 Good morning YouTube mine lovers. Tom and Julie here of course. We are going on a flower tour today. No not really. We're looking for a mine but look at all the beautiful flowers. We're in a new area here up in Nevada. Here's the Indian paintbrush. Very nice. There's some other lower ones. Pink, purple, white, there's another purple type behind Julie here. I don't know what these are. So we're gonna walk up this old mining road and see what's up there. I see there was a power line going this way and then right here there's a some sort of a electrical something that was melted. It's a disconnect use only. It looks like it might be how maybe from a vehicle or something or a truck because it looks like it's DC. It's got a positive and a negative on there. It looks like we've come upon a waste rock pile and here's some wood and some structures over here. I don't know if it's a shaft or an old cabin or maybe both. Wow. Look at that toe. Oh it's a steel toe. It was. So it's a green, no deposit, no return, ten fluid ounces. It's got something on the bottom but I cannot read it in this light. I'll take a photo of it. It's the cabin. Just past that is actually an interesting looking opening. Look at that track coming out of it. A saw horse. Oh yeah, an old saw horse for working on the timbering. Tell me it's not full of rats. It sure is. That looks interesting enough down there. Okay let's go in this old mine and see what we have. You never know what are you. It could be good, it could be bad. Most likely a little bit of both. It goes a little ways. Where is that? Clean's dirt. Oh, some sort of cleaner can. That's interesting. Yeah, we'll look at that on the way out. I'm gonna take a photo of it. Okay. It goes through some hard rock here. Click the tracks are gonna pick up in a few feet, at least for a second. I probably just left them because there's a little bend in them. I've noticed in the mines that they don't generally reclaim the tracks that have bends in them. Oh yeah, cool file. Wow. Nice find. We don't know anything about this mine. The closest mine to this area is a tungsten mine. Well, it goes a ways doesn't it? There are several at its, I believe, up above us. So it's entirely possible we might run into a vertical shaft that hooks into something else. But who knows. Now the geology is changing here. Tomorrow we're red. It was this. And now it's like tan. Almost like a mud look to it. A few track ties laying around still. There's no noticeable vein here, is there? Like I said earlier, there are some at its up above us. So maybe this was a haulage. They dropped stuff down to haul it out. Gravity is the miners friend. That looks like mine cat poop. They were going on a piece of cardboard. No timbering except for at the portal. There's a little something, isn't there? We're either coming to the end or a turn or something. Looks like a curve. Once again they left the curve section of track to call it the straight stuff. Well this looks like it's going to end. Looks like we'll have to go searching up above for more mine workings. I hope they were searching for something here or following something and took it all out. Who knows. We are working our way back out. I'm guessing that this was about 400 maybe 500 feet in length. There's that cool file. Let's take a look at that. That's a half-round. That's a long file too. Still in pretty good shape except the tip is broken off. There it is. Calm and find it yourself. Alright we're going to go up the hill a little bit and see what we can find up there. There were a few jars of what appear to be some sort of a fat that's solid. It doesn't look like bacon fat because there's nothing really in it. Here's a steel pin. Alright we're back out. So the main canyon we came up was down there. The added that we just saw was around that corner and now we're going up another road. It's not on our map so we don't know where it goes. Wait what have you today? Clear. Wow I can't believe how steep this road is. Obviously hasn't been used for many years. I don't think anybody's even walked up here. But look at this thing. It's just crazy steep. How do those guys in those old trucks get up these hills? Especially loaded with equipment and coming out with ore. Unbelievable. Here's a big frame of something. Looks like they were dragging in a round. Could be for like a generator or an air compressor or an engine. Or it could just be a road drag. Who knows. This is a very minerally looking section right here. This big outcropping of something. There's a big cable there. Well you round the corner on this deal around this big dyke here of minerals and you see some lumber and some tin and some waste rock. This thing is pretty crazy here. All the lichens is on the north side here. I'm standing on top of a rastrock pile and behind me where there ought to be a portal is nothing. Looks like it's a rotted shot. But we're gonna keep looking. This looks like it was a big platform that has collapsed. And I don't know if it's full of ore that they never got out or what it is. Well there's that bin or platform that has collapsed. I'm on top of a fair size waste rock pile. Light in color. Alright what have we here? It looks like a little shop area. This possibly could have been a forge. That looks like another file, isn't it? Two files in one day. So there are some barrel hooks. That file. So this must have been a forge here. This looks like a ladder clamp that holds your ladders down. So maybe there's some ladders around. And I'm guessing that was a little forge. Here's another wall or a platform or something. There may have been a shocker because there is quite a bit of lumber that's down. There are more workings all the way up the hill from here too. This looks like the biggest pile right behind me though. So let's go in here and see what the heck's going on. Alrighty let's go see what we have in this old mine. No timbering at the portal. Oh boy that's some big poop. Looks like human poop. I doubt that it is because it's more than one. Is that burl? Oh this is skinny. You okay? There's something in the middle of the bucket. I don't see an obvious vein but this is really a mineral area. Another paint bucket. It's like the one we saw outside I believe. Olive drab paint. This one's got a little creepy vibe for some reason. That's it huh? Why is there such a big pile out there? Does it go right? Must turn. It looks like something deadly in there doesn't turn either. Okay well this thing doesn't go that far and this looks like a huge pile of dung of some sort. Or is that the stomach of this animal? There's an animal over here. This might be the stomach contents of that animal because it looks like it's kind of undigested grass and such. But it's also like there's skin here. No that's not pure poop. So there's an animal here. It's quite small. Of course the backbone and none of that is here. There's the jawbone and it looks like it's a little big horn sheep in the ear and a horn. A little fork horn. I didn't even know they did that. They don't do that. They don't fork like that. It must just be a very small sheep and the horns are just pushed together. But all four legs are there. No skull and no vertebrae. But look at the size of that poop back there and it's just black as can be. Wow that's big. There's my foot next to it. It looks like it has grass in it though doesn't it? Weird. Well you never know what you're gonna find in a little mine. I'm guessing that's the stomach of this thing. I don't know what else it could be. I knew what I'd have a creepy vibe to it. Here let's go back out. Alright we're back to the portal. It seems to be kind of an orderly large wastepile for that little drift. Here's a little dark lizard that's guarding the portal. He's got a blue underbelly scratched his side. Let's see your belly again. I never knew they had such a blue belly. I could just about touch my mom while eight inches away from him with the camera. We're gonna go a little higher up because there's some reason that this forge and little workshop area is here and it just doesn't make sense. There was nothing even metal inside that drift. No track or no ladders or nothing. So we're gonna go a little higher up and look around and see what we find. Well we're up on top of the next little set of waste track piles and this one is either you wrote it shut or it was just a little cut there like that and this one here only goes in about 10 feet. Here's an interesting crystal formation. Another one here on this big rock over here. Well we climbed up the mountain the way and there's not much up here. A couple of adits that looked like they were there one time our drifts are eroded shut and this one looks like it was just a little open cut. It's a very mineral rich area here. There's a huge dike in front of us or an outcropping. So who knows maybe they were just picking around here in there. We're gonna go look around somewhere else see what we find.