 Good morning mind lovers Tom and smiling Julie here We are out hiking around in the desert looking for a mine We're gonna go up this road that is right here. We don't have our Jeep today. We got our other vehicle So we stopped right here Enough for a street vehicle We're off on foot. We got about a mile or so to go get to a mine One of the benefits of being out this time of year or you get to see some flowers. Look at this bush on there, too Beautiful All right, let's keep working our way up the road. I see a couple of open portals up on the side of the mountain there How much do you feel like billygoating today? You might be able to get up there Well, there's part of the mine that we're after today They picked a steep spot to put a mine in today. We are getting closer Just about there. I see an orb in or two. I see a cable Not sure if there was some sort of a tram here or not Well, I thought this looked like an orb in from down below, but maybe it's more of a shoot Although they had to have a way to store some in there Must be a small urban plus shoot above it. The miners found a steep one here What a place to locate a mine. I think I'm up on a trail here. He made it Very steep like real steep There's something going on down there in the middle of the wash Looks like a tank and maybe a pile of ore Let's follow this little ledge see where this goes There was track out here That would have been fun to see when that Boy Look at that big or shoot. So yeah, big or shoot It's lined with metal and some piping some cables Left to go higher up see what we have. It's a pretty long shoot It was a cable here, too. I don't know if there's a tram was an aerial tram Looks like another little orb in right ahead of Julie plus another shoot. I Don't know if this shoot was all connected at one time. It probably was We are at the top of this long war slide or shoot if you like There's also a smaller orb in up here and The tracks come out of the portal of the mine and they curve over to this other little orb in There's a grizzly here that would have done the initial classifying and not let anything too big through And then I don't know if there was a aerial tram here. There is a cable that comes from overhead here and It comes up to the mouth of this little orb in that I'm standing by and I'm guessing it might have gone down Somewhere down to the wash or somewhere down to a road somewhere So there's also a pneumatically operated hoist here It It's made by Ingersoll around There's a forward and reverse on there that lever that Julie's gonna pull right now That would move the drum one way that would move at the other This is a band break This lever here That doesn't want to move anymore And there's the drum the drum has been broken and repaired it looks like Yeah, there's no cable left on the drum This cap was off. I think that belongs on there. That was on the ground Here's the Ingersoll ran badge. It says made in USA utility hoist serial number size du Says to keep it oiled And it says Ingersoll ran company in New York and London London. So that's pretty interesting to me. Anyway Always fun to see a Hoist I'm guessing this may have pulled a tram bucket Up the line here because there is this cable Like I said earlier that probably was for an aerial tram coming out of this little bin and going down Somewhere for easier access down below All right, let's follow the tracks into the mine and see what we have here. Okay. There's track coming out still Julie's got herself a valve looks like on an airline. That's kind of nice. Yeah, it still works good There's a length of cable sitting here Okay, right away when you come in the mine, there's a right here There's a wall of gobbling there a couple little timbers Goes up into a stope Where there's some timbers some stalls That looks like a lead silver vein back there to me I'm guessing that's what this mine was Okay, let's go a little further into the mine Keep out. I wonder what year that was put on there Looks like an air tank To accumulate pressure enough to drive the drills It smells like creosote doesn't it another piece of metal lined chute I like their chutes around these parts Tracks take a pretty hard ride here So the tracks wind around and end up at this chute, which is made out of an old sign A pretty heavy-duty sign. I don't see what it says It's a two-sided Porcelain oh, is that a chevron? It looks like chevron doesn't it? Yeah, the ch there. I think it's chevron gas. Yeah Too busy to go into a little mission Careful that stull there have been front of you has collapsed There's a big pillar right to your right. So you used to be safe from that caving in I just crawled through that area there. Tom is just to the left And I'm in this big stope to him. You can see the vein over there And I'll show you behind me that chutes us right over there And just some more stope area Okay, I'm going to crawl back down to where Tom is Here she comes back from the stope Stope adventures with Julie Stope adventures Dirty, huh? Okay. Well, that was a little bit short but interesting nonetheless We're going to head back outside here See what else is around There's this tank Here's what's A look at the vein what's left like in a pillar type area where they didn't take this but this is what they were taking Definitely silver lead probably other stuff mixed in there too All right, let's head outside see what else we can find around here I know there are other things to look at There's supposed to be another added around the corner here It's very steep very rocky Nothing Tom can't handle Let's see if the chute still works Boy, would that be moving when it got down to the bottom What would stop it your portal here? There's a gobbling wall to our left Watch your head ahead above you there Some stalls here I just got through telling you watch your head and then she clunks her head And then I did the same thing Here are three kind of skinny stalls made out of two by fours nailed together Are we in Nye County? Oh Inyo Inyo the hole is missing It takes a hard left it looks like So he's had a little fire in here Maybe for bats, huh? Where to heat up the beans The vein overhead here Looks like this is coming to an end Here's this mineral vein Lead silver Probably a little gold Who knows what else a lot of times these are multiple metal mines Zink copper tungsten Silver gold lead They can all be present in one single vein Well, here's an interesting find Looks like some Hercules blasting caps HC-12 100 number six blasting caps danger handle carefully It's mostly full too There they are Ready for your Blasting needs Always close this flap replace lid after moving cap or caps from the box Keep away from fire sparks other foreign material that may cause caps to explode Keep out of water moisture to prevent cap failure from this cause don't smoke or life uses near this box Comes in a nice metal reinforced on the corner box They're gonna stay right where we found them This is the view from the other side of the portal Shoots and everything. Well, we've worked our way up this wash. It's a steep wash We're a little higher up. It looks like there's a road here or a wall anyway and They're supposed to be a 900 foot added around here somewhere And we're looking for it. Well, we found another hole Thomas, we'll check it out and see if it's a portal. Well, Tom's poked his head in there and it looks like it is a portal Yeah, so we're gonna dig it out a little bit for you to call on it. It shouldn't be more than an hour or two Hopefully less than that. Okay. We'll check back with you in a little bit Get a little Julie digging a little bit Apparently I wasn't going fast enough Now we're just taking turns The problem is is that it's a flat spot in there probably about a six foot flat area where it's pretty low And it's hard to crawl Julie's gonna slither on in this snake hole Maybe she's getting further in there I think she's going there she goes she's in What am I exploring? Okay, so that's where I just crawled through Dug my wing and crawled through belly crawled Down here now turn around and show you where we're gonna go A little bit of timbering at first here. Well, that's a natural timber there pretty straight Tom's gonna stay outside It was a little tight for me. So it's gonna be even tighter for him Lots of poop scattered in here. Looks like there was rail as well Pretty solid. I don't know where the vein is, but it's Not a lot of timbering after that initial Timbering There's a can Heritage house strawberry Never heard that Julie's been in there quite a while by herself. I hope she's okay She said she was gonna document it. It's supposed to be a 900 foot Long edit that was a little unsettling to see all this poop You wonder How old is it? What made it? And is it still back here? These are the things that go through my mind anyway See look at all little curve here I'm not saying much because there's not much to say Pretty long Another beer Similar highlights Beer sounds good There's the face That's it. We made it Who is the tough mine explorer? I think I deserve two beers when I get home today I think you deserve at least that many I'm all right That's good You did it The hot in there Not too bad Watch your back A little bit further Well a little bit Yeah, now you're good Good times Let the good times roll Well, this is looking back across the wash up at the upper chutes Julie was just in that at it above that gray waste pile down low We're down here. Oh look at the flowers I almost stepped on So we're down here at the bottom looks like there's a pile of pay dirt here I'm guessing this might have been the bottom Of a tram because there is a line coming down and there's this big post Would have made a nice anchor for it I don't know what this device is This looks like it might be paid or For lead and or silver. Oh very heavy So yeah, probably lead Silver stuff Well, there's that device on the end of that cable and the Pile of pay dirt what I think is paid dirt So just a little ways away here. It looks like this was a tram bucket homemade It's got a lifting hoop on it Kind of a heavy duty Then this is kind of interesting It's got a Hold it like about like that So It looks like it's got this lever here Like the thing So this lever This lever catches the bottom of the Of the thing so you can dump it I guess Well, this is an interesting new way to hinge the bottom of that thing I showed you the catch for it with that big lever Well, the bottom of it is a large piece of drive chain off of something so that chain X is the hinge And then that lever that dude is going to pull will clamp the bottom shut That's pretty ingenious isn't it go ahead and clamp it We'll keep it shut for now and then of course the lifting hoop and The rest is all pretty cool too And somehow it must have hooked on to this thing So this looks like it was an old campsite here with the miners There are a lot of cans There's a flat spot right here. We're Julie standing looks like there's an old stove over here Looks left of it. Oh, yeah That's the old stove, right? This would be an oven part right here We'll cast iron parts on it We have a righted the stove slash oven Majestic manufacturing company st. Louis Actually not a brand before let's play it back then A lot of cast parts on there all these Parts are cast handles cast Here's some more cans Beans milk and Who knows what else canned meat Canned hams like that light one is a canned ham I suppose there's a few beer cans in there too Just missed the flyby He was a little closer, but I need a quick draw camera. We are making our way back down this wash And there are two more at it's up high on the hill on our right That we're going to try to hit And then we'll consider this a full explorer of this big four mine We uncovered the 900 foot at it that hasn't been in for a while Julie did Okay, we're going up to climbing up the mountain again Those old miners are tough to follow their footsteps We're almost up to the first working here It doesn't look real big. You can see the piece of wood sticking up out of the ground in front of Julie Here's looking out over the The valley that we've come from You know anything shiny thing out. There's our vehicle down there We made it to the first portal Got a cable coming out of it another single track mountain trail Miners probably used this a hundred and some years ago I don't know flowers Okay, let's go in here and see what we have I see a chute Coming in from the left Must be something above us Oh, it's nice and cool We're having two by twelve on the bottom there This looks like gobbling out of us I wonder if they had this closed off at one time That's not a natural pile of rocks We can get over there though, huh? This is looking up the chute. Yeah, I must open to the surface. I see some weeds up in there Look open ahead of you. Okay. I'll be right in Okay, I got past the rock pile Looks like there was track going through here Well, that's interesting. Look at the three platforms. They must have worked the vein up there. I don't see it, but Here's some more timbering It's a clean mine, isn't it? Not too ratty All mines are a little ratty though At least the ones we see That's it, huh? Well, they're short working but Interesting enough We are heading back out in action Thanks for watching the video today you guys We hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you on our next adventure She's leaving. I guess I better go too Well, sure is pretty down in this country A little hazy today. She's looking out the other direction I don't know. Mineral veins in that mountain And then that's telescope peak We got a long ways to go He got us as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by that Hornet it's pretty out here Wide open spaces