What Kind Of Mine Is This?
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Sometimes we don’t know a
Sometimes we don’t know a lot about the abandoned mines that we visit. Other times we don’t know anything at all – not even a name. That is the case with this mystery mine. I don’t know the name or even what was mined here. However, I fortunately have smart viewers that know a lot about the world and so I want to know what you think of this mine… Share your knowledge!
It seems there was once a settlement of a decent size at this mine given the mine buildings and the several outbuildings that, I believe, included at least two bunkhouses. There are no other mines indicated on maps of the area that I have seen. And we scouted out the surrounding area a bit without seeing a sign of any other mining activity. So, presumably, all of those buildings are connected to our mystery mine. There is a lot there though for what seems a relatively small mine and it must have cost them a fair amount of money to get all of that established. Of course, that could also be why it is abandoned as the miners presumably lost a pile of money on the project.
In Nevada, there is a lot of public land that is fenced off for cattle. Barbed wire stretches across some of the roads to form a crude gate. One simply unhooks the barbed wire and pulls it aside. After driving through, one simply hooks the loop of barbed wire across the post again. It is a primitive, but it works as long as individuals are courteous enough to close the “gate” again. However, it seems that many people are deterred by these “gates” and do not understand that they are allowed to access the land behind them. This mine was accessed via one of those “gated” roads and it is in an already very scarcely populated area. So, I didn’t have the impression that many people made it out here. That impression was solidified by the rough road out to the mine. One is required to drive up a wash for part of the journey and I ended up unintentionally using the truck as something of a bulldozer in some of the larger piles of river rock spilling across the road to the mine.
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All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy it. This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
It seems there was once a settlement of a decent size at this mine given the mine buildings and the several outbuildings that, I believe, included at least two bunkhouses. There are no other mines indicated on maps of the area that I have seen. And we scouted out the surrounding area a bit without seeing a sign of any other mining activity. So, presumably, all of those buildings are connected to our mystery mine. There is a lot there though for what seems a relatively small mine and it must have cost them a fair amount of money to get all of that established. Of course, that could also be why it is abandoned as the miners presumably lost a pile of money on the project.
In Nevada, there is a lot of public land that is fenced off for cattle. Barbed wire stretches across some of the roads to form a crude gate. One simply unhooks the barbed wire and pulls it aside. After driving through, one simply hooks the loop of barbed wire across the post again. It is a primitive, but it works as long as individuals are courteous enough to close the “gate” again. However, it seems that many people are deterred by these “gates” and do not understand that they are allowed to access the land behind them. This mine was accessed via one of those “gated” roads and it is in an already very scarcely populated area. So, I didn’t have the impression that many people made it out here. That impression was solidified by the rough road out to the mine. One is required to drive up a wash for part of the journey and I ended up unintentionally using the truck as something of a bulldozer in some of the larger piles of river rock spilling across the road to the mine.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…
You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy it. This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
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