Ghost Town Exploration: 1800s Silver Mining Community.
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2020
- In this video we team up with good mate and NQ detecting legend George Mayer (of the renowned NQ Miner's Den) and spend a day in a ghost town that served a silver mine and smelter from around 1888 until 1899. Lots of buttons and Victoriana and a nice silver 3d come to light in glorious North Queensland spring weather.
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Colleen, Warren and George
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Thanks for sharing your metal detecting hunt and the tragic history of the little town. I always look forward to your video's. Yesterday here in Pennsylvania, USA I found 3 civil war relics, 2 colonial era buttons and a flat piece of silver something using my AT Max. They were all 12 to 13 inches deep in dry soil. Garett detectors rock.
Good to see you guys again!!! Great video, Thanks...Peace!!!
Checking out some of your older videos - this one was fantastic! Thanks for sharing - Ro
George is the best!!!
Greetings from Flagstaff, Arizona! I love the ghost town adventures and finds. I also enjoyed learning the history of that spot. Thank you for posting and sharing the video.
Fantastic Video Warren! I love old ghost towns & i'm so keen to get out bush again myself! Great finds by all and yet another awesome history lesson. Thank you for sharing this, it fires me up ha ha! Happy Hunting!
I found one of those brass buttons here. I need to take a closer look at it for a brand, or an "U.S. Army" like the more common zinc buttons. This is an area I've found Hawaii National Guard Springfield .45/70 casings. When superseded by the Krag-Jorgensen in 1895, these rifles were passed elsewhere by the Army. They are a rifle comparable to your Martini-Henry. That Glasgow bottle is similar to ones here always marked "Belfast", an S.F. Ginger beer and Cochrane, a real Belfast co, I find some bricks marked Glasgow here, that are thicker than U.S. I saw them around 2016 and didn't keep one, but I lately found a broken one again. I've taken home granite pavers that came from elsewhere, and some cut limestone blocks, old coral reefs on the coast here. Basalt is the other local rock, and walls of cut basalt/bluestone can be seen in this town. I've got some errands to run tomorrow, might hold off digging. Dug on the weekend, worked today. G'day to other sugar towns in Queensland. Our Plantation closed in 1946 and were proud of their masonry, though little survives.
Another great video. I miss my QLD adverntures! Cheers!
Cool site! Looking forward to seeing what else you find there👍😊✌
Hooray! Warren and Colleen are back in the remote Outback! Thank you from Northern California
Excellent video and countryside. Congratulations on the discoveries. No shortage of relics or digs. Thanks for sharing your outing and knowledge. Looking forward to your next search for coins and relics. Cheers🍻
Nice one warren and thanks for the history of the area. Pity you couldn't find the cemetery maybe someone in the local town could help.
I see by your reply to one of the comments that you now know where the cemetery is Warren, it will be very interesting watching a video of it one day when you go back out there, I look forward to it. There were some wonderful finds there and the history was interesting but sad, I always try to think about the hardships that people like that faced out in the middle of nowhere making a living out of long hours and very hard work. Thank you Warren and Colleen and George for taking us back in the bush, the gorgeous colour of the sky will stay with me for quite a while. Take care and stay safe please my friends, good luck and happy fossicking love and hugs to you both Mary-Ellen UK
Excellent video and hunt ! Congratulation on all ya`ll finds and good luck on ya`ll next hunt !
G'day mate I enjoy watching your videos and seeing what yous find great work
Nice spot there wazza.. Great resurch old chap cheers 🍺
Hi Warren your star brand tin is the lid off a Capstan navy cut tobacco or cigarette tin made by WD&HO Wills. Great video thanks for sharing regards Sleepy
Nice episode and interesting history about the place. Cheers from South Sweden.
Amazing video and what a great day for relic hunting, this video you can get a really good sence of the old town also was the rounded harmonica reed off a boomerang harmonica?
So interesting, thank you - and I complain about the Jack Jumpers in Tasmania!! Don't know what my hubby would say if he saw that White Ant's nest in the paddock!!! I always find these places so amazing in how so many people would come from far & wide to start new lives in the back 'n' beyond, with all the dramas that entailed, only to have to move on, perhaps before the kids were raised - must have been tough... Keep safe & happy fossicking...👍🦘🐾⛏