 Good morning. Good morning mind-exporting fans. Tom and Julie here. We are out hiking in the desert as usual and we came across this device which is something that I've never seen before. First of all there's this little thing over here. It looks like a sail. It's got a little bottle in it. But then there's this weird thing with all kinds of different materials and rocks and stuff It's a PVC cube and Julie's going to read what it says in there. It says this cube is being used to measure how different materials erode in windy and sandy environment. The research is being conducted in partnership with the U.S. U.S. Army Research Office, National Park Service, and the National Science Foundation and UCLA. Interesting. So it's to measure how different materials erode from the sun and the wind and the rain and whatever. There are some dunes over here that's where we're headed. There are several mines over there. I think they're mostly shafts though but we're gonna go find out. Beautiful silky smooth looking dunes from here. These aren't a huge set of dunes. We're in Death Valley. There are different areas of dune here but this is one of the smaller ones. We are entering the dunes. They're pretty cool. I'm going up a wall of sand. It's like an old peck of metal. You've made it. All right. My turn. We've got to get over this a little ridge and off of this dune. Starting to get softer. There's a huge head frame right over there. It looks like probably an Orban also. And this dune kind of works its way up the mountain until it kind of runs out of gas. The wind is blowing it all the way up there. Over this way there are a couple pressure tanks for water and or air. Some bent line. And over here is the massive head frame and Orban with a huge chute coming out of the mouth of the Orban. Here we are at this pretty large head frame. It's a big square with a big chute coming from the top of it where the skip would have dumped into this large Orban and the big chute down below which would have been used to load trucks. Wow. Going down this incline shaft it's very sandy. Yeah we're using our rope just because it's so sandy. I didn't know if we'd be able to get that up or not. It's not very steep. No, but it's real deep. Sand. That sand is really soft. Wow. So we've come to a level here already it looks like. There are tracks coming out and it looks like it goes that way so let's go up here and go exploring. It also goes down more so we've got more. I see another level right there. We're on top of the loading dock that would have loaded the skip. I mean loaded the mine car into the skip right here and then they would have hauled it up the incline that way. So let's go see what we have on this level. Tracks go to the right although it doesn't look too bad. It looks a little clops. There's a big jumble of stuff here. Well that's for sure. Some fairly large stoves here. I don't know if somebody's had a fire in here. Kicking the mats out. Good sized stope with another little ore pass that goes down. This other pretty good sized stope though. Alright let's go down the tracks and see where they went. Obviously a talc mine. There's a cable maybe for a slusher or something. That's about 20 feet tall there. Oh there's another entrance to the surface. We're not down very far we were only went down probably 40-50 feet. Now this was this is caved in whatever this is. This must have been a bridge over the over the incline but this is caved in. More fire here and probably more slusher cable. I don't understand why this would have caved in so much. I guess some big rock will careful going across there. What do you see over there? Does it keep going that way along the way? Several places where there have been fires aren't there? What's that? What is it? Oh yeah looks like the end of a cable spool of some sort. What do you see? So we've come from that way. Followed these lines they go down to another level not far below it's like 15 feet below us. So let's walk our way. We can get over there from this way too. Let's walk our way down there. It's not a real dusty talc mine is it? Like some are tracks winding around. Let's see if we can find the main incline so we know where we are. This might be a sub level too because I thought the incline should be right here and it's not and this stops right here. This turns into some reddish type material and stops. A little piece of heavy-duty ladder there. Two by four rungs. You don't see that very often. This is the little winds that we came down or rays if you like. Well this must be a sub level because I don't see the main shaft here. Or is it right up here? Maybe this is a there's a chain hanging there. That's probably the next level down there. There's a heavy-duty mount for probably a hoist. There's all kinds of cable over there and there's a heavy-duty equipment mount made out of wood. There's a big chain sitting here in an anchor in the wall. It goes down to a pit where I don't see rail down there. We can go down here and look if you want or we could go back to the main shaft. Okay that's just where I came from. There's this big hole here in this chain. It also goes behind me here a little bit. I can walk right down here. Take a quick peek while I'm here. They sure went through a lot of cable in this job. A lot of slusher cable I'm guessing. This is back filled and it looks like it ends right up there not too far about 30 feet. There's all backfill here stuff they didn't want but they didn't want to haul it out and they were done taking what they wanted so they backfilled it. Alright let's go back up to the main shaft and see what we can find. This was this little sled for a probably a slusher winch that was mount there and they could drag this around wherever they wanted to skid it around. Here's parts of my box and other stuff where they went through the cable on this job. They just shredded the cables here. All right do you want to go around and see if that's where this goes? I can come up this way. We are back to the main shaft. I have an interesting level. Okay before we go down I guess we didn't explore the other side of this little level here. There's a, it looks like a pulley shroud or a shroud for something that would be spinning. Winch maybe or something. More big stoves here. Be careful of the ground fall here. Stuff peeling off the back of this stove here. Even though I would know you sometimes can shake that stuff loose. So just walk gingerly please. So there's a little loading platform for this big stove that goes down to some track that's below us. So I think we can get that go down the main shaft and get to that level that we can see right there. It's not far down at all. Alright now we're back to the main shaft. We're going down a little bit more. Tua's gonna pull the rope with us just because it looks like it gets steeped on there a little further on. We might need it. I don't know much about this mine. If it gets too steep we'll have to go up and reposition our rope. So we're at a level here. All of a sudden that really dusty. This is where the loading platforms I was just looking at a minute ago. This is the end of this track. Here she comes. We ran out of rope. We're 165 feet down the shaft. We ran out of rope. That's all we had for today. It's not terribly steep though. Really just that first part of where we needed it because it was so sandy. So this is, there's a carbide can and another little cribbing for amount of something I think. The wind shaft keeps going or the main shaft keeps going. It gets pretty low but I do see track down there. Here's a gate, a dump gate. The skip would have been running up this, the main shaft. Looks like it goes this way a little way. So let's see what we find. Just a series of stoves again. Where there's some steep track. Look how steep that is. You don't usually see track that steep. It doesn't go anywhere just right here. Look at all the old drill holes. Here are the vent lines and the water lines, airlines, all three. There's a bench. Sammy's been smoking. And then here's the loading zone. There's a little narrow set of tracks there and a wider set. And a big carbide can. So not much on this level is there. We skipped a level, didn't we? We need to investigate the next one up above here on the way out. Do you want to try to go further down? See what happens? Okay. You gonna duck under here? Yeah. Am I gonna make it? I have to go over. Yeah, I figured. Here's a nice little blasting cap box. 100 number six aluminum blasting caps from the Atlas powder company in Wilmington, Delaware. Yep. That's a pretty good shape box. We see them occasionally. Sometimes you see tins. What does it say on the back? Dangerous. Handle carefully. Yeah, you don't want the busted cap to blow your finger off. Cool. Let's set it inside this other dynamite box. Further on down the main shaft, we'll have to crawl a little better. Duck down pretty low. Maybe Julie can see in there. So I don't have to if it stops there. You see a level? Looks like it's the end of the line. Doesn't go left. All right. No more levels. So that's it for this one. We'll work our way back. Oh no, we have one more level to look at on the way up to me. Well, this ramp's a little broken. A little. I think I can use it though. I'll be right up. Julie's gonna come up to this little platform. This is the top of that big chute I just showed. Yeah, you gotta walk on the edge of it. Other edge, I think. I think so. If I didn't break it, I don't think you're gonna break it. So this was another loading dock. Nice big chute here. Load into the skip. Oh, so this is below that. I was wondering where this was. Yeah, we were up there a while ago. What good we found this area. We didn't have to go down the chain. Now this here is a stope. Just like before. Oh, that's it. Huh. There's the face. This must have been a brace for a slusher right here. Nothing as in what. There's some lumber up there. Have we seen it before? Yeah, that's. Yep. Did we go that way? We didn't really go this way. We weren't on this. No, we saw this, but we didn't come down here. Oh, amazing here. I wonder if it goes that way very far. Or did we go over there? No, we did. We went over there, didn't we? No, we were over there. Yeah, in the back of an instance. Yeah, I came down. We came off of this platform, right? Oh, this is the one we hadn't gone through. This is better than other. No. No, we've been on this one. Okay, from the hot talc mine, that's going to be all for this explorer of this particular mine. So we thank you guys for watching. We appreciate it. And we'll see you on our next adventure.