 know it's bright with the backlighting but this is the portal that we just came in and here we are in the mine good morning good morning YouTube mine enthusiasts let's go exploring Tom and Julie here we're in a big mine today should be fun it's a tungsten mine and as Julie said all right let's see what we have in this one right off the bat there's a big timber that says three longs on it those look to be pretty old don't they all right away there's an intersection too there's some load counts on here I'm gonna take a quick peek in here the load counts oh that's a bat hanging in here well let's let him wake up for a little bit see I'm hanging there I thought it was good here's a door is a steel door we let that bat wake up for a while so that's some kind of heavy-duty security door I'm guessing all right let's open it back up and go in the mine a lot of wind coming through here there's a heavy duty hanger probably for ventilation and whatever else that's a big heavy-duty eye about a half inch steel rod here's an intersection goes right and it looks like the main line is left here there's a big door over here let's go this way okay here we are coming up to this large door looks a little more modern big rope handle huh yeah that's neat a wide door it's about a six or seven for wide door here's something right here there's some bats over this way what's this big deal you know what this is it's got some kind of a track on top here's an old shoot round or shoot made out of welded together 55 gallon barrels there's some bats back here I know Julie's not gonna want to go back here but I'm gonna go take a look because it says the 203 I believe it's gonna say raise I just wanted to see if it's caved or not yeah that's gonna be caved because the bats are trapped in there so we'll go back this way I don't know where that other one went with that bat was hanging it was weird one I don't know what this deal is either here's the backside of this door there's a bat all right let's go further into the mine here we're coming up to what looks like a shoot maybe or some other type of a platform that was used for loading this must have been a holiday here oh I feel cold air cold sulfur air yeah well very so this is looking up into a stove that is connected with this huge loading shoot here those are some big timbers oh and there's a there's a load counter the old it's broken in half but that's the old krippage board style load counter they would have a peg in there and they usually had 10 10 10 20 okay oh so they're intense okay yeah so maybe we can go up here and look at this big stove here in a minute and also I feel air coming from my right which is down this thing and that doesn't look too bad I think we can walk right down there that might go to a lower level but for now let's continue on down the main line what's your thermometer say 67 you see that there it is it was reflecting all right let's keep going see it else be fine in this beast it's a tungsten mine maybe we'll try our fluorescent light for some she light I believe she light fluoresces there's several of these big cuts that go up into the stove up in there they're every so often here but every 20 30 40 feet depending on tracing here's another one of these big shoots or a big loading zone actually up into a huge stove and on my right here it looks like there may have been a slusher winch here this has got some oil and grease on it you can see on the boards there so there was some kind of machinery there probably probably pulling stuff out of the stoker onto an ore car which would have been on the tracks where we're walking okay are we doing the right or left hand rule left hand I guess that's where you're headed use another one of these zones loading zones with a a big flat shoot and a very oily hoist or winch mount for a slusher probably here's a Vittalic butterfly valve box also some kerns apricot pineapple nectar and apricot nectar looks like fruit juice well here's some track we're gonna measure some track today just to see what we have looks like the upper one there further up is the easiest one to get to yeah so we have one of our subscribers that is quite interested in the track sizes so we're going to measure some okay so the height of this track is two and three eighths the height of the head is one half the width of the head is one and an eighth the width of the bottom is two and a quarter and I forget what it's called is one and a quarter this web here and the this hole is up about an inch to the center of the hole from the base there's a there's a chart that has all the different ages on them it's actually quite interesting all right moving on past that area looks like there are going to be several of these loading docks there's a hood to these box cardboard high explosives 7-eleven this way that's quite steep I think you'd need a rope to go down there would you have ropes on the Jeep we go get another loader that goes up into the stope here it's like a little wind stopper they removed all the track from this one well it's a big drift in it where you think a good spot to try fluorescing would be maybe in one of these suit things do you think okay we're fluorescing look at all this orange fluorescent paint shows up yeah it's kind of freaky so we haven't seen a lot fluorescing oh there's some blue is that she light oh yeah that's enough can Copenhagen wonder if those had years on them if they I think you can tell the the year from the top style to has a data but not a year so here's another cribbage board style load toner was always kind of neat you might have had one at every station I don't know the series a little less stable got some groundfall there's an old rain slicker the guys will wear that when they would drill to keep themselves dry that one's hard as a rock and you can stand up on its own yep that's an old rain slicker and you would keep the drill mud and water off yourself there's a little Frito thing below it what's that say Frito looks like an older one anyway yeah that a 70s style I think it might be another one of these ore drops it looks like and those are pretty steep I don't think you'd get down there without a rope or get back up you get down there moving arm down the line a little bigger area that's timbered must have been a little less stable oh yeah speaking of less stable look what's ahead of you oh a little blow it on the track I guess that's why the blocker was there for the for the track wow look at the size of that cavern that's big yes it is I don't know how they ever got stuff out of there well should we go across this or not sure there's a rope over there I'll climb a rope no okay Tom's gonna cross over cross over to the unknown okay there's a spot I just get across it's obviously blowing out a little bit but it's easily cross a lot in the after touch the tracks who's gonna stay over there for a minute I'm gonna go this way now we don't have anything to look at well at least we found the end of the drift there there it is okay we backtracked to the fork that went to the right where we went left so we're gonna take the one that we skipped here it's a hard left looks like there might be a plug up here although I see some room over the top of it boy this is not a plug at all you can stand right up and go over this thing those are deceiving sometimes well a good size stoked room here with a whole bunch of timber in it looks like just spare parts a little piece of ladder here looks like oh boy there's a big stove there's a little ladder it's really tall there's probably 40 feet tall up to there okay we're gonna go over this way a little bit off the drift into this stope and see what's over here kind of hard to walk here's a piece of an old ladder a bunch of tract on there too looks like it's the same size tract as that that we measured man this is some big stuff in it so we're still up above this huge cavernous stope there's a cable anchor going into the wall with a big hook or a big eyelet this is above this huge cavernous gotta be a hundred feet across and oh man I know from down there to the bottom is probably 50 feet tall there's a bunch of track piled up in here there's also a big post here that looked like it was an anchor for something and boy has that been well used I see some track picking up again over here where Julia's there's a track junction here it looks like I use the junction coming out of those thing we ran and then going forward there's also something that goes this way let's go this way first another big open area and a fence a cyclone fence there's a old heavy duty rope and a line there's a ladder down there that's a very heavy these water two by six water that's gonna end up back in that big cavern that we just came out of looks like a can down there and a couple of drill steels or bolts let's go this way always tracks are still in here there's another junction right or left this looks like it stops right here stops about 50 feet ahead of us 75 feet ahead at a big pile there's some explosives paper it always wrapped their dynamite in paper inside the box there it says Palmer's hole whoever Palmer was so this looks like a kind of a catch-off or stuff there's beer cans there's an old fuel or oil can what does that say Atlas okay so Julia is showing off this Atlas Potter Company box so subsidiary subsidiary of Tyler Corporation Dallas Texas here's a steel body with an aluminum pop-top iris spring no iris spring up like seven up I'm so used to saying Irish spring for the soap can you see the bottom of that that's all steel right oh yeah yeah that's a steel can with the with an aluminum top those are I think from the late 60s here's a thousand feet of debt cord primacord dangerous and here's a 50 pound bag of Herco mix Nitro-carbonitrate usually you see anthill which is an anthill is a ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil what the anthill stands for well look what Julie found a blasting cap box from Hercules electric blasting caps lock these blasting caps lock up these blasting caps Springfield cola cream soda Springfield cream soda some Pepsi top please and then the old Pepsi 6 back there's a couple more juice cans there there's a couple empty spools of Seminole what is it shot firing wire and blasting cables and then I'll pack a camels there's some kind of bucket out here too I can't see what it says what kind of junk back here you like jump there is most of a wood dynamite box is that Hercules another piece to it that's some honey other side I think all right let's go back and see where that left goes with these at the end of these tracks right here Julie found a six-foot piece of measuring tape that cloth tape usually the miners would have a fuse table that would have increments marked off so they could make their fuses the correct length the time of time the shot here are some papers we found there's a long hole drawers report with nothing on it just a blank form and then it looks like these are drill hole locations is that what I'm seeing can you read anything this is bottom holes minus 60 degree towards row 22 that's some technical deals with the drill holes and that's a protractor box you said okay we're back to this intersection where we went left into that area this is kind of going around the top of that huge open cavern that's to our right so I imagine that's going to be showing up on our right here in just a few seconds we're not a water pipe in here big hangar for stuff pipes and ventilation tubes and stuff like that let's go let's go do this one though in case we don't get back here again they might loop around and bunch of track ties stacked up here we found a bigger area of this mine than I thought we were where that go 925 stope these are rope hanging on that thing huh another junction that's kind of jumbled up that way yeah let's drink another piece of wood butt dynamite box danger keep out see there's a ladder down there but not easily usable it's nice temperature in here isn't it it was 67 when we came in you said I used a fair amount of the old hemp rope didn't they that looks like it stops right there that might go that way stop right here is a go up it's got an arrow pointing out an old long neck holy crap who could climb that rope I'm lucky well I claimed over that little pile that was in front of us and this only goes about another 40 feet that way got quite a lot of loose material up here very red and this is the way I just came from these right over there so not much here was a lot of that goes down to somewhere there probably goes into that big cavern again kind of the direction it's headed I think maybe not I didn't look usable we're taking the left basically we came from that way we're taking a lot here here's a so this is a is it a blasting cap I think so looks like the same box that we just saw these the electric firing devices in this carton may be equipped with a shunt which joins in short circuits the barrier wire tips adjacent to installation lots of blasting cap boxes around here cardboard ones no tins although we did find a tin top the other day from the california cap company you seem to hard to walk on that it okay another end of a drift or a stove or whatever it is okay now we're back to the main part we're gonna continue on the left here the way we were going oh so that's a big set of grizzly bars there and there but they're over a foot they'll allow a foot foot and a half rock crew so that's some pretty big stuff I'm guessing that goes down into that huge pit which we haven't been down in yet we've been are going around it so let's continue doing that well up there's a lot of water pipe connectors laying around yes we made a little bench to sit out here let's take a peek over here once there's a milk carton or something Lucerne that's milk isn't it yeah MW down what does that mean I thought we'd be in that big cabin over here but maybe we're past it now I think we did too I don't want to go down here I just want to look for a second it looks like you could get through down there but I don't know there's some big wood planking down there here's the mother load of wood dynamite box parts look at that look at all the dynamite box parts too bad they're also splintered up a whole bunch of them down here all right let's keep moving on down the line here I see an arrow going right that's the way we were going here's these big water pipe couplers and a big that's for like a four inch pipe and a big rubber gasket big old mine in that coming to a timbered section here some groundfall proceed with caution please it's a it's like a little squirt set action up here haven't seen that here before we got something down there this is kind of a door all right what if that's a oh there's your fuse table it's got a piece of rubber hose for the handle so here's their fuse table it's that big thing so here's where the fuses got measured and the primers got crimped usually marks in the wood here you see marks in the wood measurement marks usually every foot yeah yeah we're leaving the fuse station moving on down the line see what else we find newer parts of this mine we're using LHD vehicles we're retired big load haul dump vehicles this doesn't look like it's wide enough plus it's still got you can see where the track ties were so this is an older part that was still using traditional or cars probably big ones you know bigger than the teeny old ones because this is pretty wide there's all the track ties stacked up right there goes for the ways here when the long ways they're on the streets out with that much going on like a flannel shirt well all those couplers for the water pipes they sure left all those here looks like something happened here catastrophe of some sort I would have heard it goes through there but I can see that it doesn't go too very far before it hits it's some sort of a drop over there I can see it from here no sure sure if you can see another camera not but this is pretty unstable I don't even like standing right here so I'm gonna leave before I get slab crushed all right that's the end of that long there's a little crosscut you backtracked past the fuse room there's a blocker up here they don't want you to go ahead first on this one I guess where's the ladder again looks like the ladder nowhere hanging on by a little wire no thank you Malaine Williams hold through I think it says 1954 you made the hole there I guess I'm not going down there you I don't remember if we look this way or not this looks like a big stone oh is this the big yeah this is the big cavern yep there's a ladder over there man look at the size of this room it's got to be a hundred feet from over there and then from up here to the very bottom down there is what about man that's gotta be that's most of a hundred feet to just like a hundred by a hundred it's crazy okay Julie went around and is on the other side over there pretty big on shine up to your right on the wall behind you so you can see Julie's light on the wall behind her there that's pretty cool okay now maybe shine over this way somewhere well it gives you some idea it's hard to depict just how big these are but there's a little ladder over there up on one of these platforms these are like a loading shoot there'd be an or car kind of right where Julie is a little closer but somewhere in that area and they probably had a slusher that was pulling stuff out of here so I'm going up into a stove now they're huge stoves big pillars left behind to stabilize the back of the stove well you wouldn't want to be here when some of this stuff slabs off either you'd be dead instantly because all of this stuff has come down from like right there so I'm gonna get out of here again cuz this does not seem real safe okay that's that loading zone I was just in the loading dock just across it there's this I don't know what it is there was tracked in here at one time it looks like it's not as steep as some of the other car passes we've seen all right we're geared up with our harnesses we have our rope tied on to a big post and we're gonna go down this thing it's not really vertical just yet we just don't know what happens further down so let's go down this way and we're gonna be protected with the rope okay we are starting to make our way down this I don't know what it is but Julie's up there coming down so this is what's ahead of us gets a little steeper that's why we roped up all right here comes Julie down the slope there she is we caught off rope because it got flattened out a little bit but now it gets steeper again I might have to go back and re-rig we come to some pretty big stoves some of this is slabbed off too right here that's a little un- settling I hope that glove isn't still hooked onto a guy's arm underneath there yeah love right here I'm kind of joking so this is where it goes now it's not terribly sleep what you can see but I don't know what happens after that but we're at the end of our ropes over 200 feet down so no reason being on the rope anymore since at the end we have a couple more on the Jeep but we didn't bring them I didn't think it would be more than 200 feet down you don't want to go that way there's a big straight drop right there so don't go that way we're going this way some interesting colors there all right so we've come to a big timbered area I don't know if it's another level or if we're on we look like we're in the top of some square sets there's a dynamite box which didn't it looks like an old one doesn't it so this is what we have here we're kind of up in the top of these square sets we're trying to get a little lower