what an amazing Birthday present my wife gave me .... always love going to Virginia City .....must be a past life there . Hope you enjoy the adventure and let me know what you think all that mining equipment is called. Watch to the end for your chance to get some Nevada Silver to... So you know what I am gonna say huh ....oooooh you better ....So C'mon...let's Go !!!!!!
Happy Birthday Jeff! You and your wife make an incredible team, the video you both made knocked my socks off! You should both give yourselves pats on the back this one was a real gem. Thank you for your passion to make such brilliant content, I love learning about geology and the nuanced history. The best is seeing you joke around and hearing your wife giggle in the background! I haven't become a patreon yet but I'm going to today as a birthday present to you and a thank you for everything you do Jeff. God bless! P.S. I think that flat wheel with the blades was to break up the soft ore???
a few things i recognized 5:13 hydro-sluice cannon 5:27 hydro-electric generator/inverted into a water pump 5:44 the chain with the catch plate on the ore bucket, possibly has a dual function, firstly it might act as a trip mechanism to cut power to the drum wheel raising and lowering the bucket, secondly it could be put there to catch upon a fork setup which tips the bucket at the surface(or into an adit), into waiting mill carts. great show jeff.
Time out, how the beep do you know, you claim jumper. 5: 13 some metal kabob 5: 27 some metal thinga ma Jimmy 5: 44 an Ole wash bucket Congrats on your answers
@@americanshad8396 i live in an old tin mining town, in tasmania. we got one of them hydro sluice nozzles at the local lapidary club. theres old mining equipment strewn all over my town. history and experience will always win :) thanks
This is my hands down most favorite place on the planet! Idk what it is about it there but I have been obsessed with it for years ive never been called back to a place like this one calls me back I feel connected to it. During Covid my me my wife and son went there every weekend and I still can’t get enough of it!
I don't even know where to begin. I'll start with a holy crap man.. What a well built video. The amount of information you just walk around with and casually decide to put into one video is absolutely astonishing. Information overload, but in a good way. I'll have to save this video and study it. Microwave dynamite, that really stuck in my head though because you never know until you try. He took one for the team! Can't thank you enough for all you do. Great video, thanks for another one Jeff!
Another great tour of my favorite mining town ! Thanks for the geo and history lesson ! Okay, this Smart Feller going to answer the questions. LOL ! 0:32 Elevator hoist 1:05 Cyclone 1:10 Thickner 5:20 Hydro Monitor 5:28 Archimedes pump driver 5:40 Tip stop 8:28 Square Set Timbering We smashed that LIKE button real hard ! And we stopped eating potato chips for Doritos !!!
CC my home town. How can you not love CC and VC? We used to ride our horses from CC to VC for the parade every year. Heck of a ride up and back....grueling! The CC Mint first produced coins (silver dollars were the first coins struck) on Friday Feb 4, 1870, more than a decade after the Comstock began producing ore. In that ten years prior to opening the Mint the ore was milled on the Carson River and then shipped, via rail, to San Francisco to produce coins.
5:27 - Not just a turbine, but a Pelton reaction turbine, indicated for small volume and high pressure water (big diference of high between the tube intake and the nozzle). The water jet hits exactly on the little "crest" in the padle's center. There, the jet splits in in two lateral jets. Fascinating design.
I really enjoyed this video, even more so having gotten a better understanding of mining and geology from watching several of your previous videos. We visited Virginia City several years ago and took the train tour that provided some information about the various mines along the route. I can see we need to go back and check out the mining museums.
Ok start with the chain on the bottom of the ore skip bucket that chain is attached to a rope / chain to keep the ore skip bucket from banging around sides of mine shaft and to keep bucket steady. I believe some miners from what I gather may even have a counter bucket to offset the weight going up and down in a counter shaft
My Son and I toured the Chollar Mine last summer and it was an Awesome experience to say the least. It was very educational as there are so many things to see on the site and the tour into the mine shouldn't be missed when your up that way.............So C'mon get up there!!!!!
Holy crap Sonny Jim. Geology, Mining History, and Carson City Morgans. That’s a Birthday Dream come true. I’m glad I kept my pants on waiting for this one. Thank you Jeff.
the big ole bucket has a chain on the end of it so that the miners can hitch a rid with all that ore that they mine great vidddd jeff keep it up hopefully my guess is right
Hi Jeff, This has got to be your best Virginia City video yet! Your Virginia City history lessons are phenomenal as always filled with little known facts and oddities. Thank you, take care my busy friend.
Thanks Steve , was starting to worry about you guys ...we always love going there and feel right at home down there .....hope all is well and would love to see ya some time so you know what I am gonna say huh .....
1:06 My first thought would be some type of de-watering unit or clarifier, but I see some suggestions that it is used to break up clay balls or used in sodium cyanide leaching, I like those ideas too.
wife again...u can call me 6strings....i play guitars!!!when im not looking for gems....i study earth science and watch your show for inspiration. ADDICTED TO rocks since i was a grasshopper knee high.... i want GOLD now that im old....Best wishes to you and yours Jeff.
Belated happy birthday Jeff, a real Classique was that locomotive Lila, you're like a living library Jeff, incredible scale of knowledge, you're worth ten times your weight in the proverbial,lol. Excellent tutorial once more Jeff,most informative. Thankyou and all the best regards from here on the West Coast side of Australia 🌏
A friend of my dad has 6 $20 double eagle Carson city gold coins! And they are the rare ones. Sold 3 of them for 57k. I'd be lucky to find a CC Morgan. Found two 1880 O and 1921 O Morgans last year with the equinox 800
Well, a couple of the objects I recognized were the monitor and Pelton wheel. I mostly dealt with surface placer mining and hydraulic mining evidence as an archaeologist in California. That stuff is supposed to be recorded and evaluated for its eligibility and importance as historic resources under CEQA, and Federal law (not always).
Thanks again Jeff for the leason son! I love having this history and VC in my back yard (I'm in Sparks). I too feel like this must be my past life. Hope to see you one day around VC. Going to do some mine tours this month too.
Hello Jeff , that was a great mini tour Jeff , and you are super informative . And what a treat to see the mines , watch that first 3000 foot step ... Just ask Slim he'll tell ya. No wonder you'r such a great Geologist. thanks for the tour Jeff it was a lot of fun . See you soon . Cheers
Always good mi amino. All my roommates in college were geologists you do a great job. Wrote my thesis in history about Sherman silver purchase act mainly because going to VC since I was 4. Grew up in glenbrook where all the wood for the square setting came from. Thanks for giving solid history and geology .....funny I ended up in quarrying of dimensional stone business. Somehow VC mining pushed me In that direction.
2 seconds in ''i got something special for you...'' hahahaaahaaaaa omg hahaaa thats so funny, your epic funny.. that was funny.... i had to pause to comment about how funny that was - i need continue watching... your epic bro
That was fun Jeff. When i seen CC, i thought oh very nice. I have many Morgans and a few CC Morgans, them be the very expensive ones. Of course San Francisco and Philadelphia minted Morgans as well. Thanks for all the energy Jeff, you have a lot of it.
1:06 is it some sort of pulveriser? the blades turn and crush small rocks into powder like a milling wheel. looks like its positioned on the outflow of a rock breaker, so looks like thats an extra steps that gets it really fine
Steam hoist, centrifugal separator, nozzle for hydraulic mining,, a Pelton wheel, the plate hung up to dump the bucket, Im sure they line the shaft with timber or even corrugated steel pipe
Great video Jeff! The Comstock has a never ending history! I love to call it home. Looks like you were at the site of the old American Flatts mill. I used to play there as a kid lol very dangerous place. Wish they didn't demolish it.
Loved the video I grew up in Carson and my dad had a fab shop there. He even made a rot iron fence that used to go around the mint. My grandfather made some of the big metal shutters that was in the windows of the mint. My uncle use to teach music at the high school in Virginia city. It really was neat to see all that again.
hey Jeff Williams...its on my bucket list to get out west to one of your group outings..time will tell...love all the vids & geology lessons...now is it me or do I hear a lil Foghorn Leghorn in your delivery..."I say, Isay listen to me when I'm talking to ya boy"..anyway thanks as always for keeping us educated and entertained..btw ..my guess(a wild swing at it) on that big horizontal wheel ..is an arrista(?) miĺl..dunno if I spelled it right
@@Askjeffwilliams 10/4! ..I've explored some the works here in North Georgia..most of the underground works were either capped, flooded or caved in..I've come across a few accessible underground works..mostly exploratory adits, and nothing remarkable about them, except the amount of hand labor it took, with absolutely no return on most...but some I've found were purpose-driven to quartz veins...regardless of the value..it never ceases to amaze me how accurate there bores were..almost perfectly intersecting the veins!..we're talking 1830's and these guys drove right to it..its a shame they were barren quartz, except with black manganese staining..I sampled and crushed some and there was no visible Au..but still a lot of fun to go in these works...its like taking a time machine back to that era
Awesome video Jeff, totally enjoying the informational lectures in the location of the mines, the geology always is interesting 👍, a big thumbs 👍 👍up. 🇦🇺🇺🇲
I don't know Jeff, I smashed the heck outta my cell phone trying to get that dang like button to turn dark....Didn't work, I would call you but now my cell is in pieces! Great video again......
Jeff your are best hands down your knowledge of the minerals and the history of the equipment and the miners who worked so hard to extract the deposits they were looking for are priceless. Keep up the great work and (My names Jeff) 🤣🤣👍
That was a monitor. The other wheel with scoops hooked up to it is a BWE/ Bucket Wheel Excavator. Those process lot and lots of material. There is a giant abandoned one in Alaska but I forgot the name of it.
I live in Carson City. It's always fun to go to the museum and see what's new there. Virginia is just a tourist trap for me. Nice video Jeff of the area around V.C. "Come on let's go"
Hi Jeff. Guess I miss the part where is that old mine with big wheels and extractor looking singing mcbob CONTRAPTIONS were at? Make for a good road trip from Florida. When fuel price's drop.. Thank you for your time and loads of energy for your vedios.. They mine here in Florida. With huge electric drag line monster's for phosphate for fertilizer. Thank you for sharing your experience.🤠
