Big Things Have Small Beginnings - Part 4

[@steelplasma256]

A year!? This whole time I thought it all was recorded in a week back in Fall 2022. This is truly unexpected especially how patient you were to keep the footage until you took more footage to complete the exploration. Very impressive

[@2rbeck]

At 7:40... the was definitely a drilling pattern required when advancing a drift. The oldtimers drilled a "vee cut". Modern practice is to use a pattern called a burn cut, which you would be more familiar with.

[@jamesthompson8008]

THIS was an EXCELLENT series guys!! Thank you for sharing all of this. While it's aggravating that you couldn't run those out to a portal somewhere, that's also what kept this thing so well preserved. I have to say I believe this is 1st major workings that didn't have any geologists markings inside, and THAT is a rare thing.

[@VendettaProspecting]

YES!!!!!!! PART 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beein looking foward to this last little unanwsered questions!! happy new years!

[@mikewinings4120]

Thanks Justin for hanging in there being gimpy and all,pure trooper,heal up and see ya later 😀

[@NET-POSITIVE]

That is a beautiful intrusion zone that looks like it has has three or more periods of enrichment. My God I would love to see what the fire assay results would be in some of those areas you showed with the heavier bands of enrichment! That mine looks so sweet for amazing gold. I bet you can pan the mud under the ore shoots and get some good easy gold.

[@rvman3359]

I love how even though you have hurt arm, you were still ready to send it if there was a chance it kept going. Thanks bud.

[@Carolb66]

I have really enjoyed this mini series, from a tiny hole in the ground it turned into a mega explore with everything you could wish to see in a old abandoned mine. It is staggering i love the banter between you two as well you both made it a real gem of a series thank you! ❤😊👍

[@crazycjk]

Great series of videos, thanks for taking us along for the ride. What a find

[@kevinbaird9763]

Great series. Thanks guys, for your dedication!

[@samuelgilbert9734]

I hope your arm heals soon! Thanks for sharing!

[@lowrybrock8272]

Really enjoying this series!! Hope all is well with you sir. Thanks for the videos.

[@MildaGoesWild]

I see a lot of those wedge shaped orechutes in Wales UK. Love all the previously flooded caked mud 😄

[@davegrummett1263]

Many thanks Justin and Jakes. A great start to what I hope will be a great year for all.

[@hrbailey379xhd]

Poor“little Jake”! Sounds like he bought himself an awful lot of "turns” for exploring the crappy stuff! 😂😂😂

[@TVRExploring]

Haha, you understand perfectly!

[@Stand.Your.Ground.]

Thank you thank you thank you! About to watch right now soooo stoked! Bless❤

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Justin, wow that really was a very apt title lol, so much more there to explore beyond the hole. Good job guys, thank you for sharing, much love & happy new year. xx 💜

[@tcapfan4190]

What is the square metal plate called in between 3 or more connecting rails that allow the car to be turned onto another track??? Slip plate turn plate skid plate??? I can't find the term anywhere!

[@volktales7005]

You guys put a lot of effort into that explore! Thanks for taking the time to share that with us...

[@rayarthur586]

This is a mine. Thank you guys for going and going and going. That little pink bunny could never keep up with you. Very impressive. Waiting for the next one.👍 And wondering what that black rock was.

[@davidsnider1703]

Wow, just wow. Great multi part mine adventure. Always makes me nervous watching you walk thru muddy water lol.

[@osiriscrafter2267]

The lower parts with all the mud look like an old mine from the ~1800s i did some work at and where i later helped with some surveying here in germany.

[@kevinfinney8237]

This whole series is interesting. I've been following the proposed reopening of the Idaho -Maryland mine. It's very wet I'd bet like this one. It looks challenging to say the least.

[@DeadReckon]

Been waiting for this one! Oh man the mud is real down in that mine

[@shoradsfc]

This whole series was outstanding! Great job!!!

[@leesherman100]

Five stars. Looks like quality mud I must say. Nasty! 🙂

[@brucevanderzanden9638]

Great mine that you have shared with us Justin! Thank you

[@-r-495]

Wow, amazing old mine. I know the rail wouldn’t indicate that „Q“ being a 9 (as in 1892) but I do think this mine was worked for years and may have had both improvised cheap rail until regular rail was available. Or it paid that well that they invested in rail and had it shipped to the west coast due to the profits they were raking in. The serpentinite is wicked stuff, not only does it play tricks on miners but contains asbestos too. You‘re fine in the as it‘s all wet and damp. Thank you for sharing this, what an amazing mine. Have you thought of having samples analysed? That black seam looked intriguing (not that it has any value). You‘ve been to Europe, I often think of the austrian and italian miners who fought the mountain and dug the Gotthard tunnel. Many died during the construction of the old tunnels due to exactly the same risks you encounter. Not only silicosis but the same minerals just a few thousand miles away from where you recorded this fantastic material. Thank you, keep safe. PS: You may want to have a look at the Calanda mine in Felsenau Switzerland at some time

[@jw2218]

Thanks for the laugh when you mentioned the Nevada scandal.

[@IHUTCHI]

Man that was one hell of a hole in the ground!

[@ja5onl6]

What an incredible find Justin. Looking forward to seeing you guys pull some metal out of your mine this year!

[@Sanjosebuddha]

Wow, that last part evidences intense hydrothermal alteration. The Sierras must have cooked these hills for a long time, very cool.

[@paulcooper2897]

That last bit was sketchy as hell !!! Just watching the whole pile squish and push as he walked over it was insane .. there is Nothing holding back everything above it! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@djspatrick]

I notice a lot of the timber has a dark blue/black colour. Is that a surface treatment or is it caused by decomposition by being in a damp environment?. Tremendous series of videos. Looking forward to many more in 2023. Thanks so much.

[@frankgaletzka8477]

A happy New year and all the best wishes to you and the Team. Thank you for this wonderfull Video and all your effords to explore these mine. Take care yours Frank Galetzka

[@williamwintemberg]

One spectacular series! Happy New Year!

[@nikolaisikes6245]

That was a pretty awesome mine. It's too bad you couldn't find a real portal to use. I wonder how thick the soil is that covered the portal on level 8? I'd try to hammer a piece of steel through and hope it pops out the other side however unlikely lol

[@w6krg]

Nicely done! I wonder what that black rock is..... Volcanic ash, perhaps?

[@markattardo]

Happy New Year! Awesome series! The geology was really interesting. Hope your arm heals up if it hasn't already.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Again a very interesting explore thnx for the effort, loved watching it, hope the arm will be ok soon.

[@myhificloud]

This was spectacular, thank you for this

[@imalec]

Hope your arm recovers. I dislocated my shoulder in October and boy does it suck.

[@beardy4831]

You were both feeling some sort of breeze just before that last collapse. Where was that coming from then? Jake said once before that it doesn't go without looking far enough. Might be worth check into further.

[@coeneschamaun1735]

And flying insects seen. I would really have liked to seen just what/where from.

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

Happy New Year, have a safe year underground.

[@casedoumasr656]

Well the water table really went down. What month was the 1st explore and what month was this explore ?Good exploring for 2023 and beyond ⛏️🏆🇺🇸❤️

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

Hello from Pennsylvania coal country.

[@worldtraveler930]

Howdy from Texas!!! 🤠👍

[@leighsayers2628]

Hi from Australia

[@idsawtooth]

Thanks!

[@brianvalley5223]

Nice video of your adventure.

[@ericcorse]

Quite a series, littleJake may never live this down. That black seam reminded me of coal.

[@alanmckeeve2695]

Why is the mine draining? is it seasonal or is it to do with the drought in the US?

[@worldtraveler930]

Inquiring minds want to know?? 🤔

[@jasonlambert5552]

"Unless they're core drill holes." I agree with that

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Thank you for the video

[@1849ad]

I'm wondering; How come the water is so high now, while the mine itself is about a 100 years old. Is there a dam built nearby or something? What explains the extreme rise of the waterlevel?

[@coeneschamaun1735]

And extreme lowering of the water level....?

[@anonymoos]

Oh the shade for Jake 🤣

[@grandy0406]

So where did the water come from and where did it go as quickly as it did? And will the water continue to recede?

[@worldtraveler930]

🤔??

[@TalRohan]

Thats an impressive find and very fortunate considering the amount of rockfall in the last stope, I am guessing that the water kept everything open and then as it emptied pressure relief brought down a lot of what you were scrambling over, it looked awfully fresh and very scary stuff. It ended very suddenly ....do you think its possible that it linked up with the other mine or was just simply the same ore body. Also I seem to remember some dispute where a mine owner stopped another mine from following an ore body because while it didnt link up it was conmsidered to belong to the first owner..not sure thats a thing or not. Awesome coverage guys and well done for not believing the one that said it stopped.

[@davidsnider1703]

Hard to imagine the bottom level was completely flooded and went down enough to look around.

[@philliphall5198]

Thank Youll Enjoy watching this

[@bebeandjohnnotsonomadiclif5287]

Thank you!

[@maxbowen6482]

Gutted you couldn’t make it further. If there was a breeze in that last adit then maybe there would be a possibility of finding another way in through a different portal

[@renegade44040]

I wonder if you scrape down to the hard floor and panned the mud for gold.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

You need some sort of ski pole to tap for false floors "and such" 🙂

[@vincenthackett7771]

What if I told you that the flat car was for hauling ore buckets on it to the shaft and the way the ore chute’s are angled great video Justin can’t wait till the next one and happy new year 🎉

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Isn't the black vein the "carbon leader"? I've heard of them for lead and silver, or a mix of the two in the Appalachian mountains. And for teluridtics and iron leading to gold and sulfates. So a couple times.

[@zamistro]

What happened that the water level was able to drop so far?

[@RickNelsonMn]

Awesome 👍🏻

[@chrisk181]

Greta work!

[@edwardmckenzie3402]

Wonder where all the water went?

[@richardwarnock2789]

Happy New Year!!!; )

[@HamHomestead]

Very Nice.

[@oldschoolmoto]

NICE explore fellas black channel was rich at the ruby

[@davidmiddlemis7271]

Love it I done the same when I was young

[@johnsemeniuk8230]

Y'know... I'm still kinda curious about where the portal the Jakes found comes out. Was a pretty big operation, with at LEAST the one portal. Might be something interesting on the other side. Or just a really big waste rock pile. Impressively big, even.

[@gerardange]

I really hope you took a sample of the black rock!!! very interesting geology!!!

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

I agree! Whatever it is, there is a lot of it there, actually made me think of magnetite... Or coal.

[@gerardange]

It could be a number of minerals. I wish I could of chipped a piece off to see a fresh surface to see if the black color was just oxidation? I think the most interesting thing is it’s association in the Vein in with the Quartz it appears to be also a hydrothermal deposition, As yes 👍 it did have that coal seam look to it… But coal is sedimentary not Hydrothermal. And that is the thing I find most interesting is it’s deposition. So what could be Hydrothermally deposited ??? Well many minerals the first thing could be Silver, Tungsten, even Pitchblende aka Uranium. It is really hard to tell from a youtube video ~ without getting you hands on it.

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

@@gerardange Good point. (~_^)-b Indeed there are a lot of possible minerals it could be. ~( 'w')/ Since I know nothing of the geology of that whole mountain formation, there is no way to guess how deep or under what other conditions that black vein was formed, so without any more information than I have, and going just by its color, texture and reflectivity, I saw the possibility of it being coal. Coal is found under a lot of conditions, so I could not rule it out. That said, indeed, there are many much more valuable minerals it could be, and if it were more valuable, I, as a prospector would be more pleased with such results, naturally.

[@trevortaylor5501]

Black rock is shale from the looks of it.

[@cclyon]

I like that it said nuts. Sounds like the 40s.

[@michaelolson7992]

Makes you wonder where the portal comes out?

[@worldtraveler930]

I find myself thinking the very same thing! 🤔

[@peregrine3845]

Which video was the one in Nevada with the Jake "incident"? I remember watching it but can't find it now.

[@thevet2009]

What was your MOS?

[@worldtraveler930]

I am REALLY!! Glad Ya'll stop listening to that other guy!!! 🤠👍

[@wendysieger4648]

In part one at 22:53 there is a light. Anybody know what that is?

[@daveg2104]

Remember, he was with other people. So, the most likely explanation is that someone was up ahead of him.

[@boostedshuttle2231]

Dang I've only eva see a purple vain in a old deep gold mine.

[@stupidminotaur9735]

14:05 anyone got the video link to that video? been looking for it.

[@Lucysdad66]

Where'd all the water go ?

[@rogergriffin9893]

Is that black ore a lead ore? The quartz is next to it. Look for gold. Even though they worked it heavily, I'll bet there is plenty of gold left at other unexplored levels. They found a 106lb. nugget for Christ's sake.

[@krakhedd]

The little kid in me wants to see all these old mines restored to full function, alas, mineral deposits and economics don't really work that way

[@efo1358]

👍👊

[@visionisscaryYTg]

I got F H H Q 2 II headquarters 2?

[@cclyon]

That was my guess.

[@duncanpuffer5983]

what a mess.

[@tmousse1163]

Absolutely sexual.

[@kevinholland4156]

Why is it that you risk your lives to look at cans and dynamite boxes? I would think you would know a little about what mine minerals are in these tunnels. If you are documenting the mine then you should be able to point out some of the mineral ore that is there. I can only guess what I am seeing. I am not a mine geologist but I would be interested to know what that black vein was; was it igneous or was it lead with silver in it. You said it was a gold mine, but when you mine you also get other precious minerals. I like your exploration but I feel you are missing the details.

[@maxbowen6482]

It’s more about the exploration and intrigue at what lies ahead

[@loyalkuhn5778]

From the lack of coloration and the that it almost seems to suck light into it, it reminds me of the manganese ore at a claim I have in Arizona.

[@tmousse1163]

Chill, Winston.

[@tm8747]

waste of time?

[@davekreitzer4358]

So why was it flooded earlier ? Was it frozen , ice dam , any clue why ? Very nice to see it kept going , thanks again for sharing !!! 😎

[@davekreitzer4358]

@Hit me TVRExploring EAT SHIT COMMIE ! 😜😝🤪

[@NickRanger]

Kenneth and the boys recently went down here and found some finch juice. It's made for finchs but humans can drink it to

[@christophero1969]

Thanks!

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you very much!