WOW! What a MINE! 

Lol :) thank you! Yes I was rather excited that day, I love finding things unexpected like this.

@@MineExploration my pleasure. I'm easy excitable too, so i understand! 😁

Thank you very much! We didn't intend to do quote so much walking around outside again after the last video - but I couldn't leave the place without trying to see everything so it ended up not quite as we wanted (rain apart). Thank you for the kind comments this year, very much appreciated! Have a great Christmas!!

We have had a look into the mine next to the shop but it was horrendously wet, low, miserable and comes to a large fall not far from the entrance - couldn't put it on video because it is a low crawl and with the weather the way it is and with all the water the lens would have been a nightmare to keep clear (as well as the camera out of getting submersed). Wasn't fun that one lol!

Thank you! I'm hoping next year to buy some better sound gear as the wind is always an issue. I have a Rode Mic but they are so directional and this also causes problems for the type of filming that I do. Have a good Christmas!

@@MineExploration I hope you and Gary have a great Christmas too 🎄 😊

Thanks Graeme! Have a fantastic Christmas and New Year and thank you for all your support and kind words. Much appreciated!

Lol, sorry it depends on how I edit the video - usually we both appear at the very beginning intro but sometimes maybe not depending on if I mess up/forget words etc.

@@MineExploration It's s'all good. You've got to be pretty brave for this sort of thing, it's admirable! Stay safe and thanks for all the awesome content!

Hi Steve. This place is a load higher that one would expect to find it - but it seems to have pointed the miners in the right direction for the massive workings further across the valley (UKAME Minator Mine?). I'd gladly show you where it is, perhaps once all this lockdown thing is a bit 'tidier' hopefully early next year we could maybe do a combined video or something? (I know we've meant to do it this year but with the situation as it has been). I will be going back with the intention of canter-levering that rock back up that is sticking down in adit 1 as it is too low to safely crawl under - am worried because of a substantial rock hanging right next to it and worried that if that stone is dislodged then part of the arch may fall (keystone removal and all that). I've got plenty of steel available to either wack it up, support it or bang it out all together - the fall goes up to the surface currently. I don't know what was wrong with me that day, I seemed far too happy - I think I was delirious with excitement haha! Shame about the constant heavy rain ended up getting into the mics on the camera, though we were actually wet through even with the waterproofs on.

@@MineExploration Yup, with that rain, I think you were there the same day I was a couple of valleys over exploring for mines (unrecorded), I got wet to the skin too. Thanks, so it is on the opposite side of the hill to the Minator Mine, I was right in the end. Yes, sounds like a plan, I'm itching to get into those mines now, be better with more people for the safety aspect and doing a colab video would be good. Could give you the minator mine tour too if time/energy.

@@MineExploration I've got Gary on FB so can arrange through that.

@@UKAbandonedMineExplores Great stuff, looking forward to it!

@@MineExploration my hubby has just explained how to canter leaver a rock up so good luck with that!

Thank you! Have a brilliant Christmas too!!

Lol yes! This was a lead mine from the early 1800's. The whole site continued to be worked, on and off right up to the 1940's (the last air we explore in this video) but was more successful in extracting barytes in later years.

Hi Keith, yes that would certainly explain the shear amount of very close adits that run in almost every direction. Lol, definitely wet suit required!