Hidden Level of Tui Mine - Pipe Crawling and Dangerous Shafts 

I'm glad you were in there with Karl, its a very dangerous mine and he knows what he is doing. It was a copper and lead mine from the 1960s through to the early 1970s, but parts of the mine date to the 1880s. The site is hugely contaminated, particular the tailings area outside - heaps of zinc and lead in the tailings.

Hi Aaron, my name is Mark, I was previously a resident of NZ (Auckland) for 26 years from 1971 to 1997 and now reside in the US. I recently stumbled across your channel and really enjoy this type of thing. Thanks for posting, I will surely be watching from now on! Please keep it up!!

What is with the blue PE pipe that was laid throughout much of the mine? That looks quite new. Was it part of the rehabilitation what was performed a few years ago, to stop leachate into the local streams, or something?

Ive spent enough time on youtube to know better than to be messing with caves like this, thanks for doing it for me

Yeeah, that's gonna be a nope from me.

Ive been waiting for you to put out this video for ages. Looks a lot wetter than when I went in. Youre totally mad walking out over that stope, no way I would have gone over there. One slip and youd have never survived. You probably would have made the news though. Even made it hard for me to fall asleep while thinking about it. It was good to see further down the other direction, I thought it was all collapsed. Hopefully Ill be back into things at the end of the month. Im thinking of doing a more thorough search in the Waiorongomai area