#80 Carbide lamp in the Remac

[@barbararobinson7980]

So enjoyed watching this again - always freaked me out the sound of rocks bouncing such a long way down, brilliant when you test out the original carbide lamp. Thank you EAM for your dedication and education. Much love and respect 👏 😲 👍🤩❤

[@mikenutt48]

A video from the good old days

[@herrmp5sd]

Still the best mining channel 😍

[@NattyDuty]

Absolutely!!

[@1944chevytruck]

Another great adventure!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yes it was!

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Carbide did not give a lot off light wow nice explore again thnx.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@glennwall552]

As normal you don't disappoint love your adventures deep in the ground.

[@remmiemax3624]

Frank, thanks for the tutorial on the lamps 😎😎👍👍 Rock On! See Sharon in the next one?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

You bet!

[@beverlyhanlon8376]

Hi Frank and Sharon. Mess of a cave. I didn't realize until now. You trimmed your beard. You look younger. Stay safe my friends. I like your music.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It was a video I shot years ago!

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good evening from Southeast South Dakota

[@Gordonseries385]

👍 ⛏

[@johnizitchiforalongtime]

I use to be a burner, cutting torch. Acetylene/Oxygen, years ago. Lighting up the acetylene first, black smoke, open oxygen slowly, getting the flame just right, cutting time on old/new steel, melting copper - dangerous fumes. Love the look of that mineralization - bee hive type, cool. One cool mine, yep you've been here before, for sure. Blasting caps, seen some in grade school. Cool views from inside out.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Nothing like sitting down with my 2 favorite Buds and Frank after a long hot humid dusty day.

[@colin5021]

It's a lomg way down....they didn't leave much of the mountain behind!

[@tedc7714]

Me and my grandpa played with carbide 70 years ago. Cannons ... Paint can. Carbide inside with a nail hole in the side. Touch the hole and bn low the lid off the can. Tennis ball cannon. With a pipe. I had one of his lights that worked but lost it in house fire .

[@brianoconnor6913]

Excellent recycle, haven't seen this in a long time!!!

[@jimmime]

Thanks, Frank! I remember parts of this one, I hope Ben is doing well. That was a looong way down to the bottom!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yes it was!

[@inzanebudman]

I lived at Remac in the camp above the mine back in the seventies when it was decommissioned. My father was a shaftman and worked there and then helped close it. We would ride the bus up and down the switchbacks everyday to school in Salmo. We would drive on the highway until we saw the Border guards and then we would wave at them turn right at Floyd Birch's Ranch and head up the switchbacks. It's weird to see it now as a adventure exploration deal. I wonder how much of the Town site is left? Anyway interesting Channel and thanks for sharing.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

They sold all the houses after the mine closed. Just the foundations left now.

[@Eric_Tennant]

I made a cave video. My first cave ever. Made me think of you Frank.

[@CameronMcCreary]

Yes, I noticed on the lnternet a company called Lehman's in the United States they sell 5, 2 lb. cans of calcium carbide for $139.00.

[@darknes7800]

Those hard rock miners.....100 years ago, down in a mine with just a carbide light (aka very little light) were tough as nails. Doing whatever they needed to do to make a dollar. Unlike the young whiners we see today!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers !!!!!!!

[@crispy63]

You rock Franklin but Sharon would never do that in her lamp! 😂

[@justachipn3039]

Sure missed your content on this one Frank... that's what puts you above the rest just bouncing around in a mine been here... been there.... really mist your pointing out what the mine is and was and what their after here n their richer n poorer areas...

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It is in the title... Remac

[@tomd7995]

thank you for that! was interested to know. but not enough to look it up my self!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No worries!

[@janierik]

Great video, I love your channel! Have you considered going down into the Silver expansion shaft of the Thunder Ridge mine where Gly was last year?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I am guessing he couldn't make it down?

[@janierik]

He did not try, he commented for someone else to try, it was way too deep. @@exploringabandonedmines

[@Bushguyrocks]

A rerun! Rats.

[@danlutjemeier4183]

One has to wonder how many hundreds of miles of tunnels were driven by miners using candles and a "sticking Tommy" mounted on their foreheads?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

A lot more with carbide lamps when they had air powered drills!

[@danlutjemeier4183]

@@exploringabandonedmines A happy day no doubt: "Frederick Baldwin is credited with developing the first carbide mining lamp, holding U.S. Patent number 656,874 for an Acetylene Gas Lamp that was granted August 28, 1900."