The Abandoned Cottonwood Mine | NV 

Enjoyed the video. Cottonwood mine though? I thought I'd seen most in this area but can't find this one though.

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day....

The diagonal cuts you were in are not adits they are stopes where they cleaned out the ore, called stoped out. They follow veins or pockets of ore. The timbers to hold the rock apart are called stulls, sometimes supplemented by pillars of rock. Those were cut out of the ore and left to shore up the rock above. You can tell what's being mined by the ore left in the pillars. When the stope breaks the surface it's called an open stope. Many of the so-called tunnels you were crossing on ad hoc bridges were open stoping.

Pretty please

Hey man, awesome mine explore! I was astonished seeing the condition of those timbers and everything else. Just subscribed, keep up the great work.

Been watching a lot of abandoned mine videos lately but I've never seen one where the wood is in that good of condition. really amazing!

Shit, somehow I missed it when you posted this video, Jake... Chuck and I came out to this one last year because we wanted to explore the upper adits here since, to our knowledge, no one had documented those before. I just started posting this one on my channel and started with the adit with that sketchy bridge going to it. If you don't mind, I'll link to your video when I post next week because between you, Graham, Chuck and me we have done a proper job of documenting all different sides of this mine. Every one of us covered something the others didn't. Teamwork!

Interesting video with nice information

I haven't seen a NV mine in this good of shape in a long time.

One of the things that amazes me with this mine is the amount of logs, timbers and boards that we used inside and outside the mine had to be hauled there from a forested area of which I don't see any in the video!

Thats beautiful looking material. Great video, stay safe out there guys.

Copper ore!

Nice job exploring these workings. They look rich with a great deal of mineralization. I saw some azurite which is beautiful and makes for great tumbling and polish. When coppers true value is realized someone will come in and mine it again. Perhaps a big company depending upon the size of the zone. Stay safe.

No moisture whatsoever so that wood will survive till pressure gets to it. Would have loved some shaft exploring, those ladders looked strong.

How do you actually get to the mines

Fantastic, that wood had to be transported for a hundred miles.....awesome job guys. Great craftsmanship.

great job, very informative.

Hi Jacob, Thank you for putting put the mining videos. You did a great job with the videography. Thanks, Ody Slim

Nice find man. Good job dude. I know right where you are. Next time I go to Vegas. I know what I am doing. Have a good day

I was amazed t how good the condition of that wood was. This video was great, I wish it was longer. I would have enjoyed exploring those mines in a little more detailed. Any chance of going back?

I like the trick of covering up your tracks to the old Indian way like I do in my CJ7 I just grab a bush and tie behind my Jeep so it wipes out the tracks is a move.

Jake,this video was quite entertaining and informative! Thanks for sharing. Some of those "diagonal passages" were probably veins of ore that played out and gave no indication of continuing, so there was no reason to make them any wider for carts or workers. Thanks, again. I subscribed and gave a "thumb's up", hoping to see many more of your adventures.

Just found you dude, nice video and great find on the mine!

Another great video, another thumbs up. I appreciate the voiceover explaining what we're seeing too, very well done. I understand the door at the portal, but why in the world is there a door in the middle of the mine?

Super-cool. Question about the vertical shaft with the rails: How did they hoist up heavy materials in this cart without the risk of it slamming back down to the ground? (Would there have been a pulley / counterweight / rope system much like an elevator?)

You need a couple of at six. But good mine. Thank you

Nothing but blue skies and rocks. You drove a 2wd car?! This guy spent all his copper mine profits on woodwork for his mine. Need to be more smooth and considerate with the camera. Beautiful mine, and great video!

That blue rock looked like chrysocolla and the green may be turquoise. Looked like a lot of it, and some of it looked pure all the way through. Did you grab a few samples? It would be cool to see it after its been washed, cleaned and maybe had some of the garbage stone chiseled off of it. Was this a copper mine, or is copper ore just an incidental mineral that just happened to be there as they mined other ore?

Also that green rock you looking at is Crystal Cola it's the first stage of turquoise it'll turn into a later on

DUUUDE THE FALLOUT MUSIC LOL

You’d think that exploring abandoned minds like this wild be inherently very dangerous. But you made it in and out with no problems. Seems completely safe to me. Seriously tho: Was this mine made by a company? Or just a bunch of guys out in the desert?

I'm thinking somebody bought that mine and invested lots of money on the wooden structure of this mine. Those ore shoots all looked brand new and no ore or falling rock rock backed up in the shoots

When you're travelling in this area do you ever see anyone else?

How the hell did they get all that wood down there..!?

Out in the desert like this, you really need a good 4x4. That car will get you in big trouble driving in the remote deserts !

Dude, this was fucking sweet!!!

Lots or c Lots of false flooring under you. Aren't you curious?

when you guys are out there at night do you see anything strange in the sky

I would love to see t his one with my own eyes. What mountain range is it in ?

Maybe it’s time to go crazy and lift the camry with bigass offroad tires :$

5:54 Did you see that someone left a camera IN the mine! HOW could they just LEAVE that there, wow guys...

Why didn't y'all just drive up there???

Can I get a pin 📌

Pretty good video. The mine was great and your dialog was good but not to be mean but the camera was so shaky, it made me dizzy. If you haven't watched a video from TVR, do so and you'll see what I mean. I don't know if it's his camera or his technique. Again I don't want to criticize, just want to help you make your videos better. Good luck.

Learn your mining terms, everything is not a "shaft". Winzes raises and inclines.

you wasted so much exploration time hiking the 4 miles up a perfectly usable 2 track that any 4 wheel drive would make. omg