Meth Lab Was Hidden In This Abandoned Mine
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- I have often been asked whether I have ever found any hidden meth labs at an abandoned mine. Well, I now present this mine to you, dear viewers… Interestingly, encounters with these things that seem to trigger many people’s fears are exceedingly rare. We have not (yet) encountered any rattlesnakes, bears or mountain lions underground. We see them plenty of times on the way to a mine, but never underground (I hasten to add a “yet” to that statement as I don’t wish to tempt the mine exploring gods into throwing all three at us in the very next mine we visit!).
A friend of mine encountered a mountain lion mother with cubs deep underground once, which led to a very awkward retreat with the mother advancing on him as he backed out of the adit. Another friend encountered a skunk underground, which got him moving out very quickly. However, they both escaped unscathed.
Mr. McBride and I got into a tense encounter with a squatter once that had the idea that public land (National Forest) was HIS land. And we have come across several grow operations… The above are the dangers I seem to get asked about the most.
However, I believe the old classics like falling down are likely the most dangerous elements of exploring abandoned mines. I’d actually be curious to hear of anyone’s experiences with dangerous wildlife or dangerous humans at a mine? Anyone?
Given that the meth lab operation was disrupted by law enforcement personnel, I was shocked that this abandoned mine was not sealed up tight (this mine is on public land). Our friends in the mine closure business work in mysterious ways… To be clear, I’m not complaining. I was just surprised! This mine does have a lot of shafts and open cuts though, which may have something to do with it because it would be a significant job to seal every opening.
Lead, zinc and silver were mined here with small amounts of copper and gold also recovered. However, silver appears to have been the primary target. The earliest production data I found dated to 1920 and the last work I saw any record of was in the 1950s.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them - nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand - bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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Most ADHD folks: OH look a squirrel!!! TVR Exploring: OH look gobbing!!!
That entire mine looks like it could come down at anytime. Thanks for showing it to us
Yes, that's a fair observation.
Don't go meth'n around in them old mines!
awww....you didn't...lol.
And if you do, take a methican with you. I subbed this channel, and was just about to leave then I decided to read the into, that was a great intro, and earned a thumb up on the vid. Good job.
actually the best place to do it!
Hey brother I didn't catch what they mined there besides meth, it was nice to see my other mining buddy. Thanks for sharing, two thumbs up.
Thank you. Yes, at some point or another, I have connected with most of the big mine explorers out there and I've talked to all of them. Haha, it's an interesting mix, to be sure.
From what I remember when I was writing the description, it was mostly silver with some lead, zinc, copper and gold mixed in. First worked in 1920. I always put that information in the description below the video if I know it...
Real can of worms, but your explanations are so good I knew where I was most of the time. Excellent video, as always...!
Stills! You are complimented for adding this. I see "Mines of the West" influenced this I bet , which is a very nice feature.
If I was tweaking there I would've collected gold
Did you notice written on the foam rubber nailed to that beam someone wrote "ouch"
Yeah, that made me laugh!
LOL moving a different kind of rocks! 🤣comedy genius
Yeah I'm not afraid of animals out mining... just meth heads. They scare me lol
Hello great video with lots of neat history . From the mine s I've been to we all go forward and about halfway thru we have put are minds in reverse to get back out .one time going back out from a mine from1890 ?? found on the side wall a steel candle holder great find and it is still there 🤔p.s. all Hard rock mines no timber s at all.
That platform is put together with modern framing brackets.
This was a common practice when we lived in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada, especially in Nelson, Nevada.
Interesting mine aside from it's modern use. All kinds of stuff going every which way. Too bad much was backfilled. Nice explore!
Awesome video Justin! Love your work mate. Seasons greetings from Australia!
That bat was "awww light!"
Cute little critter.
That paper was the day of my 6th birthday haha
One word comes to mind watching you explore this mine--RUGGED! Animals aside.
How many channels were in there with you? I believe I heard at least two other familiar voices.
One channel, one Instagram...
What a great old mine! The older ones are most definetly the better ones to explore, even though they are crazy low in places. Those old timbers are good for another couple hundred years by the looks of it.
and how good would it be, if we could find so many old, well-preserved artifacts including timbers, ladders, ore-shutes etc., in our mines ?
Uncensored! I love it!!
What ever they looking for with the black light.
Some minerals become fluorescent under a black light. It looks pretty cool when you see it...
Meth ? I never knew it was mined . I thought it was a chemical process .. Is Calcite code for Meth ?.. LMAO
You should have put the dynamite wrapping back on the carbide lid as thats possibly what saved it.
This california!? Thats hecka crazy!
I know this exact mine I’m surprised they chose this area as it’s decently highly trafficked
That was a strange one!
Yes, even the layout of the mine itself - corkscrewing down - was bizarre.
spend enough time in a mine on meth and the idea will occur to you how perfect the idea is. Works great for concealment and booby traps but the ventilation can be a real problem.
Might not stop digging till you hit a Balrog too.
After that drug slab it was a interesting mine but a lot filled up and partly collapsed by the looks of it, nice exits tho looked good.
11:40 ish I listened to a story yesterday about one of this year's fires that hit Big Basin. Apparently The Gold Rush cost the state of CA 95% of its old growth trees.
The mine I'm posting the video of next week was opened up by one of the recent forest fires in California.
Sorry for my little rant!
This is what the Forest Service us used to destroy all the Mill sites mines sites all the cabins all the history they burn bulldozed destroyed within a two-year. Over 95% gone the public cried.
Their justification Justin! So hippies did not have any place in the forest they can live. So the hippies did it destroyed all our mining history.
Thank you Justin! For all the hard work you do in preserving what's left!
Absolute no tweekers, left overs. Miners couldn’t figure witch way to go. I wouldn’t want be in there with both my old tweeter friends. Spun out of there mine, mind. I’m glad you went further. What were they mining? Thank twisting and turn, man! Thanks!
Watches breaking bad once, builds a meth lab in a cave.
HE WAS ABLE TO BUILD A METH LAB IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
How predictable
The pity about stumbling into an apparent former meth lab, hard to get the odor off once a person has encountered. My late husband and a friend were flipping houses. They encountered such problems. Thanks for traveling and sharing.
Miners on meth.....could explain a lot in that mine!!!
Strange mine very hit and miss and crumbly, just like anything goes just get the ore out. must have been a nightmare to work in. thanks for the tour
Wow this mine is all over the place. Love the openings to outside
You know what is funny? One of your exploring buddies sounds JUST like Badger from Breaking Bad. I love Badger's character.
This mine save my day .
Our mine Museum is closed until Januar 21 so i cant go underground
For a long time and i miss it
I hope you never stumbled over a live methlabour and all the bad guys
But as i know you smell it were such places are
The back with the timber under it looks great we call such a place a coffin lid or in german Sargdeckel
When it comes Down on you it is this for you
I hope that does not happen one time
In this mine the miners do alot of Gobbin and it looks amazing
I hope to see more of you
Until than stay safe and healthy
Have a calm time towards christmas
All the best and Glück Auf
Frank Galetzka
Everlasting gobstackers...
At 4:17 that piece of padding actually has the word "ouch" written on it
I thought that was pretty funny.
Interesting mine...That one hanging wall sure had a big crack in it....Its always good to see Artifacts still in the mine....Hasent been many pickers taking them.....I think why they had burned some wood, was to run out the bats...Just a guess...Thanks for your Video..................JB.........
Boy that mine was a cluster fuck. Drifts going every which way, up and down, wood scattered all over the place. Neat explore though. The sound quality sounds like there is a river running through your mic. Other than that thanks for the explore Justin. Take care and happy trails.
I was impressed by all the gobbing they must have spent a lot of time and effort on that. Enjoyed the stills at the end of the vid.
Whats on the sheet of metal on your lower right at 8:50? Looks like vertebrae. 🤔
Yes your absolutely correct in your assumption, I’ve come across this same thing out in the desert when exploring. It was just at the entrance of a mine, we believe and animal devoured its meal there and more than likely called that mine it’s home, there was also rib bones attached. We did notify a park ranger, but never hear sped anything more about it.
You should find a UV plate filter for the camera if you're shooting fluorescent stones, as well as good eye pro for everyone. That lamp is bright enough to give your retinas a good sunburn, especially when it's otherwise dark as your pupils are open.
I've always said if shit hits the fan that I'll go live in the mines for a bit
You could do a lot worse than posting up in a dry mine, for sure!
I mean, dirt bags hiding in dirt, kinda makes sense. Seriously kids, don't do drugs
I had to start the comments so I figured why not with a PSA
Encouraging people to stay off of meth is a good PSA.
To late
It was 1985 or 86 when the sheriffs were there I actually was there at that time .
I was actually Working on mine close to thereYes you’ve been there already.
Did you see the Arasta at the very bottom of the hill.
It’s a metal one and the metal balls are about the size of bowling balls may be a little bigger.
I have a few close ones
I had to dig out about 35 foot of tunnel to get into it but there’s been a lot of people in it since then i’m pretty sure it’s targeted to be closed since so many people‘s been going in it it was pristine
I have another one the entrance is about the size of a rabbit hole but it keeps people out they’re both probably about a five out of 1 to 10
This one's gonna be cooking!
I wonder if those large crystalline flat-sided rocks (not the sparkys) could actually be aragonite instead of ca;lcite?
That tank you passed was definitely mid eighteen hundreds nice rivets.
I'm a big fan of anything with rivets...
Seems like a good hiding place for that stuff
Yeah, it makes sense...
7:47 - what is that little light on the lower right side of the screen? Is it a reflection off something?
18:00 - that pillar looks fractured along the lower section. I think one good seismic event will be the end of that chamber.
Loved the stills at the end. 😁👍
Thank you. Not sure about the reflection... And, yes, this mine definitely was more crumbly than one would like!
Your phone and cameras prob have UV filters, you can scratch the coating off the glass in front of the sensor. You need special filters otherwise. And you should use a BlakRay uv light, those are the best uv lights. 440 nm I think or 420 nm.
If I could half of that in my area, I would be stoked..lol (plenty of meth labs around, just no mines...)
You really ment it when ya said the mine declines in the beginning.
Thanks
Haven’t seen you in awhile been away.
I've been posting consistently every week for years. RUclips decides what to show you, even if you're subscribed, unless you click that little bell next to the subscribe button. Unless, of course, you meant that YOU had been away... If so, then welcome back!
Some balls to be standing on those false floors :p
Never mind those damn bats just wait till you see the Chrystal fairies. All swooping and sprinkling about your head. Soon you discover that sleep was never an option.
Dang! Nice find lol
That definitely looks like a methspirator
The tube coming out of the plastic bottle definitely looks like meth lab to me.
Did you get down the shaft under where the whinze was?
My friends did and said that there was nothing there.
Meth lab chemicals could be dangerous to touch and breathe. Hence, buy a meth lab policy on your rental property, if clean up should be required. 😎. Your videos are the best.
Thank you for the kind words about the videos. That's good advice about the meth lab policy for those wishing to invest directly in real estate... I know some people that have become very wealthy from direct investments in real estate, but I still prefer REITs for my real estate investing in order to avoid all of the headaches of the landlord. Even with a property management company, you still get hit with the unexpected expenses, the vacancies, etc. despite the fact that you're not getting the call at two in the morning about the clogged toilet or burst water line.
Danny Vandershelden is that you?
Good explore
The background sound had what sounded like water and a lot of it. Or was that just some weird distortion?
Lower levels are flooded i believe
1,183 rd 👍
Always awesome videos.
Thank you.
Ginnie Sprrings has the same entrance but its filled with water.
A very meth-y Christmas, albeit belated. Speedy Santa tried to lv on time, but couldn't exit workshop. Just kept going around in circles for a wk, yelling at his elves & trying to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything. Then he passed out for 2 days behind the dollhouses before getting it together enuff to fly. All freaky Santa jokes aside, a Blessed New Year to U & Yrs! Cheers! SRW in NorCal.
Justin is Chuck no longer involved?
Check out the video I'm posting in an hour or so... He's just been really busy.
10:05 that's a Methspirator.
I’m still looking for the tequila lab in a mine 😂 thanks for the adventure.
We've found enough weird things that I'm convinced your time will come.
That mine is a death trap .😬😨💀💀💀
Calcite is fluorescent by impurities.
Walt and Jesse?
You couldn't make me go in no place like that.
It's definitely not for everyone.
Honestly seeing these videos makes me want to explore some abandoned mines near where i live, although in england a lot less stuff gets preserved in the wet contitions..
Yikes !
You said kinda methlaby right. You tell us what does a meth lab look like Lol
1:50 meth laby?! 🤣
New adjective...
@@TVRExploring lol
@@ADITADDICTS see if your buddy could spot us a couple of grams .......man!
@@dwortss You still owe me from last time and no cheese burgers!
@@ADITADDICTS Hey Chuck! Where have you been? Long Time Dude! Regards from Ody Slim
Kinda makes sense. Seems one would have to go to extremes to make that crap
Indeed. You've got to think about the cookers that are making it as well... Extreme.
They bruin the wood to get out any animals and the bats out to do their crime.
Now you know where Heisenberg Blue Crystal is ‘mined’. Anyone else get giddy just reading the episode title in their notifications?
good grief!
This isn't even in Sierra County!
Well, well.
Been a while, probably a long while, but you were right to suspect a cook in there, and then called to confirm. Those "respirators" were probably leftover from the cook. Those are not the kind investigators wear, those are sorta worthless, which fits with the tweaker mentality.
I fear there are more than one leftover site out there in your target zone, ones that have not been cleaned up.
There was once a huge dump site between your place and mine that had truckloads of containers...as in truckloads...all leaching into a river. I suspect mines were used to dispose of by product and chemicals as well back in those days.
Please, just do me a big, big favor...you ever see chemical containers that do not fit with the mining industry, or smell any chemical smell...or even a smell from the like the worst pair of nasty socks you have ever encountered, reverse course and GTF outta there.
This was an interesting place otherwise, that is the first time I recall you finding a carbide container that was so well preserved, it was very cool to see. Looks like a lot of (mining) work was done.
Still check my email should you ever want to chat.
Reminds me of the cave in the movie The Decent! Ahhhh! :)
Just a Nasty thing for bad habit wonder if they have bath salt mines how nasty they are and do the bat's and Coyote's do the zombie dance hate to run in to that!!!: o
With it being a meth lab. I’m surprised they didn’t scrap all the metal out of there.
Yes, this is true...
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Amateurs, the MSA is a horrible respirator for meth production. It's hard to get a good seal and the filters clog easy. a Reactor respirator is much better and only a few dollars more. (just a joke people, calm down)
I want to make a knife handle out of a piece of silver ore
"Meth labby"? You must have been hanging out with cops to pick up that official term. This appears to be a somewhat haphazard operation what with all the little pockets but still interesting. Good thing the people who utilized this mine for their lucrative though illegal purposes appear long gone as I've heard they frown on visitors, the ones that aren't customers that is. Thanks for sharing.
Kinda meth labby, right? Lol
CaCo³
Hah, first. Never done that before. Nice video. 👍
Thank you.
im more of a black tar heroin guy
Hey Justin,what uv light are they using ?