Thank you for the kind words! This was a nice little change, and let me get back into it. I've got a whole host of spots I am checking out here, and will hopefully have more in the near future. Work has kept me cooped up, and it feels good to be getting back out! I've been watching tons of your videos, and wish I had the opportunity to explore as much as you have recently. Makes me hope for some amazing spots during my time out here!

This one is in Washington state, just a bit south of you. Can't tell you really where, as this one is on a complicated set of boundaries of public and private lands, and I don't want to give any specific giant multinational mining companies thoughts of me crossing their lands!

@@SomethingDifferently Thanks, I figured it might be a liability issue. But now I know the state, it is my problem. Since I use to be in the mining industry I tend to be careful about stepping on someone's claims

Oh, I can understand that. I've avoided several places just because of the big "Mining Claim" sign put up. I can give you a bit more of a hint for this location though, with what is shown in the video being hidden from satellite or obvious view. It's in a corner of the state and close to a lot of the other sites I have visited. A few of the mines in my back catalog are pretty obvious in hindsight, so it should be workable to find out where these are.

Yeah, most of my experience is back near the Canadian border in the US, so I know what you mean. I think this was a small enough site that the government out here didn't see a need to close it up. The rock is stable, and the only way someone can hurt themself is by tripping and falling, so it isn't much of a risk vs the cost of a gate. Ah well. Makes it a cool short little visit though!

Well good morning, and thank you for watching! It's been so long since I have had the chance to do anything like this and post it, that it almost feels brand new. Now that I have some sites I am finally getting to visit, I just have to see if I can manage to find anything interesting to send your way! Thank you for the kind words, and I hope that things are going well for you on your new adventures!

That is one amongst the many structures and ghost towns I wish I had seen before I discovered this hobby. So many things lost to time, I feel the need to see as much as I can and document all of it to prevent losses like that from hitting as hard as they do now.

Yeah, in a lot of the photos and documentation from the days this mine was worked, the locos were all over the upper levels. I never managed to see one in any of the few visits I made to this site, but it may be below the waterline now. There is a level just barely below the ground-level water table that is just out of sight, so there is likely incredible artifacts left down there. Older and bigger mines like this one though, they often had the money and manpower to remove all of the older machinery and sell it for scrap or to mines that still wanted to use it.

Very cool to hear! These mines are pretty important to the area, so it is actually pretty neat to hear that the people who worked them were doing so pretty recently rather than the hundred plus years ago I get with some mines.

my mom was born in 56' she was raised up in a mountain cabin while her dad worked for the Silver Mountain Mining Company from Seattle as she recalls the mine was closed when she was still very young early 60's and they moved to Nighthawk.@@SomethingDifferently

I would start off by trying to use a resource such as mindat.org and seeing if anything comes up within that region. That is likely the best source if there are records from that area. Otherwise, I would start looking into geologic records from the state. Around the Sullivan lake area, there aren't really a lot of hard rock mines, but more placer mines, which means they dug into stream and river beds and searched through the gravels. There are a lot of mines the further you go west from there, but the Sullivan area specifically just doesn't have a lot of tunnel-dug mines as far as I am aware.

I’ve been in a few of them in that area. Do you know the name by chance? One of the ones I was is was MASSIVE big cavern that went 100 feet wide diameter and about 600 or so feet down

Hello, and thank you for commenting! I imagine that the mines up here are a good bit different from the ones you are familiar with! I hope you enjoyed watching this.

Probably 10,000 feet of tunnel or so, just for this mine! Everything I was walking on was waste rock at one point or another. Just incredible for how relatively small this mountain is!

I do too. They really pop in mines like this!

There is only one that has really surprised me. This is the same as the other Surprise Mine video in my catalog. It was just such a good mine that we had to go back and properly record it all!

Yep! Most of the mines I visit are in Washington State, as I live out on the Eastern half.

I agree! This site is a unique one, but I can't recommend too much rockhounding. Only one of the adits had much left outside, and it is solidly on private land.

Unfortunately I can't share the name, as this site is just so important and well known around here. It's an incredible site though.

Thank you for the kind comment! This site is technically on a patented mining claim, and the owners of the mine above have done some work to make sure it doesn't just fall over, but I really hope they do more. This site has been worked intermittently since the 1880's, so to see it just left to nature hurts. This site is an awesome one, and I hope it is kept up for everyone to see for many years to come!

@SomethingDifferently If you and the owners want some help, I'm just one state over!

Oh, I don't know the owners of this site. Unfortunately, this is one of those smaller operations that had been purchased by a larger company, some exploration was performed a few years ago, and then it has been abandoned since. There are a few houses at the actual site of the mine with all sorts of items and households goods from about 2017, and everything was just left here when the company decided that it was too expensive to do anything other than put a new door on the adit. The houses themselves are missing windows, the doors have had to be put back on a few times, and the overall condition is not ideal. I love the site, and would love to see it in better shape, but this is one where it may not happen anytime soon.

We are located in Washington State. I can't get too much more specific with this site, as it's fairly famous and very often visited around here.

Thank you for watching!

I'm in the Eastern Washington area, with most mines I visit being within Washington or other states nearby.

That's what I thought! This is the first one I have ever seen in person, so it's pretty cool that I almost got it. Thank you for verifying it!

Yeah, I see it now. This hike was so rough that I had a hard time reading other dates and graffiti here as well. Thank you for helping me get it right.

I do agree. On this trip I had tried to pack light, but also didn't realize I had forgotten to charge my big light until we were on site and miles away from the closest charger. I'm trying to do better in the future, but all of the gear I currently use for lighting puts out a lot of it, around 2500 lumens of continuous light. I just need to figure out ways to get it showing better on camera.

Thank you! It was at the end of a long day of driving and hiking, so it was nice to share this with whoever may watch.

Pretty rich. Rich enough for this much work to be put in, that's for sure!

I try to keep things hidden, if possible, so that they can be found and explored again in the future. Others can post the name if they want, but I'll keep things like this.

I'll leave that sort of testing to the professionals. I'll stay very far from anything remotely appearing like an explosive, thank you!

This was a very fun explore. Glad we were able to go. It's a once in a lifetime mine. And I'm glad I ended up getting the type of footage I did. It's hard to express just how large this mine is, and I like to think I did a good job with that here.

Thank you for the kind words! I try to stabilize things as much as I can, but bringing much more equipment to do so into a mine can be tough, especially when sites like this are multiple mile hikes in and out. I'll work a bit harder on making things smooth in the future.

Glad we could provide the info needed to know what's all there!

That is the spot I ended up having the most luck with on return trips. Managed to get a bunch of fully formed crystals out of those little chunks, especially when Mica had formed there.

Yep! Especially at the entrance of the mine, there are entire sections of the wall that are nothing but Mica. This mine has a lot of it all over, giving it that reflective look.

Thank you for watching! I've been trying to get more interesting shots like those, so it's good to hear they turned out well. I'm headed to a location this week that I hope to capture a lot of similar views at.