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#23 The MASSIVE EXPLOSION at the Mother Lode Mine

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The Mother Lode was a large mine that supplied ore for the Greenwood smelter. Hear the story of the massive explosion that ruined the mine!
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@Unemployed_Jedi 3 месяца назад

Franks chuckle when the blasting cap went off, you can tell how much he loves this stuff. Lol

@painmt651 3 месяца назад

Blasting is truly a BLAST 💥! I did a bit of hard rocking in my younger days. I gotta say, getting old sucks! Nobody told me that it hurts…

@masaharumorimoto4761 3 месяца назад

Picks up detonation cap with lighter in hand and just lights the fucker, gotta love Frank, absolute mad man!

@grahamtotte7133 3 месяца назад

Just a time fuse. There were no blasting caps in this video. Perfectly safe just a glorified sparkler really.

@davestuart6593 3 месяца назад

Neat to watch the old videos and Max to!

@wadecartwright4277 3 месяца назад

Frank never ceases to amaze us 😊

@ChippyOutdoors 3 месяца назад

First time driving through green wood I was amazed by that gigantic slag pile and for long you drive beside it and that old hydro station along the creek in town on the edge of the slag pile. Really cool little old town and some of the old buildings still in use too

@exploringabandonedmines Месяц назад

Thanks 👍 The smelter in Grand Forks was bigger!

@johnizitchiforalongtime 3 месяца назад

Nice demonstration of a blasting cap, best letting explode away from you. I was lost down there, glad you know where you're going.

@exploringabandonedmines 3 месяца назад

Thanks 👍

@suziemichalek2022 3 месяца назад

Great intro tunes

@Bushguyrocks 3 месяца назад

Hi Frank and Sharon!

@remmiemax3624 3 месяца назад

Frank, besides playing with explosives😎😎...your invitations to enter a mine is 1) screened or 2) keep out 🤣🤣👍👍 Rock On!

@grahamtotte7133 3 месяца назад

Those are not explosives. They are time fuses. Glorified sparklers really.

@jimmime 3 месяца назад

Thanks, Frank, geology questions? Always remember to, Ask Jeff Williams! LOL

@illicitshiznit 3 месяца назад

Thanks to Frank, I took my wife on a side adventure to an abandoned mine on our honeymoon in BC :) . It was just Phoenix, but it was super cool nonetheless.

@exploringabandonedmines 3 месяца назад

That is awesome!

@1944chevytruck 3 месяца назад

LOL! BIG FIRECRACKER! LMAZZOFF!

@glennscott9693 2 месяца назад

Wow, an excellent video. Always wondered about the "Mother Load" mine feeding the Greenwood Smelter in the Boundary country. I have stood by the Greenwood stack but didn't realize how extensive that slag pile was until seeing your drone video! I am sharing with you a general conclusion I have made from my research when comparing the Boundary country and Rossland, in the years before and during World War One. Namely, the Boundary ores were cheaper to mine and smelt. Boundary mines were relatively shallow and inexpensive to mine while Rossland with its greater depths was more expensive to mine. The Boundary ores were cheaper to smelt as the sulphur content was relatively low. The Trail smelter had roasting furnaces to reduce the sulphur before the Rossland ores went into the blast furnaces. At the Boundary smelters: Grand Forks, Greenwood & Boundary Falls; the ores went straight into the blast furnaces. The way Rossland/Trail were able to compete was the much higher gold content of the Rossland ores. Let me know if you concur, disagree or never considered such a comparison. Keep up the good work! Though not a mine, have you considered doing a video on the Boundary Falls smelter. Just north of Midway. Find the ruins, fly a drone about to spot the slag pile. Regards Glenn.

@exploringabandonedmines 2 месяца назад

The mines at Phoenix where most of the ore cames from to feed the Grand Forks smelter were copper mines. The mines in Rossland were gold mines. When they closed the Rossland mines in 1941 the Trail smelter swiched from gold production to Lead/Zinc ores which they still do today.

@bp8652 3 месяца назад

24:55. This one worked out OK but, for future reference, Aluminum does corrode, along with all kinds of stress cracking. You just can't see it as easily as rust on steel. Huge problem on airplanes and helicopters.

@painmt651 3 месяца назад

I don’t think I could resist hauling some samples of different geology that I have noticed. Probably more than would be smart to carry… some interesting stuff!

@slimwantedman6694 3 месяца назад

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

@DavidHuber63 3 месяца назад

I had a blast

@user-fj9fm8fq4t 2 месяца назад

You got some more vets up there loading them Holes don't you hahaha

@aserta 3 месяца назад

2:44 back when the old style was, the blasters who knew how to time these the best were worth their weight in gold. I heard stories (here in Europe) that towards the end, some of the old guys would make super elaborate "trees" to time the blasts as best they could. Pretty accurately too... but of course, super cost inefficient and thus they lost in favor of electricity.

@Bushguyrocks 3 месяца назад

Hit the like button!

@madeinyorkshire52 3 месяца назад

Great explore Frank! Just wondering…I seem to recall 🤔 that you referred to “us” and “we” during your dialogue - does that mean that you DID have an exploring colleague with you? I hope so because it would have surely been massively risky otherwise - which would have worried Sharon - if she knew that is! Also what were all the clanking noises we could hear - was that your rope climbing paraphernalia? Greetings from 🇬🇧⛏🧨

@exploringabandonedmines 3 месяца назад

No I was by my self. Us and we and the viewers!

@Wistful77 3 месяца назад

I don't know why I think moldy old boards down in a hole full of rocks is interesting, but I Do!

@paulmbylbie6065 3 месяца назад

Have no fear frank always has it handled.......4 shure

@user-fj9fm8fq4t 2 месяца назад

And they'll make you use those if you're near an airport now too 😜

@creightondaniels7748 3 месяца назад

For an Idea could you get access and tour the mine you flew over!! Celebrity that you arrr. Special episode so to speak... multi epiaode desperced to us over time.??!!!

@aserta 3 месяца назад

What the heck were they thinking would happen tho? :))

@Bushguyrocks 3 месяца назад

Karen says hi

@CervantesXavier 3 месяца назад

That rat was probably born down there, and didn't know what light was until you showed up.

@celtdoggy 3 месяца назад

I have found another channel by this same name with a different picture. Is it legit?

@exploringabandonedmines 3 месяца назад

nope!

@jont8707 3 месяца назад

Im gonna be that guy FIRST 😂

@jimmime 3 месяца назад

CONGRATULATIONS!

@1cumminsdiesel 3 месяца назад

I see there’s the twin peaks in the background 7:47

@exploringabandonedmines 3 месяца назад

A couple of hills behind Greenwood.

@mickeymelton66 3 месяца назад

Understand this…throughout history adventurers and explorers have taken dogs with them…and for many & varied reasons. Most dogs love exploring with their masters. Life, even for a dog, isn’t worth living if confined without freedom to be a dog-friend. The same could happen to humans as well. It’s called “life”. Just saying!