 Good morning mind explorers. I just told Julia a joke that's why she's laughing. Here we are hiking up to a large orbin with looks like three or three shoots coming out of it. I believe there's an open portal behind it. Looks like a talc mine. Makes sense because we're in talc country. So let's go a little closer see what we have up there. That's a pretty large orbin in it. I see two shoots that are still there. Looks like there was another one to the right. Oh the other one fell off it's down there. Think of the lumber that's involved in making one of these things. I see a birch nest up there. Yeah it is. Looks like a hawk's nest where they make use sticks like that. That thing's about 25 feet tall to the top of that post up there because in my surveying days that's how long my rod was and that's about how long it seemed like it was. I land surveyed for eight years when I was younger. Obviously I want to go over here. Feel the easy way. Interesting looking wash coming out of these mountains here. Wonder what's back in there. I want to look at the view out here to the dunes. We're looking at Death Valley over that way. Here's one on top of the orbin. It's a big one. Probably 15 by 20 something like that. Even at the sideboards on there they got three sideboards. Two by 12. Three or four even. Just looking down. Just looking back towards the portal. Okay that's the cavernous portal that we have just entered through into this talc mine. And here we are. Looks like something's been burned in here at one point. I see some timbering right here. What's this all about? Big stove. Cavernous added here. Another stove going up that way. Orays. Yeah some big stoves up there. Big blocky. Well there's a little cone all right. Not quite a few. Look at them all. Where are they loading this from? Look at all the load counts. Miners did that in there with their headlamp. Wow that is huge. You don't realize how big that is but that is that is really big. So that's why it opened there. Looks like a big timber here. More load counts. Quite of a normal ladder it looks like. Quite a lot of these raises that go up into a real blocky type stove. Left a big pillar in the middle of that room. Here come some stoves. At about a very sharp angle. 45 or more. Some big lagging. So that's all they've done. It's like rumen pillar type thing. They've come up and there's another shaft up there. You can see the daylight. Look at the size of those timbers. Those are at least eight by eights and pretty heavy duty. I guess you don't want this stuff coming down do you? Looks like a cable has been cutting through that. That must have been used for something else at some point. Kind of a different talc mine isn't it? Yeah. It's such big blocky stoves that water has been coming down in through here. There's another opening to the outside. I'm guessing some of those are gated up there just because. I wonder why they've done it like that. I suppose they know what to do. This seems like it's missing a support here somewhere. This thing. Yeah there's supposed to be four shafts. This whole thing is on about a 45 degree angle. You can see the angle of the van apparently. And they've just gone in every so often and taken a bunch out and up to stove. I'm guessing this isn't going to be much longer. There's a little track in here that I can see. It's winding around. We're still rolling. Looks like somebody came sliding down there. There's more than four shafts up there. I can tell you that. I've seen about six already. I still feel air moving through here though. Another big area up here. There's some ties anyway. There's another set of timbers. Yeah that one's coming apart. That's a lot of times when they made them angled in a little bit. So they wouldn't come out like that so easily I guess. Oh yeah. Yeah you can see the the cable marks on this on the back of this stope slusher was running up into there. I still feel air moving through here so it must go a little more. There's a fence post. Some fumes it looks like. Well look at the drill marks. They're 20 feet above the ground. What do you see? So that's just some bracing they've drilled in to the back of this area just to keep it from collapsing. This goes down there. I'm gonna go this way since I'm already over here. It's like a huge cavern. All right continuing on. Here's another gnarled up slusher cable. I guess those things really take a beating. Of course you can see when they're rubbing against rocks and everything. I just can't get over the cavernous nature of this. It's just that's got to go up about where they've got some some wire up here for reinforcement. But this goes up probably it's got to be from right here to the top is about 20 feet up there and it goes up at I don't know it must be a hundred feet up in there. The others will come out here. Big huge slabs. The hanging wall that they take. Took some out. This is one of the most open tucked mines I've ever seen. Here's another one that just goes up. We're timbering. Wait look at all the stuff they got jammed in there. Holy crap I've never seen the likes. Part of a cable. I'm not sure where that goes. Look at this thing wow That's crazy. All right moving on here. This piece of drift was heavily lagged and reinforced. They chucked everything in there that they had. One of the same. I thought that would be the end. Actually it says it keeps going. They had their ventilation and everything hung on here with the wooden stakes and wire as usual. Now I don't feel any air anymore. Yep so we're probably getting close to the end. Who knows. Look at all the hangers. Apparently there was a lot of material taken out of this mine touching from the size of these drifts and the stoves up there. It's huge. Oh boys are getting out now. Wow it's like we just walked into a sauna. Are you squeaking? There's a squeak. Looks like there's some guano there maybe. There's a short cross cut to the left of the main drift. Here's a big timbered hallway. Oh that's my pack squeaking. Unless there's a rat in it. It is hot. I'm not complaining I'm just amazed how much it changed there. Yeah it was nice and cool before. There must be some bats in here. I haven't seen any. That's guano though. I haven't seen any bats. Another big stove. It's amazing isn't it? Surprised we haven't seen any bats. I know because you're sure what it opens up. Yeah there is. Can you stop for a second and see what's squeaking in my pack. Another big stove. There's a huge pillar in the middle up there. Cable around it. Wow this is a big mine isn't it? Most health mines are much more heavily timbered than this and not quite some big openings. What's that doing there? So this was a ramp they put over here. This was a ramp they put over so they could drop stuff down and have it miss this little lower area. Did you see the end of this? No. There's a cam top there too. What's that? It's got something on it. Golden gate sold on merit. One pound net. Huh golden gate. What's that? It's a cam top for some kind of food. Well I think that is about it. It's good because my light's getting hot. It's hot. Yeah it's hot in here no doubt. So that's it they went from from white to red and they quit. The vein ran out. I guess she's leaving. She's out of here. You know there's a rubber cap or something. I don't know what that is. Is that like a guard that goes over the front of a drill or something? Keep it from banging around. There it is. All right we're back to this spot. So Tom can't resist. He's got a little bit of ladder and he's curious. People all frayed up. Real ham shredder. On the table yeah. I said shred your hands if you didn't have gloves on. Do you think that they use this ladder again? No. He's curious as to what's above. Talc is slippery. For those of you who have not walked on it. It's just up into a big stove. Big stove up there. Have you thought? But now you know. I just climbed up that cable. Look at the size of these stoves. My god it's insane. And then Julie's down here. You can see the scope of these things though. It's just crazy. There's some timbering up here. She's down here. Goes this way a little ways. I might as well walk over there as long as I'm up here. They sure do shred the cable here I gotta say. These slushes were hard on cable. Here's some townhouse Bartlett pairs. Miners like their canned fruits I think. See that quite often. Okay I'm kind of walking along the top of these stoves. Which is a little strange. Here's more of that box whatever it was. Bandit buckles. Box of bandit buckles. Say that fast. This is up into the stove again. Wow. Crazy. I don't know. I'm not sure if it's worth it. Look at all the reinforcement. This is crazy. So yeah I'm not going to go any further that way because I just got to come back this way to get out of here. And this bridge doesn't look that fun. So that's the end of my road. I'll go back this way. Here's some of this anchoring that has failed as you can see. But you don't want it to fail when you're standing up in here. This little bridge isn't so bad although you wouldn't want to fall down this thing. It's a good 40 feet down there. This is back to where I came up that cable. And there's Julie. All right Tom's gonna come down hopefully not the fast way. Really steep. Yeah we have been on worse. The bottom two rungs are missing. You betcha. Wow this cable is totally free. Well from Julie who's standing underneath the failing timber set and a piece of fuse in her hand we're going to call the end to this explore. We appreciate you guys watching the video. Hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you on our next adventure. This sand is also uniform. It kind of gives you a vertigo doesn't it? How do you feel about being out here in the Sahara desert? I think it's great. Great. It also makes you want to have a margarita. Are you Irish? You're speaking Irish now you want to have a Mexican drink. That's because I've been in the desert for too long. Your brain's drying out. Your brain's drying out. Look at the dune. You want to climb the dune? Sure. It'll be great. It really is kind of disorienting here. There's nothing to, you know, nothing to uh. I'm going for the big pool ahead. Judge the big pool. All right I'll see you in the pool. It might be a mirage. Going up a wall of sand. It's like an old pack mill. Tom's walking off the no man's land. He's been in the desert so long. There aren't any ladders up that way.