A Wilderness Museum Frozen In Time - Amazing!! Abandoned Gold Mine

One of our best sites explored, the most amazing and preserved abandoned mine sites in all of Washington state. This site has it all a turn of the century miners bunk house, gravity stamp mill with stamps intact and last but not by any means least a abandoned mine with cool ore car. This place is a wilderness mining museum frozen in time!!
Come along with us on this amazing adventure, take a step back in time to a bygone era of Washington States gold mining history as we take you on an exploration of the surface mine structures and underground abandoned mine workings.
THE MAJORITY OF THE MINE NAMES ARE CHANGED OR ALTERED IN OUR VIDEOS TO PROTECT HISTORIC ARTIFACTS AND PREVENT THE SITE FROM BECOMING A NUISANCE SITE. IN SOME CASES WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED PRIVATE PROPERTY PERMISSION AND WE HAVE BEEN ASKED NOT TO DISCLOSE LOCATIONS.
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WARNING
Abandoned mines and ruined structures have many hazards and can severely injure or even kill you. Do not attempt to copy or re-enact situations or scenarios seen in this video.

[@jamzholm]

I know a guy who lives in Carbonado who has a mine on his property, he has a nice large door that he keeps locked, but he gets his water for his home from the mine. He has it lighted inside, and it also has about three feet of water only he has a small row boat, he uses to traverse the mine area He tested the water that runs into the ground from above on the hillside ands its pure drinking water. Also had the pleasure of going up to Chancellor old town site up past Mazama WA past Hearts pass area. Pretty neat area and there are still people mining there.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

We are familiar with the Carbonado one you mentioned. Chancellor and Harts Pass are great. Several years back, we had permissions and camped next to the Mammoth mine bunkhouse site and spent a couple of days exploring. We just weren't doing video then.

[@ihatedietcola7920]

Great footage!!! Thanks for the video!!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@FlashInYourPan]

It's a good thing that the Okanagan is so aired, if that was in my county (Skagit) or on the west side of the Cascades I am sure it would have been gone by now. I sure miss, Washington and the North Cascades, I have been away from home for a while now. Do you guys also do any gold prospecting or mining yourself?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

You are correct. Things like this don't survive the west side. We have friends who placer mine, but we do not. Thanks for watching and the comments.

[@skaldichunter261]

I’m a local and hadn’t been out here in a few years. Very disappointed to have visited this spring and saw how the current claimant has torn up the floor of the bunkhouse and discarded original wood in a debris pile outside-along with those cool beds and other artifacts. Would rather see this place reclaimed by nature than fall victim to someone who doesn’t know what they are dealing with. This video is so cool. Great to see it documented how I last remember it.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

We have visited this site four times over the years and had heard about that and are absolutely furious that this. This claim holder is irresponsible to preserving history and really should be called out on it. We are debating this issue with our FB reach and other social media platforms.

[@rogergriffin9893]

​@ghosttownsandminesofwashington Absolutely! Your video is priceless! And this mine was extremely well preserved. If anything, he should have restored the existing structure. Does he plan on tearing it down completely? He also should done enough work to the portal to allow it to drain naturally.

[@EatCarbs]

That is a cool place. Sad to read that someone went and tore it up. Damn. I would have left it alone. Thanks for the video

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you appreciate your comments

[@alainarchambault2331]

Must have been hell to transport all that machinery to such a remote location.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

We often have this same thought and discussion when visiting sites.

[@rrice1705]

If it was anything like at Monte Cristo, they probably had draft animals to help them, but that would only make it somewhat better. I'm guessing the better part of a year just to setup a relatively small (by our standards) mill.

[@MrJeep75]

What a place to build building

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes it a very interesting and cool location.

[@daryljacobson7462]

Must have mined from the other adit Tim. No stoping in that one. Been years since I was there and I didn't go in the tunnels for lack of waders.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

As far as we know, that's the only one still open.

[@daryljacobson7462]

OK, if I recall there is another adit there somewhere. I thought is was either to the right or left of that one, but may be above it. Just been too many years.Sure not anything that came out of that adit to warrant a mill. @@ghosttownsandminesofwashington

[@abandonedandlost]

Good find

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you

[@brettmeldahl4456]

active 1915, 1945-46 according to WDGER. the patent dates on the stamp mill are 1904

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you for the comments.

[@purpledonkey6450]

Wow that's amazing! It looks pretty green there, what mining district is it in?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Mazama

[@64puma64]

Hella work for 3000 lbs of ore. There’s virtually no tailings below the mill. Always figured that one was a money looser. Looks like someone hiked in a chainsaw since I was there-maybe keeping trees from falling on the bunkhouse?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, we think you're right that it is unofficially monitored by locals to protect the structure from blow downs, etc.

[@MrJeep75]

Post 10 would have that draining in no time

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

👍

[@outdoorloser4340]

13:00 Are you sure that's not an old mercury amalgam table beneath the stamps?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It is possible. We identified it from historical information that named it as a Vanner being at the site.

[@rogergriffin9893]

I think it's a mercury amalgam table.

[@motomikebuilder]

My friends in Mazama told me that the hunting scenes in the movie The Deer Hunter were shot in the Okanagan.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Had heard it was filmed in the Mt Baker area of Washington.

[@MrJeep75]

I would rebuild that cabin

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It's a great structure.

[@ronhuhn7562]

Every state has it's beauty, but I'm still prejudice when it comes to our state...WA...ron......I'm the new guy

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It's a great place to enjoy and explore!!

[@jerseyjeeper1575]

That mining was very hard work. No doubt.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, it most certainly was. Thanks

[@christinasanchez6932]

I'd like to take my son on an adventure like this. Any way to share the location?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Unfortunately, we don't post locations publicly.

[@JOlivier2011]

i wonder what the ethics would be of sweeping the bunk house out to slow moister damage/decay and reduce weight.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Well, a claim holder recently took out the entire floor we believe under the ethics they were going to fix the joists. But we heard that they may not have preserved the original hand hewn planks when they removed them.

[@JOlivier2011]

oh, that's terrible.@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington

[@Kevin-mw9yl]

Surprising, there wasn't more to the actual mine. No ore chutes, steopes, etc.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, it is very surprising.

[@rangerider51]

The beauty of it being so far out in the woods is that the knuckleheads that like to put graffiti haven’t got to it. I love old things that haven’t been vandalized. They look better in their natural state.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very much so! Thanks for the comments appreciated.

[@jamzholm]

With the price of gold today, would be fun to sift that waist pile!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

There has been a lot of that going on in the past decade or so at old mine sites.

[@brookslan]

There must be other workings. Can't justify a bunk house and a mill for that 100m, or less, adit. No significant vein/ore body, stoping, etc. There's got to be more. Unless they suckered an investor.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

According to the plat maps, survey, and historical records, there was a prospect tunnel, but no other workings.

[@brookslan]

Could you see a significant vein, or mineralization? Didn't see much from the video. I wonder if the mill was even used.@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington

[@marvinmiller7244]

I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this, but I have to ask- Did you have a microphone mounted to each shoe? The noise from your feet is very distracting. I gave up watching...

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It kind of is what it is in certain terrain and scenarios. Sorry it didn't work for you.

[@michaelpass2176]

Not into looking for gold ore.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Most of the gold ore around Washington is not free milling and is complex. This means it is fused into the host rock, and you are not going to see it.