Exploring a Hidden 1890s Mine in a Middle-Earth Setting Rare Artifacts & Blasted Miners Trail

Don't miss this adventure as we explore an abandoned mine located in one of the most incredible settings we've ever encountered-it's like something straight out of Middle-Earth! Located in the heart of a historic mining district, this copper, gold, and silver mine dates back to the 1890s, making it one of the earliest claims in this mining district.
This stunning mine site is not just about the history-it’s about the journey through an untouched wilderness with jaw-dropping views, hidden artifacts, and a rare 1890s miner’s trail that’s been blasted directly into the cliffside. Step back in time as we follow the remnants of this century-old trail and explore the underground workings of this long-forgotten mine.
What to Expect in This Exploration:
Incredible Scenery
Set in a breathtaking landscape, this mine site offers views that transport you to another world. The terrain and surrounding mountains evoke the feeling of something from Middle-Earth, and the mine’s location is as scenic as it is historical.
Rare Mining Artifacts:
We’ll discover *unique remnants* of the past, from old tools to miner’s equipment-items that offer a glimpse into what life was like for the miners who once worked this site over a century ago.
The Blasted Miner’s Trail:
One of the most exciting discoveries is the 1890s miner’s trail, which was blasted into the cliffside for access to the mine. This engineering feat** showcases the incredible ingenuity of miners who worked in such harsh and rugged terrain.
Copper, Gold & Silver:
This mining claim was known for its *valuable deposits* of copper, gold, and silver, and during its operation, it played a key role in the region’s mining history. The site tells the story of early efforts to extract precious metals in this difficult, yet picturesque landscape.
Join us on this incredible journey as we venture deep into the wilderness and uncover the hidden artifacts of a long-forgotten mining legacy. If you love historic exploration, mining history, or simply enjoy incredible adventures in breathtaking locations, this is a must-watch!
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THE MAJORITY OF THE MINE NAMES ARE WITHHELD 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.
Many ghost towns, mines and other forgotten historic sites in Washington State have already disappeared from history and many more are being lost each year to the ravages of time, wildfire, vandalism, and intentional closure. In addition to our many years of photographic documentation of these important historic sites we are now attempting to video document as many sites as we can so there is a lasting record of these places for future generations.
We hope you enjoy what we do and will join us on our adventures through a bygone era of Washingtons rich history. Not only do we love the history we explore and document, but we truly enjoy sharing these sites and experiences with our followers and viewers.
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[@abandonedminehunters]

Very cool picturesque location! As well as a very cool mine. 👍⛏️🔦

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It absolutely is, Thanks!

[@IanBrodie-bg1lu]

Got to admire the first man that found this,and the first men that worked this mine,tough cookies the lot of them!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Without a doubt.

[@CasualObserver99]

Thanks for going in so we don't have to. I always wanted to explore this, so great to see.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Glad we could share it with you. Thanks!

[@TekieD-Rogers]

First visit to your channel; IMPRESSIVE! ( I plan to review previous vids, & expect to sub within 48 hours! Thanks for original content!) Channels, similar to yours, are growing fewer, & farther between!! ( Not too many wanna put in the time, effort, & cash it requires, to create such an amazing end result! 🥂 cheers! T.D-Rogers ( here I am, back to say “Thanks” to all the commentors ! This is a GREAT stress relieving way to spend time AWAY from my beloved Country’s”issues”! You’ve captured BEAUTY, which comes from the Creator- not only in the Video, but in the comments made after it!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very kind of you to say and welcome. Thanks for watching and your comments. We are glad to have you along.

[@lawrencehayes5140]

Wonderful video, thanks for posting it! "Western WA." = rain. Eastern WA. = dry. People think it rains all the time everywhere in our state. 0:00

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

100 percent true and correct, appreciate your comments. Thank you for watching

[@westmontable]

What a fantastic location. Thanks for another cool video.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@milesbeavis4252]

Extraordinary place, thank you for showing!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you for watching! We appreciate it.

[@rons1566]

Very enjoyable! Your video quality is remarkable!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you very much!

[@donhoughton271]

Beautiful spot😊😊

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It absolutely is. Thanks

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Great trail !!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes it is.

[@CornishMineExplorer]

That wheelbarrow was something else! Most of our old ones are entirely made of wood!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

We have some very cool ones we encounter around here. Appreciate the comment.

[@D-train69]

Dang them walls are sooooo oxidized. I've never seen anything like that. Awesome.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you appreciate that.

[@faerieSAALE]

Washington State is gorgeous. We wanted to move there in the 2000s, but, a health crisis hit my partner and we couldn't take the risk of uprooting ourselves. Today, I am alone and there is no way I could afford to live there now. Yes, it rains a lot and the snow can be a nightmare if you're unprepared. The weather extremes make Washington a rich verdant green habitat.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

What you have found is really cool especially the trail along the mountain where it was blasted out

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, it is. Thank you for your comments.

[@Victorm.Robinson]

At the base of the waterfall that is the place I would choose to start my digging for pieces of gold FYI and you should too😅😮

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Don't disagree. Thanks

[@TekieD-Rogers]

@@Victorm.Robinson I’d love to know what drew your eye to that SPOT, specifically! ( no! I have no interest in digging, I’m just an old woman, learning! The minute I stop learning, I’ve stopped living!) Once a Q comes to mind, I MUST answer it one way or another! Just hoping you’ll make this journey the short way around! T.D-Rogers ( from the Ozark Mountains )

[@magicone9327]

Good chance any heavy’s would be up the ravin caught within a hundred feet where it was liberated

[@paulcooper9135]

Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@scottdilley356]

Oh I'm on the east side I've been al over these mountains but his was the coolest lol once he said he only blasted in thunderstorms so people couldn't find it lol

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@MegaSilverStacker]

Amazing explore! The PNW is very beautiful.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It for sure is. Thanks for watching!

[@geobrower3069]

It's a wheelbarrow mine, that's why the boards are running up the centre of the adit, used to make rolling the barrow easier, hence the possible lamp on the rusty barrow (illuminates the planks)

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Appreciate the comments.

[@joedebosco3047]

It would be interesting to know two things about this mine: 1) what type of bridge did they have to get to this adit? 2) where are the waste piles for this mine?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

First great question. Second the waste piles mostly washed down the gully.

[@debzj5021]

Lots of huckleberry bushes on the way in. Theres an active mineral claim in the Gifford Pinchot just above Sunset Falls. Would be interesting to find out what all they are mining.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Interesting, know the area will have to look into it. Thanks

[@loosehandle1]

Amazing site, could have filmed Rambo there

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

No doubt....Thanks!

[@nosay2069]

Cool video. I was wondering when you filmed this because It hasn’t been raining much here in western Wa this summer.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It was July of this year. Thanks for the comments!

[@mikespangler98]

Too bad Nick Zentner isn't along for the geology commentary.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@JaredBalmer-i3k]

You should try taking a pan and small bucket up there next time to see if there's any gold on those tailings. You might be surprised

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@ronbarnhardt5201]

Even back then they tried to avoid taxes. If they were gold and silver mines they claimed it was a copper mine. I am from the Motherload of Cali. Did a lot of mining and dredging. Don't claim anything!! 😂👍 Dredging became illegal here in 2009. I still have my 3". Thanks 👍

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you for the comments.

[@charlesdeilke8364]

Might be a stockpile of ore they never bagged to a mule train out.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very possible.

[@speedfreak8200]

Maybe there's a Privy Pit full of old bottles? Video idea 💡

[@bryankerr9462]

Do you think there used to be a small trestle leaving that mine to cross the falls? Didn’t see a huge tailing pile below the adit.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very possible. The majority of the tailings have washed down the gukch.

[@apeters911]

Awesome video guys. Have you ever found any gold in the old mines ?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

No the majority of the lode mine gold around here is not "free milling" It is not easily visible to the naked eye and hast to be extracted from the host rock through a complex milling process in large quantities of ore.

[@rexroad9917]

That is the 2nd wheel barrel I have seen in a mine today. The other was in Wales on the "Lost Mines" YT channel. Both have spoke wheels. When I see boards end to end on a mine floor, I think wheel barrel mine.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thanks for the comments!

[@speedfreak8200]

Wheel barrows remind me of wheeling concrete when I was 18 early 70's no more wheeling.

[@Drogothehusky]

16:33 upper right looks like a candle or lantern ledge that was chiseled into the wall?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Interesting very possible. Thanks for pointing out that observation appreciate it.

[@Drogothehusky]

@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington I can only imagine how it must have felt walking through there lit only by candles and the dancing of flame on the walls!!! I wonder if things sparkled more in candle light and made the shiny things easier to spot 🤨🤔 Thanks for the video! Looks like it’s in my neck of the woods 🤫

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

That would have been very cool. ​ Might need to try that one day. @Drogothehusky

[@thomasdurant7907]

I wonder what the development of the mine and the camp site was like. They had to have made a claim and started the tunnel before anything else I would think? Or at least surveyed out how they were going to put that trail in from the camp. I wonder if the went on foot and climbed down from higher up initially? Somebody had to have found this site on foot originally I would think, just boggles the mind how this all might have played out with level of technology that they had.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

In the 1800s, miners and investors used a variety of methods to find areas to mine, including luck, geological surveys, and looking for evidence of minerals. Washington commissioned geological surveys to find new coalfields and mineral deposits.

[@speedfreak8200]

Well worth Googling the area. Thanks for your hard work, rewarding as hell, but lots of tramping. Will the Copper stay that bright color when it dries ?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, the stain or wash maintains the green/blue. Thank you for watching.

[@bethintexas9678]

What a wonderful adventure!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It was a great site to visit. Thank you!

[@scottdilley356]

I was around copper city lots of hols dug into pure false gold and lots of copper

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very cool area.

[@Glenn-em3hv]

You know with the waterfalls and all the water period you could easily go off grid and have all the power you wanted!!!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

There is a thought. 👍

[@daleolson3506]

That toad looked like my mother in law

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@gradyyokeley9930]

That shovel is for emergency use. If there is a cavein you can dig yourself out

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thats a thought.

[@donaldperson948]

20 per ton back then or now?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Back then.

[@donaldperson948]

Grab the ceramic thing!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@aaronmiles2030]

That mess on the ground was probably good ore the miners knew was paydirt that they didnt want to send outside to the boss they were gonna come back and get it later but never did you should run a few buckets

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Wouldn't have thought of that. Thanks

[@thomasjones1778]

1:04 someone was trying to take this home bt realized ho much work it wold tae

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Well if someone were to try they would need to bring it down cliffside where its all brush and no trails or roads for over a mile

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

Is this on Private or public land. I know you won’t say… lol. Would like to see the medallion. You can have the death tubes.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

We can say public lands.

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington it looked like it has had very little traffic. That has to be some tough sledding if that’s all they did in 5 years.

[@magicone9327]

Any minerals that would be seen with UV light?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It is very possible.

[@allengray5748]

Holy Smokes! That wheelbarrow looks like it was heavy empty let alone full of rock and going over wood and ground through that narrow path!!?! These guys must have came from Tunnass City!!?? Cool exploration! Great Job! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Appreciate that, thank you!

[@scottdilley356]

Oh I did hunt bears and found a couple exploring them

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@Lucysdad66]

I guess we're not going to see any minner shadows today

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@JaredBalmer-i3k]

You might come across a bear or a mountain lion too.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Always possible.

[@magicone9327]

Think about how the workers suspended themselves on the wall to drill for blasting!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

I was mistaken Washington cool

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@JaredBalmer-i3k]

We're there's cortz there's a possibility of gold

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@scottdilley356]

He had a 3/4 wolf and he never feed it I watched it catch alot of fish out of the river man I have story's he told me about the area and I no that

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@terryrempel68]

Looks like some rich material at 25:30, but rich in what minerals? Iron for sure but what else? Seems to be a decent amount of it. Thanks for the vid.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Appreciate it. Thank you!

[@PogueMahone1]

Old miners saying: "Gold rides an iron horse"...

[@scottdilley356]

Western Washington or up very hight

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes Western Washington

[@scottdilley356]

He once told me after we drank some risky he was involved in a survey of all the areas but he didn't tell anything or any one about the hidden mine he started with viles and bags of nuggets he would show me a different kind of metal but would not tell me it's Nam he was up there for 20 years I ran into him then one year he was gone he was very old but he said he found it after the war

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very interesting!

[@lizjohnson3956]

Olympic Peninsula?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Mountain loop Monte Cristo area.

[@scottdilley356]

What I regret most is the 45 years I hunted goat's elk deer I didn't pay alot of attention to all the mines back then I met aa so called professor and he alway had gold but told me where a mine was that hat more expensive thing to mine I did find the mine but I was young and dumb I didn't ask enough about it I'm thinking that it might have been platinum

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Understand that for sure we wish we would have started exploring these sites sooner as well.

[@scottdilley356]

He didn't like to talk about his mine but I no where it is he hid it well no one has ever found it

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@020Dutchy]

Looks like they wheel barrowed the ore out, see the single board in the center of the tunnels Weird they tunneled left where the vein went straight at 34.00

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you for watching and the comments.

[@aaronmiles2030]

Be safe good show man dot get ur butt kicked by papagaeuno

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thanks appreciate it!

[@campsitez2355]

go back n start hi grading that ore lol

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@scottdilley356]

I'd be willing to talk with someone and show them the mountain it's in I'm to crippled up to ever go look again it's kinda funny every year he cam back with new stuff and the wolf invact the wolf was how I found him up there one year it graweld at me when I was coming by hunting it set by the opening guarding the entrance

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Send us an email. Thanks!

[@chris-nwue_B]

Found a wheelbarrow like that in a mine in E wa years ago. It was rusted but in amazing shape due to a mine that was dry year round. I figured it would be about 120 years old today

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

They are very cool.to find and see. We find them somewhat frequently.

[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

With all the greenery and the water flow you must be in California

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Western Washington

[@donaldperson948]

Just use a metal detector!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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