Death Valley Gold Mine - Confidence Wash Hike - Inclined Shaft - Huge Quartz Vein - Multiple Drifts

Aug 26, 2022
Mine Exploration and Hiking with Tom and Julie.
In this mine exploring video we travel by Jeep to the wilderness boundary in Death Valley National Park, Nevada and start a hike to find a gold mine. It was a very windy and relatively cold day at the start of our hike. We hiked a few miles to the mine site where we found a large ore bin near the top of an inclined shaft. There was a head frame standing above the shaft at one point, but it has toppled over and is now flat. We explored several drifts that had beautiful quartz veins in them. There were several interesting artifacts around the mine site. There were also large piles of what appeared to be valuable ore outside the mine that never got hauled off to be milled. It was another fun day of hiking and mine exploring in Nevada and we hope you enjoy the video.