 Good morning mine exploring fans Tom and Julie here once again We're on the Jeep banging around up here Looking for some mines. We're on a kind of a blind mission today We're gonna have to just hike around and drive around till we find something The Jeep and we're off on foot. We even have a couple Joshua trees right here We could probably drive a little further up this road, but we need a little exercise I'll let you know what we find Well, I think we made the right call to park the Jeep where we did This gets pretty rough for a stock yj with 200,000 miles on it almost What a road. I think we could definitely hike faster than you could rock crawl this one Well, we're getting closer Look at all the junk in it You're low the waste ball there kinds of stuff And there was some sort of a ground tram or an aerial tram that went down the mountain You can't really see it from here, but it went down Pass that orange spot all the way down to see the structure down there. Probably can't see it What did you find there? I wonder where I lost my boot A steel pole Steel pole rubber boot. Looks like you could use a new pair Well, that's probably what they wore Well, we're up at the top of the road which ends at the mine. There's a pretty good size waste pile here. I Don't know what this platform was for This probably was a shop building of some sort where that boot was Maybe an outhouse there that looks about the size of one The waste pile continues this way Pretty good size orb in And like I said earlier, I think there was a tram of some sort around here this looks like an engine with a partial frame on it And there are these poles that look like they may have been a tram doesn't really look like power lines. I Sure wish I could get down that I'm in that waste pile. There's all kinds of good junk down there. Here's this engine and frame from the bottom Stipped over pretty good. I don't think I could roll the back over unless I had some help. Well, there's our portal. It's a very handsome door Still on the hinges It's got some Timbering up above it It's right into rock So it's very solid these the portal areas Let's go in and see what we have Looks like there's a hole in this door for a lock because when I Reach in there, I felt the lock So let's get this door open and we'll go on in the mine See, I think it would have been able to reach in there with a key and unlock them and then this bar would have slid Okay, the mine looks a little bit Messy Some shelving right when you go in. I don't see any artifacts laying right at the portal Here's the hole that that bar slid into There it is This was a Mercury and gold mine pretty solid so far I see they've taken the track up Repurposed it elsewhere. I'm guessing Well, here's a little workbench or a few station One or the other maybe both There's a box Atlas chemical I wonder if that was blasting caps This is a lusian coffee and What's that say chicory Coffee and chicory. Yep. That's a weird combo There's a copenhagen Hey, yep Copenhagen Little light bulb in there Coffee and chicory. That's interesting We have some directions here too Julie's taking a little side trip More boxes down there. We thought that might have been an or pass, but I guess it wasn't or isn't Julie climbed down there for nothing Well, you never know. No, you don't All right, let's continue down the drift Like some kind of a vein here So interesting about this mine Is that the A lot of the waste rock was opal Here's part of a barrel Those are explosive instructions. I recognize those I've seen them a hundred times how to make a primer and how to How to set your charge and all that Prevention of accidents in the use of explosives from Hercules Let's keep going down this way Looks like there's something going on over here. We'll go check that out later We'll stay in the main drift for now We're a lot of lumber around in there. I know it. There's a coors can With the pop top You don't see too many Mercury plus gold mines At least we don't So I don't know if this was cinnabar ore or something else for the mercury I've never heard of opal being the Majority of the waste rock either That's different That doesn't go anywhere does it doesn't look like it. No That's gobbling and backfill It's low, isn't it? I already clunked my head a few times There's a rat chewed glove Yeah The copenhagen or primers? Oh, copenhagen There's a coors can too Aluminum oh Wow, look at that. That's not the it's an aluminum can without the pop top without any easy opens That's really weird. I've never seen that before All aluminum too, isn't it? Yeah The whole thing So this timber sets is number three on it and An oil can And an oil can on the other glove Motor ease oil All right, where's that from? California union oil company of california. Huh must been one of their brands that Bless her knowing brands. So here's a chute. There's a switch here track switch And this goes to a chute right here It looks like it's all plugged up. This is number one chute so Boy, that's plugged up in it. So since this is opal. I brought my fluorescent light. Let's see what if anything fluoresces here. Oh wow Look at that one right there Wow, that is cool. That's green and purple That one's bright orange Here's another green one here Well, look at up there. How kinds of colors? I hope you guys can see that This one is really cool. Look at this one again here down here. Oh, yeah Okay, we picked out a few of the fluorescing ones That jumped out at us and we lined them up here. So let's see how that looks. Let me turn my light off So this one goes orange and some green That one's a dark green This is kind of the neatest one. That's green and orange and purple and pink That one's dark Orange Do you want to turn some of them around a little bit? That's a neat one, isn't it? That one doesn't do much, does it? Look at that one's really orange, isn't it? Wow All right. Well, that was number one shoot Moving on We're a lot of lumber in here another track switch Oh, and another shoot except for the shoot is gone this time There would have been a shoot nailed onto there Let's get our florescer out again and see what we see Tell you light please This is down on the floor here in front of me All kinds of colors. I don't know what they are, but Look at this green one. Wow. Look at those Oh, that is cool, isn't it? Yeah See that? Mm-hmm Another green one another green and orange one. That's really cool Okay, that was the number two shoot And just short ways further Oh, yeah. Wow. Look at that Looks like it's almost got some talc in it, doesn't it? So this is the next shoot Under something But this is number one Right there Oh boy, that's all jammed up too, isn't it? Okay, we're gonna head back towards the front of the mine and we'll look at that shaft area Or whatever it was to the left as we came in All right, here we are back to the intersection Let's take the right We'll be in a lap coming in Take another shelf here And I believe I see a shaft Hmm, it's just a little affair up here. I wonder if there's something up here that we're seeing I don't think so actually But there might be something down here we're seeing A little ladder This thing's just sitting here Why is that there? There's track sticking out of this Three tracks, two different sizes Where is that coming from? What's that thing on that post there? Huh When this goes down, it looks like there might be a level just down below us Down like two sets of ladders Very thin rows It's only supported on one side Floor is down actually Should we go to the level? Okay Turns into a wood ladder That's good to know, we like this one Looks slippery, the metal one does I'm down two ladder sections and this is what you see I'm not exactly sure what's going on over there. I'll probably take a walk over there When I get off the ladder Because it's a little bit of a step up here. I'd have to jump off the ladder So let's go down some more There are landings Goose down probably another 40 feet I don't know if there's a level working level between here and the bottom of this shaft, but let's go find out Okay I crawled past this cave in this behind me There's some old timbering here There's some very old timbering here too This mine is from the early 1900s and this must be the old part of it And this is all groundfall that I'm standing on It almost looks like um floor right to me Although you guys know I'm not a geologist a lot of this stuff is about the cave too. It's really unstable This is all groundfall in front of me And I'm actually on top of the Timbering for this drift that would have gone through here Later there's a shoot old shoot coming in on the left there Wow, that's some old stuff So I better get out of here before something hits me on the head. I came through this little thing here See I'm on top of the I'm on top of the back of the mine The Timbering for the back So let me get out of here This cave because it would have been kind of fun to see Yeah, so I was just up on top of that stuff I crawled through that thing And behind me are the ladders Here was the dump that went into the skip car Which would have gone up this Hauled shop And Julie stayed up there. So that's the top of the shop There's her light The ladders are on this side So back up I go There's Tom way down there. He's making his way back up Yep, coming back up Okay I'm on halfway All right, okay Tom's gonna cross over here and see if there's a level Apparently there was some lighting in here That's a little more recent than the early 1900s, isn't it? So here are a couple cans There's a Shasta lemon lime Part steel part aluminum Here's a Canada dry Rudy Rudy R.O.O.T.I. It's new That's a steel and aluminum also. I've never heard of Canada dry Rudy There are several of these things It's like a two and a half by four or five Little platform like maybe a scaffold They've got holes in them for like a pin and I don't know what they're for All right, let's go this way a little bit. See if we find Here's a bucket couch Here's another can That's a Shasta cherry cola That doesn't look very good that way, does it? It might go left here Okay, Julie's gonna come down one level on the crappy steel ladder Yeah, I wouldn't hang so much to the right side as a left because that's the one that's connected Twist just a little bit. There you go Okay, don't go any lower enough I'm gonna get a jump up here There you go Comes to Winshaw. Okay Well, I just came through there from Julie This one's got a little pressure on it. It's cracked It comes to a windshaft over there Looks like there was a windlass at one time I don't even know what all this stuff is. It's almost like talc And it goes this way a little ways. There's a cable down here Really dusty You stir this stuff up. It's nothing but dust This is gonna end right here Why is that dusty in there? I don't know if that shaft is open or not. Man, this is all come down on top of this And yeah, I like to get a look down there That doesn't look so good there does it? So here's this windshaft There was a hoist of some sort here probably a hand cranker And I don't only see it going down a little ways It may have gone further at one time, but not anymore And I'm getting out of here because This area is not stable Probably shouldn't even be here Oh, yeah, that's okay Okay, it's always going back in the ladder Not the greatest is it? No, it's not The wood is much nicer. Yeah, wood's better than those You're doing it though. Okay, Tom's gonna come back I saw another one of these steel ladders all twisted up down there In one of those caves All right, we're heading back out of the mine We'll look around outside see if there's any cool stuff that we're missing Crazy mine Here's this place to get in with the chicory coffee Never heard of it Not sure if this is the vein or not, but There's some pretty wild stuff. I don't know what this is It's almost like talc down below there and it's gonna be hot outside It's nice and cool in here Well, I tried my darndest to flip that Engine over so it's not all lean in the dirt, but I got it moving but then my My pry bar broke I didn't have it budging a little bit So we're gonna take the hard way down And go down below this waste pile see if there's any cool junk down that way Looks like an old water pump isn't it and sitting out here for 100 years and still pumps Well made Well, we're poking around on the waste pile looks like an engine there Looks like another engine there And I don't know what else is down for a little four-cylinder engine I'm not sure what kind it is. It does have a badge in the back here If I can get around to it Fuel tank Very hard walking around here. Here's this other engine down below me What kinds of other junk down here? Looks like it might be an ore cart down there It's got that beautiful Alice Chalmers badge on there I think it's brand new A little forebanger Big tank up there. I don't know what that was for barrels and Other stuff. Here's some kind of a homemade trough or some sort. It's really windy. She might get some wind noise There's something else over there. So look at this other engine and we're going off here Here's this other engine. It's a straight six Well, it looks like it says gm down in the corner down there, doesn't it? A couple other numbers on there That's what all I can tell you Head's gone. Here's what's left of an ore car We're about halfway down the junk pile Julie found herself a nice band break There's the adjuster. It's wood lined. It must have been off a little winch somewhere I don't know what this bucket says Rick company. I can't read it. What did you find there? Well, it looks like the uh Dash and Far the front end of an old vehicle Look how little it is We're still here This must be a light switch Crazy, huh? Yeah, it's crazy Not sure what they made this into Somebody was a pretty good welder It might be a water heater because there's Those look like water pipes going through this bucket Who knows oh Who knows what miners make they're still working their way down the wash here. There's a big jam of barrels here Looks like there's a big bucket those galvanized things look like some kind of a bucket Looks like a homemade shaft bucket Then there's one of these cool barrels steel, but they're shaped like a wood barrel They're bellied out in the middle There's about a three foot diameter tank maybe even a little bigger Uh probably for water I would guess Still in pretty good shape It had a big Big outlet over here or a big pipe We're still going down this wash. It's getting pretty choked now Could be a problem Too late to turn back There's a big tire. It says uh highway service truck and bus 9 20 made in usa template rating I don't know how old that is does that say miller or m I Little tank with old style cone shaped rivets So that has a big flange on the uh Side of it for such a small tank And then here it looks like it burst I don't know if it froze Or if something blew up inside of there, but it burst probably from freezing Okay, we're still making our way down the wash It's tight and we're running out of stuff to find But so far it's been pretty good. We'll keep working down here We came all the way down that rough hillside And we're back down to the road and there's the jeep So that was a good decision to go down the wash. We found a lot of cool stuff down there, didn't we? It was. It was good. Thanks for watching the video. We hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you on our next adventure