.
“Underground museum” being the all important term. 😏
What a awesome mine guys that is a huge mine and all the stuff is still there intact im so jealous it's like a bunker gold mine. Take me with you I want to zip line down the big black hole see what's down there.
Can you imagine back to it's hay day, the goings on day by day.
This is amazing, all the gear they brought is is incredible! May I suggest you need better lighting - should be able to light up vertical shafts so both you and we can see down .😉
A lot of it looks more 1950's than it does 1880's. Still very neat stuff.
Why would they have left all that expensive equipment behind.
They unexpectedly shut down and it was not financially worth it to drag all the equipment out and haul it to someone who'd buy it.
It's just too damn heavy.
It seems insane from a business standpoint to leave so much valuable equipment behind
Makes you wonder how many other locomotives are on the other side of that collapse.
Yes you have to wonder just how much has been left never to be seen again!!
Perhaps someone could try to dig through the cave in, big enough to get through.
10:39 what is that strange sound the he doesn't seem to hear
8:52 on the floor is a trolley wire frog. 14:50 is a controller for a locomotive.
TVR exploring did this mine a while back...
Did Justin take his video down?
This mine was famous for the fabulous Wulfenite specimens that where found in the secondary enrichment zones as well as many other quality mineral specimens. This mine also connected to the Red Cloud Mine, also famous for it's Wulfenite and other beautiful crystallized specimens. Not completely sure about the accuracy of all this. Anyone else with further and perhaps more accurate information ?
Do you know if this is the Mammoth mine in Utah or a different state?
It's like some giants went through there and tossed the place.
At 10:42....What are these background noises/voices....?
Imagine all the work just getting sil that crap down there
The Last part was showing some more modern things like the toilet and what looked like schedule 40 PVC pipe and other parts showed much older things like that
If I ever became a billionaire I'd restore that entire mine!!! I'd also put people back to work in it!
California?
It’s my understanding the winze went down to an underground mill
All of the decomposing wood scream CO, assuming you’re carrying a detector based on being a mining channel?
Yes we carry a 4-gas monitor. This mine also has a strong breeze ripping through it, so the air was fine.
Obi Wan Stope-y
It is such a shame to see history rotting away.... But I suppose that's what history is about very sad.
Is this Mammoth Mine in Utah?
I have family members who worked in the Mammoth Mine.
No
Good old Plumas County
Absolutely awesome to see, but the narration is BOR-RING! 😴 💤
Amagen this everyone that worked in that mine is dead by now.
Australia lost gold 💳
Looks like a couple of million dollars in scrap steal to be taken if a person wanted cash. Lol