You get Full Credit for the effort of exploring that lower section .... But -10 points for Not opening the fridge!!! LOL Awesome explore! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
I'm just an armchair viewer and have watched my share of mine explores. I have never seen this much quartz in any mine explore, not even close! Unbelievable! Thanks Justin and Crew!
Old city water services worker here. You can get a silicone spray that you put on your boots that'll water proof them pretty well. If you look for boots with an attached tongue you can usually get into six inches of water no problem. It only lasts three to six months depending on how much you use your boots. But as you say, putting on waders is a pain! I got it from the place I got my boots. But any camping store should have cans of silicone spray water proofers. Just give them a good spray the day before, get all the nooks and crannies, and you'll be good to walk in surprisingly deep mud. I would work in twelve inches of mud pretty regularly even though my tongue was only about seven or eight inches above the sole.
Those lower workings are not for the faint of heart. It's literally fodder for my claustrophobic nightmares. Can't even begin to imagine working that, no way!!
Hi Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed your latest adventure. With the level of dryness present, I know that unfortunately the miners were creating SiO2 particulates in the air as they tore through these veins. Hope that some of them didn’t get sick. Here in North Georgia, many families including my own had Dads, Uncles and Brothers who suffered from Silicosis in these Gold mines surrounding Dahlonega. Life happens, eh? By the way, I’ll never forget how amazing your adventure was in that GA placer mine😮 Best wishes, Dr. Lauren ( sorry all, too many words from this old lady)
Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed this one... It immediately became one of my favorites. Yes, the miners that worked in the 1800s here would have had a pretty grim time of it. They had a rough life.
Sporty factor level 9… this was above your usual riske undertaking. Quartz gallore is not doing this site justice. Please be safe as always and thank you so much for bringing us along for this epic explore. I do wonder what the different minerals are in the colored flowstone formations
Hi Justin, WOW ! That is a ton of quarts still. I guess it didn't have enough gold per ton to keep going. This reminds me of the 16to1 mine with all the quarts. If I was 40 years younger, I would like to pan that river to see what I could find. Did I hear GOLD ? lol. No, not serpentine, I hate that stuff. Squeeze through that ? No turnaround, I can't believe they were working in that. Thanks again, Justin, for taking us along with you.
One heck of an investigation into an incredible mine. Thanks for taking us along. I cant help but wonder how much gold is still down there, and will it ever be worth the effort and cost to recover it.
Let’s do a drinking game, take a drink every time you say quartz. Lmao. Love your vids, keep up the good work. You do what I cannot. I’m old and broken. I have been in a couple of mines here in Colorado. The one that I remember the most was i think was a copper mine. Went to go into the adit and as soon as I touch the top of the audit it collapsed. Yep I was done after that!
I enjoy your videos. I am following your videos for a few years now. I am in the mining industry since 1993. I was a Sampler and a miner in the South African mines. I am looking at all the sweeps left behind in this mine. When it was measuring time we had to clean the footwall as well, we were paid if you passed your cleaning of the sweeps. Seeing this reminds me of those years. Some of the stopes where i was mining had reef up to 2.1 meter. Thank you for keeping the mining history alive.
Thank you very much for the comment and for being with us for a while... That must have been quite an experience working in the South African mines. Are you still in South Africa?
You get 100% props for your efforts, Justin. Actually proceeding underneath what appeared to be a flat bottomed pile of rocks just levitating over your head was farther than most would go. On top of that, you were scaling a pile of rock that was being supported by means unknown beside a water filled giant hole. One wrong thing happening probably would have resulted in you being in the middle of a rock pile sandwich 50 feet underwater. Stay safe Justin !!
@1:02:20 that looks like a drinking water can with a nice brass pour spout on the side. With all the think layers of quartz in this mine I wouldn't be surprised if there's still lots of gold but maybe some other factor caused it to not be worked. Economics of the time, or maybe worker shortage due to war or something. Today probably nearly impossible to reopen it due to permitting issues. That ladder looked pretty new though, like someone was in there recently extracting those pockets of large quartz crystals.
A very interesting and beautiful explore with a few nice cliff hangers, literally at the start with that hanging slab and the last part were would gladly send my MIL into because i am a coward and would not dare lol A great explore Justin.
Thank you very much, Bryan. Your generosity is immensely appreciated and helpful. You are not mistaken on the familiarity of the surface. And, yes, that lower level was definitely sporty at the end...
Hey Justin, TVR Exploring Channel popped up. Very Cool, loved all the different Mine Geology, never seen Flow Stone before and those varicose vains, INCREDIBLE!!! Just Subbed! Love Hard Rock Mining and trying to soak up as much Knowledge... Awesome Video and over the TOP History. Keep em coming, Tony @TNT Mining&Prospecting... GOLD FEVER ALWAYS BROTHER!!!!
39:49 there's a former racing legend by than name, now deceased, lived in a city at the base of The South Sierras. He would have been 20 something at the time of the graffiti. 48:55 someone was up there as recently as 2005. Acorna's World (2000) and the Clinton book (2005)
I would love to see you either come back to this mine or another gold mine and bring a metal detector. I bet you find a piece of gold, that looked like a very productive mine you were in there. The stats on these mines would be very interesting, like years worked, and tonnage taken out.❤❤
Um, Way up there on the Sporty Scale? Just a tad mate! Wow! It would take days to write an appropiate response. That was Nuts! Beyond Sketchy! Glad you filmed it though. Can't fake that! Cheers for nearly 10 Years as a follower. Brushy.
@@TVRExploring It's been a journey for sure, I probably said it before, just to be certain, sorry for your loss of your mum. Not one to say much. Cheers.
@@brushitoff503 Thank you. I really appreciate you saying that... Her loss is one of those events in life that I don't think I will ever fully get over. She was truly an extraordinary person and brought so much energy, wisdom and positivity into the world. I miss her very much and it saddens me that she never got a chance to meet her granddaughter (my wife and I had a baby in July).
Thats an impressive amount of quartz, but most of it looks quite barren of mineralization, which would explain why they left so much behind. Awesome exploration!
Just amazing! The veins are absolutely massive! Ive been enjoying your videos for, must be close to a decade now!, man how the time flys. Thank you for sharing your amazing adventures Justin!
Ive been here since the beginning of it and your one of the best mine explorers on here as well dammit man watch going into those sketchy places that was some sketchy shit in their now too stay safe and ill be waiting for the next one now @TVRExploring
Wow, I'm a bit blown away. I don't think I've seen such a huge mass of quartz in a mine before. A lot looks like bull quartz and maybe that's why the mine is abandoned. There are some nicer pockets where there is iron staining and sulfides but overall, the owner must have been unimpressed with the low yield. A mom and pop outfit might be able to squeeze a living out of the pockets but overall the beauty and the flowstone is just awesome.
Yes, much of it must have been bull quartz or it would have been mined out long ago. The nicer pockets that you mentioned may be more economical with current gold prices than they were in the past, but overcoming the crushing rules and regulations is always an issue.
Really enjoyed this one Justin. I could see the structures when i went through the main road about ten years ago but the spur road leading to it was totally gone where it crossed the scree slope. Was always curious about it
Wow , super sketchy , can't believe you did that. But as the video shows you made it out, thank you for all your effort always a pleasure watching. Man be more careful .
Wow haven't seen quartz veins that fat since your 16 to 1 mine video! Were the veins in 16 to 1 the fattest you've seen? Either way this mine is impressive, surprised I've never heard of it. Is it just me, or does the hanging wall rock in the antler stope look a lot darker than the hanging wall in other sections?
I'd say you've really pushed forward the exploration in a very unstable section with so much loose material and other hazards . But I totally get it , I've love mine exploration and have since I was a kid quite along time ago with some unfortunate situations that came to pass , but you have exceeded expectations in this video for sure
Hey. Love the content. I'm wondering if it would make any sense to have a small camera drone to go up or down areas that have rotten ladders etc? I feel like this could add to these videos but if you know why not to do this I'd love to hear that as well.
Hi diamondtman, of course, I am not answering on Justin’s behalf, but somewhere in my foggy memory I recall him once saying that he does not remove any minerals from mines. Now that’s integrity…Best wishes, Dr. Lauren
Would be interesting to see if that quartz is truly barren or if the numbers just weren't high enough to continue mining? Might be worth sampling to see where it's at with todays gold values.
The old timers really skimmed the cream off of the top in many cases. A lot of ore that they didn't bother with would be economical now. The crushing rules and regulations are what is blocking many small mining operations from being resurrected.
Been watching Jason at Mount Baker mining. He found some rich ore that had free gold. The quartz had a black mineral ribbon and iron (rust) and where all 3 meet there was visible gold. Never seen as much quartz as in this mine. Be careful. The last bit of explore was a sketchy
I am also curious about the fluorescent orange spray paint markings and flags. Were these from survey crews (USGS?) mapping the tunnels and remaining resources?
The government has not done any mapping or surveying of mines for many decades (except on the surface in preparation for destroying them). The underground markings are from sampling done by geologists working for the owner of the mine or the claim.
I am always curious why, after all the work to open underground access to the mineral deposits these workings and often a lot of infrastructure are just abandoned, often while still viable resources appear to still be available?
at $2600/oz do some of these mines get reworked because they might now be worth taking out the quarts that was not worth takin out when gold was $200/oz or can these not be reworked due to environmental reasons?
@TVRExploring so the road going down stream from there turns and goes up as you know and that property going up just changed hands. And last time we went through they were doing tractor work on the road.
Great adventure! But i have to tell you, I was not really interested in you moving past that very last bit with the clump of rocks over your head. That was WAY too high on the sketch factor! But yes, i do give you a ton of credit for running it all the way out. Next sketchy section is definitely not your turn to explore though.
It certainly is closer to being economical now. However, you still have the crushing rules and regulations to contend with. It's very difficult for small scale mining operations to run profitably.
Without knowing the assay results, it is impossible for me to say. I will observe though that with the rules and regulations of today, it is very difficult for a small scale mine to be profitable.
Okay someone please explain how tunnel straight down that far through solid rock? I mean there's rail going straight down it. I get they blasted the rock but still how did they haul it straight up. Crazy
Those lower workings would seem like they would have required a haulage adit that led outside as there doesn't appear to have been any infrastructure for hauling ore& wasterock up to get it out?
That was our thinking as well. The assumption was that that lower level led to a lower adit because, as you correctly observed, there were a lot of ways for ore to be dropped down, but nothing indicating a way to bring material up. So, the best guess would probably be that the portal for the lower adit was covered by additional waste rock from the main level.
Y'know, I'm curious. In the Lower Workings, towards the sketchier section that was falling apart, did ya spot any drill holes that would indicate which way the level was blasted from in relation to what you came down to reach it?
@@TVRExploring Dang. Overally cool mine, nonetheless. Considering how much quartz was up top, makes one wonder how much is down the flooded stopes and beyond that final blockage. And where all the water on the lower workings are draining to.
I think one of those dates said 46 but that wouldn't be right due to war boarding if I'm not mistaken. When you say it doesn't assay out well or be profitable would that be different for today's prices?
At min 58.22 where you state it's not gold in reference to the yelliw sulfides from what I know the purple rock surrounding it is Gold Sulfides ..It has to be processed in such a way that the process does not destroy the microscopic particles of gold in the sulfide..If the wrong acid and or amounts of acid is used then the gold disolves or is somehow caused to be unattainable .I am not positive about this but saw a vid on a tik tok or youtube ? channel by author - Gold Science ..
A new TVR Exploring video pops up in my queue AND it's more than an hour long? Now THAT's what I call a WIN-WIN!
You get Full Credit for the effort of exploring that lower section ....
But -10 points for Not opening the fridge!!! LOL
Awesome explore!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
I'm just an armchair viewer and have watched my share of mine explores. I have never seen this much quartz in any mine explore, not even close! Unbelievable! Thanks Justin and Crew!
Watch his excellent video series on the 16 to 1 mine and you will be blown away with the amount of quartz in that mine!
You blow my mind sometimes with the sketchy sh-t you accomplish. You actually document a mines every nook and cranny.
Thanks, J!
my sentiments exactly. Can't believe what you are willing to put yourself through.
Old city water services worker here. You can get a silicone spray that you put on your boots that'll water proof them pretty well. If you look for boots with an attached tongue you can usually get into six inches of water no problem. It only lasts three to six months depending on how much you use your boots. But as you say, putting on waders is a pain!
I got it from the place I got my boots. But any camping store should have cans of silicone spray water proofers. Just give them a good spray the day before, get all the nooks and crannies, and you'll be good to walk in surprisingly deep mud. I would work in twelve inches of mud pretty regularly even though my tongue was only about seven or eight inches above the sole.
Echos of the “16 to 1 Mine”
Trout fishing in that spot would be amazing! What a beautiful place. 👍👍👍
Those lower workings are not for the faint of heart. It's literally fodder for my claustrophobic nightmares. Can't even begin to imagine working that, no way!!
Hi Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed your latest adventure. With the level of dryness present, I know that unfortunately the miners were creating SiO2 particulates in the air as they tore through these veins. Hope that some of them didn’t get sick.
Here in North Georgia, many families including my own had Dads, Uncles and Brothers who suffered from Silicosis in these Gold mines surrounding Dahlonega. Life happens, eh?
By the way, I’ll never forget how amazing your adventure was in that GA placer mine😮
Best wishes, Dr. Lauren ( sorry all, too many words from this old lady)
Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed this one... It immediately became one of my favorites. Yes, the miners that worked in the 1800s here would have had a pretty grim time of it. They had a rough life.
Great mine love all the quartz .thanks for braving through that climb and those lower workings.
Another great one,thanks for showing us,keep em coming😊
Those cave pearls 28.20 are very interesting. Thanks again Justin.
I've seen them before in a Whales mine on the Lost Mine channel.
very cool display of the flowstone ,thanks for all you're hard work!
The 4 connected 8x8s were probably an anvil stand! G'day from Tasmania
Amazing mine explore , plus scarey lol. Thanks for going the extra way for us
Sporty factor level 9… this was above your usual riske undertaking. Quartz gallore is not doing this site justice. Please be safe as always and thank you so much for bringing us along for this epic explore. I do wonder what the different minerals are in the colored flowstone formations
Hi Justin, WOW ! That is a ton of quarts still. I guess it didn't have enough gold per ton to keep going. This reminds me of the 16to1 mine with all the quarts. If I was 40 years younger, I would like to pan that river to see what I could find. Did I hear GOLD ? lol. No, not serpentine, I hate that stuff. Squeeze through that ? No turnaround, I can't believe they were working in that. Thanks again, Justin, for taking us along with you.
Your content is always so good.
I’d love to see an assay on some of that quartz.
Thank you for these great videos 🙏
Wow, just wow! Thanks for showing everything.
Awesome video and full credit to you sir!!
What great video guys!
Great stuff as always Justin
You do good work. ❤❤
Another great video always enjoy coming along on your adventures !
One heck of an investigation into an incredible mine. Thanks for taking us along. I cant help but wonder how much gold is still down there, and will it ever be worth the effort and cost to recover it.
I love your videos!
Let’s do a drinking game, take a drink every time you say quartz. Lmao. Love your vids, keep up the good work. You do what I cannot. I’m old and broken. I have been in a couple of mines here in Colorado. The one that I remember the most was i think was a copper mine. Went to go into the adit and as soon as I touch the top of the audit it collapsed. Yep I was done after that!
Great work Guys!
Awesome work Justin! Monster workings.
This was a great one... Very sporty when we're on that lower level at the end though!
I'm still watching. Its getting pretty hectic 😂😂😂
I enjoy your videos. I am following your videos for a few years now. I am in the mining industry since 1993. I was a Sampler and a miner in the South African mines. I am looking at all the sweeps left behind in this mine. When it was measuring time we had to clean the footwall as well, we were paid if you passed your cleaning of the sweeps. Seeing this reminds me of those years. Some of the stopes where i was mining had reef up to 2.1 meter. Thank you for keeping the mining history alive.
Thank you very much for the comment and for being with us for a while... That must have been quite an experience working in the South African mines. Are you still in South Africa?
Another gem of an exploration. Very nervous for you though I must admit. Superb job by you guys again.
Wow.. There is a ton of quartz in there still! Thanks for going the extra mile on this one. Hope the knee is OK.
Now thats a Damn GOLD mine$
Epic explore! The end of that was sketchy to say the least! Can't wait for the next one!
What a amazing Video.
Absolute great stuff.
Thank you for all your work and risk
Greetings from Germany
Yours Frank Galetzka
You get 100% props for your efforts, Justin. Actually proceeding underneath what appeared to be a flat bottomed pile of rocks just levitating over your head was farther than most would go. On top of that, you were scaling a pile of rock that was being supported by means unknown beside a water filled giant hole. One wrong thing happening probably would have resulted in you being in the middle of a rock pile sandwich 50 feet underwater. Stay safe Justin !!
Good video man!!!
@1:02:20 that looks like a drinking water can with a nice brass pour spout on the side.
With all the think layers of quartz in this mine I wouldn't be surprised if there's still lots of gold but maybe some other factor caused it to not be worked. Economics of the time, or maybe worker shortage due to war or something. Today probably nearly impossible to reopen it due to permitting issues. That ladder looked pretty new though, like someone was in there recently extracting those pockets of large quartz crystals.
A very interesting and beautiful explore with a few nice cliff hangers, literally at the start with that hanging slab and the last part were would gladly send my MIL into because i am a coward and would not dare lol A great explore Justin.
The amount of quartz in this mine is tremendous - wow!
Those surface video shots look real familiar, but I could be mistaken. Some sketchy, mine exploring, not for me kudos.
Thank you very much, Bryan. Your generosity is immensely appreciated and helpful. You are not mistaken on the familiarity of the surface. And, yes, that lower level was definitely sporty at the end...
Hey Justin, TVR Exploring Channel popped up. Very Cool, loved all the different Mine Geology, never seen Flow Stone before and those varicose vains, INCREDIBLE!!! Just Subbed! Love Hard Rock Mining and trying to soak up as much Knowledge... Awesome Video and over the TOP History. Keep em coming, Tony @TNT Mining&Prospecting... GOLD FEVER ALWAYS BROTHER!!!!
Wow, so much to see!! Hope the knee is better.
Much respect for "No unfinished business".
Whoa dude. The whole floor in there was cave pearls some of which formed into cubes. Friggin wild . What a phenomenal mine
Very cool.
Crazy big chunks of quartz! Thanks for sharing it with us! Getting out must have been quite a pain!
39:49 there's a former racing legend by than name, now deceased, lived in a city at the base of The South Sierras. He would have been 20 something at the time of the graffiti.
48:55 someone was up there as recently as 2005. Acorna's World (2000) and the Clinton book (2005)
You keep that up and one day, we just won't get any more videos from you. Stay SAFE.
I would love to see you either come back to this mine or another gold mine and bring a metal detector. I bet you find a piece of gold, that looked like a very productive mine you were in there. The stats on these mines would be very interesting, like years worked, and tonnage taken out.❤❤
Total Payday right there! ⛏
Um, Way up there on the Sporty Scale? Just a tad mate! Wow! It would take days to write an appropiate response. That was Nuts! Beyond Sketchy! Glad you filmed it though. Can't fake that! Cheers for nearly 10 Years as a follower. Brushy.
Thanks, Brushy! I appreciate you being with us from the beginning... I have a special fondness for those that have been along for the whole ride.
@@TVRExploring It's been a journey for sure, I probably said it before, just to be certain, sorry for your loss of your mum. Not one to say much. Cheers.
@@brushitoff503 Thank you. I really appreciate you saying that... Her loss is one of those events in life that I don't think I will ever fully get over. She was truly an extraordinary person and brought so much energy, wisdom and positivity into the world. I miss her very much and it saddens me that she never got a chance to meet her granddaughter (my wife and I had a baby in July).
Thats an impressive amount of quartz, but most of it looks quite barren of mineralization, which would explain why they left so much behind. Awesome exploration!
Just amazing! The veins are absolutely massive! Ive been enjoying your videos for, must be close to a decade now!, man how the time flys. Thank you for sharing your amazing adventures Justin!
Thank you for being with us for so long! You have been here since the beginning!
Ive been here since the beginning of it and your one of the best mine explorers on here as well dammit man watch going into those sketchy places that was some sketchy shit in their now too stay safe and ill be waiting for the next one now @TVRExploring
@@MooseBurke8881 Thank you for being with us for so long!
This is the closest hard rock mine I've seen that resembles an anthracite mine. Super rad.
Wow, I'm a bit blown away. I don't think I've seen such a huge mass of quartz in a mine before. A lot looks like bull quartz and maybe that's why the mine is abandoned. There are some nicer pockets where there is iron staining and sulfides but overall, the owner must have been unimpressed with the low yield. A mom and pop outfit might be able to squeeze a living out of the pockets but overall the beauty and the flowstone is just awesome.
Yes, much of it must have been bull quartz or it would have been mined out long ago. The nicer pockets that you mentioned may be more economical with current gold prices than they were in the past, but overcoming the crushing rules and regulations is always an issue.
Really enjoyed this one Justin. I could see the structures when i went through the main road about ten years ago but the spur road leading to it was totally gone where it crossed the scree slope. Was always curious about it
J. Graves was there too.. If that guy had just left a notebook, you‘d be the first person I‘d give it to 😊
Wow , super sketchy , can't believe you did that. But as the video shows you made it out, thank you for all your effort always a pleasure watching. Man be more careful .
Wow haven't seen quartz veins that fat since your 16 to 1 mine video! Were the veins in 16 to 1 the fattest you've seen? Either way this mine is impressive, surprised I've never heard of it. Is it just me, or does the hanging wall rock in the antler stope look a lot darker than the hanging wall in other sections?
That deer antler shovel was very nice
Not a typical find at a mine!
I'd say you've really pushed forward the exploration in a very unstable section with so much loose material and other hazards . But I totally get it , I've love mine exploration and have since I was a kid quite along time ago with some unfortunate situations that came to pass , but you have exceeded expectations in this video for sure
Hey. Love the content. I'm wondering if it would make any sense to have a small camera drone to go up or down areas that have rotten ladders etc? I feel like this could add to these videos but if you know why not to do this I'd love to hear that as well.
Please just once sample that quartz vein 😂😂😂
With those giant quartz veins everywhere , wouldn't that still be a profitable, viable mine?. That is some seriously good looking stuff!
Quartz does not automatically equal gold. Some quartz is barren or does not contain enough gold to make it economical to extract.
Think of the pounds of explosives that was used in the mine.
Great video
I'm glad you're doing that and not me. Enclosed places give me the willies.
Check out the last part of the video - that section at the end was extremely sporty.
You have balls of steel, jesus. That ending area was sketchy as fuuuuck lol.
That bus is one for Vice grip garage.
The loose quartz rock on the floor should have good samples EZ Pickings...
at 48.09 old solar panels there's more later as well
Justin I know you don't have the mineral rights but do you ever take samples and test them? Thank you for another wonderful trip.
Hi diamondtman, of course, I am not answering on Justin’s behalf, but somewhere in my foggy
memory I recall him once saying that he does not remove any minerals from mines. Now that’s integrity…Best wishes, Dr. Lauren
As the other person said, Justin made clear in an older video that he does not take samples or artifacts.
Would be interesting to see if that quartz is truly barren or if the numbers just weren't high enough to continue mining? Might be worth sampling to see where it's at with todays gold values.
The old timers really skimmed the cream off of the top in many cases. A lot of ore that they didn't bother with would be economical now. The crushing rules and regulations are what is blocking many small mining operations from being resurrected.
@TVRExploring Damn red tape eh!
Been watching Jason at Mount Baker mining. He found some rich ore that had free gold. The quartz had a black mineral ribbon and iron (rust) and where all 3 meet there was visible gold.
Never seen as much quartz as in this mine. Be careful. The last bit of explore was a sketchy
You should see the thick quartz vines in the 16 to 1 gold mine. Absolutely incredible.
I am also curious about the fluorescent orange spray paint markings and flags.
Were these from survey crews (USGS?) mapping the tunnels and remaining resources?
The government has not done any mapping or surveying of mines for many decades (except on the surface in preparation for destroying them). The underground markings are from sampling done by geologists working for the owner of the mine or the claim.
1:00:07 you walk by a box and I think you were focused on the cart down the drift. What was it/?!?!!?
Just a piece of wood... Not a box.
I am always curious why, after all the work to open underground access to the mineral deposits these workings and often a lot of infrastructure are just abandoned, often while still viable resources appear to still be available?
Lay that little deer shed in the flowstone!
Yikes that end was sketchy at best . Thank you
Was this one n hlthe sirara mountains l? Just looking at the thumbnail
1:05:17 looks like a bottle cap on top that rock.
at $2600/oz do some of these mines get reworked because they might now be worth taking out the quarts that was not worth takin out when gold was $200/oz or can these not be reworked due to environmental reasons?
That's a cool one , was the dozer parked in the road when you were there?
No, there was no sign of any activity at all for a long time when we went. We visited a while ago though.
@TVRExploring so the road going down stream from there turns and goes up as you know and that property going up just changed hands. And last time we went through they were doing tractor work on the road.
@@adambatchelder4121 threes a dozer at the other mine near the bridge
did you hit the mine with the dozer near the bridge was lots stuff there
@@TVRExploringdid you hit the mine near the bridge with the old dozer was lots stuff there
Great adventure! But i have to tell you, I was not really interested in you moving past that very last bit with the clump of rocks over your head. That was WAY too high on the sketch factor! But yes, i do give you a ton of credit for running it all the way out. Next sketchy section is definitely not your turn to explore though.
Composting toilet there, posibbly incinerator. Fascinating information I know.
Those white things that look like "tic tac" or "teeth" are from my understanding, "cave pearls". 🙂
you REALLY don't like unfinished business!
Haha, no, I really, really don't. You know me well.
Ok why am i not getting my TVR notification anymore it never pops up like they used to
Only one cart for all of that work? Where did the rest go?
I wonder if the level of ore enrichment is currently high enough to be economical to be mined now that gold it over $2500/oz
It certainly is closer to being economical now. However, you still have the crushing rules and regulations to contend with. It's very difficult for small scale mining operations to run profitably.
In your opinion would it be worth the effort to work this mine again ?
Without knowing the assay results, it is impossible for me to say. I will observe though that with the rules and regulations of today, it is very difficult for a small scale mine to be profitable.
Okay someone please explain how tunnel straight down that far through solid rock? I mean there's rail going straight down it. I get they blasted the rock but still how did they haul it straight up. Crazy
Do you think there's much in value in that old mine to be worth getting it back running?
You’ve always said “gold rides an iron horse” but it seems it most often rides a quartz horse.
Those lower workings would seem like they would have required a haulage adit that led outside as there doesn't appear to have been any infrastructure for hauling ore& wasterock up to get it out?
That was our thinking as well. The assumption was that that lower level led to a lower adit because, as you correctly observed, there were a lot of ways for ore to be dropped down, but nothing indicating a way to bring material up. So, the best guess would probably be that the portal for the lower adit was covered by additional waste rock from the main level.
Y'know, I'm curious.
In the Lower Workings, towards the sketchier section that was falling apart, did ya spot any drill holes that would indicate which way the level was blasted from in relation to what you came down to reach it?
You know, I don't recall seeing any down there. Indeed, that would have been a good clue about that level.
@@TVRExploring Dang. Overally cool mine, nonetheless. Considering how much quartz was up top, makes one wonder how much is down the flooded stopes and beyond that final blockage.
And where all the water on the lower workings are draining to.
I think one of those dates said 46 but that wouldn't be right due to war boarding if I'm not mistaken. When you say it doesn't assay out well or be profitable would that be different for today's prices?
The old timers tended to skim the cream off of the top. So, what they weren't that interested in could quite possibly be profitably produced today.
So a dumb question, would any of those quartz veins have visible gold or would it have to be crushed and processed?
Visible veins of gold are always possible, but they are rare. Far more likely that the quartz would need to be crushed and processed...
In the early seventies my boss told me " You have got to know when to punt". The sketchy areas are yelling this.
It's good advice... I really hate unfinished business though.
At min 58.22 where you state it's not gold in reference to the yelliw sulfides from what I know the purple rock surrounding it is Gold Sulfides ..It has to be processed in such a way that the process does not destroy the microscopic particles of gold in the sulfide..If the wrong acid and or amounts of acid is used then the gold disolves or is somehow caused to be unattainable .I am not positive about this but saw a vid on a tik tok or youtube ? channel by author - Gold Science ..