Lost Worlds Project: Into the Deep Unknown
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2023
- Haha, I’ve actually been impatient to get through these past couple of videos so that I can reveal in the next video what is in that cave with the undercut ledge and, more significantly, what is beyond it… To me, this whole complex represents the peak of mine exploring, but I really feel like the next level in this series perfectly encapsulates it all - the camaraderie, the technical aspects of multiple rope descents (and the exhausting ascents) in extreme conditions, the amazing discoveries, the fact that no living person has ever laid eyes upon what we are pushing into… I just realized as I was typing that last sentence that it is likely that these workings have never been photographed before and, certainly, no video of them (outside of our little crew) has ever emerged before.
Given the nature of the internet, I’m sure that a few viewers will rudely declare that some of the caves were stopes. No, they are actually caves… The miners expanded some of them and some of the caves tie into stopes, but they were originally caves. The miners also dumped large amounts of waste rock into them, which gives them an artificial appearance, but, again, they were originally caves. How can we be so sure? We have a map that details exactly where the caves and stopes were and the reports on this complex of mines describes the miners punching through - and descending through - a series of caves as the mine was developed.
I’m sure that some of you noticed that the levels shown in this video were more damp than the levels in the prior videos. That stands to reason as we are descending toward the water table. However, interestingly, the levels below these are generally drier. Odd, huh? I suspect that there is perhaps a specific route that water is percolating down through or that the type of rock and soil layered on this level (possibly heavy in clay) is slowing down the percolation of the water down to the water table and it is, in effect, getting backed up on these levels. That’s wild speculation, of course, as I do not possess a hydrologic engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines. However, those possibilities are the only explanations that made sense to me.
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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.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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As for that "M.A.! He's Kissing me!" graffiti, well, what happens in the mine, stays in the mine, right? It would seem it is a variation of "Ma, he's kissing me" from the 1921 song Ma, he's making eyes at me. The H. Mau and Co (operational between 1882 and 1886) soda bottle is worth a bit of money if you can find the right buyer. I saw an estimate of between $800 USD - $1,200 USD. Dr. Boschee's German Syrup was basically laudanum, a tincture of opium (opium and alcohol). Apparently good for any disease of the lungs, throat or chest. Or maybe if you drank enough of it, you just didn't care.
George Gill Green became very wealthy from his patent medicines. L. M. Green was his father, who had a patent medicine business that George purchased and added to his own business. Search for Castle Green in Pasadena for one of his properties (a hotel, now an event/function centre). His patent medicine business declined after the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, and by 1916 his company's products were discontinued.
There was a Marvin Anderson at 21:00.
@@olivei2484 Yeah. I think the date above the name is 1947. It's difficult to read the 3rd number, but the spacing is wrong for 1917.
@@daveg2104 my guess is it's 1937(you can sorta see the top of the 3 and then the side part of the 3 and originally looks like he wrote M.A then the date and some one made it M.ASS so he tried to scrape it off and put his full name below it.
@@sirmonkey1985 You could be right, particularly with that date being pre-war. I did put the contrast up, but it was still unclear.
"How do like your coffee, Bill?" "Cream and 12 mosquitos please"
Just awesome, epic & stunning what else to say? Thank you for filming this mine it's been a joy to watch. ❤😊👌👍🏴
Porcelain cap missing from that Nevada bottle probably had a cork or rubber flat ring seal!!!; )
Wicked good video. 🏆🤠👍
Glad to see y’all back here, my friends and I have been following the series on this mine since it first started!
We are on Thanksgiving break at college, and the few of us that are staying in the dorm (instead of going home for the break) all got together in the common room to eat our Thanksgiving meal and watch this video like it was the Macy’s Parade 😂 Awesome work as always, and thank you for the holiday upload!
Well, I thank you for the kind words, Grace, and I'm honored by you spending your holiday time with us exploring this complex... Since you've been following this one from the beginning (and I thank you for that), I'm excited for you to see what is below that chamber with the undercut ledge where we turned around on this trip.
When I was in college, I didn't always go home for the holidays either and that led to some fun experiences!
My guess? P. OShea = Patrick O’Shea, an Irish miner.
Another good one. Thanks, Justin!
Love how you just start and stop your videos. Cheers
That shell looked like a .58 rimfire.. old! I think they were used as early as the civil war even. It matches the era of the dates on the walls.
This is the top tier of mine exploration right here! Way to go Justin and the crew. I would love to know what is down from the ledge of doom in that ballroom. Sensational work.
This mine is deep underground. My balls ain’t big or young enough to venture. Great work to all.
I would really like to see a map of this complex. To me, I have a challenging time keeping my directions updated.
I was also thinking that it would be quite easy to get lost in this one.
Wow! This place just keeps going!
And guys dug they way down there 130 years ago!!! By hand ... no drills, just muscles and sweat!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
What a great mine explore! Spans many decades. I think it's safe to assume the phrase "Don't shit where you eat" didn't come from miners!
Hope everyone has a good thanksgiving
Really cool mine that is a monkee wrench.
15:41 I have a couple of those wrenches, one that was my great grandfathers. It hangs on the wall with other items of the same nature. Thank you for another minty video Justin! That place is massive!
The flies in the coffee pot might be some sort of fungus gnat or fruit fly. Fruit fly larvae like almost anything damp and decaying. You can guess what fungus gnat larvae eat. As a side note; an old trick to dealing with fruit flies in a building is to leave out a half fill jug with sugar water and a drop of dish soap to disrupt the surface tension. It's amazing that somehow, way the fuck down there, it still works! haha
WOW an old flip top soda or beer bottle
Somehow I missed this one in the series, thsi place is really interesting with the artifacts and caves. That tobacco tin towards the end was really unusual...I need to show this to a friend who has a fondness for those things.
Complex mine with huge caverns and full of cool artifacts. Pretty sweet!
Wow. This is good. Cannot wait for next installment.👍
I love what we found in the next one...
An excellent video, I don’t want to be presumptuous but that whole complex appears to be limestone with a fair share of drifts cut out where they thought they could find the good stuff. I have climbed the limestone outcroppings along the American River near Auburn and limestone does form caves in the interior of the rock if there is enough water percolating long enough to erode the stone from inside. Limestone exposed to the sunlight and weather can have crude sharp serrated edges that will cut your clothes, boots, your ropes and skin.
The natural caverns in this mine are second to none. It seems good use was made of these caverns. Thanks Justin and Crew!
MA he is kissing me…is a lyric from a Tin Pan Alley song circa 1930, that monkey wrench-I got the same wrench hanging on hook in my farm shop, have a good day from Northwestern Montana.
Hi Justin, very cool they used the cave features as part of the mine, great lateral thinking whoever that was saying that the coffeepot flies came out of eggs in the wood. At 16:27, wow that was one huge wrench. Dr A Borshee's German Syrup was used for coughs and colds and any disease of the throat, lungs or chest and it was mostly composed of Morphine and Hydrocyanic acid. I love that old bucket and the Briggs tobacco tin, very cool to see. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Thank you, Sue, for the additional details on the Germany Syrup. It sounds like potent stuff! Yes, this mine just keep giving and giving on the interesting features and artifacts...
@@TVRExploring it certainly does, I cannot wait till the next part drops. x
Monkey wrench (small wrench)
@@alanbourne2332 exactly
This mine is very very amazing.
For me it looks like they went from one natureal cave to another and they filled them with backfill.
The Toilettedrift is a sign for me that this mine is very old or you are now in a very old sektion.
In Germany this drifts got to an end at 1903 .
In 1903 all mines must use Normed buckets to Do the business and they had to install warm and cold running water in the bunkhouse so the miner could clean theiself After the shift .
Background to this big change is a Germany wide Infektion with worms in the Guts of the miners .
That caused great damage.
Thank you for the Video yours Frank Galetzka
this mine is so large
what an amazing structure!
Beautiful, big mine! I love long featureless drifts, especially with nice parallel rail. Just feels nice to walk upright through them. Satisfying. Thank you for leaving all the artifacts in place. Those 1890s markings are candle soot
Nice one again Justin, this place is big for sure, nice artifacts down there, great explore.
J&J just love you guys! Awesome views and findings in this one🤩 Outstanding!
This series is fantastic, what an effort!
This turned out to be huge... Nice...
The BRIGGS tin is from the 1950's. love it,cool mine Guys !!!
Dude your videos are so awesome
Love the lighting and all your explores.. GREAT Job !!!
At 37:41 I believe the splotches are candle marks.
I was going to make the same comment. When they reached the end of the last drift there was a tiny hole under one black area, probably for a candle holder.
Notification squad 👍 can't wait for this one already hit the like button there always great
Your voice is very calming to listen to. Thanks for filming and narrating places I could never go to. I love getting to see the world one RUclips at a time. ❤
you do a great job,,,thank you...
It must be among the oldest fly-soup on this earth that you find in this mine.. :)
The H. MAU bottle is from my Great Great Great Uncle's general store and bottling company here in Eureka, NV. But the bottling company was short lived making those bottles very rare and worth a lot of money.
Apparently in the bathroom drift they had a hard time reaching the end. You always seem to find the interesting mines. When you were walking in that area that you said was a fresh collapse would that be the area below the 500 level where the water was and what possibly caused the collapse?
Do you ever say to yourself "I'm getting too old for this " ?
9:29 I always find it surprising how much rough terrain can slow you down. I haven't gone mine exploring (yet), but even in the woods, a poorly kept trail or slick mud can really slow you down and make it so much harder to move.
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
Your friend needs to quiet his rigging equipment hanging from his belt, otherwise he's going to give away your position to the flesh-eating zombies. (The Cave 2005) 😁
amazing explore. One of the best I’ve seen elsewhere
Another great video.Shortly before you saw that Prohibition Era liquor bottle was the name FRANCES L. COLLIER with an "E". Don't know if you realized it at the time but FRANCES is how women spell the name and FRANCIS with an "I" is how men spell the name. This gives your comment about someone having a good-ole-time more meaning if you consider this.
E P I C. Great work. 👍
The blob top bottle, H. MAU is circa 1870. It held mineral water and is worth about $150.00 very rare.
You'll always see some shit in the feces drift!
Well said!
That pipe wrench is from the 1920s.
That wrench was part of a tool kit that would come with any Ford automobile back in the day
*Grabs popcorn*
anna lang for that first name? didn't pause so could be wrong
Any record of what form the ore-body took? From the "cave" chambers, it looks like it was a huge descending pipe vein but with some sections as rake vein too.
That prince albert can probably has the mine deed/records or 500 dollar gold certificate bills.
Brew up your coffee and bugs that was funny that was a good
Very cool.
Y&ou can get all the Briggs Pipe mixture cans on E Bay from 10 to 15 bucks...
i think lots of these mines were root channels from titan tree stumps, if you examine the crystal sap resin and understand petrification then you are on to a winner
@36:00 That soda Bot. is worth about $1,100.00usd. That one is in good shape, to bad the stopper is missing but I bet its on the ground near by. Thank you for the always great videos.
Agreed, valuable soda bottle - I think a blob-top? But Justin is a conscientious mine explorer, he doesn't take items out, but leaves so future explorers can pause in wonderment. Knowing that's probably a very expensive bottle, I'd be awfully tempted...
What a great mine and its so good to see how much you guys enjoyed it too.Thanks for all your vids Justin I enjoy them all.I use to enjoy working underground and I know how much I would love to be able to explore like you do.
Always wondered, what to do if you are deep in the mine, and there is an earthquake.. do you ride it out? Or go as fast as you possibly can, go out?
Been there, just a rumble and vibration like a passing truck for about 3 seconds - put my back to the rib and rode it out. My head was on a swivel watching towards the exit. No falling crap off the back so just went ahead after about 5 minutes, then chickened out and headed back to the portal.
That Briggs on ebay is going for 10 to 15 bucks wonder what it cost new ?
Miner probably had power headaches from dynamite
Yes, that's what I was thinking!
Some kind of BIRD -look at legs
15:53 monkey wrench 👍
Will there be another video on this mine
Yes, this is an ongoing series...
@@TVRExploring thank you
Is there a map of this mine? 🇨🇦
Since I rock n rolled....
Unbelievable that this rabbit made it that far down.
Yes, I thought so as well!
Looks like that shell casing had 2 rimfire marks. The only gun that did that was the orgional Henry goldenboy. 45 Rimfire
At 3:45 orb dropped off the ceiling
That is a FORD wrench
Your cauldron that was catching water is a dutch oven
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10:46 - I'm such a sucker for beautiful lagging. 😉
those bottles are from about 1890's.
Soda, H. Mau & Co., Eureka, Nevada, Blue, 1880s
I keep expecting him to find Hamas down at the bottom.
Well, we still haven't gotten to the bottom. So, they may well be down there.
Thats a spud wrench
wth you didnt take the quest @11:37
Boshees German syrup.
Physical Description:
sulp. morphine, 0.24 grain alcohol 1.75%