 Good afternoon, mine explorers. Tom and Julie here. We are in Frisco, Utah at the Charcoal Kilns. They're up this way. We'll go up there in a second. Julie's over here by a, I don't know if it's a smelter, I'm not a smelter expert. Let's go around this side. It looks like it had a blower and some electrical controls on it. And I don't really know how smelters work that much. Obviously this is a burner. Let's go around the other side. There's an old shack over here. Oh, there's a lizard. Let's go look at the lizard. Oh, you're almost tame. I think I can pick you up. So this was a huge zinc, copper, gold, silver mine. Started in about 1875. And the mine is about a mile over that way. But I believe the smelters started, I mean the smelting and the kilns started roughly not too long after that. Were they? Late 1800s. Late 1800s the kilns. And so, you know, smelting was how to purify the metals. I suppose the copper and the gold and the silver. So let's walk over and we'll look at the actual kilns, like the beehive ovens, where they would take wood and stack it in there in such a manner where it got very little oxygen and they would let it smolder for a certain amount of time until it was all carbonized, I guess, is how it works and turned into charcoal and then they would burn it in these smelters. Here are the remnants of a building. I don't exactly know what it was for. Doesn't appear to be a dwelling, does it? It's like a basement. There's some more over here. There's some more equipment down there. I wonder what that is. So we better go look at that, huh? There's some sort of a frame with some big rollers on it. Some sort of a conveyor, I guess. Kind of hiding the weeds now. A couple other big items here. Oh, you know, this looks like that thing we saw. This is the same thing we saw at Queen Ishiba mine. Remember that? I don't know. Did we ever figure out what it was? No. It's some sort of separator, concentrator or separator that kiln or that smelters up that way. Yeah, we saw one exactly like that at Queen Ishiba in Death Valley. And then this thing, I don't know what this is either. What is that? We're on the right side. So here's a label on one of these tubes or whatever this is. That's solid. Maybe not completely solid. It says Booth Flotation Machine. So apparently that's what it is. Don't know how that works, but that says Powell and a number on it. Okay, interesting. Flotation Machine. Let's go look at the kilns. We are inside one of these big kilns. It's made out of rocks and mortar and shaped like a big cone. This one has a large hole in it. I'm not sure if it's supposed to. It smells like charcoal. They're probably 20 feet high to the peak up there. And I can pace this off here. Two, three, four, six, seven, at least 20 feet across diameter. And look at the, it's almost glazed how they, or else that's criss-out, that's built up. That's pretty neat. Let's go look at a couple of the other ones. Yeah, those are, those little holes down below are supposed to be the, those gotta be air holes. They try to control the air. They pack these full of wood, plumb full of wood, and, and reduce or control the amount of air they probably plug, plug this door up. And I don't think that hole is supposed to be there, otherwise you couldn't control the air. But they just let that stuff smolder in there. These are a little damaged. I'm not sure why. I guess since the 1870s their time has taken its toll on them. This one looks pretty intact here. This is another fairly big one. Let's see if this has that hole in it. Oh this one has a hole too, so I guess that hole is supposed to be there. And once again it has air holes below in the bottom here as you can see. I guess that big hole at the top acts like a chimney. What do you mean? This one isn't as charred as that other one was. This one has a little bigger hole. This one's much shorter. This one is pretty much the whole top is caved and it's all in a pile right there. They're very jagged rocks. They weren't, don't look like they were, the rocks don't look like they were cut or anything. They just stacked and filled in there. You can see this arch how they made this. How you know how strong an arch is. You pull this one out right here and the whole thing comes down. So one, two, three, four, five. And only the one in the middle here is the most complete. Here's another remnants of a rock structure. Looks like a residence. Nice big window. Corn silver mine started I believe in 1875. By about 1885 it had produced 60 million dollars worth of zinc, copper, silver, gold and I think that's it. And it had a very large pit. It was reported to be kind of a strange configuration for mine working. It had a 900 foot deep pit that caved. There were 6,000 people in the town of Frisco at one time. 23 saloons but that mine, that main part of the mine caved and it was pretty much the end of it and everybody left and moved on to the next bonanza. There's the remains of something else over here. Another structure of some sort and then here this is probably smelter parts and a big chimney of some sort. This might have been another smelter I don't know. I'm not a smelting expert. So that's kind of interesting. There's a lot of stuff laying around. There's another big piece of steel laying down there. All right, well that's time to move on. Thanks for watching you guys. We'll see you next time once we find something else interesting out here in Utah.