 Good morning, Julie. Good morning. Good morning YouTube mine exploring fans. Tom and Julie here. We're here at an old mine This was first Established as a claim in 1871 There's a silver lead mine And later silver chloride There's a cool Shoot here that comes down. There's some higher workings You can see the waste pile up there I'm standing on top of a pretty big waste pile And there are workings all the way down this mountain side. It looks like and then way in the distance down there Probably around a thousand feet down is a stamp mill a single stamp mill and we're going to hike down there later So let's get going climb on the hill We're going to go up to these upper workings and see what we find and we'll start there That's looking out over Death Valley In fact, I believe telescope peak is straight ahead in the middle of the shot there This way there are all kinds of little workings on this deeply angled vein And then up the hill is a few more So we're going to start all the way up the hill, but well, here's a pretty big opening That's some different looking stuff there Crystals you can see other Formed in cubes This kind of goes all over the place to them Up down all around I don't know much about silver chloride Yeah, very haphazard workings around here There's little diggings everywhere Those are all crystals away. That's cubed like that Okay, this has the look of a inside of a geode Isn't that crazy? all those crystals You turn your light off once Here I've got a Oh, wow, they fluoresce They fluoresce orange That's pretty cool Can you turn your light back on so you can see what we're looking at? So we're looking at this whole wall of stuff here that would all fluoresce like that Okay, here are these crystals again. Let's try one more with the ultraviolet. Let me Okay, now you turn your light off Yeah, I don't know if the camera's picking it up, but it's pretty cool in person Isn't it chilly? So let's go a little further in here Okay, cut your light once Look at that Wow It's like we're inside a geode. I think it's a geode that I'm thinking of Wow, okay, there's a whole big set of crystals up here All right I wish I knew what these are these chloride crystals They might be this might be silver chloride So here's this white vein there of all crystals Let's look at that in the UV spectrum So it's just that narrow band and that is cool looking though, isn't it? I hope it's coming out on the camera All right, well you can sit and look at this all day, but we've got other things to do so Let's go do them. Okay, let's take a slow trip over this way Wow, look at the echo. Oh, it must really be a hard rock at it. I don't see any vein here Well, that does echo. Whoo, I can see the face already Man You make a good place to play some music an actual revert Here's the face Here are some pockets they've dug on and they went back that way But we didn't see anything this vein comes over this way and then we're back to this neat area here with all the crystal structures And see we're not very far in here Let's see what else we have around here Besides beautiful views No rugged this is Crazy do you want to go down this thing? Yeah, let me go down on this hole for a minute. See we see Man 1871 think of those guys digging around here then that's a long time ago 150 years is it? Wow You'll even born yet follow Julie Looks like it's open to the outside there too, huh? Okay. We came down that little slope short 20 footer to the left There's an old ladder. It looks like Yeah, there's a narrow one Goes up into a little stove There's some more crystalline stuff These look like gray crystals of some sort Yeah, there was tracking here some tie bumps Here's the face on this little mini crosscut and then here's the face of this These aren't very long workings. They don't go very deep into the hill Interesting though This vein has a little more red in it another opening That's if it goes anywhere There's a pretty good waste pile outside of it Doesn't go anywhere That's interesting But here's more of this Crystal and stuff I'll have to ask one of my geologist friends what that is Definitely a strange being It's kind of a hellacious looking open cut here So a lot of stuff above it on this waste pile It goes in and down to the right. I suppose I could try taking a peek Okay, that's part of it up And this is the part that goes down I think it's gonna go real far It's just kind of interesting looking vein they're following looks like it just stops down here The vein is almost iridescent purple When I see it out of the direct light, that's it crazy area geologically speaking That's looking up where it came from There's a big U-bolt If I'm done in there, I have to throw them out there for somebody else to see All right guys. What's this thing? I thought it was heavier duty like a cylinder and a piston inside of it, but it's not it's it's fairly light duty And then there's a hub or something right over there. There's a fairly heavy duty rubber bucket it's a It's pliable, and I can't believe it's not broken to pieces after sitting out here in the Sun all this time Still pliable All right, we're heading down to see if that's a mill down there or what it is not easy going down this actual pile on slope everything's loose Well, here's what's left of a dynamite box. It looks like a DuPont, I think Looks like the DuPont logo there doesn't it If you To the to slowly turn it a little bit again Yeah, right there. What is that? Yeah, that's just DuPont and then the other side is Just as high explosives. Okay, there's our new well dynamite box Maybe the rest of it's around here somewhere You know it is actually I'll put those pieces with it And leave Maybe some of you'll nail it back together bridge ahead Doesn't look like it's over anything to speak of There's there's something down there. You know the green stuff down there. What's that? That's some of the rats have brought in that's price. Oh, that's just some of the rats have brought in. Oh, that's plant material, isn't it? Yeah Well, here's a neat stilt a few stalls and a plank it looks like a working plank for a scaffold But it was tracking here Actually, that's a piece of Switch Here's a little cross cut 10 feet left 12 feet left And to the right a little gob wall a rats nest Fuel can and about a 20-foot cut to the right There's some ventilation tubing That goes a little waste Oh, I see a ladder There was tracking here I'm surprised that they put track for that little distance Well, that's a nice looking ladder Let's see if they can climb it Okay, Tom's gonna blow up the ladder. It's a sturdiest ladder. I think I've ever seen yeah, it's been out of all two way for us This ladder is not from 1871 No Go up past this stuff. It's pretty slippery Looks slippery It goes up to a little teeny hole up here. I don't think I can get up there Okay, let's go on back down then Here's a top to a small carbide can National carbide Okay neat Let's put that with the dynamite box to put the rest of the pieces in there So there's a project for somebody if you want to come and get it and nail it back together I've done it a couple times and left them in the mines for people to see But I had a hammer too All right, we found another portal here Let's take a look Go short ways over here to the top there And just a short ways down there That little pocket Here's another opening Looks like they had a vent line hanging there I can't imagine it goes that far None of them have so far Just goes to there About 30 more feet I'm not going to crawl in there I'm going to have some big planks A little 2x12s Those things I think we've intersected a road, it looks like below me But I spotted this, it looks like a piece of tire Can you imagine riding on those little old tires? It's probably the most three inches wide if you flatten it out a little bit Yeah, that's okay So it looks like this was an old road or a trail of some sort And we're heading down to the mill Okay, this is crazy There's a one-stamp mill Out here in the middle of nowhere It's quite a ways below the mine we've been exploring Which is way at the top of the ridge on the horizon As far as you can see This is looking out into Death Valley There's a trail that comes up over here Which is right ahead of Julie But I don't see how you would haul any ore Maybe down it on a mule This would be the mount for the engine Which would lined up with the big wooden drive wheel there Which would turn the shaft there And the cam, see there's a double cam there on that shaft And it would hit the lifting block and lift the hammer up It looks like there's two cams So it would go up and down twice every revolution of the main shaft Union tool company from LA And the hammer's still here Everything's here This is crazy, what's it doing out here? I noticed that this one support on this side I was standing up on top of it, it was getting pretty rotten So somebody should come and beef up these two supports right here Otherwise this thing's going over This is the backside of it Wow, this little funnel here is where you would have fed the ore You would have fed the ore down into this area on top of the hammers And every time it would lift up A certain amount would slip past that And fall into the area where the hammers are Pretty crazy, I can't believe this thing's out here I mean it's really cool to see it I don't know if we've seen a stamp mill in Death Valley before Have we really? Out in the wild? I know we've seen some other places But I don't think we've seen any in Death Valley I know there have been several Some of them were huge, but we just haven't seen them That is pretty cool This broken piece might be part of this Cam up there, I'm not sure I can't see it good enough to see if it's broken off But here's the hammer Bang bang, can you imagine this thing banging away out here in the middle of nowhere? And how in the heck did they get ore to and from this thing? Wow I don't know, it's crazy This was a prospecting mill installed in 1910 It was for milling ore on site to prove the mine And hopefully attract funding to build a larger mill Later in the year it was discovered the water supply was not sufficient to run the mill So after just a brief time the mill was idled And the company decided instead to ship the ore to rhyolite To an idle mill there for reduction I hope you guys are enjoying this because this is a real treat for us to see Now we get to climb the hill back up there, it's got to be at least what? Steep Probably a thousand feet or better There's no trail that we found Probably a big hit and miss engine down here Lines up at the drive wheel there Bang bang bang Here's an old haveling motor oil can One quart made in the USA H-A-V-O-L-I-N-E I'm cocking up the waste pile here looking at stuff Might be some other things up here Final place of the day for exploring then we are going home The end of this timbers hand Chopped with an ax it looks like Alright, you don't fall down the hole We're both a little tired after hiking up from that mill Legs are a little shaky My legs are a little shaky too There's sulfur right over your head here And to the right, see it? My legs are tired Knees are sore A little bit of everything right in here it looks like done Colorful Slapping off a little bit too All this stuff we're walking on Anything in there? It's about the end of the line We gave her our best shot today Good job Julie It's hot out there today too That feels pretty good And we're back out just about