Exploring the Historic Emma Copper Mine in Acton, California

[@mitchellbarnow1709]

The San Gabriel and the San Bernardino Mountains have an incredible mining history! When does Xavier join in on the explorations? Thank you so much for all the years of fantastic videos!

[@flyingshamrockranch]

Thanks for posting. How interesting. I live in Acton and knew about it be had never been there.

[@forgottenmininghistory]

Thanks for watching!

[@commandertoucan8975]

Crazy! My friends live in Acton (I in Palmdale) and they have always told me about the old mines but none of us had ever seen any and we were planning on hiking Parker mountain just for fun bc it looked cool! Guess were gonna make this a hike/ mine exploration! And I know about a few other abandoned concrete things close to parker and where I live in Palmdale are 3 abandoned houses up in the hills we love exploring!!

[@flyingshamrockranch]

Wow, I live very close and had no idea this was here. Thanks for sharing.

[@scrumpymanjack]

Kudos. I woulnd't go down those tunnels. Very interesting.

[@forgottenmininghistory]

Thanks for watching!

[@BrosephRussell]

So awesome 😍

[@GenAfterNextTactics]

Have you ever seen the movie Duel at the train scene? You can see these tailings piles in the background

[@forgottenmininghistory]

I have! I drive many of the roads in the movie regularly.

[@juliagrothe]

Cool and very informative!

[@coreymacgregor176]

Hey brother, so I noticed you talking about adits NE of the Emma. Is it the first canyon right of the Emma?

[@davebeckley2584]

Pretty cool tho a bit foggy. Every once in a while you come across a mine in which the country rock maintains an imprint representing the way the tunnel was driven. The first mine showed a very good example of why the sides of a mine are called the ribs. Starting at about 4:30 you could see how both walls waved in and out, the left more so than the right. Every point at which the wall waved toward the center of the shaft was a new face where drilling blast holes commenced to advance the shaft another approximately six feet. When they drilled the bits were not driven straight but were tilted away from the center of the shaft. Otherwise, the shaft would proceed to get smaller and smaller. As they blasted the remnants of the old face remained and as you look along the wall it has the appearance of a human body's ribs. Applying human anatomy the ribs would connect to the back which is the ceiling of the shaft which is how it got its name. The floor of the shaft had no comparable body part so it remained just the floor. Nice drawing of the long-gone operation. Thanks for sharing.

[@forgottenmininghistory]

I eventually want to return to this mine to re-film the main adits. This was my first video, and I thought the footage was good enough. Now I don't think I did them justice. I didn't notice the "ribs" when I was filming this, so nice catch. Miners seem to come up with such creative names for things.

[@manyfacesrunsquickly3782]

I've been back and dug out 3 more mines good idea to go back more wholes to go in the mine before the supposed 500 foot shaft I dug that out

[@R00RAL]

Notice the oxidised copper inside..

[@circleofstone3114]

Who owns this mine? I need it!

[@jackkridler5714]

try a wind sock on you're mic ty for the upload.

[@forgottenmininghistory]

Yeah, the wind noise is pretty bad in this video. It was my first one and I've learned a lot since. I now have an external mic with a wind sock. Thanks for watching!

[@manyfacesrunsquickly3782]

You can use your finger and wipe the lense I had to a lot in mines clears it right up

[@forgottenmininghistory]

I tried that but it immediately fogged up again. I've since gone back and got better footage.