Dynamite content! Deserving of far more than 6K subs, to be sure. Guess the old heads who are into this stuff don’t appreciate the hard work these young ladies and gents put in. Keep it up, be safe, and enjoy the adventures!
It's amazing what the old timers did with the tools and equipment they had. I work in a modern lead, zinc and cooper mine and seeing the difference between what we do and this is mind blowing! Great video!!
@@nathangibson3264 That’s pretty neat. Yea everything here was essentially done by hand. For as old as this mine is (started in the 1890s), it’s crazy huge
Hey Owen thanks again for another awesome exploration into mining history and as always your videos are great and show a lot of details. And thanks for a great narration of your adventures
Y'all need to carry an air monitor and a respirator in there. A collapse anywhere in the mine while you are in there will fill the mine with dust before you can think about getting out. You may have to wait several hours before you can see to walk. A 20 dollar respirator could save your life if you have to wait .
now that was a cool explore and never seen so many intact powder boxes ..... good find and don't tell anyone where they are because they will disappear ...hopefully the lower level are not flooded ....can't wait to see you guys hot the lower levels and finish the mine ....be safe and keep'em coming
@@Askjeffwilliams Jeff! I appreciate it. There is still lots to see in this one. Glad to see ya in my comment section, been watching you for a few years now!
That was super cool scene The Boulders that made that collapse and a little ballsy of you showing that on camera but that's what it's all about kava mine Explorer
That's as good as it's gets in mines. Please tell me you're not gonna stop before u get to the bottom or at least explore everything u can .this one blows me away.bravo for this one. Love this and now waiting on your next explore.thank u for sharing this and risking it all for this.great one
@@my81shovelhead Haha. Yea we’re definitely going to come back again. There aren’t any plans to do so yet but we still have unfinished business at this mine.
It's great to know a place like this actually exist I wonder how the old-timers didn't lose their minds probably because they couldn't see that far in it😮
This is great but I still think you guys are nuts. My dad, grandfather, great grandfather all worked in the underground Iron mines up in the upper Peninsula of Michigan from about the 1890's to the 1960's. My dad was the last generation work in the mines in the family though. I've seen some pictures from the early 20th century and it looks a lot like this. Hazardous job with my great grandfather hurt bad in a blast and my grandpa then had to go to work in the mine at 13 years old to support his 6 younger siblings...crazy!
You mention the noise that must have been when that big collapse occurred. In February 1883 I think it was - (To fact check try 56:05 'The Great Fall' - Oakley Slate mine - North Wales) when pillar robbing led to a huge collapse in a similarly vast underground slate quarry. Hundreds of nen worked there but as it happened on a Sunday all but a caretaker were in church. The collapse expelled the air from the miles of underground workings. It did so with such force that the caretaker at his station by the main mine entrance was blown off his feet by the air blast. I just wanted to add that with all those box chutes to the haulage levels there surely must have been either a large winding shaft or else a day adit somewhere nearby to bring materials out to the surface on the tramming rails. False floors are SO dangerous. I noticed on one spot they used a metal bridge over a winze and itvwas held up by metal rods from the tunnel roof. In north wales therevwere occasional accidents when such bridges were overloaded. You might like to reaf some exoliration websites of the North Wales (also called Snowdonia in English) Slate Quarries. Inwould link but the awful U Tube doesn't permit that. Great website you have there! Impressive tour. Beware newspapers underground .. they were taken down the mine for one purpose only 😅
Holy cow what a mine! Glad you pushed deeper in, some incredible artifacts. were you by yourself at 28:24? just as you are saying "failed ore chute here", something whizzes past your head and hits the ribs in front of you with a fair amount of force. If that was a rock either your buddies were foolin' or a Tommy Knocker made it's presence known. Anyway, awesome explore, thank you for tanking us along.
I rewatched that part. It kind of looked like a bug flying by but there are definitely no bugs this far underground. I was by myself for this segment of the video, really not sure what that was.. thanks for pointing it out haha
@@cliftonwalker1994 Thank you! The right hand rule is sort of a safety precaution, it’s also a way to make sure that everything gets explored. If you take the right side tunnel at every intersection you will eventually follow every drift and it will also take you back out the way you came. Hopefully that makes sense
