Just want to express thanks for clarifying the definitions of the words you use for the newbies. I've been here for a bit, but it's certainly nice to have a refresher every once in a while
Thanks, Zac! I sometimes feel like a broken record saying, "A stope is the void that remains after miners extract a body of ore", but, as you mentioned, there are people tuning in for the first time.
Well, if you saw the Ghost Voice Video in the Waldeck Mine and Thru Nite Tc14, you would know that Mr Explorer would say about the descent "wow, must be another explorer or something. I saw some tracks that looked pretty fresh but we should probably head out because we've reached about as far as I can go. It's getting kinda hard to stand up, I think there might be bad air so I'm just gonna go" lol Keeps his cool
Not recommended. It's similar to exploring a cave. If you go in yourself, espeically unprepared and uneducated of the dangers you could face, you're doomed.
This is an awesome video! Being that I am a miner myself(I work in an open pit copper mine in south AZ) it's always cool to see the videos you post. Can't wait for more! Keep em coming!!! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Thanks, man! Always nice to hear from a professional in the field who can correct and clarify some information I present in some of my videos. Thanks for checking in!
I remember one of the guys from Mojave Underground posting on a forum years ago that they encountered a ring-tailed cat really deep in a mine. I want to say it was something like 600 feet underground or something like that.
I'd need a backpack full of flashlights, chargers, batteries and flashlights to feel safe in a flat, stable, mine. These mines are nightmares to me, LOVE this channel, so amazing, THANKS for showing us your adventures, great videography, I think that's a word lol
You basically describe my backpack in your comment. LOL Thanks for supporting my channel! I appreciate it. Always nice to hear when a viewer is enjoying my videos and getting something out of them.
Say one thing about this mine. Sure must have had a lot of workers digging way it looks shafts going all over in there . Glad your still doing these old mines Thanks Frank for all the time it takes to editing and putting it on here 👍
Thank you for your comment, Ronnie! I don’t know how many men worked in this mine back in the day but I don’t think it would be that many - maybe four or five at the most? Not really sure, though. Good hearing from you again! Thanks for your support!
So very true what you said about that dangerous 'Void' on the 'backs' in that stope at the 2min 40sec mark. I've seen many over the years. Air-leg Miners/Miners use long 'pinch bars' which are crowbar tips fitted to the end of very long light hollow steel bars to 'scale-down' those loose voids and or rocks, commonly after blasting… The trouble is that the Miner does not know the state of the 'ground'/'backs' - if it is fractured above the void that can't be seen! A Air-leg Miner I know of was scaling-down after blasting and got crushed by tons of Basalt rocks. The 'ground'/'backs' was fractured above where he was standing, well back from the void/loose rocks that he was 'scaling-down'. When the void was scaled/dropped, it unlocked the jigsaw puzzle so to speak, of fractured rocks above in the area and it all fell. So even when standing back from a dangerous spot on the 'backs', the whole area above you could be just as bad or worse!
I appreciate you sharing this extra bit of information. I kind of figured they would have had some kind of tool to stick in those voids to pull down those ceiling layers that didn’t seem to be hanging on by much.
It did seem rather clean compared to other abandoned mines that I’ve been in, didn’t it? I don’t know - there was something special about this particular abandoned mine that I just can’t quite put my finger on. It’s a special place. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!
Frank wish you had robot RC Truck hooked to a gopro and sent it down that shaft see whats there. Get yourself a fishing pole so in case you cant bring the rc back. Quiet interesting maybe it leads to another mine. God bless great content.
Thanks for your comment! A lot of people have suggested using an RC car or something like that or even a drone to explore less accessible areas of a mine. I would just be afraid of something that high-tech and that expensive getting damaged or becoming totally broken while navigating some of those tight spaces.
What I find amazing about the retaining walls is that they are on a pretty decent angle. All of those rocks behind the wall are constantly pushing down on the wall, so I'm surprised the walls haven't given way and collapsed. Thanks for your comments, Mike!
@@AbandonedMines11 Thank YOU for taking me places I am unable to go. I live in Hutchinson, KS... Home of the Carey salt mines... Too big to be entertaining but that's the way the rock crumbles 😀
Does this guy's voice seen subtlely calming to anyone else? Maybe he reminds me of my uncle when he and I would explore abandoned mines when I was very young (5-12 yrs.old). Now at 40, I'm living in Golden, CO. and continuing my abandoned adventures again 28 yrs later, I'm loving it I
You are very courageous to go under like that. I love to watch some of your old videos from time to time. Always interesting. I learn a lot from you. 💖
Thank you very much! The older videos are interesting. If you go back far enough, they are terrible. Bad camera, low resolution, terrible filming skills. I've improved over time, I think. Like a good red wine. LOL
Satisfying video. At first I kinda wished you’d have spun that wheel for some reason. When you didn’t, I began to appreciate the fact you passed it by leaving it as you found it. Every time you looked down a ladder I found myself thinking “well he ain’t going down......” and then you went. Bravo! Full of feck you are mate!
You bring up a good point. Usually I don’t bother handling the artifacts if they are something large like that. It’s best just to leave them alone, I guess. And who can pass by a relatively safe-looking ladder system and not go down it? I know I can’t! LOL
Excellent as always and far braver than me. I worked in a South African Gold mine many years ago , hated it with a passion and was always glad to finish a shift alive.
I always enjoy hearing from miners or retired miners like yourself. Do the mines here in the United States look the same as the ones in South Africa? I suppose they do. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
Thanks, Ezekiel, for your comment! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos on my channel. Yes, there definitely is something fascinating about old, abandoned mines and going underground into them. I’ll have more videos of abandoned mines coming very soon.
He climbed down and up all those ladders, lit only by flashlights, inside a mine shaft. He must be in incredible shape. All that exertion would about kill me, that and the catastrophic feeling of being inside a dark mine shaft.
Lots of Shafts n Ladders For Sure... Mine Company Must Have Also Been I’m The Ladder Business.. Those Droppings Look Like it Was From a Chupacabra..Awsum 👍🏻🤠🇺🇸
Definitely built differently, in a lot of aspects. But they didn't live as long as we do now, though. These old-time miners worked in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions that wouldn't be tolerated today. Different times. Would be cool, though, to time-travel back to the 1880s when this mine was being worked and hang out for a couple days.
It's been a slow summer. With all the social distancing going on, why not head out to the desert to some abandoned mines? Can't get anymore socially distanced than that, right? Thanks, David, for watching and commenting!
I did not see any other modern graffiti inside the mine with a date after 1960, so those explorers may very well have been the last ones in there. Probably not, though. At any rate, it’s quite obvious that the mine doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic to begin with. Thank you for your comment!
Amazing tour entering by veins of The earth , and it’s so crazy stuff still intact after years , scare been alone for those tunnels, thanks for the vid !! My respect sir !!
If I were a betting man I'd bet that wooden sheave was used as a haulage cable redirect to connect to a mule... maybe. Great content good sir! Spent time working underground in a zinc mine and that "bell wire"you saw is also called a knocker line at some mines. Our signal for cage to collar (surface) was 3-1-2-1 which vary by mine site. I'd also bet that gobbing was multi purpose as in back support and air control perhaps. Dry in the lower levels also didn't see any water. Elevation I guess played a part I'm sure. Keep it up but stay safe! Glad you're aware of the dangerous gases that could be present
Someone else has suggested that wooden wheel might’ve been used with the burros inside the mine. I don’t know. But I think you guys are onto something. I always enjoy when you miners and former miners chime in with your thoughts and comments on things I show in my videos. Often I don’t get things right or don’t really know what I’m talking about, so it’s nice when you can interject your opinions and things like that. I really appreciate it, and I know the other viewers do, too! In a couple of the abandoned mines that I’ve been in, I’ve actually found the bell signal charts at the top of the shaft and things like that. I think I’ve only seen two of those over the last 12 years or so. They are kind of rare. I forgot to mention in my narration that those walls of gobbing are also used for support of the ceiling. Thanks for pointing that fact out about them being used as support. It’s all very fascinating stuff underground, and that’s why a lot of us who do this as a hobby really enjoy it. With modern mining technology, some of the stuff you see in my videos just isn’t done anymore. It’s becoming a lost art form. I’m talking about things like the wooden ore chutes, the timbering, and things like that. Thanks for your support - I really appreciate it!
Great content again! Nicely done. Knowledge is more useful when shared. The vernacular does vary from site to site at working mines, however its mostly universal at the core. The way I was taught was pretend you're looking down the throat of the whale that swallowed Jonah ( ° ). Sounds silly but the rib is the wall of a drift and the ceiling is the back. Made sense to me when I was a newbie but as it turns out that same language is used at other sites. Ingress and egress are terms used at some mines as well.
Wow.. that was a lot of ladders. The massive amount of gobbing is awesome and means they dug a lot of ore. The grooves from the cable in that wood beam at the bend in the shaft really give an insight to the cable system. Maybe that wheel was on a cart that burros pulled, who knows what kind of carts they used that long ago, probably wooden. Ring Tailed cats are pretty cool, I had to trap and relocate a couple that were peeing on a copper roof I did on top of a mountain. It was turning the roof green and the customer wanted it to naturally turn that color. Thank you for showing me the lower levels and the video is outstanding!
Thanks again, Michael! i liked your story about the ringtail cat urinating on a copper roof that you installed! Thanks for sharing that anecdote. Made me chuckle. Always appreciate your thoughtful comments. And, of course, thank you for taking the time to watch the video in the first place. Part 3 will be coming soon!
Hi Frank, the thing you thought could be an Arastra, I don't think it was because it didn't seem man enough to cope with that as it's job. I am really worried for you at the moment as there are a lot of earthquakes going off up and down the San Andrea's Fault and in SoCal and Nevada, please stay safe my friend. With the ring tailed cat it's commonly called or known as a "Miner's Cat". Wow that bend in the incline shaft is bizarre, the only way it could work is if a man was there to help the skip turn onto it's final straight, what idiot thought though that it would be a good idea lol. What a crazy but very cool mine, thanks Frank for taking us along. xx💖
Hey, Sue! There certainly has been a lot of seismic activity in California lately. These old mines sure are getting vibrations sent through them. Jeremy and I saw a ring-tailed cat once but it was outside a cabin at the Minnietta Mine in the Panamint Mountains. I have never seen one down inside a mine. When Jeremy, Tony, and I were exploring the Nikolaus Eureka Mine six years ago, Tony caught what sounded distinctly like a cat's meow in his footage when we were 300 feet underground. None of us heard the meow at the time, though. Tony only heard it when he was playing back his footage at home on his computer. He attributed it to something inside his camera making that noise -- perhaps a gear or ball-bearing turning or something like that. However, it did sound like a meow. Do ring-tail cats meow like an ordinary house cat would? If so, there might've been one way down there in the Nikolaus Eureka Mine.
@@AbandonedMines11 Apparently they don't miaow but make clicks and barks, here is some great info along with a cute pic - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_cat
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know. I hope to take you on another tour of new areas inside this particular abandoned mine soon. Stay tuned!
Hey, Jeff! No, I’ve never gotten lost while exploring an abandoned mine. I realize the editing of the video makes the mine layout seem rather complicated but it really isn’t. There is usually only one way in and one way out. The branching tunnels usually lead to dead ends. This mine in particular had a grid layout with the two parallel inclined shafts being perpendicularly bisected by the four horizontal levels. Really can’t get lost in something like that. And it’s nice knowing that there’s more than one way out in this mine in case a part of it would collapse.
I really appreciate hearing from viewers like you who are really happy and satisfied with my RUclips channel. Thanks for all of your support and interest in my videos. I really do appreciate it. More videos coming soon!
I hope that you went and explored that lower area of the incline shaft that you found. I would be interested to see what is down there behind all the trash deposited there. Great video!
I’ll have a Part 3 and probably a Part 4 coming out in the series at a later date that will hopefully be showing that area. Thanks, James, for watching and commenting!
Yes, sometimes the comments can shed extra information about what was in the video if more knowledgeable explorers and miners chime in with their thoughts and comments.
Excellent video sir frank! ... those stairs were kept in condition despite the years, I imagine it is due to the absence of humidity. His memory is incredible to remember the way back, it felt good to see the light at the end of the tunnel hahaha
You’re right about the humidity, Danny - It really does preserve the wood in these mines. Basically no moisture whatsoever. Thanks for your comment and feedback!
Nice to see some Victorian workings Frank ,little in the way of collapsing, the older the mine the less damage from contract drivers using very high explosives ,very good explore.
I never thought about that aspect of the old-time dynamite being less destructive than the more modern versions. I suppose that would have something to do with how clean this mine was.
@@AbandonedMines11 yes Frank exactly, eg a black powder level would break the rock in the for breast and not shatter the rock in the immediate area,,always check the size of the drill holes, and the different diameters of dynamite in different time periods,I know that's a little beyond exploring but you will get a feel for this. Contractors were paid by the foot, they just blasted there way through,1870s we saw the first contract level drivers in the UK, they were not classed as miners they were developers getting the miners to the viens,
I don't understand how you don't get turned around going in and out of all those tunnels . It was fascinating to watch though. I'd never have the bravery of seeing those places with my own eyes.
A lot of people say that. I think what happens is that the editing of the video makes the mine layout seem very confusing. It really is one way in and one way out. This mine was laid out like a grid. The two parallel inclined shafts went down to three or four lower levels that were perpendicular to the inclined shafts. A total grid! Hope that makes sense!
I imagine that with the ability today to extract even the tiniest amount of metal from material passed over by earlier efforts that almost all of these metal mines have potential ore in them. The Shafter mine (on standby, not abandoned) here in Texas explored by drilling test cores out from previously abandoned tunnels and found several million more ounces of silver bearing ore nearby.
I know of an abandoned gold mine in Nevada that we explored years ago. It had an inclined shaft that went down five or six levels. Mine hadn’t been operated since probably the 1950s. Anyway, a modern mining company went in there and did some surveying with some new, high-tech equipment and discovered some kind of magnetic anomaly a few hundred yatds southwest of the inclined shaft or something like that. Bottom line is that the magnetic anomaly showed that there was more ore left in there. I believe that old, abandoned mine will be turned into an open-put mine to extract the ore that the old-time miners were unable to detect or had no idea was even there in the first place.
Frank this mine is one of your best uploads... I feel like you could do a whole season on this mine! How deep do you think this thing is? And it looks so extensive for such a short operation in terms of years - I wonder why they stopped.
That area that I looked down into near the end where the ladder disappeared under rubble seemed to go back quite a ways. Also, when I made it down to the third level by climbing down those two ladders, I did not look to see how far the tunnel went to the left. I only went to the right. The upper tunnel is also somewhat extensive.
@@AbandonedMines11 that's so awesome I think they are extremely BEAUTIFUL animals Btw I love your videos I've watched so far I subscribed and am looking forward to watch more Thank you for what you do may you always stay safe!!💛
Super love and appreciate the videos you post and the adventures and finds you often come across! I live in a city state so there's not really any caves we can explore in but its really nice to see how mines all look and learn some of the terms that come with it :) Thank you for doing what you do and great video once again!
Hi, Claudia! Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the feedback. Glad you are vicariously enjoying exploring underground by watching my videos. I love hearing that!
Can you do a video of a "beginners guide" for exploring mines, like what equipment to bring and what to look for and how to tell if a mine is safe enough to explore! I'd really appreciate the information! Thanks
Great question, Mike! Unfortunately, I would feel very uncomfortable providing someone with no experience a complete "beginners guide" for exploring abandoned mines including what equipment to bring, how to tell if a mine is safe, and what to look for. You know -- liability, etc.. I started out by finding the small abandoned mines about 90 minutes outside of my city. Even then, I didn't go in them. Met some other locals who were coincidentally doing the same thing, so we partnered up and began going in them. 100 foot tunnels, basically. Met some more experienced explorers shortly after that and began going to the bigger, multi-level mines out in the desert. Learned a lot from those guys! It got to the point where I felt comfortable enough going out on my own. So...try to find some other local people where you live who want to hook up and show you the ropes. That's the best way to do it. You'll figure it out as you go along.
Thanks for the feedback, Nikolas! Yes, I try to explain and define certain terms. Sometimes I feel it gets a bit repetitive in each video, but I realize some viewers are tuning in for the first time and haven't heard the explanations before.
Well I’m late rrrrrrr absolutely impressive mine wasn’t expecting that the wall of gobbing was really cool awesome job frank when gly was exploring a mine he got a miners cat on film really cool looking this was definitely a mine that kept on giving love it as always thanks frank an be safe 👍👍👍
They sometimes do reopen when a big mining company buys up the claims. Often they'll dig an open-pit mine which obliterates the mountain and the old, underground workings. Hate to see the old mine workings destroyed like that along with all the artifacts, but that's how it goes. I just published a video about a month ago where I descend into an old, abandoned open-pit mine and found some tunnels that were still accessible from when the original gold mine was there back in the late 1800s! Pretty cool! Thanks, David, for your comment!
What a amazing mine All that timbering and hoitst were in great condotion because this mine is very dry The groves in the timber at the bend were from the cabels that scratches there i think Very good Video Yours Frank
The reason I didn’t mention out loud that the cable might’ve caused those grooves in the bend is because I was thinking that the cable would’ve been suspended from the ceiling in the shaft. Just proves how little I know about these abandoned mines even after all these years! LOL
How are things with you? Things are going OK with me. Still getting out to an abandoned mine every once in a long while. Glad to hear from you again! Thank you once again for all of your support here.
Thank you, Mike, for taking the time to watch and comment. Hope you enjoyed the entire three-part series on this abandoned mine. It was a fascinating abandoned mine!
The lines in the wood were from the cable system that helped bring the carts up. The metal angled piece had wheels or rollers on it to guide the cable around the corner vs. sawing through the wood like the others (important load bearing beam).
Thank you for the information! I appreciate it. I’m sure the other viewers will, too. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out how these mechanisms worked. Thank you for your insight.
You're a brave man. This is cool as hell, but creepy at the same time. I couldn't do it. I'd be afraid of some undiscovered creature with razor sharp teeth, lurking around the next corner!!!
I agree that exploring abandoned mines is not for everybody. But I’m glad you can follow along vicariously from the safety and comfort of your own home. Thanks for doing that, and thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I really appreciate your support!
@@AbandonedMines11 Yes, for that I am grateful. I'm just always afraid that you may come across some "unhappy" critter or something creepy when you explore. I guess it's my own fears I'm projecting. Lol Anyhoo, stay safe!! And thanks for responding!! That means a lot to me. 👍😊
Actually, I don't think miners made a lot of money. The owner of the mine made all the money. But you're right -- it definitely was some dangerous, confined workspaces. Thanks for your comment!
Excellent video as always!!! This mine was definitely extensive, I hope you get a chance to explore the lowest level and the upper levels, definitely interesting. The gobbing you filmed that made up one tunnel wall, did that extend between two levels? Excellent exploration Franks, genuine thanks for sharing, stay safe/
Yes, the gobbing wall that you saw on the second level was in between the second and third level. When I got down to the third level after climbing down those two ladders, I showed the retaining wall on the right hand side. All of that gobbing was sandwiched behind that up to where it formed that wall on the second level in the stope.
hi from australia, just love your channel, taking me to places i would love to go to but far to scared, your channel and knowledge is amazing, thanks for great videos
Hey, Ruth! Nice to have a fan down under! Thanks for checking in and letting me know you are enjoying my videos. I appreciate that. Thank you for your support.
Very nice and deep explore! But what you called a 'second inclined shaft' was a stope equipped with ladders to provide a secondary access or escape route. And that large wheel might have been used to redirect the haulage cable around the bend in the incline when they needed it. That or it was used with a slusher to drag the ore over to the incline. 👍👍
Yes, that “second shaft” really wasn’t an inclined shaft like the first one was. As you mentioned, it was more like an emergency escape or a secondary access for that stope. However, on the fourth level there was another inclined shaft down there with a headframe not too far up in the stope. That shaft had tracks and an inverted ladder underneath which went under all that rubble and which looks like it went far down into a lower areas of the mine. Perhaps a fifth level?
Exploring Abandoned Mines and Unusual Places Dang it, I can't "Read more.." on comments! Only got to "...on the fourth..."! Could you redo that last part so I can read what you said?
Image the way out colapses, your flashlight dies after a few hours searching another entrance and after 3 days in total darkness you start to hallucinate and die of thirst. Not my favourite way to die ^^
Whoa, massive mine! Definitely need multiple videos to do the exploration justice. Can't believe people did all this by hand...we're looking at years of daily labor
This guy has fossilized diamond gold coated balls to be going down there on his own.
Give him a thumbs up.
Just want to express thanks for clarifying the definitions of the words you use for the newbies. I've been here for a bit, but it's certainly nice to have a refresher every once in a while
Thanks, Zac! I sometimes feel like a broken record saying, "A stope is the void that remains after miners extract a body of ore", but, as you mentioned, there are people tuning in for the first time.
@@AbandonedMines11 Yes, me, and i appreciate the explanation, thanks.
@@AbandonedMines11 I love the lengthy descriptions of everything you are looking at. Def my favorite mine explorer!
No problem!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
Imagine watching The Descent and then exploring something like this by yourself!
Well, if you saw the Ghost Voice Video in the Waldeck Mine and Thru Nite Tc14, you would know that Mr Explorer would say about the descent "wow, must be another explorer or something. I saw some tracks that looked pretty fresh but we should probably head out because we've reached about as far as I can go. It's getting kinda hard to stand up, I think there might be bad air so I'm just gonna go" lol
Keeps his cool
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Why would you put that thought in my head
Ive watched the decent then gone into a cave . Talk about creepy.
The Decent was pretty good, but The Amazing was better, imo.
Not recommended. It's similar to exploring a cave. If you go in yourself, espeically unprepared and uneducated of the dangers you could face, you're doomed.
This is an awesome video!
Being that I am a miner myself(I work in an open pit copper mine in south AZ) it's always cool to see the videos you post. Can't wait for more! Keep em coming!!!
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Thanks, man! Always nice to hear from a professional in the field who can correct and clarify some information I present in some of my videos. Thanks for checking in!
Gly and Frank from Canada encountered a live Miners Cat in a mine they were exploring, very fascinating how they have taken refuge in mines.
I remember one of the guys from Mojave Underground posting on a forum years ago that they encountered a ring-tailed cat really deep in a mine. I want to say it was something like 600 feet underground or something like that.
Andre the Giant Has a posse Really? I did not know that!
It's what those cats do is crawl around in rocks hunting rodents and birds. Used to encounter them rockclimbing AZ. Eyes glow yellow at night.
Thanks for the additional ring-tailed cat information!
I'd need a backpack full of flashlights, chargers, batteries and flashlights to feel safe in a flat, stable, mine. These mines are nightmares to me, LOVE this channel, so amazing, THANKS for showing us your adventures, great videography, I think that's a word lol
You basically describe my backpack in your comment. LOL Thanks for supporting my channel! I appreciate it. Always nice to hear when a viewer is enjoying my videos and getting something out of them.
I could watch these all day
Say one thing about this mine. Sure must have had a lot of workers digging way it looks shafts going all over in there . Glad your still doing these old mines Thanks Frank for all the time it takes to editing and putting it on here 👍
Thank you for your comment, Ronnie! I don’t know how many men worked in this mine back in the day but I don’t think it would be that many - maybe four or five at the most? Not really sure, though. Good hearing from you again! Thanks for your support!
So very true what you said about that dangerous 'Void' on the 'backs' in that stope at the 2min 40sec mark. I've seen many over the years. Air-leg Miners/Miners use long 'pinch bars' which are crowbar tips fitted to the end of very long light hollow steel bars to 'scale-down' those loose voids and or rocks, commonly after blasting… The trouble is that the Miner does not know the state of the 'ground'/'backs' - if it is fractured above the void that can't be seen! A Air-leg Miner I know of was scaling-down after blasting and got crushed by tons of Basalt rocks. The 'ground'/'backs' was fractured above where he was standing, well back from the void/loose rocks that he was 'scaling-down'. When the void was scaled/dropped, it unlocked the jigsaw puzzle so to speak, of fractured rocks above in the area and it all fell. So even when standing back from a dangerous spot on the 'backs', the whole area above you could be just as bad or worse!
I appreciate you sharing this extra bit of information. I kind of figured they would have had some kind of tool to stick in those voids to pull down those ceiling layers that didn’t seem to be hanging on by much.
Thank you for this material!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for spending some time here. I appreciate it!
Thank you , please stay healthy Frank .
Hi, Mark! Good hearing from you again! Thanks for your comment.
You just have to admire the level of workmanship from that time. The place seems really tidy.
It did seem rather clean compared to other abandoned mines that I’ve been in, didn’t it? I don’t know - there was something special about this particular abandoned mine that I just can’t quite put my finger on. It’s a special place. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!
Frank wish you had robot RC Truck hooked to a gopro and sent it down that shaft see whats there. Get yourself a fishing pole so in case you cant bring the rc back. Quiet interesting maybe it leads to another mine. God bless great content.
Thanks for your comment! A lot of people have suggested using an RC car or something like that or even a drone to explore less accessible areas of a mine. I would just be afraid of something that high-tech and that expensive getting damaged or becoming totally broken while navigating some of those tight spaces.
The retaining walls are always mind blowing. The woodworking everywhere is just as amazing.
What I find amazing about the retaining walls is that they are on a pretty decent angle. All of those rocks behind the wall are constantly pushing down on the wall, so I'm surprised the walls haven't given way and collapsed. Thanks for your comments, Mike!
@@AbandonedMines11 Thank YOU for taking me places I am unable to go. I live in Hutchinson, KS... Home of the Carey salt mines... Too big to be entertaining but that's the way the rock crumbles 😀
Does this guy's voice seen subtlely calming to anyone else? Maybe he reminds me of my uncle when he and I would explore abandoned mines when I was very young (5-12 yrs.old). Now at 40, I'm living in Golden, CO. and continuing my abandoned adventures again 28 yrs later, I'm loving it I
Thanks for your comment! Glad to hear you've gotten back into exploring abandoned mines. I know Colorado has a lot of them. You're in good territory!
Great job on the Video, thanks for bringing us along...........Most excellent, sir...................JB..................
Really exciting video! Very extensive mine indeed
Thank you for your comment! I appreciate your support. Glad you are enjoying my videos.
You are very courageous to go under like that. I love to watch some of your old videos from time to time. Always interesting. I learn a lot from you. 💖
Thank you very much! The older videos are interesting. If you go back far enough, they are terrible. Bad camera, low resolution, terrible filming skills. I've improved over time, I think. Like a good red wine. LOL
Thats some old old workings,,, awesome explore, thanks for sharing!
Hey, Paul! Thanks for leaving a comment! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Its always interesting to see these old mines. Hope you stay safe out there and thanks for the amazing content.
Again thanks for let me join you on this explore this explore and yep more workings than claimed
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for letting me know.
I've done some mine exploring in the past and oh boy, watching this is fulfilling a huge fantasy I have always had. Good video!
Nobody Has Explored This Abandoned Mine in a Long Time.... sounds perfect for you, great vid
Thanks, Richie!
Btw, I just realized, a miner had to have been the inventor of 'Chutes and ladders' board game 😀
I think you might be right, Mike!
You go on cool adventures! Thank you for taking us along for the ride.
Thanks for watching, Laura! Glad to have you following along. I appreciate your support.
Satisfying video. At first I kinda wished you’d have spun that wheel for some reason. When you didn’t, I began to appreciate the fact you passed it by leaving it as you found it. Every time you looked down a ladder I found myself thinking “well he ain’t going down......” and then you went. Bravo! Full of feck you are mate!
You bring up a good point. Usually I don’t bother handling the artifacts if they are something large like that. It’s best just to leave them alone, I guess. And who can pass by a relatively safe-looking ladder system and not go down it? I know I can’t! LOL
Excellent as always and far braver than me. I worked in a South African Gold mine many years ago , hated it with a passion and was always glad to finish a shift alive.
I always enjoy hearing from miners or retired miners like yourself. Do the mines here in the United States look the same as the ones in South Africa? I suppose they do. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!
old mines fascinate the heck out of me and i dont know why, but i love this channel!
Thanks, Ezekiel, for your comment! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos on my channel. Yes, there definitely is something fascinating about old, abandoned mines and going underground into them. I’ll have more videos of abandoned mines coming very soon.
He climbed down and up all those ladders, lit only by flashlights, inside a mine shaft.
He must be in incredible shape. All that exertion would about kill me, that and the catastrophic feeling of being inside a dark mine shaft.
being a gem miner has to be the most rewarding job. finding a red ruby or something must feel so good.
I'd settle for a gold nugget!
These abandoned mines look like hell on earth
Lots of Shafts n Ladders For Sure... Mine Company Must Have Also Been I’m The
Ladder Business.. Those Droppings Look Like it Was From a Chupacabra..Awsum
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Thanks, man! I appreciate you stopping by!
The miner's dug all of this out.. Tuff men,built differently..
Definitely built differently, in a lot of aspects. But they didn't live as long as we do now, though. These old-time miners worked in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions that wouldn't be tolerated today. Different times. Would be cool, though, to time-travel back to the 1880s when this mine was being worked and hang out for a couple days.
Thanks so much for videoing.
Thank you very much, Katherine, for watching and commenting!
Thank you Frank, looks like there might be quite a bit more to explore. Have a great rest of your day!
I'll have more footage from this mine coming soon! Thanks, Doug!
I'm so glad the quiet spell is well and truly behind us!
It's been a slow summer. With all the social distancing going on, why not head out to the desert to some abandoned mines? Can't get anymore socially distanced than that, right? Thanks, David, for watching and commenting!
This was an incredible mine. Many workings. Very intricate. Very exciting!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for letting me know! Part 3 will be coming soon.
@@AbandonedMines11 Thank you, Frank! Cannot wait :)
Great video of a really well preserved old mine. Thanks for all the great footage. Stay safe and keep bringing excellent mine videos to us!
Thanks for your comment, Stanley! More videos coming soon!
Way Kool 😎!!! Thank you !!!!
Thanks for commenting, Tony!
It’s crazy to think someone who was there in ‘60 probably isn’t even alive anymore. It really has been a long time since anyone was in there.
I did not see any other modern graffiti inside the mine with a date after 1960, so those explorers may very well have been the last ones in there. Probably not, though. At any rate, it’s quite obvious that the mine doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic to begin with. Thank you for your comment!
They probably are still alive.
My grandpa was born 1946 and hes still alive.
@@AverageFrenchPerson I can top that. My grandpa was born in 1938 and he is still around.
My dad was born in 1933 and he is still around!
OHHHH
Amazing tour entering by veins of The earth , and it’s so crazy stuff still intact after years , scare been alone for those tunnels, thanks for the vid !!
My respect sir !!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your support, Dann!
If I were a betting man I'd bet that wooden sheave was used as a haulage cable redirect to connect to a mule... maybe. Great content good sir! Spent time working underground in a zinc mine and that "bell wire"you saw is also called a knocker line at some mines. Our signal for cage to collar (surface) was 3-1-2-1 which vary by mine site. I'd also bet that gobbing was multi purpose as in back support and air control perhaps. Dry in the lower levels also didn't see any water. Elevation I guess played a part I'm sure. Keep it up but stay safe! Glad you're aware of the dangerous gases that could be present
Someone else has suggested that wooden wheel might’ve been used with the burros inside the mine. I don’t know. But I think you guys are onto something. I always enjoy when you miners and former miners chime in with your thoughts and comments on things I show in my videos. Often I don’t get things right or don’t really know what I’m talking about, so it’s nice when you can interject your opinions and things like that. I really appreciate it, and I know the other viewers do, too! In a couple of the abandoned mines that I’ve been in, I’ve actually found the bell signal charts at the top of the shaft and things like that. I think I’ve only seen two of those over the last 12 years or so. They are kind of rare. I forgot to mention in my narration that those walls of gobbing are also used for support of the ceiling. Thanks for pointing that fact out about them being used as support. It’s all very fascinating stuff underground, and that’s why a lot of us who do this as a hobby really enjoy it. With modern mining technology, some of the stuff you see in my videos just isn’t done anymore. It’s becoming a lost art form. I’m talking about things like the wooden ore chutes, the timbering, and things like that. Thanks for your support - I really appreciate it!
Great content again! Nicely done. Knowledge is more useful when shared. The vernacular does vary from site to site at working mines, however its mostly universal at the core. The way I was taught was pretend you're looking down the throat of the whale that swallowed Jonah ( ° ). Sounds silly but the rib is the wall of a drift and the ceiling is the back. Made sense to me when I was a newbie but as it turns out that same language is used at other sites. Ingress and egress are terms used at some mines as well.
Wow.. that was a lot of ladders. The massive amount of gobbing is awesome and means they dug a lot of ore. The grooves from the cable in that wood beam at the bend in the shaft really give an insight to the cable system. Maybe that wheel was on a cart that burros pulled, who knows what kind of carts they used that long ago, probably wooden. Ring Tailed cats are pretty cool, I had to trap and relocate a couple that were peeing on a copper roof I did on top of a mountain. It was turning the roof green and the customer wanted it to naturally turn that color. Thank you for showing me the lower levels and the video is outstanding!
Thanks again, Michael! i liked your story about the ringtail cat urinating on a copper roof that you installed! Thanks for sharing that anecdote. Made me chuckle. Always appreciate your thoughtful comments. And, of course, thank you for taking the time to watch the video in the first place. Part 3 will be coming soon!
This episode didn't disappoint! Excellent!
I’m glad to hear that! Thank you for the feedback. And thanks for taking the time to comment as well.
Excellent job on the solo explore, Frank. We might have to go back with you and find the hidden treasure. You know I like to dig.
You and Julie will like this one! Thanks for taking the time to watch the video, you guys.
@@AbandonedMines11 You are welcome, sir.
Very nice find Frank, thank you for taking us there with you.
You’re welcome, Bernard! Thank you for following along and supporting my channel. Much appreciated on this end!
Wow!!! Such an incredible find. Thanks for all your exploring for all of us vicariously observing.
Glad you enjoyed it Part 3 will be coming out soon. Lot more to see here.
Part two, that was fun
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for letting me know. Thank you, too, for leaving a comment!
Hi Frank, the thing you thought could be an Arastra, I don't think it was because it didn't seem man enough to cope with that as it's job. I am really worried for you at the moment as there are a lot of earthquakes going off up and down the San Andrea's Fault and in SoCal and Nevada, please stay safe my friend. With the ring tailed cat it's commonly called or known as a "Miner's Cat". Wow that bend in the incline shaft is bizarre, the only way it could work is if a man was there to help the skip turn onto it's final straight, what idiot thought though that it would be a good idea lol. What a crazy but very cool mine, thanks Frank for taking us along. xx💖
Hey, Sue! There certainly has been a lot of seismic activity in California lately. These old mines sure are getting vibrations sent through them. Jeremy and I saw a ring-tailed cat once but it was outside a cabin at the Minnietta Mine in the Panamint Mountains. I have never seen one down inside a mine. When Jeremy, Tony, and I were exploring the Nikolaus Eureka Mine six years ago, Tony caught what sounded distinctly like a cat's meow in his footage when we were 300 feet underground. None of us heard the meow at the time, though. Tony only heard it when he was playing back his footage at home on his computer. He attributed it to something inside his camera making that noise -- perhaps a gear or ball-bearing turning or something like that. However, it did sound like a meow. Do ring-tail cats meow like an ordinary house cat would? If so, there might've been one way down there in the Nikolaus Eureka Mine.
@@AbandonedMines11 Apparently they don't miaow but make clicks and barks, here is some great info along with a cute pic - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_cat
awesome tour!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know. I hope to take you on another tour of new areas inside this particular abandoned mine soon. Stay tuned!
I absolutely love watching you climb up and down these mines it's incredible you have somebody waiting for you and have you ever gotten lost
Hey, Jeff! No, I’ve never gotten lost while exploring an abandoned mine. I realize the editing of the video makes the mine layout seem rather complicated but it really isn’t. There is usually only one way in and one way out. The branching tunnels usually lead to dead ends. This mine in particular had a grid layout with the two parallel inclined shafts being perpendicularly bisected by the four horizontal levels. Really can’t get lost in something like that. And it’s nice knowing that there’s more than one way out in this mine in case a part of it would collapse.
You really are amazing keep up the good work I love watching you
You never disappoint sir.
Thanks for dropping in! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video and comment.
One of the best channels on this platform.
Hope you're staying healthy and happy, brotha. Thanks for the entertainment.
I really appreciate hearing from viewers like you who are really happy and satisfied with my RUclips channel. Thanks for all of your support and interest in my videos. I really do appreciate it. More videos coming soon!
These mines are like time capsules back to the daily work places of miners back in the day!
That’s a great assessment, Nick! They definitely are time capsules. I like that! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts!
@@AbandonedMines11 You're welcome thanks for sharing these awesome videos!!
I hope that you went and explored that lower area of the incline shaft that you found. I would be interested to see what is down there behind all the trash deposited there. Great video!
I’ll have a Part 3 and probably a Part 4 coming out in the series at a later date that will hopefully be showing that area. Thanks, James, for watching and commenting!
Very interesting read in the comments and answers on this channel. Thanks for the tour.
Yes, sometimes the comments can shed extra information about what was in the video if more knowledgeable explorers and miners chime in with their thoughts and comments.
Excellent video sir frank! ... those stairs were kept in condition despite the years, I imagine it is due to the absence of humidity. His memory is incredible to remember the way back, it felt good to see the light at the end of the tunnel hahaha
You’re right about the humidity, Danny - It really does preserve the wood in these mines. Basically no moisture whatsoever. Thanks for your comment and feedback!
Thanks for exploring again! We love the videos. And the milage on your car!
Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know that you enjoy my videos. I do appreciate your support and interest. More videos coming soon!
Nice to see some Victorian workings Frank ,little in the way of collapsing, the older the mine the less damage from contract drivers using very high explosives ,very good explore.
I never thought about that aspect of the old-time dynamite being less destructive than the more modern versions. I suppose that would have something to do with how clean this mine was.
@@AbandonedMines11 yes Frank exactly, eg a black powder level would break the rock in the for breast and not shatter the rock in the immediate area,,always check the size of the drill holes, and the different diameters of dynamite in different time periods,I know that's a little beyond exploring but you will get a feel for this.
Contractors were paid by the foot, they just blasted there way through,1870s we saw the first contract level drivers in the UK, they were not classed as miners they were developers getting the miners to the viens,
I don't understand how you don't get turned around going in and out of all those tunnels . It was fascinating to watch though. I'd never have the bravery of seeing those places with my own eyes.
A lot of people say that. I think what happens is that the editing of the video makes the mine layout seem very confusing. It really is one way in and one way out. This mine was laid out like a grid. The two parallel inclined shafts went down to three or four lower levels that were perpendicular to the inclined shafts. A total grid! Hope that makes sense!
@@AbandonedMines11 Where in the world do you live? in Ireland the mines are flooded at some points which sucks. Very professional videos!
I imagine that with the ability today to extract even the tiniest amount of metal from material passed over by earlier efforts that almost all of these metal mines have potential ore in them. The Shafter mine (on standby, not abandoned) here in Texas explored by drilling test cores out from previously abandoned tunnels and found several million more ounces of silver bearing ore nearby.
I know of an abandoned gold mine in Nevada that we explored years ago. It had an inclined shaft that went down five or six levels. Mine hadn’t been operated since probably the 1950s. Anyway, a modern mining company went in there and did some surveying with some new, high-tech equipment and discovered some kind of magnetic anomaly a few hundred yatds southwest of the inclined shaft or something like that. Bottom line is that the magnetic anomaly showed that there was more ore left in there. I believe that old, abandoned mine will be turned into an open-put mine to extract the ore that the old-time miners were unable to detect or had no idea was even there in the first place.
2:29 Actually they’d call that the hanging wall and the part that would be below that is the foot wall. The ore is often found between the two.
Thanks for the information! I was not aware of that.
Frank this mine is one of your best uploads... I feel like you could do a whole season on this mine!
How deep do you think this thing is? And it looks so extensive for such a short operation in terms of years - I wonder why they stopped.
That area that I looked down into near the end where the ladder disappeared under rubble seemed to go back quite a ways. Also, when I made it down to the third level by climbing down those two ladders, I did not look to see how far the tunnel went to the left. I only went to the right. The upper tunnel is also somewhat extensive.
Can’t wait for your return to the upper levels, keep up the awesome work!
Part 3 is coming soon! Thanks for your continued support here.
Very impressive to see I mine back in the 1890s takes me back in time wow good job
Woohoo 🙌 I finally made it home to watch. Thank you 😊 my friend
Thanks, Jordan, for taking the time to watch and to write a comment. Glad you made it home in time to catch the video! Thanks so much for your support
I really liked your video thanks for sharing 👍
Omg I LOVE ringtail cats
The ringtailed cats are out there. They've been seen deep in some of these abandoned mines. Thanks for your comment, Ashley Sue!
@@AbandonedMines11 that's so awesome I think they are extremely BEAUTIFUL animals
Btw I love your videos I've watched so far I subscribed and am looking forward to watch more
Thank you for what you do may you always stay safe!!💛
This has been a great mine to explore
Thanks, Wesley! I’ll have more footage from this one coming soon. Probably a Part 3 as well as a Part 4.
Super love and appreciate the videos you post and the adventures and finds you often come across! I live in a city state so there's not really any caves we can explore in but its really nice to see how mines all look and learn some of the terms that come with it :) Thank you for doing what you do and great video once again!
Hi, Claudia! Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the feedback. Glad you are vicariously enjoying exploring underground by watching my videos. I love hearing that!
Miners kept Ring Tailed Cats around to help keep the Vermin in check. Great video!
I never thought of that! Having a ring tailed cat around certainly would keep the rodent population under control.
Can you do a video of a "beginners guide" for exploring mines, like what equipment to bring and what to look for and how to tell if a mine is safe enough to explore! I'd really appreciate the information! Thanks
Great question, Mike! Unfortunately, I would feel very uncomfortable providing someone with no experience a complete "beginners guide" for exploring abandoned mines including what equipment to bring, how to tell if a mine is safe, and what to look for. You know -- liability, etc.. I started out by finding the small abandoned mines about 90 minutes outside of my city. Even then, I didn't go in them. Met some other locals who were coincidentally doing the same thing, so we partnered up and began going in them. 100 foot tunnels, basically. Met some more experienced explorers shortly after that and began going to the bigger, multi-level mines out in the desert. Learned a lot from those guys! It got to the point where I felt comfortable enough going out on my own. So...try to find some other local people where you live who want to hook up and show you the ropes. That's the best way to do it. You'll figure it out as you go along.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing your adventure in this impressive old mine!
that gobbed wall, superb video, this is a history lesson kids
definitely a surprising interesting mine thanks for the content frank stay safe
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting.
It's nice to have the different terms and structures explained, since me (and probably other people, idk) don't know much about mines.
Thanks for the feedback, Nikolas! Yes, I try to explain and define certain terms. Sometimes I feel it gets a bit repetitive in each video, but I realize some viewers are tuning in for the first time and haven't heard the explanations before.
Well I’m late rrrrrrr absolutely impressive mine wasn’t expecting that the wall of gobbing was really cool awesome job frank when gly was exploring a mine he got a miners cat on film really cool looking this was definitely a mine that kept on giving love it as always thanks frank an be safe 👍👍👍
Thanks, Steve! I’ll have to find that footage that Gly shot of a ringtail cat. Would be interesting to see.
With gold and silver prices skyrocketing surprised more old abandoned mines are not reopening once a again
They sometimes do reopen when a big mining company buys up the claims. Often they'll dig an open-pit mine which obliterates the mountain and the old, underground workings. Hate to see the old mine workings destroyed like that along with all the artifacts, but that's how it goes. I just published a video about a month ago where I descend into an old, abandoned open-pit mine and found some tunnels that were still accessible from when the original gold mine was there back in the late 1800s! Pretty cool! Thanks, David, for your comment!
That was impressive climbing and it is a very interesting mine, thnx for another nice episode.
Thanks for tuning in, Rolf! There’ll be a Part 3 and probably a Part 4 coming very soon.
Very Impressive mine, definitely got the Grand Tour
Thanks, man! More on this one coming soon.
What a amazing mine
All that timbering and hoitst were in great condotion because this mine is very dry
The groves in the timber at the bend were from the cabels that scratches there i think
Very good Video
Yours Frank
The reason I didn’t mention out loud that the cable might’ve caused those grooves in the bend is because I was thinking that the cable would’ve been suspended from the ceiling in the shaft. Just proves how little I know about these abandoned mines even after all these years! LOL
@@AbandonedMines11 suspend from the celling wont work
When the have fixed a Big Role vertikal at the timber that had worked well
Hey Frank, how's things? Another fun explore, thank you and as usual I look forward to the next one! Take care and as always stay safe out there!
How are things with you? Things are going OK with me. Still getting out to an abandoned mine every once in a long while. Glad to hear from you again! Thank you once again for all of your support here.
excellent exploration
Thank you, Mike, for taking the time to watch and comment. Hope you enjoyed the entire three-part series on this abandoned mine. It was a fascinating abandoned mine!
@@AbandonedMines11 yes, I watched all three parts and thought it was great
The lines in the wood were from the cable system that helped bring the carts up. The metal angled piece had wheels or rollers on it to guide the cable around the corner vs. sawing through the wood like the others (important load bearing beam).
Thank you for the information! I appreciate it. I’m sure the other viewers will, too. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out how these mechanisms worked. Thank you for your insight.
Sometimes it's hard to discern whether you're looking up or looking down when filming the ladders
Cool video as always .
Hey, Nathan! Thanks for letting me know! Glad you enjoyed it.
Looks like a positively exhausting climb back up.
It wasn’t too bad, Drew. The video makes it look a lot longer and steeper than it actually was.
Wow. I'm speechless. Thank you for this very informative video.
Thank you for your comment! I’ll be posting Part 3 to this video series sometime very soon! Stay tuned!
@@AbandonedMines11 I'm looking forward for the part 3. Good luck out there and stay safe exploring.
You're a brave man. This is cool as hell, but creepy at the same time. I couldn't do it. I'd be afraid of some undiscovered creature with razor sharp teeth, lurking around the next corner!!!
I agree that exploring abandoned mines is not for everybody. But I’m glad you can follow along vicariously from the safety and comfort of your own home. Thanks for doing that, and thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I really appreciate your support!
@@AbandonedMines11 Yes, for that I am grateful.
I'm just always afraid that you may come across some "unhappy" critter or something creepy when you explore. I guess it's my own fears I'm projecting. Lol
Anyhoo, stay safe!! And thanks for responding!! That means a lot to me. 👍😊
After more analysis l thought it was safe to go down ...love it ...
I can't imagine being in such a confined space working long shifts in that atmosphere. Must have payed well at the time.
Actually, I don't think miners made a lot of money. The owner of the mine made all the money. But you're right -- it definitely was some dangerous, confined workspaces. Thanks for your comment!
Many mines had a high death toll, something accepted in those days
Excellent video as always!!! This mine was definitely extensive, I hope you get a chance to explore the lowest level and the upper levels, definitely interesting. The gobbing you filmed that made up one tunnel wall, did that extend between two levels? Excellent exploration Franks, genuine thanks for sharing, stay safe/
Yes, the gobbing wall that you saw on the second level was in between the second and third level. When I got down to the third level after climbing down those two ladders, I showed the retaining wall on the right hand side. All of that gobbing was sandwiched behind that up to where it formed that wall on the second level in the stope.
Awesome video , thanks Frank
Great! Sounds like you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting!
hi from australia, just love your channel, taking me to places i would love to go to but far to scared, your channel and knowledge is amazing, thanks for great videos
Hey, Ruth! Nice to have a fan down under! Thanks for checking in and letting me know you are enjoying my videos. I appreciate that. Thank you for your support.
Very nice and deep explore! But what you called a 'second inclined shaft' was a stope equipped with ladders to provide a secondary access or escape route. And that large wheel might have been used to redirect the haulage cable around the bend in the incline when they needed it. That or it was used with a slusher to drag the ore over to the incline. 👍👍
Yes, that “second shaft” really wasn’t an inclined shaft like the first one was. As you mentioned, it was more like an emergency escape or a secondary access for that stope. However, on the fourth level there was another inclined shaft down there with a headframe not too far up in the stope. That shaft had tracks and an inverted ladder underneath which went under all that rubble and which looks like it went far down into a lower areas of the mine. Perhaps a fifth level?
Exploring Abandoned Mines and Unusual Places Dang it, I can't "Read more.." on comments! Only got to "...on the fourth..."! Could you redo that last part so I can read what you said?
I'm hooked
Thanks for commenting, William! Glad to have you along for the ride. Thanks for your support!
Very impressive
Glad you enjoyed this video! Thank you for commenting.
Image the way out colapses, your flashlight dies after a few hours searching another entrance and after 3 days in total darkness you start to hallucinate and die of thirst. Not my favourite way to die ^^
You described that so well! Yes, it would be a terrible way to perish. When there is no light inside the mine, the darkness is total and complete.
Whoa, massive mine! Definitely need multiple videos to do the exploration justice. Can't believe people did all this by hand...we're looking at years of daily labor
Not a whole lot of years. The mine was only active from 1881 to about 1895 or so.
Thanks for another awesome adventure stay safe
You got it, Chris! Thank you for stopping by and commenting!