Rappelling 375 Feet to the Bottom of the Garbage Pit Mine - 8 Hours Underground 

Yeah, it made some parts of the mine very unpleasant. Glad you liked the video though!

If you could find a name and address in the trash you could get them in trouble but the downside is that they would close the mine.

The false floors were really cool. Some parts did feel like a maze as passages looped around into eachother.

Thanks for the comment! There used to be a much easier way down, hence all the trash and graffiti, but the ladders have been missing for a while now.

Yes, it's very close to a town. It seems like it serves as the unoffical dump.

Thanks for watching! Would love to make it to Colorado one of these days.

Thanks for watching Lars!

Thanks for watching! I appreciate the support!

Thanks for watching! I'm currently working on the last Panamint City video.

@@forgottenmininghistory sensational. That series was truly epic buddy. Keep up the awesome work and happy new years!

@@qldabandonedmines Happy New Years!

Appreciate it! Thanks for watching!

Yes, we need to do some of the vertical ones aound here. Hopefully they will contain more artifacts than this one.

I did not know you had a channel also...just subbed

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Yeah, It would be great if everyone valued history as much as all of us here do. Some people just don't know enough or just don't care enough.

@@forgottenmininghistory Yes agreed, I think a lot of it is ignorance and being too lazy to research. xx

I will gladly do it for free. Thanks for watching!

Yes, it must have been. Unfortunately I don't know the exact production figures.

I appreciate the support! Thanks for watching!

I was thinking the same thing!

This is several hours west of Vegas. Thanks for watching!

so true

I can see it happening.

Youre the only person other than myself that I've heard describe what WILL happen! Especially e waste the way China churns out useless electronics sooner then later there will be no materials left to make semiconductors, etc!

@@alrui sooner than later once the world has stripped china of it's resources the US will begin churning out useless electronics since we purposely don't tap into our massive rare earth mineral deposits.. just the way it goes.

It's crazy to think how tough they were. When I stop and take a break in a mine, I'll look around at the surrounding rock. the timbering, the rails and try to get a sense of the whole place. It's really weird thinking how man created these voids in the earth and spent hours here working harder than I ever could.

Yep, they're human garbage.

Thanks for the info! Even if it was dynamite it would be inert.

@wbbh -- That's only been within the last 30 years that they've used those anti-roll caps . Years ago when I worked in Emergency Services I've bought many dozens of cases of Highway Flares that just had the black cloth tape and the waxed paper cap over the striker end . Normally if you find a piece of something like that in a Mine , you should always assume that it is Dynamite . And YES , there were some Dynamites that had RED wrappers on them . Also , NEVER assume that just because the Dynamite is Old that it has lost it's potency as there were several brands of Non-Nitro Dynamite , one of the most common was Trojan Safety Powder . I've seen OLD Dynamite that was just as potent as the day it was made . -- < Doc , Miner for over 50 years > .

@@forgottenmininghistory about forty years ago I worked at a site that had powder and cap magazines. There was some old boxes of dynamite that looked oil stained. The explosive liquid in the dynamite had leached out into the cardboard. I'll always remember the impressive explosion when the blasting foreman moved just the boxed out side and set them off with a blasting cap.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the feedback

We have ascenders that can slide up the rope but get caught if you apply force downward.

@@forgottenmininghistory: Now THAT's a workout! Do you find your way back by memory or leave markers?

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Thanks! Sadly the people who do this don't feel shame.

Cool! Thanks for the information

if not more $$$!!!

No, we leave everything where we found them

@@forgottenmininghistory Do you ever report findings to other agencies that specialize in things like archeology?

Some of it might be. All the plastic and paper might not hold up so well though.

I agree, there were some pretty sections of mineralized rock thoughout the mine. I wish I would have focused on them more. Thanks for the feedback!

@@forgottenmininghistory if you ever get out to LA County area contact Pat Keane at Keene engineering who knows how to get in touch with me I'd love to go out with you a few times sounds like a real challenge

A lot of mines close to towns are trashed over here.

North of Vegas

Got to thinking maby it was a trash hauling company that was not a legal one

It could very well be some unofficial trash collector doing this. We saw a few animal carcasses, but no human remains thankfully. One of these days I fear I might actually find some.

I went back here this summer. The mine is in even worse shape as some asshole lit the main shaft on fire. There's not much left to this mine anymore.

He's always lurking around in my videos.