Exploring The Pine Tree Mine - Mina, Nevada 

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Just found your channel, already like it! There's something about exploring mines and ghost towns that I just can't resist! Thank both for venturing out and filming them!👍

“Smells like dynamite 🧨 “ I probably would have turned around there 🤣. Great video, love these mine tours! 👍

Hey Ren here, you 2 have taken some great pictures of the mines. With rusty old tools, old wood structures and some great pictures of the different colored rocks in the mines. A book comes to mind, with a cd and some of your great pictures, you can call it "Best of Mine Exploration and Hiking with Tom and Julie". Let me if you do, I'll take a sign copy.

That was a colorful mine indeed, ...lots more exploring to do in the area. Interesting to still see snow in the hills above...sure do appreciate you both sharing your adventures with the rest of us...be safe out there my friends...atvb...woods

Wow great find Tom!!!

Really enjoyed the videos of you going up the roads. I need to get back to doing that stuff again someday. Thanks for the great concert.

Thanks for the tour!!!

I tried to subscribe , but , RU-vid says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Thanks for posting this mine exploration video !!!!

8:21 That's the Mother Lode of explosives boxes! Very cool to see that.

Awesome videos

Good video Tom, Julie...!

Hello Tom and Julie, Just found this video. It showed up in my home screen of suggestions. Anyway, always it was nice seeing a video that is new to me.

Enjoyed this one. I spent a total of four weeks (1 week per year) exploring the Mina area, beginning in 2004. There's a lot to see in the area. Funny, though, we never went in the Pine Tree. Maybe it's time to go back! Also, you are lucky to have such a willing partner (wife), although she doesn't talk much! :-D

The bright turquoise blue looks to be precipitated Chalcanthite! Nice find

You may be interested that we found an abandoned mine on Pilot Peak in Mina. It was completely caved in and took us a few weeks to dig out the drift & shaft. My father placed a claim there. I remember we found a perfectly preserved steel wheelbarrow in the back of the mine. There was still quartz with veins of gold running through it so Dad got a D4 Caterpillar, and we build a road to it! As far as I know, the road is still there. We spent a few summers digging and made a living with the gold we found, then he sold it for enough money to retire! He sold it in the early 80's I believe.

Smelling nitro in an adit with that many cardboard nitro boxes certainly isn't a surprise. I've explored with people who couldn't stay in a mine that either had recently blasted or had sticks of dynamite left haphazardly laying about leaching nitro into the box or the ground. These people would get throbbing headaches. I liked the fact that you provided sufficient light for the audience to see not just a hot spot but the surrounding area. Illumination is often lacking in exploration videos regardless of the good intentions of those exploring. Another major plus is you appear to have a means of camera stabilization. Some videos have recorded a trip through a mine that appears as if the camera was attached to the explorer's knee as they recorded. I apologize in advance for being critical over one aspect tho, maybe two, but I'm compelled. Should your campanions or your head interupt the path of even a small stone in it's journey from the roof, or actually the back, of the adit to the floor the potential exists for a couple things to happen. Small rock; leaves large painful knot on the scalp accompanied usually by a string of X rated exclaimations. Large rock; Friends and family deeply saddened, Bureau of Land Management installs a bat gate or worse, blasts the adit shut so there will be no more exploration of this adit. In other words, hard hats are of great benefit to all who explore mines or even caves. The floor is covered with the evidence that gavity is an equal opportunity destroyer and while you may say it's none of my business, to a degree you're right but in the sense that an injury is a tramatic event to all involved one of those involved indirectly may have had that adit on their schedule to be explored. The BLM are very dedicated to snuffing out any vestiges of our history others might enjoy seeing and I, for one, enjoy your videos. One other issue you may have already considered and dealt with is an air sensor. Bad air is not all that often encountered unless you are exploring the far reaches of a mine especially if it has only one connection with the surface. Hydrogen sulphide, rotten eggs to most, is kind of a rarity since there is usually little, if any, organic material to produce it. More common is the bacteria consuming the wooden ties and cribbing, commonly called bug farts. Maybe not that common, it might have just been the people I hung out with. Anyway, O2 is required and depleted thru the rusting of metal objects and ore cart tracks so you'll most often have an alarm when the oxygen is insufficient to sustain life. O2 meters have gotten so cheap that they're disposible now and it's always a good idea to have one. Thus endith the sermon. I enjoy the videos and I want everyone to be able to continue making and sharing them. So, thank you for sharing. Be well. And if there are any grammar errors you should suggest I get a proof reader because I'm no damn good at it myself.

I have a video like this where the bat flys directly at me in a mine. Lol! Made me think of it. It's one of my recent videos.

Lots of colors in the rock

Thank you

When you say “bull” at the end of the video, are you talking about a bighorn sheep?

Think the blue color is Azurite, a copper deposit. Could be wrong though. Have ran across that in several mines here in Colorado. The bat bouncing off your noggin, he's just making sure you're on your toes. Nothing like the smell of dynamite in the morning.

I love things ac ssociated with Copper ores, especially Turquoise, I am hoping 2023 I will be albe to make a trip inot the copperr area of Nevada as I have Jeep Wrangler 4x4. This location looks interesting to visit and sample, record history, I need to get a divsion of mines for Nevada open and closed claims report. Core sample are excellent to see what the mineralization is at depth.

They left a lot of stuff, crazy!

just subscribed I like exploring things like that 😊

nice video!

A lot of those samples look really old. I imagine that after looking at them they decided it wasn't worth going after the ore at the current time.

The Trojan Powder company (Explosives) ceased operations in 1967 according to wiki !

I liked all the dynamite boxes wonder how old they were?

Fascinating old copper mine

I always scratch my head about these kinds of mines. The ore zones appeared to be pretty high grade. Maybe they've already run some of those samples through a lab and the results weren't promising so they walked away? Possibly another factor is mineral processing -- even IF the owner proceeded with mining the high grade copper -- where would they send it to extract the copper? They've either gotta build a mill on site (extremely expensive) or they would have to contract with another copper miner nearby to run their ore, and pray the shipping costs and mill royalty rates are economical. And on top of it all keep fingers crossed that copper prices can remain high. Mining is so expensive!

Gotta be careful of old dynamite because when it sweats, the nitroglycerin comes through the wrapper and if you handle it, it can affect your heart.

Got to be careful with old dynamite, it sweats nitroglycerin, simple touch would be your last one.

Great video, Tom! I’ve wandered around in the hills outside Mina but never heard of this particular mine for some reason. I have to look it up and see where it is exactly. That was a really nice canyon on the way in. That core sample rack was interesting. Never have seen one like that. “There’s a strong smell of explosives.” Love that line of dialogue! LOL Also liked, “Taste that, Julie. Maybe it’s delicious.” LOL

At 15:48, the res stuff looks like mercury oxide or sulphide-was the fibrous stuff asbestos?

Would be interesting to see what these look like in UV😊

Becareful they say just a static charge can blow up the dynamite because it sits there over time and deteoriates causing it to become Easyer to blow up with just a static charge stay safe

Tom and Julis,Mine Explorer/ Bat Whisper. .lol

What were they mining for ?

Any abandoned mines near Beatty Nevada?

Aahhhhhh bats!!! Haha

Going up the canyon at about 1:14 there looks like an animal running to your right along the canyon floor. A jackrabbit or coyote? Do you happen to remember?

That bat would have scared the crap out of me... I would have seen that as a bad sign ... LOL HA HA HA

"smelled like explosives" Discharged explosives or leaking dynamite?? 🤔 Big mine.. At least you could stand up in that one.

Why keep the samples? It seems to me, that once you've gleaned the necessary information from them, they wouldn't be worth keeping. And the way that they are kept doesn't seem to lend itself to revisiting the data.

Very colourful minerals in there. Julie does right to let you “test” ahead for bats and wild animals. Any danger from bat diseases that you are aware of? There was a local man here last year that died after being scratched by a bat, resulting in some type of serious infection. Be careful out there!

I remember an old B&W movie about a man trapped in a mine, I think Kirk Douglas was in it. Anyway from Westren movies and TV shows like "The Big Valley" and "Bonanza", bad things always happened in those old mines. I wonder/worry about oxygen deficient atmosphere if old air/ventilation shafts have been sealed or collapsed. I would carry an oxygen meter/ alarm because you guys will just pass out and that will be it for you.

They say some of them mines still have dynamite left behind in them becareful

I'm going to Nevada.

Omg funny 🤣 lol It's not kind if explosion I had in mind Trojan EXPLOSIVES I thought it was a cave full of condoms... In the thumbnail I did not bother to read the full text on the boxes. I thought it was weird to have something like a giant stash of condoms in the middle of nowhere, in some random cave.

Taste that, funny. was that orange flower a paint brush?

Its appears this may of been a cdf mine

I used to live in mine I was a bartender at the silver Queen I think that's what it's called The silver Queen silver King whatever place is closed down now I heard the guy who was managing it died that's too bad I remember James Christianson what a character hes a hoot. there's an old cowboy I need to apologize to it was a neat little town I was only there for a few months but I remember it well I remember gathering around the pool table with a box of rocks and everybody gathered around to look at my rocks and they go ooh hhhhhhhhhh lol you know you're in the right town. bunch of good people they helped me out whenever my car broke down I was broke man when that car broke down I didn't I just put my last 20 bucks in the gas tank they put me up in the motel and I woke up the next morning there was an envelope under my door with 20 bucks in it for breakfast I guess it was great though these people were awesome. I was going through a rough time if anybody from mine or remembers those days I just want to say hello and thank you all with any luck I may pass through there soon far better off than I was then. on PS yes I still believe the moon ran into the Earth in fact I'm certain of it now and can forensically prove it. I will challenge anybody to a open debate that I will make more sense than plate tectonics with this low and slow lunar capture theory I don't know what the hell to call it it's obvious this shit though you got concentrations of Mass on the earth underneath the Pacific extend from the Philippine played all the way to South America and it's 6775 mi from tip to tip from the first to the last bounce it's exactly half of that far from lunar pole to pole the circumference of the Moon is 6,770 MI or whatever it's almost the same exact distance except the scars on the moon only take up half of the Moon that's because the moon wasn't rolling it was skidding half as fast as it was moving I remember the the words of Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott you stuck his head out he said it's all smooth there's no rocks there's no boulders the tops of the mountains are rounded there's no sharp edges huh not a single ear perked up at mission control everybody was giggling and high-fiving and smoking cigars they weren't listening they were looking but they weren't seeing why the hell you imagine at the base of the lunar appenines.... with cracks running around the planet called rills... they still don't know what caused to those duh it almost broke into a dozen pieces that's why. all right I'm almost up taking up real estate on this man's post but y'all take care

Do you ever worry about cave ins? That’s mostly what I worry about when I explore old mines

I wonder if that stringy little crystal was tremolite? Hopefully not.

The white fuzzy stuff is zinc oxidizing

Blasting wire and ore. You are or were in an active mine

What year is your T wub

i sure hope those bang bang boxes are empty tom.

I'd be worried about radiation myself

are you a former minor? how did you and Julie get involved with this?

You shouldn't show old explosives it let's people know where to find stuff like that not smart.............

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