good show lads.would be great to explore palmer gold fields I know there is a lot of secrets hidden up there.might be dead bodies to.heaps of old mines very hard to get to
Thank you mate 🙏 Palmer River is 100% on our winter list for next year. We have found all kinds of nasty stuff in mines before but always stop filming!
Hahaha. Thanks mate. These episodes we filmed are some of our best. Unsubscribe once we are done, because as far as locations go this one will be hard to beat. Thanks for tuning in. Eb.
How many of those miners were from Cornwall I wonder? West Cornwall was renowned for the numerous tin mines in the 18th. and 19th. centuries! South Australia is replete with descendants of Cornish families, as graveyards will attest to.
Judging by the names given to the main mines, we would say the majority were Irish and Cornish. The hut we all stayed in was built by the Cornish Tin Miners in 1888!
@@qldabandonedmines That's wonderful information. We bless the memory of all those "Cousin Jacks" that risked life and limb to extract the precious ores from all over the globe. Regards!
Cheers brother. It took us a few days to dial-in the setups like most of our trips. Every day had its own challenges we had to overcome to capture a good grade of AV. We now have big episodes scheduled from tonight until February once every two weeks.
Us too mate. The inside of the mine is only a portion of the work. Outside of this working we could see the remnants of an old tramway system. They still had to get all that ore processed at the local mill
It's millennia of practice adopted from the tin mining in Cornwall. The tin mines of Cornwall are like this and go for kilometres under the sea, having been first started in pre-Roman times. A lot of Cornish miners emigrated to North Qld for mining in the late 19thC/early 20thC as the profitability of the Cornish mines collapsed.
