I was looking into recreating the tamarack mine experiments it involved lowering 50 lb plum Bobs on 4,500 ft long piano wires and dropping them down the shafts then measuring the distance of the wires at the top compared to the bottom the plums were put into buckets of oil to stop them from swaying and to settle are those mineshafts still accessible

You got this integrity enginuity and leadership

These people digging this mine,forfeited a part of their lives! For What??🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

That's in the oven that's upside down. That clean out is for soot.

Very cool!

Miss your vids. Are you guys done exploring?

Quick question, while at the other side of the lake where the mine is located did you see any sites that would be viable for a campsite? Thinking about going to this place with a team but would like to be able to camp down so we can spend the whole day exploring.

Good explore thanks for taking us with you 👍 - and if you had managed to encourage your crew to stop swearing, then that would make the watching experience suitable for everyone - and add a professional edge to your channel.

what oxygen level?

no gloves, no oxygen and other gas meter, no laser rangefinder, why?

Every single one of these lost mine exploring channels fail miserably. They never go to the face, stringers, or sample zones, they never take a broad sample, they never crush and fire assay. These actions would make the videos complete.

RIP

Is it just me, that all the artifacts look staged?

3:16

This video was amazing! My Grandmothers maiden name is Kitchen. Maybe those guys were distant relatives

Wow! 😮😮

Awesome!

Incredible mine explore, so many artifacts! What were those giant chains used for at 12:40?

Hola

I'm curious about the blue/& green mineral in the walls. Could you please give common names. Thank you. You seem to know the mining terms.

This mine at the 1200’ level was completely buried when we started. We opened the portal using equipment. It was completely full of ground water. It’s been years since that job. After all the water drained. What was left was a thick custard. Or pudding, as we called it. Once it was cleaned out. We found ore cart rails. The carts were farther back. Geologist had us take ore samples every 5’. We rebuilt wood structures at the side of the mountains and hung steel plate doors. I had discovered about 9 dynamite sticks in the back, deepest parts, up high in a adit. They were covered in a brownish gel. Survived carefully carrying them out. Tossed in the catch pond just in front of the 1200’ level. 40 plus years ago.

I enjoy this type of history. These miners was hard workers, my great grandpa and grandpa worked in a coal mine in the early 1900s.

FOR THE ALGORITHM!!! 🗽

What a melted mess. They didn’t build a mine…they mined a melted building. Meltology is Geology. #Meltology #MeltedRedBrickUniversity

Just to add some colour to what you are seeing, all the work done in this mine was done with some really shitty lighting. Starting with candles, to lanterns, to carbide lamps. Black powder to dynamite. Hand drilling to steam, to compressed air. Dry drilling to wet drilling. Handrolled fuses and ignitors, to premade fuses on a spool with ignitors crimped on at measured lengths, eventually electric blasting.

That's crazy, is that up by three corners falls? Is that why the areas coordinates are not listed on waterfall survey 🤔

Graham, Graham, Graham... This is a private property with signs posted (I know because it is a family property, I go every year and repost signs sometimes because people take them down), you can even see one in the video. I understand your pursuit to capture the site and its history, and am actually kinda glad you made this video since it has all burned down. But again, it is private property.

Interesting colors in there

Where is this mine?

Mind blown on the stable. That is a true insight to mine life of the livestock.

Those workings are not the Grass Valley, Empire unless this is footage using an underwater robot and camera. Been there done that.

This old Grass Valley native isn’t buying the BS. The mine was allowed to flood during WW2 too the 3000 foot level if my memory correctly serves me and it was never pulled down, rather was allowed to continue flooding because of costs involved, refined gold was Government regulated to $ 35:00 per ounce. The flooding continued without check during the ill advised strike of 56-57.

Someone has pumped a lot of water sense my last visit. Very doubtful this is the Grass Valley workings.

Mines closed because of ww2

Order l 208 shut down mining.

FDR DID NOT SHUT DOWN ALL MINING BECAUSE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

During ww2 the govt shut down all gold mines.

wow another shaft of the alaska pipe line to texas . its not gold its just fancy brass called copper . there is no such thing as gold in any mine shafts . there all pipe line stopes and adicts

If you go to Cripple creek Colorado there is a mine tour called the Mollie Kathleen mine tour. One of the only tours where you will see actual authentic turn of the century mining equipment in working order because the mine was operated as a tour during the time when it was producing gold.

Have you ever come close to dying in a mine. I always come across a rattlesnake!

Modern equivalent , all the workers rush down to the bank , to cash their pay checks , to be sure they dont bounce . When you cant afford an ore cart , that should be a red flag to anybody working there . Just sayin

I want a graffiti this area so badly. Can you post us the address or location? Thank you

What is up with the clean plastic at 6:36?

How did you get access?? Crazy!🤪

I’m realizing I have Claustrophobia in extreme situations. I couldn’t be a miner

The locomotives ran off of the wire hung from the roof of the tunnel. The trolley poles had a very small wheel in contact with the trolley wire to collect the DC power using the trolley poles mounted on the loco. The ore cars tipped away from the compressor. The car at 0:55 was the frame of an ore car. The cylinder at 23:35 was used to tip the ore cars. The trolley wire was powered by a motor-generator set, AC to DC,

8:52 on the floor is a trolley wire frog. 14:50 is a controller for a locomotive.