Holy crap! Much more of a mine than one could ever credit from what can be seen from the outside! A world of mud and muck! Thank you for exploring it and sharing it with us couch potatoes!
Wow! Seeing all the rotten timbers and fallen lagging in that first drift you went down. I kept saying to myself "Get Out"! The colors and flowering plant life! All the mud. All in all, pretty cool mine! Thanks Justin and Crew!
A friend of mine had his dad die when we were 8. He had dirt bike gear on and was walking through a flooded mine. He walked right over a vertical shaft covered by the mud and sank over his head. Basically quick sand type consistency.
The depths of this set of workings presented more like the bowels of a watery limestone cave with all those strange formations. Or perhaps just bowels in general? Interesting one!
This explore reminds me of one of my favorites of yours. I can't remember what mine it was, but it was a solo explore that you did. The video was long. You ended up emerging from another exit, and the entire journey was 1 discovery after another. For all intents and purposes, it was like watching you get born again when you came out the other side. I wish I could remember what video it was, 4 or 5 years ago. I'd watch It again.
Wow! Super Sketchy! Seeing the profile of the old mud dam part way up that drift ... and then seeing that wall of mud blocking the end ... doubt it would take much to have that plug let go ... a few inches of water on the ground could be the difference. Glad you didn't get any closer!! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
If that truly was a lode mine deeper back and placer nearer the entrance I would be curious what gold would be waiting in the pools and crevices of whatever creeks or rivers lay at the bottom of that cliff. It would have been nice to see what was up those ladders for sure. Thanks for sharing Justin.
Indeed, I have reached that point you described. I hated the humiliation of the 9-5 and worked ruthlessly on building up multiple income streams, passive income, etc. in order to be free. I love the mental challenge of investing.
I got really nervous when you were wading through the end of that first drift, especially when the top had already shown evidence of failure. Too bad those ladders were too rotten to scramble up into the stopes -- would've been really neat to see the geology of the working faces up inside the stopes. Really cool mine, thanks for sharing!
Hi Justin, a really cool old days mine explore, I seem to remember a similar mine that was knee deep in mud a while ago. Your buddy certainly had a baptism of mud for his 1st mine explore, those straws and mineralisation were so worth it though. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
All that rotting timber, hanging death and ochrey mud, you could almost be in the UK! Never seen that transition from vein to placer here though. Fascinating place, thanks as always & take care.
Yeah it's been a while since I've seen you in a mine that made me uneasy watching it. I mean, if we're watching the video, you've obviously made it out ok, so normal it's just interesting to watch... Not also giving me that uneasy, almost nauseous feeling in my gut. Seen you do a few of those a few years ago. This one got me. *shivers*
27:05 that is one SKETCHY old mine for sure , how did all that mud get in there? Loving your explores frank they are the best ever and so well explained 🙏🏻
When you get into truly yucky wet mudball mines like this one I can only admire your dedication to the mammoth task you set yourself..... Thanks for sharing..... (I bet the car still runs)
I always remember the one where he was on the lift station in a huge cavernous stope, the platform had been undercut and you could hear the bottom crumbling away a few feet under him. Then he exited the mine by scooting along ore cart tracks spanning a bottomless pit.
@@stanbatchelor810 The one that comes to my mind was the one he was slogging through waist-deep muddy placer solo and started going in circles. You could tell he was getting fatigued. But since he posted the video, we knew he got out. But yikes!
Shame y'all couldn't explore the upper workings, because they seemed to be where majority of the actual work was done. Leaving the lower level as the main haulage, but y'all already know this fact. Y'all didn't see where they may have popped out higher up the mountain side? I noticed that where the buildings were, there appeared to be a hard packed road to that part. No signs of a mill lower down, because they had to be getting the oar out somewhere down below. As i didn't notice anything resembling a hoist setup, are anything to actually load trucks or anything similar. Justin I'd say spiders aren't your favorite creatures from the way you avoided the subject
WOW that was one very sketchy extremely dangerous mine you explored ! But the mineralisation colours were stunning (A kaleidoscope of colours) and those stalactite type formations unbelievably long. 🚢🇬🇧🚂⛏
Hey the gooey “mud mineralization” at 17:30 ish is an iron-rich spring, iron is dissolved in anoxic water until oxygenation at the rib, turns to ferric hydroxide. It’s a fault and that’s where I’d dive for ore:)
I wonder if some of the mineralized mud inexplicably on the sides were a small ooze out from the walls. Glad you didn't go closer to that mud wall! Didn't you encounter a lower mud wall that started collapsing as the water drained and you got closer? Very interesting mine!👍👍
That was amazing and scary at the same time...the "flowers" growing in there, well that is something new. A lot of quartz, makes a guy wonder what they did get out of that one. The car..typical tweakermobile. They buy them with a down pymt. at the "buy here pay here" dealers, or from some gullible citizen, and never make another payment. This is the fist time I have seen grey poupon in a tweaker ride...made me laugh...
Holy crap. Reminds me of the time Frank and I attempted to enter the Pine Tree mine in Mariposa CA and he immediately got stuck in knee deep mud that he extricated himself out with difficulty.
Do you save the equipment out of the mines like the ore car and the locomotives and the rail I'd love to have that stuff you restore and show i just bought my first ore car looks just like that one goin to redo it
Its interesting that there are survey marks in spray paint, the mine was surveyed professionally in recent times, so someone has the mine plans. The entrance slump has caused the mine to back up, hence the waist deep water, this would have been cleared if the mine was worked professionally, even for taking samples.
You need to start selling bags of dirt from these places. No guarantees of anything more than where it came from lol. I'll buy some just for the experience of seeing it being collected then panning it out. Ya'll always find the amazing spots
Oh geeze I read this wrong. I read it as the most dangerous man you’ve been in. And then I sat here and thought about any dangerous men I have been in and realized I’m married to my wife and have a daughter. I swear I’m sleep walking.
That muck and silt is nasty bro hahaha.I been in it for a few hundred yards before sucks!! Nice size vein they worked there man beautiful stope with props.Wow the AMD formations are wicked!Ive seen flowers deep underground like that before so cool!!What a beautiful dark mine.
No, that wasn't poison oak. The elevation is too high for poison oak at this site... We tend to get the poison oak in the winter when we're forced out of the high country.
The only thing I can say about your adventure is, your camera is really to close, and makes me dizzy watching this. Otherwise, this exploration is great.
Have followed you 4 a while now may I be so humble as 2 say the artifacts and just that mine lost for words again hello from Australia opal miner here @ 14:29 why not use the old shovel and make a better channel 2 drain the backed up water I would have or is that just me? The water is already trying to do that give nature a helping hand to circumvent the blockage humans created for what reason ...unknown it was not natural rock fall drain come bk a month or so later maybe? @ 22:38 that adds meaning and depth 2 the saying bad ground that's why it was extensively propped just finished watching and still have the same question @14:29 why was the obvious ground flow water dammed up 4 what reason and why interesting its a man made dam had it not been there maybe just maybe you would have not needed waders to explore as far as you did again breech that dam and return in a month or so hello from Australia opal miner here and yes abandoned mine and forgotten places explorer .
What an idiot. Assuming you’re not just talking out your ass up to be cheeky, claim jumping would have to involve “mineral trespassing” , or filing a new claim over the old, or some variation thereof. You’re accusing this channel of committing crimes when you have no standing or evidence to support such a thing. Shut your goddamn mouth and learn a little before running it. Active claim or not is irrelevant as it’s public land and you can’t trespass on a public claim, only a patent claim. Time for you to get off the internet and go touch grass and probably some books too😂 What does claimjumping mean? There are two forms of claimjumping but they both amount to the same thing: Producing minerals from a claim that belongs to someone else Attempting to seize the land on which another party has already made claim
Yes I am the claim owner of both the upper placer site and the lower mine. I also own another tunnel on the western end. That is Patented. These guys did not have permission to go into this site. someone cut the lock off the gate. not sure whom did it. @@randymagnum143
14:14 Home of the lesser ? L-M It meant something to the miner who wrote it i guess. Whoever L M is Or its information that meant something about drifts L and M? Something the miners who worked there would understand idk
Theres some crazy mines in El Dorado county, maybe you could do a segment in that area , This was a good one, dont like the mud or the rot but the vein and the colors were amazing
Wouldn't walking sticks help navigate the mud-terrain or flooded areas of the adit?!?! Great content as always man you find lots of good mines safe travels & happy trails
That is definitely one of the worst I've seen you attempt. For goodness sake, your mission is admirable, but it's not worth sacrificing your life. PS - how's your wife doing?
That looks local to me, what’s a good way to get in touch? I do the occasional exploring in my area would love to meet you guys! I’m in the NC/GV area if your familiar. Closest one on the map to me is the Hoge…
Its look amazing, but if I would seen that mud and all those rotten supports beams I would just NOPE the F out of there, as with my luck it would just fall down as fast as it would sense that I enter there...
