The mine you started at is called the Southern Nevada Mine ( Gold ) the mill is the building that you were at and has been removed by BLM. We have explored and documented every mine in that district and currently own one of them. We filmed all them in the early 90's on VHS and have been to the bottom of most of them ...most now sealed off. The Duplex mine on the hill is the most famous as it is almost still intact .....we have video of the underground workings on that on as well. The largest of all the mines is around the hill and they are called the Quartette mines. ( 1700 feet deep ) So much History at WB Ranch and down the road from the is the Hart mining district in the Castle mountains ( Viceroy was open pit - heap leaching it ) Small town of Crescent as you got to Nipton. 2 of the rooms at the Nipton Hotel are haunted. Big John of Searchlight made that rock garden out front of the Hotel in 1930. Could tell you a lot about Chloride too and the Cerbat mountain range .... be safe out there and keep'em coming
Wow! Thanks so much for all that info! We keep meaning to get back to Chloride as we just didn't have time when up there that time. Loads more to see. Just so little time. 😅 Thanks once again!
We were at the Colton mine in Searchlight last weekend. We stayed with friends that live in one on the trailers on the property. We also got to meet Kim Coleton, the great granddaughter of the original owner of the mine. Very cool place & was great to get to explore the are a bit!
Great video as always. You are right on how fragile some of these places are. I drove by a bunch of buildings in Mojave Preserve a few years ago and when I went back there were just piles of wood everywhere with a few roofs and door frames here and there.
Man, such a loss. So many places will just disappear or even become off limits to the public in the years to come. Makes one wonder what some neighborhoods or other areas we see daily might look like in 100+ years.
Your videos bring me so much peace! You talk very calmly, and the music with the beautiful footage! I appriciate your appreciation for the desert! 🙏 thank you for making these videos!
I used to deliver flyash to the castle mtn mine a few miles east of Nipton. About 1999-2002.I got stopped at those trax many times waiting for the train to move. There was a restaurant there that was actully very good. Often the train would stop and the guys in the train would go get food there.
Ahhh Haaaaa. I knew there was something odd & different throughout this whole vid & at 26:45 it hit me. Glenn wasn't wearing his Hat. Well that was a cool little adventure. Thanks for taking us along.
I’ve always wondered how Searchlight got its name. I’ve never heard of Nipton before. I love the sound of rain on corrugated metal. Right outside my bedroom is a huge patio cover, which I have to admit, is in much better shape than the one in your video. I enjoy waking up to the rain pounding on it.
Always enjoy watching your videos! So well done. I just watched the one you did in Grafton, a place I've been to many times...I have a love of Old West towns and Ghost towns too. If you've never been....put Bannack State Park ghost town on your list. It was number one on my must go to list and I was able to get there last year. It is fantastic! I spent four hours there....so much to see!
Thank you! 😄 Bannack State Park has been on our radar for a while. Just not sure, unfortunately, if we'll be making a trip that far north any time soon. Would LOVE to, just hard to squeeze in with the distance it requires to get there and the time off from work available. But it looks like an amazing place!
Someday you will be able to! I retired in August 2021(after being laid off due to the covid mess) so I was able to take a trip to Utah and back to Pennsylvania without any time constraints! Saw Bannack, Virginia City, and Deadwood in that trip! And many other places too. Maybe someday I'll meet you when I'm out West!
Love your content. You are definitely my scout for interesting road trip destinations. Some people don't get it. But I enjoy being in places where relics of the past exist. To think that those things, being a brick or nailed board, are what a person assembled many years ago.
Anither good one! I love roaming around the boonies with you. I wonder if Nipton will ever be opened to the public again. I hope whoever bought it doesn't use it for their own personal use, but it looks like that's what is going to happen.
Nipton's current restrictions are such a bummer. Especially since we've seen so many other videos from the past. Hoping things relax again but only time will tell. 😞
Another wonderful travel vlog loved it. Been by there but now I will think about it more than before when passing that way. These videos make me think about the people and places. Thank you so much and happy new year to you both. Look forward to seeing you on your travels in 2023.
In the video, right when you transition leaving searchlight via nipton rd, that property on the right, looks like it’s now a maintenance yard or something, that property is where Harry Reid and his family lived. I worked near there at a Chevron gas station right at the north end of town.
Hey, just passing along something I learned watching other mining exploration RU-vid posts, the pile of rocks that are usually close to the mine adits are called waste rock that's not crushed, tailings are the result of the rocks being crushed and processed by a mill or some other method of extracting the wanted minerals, usually don't see rocks in the tailings
Ah! Yeah, we have lots to learn when it comes to mining, processing, etc. It's truly interesting to us but not something we're experts at. 😅 Thanks for the info!
Wow, what a neat trip! You should have used the drone to get us into the restricted areas 😂. I wonder if they'd copyright strike you if you played a little "In the name of love" or "Where the streets have no name" just to go with the whole Joshua Tree vibe? 🤔
It’s a nice little place but there were lots of roman looking soldiers there crucifying gang members and burning decapitated bodies last time I went through
Yes..alot of history...you have seemed to have forgotten...or intentiollay left out the legacy of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe people. Its a Christian thing...I get it...
The scope of the video we intended was simply exploring remnants of old mining history. However, we are interested in the history of Native American cultures and have covered several in many videos we've filmed. You can check them out in our back catalog and btw, we're not Christian. 😉
