FIRST ONES DOWN HERE IN 115 YEARS

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Come with Sam & Eb in their 4WD's on a mid winter mission into the Dawes Ranges. This State Park has been very hard to access for over a decade now. The road to the East of this location is long lost and the access from the west is one big rain event from being sealed forever.
This was one of our most gruelling QLD missions as the location required a 10 hour drive in and the mine workings are via vertical shafts only.
A reminder to all QAM viewers that entering abandoned mine workings is not advised and can be lethal to untrained, inexperienced and poorly equipped explorers.
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@pauldacostafreitas9017 9 дней назад

You guys as a team you are very knowledgeable in your field, the way the team research on the history and the experience in rock climbing and descent with ropes, you guys are professional, I am proud and happy to have viewed your program and witnessed the hard work the team put up with. It is not easy!!!.

@qldabandonedmines 9 дней назад

@@pauldacostafreitas9017 Thanks for the very kind words Paul! We started this as a passion project and it's become a lifestyle now. Even though some of these workings have been up in the hills untouched for decades, there is a sense of urgency in what we do. Land access is getting increasingly difficult and the workings don't stay accessible forever. Very few early 1900s mines are still open. A lot get destroyed from modern exploration work too. We very much appreciate your comments and thankyou for tuning in mate. Eb. QAM.

@robertpetersen4188 11 месяцев назад

Great effort team. Excellent video and commentary. Wish I could be with you on this awesome trip. 117 years yet looks untouched from last extraction day. Just to survive in such tough country as a hard-rock miner fills me with deep respect for our prospecting pioneers and their true grit. Thanks for a memrable trip. Keep safe.⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much Robert. It's comments like yours that further fuel our passion for these deep explorations and digging up hard rock mining history. Sam and I now have a track record of some epic quests in the bush! This was a memorable trip for us and we are glad you could join in on the premier. Have a great weekend. Regards. Ebenezer. QAM.

@Eriu-88-88- 11 месяцев назад

👍 It blows my mind how the old timers prob got there by horseback and then dug out by hand.. Impressive effort

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Agreed my friend. We spent hours looking for a milling operation and found nothing. So all that ore was shipped down from high up in the range.

@Eriu-88-88- 11 месяцев назад

@@qldabandonedmines Love ya work fellas. Keen to see more.

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

@@Eriu-88-88-Thanks mate. We have videos every fortnight until March next year, then we are taking 12 months off. It's been a crazy three years of wild exploration.

@forgottenmininghistory 11 месяцев назад

That was one hell of a journey just to get out there. I've never seen guano that built up before. I know the smell and that must have been unbearable. If you're brave enough you could reopen that one as a fertilizer mine lol

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Hahaha. It was a testing but memorable few days in the mountains mate. We discussed the Guano mine also. The mine would need a very strict "no smoking" policy underground.

@TheSilmarillian Месяц назад

Mew sub here ,I remember my first time going on rope and true going over the lip was anxiety city but once you are on rope its a different world indeed . Opal miner here so I love this abandoned mine uploads, nice call it give this one away with the decades of bat poo in there its not friendly 2 ones lungs. .

@qldabandonedmines Месяц назад

Thanks for tuning in my friend. The first shaft I climbed was at Mount Perry in 2021. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. I've since climbed about 50 and almost all of them go nowhere. Only shafts that have been remediated or worked in the 80s still lead to drives. The rest are full of composted material and dead critters. Eb. QAM

@Mark_The_Magnificent 11 месяцев назад

Amazing video as always guys! I really appreciate seeing all the effort you put into accessing those incredible places for us to see. Absolutely awesome!!!

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Our pleasure mate, we are just as happy sharing it and appreciate you tuning in.

@rosemariebutler-zy8xo 2 месяца назад

I have a property in nsw, we where able to apply and close then purchase the crown road that ran though our property, so its no longer has public asses on it. Dont know maby same happened with the property you first tried going though, I know ours still shows on most maps as a road when its not any more.

@qldabandonedmines 2 месяца назад

@@rosemariebutler-zy8xo Even if it was still a road (government recource cadastre maps still show it as one) the people nearby were not keen on us going up there that way and we were respectful of that. They probably put up with a lot of idiots doing stupid stuff in the past I'd say.

@geoffgeoff143 6 месяцев назад

Nice fault. That isn't why it's called a hanging wall but I guess you know that.

@qldabandonedmines 6 месяцев назад

That terminology pre-dates Aussie hard rock mines. Lantern and hats were hung on the "hanging wall" in mines over 300 years ago. Our guess is that term made it's way to Ozz via the early European miners.

@35andsolid 2 месяца назад

You guys are unreal ,good stuff , thanks for showing ,cheers

@qldabandonedmines 2 месяца назад

@@35andsolid thanks for the kind words bud & thankyou for watching. Ebenezer. QAM

@ghostrider9978 11 месяцев назад

Great stuff guys,, and go the little fourby,, 👍

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Ghost! Cheers brother, and yes, go the micro 4WD's! Have a top weekend mate. Eb.

@kevinbrennan2004 11 месяцев назад

Another epic explore. Up there, with one of your best.

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Kev! It certainly was a wild few days in the ranges. I hope you are well my friend. Regards. Eb.

@alexmacaulay9550 11 месяцев назад

Pish how do you no that nobody has been down here in 115 years what age are you just asking

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

All the mineral exploration reports that span over 70 years show soil sample gridding and aerial radiometric reports. No exploration companies have taken samples from the reef.

@buckchancey 11 месяцев назад

From the century-thick carpet of undisturbed bat shit

@OGRocker1 11 месяцев назад

Thats one bat shitty explore mate, thanks Eb.... ~OG Rocker ⛏⚒⛏love the new intro.🍻Cheers mate.

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Cheers OG! I missed you this week then realised you have a new YT tag! Sorry Ledge!

@ПривидКиєва-ы3у 11 месяцев назад

BATCAVE !!

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

Yes, a literal thriving bat habitat. To push any further in we would have needed to do it at night. That is when almost all.the bats leave to hunt for food.

@shipshape6918 11 месяцев назад

When Are you going to do a Gympie shaft?

@qldabandonedmines 11 месяцев назад

The Gympie shafts linking to all the big stuff (GED) are all capped mate. We are currently working on a Gympie Gold video though. It will take some time though as the Gympie history is rich! We are planning to cover Nash's Gully and The Scottish Mine site as the primary story

@shipshape6918 11 месяцев назад

@@qldabandonedmines Looking forward to it as there is so much time capsuled history under that town, mind you most of the shafts and drives are probably flooded. Some of those shafts in the Gympie region were sunk anywhere from 100 to 1200 metres in depth.