 Good morning mind-exploring fans Tom and Julie here She's sitting right here. Good morning. Can you see her? I'm here. She's pretty dark So we're in Nevada up in the mountains here a little more of a Mount need pine tree area than our usual desert locations. We're looking for mines again, of course And it's a beautiful morning They've had a lot of flooding rains in this area not the same ones that got Death Valley But just about a little more than a week ago, but they have run a greater up this road I believe it's a county road and they ran a greater up it. So that's pretty nice So let's keep going up Canyon. See what we find Well, like I said, we had some big rains in this area. It's pretty washed out What do you think should we knock that down a little bit? Yeah, let's knock it down. Here we are at the mine that we've been looking for There are a couple pretty big what looked like waste rock piles And there are some cabins over this way. There's one up there. There's one right next to us. Let's go look at that There are three four cabins around here There's a cap to something looks like a Snuff snuff Copenhagen Here's a little cabin 16 my Maybe 20 and then just got a little back part on it. This was probably a bathroom I'm guessing maybe a kitchen Okay, let's go look at another one. This is the outside of it. Looks like that back part was added on later. Oh Here's a bunkhouse Yeah So there was a little mining community up here Another cabin here that's collapsed collapsed cabin there one two three four five unit bunkhouse here This was sheet rock. So that's a little more modern a couple of bottles. This one doesn't have a lot written on it Canadian club. Oh CC Okay We've gotten better at dating bottles at least the ones made by Owens or Owens Illinois when they combined and Some of the other ones too. It's part of a boot That looked like the bathroom or shower shower probably Probably not much left of these units This was kind of a central living area. It looked like Hang out. They got the couch in there all the comforts of home back in the day Look at the cute little baby boot. Hold the top up. Look at that Look at the bottom ones. How cute is that? It is cute little zipper the Romeo So there was also a clothesline out here and Into one of the clothesline posts was a TV antenna Okay, let's go find another cabin and we'll work our way over towards the mine I don't know if there was a mill over there. I think it May have been a milling operation also This looks like a garage or equipment storage Take a quick peek probably won't be up much longer. It looks like there was a wood heater in there as part of a stove pipe up there. Oh Wow Is this laying on the ground? Yeah, there's a rather large building Don't exactly know what it was maybe an equipment shed too There are a couple more little structures over this way smaller Here's a parts rack Looks like it says reamer one inch plug Valve one inch tees Nipples pipes blah blah blah This floor has collapsed Wonder if you can walk on I made it Look at this interesting structure. I wonder what this was it looks like there was something mounted up here with a Lot of grease and oil on it on that platform. I Don't know if this was a shaft or was it this is some other equipment mount if this was a horizontal working Here are definitely some equipment mounts It's a floor all right. Here's the other part of this structure Wow Darken here. Here's another one of these little cabins and there's another one there This has a screen on it has a trough Type sink it looks like this one's in kind of rough shape. I don't know what this little thing was Little teeny window there with a shelf in front of it, you know This must have been a kitchen of some sort or a washroom or something Who knows what these old miners did? hard to figure them other operation work sometimes This looks like it was a well hole Several pipes coming out of there and there's water down there just behind these little cabins This wooden structure looks like it might have been a pipe rack It's probably about 12 14 feet long Well, there's another building up here Lot of this was a big operation at one time apparently Judging from the buildings This looks like it was at least partially for equipment. Oh, is that the added? It's partially plugged if it is but it looks open enough to get in Let's take a hike over this way to our right first before we go up that way. It looks like a big water tank Pressure tank Here's more shelving for parts and stuff Still a few nuts and bolts laying around more shelving parts workbench. Oh, yeah May 26 1939 and some kind of a marker It might be headlamps. I don't know. This must have been some sort of a water tank, too. It's filled in now Here's evidence of the rains. It's still muddy up here in some places. I'd look like an old kiln Mirmavia forge Any forge this might have been the blacksmith shop almost looks like a living quarter Okay, let's walk over this way Here's another tank. This is up above that first big building we looked in Definitely house some equipment with all those concrete mounts Probably compressor generator Engine to run a hoist of some sort maybe no there wasn't a shaft or was there Here's a retort it looks like So this is probably a cinnabar mine Because that looks like it's a retort which Which extracted the mercury Through the process Kind of like a steel almost I think And I'm not an expert in that stuff Here was a big water tank We're walking out into the waste pile now. I believe So there must have been some sort of mill back there in that biggest building These tracks are coming out of it and they lead to this pile down here, which looks like it's been ground up I'm standing on top of the normal waste rock pile It's a little windy so you might get some wind noise This is a pretty big pile and it goes over that way quite a ways We came from all the way back this way so let's go back across the waste rock pile and see if that little bit of an Added is open. All right. Here comes miss Julie Sneaking in under the collapsed portal. It doesn't look great so far But you never know it obviously was a big mine at one time if it's not cave There was some track here Wax my head Julie bonkers three times yesterday. She got a sore neck today Three hard ones. I mean There's some track in here. It's regular steel track not strap braille Either a lot of backfill or ground fall one of the other a little bit of both I think What taught for stuff falling off the back Julie a little hole up here. I see you see through there How's it look? About the same as here Okay, that was a little tight, but we got through her. I did Julie's coming now You hate to touch me thing in these old minds because you never know when something's about to go Looks like it gets a little better in here possibly As far as the stability not quite so much ground fall. Oh, yeah, we're in a little more stable Stable rock down unless there was a fire in here. I don't think so though There she comes No, I don't think so. I think it's just black material It does have the look of being burned, but I don't think it has Looks like a junction coming here. I see the pipes curving to the right and the track and The track also goes straight ahead Well, why don't you move a little bit so I can see I generally like to go straight first if we can to the end So this here's the right we're gonna save that for a minute. It looks like there There's something going on back there barrel and maybe a head frame. Here's a big shoot So there must be some stoping up above This mine is a little wetter than a lot of them that we see There's a ladder to Yeah, it probably goes up into a stove Look at all the pipe here coming up into some timbering. It's a little beat up done that Is this another junction? This way I think it's backfill Yeah, that way it's kind of covered up Timbers here are kind of beat up, but Let's see if I can sneak through here And we can get a look at that way too. That way might go through It's not completely backfill There's a big timber up here just sitting there. I get the feeling this isn't gonna go that far, but who knows We've been wrong before Look at the seam on this material from right here. It's a very soft bottom here Sand There's no dust because it's kind of moist in here Which is good because if it's a mercury mine, you don't want to breathe a bunch of mercury dust or back into this Gray black material Okay, well here's the face of this little dill still some drill holes up there Okay, here we're back to this first junction This looks like a head frame or something here, doesn't it? What's going on? Oh man an implying there's a big classifier Here's a big Pressure tank. Look at that old riveted old thing. There's some big shoots coming in from up above Some little slightly more modern electrical wiring here There's up into one of the stoves. So here's another smaller pressure tank riveted And there's a wind shaft with a big roller here for the cable and Track going down. I can see a level it looks like down there not that far maybe 75 feet and There's another can here and a freeze I think they used to use a lot of antifreeze in their drills to keep them from freezing up from the compressed air as it was running through them and this was a Edwards coffee can Don't know if I've heard of that before Something goes over this way. Let's explore this level before we go down Another room going that way a bunch of barrels and stuff in there Track goes around the corner here a little bit. I'll wait for Julie. It looks pretty nice a lot of pipe here You can see by how rusty the track is that it's pretty moist in here another junction Yeah, let's follow this straight first here This seems to be the main line where all the pipes are going. There's a medium-sized carbide can And another junction Another carbide can let's go straight. Let's stay in the main line follow the pipes for now But there's another side cut Something's going on up here I think we've had a failure Keeps going Okay, that's not actual timbering that's holding anything up that just came that fell out of a shaft Tom Swift That's some nice printing in it RC JB SW OB September 9148 There's a muck sheet boy. Look at this Look at this square Hanging wall here And there's a muck sheet so you know what that means Yep into the drift Okay, we're back to this intersection that was skipped on This is taking a lot to what have been the right on the way in a Couple of carbide cans here no color left to them I gotta say it's nice with a little more moisture. So it's not dusty We're using one such dry mines that That's one of the big drawbacks is that they're dusty the positives are that the artifacts are completely Preserved Yeah, there's part of a Part of a dynamite box Cold in here too. No We didn't we have our thermometer this year We're off on our new season in case you guys didn't know This is only about our I don't know fourth day out of our new season this year. That looks like it stops right there 40 feet in I suppose I could go take a look to make sure Sometimes there's cool stuff at the back of these things too. You never know leave a dynamite box back here or something Nope Okay, we're back to the main line. Look at that old room. Wow You see brooms and mines quite a bit. I Don't know if they were sweeping stuff off the track or Who knows what? Oh, here's kind of a big room 15 feet high or so And that looks like the end We've had a fire back in here Maybe to drive out bats They're off There's a bat hanging right there. I don't want to bother. Oh, I Don't see any of his pals. Oh, yeah, there's another one right there Fast asleep sleep alone. All right back to the winds. I guess So the carbide can is a little color on it. I turned it over Union carbide Do we not go this way? Okay, I guess we skip this one too. So let's take this Oh, look at the knockoff beds One two three four five, but ten of them eight But even that one's still sharp But they weren't used that much That one was All of it's just a short little side cut Okay, here we are back to this windshaft with the skip track And the pressure tanks And the coffee can And the chutes and the stoves There's a ladder over here It's covered up not really a ladder, but just a step type of deal. I Don't think we have any problem getting down there Yeah, looks like a little there so they came through that little hole by the past the Shaft and there's a big stove up here with a lot of ground fall very dangerous Look at the size of this rock right in front of me. There's big slabs of all slabbed off This timber is just hanging there I'm hoping that everything wants that once the slab was already done. So here comes Julie Looks like it was a timber storage area and it goes Yeah, big stove And I'm not sure what happened during there's a ladder. It looks like let's look over this way once Well, I'm just looking this way has Track going over there Or pipes anyway Okay, I got past the big ground fall area Let's just see what this does Yes, Julie's going You want to go ahead? That's it up. Okay. Well now, you know, so this is where I've just come through now This lumber is just piled here. It's not collapsed It comes in a short ladder That goes down into a hole There's a plank coming out of the hole And a short drift and I can see the end of it. It's probably 75 feet back there to the end of this drift and unless it takes a sharp curve I think it's just going to end like the rest of them have Yeah, let's get back out of here Kind of slabby in here anyway Well, I think everything that was going to slab already did it But yes a little unsettling for sure Okay, we're back to this Main area here where the shaft is And do you want me to go or you want to go? Okay, I'll go first So it looks like this is where the winch was mounted Here's the cable guide for the roller Thomson's make his way down Yeah, and camera. It looks like you're just going level. It's not that steep, but it is a little steep Okay, I made it down to a level here It goes to the left as you're going down To the right looks like something catastrophic happened And Julie's making her way down Here's a little bit of a load count on the Poster that looks like it was made with nail holes and there's also a cable pole here With a stick taped onto it. This is to signal the hoist operator And here comes Julie Well, I'm not sure if this went lower at one time. I can see a ladder We've hit water And what we have here is a large electric pump fairly large, you know, on a little truck And the wheels are still there And it's either this was for dewatering this part or Maybe supplying water for the drills Or maybe both But anyway, we can't go any deeper than this because I don't know much Koopa gear on although we both are Certified divers. Here's a rock going in there The waves always sound cool. Anyway, kind of cool to see the pump with the trucks on it still And I'm standing right above it. So I'm going to get off of that because I don't want to go swimming And This way like I said something catastrophic has happened over here We don't know exactly what it looked like it did go that way at one time But not really anymore It's part of a rod Wooden rod Okay, let's go the other way here This is a little wet too Is that it? I wonder if the other way it was More extensive Is that a scaling bar? Is that a wood bar? Wood post Now look at the water coming out of a drill hole Is it so that's probably a stemming rod You can stem one of these holes as long as you got it right there Demonstrate right here You'd put your dynamite charges in there with shoes in there, then you would take some clay Or rocks And Yeah, but you would take your you would take something to stem the hole And you would you would pack it pack it in like that and then you put some more clay in there And then you pack it in again And then that would keep the charge from coming back out the drill hole And force it to crack the rock well Too bad that other way was Caved and the lower parts flooded although it looks like that's been flooded for some time because that big pump is there There's a big valve And did you see the cable pole here? All right back up we go. I think we've covered this whole mine Okay We're just about up to the top Too bad that one side of the Drift was plugged That must have been the more uh The larger of the two sides Anyway, that's about it for this old mine Okay, well that's going to do it for us for today on this particular video From julian myself. We thank you for watching and we will see you on our next adventure See you next time