 Good morning, YouTube Mine lovers! Tom and Julie here. Julie's in a good mood today. It's a little warmer, it's a little windy, but it's been a little warmer than it has been. We're not going very far today, we're going right over there. Not a huge waste rock pile, but hey, you never know. Let's go see what it is. I'm standing on the waste rock pile. Looks like a big strip mine down that way. The waste pile is pretty nice. Respectable size. It's an open portal, horizontal working. We haven't gone in yet, but we're going to. There's a neat enamel layer. Not anything to do with cooking, I believe it's a light. Or is that top for a pan? Maybe that's a lid for a pan, I don't know. It's heavy. Yeah, look at that patina in here. Look at all the different markings. So was that speckled to begin with? Is that the speckled original? I don't know. Looks like it ended. Yeah, it doesn't. Okay, we have an open portal. I see some caving going on. I just shined my light in there to make sure it wasn't a big mountain line looking out at us. I see some caving going on. Or some groundfall or whatever it is. We might be shut down here, but we're going to find out. It's an interesting looking mineral here on the left rib. Anyway, I don't know where this came from. See, this way looks like some pretty major groundfall. Let's take the right. I see a fuel can back here. It's an interesting mineral, isn't it? Wow, look how bright everything is. It's like pastels. Yeah. There's a fuel can and something else down here. The drill holes. That's that? Yeah. Look at this. Yeah. Kind of neat, isn't it? Yeah. That was my head. Okay, we're backing out of this. It's pretty neat though. I like the way the minerals look, whatever they are. Now, this other way, we might be shut down here. I see a lot of groundfall. We're backfill or something. I see an opening though. This is kind of moist in here. Why don't people like to hear the word moist? It's damp. Is damp better than moist? Ooh, humid here. Okay, you're going to stop or what? I'm assessing for a second here. Okay, you stop first. Boy, that hot. Keeps going, but man, is that hot here all of a sudden? I mean, look at this for a sec. I'm going to go first. You don't want Julie to get a cave in on this thing, do you? No. Get rats nest here. Okay. It's very humid, hot. I don't see how that could be groundfall where it would come from. It must be backfill or something. Who knows? It could be backfill from that first cross-cut way around. Some crazy minerals here. This is still gold country, so here she comes. Watch it. Keep on trucking. Tracking here. I see the time marks. Some of their hanger stuff. Looks like they had a round vent line in here. Uh-oh. What's this? Well, I feel some cool air, because it's really hot right there. Something goes that way with some backfill in it. What's this? Just a little place they went down with a bunch of old fuel cans in there. We can go to the right if you want. Let's go to the right. Julie, put the brakes on. Okay, so yeah, that just goes a little ways. Okay, we're back to the main line. Back to this little thing here. Careful. That's groundfall. Yeah, these are just falling from right here. Right. What else we got going here? Shaft. Oh, of course. A shaft. Oh wow, that looks pretty deep. Okay, this is looking down the shaft. There's a lot of timber in the bottom of it. It looks like maybe it was lined, because it's lined up here. So maybe the lining is falling away. That happens sometimes, quite a bit, actually. Usually if it's lined like it is up here, then it would keep going. And there's a massive amount of timber in there. I don't see ladders. But I'm guessing there was some sort of lift here at one point. And, no, it's not there, and everything is falling into the hole. So let's go straight ahead once and finish that. See how far this goes. Might end right here. I don't know. Oh, she's going around the corner. Still got interesting minerals. Oh, it doesn't go that far. At least the ribbon guys haven't been here. These rocks are like Jenga. They're just pieces. Crazy. Jenga Dooley. Okay, we're back to the shaft, which is right there. And we're going to go this way. It would have been a right coming in. Still have these interesting layers of minerals. Some of these mineral veins really are fun to see. Beautiful, though. Really, look at that. Yeah, they are beautiful. All the patterns and colors. This gets real red here. Look at it right here. Yeah, right here, too. Oh, yeah. Isn't it pretty? It's great. These cans are going to be rusty because it's fairly damp in here. Okay, what's going on here now? Oh, this was a little strap rail. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, this was a little strap rail. This looks like a little cave in from somewhere. Wow, is that red up there? Okay, there's a nice fuel can. I like these spouts. I think they're a combination vent and pour spout. Now it changed a little bit, didn't it? It's drier and it's not as red. Sounds different. Yeah, it sounds different, too. Now we're taking a left, aren't we? Huh. Interesting little mine. The cans are all falling apart. It's just wet enough in here to rust things. So they must have lost their vein, it looks like, here. This is the end of this drift. Look at this nail. It was so rusty, I went to pick it up. And it fell apart, and this is the actual head of it. Everything just fell right apart. Crazy, huh? Is that rusty? Alright, we're back to this fuel can. We need to take a right. Interesting minerals. Look at this, it's all slept off the rib here. So be careful because this is not the most stable, obviously. It doesn't take a lot to fall on you to wreck your day. Yep, hanging all smooth. Well, there was track in here, too. And then the vein right above the center of the back is usual. Well, you got to be careful with all this ground fall. Because it's so humid, my lens is fogging up, it might be. A bunch of cans in here. Those both ways. A little tray of something. Yeah, it just ends right here. A lot of cans back in here. Okay, let's go this way. Getting a little lower in there. Here's some more old track. Boy, that's the old stuff in there. This area was mined, I believe, in the early 1900s. The 1907 and around in that era. And that looks to be about how old this stuff is. Hundred and some years. And then that's going to be the end of it here. Okay, we're heading back out. Let's take a look at some of the minerals, if we can, on the way out. Here's a kind of a neat spot. And then there's this big, smooth thing we want. See any gold, anybody? It's probably in there. Man, it's a really neat narrow vein. I don't know what it is. A neat rhyolite, maybe. Or some kind of rhyolitic something or other. I'm not a geologist. You guys know that. Should have been, though. Well, thanks for watching the video today, you guys. 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