I'm trying to think through it myself. The nature of the opening into that open stope suggests that it was originally developed as an adit. The miners may have driven an exploratory drift along the vein, and encountered quite a bit of waste along the way. From that point, they may have begun stoping downwards with sinker drills. An ore pass would be constructed downwards to the haulage level, and a slusher used to scrape ore into the pass. Ore would have been mucked out the adit until the ore pass was ready, though. Waste (identified as such by assay and/or visual inspection) would have been shot as well (though they could have left it in place as pillars) and mucked out the adit to avoid throwing it down the ore pass and mixing it with ore. I'm curious as to why they didn't just use traditional shrinkage stoping methods up from the lower level. If I had to guess, the entrance you found was driven before the haulage level, and the crew wanted to start producing ore before the other level was complete. Of course, that's all highly speculative, and there may be no way to find out for sure how the vein was mined without reading an account by a guy who was there. These mines are like giant industrial/geological puzzles, and there isn't always a clear answer.
Thank you! Yes, the old mines really are fascinating to us as well. I wouldn't have guessed that when I was younger, but look at me now! The Nevada desert is beautiful.
TVR -- Until we get more information , I'm going to have to agree with Headframe Hunters . -- At 3:18 , that timber with the notches is a ''mine rail gauge'' for keeping the rails evenly spaced while they are being installed . -- At 9:35 , the Poll or Hammer side of the Pick is used for driving in the mine rail spikes . You stand on the opposite side of the rail from the spike , and you strike over the rail so that you drive the spike into the ''sleeper'' at an angle under the rail , so that the lip of the spike clinches down on the lower lip of the rail . -- < Doc , Miner for nearly 50 years > .
that's dead on. definitely a spike driver and rail guage. Those stull timbers are very old as well. Some weren't even barked. Cut and put in place. It is perplexing why they would haul the ore up and by the size of the tailings you can imagine how much ore they took out.
Thank you for the explanation on the tools that we saw. I love hearing from both of you... Yes, I was quite perplexed by why they chose to extract the ore and waste rock up when we were visiting the site. I'll yield to the knowledge and experience of Headframe Hunters on this one for the explanation.
The "Stoping Hammer" was a common tool used not only in mines, but primarily by railroad workers to drive spikes as well as work roadbed. I have 2. One marked CPRR for Central Pacific Rail Road and the other is marked KCC for Kennecott Copper Company. Universal tool now seldom seen.
There are several government plugged adits and shafts at the first site sites you visited. At one point you were standing on top of a foam and rock sealed vertical shaft.
Unless you know something I don't about that specific site, that is contrary to my experience because I've always observed that when they permanently close mines, they close all of the openings rather than just some of them.
I was seeing that the "unstable parts" of the mine looked like placer composition, but I'm not a geologist. It doesn't totally remind me of an ancient creek bed, but logic tells me that all mountainous areas had runoff... anyway. I'm learning a lot by following you on here and I love what you do. I did like geology in high school, but never tied it to mining until I got older. Again thanks for all you do for us and please don't get hurt out there.
A couple of elders in my life were geology majors out of college. It just is occuring to me that in the last 100 years many universities must have had full classrooms in geology... I'll never know, but i have an idea.
Thank you for the comment. We have a lot of placer mines in the part of California where we do most of our exploring. The material inside of these adits looked a bit different from that. I'm no geologist and so I'm not saying this wasn't part of a river channel at one time, but it looked different than what we are used to for placer. If I had to guess, I would guess that it was more volcanic than placer (but, again, take that with a grain of salt).
We try to have fun doing it... Even when we don't find anything or what we find has been destroyed, we still have fun just being out exploring (most of the time).
the pick was interesting , we have the same pick in the uk, ive seen them in cornwall through to wales, were i got mine, we call them a stopeing pick, the "hammer end on yours is much longer and thinner than mine, i always assumed the hammer end was for stull work, driving rock wedges ect, Docs explanation makes perfect sense too, the pick end of mine has a slight recurve too it, which i have seen on others, ive seen one with its shaft which is 3/4 the length of a axe shaft ideal for swinging around in a stope, ive never seen one in a coal mining area, only hard rock mines, avery good find = stope pick,
That's a lot of waste rock. Must be some big workings in there somewhere. I've always been impressed with stone structures; fences and buildings. Chinese and Irish seem especially good at it.
Yes, I would love to have gotten a good explore of what was down that deep cut... The workings in the second video are a good size, but, if anything, they raise more questions than they answer with this particular mine. Yes, I find those old stone structures to be quite appealing as well.
Really love those exploration videos of yours. I like how those mines are completely different from those that I have in my country, especially because you always seem to find new ones, which isn't my case! They're much smaller but they look pretty interesting and fascinating, I'd love to explore one of those once in my life.
Thank you. I'm glad you find them interesting... Yes, we have a lot of mines to choose from in California and Nevada, but they are disappearing quickly. Which country are you in?
TVR Exploring I'm from Luxembourg. I know, it's a small country but it had a pretty big steel industry back in the days, you can look it up. The mines I've explored are much bigger and longer, but most of them have been closed, which leaves me with only one big mine that I can go in... whereas most of the mine's you find are still open.
Oh, yes, I'm familiar with Luxembourg. I wasn't into mines yet when I visited, but I did know about Luxembourg's significant steel production in the past. So, I'm not surprised to learn of the associated mines. That is too bad that so many mines have been closed. That is a common problem in the U.S. too. I'm glad you still have one mine that you can visit. I'm sure it is an interesting one, no?
TVR Exploring If you visit it a next time, you should go to the south of the country, that's where all the mines are, and my town has a pretty cool museum where you can visit one. Yeah it's interesting, some parts of it are amazing, and it takes hours to go through the whole mine (last time I spent like 4 hours in it, and I'm sure that I haven't even explored half of it), and one cool thing about this mine is that it leads to the mine of the museum, but I haven't found this tunnel yet.
It never ceases to amaze me how little is left at these sites considering to activitie that was once there. There had to be some sort of hoisting works to get both the ore, waste rock, and miners, out of those deep cuts but how and where the equipment was set up and then removed without leaving a trace leaves you guessing. Do you know what was mined?
Yes, I believe Adit Addicts is correct in regard to what was mined here... It is often astonishing how little is left of mines or mining communities that were once thriving. I certainly would have expected more around that deep cut as well.
Just a heads up if you plan on heading back here a giant flash flood ran through this canyon a week ago and most of the road from a mile before this mine and up has been washed away.
I didn't have any plans to return, but that's interesting to hear... Yet another example of why it is good to document these sites now rather than waiting! It isn't just the mines themselves deteriorating, but the ways to access them as well.
Yes its happened ofter for me. Ive been documenty mines through photography for the past 10 years all over Nevada and have to make multiple trips to locations to get the shots I need and see the changes whether by nature or vandalism. It can be very frustrating. Im not much for producing video so Im glad yourself and a few others have documented these sites so thoroughly before they are gone.
I also appreciate keeping the site locations quiet. Some of these spots are gems that will hopefully be there for a long time to come. If you happen to be on Instagram I have some wonderful photos I think you would enjoy.
as to the open stope thats deep and the waste rock being hauled up, its not clear if there was a deep adit, if there was a deep adit im sure you would of found it or a trace of it, coupled with the fact the deads were all dumped nearby they must have hauled up, this might seem strange for a mine from the 19th cent working in the 20th cent, but ive seen open rakes that are deep and go for hundreds of yards on the vein all the ore/deads hauled up by windlasses , im talking pre gunpowder days ! to begin a open rake shafts are sunk along the vein so you have men working from a lower level driving in both directions , overhand stoping, and men from the top underhand stoping, were conditions were right hushing was used ( a type of hydraulic mining) im talking 16th cent 17th cent mining !, there were still miners in the uk in the early 19th cent driving levels by hand no black powder, ive yet to see any evidence in the USA of very early mining , hand cut levels,( coffin levels) there must be some some were! il give you a shout if you pass one by,
You're right. It isn't clear if there is an adit mixed in to that cut or not. It's an odd layout for us, but, as you said, it probably doesn't look as odd to someone familiar with older mining techniques. Some of the Cornish mine explorers visit a lot of mines that are hundreds of years old or more, but that is a rare event for us. Thank you for the explanation and comment.
Thank you so much for your excellant data! Blowing through rock for gold nuts. must be annunaki gold. This is a strange mine and deep open veins spooky any nephilim? I camp near mines in Wahsington state. China bend spooky... Town of Ruby its gothic western stuff love it!. Nice work!
Noooooooooooo!!! Ended too soon!!! lol Keeping us in suspense for another week! Like the open stope with the stulls, reminded me of one we done a couple weeks ago. I never seen a forged pickaxe head like that, I wonder if it's been repaired?
Cornish Mine Explorer looked like a >< with the spike ends that looked like this ( two ends one per side of the main body) would be inserted in the v shape then hammer the shit out of it when red hot to " weld " them together.
Cornish Mine Explorer Yeah I have no idea why they were manufactured like that but my guess would be faster to make from three preshaped pieces than hammering one from a big piece?
Haha, that's awesome! They've been close friends of my parents since before I was even born and they've known me since I was less than a week old. Gotta love small world experiences like this! Oh, and speaking of "small world experiences," Sam's family actually used to own the land that backed up to one of your favorite spots on the Yuba River.
Saw a pick hammer like that at a mining museum here East Coast, but it had nothing describing what it was used for, when, or how. It was just sitting there. Now I have to try and remember where I saw it. Lol
Do you guys go to a records office to find these mines, or do you just talk to people? Just curious you guys find the coolest mines to explore.. love the vids
It's really a combination of things. Sometimes it is word of mouth, sometimes it is slogging through old records, etc. If you're curious, I actually did a video on how we track these down. Search for "How To Find Abandoned Mines" and it should come up.
Why do the rocks always look blue in your videos? I thought it might be caused by the lights you use when in the mines, but in this vid you have natural lighting and rocks are still blue?
I've noticed that a lot of the rocks in Nevada seem to have a bluish tint to them. I'm not a geologist and so I'm afraid that I can't explain why to you, but I have definitely noticed that as well.
You should check out centralia pa mine idk how safe it is or if it’s even legal to go in it’s a disaster coal mine that’s been burning for 53 years but would be cool to check into at least
I know you can go and see smoke curling up out of the ground and such, but I don't know if it is possible to get underground still. I suspect that will have been barricaded off for quite a long time now if it hasn't collapsed. Either way, it would be interesting to see.
There are quite a few accessible underground mines in the anthracite Coal Region of PA. I believe that they have far less in the way of gas problems than bituminous mines. I'd love to check some of them out but A) I'm extremely far from there and B) I've got enough mine rescue training that coal mines give me the willies.
My exploring buddy - Adit Addicts - was with me on this one... It is just that, often, we'll be in different places at a mine so that if something goes wrong, the other person will be in a position to do something about it.
Well, we often do, but a common problem that we run into inside of the mines is that there is nothing to anchor the rope to. So, a lot of places like this retain their mysteries due to that simple obstacle. I like the idea of the flare in theory, but I would not feel comfortable dropping a flare down a pit without knowing what was down there. Abandoned mines have a lot of wood inside of them and I wouldn't want to start a fire that would destroy part of the mine, disturb bats, etc.
Yes, we have used those a couple of times in flooded mines to mark an exit or a route. They work perfectly well underwater and so they could be useful to see how deep a particular flooded pit or winze is and, of course, one that is not flooded as well. Of course, it could also make the sting of not being able to get down there that much worse if it seems like something cool is down there.
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I'm trying to think through it myself. The nature of the opening into that open stope suggests that it was originally developed as an adit. The miners may have driven an exploratory drift along the vein, and encountered quite a bit of waste along the way. From that point, they may have begun stoping downwards with sinker drills. An ore pass would be constructed downwards to the haulage level, and a slusher used to scrape ore into the pass. Ore would have been mucked out the adit until the ore pass was ready, though. Waste (identified as such by assay and/or visual inspection) would have been shot as well (though they could have left it in place as pillars) and mucked out the adit to avoid throwing it down the ore pass and mixing it with ore.
I'm curious as to why they didn't just use traditional shrinkage stoping methods up from the lower level. If I had to guess, the entrance you found was driven before the haulage level, and the crew wanted to start producing ore before the other level was complete.
Of course, that's all highly speculative, and there may be no way to find out for sure how the vein was mined without reading an account by a guy who was there. These mines are like giant industrial/geological puzzles, and there isn't always a clear answer.
Thank you very much for the detailed comment. This one was indeed quite a puzzle to me...
Love these vids!
I find these old mines absolutely fascinating!
Lovely countryside as well!
Thank you! Yes, the old mines really are fascinating to us as well. I wouldn't have guessed that when I was younger, but look at me now! The Nevada desert is beautiful.
TVR Exploring No,Thank you!!
Good job! Much appreciated it, that you share your adventures with us!
TVR -- Until we get more information , I'm going to have to agree with Headframe Hunters
. -- At 3:18 , that timber with the notches is a ''mine rail gauge'' for keeping the rails evenly spaced while they are being installed . -- At 9:35 , the Poll or Hammer side of the Pick is used for driving in the mine rail spikes . You stand on the opposite side of the rail from the spike , and you strike over the rail so that you drive the spike into the ''sleeper'' at an angle under the rail , so that the lip of the spike clinches down on the lower lip of the rail . -- < Doc , Miner for nearly 50 years > .
that's dead on. definitely a spike driver and rail guage. Those stull timbers are very old as well. Some weren't even barked. Cut and put in place. It is perplexing why they would haul the ore up and by the size of the tailings you can imagine how much ore they took out.
Thank you for the explanation on the tools that we saw. I love hearing from both of you... Yes, I was quite perplexed by why they chose to extract the ore and waste rock up when we were visiting the site. I'll yield to the knowledge and experience of Headframe Hunters on this one for the explanation.
001DesertRat Pole pick!! That's the name for it! I've been trying to remember since that trip what the damn name of it was and I forgot totally.
ADIT ADDICTS
-- "Poll" , on the hammer side of the Pick , everything from the 'eye' to the striking face is called the "Poll" .
001DesertRat hey! That wasn't me that was auto correct! 😁
The "Stoping Hammer" was a common tool used not only in mines, but primarily by railroad workers to drive spikes as well as work roadbed. I have 2. One marked CPRR for Central Pacific Rail Road and the other is marked KCC for Kennecott Copper Company. Universal tool now seldom seen.
Those two that you have sound really cool. This was the only one like it we've ever found...
Nice explor loved all the building's . Now I have to see if part 2 is here
It's there! Just cut and paste the same title into RUclips's search bar and it should come up.
At 15:36 someone made a happy face out of nuts and bolts. Another fantastic couch trip.
Ha, I hadn't noticed that before. That's funny.
Something of a mystery, guess you just have to dig deeper ! 😊😎
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
Yes, this is an odd one. The second video gives one possible answer, but it isn't certain.
Thanks for sharing life with enthusiasm awesome video Frank has been running into barrels and I think it's fish oil which was a good nightro
Back in the 1940'
Excellent upload Im watching them backwards but still super interesting.
Haha, backwards or forwards, it probably doesn't make much difference...
Another great find! Waiting for part 2.......
Thank you! Part 2 will be next Wednesday...
Interesting place, looking forward to the next vid too see what you fellas found
Thank you. Yes, this was an interesting site... Even the adit in the second video falls out of your "standard adit" category.
Where is this mine at what mountain range???
Good vid...Cool place...Thanks
I really enjoyed the program
Dry-fitted stone walls, very cool!
I was impressed, to be sure.
There are several government plugged adits and shafts at the first site sites you visited. At one point you were standing on top of a foam and rock sealed vertical shaft.
Unless you know something I don't about that specific site, that is contrary to my experience because I've always observed that when they permanently close mines, they close all of the openings rather than just some of them.
I was seeing that the "unstable parts" of the mine looked like placer composition, but I'm not a geologist. It doesn't totally remind me of an ancient creek bed, but logic tells me that all mountainous areas had runoff... anyway. I'm learning a lot by following you on here and I love what you do. I did like geology in high school, but never tied it to mining until I got older. Again thanks for all you do for us and please don't get hurt out there.
A couple of elders in my life were geology majors out of college. It just is occuring to me that in the last 100 years many universities must have had full classrooms in geology... I'll never know, but i have an idea.
Thank you for the comment. We have a lot of placer mines in the part of California where we do most of our exploring. The material inside of these adits looked a bit different from that. I'm no geologist and so I'm not saying this wasn't part of a river channel at one time, but it looked different than what we are used to for placer. If I had to guess, I would guess that it was more volcanic than placer (but, again, take that with a grain of salt).
Well after looking up the Pb ore on wiki, I just can't imagine... much love to you and yours. Thanks again.
I wish I could explore a mine with you. You always seem to have the greatest finds.
We try to have fun doing it... Even when we don't find anything or what we find has been destroyed, we still have fun just being out exploring (most of the time).
TVR Exploring Well I try to be as entertaining as possible, Justin is a good audience.
Person man I has old gold mine by house you come explore it man
Person man
the pick was interesting , we have the same pick in the uk, ive seen them in cornwall through to wales, were i got mine, we call them a stopeing pick, the "hammer end on yours is much longer and thinner than mine, i always assumed the hammer end was for stull work, driving rock wedges ect, Docs explanation makes perfect sense too, the pick end of mine has a slight recurve too it, which i have seen on others, ive seen one with its shaft which is 3/4 the length of a axe shaft ideal for swinging around in a stope, ive never seen one in a coal mining area, only hard rock mines, avery good find = stope pick,
Thank you very much for that... It was an interesting find for us as we had never seen one before. Oh, and, yes, this was a hard rock mine.
That's a lot of waste rock. Must be some big workings in there somewhere. I've always been impressed with stone structures; fences and buildings. Chinese and Irish seem especially good at it.
Yes, I would love to have gotten a good explore of what was down that deep cut... The workings in the second video are a good size, but, if anything, they raise more questions than they answer with this particular mine. Yes, I find those old stone structures to be quite appealing as well.
Really love those exploration videos of yours. I like how those mines are completely different from those that I have in my country, especially because you always seem to find new ones, which isn't my case! They're much smaller but they look pretty interesting and fascinating, I'd love to explore one of those once in my life.
Thank you. I'm glad you find them interesting... Yes, we have a lot of mines to choose from in California and Nevada, but they are disappearing quickly. Which country are you in?
TVR Exploring I'm from Luxembourg. I know, it's a small country but it had a pretty big steel industry back in the days, you can look it up. The mines I've explored are much bigger and longer, but most of them have been closed, which leaves me with only one big mine that I can go in... whereas most of the mine's you find are still open.
Oh, yes, I'm familiar with Luxembourg. I wasn't into mines yet when I visited, but I did know about Luxembourg's significant steel production in the past. So, I'm not surprised to learn of the associated mines. That is too bad that so many mines have been closed. That is a common problem in the U.S. too. I'm glad you still have one mine that you can visit. I'm sure it is an interesting one, no?
TVR Exploring If you visit it a next time, you should go to the south of the country, that's where all the mines are, and my town has a pretty cool museum where you can visit one.
Yeah it's interesting, some parts of it are amazing, and it takes hours to go through the whole mine (last time I spent like 4 hours in it, and I'm sure that I haven't even explored half of it), and one cool thing about this mine is that it leads to the mine of the museum, but I haven't found this tunnel yet.
It never ceases to amaze me how little is left at these sites considering to activitie that was once there. There had to be some sort of hoisting works to get both the ore, waste rock, and miners, out of those deep cuts but how and where the equipment was set up and then removed without leaving a trace leaves you guessing. Do you know what was mined?
Dave Beckley I'm pretty sure it was silver with some copper and lead as secondarys.
Yes, I believe Adit Addicts is correct in regard to what was mined here... It is often astonishing how little is left of mines or mining communities that were once thriving. I certainly would have expected more around that deep cut as well.
Just a heads up if you plan on heading back here a giant flash flood ran through this canyon a week ago and most of the road from a mile before this mine and up has been washed away.
I didn't have any plans to return, but that's interesting to hear... Yet another example of why it is good to document these sites now rather than waiting! It isn't just the mines themselves deteriorating, but the ways to access them as well.
Yes its happened ofter for me. Ive been documenty mines through photography for the past 10 years all over Nevada and have to make multiple trips to locations to get the shots I need and see the changes whether by nature or vandalism. It can be very frustrating. Im not much for producing video so Im glad yourself and a few others have documented these sites so thoroughly before they are gone.
I also appreciate keeping the site locations quiet. Some of these spots are gems that will hopefully be there for a long time to come. If you happen to be on Instagram I have some wonderful photos I think you would enjoy.
Thank you 😊 always interesting
Why are they called “drifts” instead of “portals”? Someone clue me in.
as to the open stope thats deep and the waste rock being hauled up, its not clear if there was a deep adit, if there was a deep adit im sure you would of found it or a trace of it, coupled with the fact the deads were all dumped nearby they must have hauled up, this might seem strange for a mine from the 19th cent working in the 20th cent,
but ive seen open rakes that are deep and go for hundreds of yards on the vein all the ore/deads hauled up by windlasses , im talking pre gunpowder days ! to begin a open rake shafts are sunk along the vein so you have men working from a lower level driving in both directions , overhand stoping, and men from the top underhand stoping, were conditions were right hushing was used ( a type of hydraulic mining) im talking 16th cent 17th cent mining !, there were still miners in the uk in the early 19th cent driving levels by hand no black powder, ive yet to see any evidence in the USA of very early mining , hand cut levels,( coffin levels) there must be some some were! il give you a shout if you pass one by,
You're right. It isn't clear if there is an adit mixed in to that cut or not. It's an odd layout for us, but, as you said, it probably doesn't look as odd to someone familiar with older mining techniques. Some of the Cornish mine explorers visit a lot of mines that are hundreds of years old or more, but that is a rare event for us. Thank you for the explanation and comment.
At what elevation are these mines?
Thank you so much for your excellant data! Blowing through rock for gold nuts. must be annunaki gold. This is a strange mine and deep open veins spooky any nephilim? I camp near mines in Wahsington state. China bend spooky... Town of Ruby its gothic western stuff love it!. Nice work!
Great find Thanx guys
Thank you. Yes, this was an interesting one.
Noooooooooooo!!! Ended too soon!!! lol Keeping us in suspense for another week! Like the open stope with the stulls, reminded me of one we done a couple weeks ago. I never seen a forged pickaxe head like that, I wonder if it's been repaired?
Cornish Mine Explorer That's how they made them early on over here, forge welded is the actual term I think.
Cornish Mine Explorer looked like a >< with the spike ends that looked like this ( two ends one per side of the main body) would be inserted in the v shape then hammer the shit out of it when red hot to " weld " them together.
Seems a odd way to do it, would have thought one piece would have been the quickest and strongest option. Learn something new every day :)
Cornish Mine Explorer Yeah I have no idea why they were manufactured like that but my guess would be faster to make from three preshaped pieces than hammering one from a big piece?
Possible factory made?
You are brave for going in a mine that deep and unstable looking
Good stuff.
Sweet, a lead mine. I was going to guess Silver till I read your intro, I usually just go for the pictures.
Well, the galena contains silver as well. So, while they likely didn't discard the lead, the silver would have been the big draw for the miners.
They mine silver an keep lead person man
I'm with your friends Joyce & Sam. Having a beer and playing trivia.
Haha, that's awesome! They've been close friends of my parents since before I was even born and they've known me since I was less than a week old. Gotta love small world experiences like this! Oh, and speaking of "small world experiences," Sam's family actually used to own the land that backed up to one of your favorite spots on the Yuba River.
TVR Exploring They were truly amazing people. We will be seeing them next week. Small world indeed!
Doesn't seem right that they're hanging out with you before I am... LOL! That's cool if we get some more friends in common.
Saw a pick hammer like that at a mining museum here East Coast, but it had nothing describing what it was used for, when, or how. It was just sitting there.
Now I have to try and remember where I saw it. Lol
They're pretty rare... That was the first one that either of us had ever seen.
I still can't remember where I saw the blasted thing.
Been to a few mining museums in my area, could have been any number of them.
Haha, it happens. There's so much stuff I wish I could remember...
Do you guys go to a records office to find these mines, or do you just talk to people? Just curious you guys find the coolest mines to explore.. love the vids
It's really a combination of things. Sometimes it is word of mouth, sometimes it is slogging through old records, etc. If you're curious, I actually did a video on how we track these down. Search for "How To Find Abandoned Mines" and it should come up.
Why do the rocks always look blue in your videos? I thought it might be caused by the lights you use when in the mines, but in this vid you have natural lighting and rocks are still blue?
I've noticed that a lot of the rocks in Nevada seem to have a bluish tint to them. I'm not a geologist and so I'm afraid that I can't explain why to you, but I have definitely noticed that as well.
dame ye got me excited o well have 2 wait 4 eposode 2 ;-)
Gotta keep you guys coming back for more :)
What mine is this
You should check out centralia pa mine idk how safe it is or if it’s even legal to go in it’s a disaster coal mine that’s been burning for 53 years but would be cool to check into at least
I know you can go and see smoke curling up out of the ground and such, but I don't know if it is possible to get underground still. I suspect that will have been barricaded off for quite a long time now if it hasn't collapsed. Either way, it would be interesting to see.
TVR Exploring what I don’t get is how it can burn with so little oxygen and why didn’t they seal it off completely to stop the fire and save the town
There are quite a few accessible underground mines in the anthracite Coal Region of PA. I believe that they have far less in the way of gas problems than bituminous mines. I'd love to check some of them out but A) I'm extremely far from there and B) I've got enough mine rescue training that coal mines give me the willies.
Matt T Silent Hill.
Nice canyon wren call at 15:15
And 15:57. Chatty little thing.
Ah, thank you for pointing that out! I love it when the camera picks up things like that... I didn't know what species it was.
Creepy holes.
your pickaxe is a handforged picaroon used in timber work
Still waiting for your return to the "Diamond Mine" my friend !!
The only thing he mine is fools gold person man
Nice bat at 4:59
Yes, a couple flew in and bombed down that pit into the darkness.
As someone new to your page, any chance of a fools guide to all the terminology that you use.
That's a very fair suggestion. Anything I can explain in the meantime?
David seale
-- Go on GOOGLE and search ''mining terminology'' -- lots of good information there .
Why go by yourself ? Love your work!
My exploring buddy - Adit Addicts - was with me on this one... It is just that, often, we'll be in different places at a mine so that if something goes wrong, the other person will be in a position to do something about it.
That is a Volcanic peak accross the draw
It's not a pickaxe it's a scaling pick for knocking loose rock from the ceiling.
interesting noise at 0:43 dunno what that was but interesting
That was just the wind blowing into the microphone... Nothing exciting, I'm afraid.
Awesome
You should carry a rope and a climbing harness~ should get ya into spots like this! Also.. some flares might be cool to throw down deep pits.
Well, we often do, but a common problem that we run into inside of the mines is that there is nothing to anchor the rope to. So, a lot of places like this retain their mysteries due to that simple obstacle. I like the idea of the flare in theory, but I would not feel comfortable dropping a flare down a pit without knowing what was down there. Abandoned mines have a lot of wood inside of them and I wouldn't want to start a fire that would destroy part of the mine, disturb bats, etc.
Maybe glow sticks are a better idea then~
Yes, we have used those a couple of times in flooded mines to mark an exit or a route. They work perfectly well underwater and so they could be useful to see how deep a particular flooded pit or winze is and, of course, one that is not flooded as well. Of course, it could also make the sting of not being able to get down there that much worse if it seems like something cool is down there.
Aw man. Right at the good part. 😡😂
Gotta keep you guys coming back :)
TVR Exploring no worries there. Enjoy your vids. Keep ‘em coming!
That waste rock pile means much tunneling.
Yes, I'd love to have seen the full extent of this one.
The lizard at 7:30 7:31
Damn almost looks like m cave!!! Yea
that place looks extremely dangerous
Yes, there are a few spots that seemed a bit sporty.
That one high spot, aka Devil's Precipice, w/the two extremely deep drops were so sporty they gave me voyeur vertigo!
thumbs up
Thank you, d pete.
Watch for zombies..
We're always on the lookout...