Exploring Abandoned Mines In North Idaho

[mexiko41]

WOW I had no idea! Great shots.

What were they mining? Gold.,Slver? And you say no one was around these places??

[cannedshoes]

Oblivion music xD

[CamoSniper87]

LOL OBLIVON MUSIC!!!!!!!!

[4cats1porcupine]

Really enjoyed this, I grew up around these mines.

[BluesBr0420]

Oblivion LOL

[EnviroCellular]

Isnt that the music from the game Oblivion? Very cool.

[madscotsman65]

were the mines for gold or other stuff

[redmustang82]

loving the oblivion

[Uzbazur345]

Oblivion music!! Wow! Beautiful mine!

[SittingMooseShaman]

...look well upon these silent machines- this is what happens when the bucks run out. And all the "law"(!?!)-yers Hell can muster won't "change" a damn thing...The USA is near broke now... Keep on as these fools did- you'll simply receive the same. So... Why do we keep voting in the same fools who keep us in a mine that'll shaft only the workin' man...? ... ... .

[kootenaycat]

Cool pics! You guys don't go underground or were there no open adits? We live in a goldmine (literally!) of old mines in this area of BC, hundreds of abandoned mines around here.

[OBiable]

I hate to see all this coming down , it makes me sad : (

[Bshoey08]

call me i wanna check out mines. brian 208 818 7815

[Figlitiblitification]

I want to go to those mines

[Metaltony213]

Oblivion music, lol

[spaztack]

Where does the last half of the video take place? What are all those big buildings? Thanks.

[mo1971fordcrew]

@spaztack Hi it's called Burke, Idaho

[onefastctd]

@mo1971fordcrew

Thanks so much for putting this video up! I love exploring old mine camps and ghost towns. Give me a shout at dirtbikepilot at hotmail dot com if you'd like to hook up some time. I'm currently living in Salt Lake.

[mahlyenkidyavol223]

@mo1971fordcrew i have wanted to explore old mines, ghost towns and buildings for a long time now but theres nothing in my area! lol

[mahlyenkidyavol223]

@mo1971fordcrew is it actually abandoned or are there tour guides and stuff?

[mo1971fordcrew]

@mahlyenkidyavol223 They're very abondoned. The one with all the machinery is very dangerous to go inside.

[mahlyenkidyavol223]

@mo1971fordcrew that makes you a bad ass lol

[mo1971fordcrew]

@mahlyenkidyavol223 I know right

[MrBallzdeep2010]

@mahlyenkidyavol223 YOu wont see them go in the portal very far. If they knew the real dangers they wouldn't be playin around. Nothing like finding a bottomless hole to dissappear in. Poisonous gasses and places with absolutely 0 oxygen.

[carbidelamp1]

neat video of some great old mining equipment and buildings!

[1941bc]

I hope all the old equipment dosnt get scrapped, brill find.

[stephenknerler]

This song is from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I've heard this song enough times to be sick of it. Cool video btw, thanks!

[Mechknight73]

Excellent footage. I'm surprised so much of the towns and the mine infrastructures themselves are so intact. In Western Australia, where I'm from, when a mine dies, just about everything to do with the mine, and often the town servicing it, will be pulled up or down, including any rail lines to it

[V8Jagnut]

cooool vid! thanks for showing.

[manta400uk]

Great photos, must say you have bigger balls than me.

[jonnymagnumax]

wow, music choice is awesome and very fitting.

[bobbybooby28]

now imagine if you guys were there when those shafts collapsed!! yikes, in ontario, canada in a small mining town where i live there is a fenced off stope thats 100 feet deep and filled with water about 60 feet down, its crazy because it was like 30 degrees celcius and down in the stope the water was ice, crazy eh

[agentnautilus]

i was born in spokane and i've been through idaho many times of coarse ya know so to me some of those look the ones you'd see along the freeway.....i love it up there, i might have to head over there sometime once i get back home to WA....i suppose those might be silver mines maybe....do you know?

[mo1971fordcrew]

@agentnautilus Yea, i think they are silver mines

[onefastctd]

@mo1971fordcrew

Thank you SO much for posting this video!! Exploring abandoned mines is one of my all-time favorite things to do. I would love to hook up with you some time to go exploring old mines.

[carbidelamp1]

wow those are some pretty huge mills! i was exspecting to see just worn town wood buildings, not steel and concrete.

[lordsyprus]

oblivion the video game music

[NathansBackwoods]

What song is this? its kinda cool, I want to use it in a video.

[mo1971fordcrew]

@NathansBackwoods It's by Jeremy Soule, I think its called King and Country

[samjl4]

@mo1971fordcrew did you get the music off oblivion by any chance?

[tanner6470]

that kind of made the U.S because of immgrates

[magnadox]

pretty sweet by where i live i went to my local(ish) abandon insane asylum at night (i was with a few people tho); broke in by climbing a tree to the second story and making a hole in the wall via window smashing lept through and then proceeded to head towards the basement :)

[mo1971fordcrew]

@magnadox What was in there?

[j4me2have]

I know this place well, I and every time I see it, I stop and wonder about all the hard work and the people that passed through this place.

[MotelCambodia]

one of the photos is from above Pinehurst ID, I found 5 hidden mine shafts today near there. All too scary to go in.

[someone7974]

where exactly is it in idaho? ....near what town?

[mo1971fordcrew]

@someone7974 Near kellogg Idaho in the silver valley

[someone7974]

@mo1971fordcrew ok thanks!

[ttmcsar]

I loved the sound in this video...made the video that much better!

[maineboy32]

Awesome post. I find it amazing that these places were not destroyed and full of graffiti by vandals like you would find in other states. What were these mines mining? Gold?

[mo1971fordcrew]

@maineboy32 Thanks! Yea they are in veryt good shape. I think they were mining gold , silver and something else... I'll have to look it up.

[petermines]

Fantastic selection of images. It's interesting to see the variations employed in the milling process.

[WNxShisno]

Morrowind.... great choice of music.  You've made me want to play it again!

Awesome pictures, I'm envious... I live in an area that only has recently abandoned industrial type buildings, nothing as historic as this.

[mtnwingrider]

Thanks for taking me home. I grew up in Kellogg Idaho and my father was chief of security for the Bunker Hill Mining Co. I have been underground in at least three of the mines you have pictures of when they were working mines. Again thanks for the memories

[mo1971fordcrew]

That is really cool! That makes me really happy it brought back some memories for you.

Thanks,

Matt

[GearHead1625]

It really is crazy how fast things made by humans when they are just left alone are taken back over by nature is that old town an old mining town that was just abandon?

[mo1971fordcrew]

Yup, just abandoned, It's really weird.

[GearHead1625]

it is amazing that those old buildings were once used for a purpose then just left there

[mo1971fordcrew]

I agree totally.

[MrGoldenwaffler]

well done ... that looks really neat - I also love abandoned buildings / houses etc

[mo1971fordcrew]

Thanks!

[tommysbrowncaddysgay]

well done

[mo1971fordcrew]

wat?

[tommysbrowncaddysgay]

hahaha, cool!...o btw, mo1971...you are a homo

[mo1971fordcrew]

Thanks! And.....homo? What?!?!?!?

[tommysbrowncaddy]

OH HO HO HO VICKY!