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Heather joins me as we head back into the Lucky Jim and discover more stopes and old workings in a steep cliff at the very top of the mine.

[@paulpence8895]

As said previously, we get a much better perspective of the size when you film someone standing in those stopes, massive... Another awesome adventure Frank!!!

[@kasnitch]

props to Heather for getting right in there . impressive workings .

[@yadong8037]

Thumbs up for Heather, that fearless woman!

[@conniegoldthwait1463]

Very cool! Loved it Frank!

[@ClaytonCountyHistoryHound]

What an amazing mine. Thank you both for taking us along as you explored. Take care.

[@MPGunther1]

Huge mine, thank you for taking us along

[@mihaiad86]

As a geologist, i love to see your work. I miss the gold/copper ore deposits exploration days, now i work to find solutions to the problems created by the mining, and God knows that a lot of villages will just disappear because of the old mines, like in the next 30-40 years (working in France since 3 years).

[@grandprismatic]

Nice mucker! Lol great finds thanks Frank

[@jimmime]

Hey, Frank, I think she's a keeper! And Heather, thank you, for keeping Frank safe!

[@lewy1019]

Magnificent, old mine carts still there that haven’t been touched for years

[@barbararobinson7980]

Hello to Heather who was well prepared for the explore. Thankfully no one needed to use the toilet. The cart you used for a step up was pretty cool. That was quite a journey up the stope. It was huge in there and it was really helpful to get the perspective with Heather in shot. I had to laugh at your analogy of women with dresses and you with dynamite boxes. I loved all the artefacts that you were pointing out like the tram bucket, the cage for miners and core sample boxes. The mucker and the buckle for the drill were a nice find. That was an awesome explore - thank you so much Frank and Heather. Stay safe and take care. 👍 ❤️❤️

[@smartmonkey777]

I'm sure after a hundred years the poo poo has turned to dust.

[@barbararobinson7980]

@@smartmonkey777 😂 agree

[@louisturner8842]

Frank, good to see you are still making vidjas and getting those views. Good work.

[@misterangel8486]

Amazing labyrinth this mine😎👍the size of some chambers... Wauw😮cathedral under the earth👌

[@hookysprospecting3874]

WOW frank that is one awesome big mine

[@gingerbread6614]

Wow what a mine.neat box. The mine has so many tunnels veering off. Thank you for taking us along.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Frank it was nice that you took Heather along you are so knowledgeable

[@remmiemax3624]

Heather and you were having such a great time! Good to have a (female) Companion🥰 she is a Trooper! Best mine yet!! As always cheers 🍻 and Rock On!

[@rogeradam7391]

As always great explore !!! Stay safe see ya next week 😸😸😺🍻👍

[@DaleDuffy]

Very impressive, wish we had massive mines like that in Arizona. Great video, Frank..!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

There are some pretty big mines in Arizona!

[@jamesglenn2006]

You guys found some pretty cool places in there today, the big room with the stairs was amazing. Great exploration Frank&Heather, can't wait until you go back 👍🍻

[@charlie15627]

Having Heather along really improved the scenery

[@alurquhart701]

The Lucky Jim was a very interesting explore! Definitely worth going back to it, thanks for taking us along , Frank!

[@DeBoswachter]

Lara croft x Action man! Absolutely fantastic adventure again Frank!! Thanks alot :))

[@paigelee6321]

Always interesting very cool 😎

[@mikec1096]

Thanks Heather! and thank you Frank

[@Troy-Tate]

Awesome work.Good find with the new mine. Heather did real well what a Ninja someone get that woman some climbing equipment.

[@andrewbarker9773]

that is a massive mine, them stoped out areas just seemed endless, Heather did a good job too, thanks for another great adventure Frank, I was watching another mine explore channel earlier and you got another mention Frank, not tvr exploring this time, abandoned and forgotten places, gly could have used some help getting down some amazing incline shafts he found but won't do rope work alone which is safest option obviously, he then asked if canadian Frank would come down and visit him, you are one popular dude Frank, stay safe mate and catch ya next week again.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I am heading down to Arizona in the morning to do some exploring with Gly!

[@josephdaiglejr8509]

@@exploringabandonedmines oh man I can't wait to see the video from Arizona you are gonna love it the weather just broke so no more 110+ degree days perfect time to visit us here be safe..I hope that you can see the tombstone mines wish you could find a way to get into the silver king that would be a awesome one for you to get to

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Frank, a pretty cool mine with quite a lot of old mining relics to see, it looked like quite a technical mine climbing wise but Heather climbed it all like a champ. A really cool explore, it was nice to see you clambering around with someone which is always a lot safer in case of any accidents. Thanks to you both for showing us some more of the Lucky Jim mine. x

[@001desertrat3]

Frank , @ 3:22 - the Ore Car wheels with the spokes were for "Spragging" . When tramming a loaded ore car down a decline , the miner would deftly throw a wooden sprag between the spokes thereby locking up the wheel so it would act as a brake and slow down the ore car so it wouldn't become a run-away . -- < Doc , Retired , Miner for over 50 years > .

[@rdamp2374]

Great Video Frank and Heather keep them coming.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Another great find loved watching it thnx.

[@jeremyowen1]

Still can't get over what a badass woman Heather is. She makes most of us look like big bubble blowin' babies.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yup!

[@jeepejeep]

Lucky Jim, named after me! HAH!You found a pretty cool spot after crawling up that ore shoot. Good for Heather following you up. Yeah if only gold was that easy to find! That "stairway" was very cool! Heather has a bit of mountain goat in her, doesn't she? Wow what a huge mine! Lots of artifacts, really cool.

[@CutthroatMcRage]

Yet another AWESOME as always Vid from Frank …. Thanks Frank :)

[@jeromygreiner2465]

Amazing mine! Good job frank and heather!

[@BIGBADWOOD]

Videos keep on getting better and better ... 5 Stars !

[@TheMattc999]

That's absolutely amazing how that was all dug out by hand.

[@Wheel-1]

Great footage Frank , Have a Great weekend...

[@talanpacheco4660]

Love the vids keep up the good work!!👍🏽

[@edwardlochbihler2089]

That is one gigantic room wow

[@thaKGB]

You need to get a hi power uv black light. The mines you go in would look so different and amazing...

[@bingsballyhoo711]

Heather is a real trooper!

[@skookumchuckreefer978]

👋 👀Pretty cool 😎 ,kept my interest, I guess I’m waiting till next week now 🍻

[@Justin-tp3lr]

If I ever get out to BC I'm going to look up your museum. I live in the Northeast USA and have nothing like this around me. I wish I did. This and old logging areas has always fascinated me. Thank you for the great content.

[@-Viceroy-]

The scale of the mine really shows when you have companion in the film. (also friendly to the eye, when the companion is a good lookin gal)

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yeah!

[@jdc8352]

Keep it in your pants man

[@keithbarrett9449]

Awesome stuff! I would love to do stuff like this. I'm in New Jersey so I have no idea what's around here. I always watch your videos. Amazing work 👍🏼

[@DjJDtech]

time to get a brew on! Looking forward to another episode Frank!

[@quest2outdoors]

I really really enjoy watching where you go in mines I sure would like to do it someday be safe have a totally awesome day :-) peace

[@drekor72]

Those new headlamps and torches are killing it. They'd be brilliant in the Mines of Moria!

[@MrJtappin]

That mine is huge and full of artefacts of very different times too. There is clearly more to find, not least of which is there must be a nearby mountain made of spoil!

[@ricklabreche7893]

Neat seeing the sodium cyanide drum I used to make drums just like that when I worked at cyanamid in Niagara Falls when I got there from 75 to 92 we made black cyanide for gold refining 48 to 50% strength the white cyanide furnace no longer ran when I got there not sure if it was sodium or not had drum shop to make drums like that had about 6 to 7 guys making 1000 barrels a shift then drum shop would shut down and go run cyanide furnace for the week.

[@canastasiou68]

another great adventure,and more to come ,sounds cool. say hi to heather from your viewers.Cheers

[@77subiedo]

Awesome vid, thank you for sharing

[@fiidgett]

Hey man big fan of the channel; don’t know that I’ve made a comment before so let me start off with sorry about Max 😢. In this video I saw you looking up at 21:30 in the video and made me think about a spotlight I used to have. One of those 2 million candle power spotlights. They were kind of bulky but I have a house on the St Lawrence on the Ontario/Ny border and I used to be able to light up my neighbors houses through their windows at night across the bay. They are heavy and big but had really great projection. Just at thought. Thanks for all the great content I’m always looking forward to the next video! - Evan from Connecticut

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Lots of light is good but too much washes it out.

[@kimbra1132]

Great adventure, I'm glad u had someone else with you this time. That was a massive mine. Way cool.

[@gearslappingarage7561]

Awesome video loved how a lot of things were still untouched considering it’s the main mine from a old town

[@user-vz2ei3sb7r]

Very Cool 👍

[@Ozark-nq9uu]

Your videos are great. I love all of them, I would love to explore a mine someday, preferably with someone who has experience.

[@WacKEDmaN]

cool stuff, as usual! thanks Frank

[@frankjackson8]

Excellent video Frank. But I have to say that going underground without a helmet (Heather) isn't a good idea and is something that us lot over here in the UK would never do. A loose falling rock, accidentally bang your head, slip and fall etc., the risk is too great. If we forget our helmet(s) then we just stay on the surface and come back to explore the mine on another day.

[@Bushguyrocks]

How did I miss this episode? Never seen it before. Nice mine. You seem to like the Sandon area. Cheers!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Lots of amazing history there!

[@hillsidehillside3095]

!!!!!! THANK U !! Heather !!!! ya U2 Frank !!!!!

[@johnizitchiforalongtime]

What, Frank the Loner has a woman with him, shocker. She''s brave. She has a sense of humor as well. She found adventure in you Frank. Good, water here audible only, oops wet feet, again.

[@forestrot666]

I have only explored one abandoned mine and it was amazingly impressive. Old iron mine not horribly far from where I live. We didn't go as far in as you two did cause every shaft was pretty flooded or had been filled in with old blast rock ect. Pretty cool to always see what had been left in the mines,like old carts and such. Even as someone in the geology world and climbing experience,yah always gotta be super aware in such places for sure. Also what cool crates yah found!

[@graydonjones6912]

You never disappoint .

[@randomoldguy3967]

Wow! The size and length of the stopes were very impressive! Have you thought about making some sort of 2 wheeled cart or sled to recover some of the heavier relics? Just a thought that I’m sure you have had. Great video!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Maybe one day!

[@FuqUYouTube]

27:50 ... Quite the graceful landing there😛

[@exploringabandonedmines]

As long as you don't break anything!

[@FuqUYouTube]

@@exploringabandonedmines well said!

[@boomtop1]

thanks Frank have a good weekend

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Frank: Its not that steep up there ill give it a try. Me: Palms sweaty just watching.

[@geraldfischer6049]

Good job Heather keeping up with him good job

[@cannibus78]

Entertaining as always Have a great day

[@jeffd6540]

Hi there, Nice video there.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Hey, thanks

[@charlesowens9784]

Thankyou

[@MoosesValley]

Great video, thanks for the tour. Sure would be great like to send some autonomous drones in there to 3D map the entire mine.

[@lisagates477]

Go Heather!! Awesome!

[@RussianIvan82]

Интересно, спасибо!

[@mikev2116]

Greeting from America!

[@williamwintemberg]

Huge Stopes!

[@juweinert]

You should take a strong UV flashlight with you! You can see in some shots, that the LED in your flashlight is not the best quality, why it spits out a bit of UV on the outer edges of the beam (it's just a bit and even high quality flashlights don't use highes quality LEDs, but I'm judging by a harsh standard here). Sometimes you see the rocks fluoresce pretty strong and you can see the difference between the outer and inner parts if the light spot. I could imagine that these caves look absolutely stunning when blasted with strong UV

[@joshuanorris5860]

22:25 what a stope! Huge

[@jimf1964]

"Would you like to go on a date with me Heather? Sure, what'd you have in mind? Oh, I was thinking we could go into a deep deep, dark, cold, wet, dusty, dirty, dangerous old mine, and check out rusted old tools. Uhhhh gee, maybe. I'll check my schedule." She went, she's a keeper! 🙂

[@robertbilbey1200]

Is the Lucky Jim in the Jewel lake area? Amazing how extensive this mine looks! Hope you're doing well in the States Frank!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No between Sandon and Kaslo. Heading to the States in the morning1

[@dr.ryttmastarecctm6595]

Oh, to have knees again!

[@darrellsmith5395]

Blowing the pillars is called retreat mining

[@Ryukai-san]

Wow, You can't really tell how big these things are until there's a person in the frame o_O

[@Saphire_Throated_Carpenter_Ant]

I don't know if you guys ever plan to get around Northern CA but there was a neat mine near where I grew up called The Afterthought mine which at one point was productive enough to justify building a small town around it but now all that is left is 2-3 buildings because it deteriorates noticeably more each time it snows. Anyhow I don't even know if the mine is open or if it's caved in but I heard it is open. Historical info I found says that it goes down into the hill about 700 feet and goes into it by about 3000 feet so I don't even know if that is worth exploring. I always assumed that the reason there hasn't been a documented exploration of it is because nobody equipped to do so has got the notion to do so and also it is on private property but that doesn't seem to bother you guys LOL.

[@LBCAndrew]

I'd be extra careful going into any Kalifornia mines. The nanny-state would definitely disapprove. lol. When i was 17, i was arrested for walking around in an abandoned construction site where there was nothing but a concrete slab and a few stacks of rotten 2x4's that had been there for years. In court, the guy who owned the property thought the arrest was beyond stupid and charges were dropped.

[@oldschoolmoto]

dynamite box was like new. to bad the slusher is so heavy be nice for the museum

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I have one that is similar.

[@discovertheozarks1863]

this is great. i need to look into doing something like this around me.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

rescue the good boxes! and you need waders

[@SydneyRadio2UE]

I would bet the bands around the drum at 23:43 are actually rollers, which are used for manuvering the heavy drum.

[@papafranciscao]

well I watched a video and now I can't stop watching TAKEEE ME WITH YOU

[@joshuanorris5860]

Well thank god for women.

[@bongloveroncanabis-dude6664]

nice big mine

[@jimmyj2563]

That was cool I can’t get my wife to walk into a dark room let alone a sketchy mineshaft..

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Tell her sex is better in the dark!

[@nashvilleslim]

15:46What Frank said while watching Heather climb up the stope. Yeah. Shew! 😂. In all fairness to that manly man with a healthy libido. He says that shit all the time even when he's alone in a mine. I hope he doesn't tell me she's his daughter. I'll feel real stupid.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No we aren't related!

[@nashvilleslim]

@@exploringabandonedmines You're the man Frank. Only reason I said that is because I've seen you explore with your son who looked about the the same age. I also have a daughter who looks like we could be dating. People look shocked when we hug or kiss because she's beautiful and I hit every ugly stope on the way down. I have to tell people she's my kid. They always say you don't look old enough to be her father. In reality they think your to ugly to be hugging her in public. Then she tells you she loves you? WTF! It blows people's mind.

[@zeberdee1972]

Cool video as always :-)

[@bernieponcik1351]

Frank looks nice, he seems cleaner somehow. Is his beard trimmed? He trimmed his beard! * Exploring Mines: Date Night Edition! Very awesome :)

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Nope!

[@poorkitnerd2631]

Good times

[@JDR1971]

Pretty limber for an old fart! Edit: Really neat mine.

[@augydraenor1598]

great video again Frank & Heather. Frank, did many of those "old timer" miners die with lung conditions mining hard rock? (Black Lung), or just good old age, beer & smoking?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It the old days before water cooled drills it was brutal!

[@smartmonkey777]

i think the hard rock miners faired better that the coal miners , but there's a reason why the term miners lung exists..

[@clarkelliott5389]

@@smartmonkey777 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis

[@FuqUYouTube]

What the average temp in those mines? Seems chilly in there..

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Same as the average temp outside. In Canada just over freezing.........in Mexico closer to room temperature.