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@jimmieweeks5572 2 күн бұрын
It looks like from 1620 to 1627 there is a bug flying to the right.
@1USA1st 5 күн бұрын
That was Joe Biden's career after his debate with Trump...
@bernadettejones2814 6 күн бұрын
The largest accessible mine in New Mexico with massive stopes showing sing of galena zinc etc. Being the massive mine that you say it is just would have loved to see the mine without that speed up video if it's all possible. Maybe more drift areas. I enjoyed all your previous videos. "I mean no disrespect"
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 күн бұрын
Thank you very much for giving me some context. The reason the sections are time-lapsed is because there are four other videos that I made of this place in greater detail of the workings. I try not to regurgitate content too much. Please check out the other videos titled "Exploring New Mexico's Largest Abandoned Mine" if you are inclined to do so!
@bernadettejones2814 5 күн бұрын
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND That's great news ! I can't wait to see them. Thank you 🇺🇲✌️
@volpeverde6441 7 күн бұрын
old knackered satellite.... time to come on home....
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 6 күн бұрын
Haha!
@bigtrip2750 7 күн бұрын
AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 6 күн бұрын
Haha! Looks like it!
@lesleeshepard5849 7 күн бұрын
Thank Elon Musk for his starlink Falcon 9 rocket explosion from Boca Chica!!!!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 7 күн бұрын
Officials from McDonald Observatory believe it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to deploy a GPS satellite from 2010.
@Truth-is-not-subjective 7 күн бұрын
It’s just space junk! Give it a rest people. 🤣😂
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 7 күн бұрын
Officials from McDonald Observatory believe it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to deploy a GPS satellite from 2010. So yes, it was space junk, but it was an unusual sight in the skies over El Paso!
@omarbernal2408 10 күн бұрын
I saw that when I was putting gas on the chevron by the i-10 after work. I wanted to tell someone so bad. No one was around.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
It was definitely a bizarre thing to experience!
@tinawhitfeld9448 10 күн бұрын
I saw it also on northeast, I was trying to get my husband to get up but it disappeared pretty fast. It was actually a pretty kool site!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
It definitely was a surprise. I'm out by an airport by the west side, and I initially thought it was a jet!
@JULIE-ne5xi 11 күн бұрын
I actually took pictures on one of them it seems to have something blue at the end ..seemed like fire
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 11 күн бұрын
Awesome! I think that blue was some sort of metal burning up in the atmosphere.
@AbandonedMines11 11 күн бұрын
Impressive capture!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 11 күн бұрын
It was an unexpected sight to see, to say the least!
@AbandonedMines11 10 күн бұрын
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND I just saw on the news here in San Diego that something very similar was seen last night streaking across the skies over here. It must be the same thing. Probably a piece of space junk re-entering the atmosphere.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
@AbandonedMines11 it did come from the west!
@2cheers4stupidity 11 күн бұрын
Santa traded his reindeer for turbo jet engines!!
@StopMotionHolland 11 күн бұрын
That’s crazy. God bless you guys.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 11 күн бұрын
Thank you! I don't think it impacted anything.
@kh-ro5su 11 күн бұрын
must be a perseid meteor
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 11 күн бұрын
My experience with Perseid meteors (that I've seen) is that they are dim, very short in duration, and fast. This was streaking across the sky for at least one minute, bright, and moving a lot slower than a meteor. I'm thinking of a satellite whose orbit had decayed. Thanks for the comment!
@bernadettejones2814 13 күн бұрын
Good story about the mine, the video not so much, sorry kind of disappointing.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
I appreciate your honesty. Really. Could you expand on what was disappointing? As the adage goes, "Mistakes are your greatest teacher." What could I have done better? Let me know. Thanks!
@robertgarcia3435 14 күн бұрын
That whole area is fun to explore!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
It never gets old! Thanks for watching!
@AbandonedMines11 14 күн бұрын
Still a great video and worth watching one more time. The motocross footage in the drift is still pretty awesome!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
Thanks a bunch, Frank! You should try the ATV stunt sometime! Haha!
@Porty1119 15 күн бұрын
Eventually I'd like to get a core drill underground at that mine to see how much more ore can be blocked out. The expansion chamber at 11:10 would make an incredible underground shop, especially if an overhead crane could be squeezed in.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
I think we all have our imagination running wild with this place!
@ZiaMountainAdventures 15 күн бұрын
Fun video man, Allll by my self...........lol
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
Haha! I went stomping all over in there looking for you guys!
@pa5287 15 күн бұрын
nice enjoyed
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 10 күн бұрын
Thanks for the visit! I appreciate it!
@jlyles9104 18 күн бұрын
Really need to avoid bats in mines as they are just being hit with their own pandemic, White Nose Syndrome. Its finally reached New Mexico.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 12 күн бұрын
You are right. Luckily, this was filmed 2 years ago before the white nose syndrome was impacting this area. I usually tend to leave bats alone, not trying to bother them.
@TheEvade84 Ай бұрын
lol😂
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
Right?! Lol!
@TheEvade84 Ай бұрын
Could you see that ring in person or just through the camera? It does look like ur pointing at it. Guess your kid didnt notice it? What a capture 👍
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
I saw the ring with my own eyes! I didn't realize the helmet mounted camera caught it until after I looked over the footage. My friend's son didn't catch it, I don't think. It was a crazy experience to say the least.
@TheEvade84 Ай бұрын
What was the door for and what are we looking at? Certainly crazy and out of place!!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
That door was a watertight door either from a ship or a submarine inside of an abandoned mine! Behind it was an array of seismometers used to measure nuclear blasts on a military base nearby back in the 1950s!
@NickatLateNite Ай бұрын
I lived in Las Cruces for 7 years & sadly never knew of this place and I explored a little bit too🤔
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
The mountains out there hold many secrets! Many places people have heard about, but don't know their locations. That's part of the fun - trying to figure out where places are at!
@Wootang4569 Ай бұрын
Great video Justin this is Woo
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
Hey Woo! Awesome to hear from you! Thanks for checking it out!
@AbandonedMines11 Ай бұрын
The petroglyphs were cool! Such a fragile connection to the distant past. Those two-tier caves were an interesting formation. Wonder what caused those? Looked like there wasn’t a lot of room to maneuver outside those caves. It almost looked like it was a sheer drop off, in fact! Must’ve been difficult to get all the way up there. Depending on how difficult it is to access those caves, it might be fun to take some camping supplies up there and spend a couple nights and days camped out in those caves! The Mark cam footage near the end was cool. Nice to see him in your video. 👍
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
The petroglyphs were a pretty cool find! It's just a shame that they were somewhat defaced. Those mountains are a tilted fault block of limestone, uplifted by all of the volcanic activity and the Rio Grande rift. I'm carbonic acid from water, and carbon dioxide formed the caves along the jointed areas of the limestone. There are more caves up there, just harder to get to. That area is so close to the border, and will all of the activity going on around here, camping might not be the most prudent decision. It would be a cool spot otherwise. I love Mark's enthusiasm for exploring! He just needs to throttle back a lil, lol! Thanks, Frank!
@seyersusej8329 Ай бұрын
As someone from El Paso, I know that there are volcanic craters on that same road, but closer to El Paso. In the beginning of the 20th century, there was a discovery of a giant ground sloth in a cavern covered in bat guano. The Peabody Museum has that corpse now, but it shows you how interesting our corner of the world is geologically. Good work on your videos though!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
Thank you, I really appreciate it! I've been to all of the maar volcanoes in that area. It's really cool scenery and geology. Rappelling down the fumerole at Aden Crater has been on my bucket list for a while. The giant ground sloth that was mummified by the bat guano was discovered by guano miners, I believe, either in the 1920s or 1940s.
@Mark_The_Magnificent Ай бұрын
Very interesting!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@chancer7558 Ай бұрын
Very well done and excellent explore. The lighting you use is outstanding really makes a difference. Thanks.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@ZiaMountainAdventures Ай бұрын
Man, this is cool, the stacked tunnels is really cool looking. Yeah that was a ton of black soot from fire. LOL you are always way cautious with Mark. Good job Mark! Looked pretty tuff terrain. The one Mark was in on 9min54sec had some interesting formation stuff on top. Mark cam, NICE! Great video guys!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND Ай бұрын
Thanks, Todd! Precious cargo when it comes to my kids! I gotta hold him back sometimes because he's all Gung ho! Lol. Who knows what this place looked like prior to modern visitors 60 years ago?
@leslierhein3805 2 ай бұрын
I've been in this mine several times, most recently about 3 years ago and from your video I can see there have been collapses since. Was the winze just outside the first stope chamber still open? I've wanted to rappel down that to see if there are levels below but couldn't find a good rope anchor and there was a large beam across it making solo rappelling difficult. There are several other mines and prospects down the ranch road toward the south where there is still equipment laying around.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 2 ай бұрын
I initially went to this mine in 2019. From what I recall, not too much has changed. The winze is still there, but it most likely won't be worth it to rappel. Many fluorite mines were mined by a method called "shrink stoping." Essentially, what is left after the fluorite has been extracted is just a rubble-filled gash in the ground. Most equipment and infrastructure would have been removed, although in some cases, there may be some remnants of rail or timber work left behind. Silver-lead mines are far more interesting, in my opinion, as the workings tend to branch out into different directions in many of them rather than follow a single vein. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@billyfernandez4257 2 ай бұрын
Awesome men....good work
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@jimmylujan1457 2 ай бұрын
While the tin mines in the Franklin Mets where the only ones in existence in the US, there are other sources of tin nearby , I worked for a drilling company up in the Black range in New Mexico will did a lot of core drilling foud a substantial amount of tin up in that area .
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 2 ай бұрын
Hey, thanks for the comment! Yeah, tin isn't really sought after that much in comparison to precious metals. Drilling in the Black Range, huh? I've been up in that area a while back. Are they ever going to open the Copper Flat like they were planning years back? I've read Mogollon has been drilled extensively by Summa Silver, and mining is expected to resume soon.
@lonesometinman3147 3 ай бұрын
I've lived in the Las Cruces area all my life and I'd like to see the mines but I don't know if my 62 year old knees can handle it any more , besides Bats really give me the creeps. Some guy told me a teacher of his found a lot of Confederate paper money in a cave at the lava flows close by the stahmann farm pecan tree farm . Interesting but as a kid I never found any caves there. You guys know of any in that area?
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 3 ай бұрын
If you have access to an ATV, you could get up there that way. Otherwise, it does take some effort to get to those mines. There are A LOT of bats that roost in those mines. One of them has a guano pile that's over 3 feet high! The smell is rather intense. The only cave that I'm aware of in that area around La Mesa is a fumerole on the southeast rim of Aden Crater. Guano miners in the early 20th century found a mummified giant ground sloth down there. The only way to access that one is to rappel 160 feet vertically. There are the possibilities of small caves in the lava flow itself. There are what appear to be collapsed lava tubes throughout the Aden lava flow. I just haven't thoroughly explored that area as of yet. Thanks for the comment, and thank you for watching!
@smileychavez8093 3 ай бұрын
That’s amazing the craftsmanship! Bad ass thanks!!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! It's one of my favorite places to visit!
@seanyancy1809 4 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed watching this episode Thanks.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for watching and commenting!
@ZiaMountainAdventures 4 ай бұрын
Wish we could've gotten to the other side of the mountain. Still was a cool explore. Man, what a killer edit! Great edit bro!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 4 ай бұрын
Yeah, that would have been something to pop out of the other side of the mountain. Thank you, Todd! We gotta start planning a trip soon!
@OGRocker1 4 ай бұрын
Nice explore, great production !!!!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 4 ай бұрын
Thank you again for stopping by and checking it out! I appreciate it!
@AbandonedMines11 4 ай бұрын
I watched this in 2160p HDR, and it looked incredible! Beautiful job on the editing. I never saw the collapse you show at 19:00 which prevented us from making it all the way through the mountain. Glad to have finally seen that. I liked your safety message near the end of this video’s description. Well-written!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 4 ай бұрын
Hey, Frank! Thank you so much! I've been sitting on this one for a while now. It took like 3 edits before I published it, lol! I really got a sense of where we ventured in this one while editing. We barely experienced a fraction of it! I put that safety verbiage in a few videos back after I had said "how to" in one of my videos. Kept it ever since. Gotta protect my neck! Lol! I hope to get out there soon with you and the rest of our little clan!
@bernardgonzales4195 4 ай бұрын
You know I've been following Frank for a long time and never seen his face, what's up with that if he's told you.
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 4 ай бұрын
His face has appeared in a few of his older videos, along with a couple of my older videos. He just values his privacy because there are some internet creeps out there!
@OnTheNextEpisode 4 ай бұрын
Frank is a CIA operative, he doesn’t even allow his mirror to see his face!!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 4 ай бұрын
Hahaha!
@Misselfilmen 5 ай бұрын
So glad I could be a part of this through your amazing field and editing work. I was always curious about this spot whilst in college and all the info I found about it made me want more. Sadly few explorers have documented this site. Glad I found you, I really like your style. I find it easier to follow, understand and digest in a single sitting than other cavers hahaha (no offense to the other amazing exploration channels out there or in this comments section).
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I do my best to make my videos with some extra context to help convey the actual experience. Some of the most time-consuming tasks are the animations with the maps and graphics. I'm not aware that anyone else is doing that in this genre because it's just easier not to, lol. Just trying to differentiate a bit!
@Misselfilmen 5 ай бұрын
No way. I’ve been doing research on this mine the whole day since I’ve been captivated by the description. All the videos of it calling it by its name were usually done on a P shaped orebody south of it, finally saw the stair video on the shaft connecting to level 3 by another KZbinr and deducted that this was the way in, other than cutting the culvert on the 3000ft drainage (which I guess is illegal as fuck). I was about to give up on finding more about this mine but saw you comment that other youtuber’s videos on it…did a bit of a digging and found “pre-civil war mine” and I thought, just for a second…could it be? As soon as the video starts playing I see the background and your description and BINGO! Props to you by keeping it unamed. But FUCK YEAH THANK YOU! Finding this felt like striking gold!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 ай бұрын
This one had been a personal goal to explore. The only problem was accessibility. Rappelling IS currently the only way to access it.. There were originally 7 portals that previous explorers could just walk into. They are all either barricaded or destroyed now. There are potential other ways in... but it would require moving probably several tons of rock (not impossible, but labor-intensive) after seeing the other sides of the destroyed portals. Tunnel 4 is the "P" shape one you mentioned. You can still enter that one (obviously) either by crawling in or rappelling from the open stope. I have done both. That level is not nearly as interesting as the sections highlighted in this video. I met up with that other KZbinr and took him out on several trips years ago. He was supposed to change the name of those videos, but never had. To my knowledge, he still hasn't gotten that rope he was mentioning in his video "if I had a rope, believe you- me, I'd be down there!" That level of exploring isn't for most people, honestly. You have to be very mindful on your descent down the stope in that one. One misstep in the wrong place will send you on a trip you won't come back from! We aren't finished with this place. We are trying to get to the fabled Crystal Cavern, which we believe is down the "Chasm of Doom," we nicknamed in the videos. I believe we found a suitable place to drop down that... More to come soon! Thanks again for being discreet on the location, commenting, and watching!
@Misselfilmen 5 ай бұрын
On another note, finding the mines I often visit through Maps and correlating to names here is a bit hard. I've had my eyes on a series of mines smack next to the southern border, where the international line runs parallel to the north, on Hidalgo county, lets call them Sam Frankfurt mines. Have you had a chancee to check them out? @@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 ай бұрын
Where the border runs north to south? I have not been to those yet. Lot's of activity there. I have been to several others in that area.
@dmanoutdoorlife 5 ай бұрын
Too cool! Glad you made it in! I'll be in this area today. Great video!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 ай бұрын
I hope you guys explore some cool places! Can't wait to see what you find!
@dmanoutdoorlife 5 ай бұрын
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUNDThanks! Oh man it was a great day! We just got back to camp now. We found the largest mine we've come across yet. There were many tunnels, winzes, and stopes. We tracked about 2 miles all underground! I'll be posting soon!
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 ай бұрын
Awesome! Was it the one with the bunkers?
@dmanoutdoorlife 5 ай бұрын
It did have a bunker off of main tunnel. The main tunnel was flooded with sketchy looking water that stained the pool white. Beyond, the tunnel continued to a metal tunnel, but to the right it opened up to large stopes and numerous mined out areas. The mine tracks branched in multiple places and went DEEP underground. We were actually concerned about getting lost so took extra caution.@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND
@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND 5 ай бұрын
Yep, that's the one! It took us a couple of visits to finish the main level. There is an upper drift and adit we have been searching for, but haven't found yet.... Maybe another trip is in order