 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com you're watching one of my Shreya travel videos on the sovereign hill playlist and today I'm taking you back in time 200 years ago sovereign hill in Ballarat a small city from the 1850 gold rush in Australia is preserved as it was back in those days you'll be able to go back in time and experience a gold mine city experience time and life in this recreated gold township of the 1850s with me in this episode I'll take you deep underground in the gold mine I'll take the mine tram or train to go deep underneath sovereign hill video recording was not permitted while the tram was in so I couldn't record anything while I was on tram going underground experience how miners worked 200 years ago to dig out the rich gold bearing layers of quartz rock and the technology used in areas of original workings there will be more videos coming up from from the sovereign hill gold mine city sovereign hill gold mine city located in the suburb of Ballarat and our drive from Melbourne thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video I'll see you shortly gold they're actually looking for indicators to indicate that quartz to have that gold in it is a carbonaceous slate which is what's in front of you that black stuff running down the rock it's natural and it will indicate your quartz which will indicate your gold quartz is solid it can support a mine I will talk about that a bit later on folks I'm not stopping at the next three displays please have a look on the left hand side as we walk down this drive and I'll have a discussion with you about the techniques they use to get through this quite happy play folks you and tell me what a pillar pillar supports the roof's help support a roof structure is posted to the right of me is this one in independent money and also company money may be left behind due to it being a supporting structure so being left as a pillar okay so if you take out the gold and take out that cause what's going to happen lose the base what's going to collapse that's correct your minds going to collapse so it's a safety thing so that's how strong this quartz is okay it can support a mine so you can imagine the techniques these miners go to and the links they go to to get this gold out so one of the techniques is the hammering gad we just walked past it would have been on the left hand side you all should have seen a nail and a hammer yes yeah all the hammering dad one minor turning the nail a quarter of an inch every time the other minor hammers the end of it the trust exercise I say okay but that takes days weeks possibly even months okay they're going to make seven holes for that black powder and they're going to be quite deep for that explosive to go off and seven of them then hunters we don't make that okay in other plate in terms a drill I'll explain why it gets the same in a moment they go deaf they don't they can't put their fingers in their ears they can't put ear masks on that they don't have them they don't cook up they don't have any of that okay two hands on at all times these men go down that does not kill dust is toxic to these miners they don't know that gets into their lungs basically lots of health issues and these miners have a life expectancy of 30 to 35 very very short they obviously worked out it was from the dust problem but didn't realize it was toxic it got rid of your dusty situation but you're in a very small environment you've got water that is sitting there it is not draining away it becomes stale causes lamonia still a very short life expectancy the risk these men go the lengths they go to to find gold these will always have food and water being in a company mine that will always have a wage so they can provide food and water for their families and their families won't starve they become independent mind it's dangerous you won't all be saying that at the moment two people that I have to get in here I know you all fit I do it every day yeah moving down here that's down here all right that's it so you can see that's it down here mom that's it fantastic welcome to our independent mind to imagine it's really hard to do okay take some skill I reckon you've all got it imagine two rock walls there either side of you two rock walls these don't exist so I really blasted through them and created this this track area okay so they created these two rock this whole here that you've just entered and will be your exit area in a moment okay they did not exist when this mine was being created mine is a real independent mine okay that was discovered by sorenheale 40 years ago we've had people tell us a bit about it cuz independent miners don't keep records company minds yes independent minds no they didn't have to there are thousands we still don't know about today they kept it within the family in the UK because this is a Cornish technique it is called a stroke let's talk about the stroke in a moment what this mine you can't actually see it that goes around a corner I kind of see you stand here go for it but say bye to your families because you probably wouldn't survive you're taking out the gold which is coming out of that pillow that killer has been supporting this mine yes we're talking about the 1870s who thinks it's doing a great job yeah now who wants to go get the gold do you check it once in a while it is safe I'm sure you take a little piece up no trust me sir if I could I would we have modern-day technology of our shock creek and our rock balls to spray on concrete concrete and our rock balls that go through our mind that's modern-day technology that they use today not back 150 years ago today they didn't have any of that all they relied on was that pillar of course who wants to go get the gold now I still want to take a shot of it so the story part of the mind so stop in the corny's language means steps S T O P E okay here are your steps okay thanks they've made steps to get to the mining above them okay you can also see that in the roof line wait let us check it out 45 degree angle north-south direction what's it full of job because of that angle and that degree that way it's been left now before you just go shout out have a good think about it what do you think these timbers would be doing that is like a toothpick hot in your car would that work giving him a hand grip no why did you say that sir this gentleman just had a long why would you say that we've got floorboards at home no one for boards yes yeah what do you what happens when you try to have that midnight snarky you're not trying to wake anyone up in the house they creak don't they and you think they need to get out the same is going to start talking you start walking walking walking walking walking if that's going to creak no but where are you going to run to folks you've got two rock walls here so dead ends along the side it goes 15 meters in that direction to a dead end it goes 15 meters in that direction to a dead end and there is no opening on the roof yeah I'll put it back on you now same way you came in how's that sir back to the shaft there no this is literally so you need like I said need to imagine rock wall so this is like an enclosed area there is an entrance and I'm you can all see it I can't see if I'm looking at you though where's that all right so you're telling me these timbers start creaking right second you're gonna go down that hole why isn't the surface above us they did come from Cormor didn't I we're going you're going okay well I wish you well has anyone seen that yes did you look down it okay up on the surface any gold you find is yours because in the company mind you can't keep the gold you have to head over here yeah that's correct so anyone want to be independent yeah did you put your hand up as well all right gentlemen I'm gonna put this back on you a moment what happens if you don't find gold after two three days you're gonna continue sure what happens to your family I feel for you where ever come with this gentleman I feel for you don't trust him so what would you do after two to three days would you give up or would you you can push on and so on this much trouble I keep going yeah what after a week you've got no food he's my business partner would you do would you go somewhere else ask for a job at the company