Where Did They Go? - Exploring Historic Abandoned Mining Camps 

I like seeing the way people have put stones together to make walls.

I like your format. You don't cut off the screen every three seconds to something else. You move slowly and let us enjoy it like we are there with you!

Thank you folks for sharing your finds I think is great you both are awesome and to the young lady thank you for your fact of the places I love history

"",47 ford ,an two 45 ish dodges",cool stuff🤠⚡

Loved the old truck. It’s amazing how people lived. Cardboard and magazines for insulation and walls. And the graves. Loved the sqeeky door. Great find guys thanks.

I really liked watching it...and I like the way you presented it - in a natural, relaxed and informative way. It was great to watch it while having my coffee.🖐🖐🖐🌟

It would be worthwhile you guys getting a 'grabbastick' so as to be able to pick up items, such as papers, without touching them or having to bend down, & to open doors without going too close. They can also be usefull when you are not tall enough to reach something.

Ah yes led paint and asbestos tiles. Be safe out there. Liking the content.

Amazing how all the machinery/trucks materials for building are brought to these remote locations and then just left. The good thing is that the hoodlums have not been there. Great explore

Hell those trucks would be worth restoring!!! They would be awesome hot rods!!!!

Interesting stuff! The trucks are definitely 1940s, probably post war, possibly Army surplus. The big trailer mounted machine is possibly a washer or classifier, used to wash out the ore? Somewhere in the camp there is probably a power generation plant, as the big machines are electrically powered. (note control panel at the right end of one side)

That one large cabin with paneling and all was high end.

Interesting always loved doing.nature hikes this and others.👍

I want to check everything out, I'm so curious about it all. I feel like a kid again!

Sure enjoy exploring with you the ole trucks looks to be late 40 early 50 love you guys

Those trailers look like a portable mill. The missing half of the pickup was likely turned into a trailer, as was the fate of many old pickups up until recently.

Lead paint and asbestos tiles.....Now that is living...I had to laugh when I heard your title...I thought at first you said PAIN in the Atlas...LOL

Hello from Manchester UK. Love to see old abandoned places

Thank you very much for this very interesting and informative video presentation which is very much appreciated by the people. The discoveries you made are absolutely fascinating, it is amazing how pleasant the people were able to make their homes despite being in such a remote area.

In East Germany they used shredded paper that was pressed together or hay between the walls in the castle guards barracks. We saw it when they were remodeling the apartment.

Hiya, big machinery needed to be driven, so maybe the short truck drove a big generator providing local power/ who knows.. Thanks for the video.. Ian - UK.

That was great! Would have loved to see that property in it's hayday. Well done! 🤠🌲

Those trucks are Dodge Power Wagons. They were very sought after, the ultimate civilian heavy truck for remote destinations. Thje engines were tough and powerful, but the transmissions were amazing. They had real low gears and were indestructable. I believe they were the trucks or some of them used in the 1977 film, "Socerer."

I'm amazed scrap metal hunters haven't taken these to recycle centers...worth a chunk of change.

Awesome 🔥love this kind of vid!👏

When you see a toilet with the lid still on. Look under the lid for the manufacture date. Water heater also have a build date on them.

Love the barn, Buried, and using the rock for support.

I was really impressed by the size of those rooms in that cabin. I live in a tiny one bedroom apartment, and the rooms are very small. My sister lives with me, making it tight.

I'm late getting here to view this but I had an uncle that was a WW2 veteran and they had a place they rented in Maine that had many layers of newspaper that had been used on the walls as wallpaper. It would seem that the old trucks were from an earlier era than some of the items in the buildings such as appliances. Maybe this camp/outpost was used during 2 different time frames or the owners were just there a real long time and did some upgrades in the later years of occupancy. Travel safe.

Catalog the joint.OMG. I couldn’t stop what I was doing for 25 minutes.

That's was great explore. I enjoyed watching you.

Why wouldn't anyone live out there now? Off grid, away from all the BS. I'm ready to move in..

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a> I've seen big similar tubes at a cinnibar mine vicinity of Lovelock. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="360">6:00</a> those bedsprings are pretty comfy. Must have had plenty of water for all those bathrooms. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1680">28:00</a> generator building.. muffler was hole in the ground.

Both of those Dodges are 1940 ex-miltary 1 1/2-ton 4x4 trucks. Proof: the round holes in the grilles were for brush guard supports. And one is still painted olive drab.

We had a stove like that in our last apartment. It was clean an it worked though.

I enjoy your channel, Having been stationed in Nevada, there is a lot to be explored. Be safe. Monty

You nicely string them mining camps along one after another, and the next one looks very promising too! Gotta love sun blasted cars and wood :-)

That 1/2 a truck you were wondering about the age. Mid to late 40's no later than 1948. And it's a Ford. The oven/cooker + water heaters are from 1970 +/-

Love this!

Ore cracking system to get the minerals out of the ore, then to an acid bath!

First machine is a rotary kiln, second is a sluice for sorting.

Hello Steven and Andrea. I figured since I was the new guy that I would binge watch some of your previous videos. I wonder if any of those trucks had engines in them. I noticed a floor shift in the first truck. That old camper trailer look like it could have been a old Airstreams. Love your videos

All of those trucks are from the 40s the Ford is a one ton and was made from late 41 thru 48

Awesome explore!

The last truck by design to me was in the 1950's. You notice the two folding camping chairs? From the style no more than 20 years old. It was a impressive mining town in it's day. It was a very good exploring.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="260">4:20</a> The truck is a 1946 or 47. The cab is the same as 1940 and 41

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a> this looks like it was a kiln for making lime for concrete, the other you didn't go close enough, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="231">3:51</a> might have been a small headframe,

Nice place nice cool old trucks 🚚. Looks like some vandalism was done on the hasp with the lock 🔐 on one building. Could be why no one lives there

I'm sure that those trucks hauled that equipment up there!

That long tube machine[ is a portable rotary kiln used for sulfide ores like cinnabar or cement lime. Don't know what it is doing at a silver and lead mine though. The other long portable machine has shaker tables on it so it could have been used there. The trailer is a late thirties model. I just finished restoring one in that age range.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="56">0:56</a> My Dad bought one of those trucks after returning from WWII

That looks like a giant roadter for your ore

The first machine you showed is a tromel. It was used to wash rocks to get the gold that may be stuck to the rock. Then the gold would end up on mats in which the mats would be washed clean to remove the gold from them. I like your videos. Thank You

That looks like a shaker box with a trammel on the end.

the last hut at the end would have been a generator hence the smell of oil.?

The bathroom in the big cabin, that corner looks to me like it held a washer and dryer. There is dryer vent in wall.

I will second that the trailer apparatus looks like some kind of cinnabar retort system.

On that TRL iv seen in cement plants a much larger version of that they spin and got really

It's called a Hopper.

Thanks for sharing!

Looks like there were tow folding camp chairs there which must be much more recent vintage? Can't remember when those things started appearing

That looks like a 1945 (war time) Ford pickup. Pretty rare. As noted, the PTO (power take off) was probably used to drive machinery. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="264">4:24</a> It’s amazing the two Dodge Power Wagons were left on site. The Power Wagon seems to be the preferred truck, of the majority of miners.

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I don't know much but I was wondering if those trailers were trumells put the ore in the chute and it would go threw the round piece

The Grey truck #3is a 42-47 ford.

Rock Crushing machine maybe?

It's a cold water heater 😉

i would love them dodge trucks!

That big long trailer with the round tube is a trommel. They would dump the pay dirt in the hopper and the tube would rotate and seperate the larger rocks into fine pay dirt that would come out the end. If you watch on the show Gold Rush they have ones now that are 20 times that size. I have never seen one that small...

Very cool history there!

Some people are willing to live in hard, arduous situations for the slim chance of making a strike. Greed driven? Perhaps dream driven? More likely a hefty dose of both?

Very nice videos/ like to know some of the locations/ to go exploring/ what is your lady wearing on her belt? Green lights on it? Thx David

That was The remains of a 46 Ford truck

Is that a life jacket opn the floor at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1698">28:18</a>? if so, an odd thing to find miles from any navigable water...

Would be nice to go in and fix up these places to make them back to what they once were. I'm a retired builder and I've got nothing better to do. If you have the info on some of these places I'd like to know. I know you want to keep these places a secret and I can understand that but the vandals are still going to get them sooner or later. If you are interested in saving some of these let me know. Thanks

Those square tiles in the house you were walking on and crunching were asbestos tiles...

So what intrigues me about all the places you share with us, frequently miles from nowhere and in desert country to boot, where did they get water? Drilled or trucked in? The obviously needed water for drinking, but also many mining and refining processes required water as well, and if I understand correctly, large amounts of water. Been pondering this for a while...:) Be well Steve and Andrea

It would have been really nice if you would have at least opened the hood of the trucks to let us see the old engines, if they were still there. And a shot of the underneath drive train would have been appreciated, especially on the green truck, as I could tell from what little I did see of it, that one was 4 wheel drive, a very rare option then. Actually in watching the video again, both trucks shown at the beginning of the video were 4 wheel drive. To me looking at old relics like that are just as interesting if not more so, than empty rooms.

It looks like there is a fair amount of fresh tire tracks...

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Well, i liked you so much i decided to join ya! Yee-Haa!! Now no matter where you go i'll know i can find ya:) And so now..., that big trailer mounted "drum" looking thing. That looked like a rotary roaster. Not absolutely sure on that. Chances are it is. usually you can find some kind of a roaster at a mine/millsite that dealt with sulfide ores. The next two campers you showed are interesting. The one looks like it's on a truck bed. The little outhouse looking shed with the vent above the door and on the back wall looks like it was the generator shack. The houses were in real good shape for how long they've been out there. There was a key hook marked assay office was hoping to see some trace of it. Indeed, i do wonder who the people were, where they went, even why they left. Age, sickness, ore ran out? Sometimes them old places leave you with more ???'s than answers. Can't pin this one on my atlas, don't know where it is;and that's good; maybe it'll be saved for future generations to stumble on a ponder the same ??'s. Another great video! I was looking for a rat to jump out of the attic:) You'd still here me screaming all the way down that canyon. Y'all have a g'day!!

Hi, beautiful place with the awesome trucks n everything. I just wished you would have closed the glove box after you opened it. Plz leave everything just as you left it, if not better than before. Respectful for the ones who lived there n owned everything. I know I would not want a living soul to mess with anything I worked hard for n loved during my life. I love your channel!!!

Those hot water heaters are super expensive now, I wonder if they are any good?

Why does everyone call it a hot water heater? Hot water doesn't need to be heated. It's just a water heater.

I don’t think they had a stove with microwave on top in 1952

Awesome place! What a shame some sticky fingered individuals have helped themselves to components off those trucks and wash plant

Okay as picky as you guys, yet you still call it a HOT water heater. If you have hot water why would you need to heat it?

Man oh man would I love to restore those trucks!!! I wish you would lift the hood and see if the motor is still there!!!

your light workers

Do you know any history about these places?

Could I buy the place I only want a place to fix up not change a thing

Many of those buildings look newer than the fifties, in fact , based on my , less than faultless research, triple or grounded wall plugs weren't required till the middle or late sixties although there were some a bit earlier. That over the counter cooker looks later as well. I just saw your 1964 date which confirms an operating place possibly well into the sixties or seventies or more. Everything is just to well preserved, wouldn't it be nice if someone could fix that up as a tourist retreat? Cheers, Rik Spector

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Forty six ford half ton

Where is that place?

A big piece of machinery would be a trommel

Roaster

49 50 on that pu

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="283">4:43</a> I CANT BELIEVE YOU DIDNT KNOCK BEFORE YOU WENT IN ~ THAT IS SO RUDE!!.... (YOU SHOULD ALWAYS KNOCK 1ST BEFORE YOU GO IN.....SORRY TO HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT I'M SURE IT WILL SERVE YOU WELL ON YOUR CHANEL AND ADVENTURES) = LOL!!