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[@johndouda6625]

I'd like to make a deal with you Frank. I have already bought a tee shirt and a hoodie from you (love them) and I talk your show up every chance I get. So here's my deal. If you will reveal to me the lyrics in your intro between ...times runnin' out... and...crawl in the slime, I'll buy two more hoodies for my granddaughter. What say ye mate?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Welcome to darkness There's blood in the air The angel of death's Descending the stairs The madness and sadness the kiss of the gun Cover your ass as you stay on the run It's the bonus time It's time to collect The joker is wild And he's back in the deck The lowdown, the go-around the showdown in hell Stay on the move or you won't live to tell Tick-tock cut to the chase Time's runnin' out and they're usin' live bait Street's infected and crawl in the slime The neon nightmare is about to unwind

[@fredmax2541]

This would be a show worth putting on television.

[@TheSWolfe]

U know yr doin' good if u scare yrself in post-production! Aw, Tippy! When we were kids, my cuz had a lil' terrier mix w/that name. She wasn't very good w/keeping him on-property - neighbors filled the wee guy full of b-b's & left him on the porch for her to find. Yr Tippy rescue's a much happier tale than mine. Enjoyed the museum tour - I can recall when/where u discovered several items. Great run-down on history surrounding each display. Signage, rock/crystal samples, bottles, hats/lanterns, sewing machines & old phones = especially cool! Relatives in old portrait hanging on wall?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

TheSWolfe No it came from Don Endersbies auction I have no idea who it is.

[@TheSWolfe]

Well, whoever they were, they've a good gig now as overseers of yr mining museum. @@exploringabandonedmines

[@johnizitchiforalongtime]

Nice Intro. Lots of antique equipment, items, etc. Love old equipment, it shows their ingenuity.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Right on

[@luismartinez31]

I love those rocks with crystals, as always very interesting video, best regards Frank.

[@davedeatherage4902]

Hello friend Frank, I was on a couple mine tours back in 1980's to mid 1990's at Virginia city Nevada, one mine was in back of a saloon they opened a back door and there was the mine portal entrance, and another mine tour down the hill from main part of Virginia city. They were pumping fresh air into both mines,( limited tour's) only mine's ever been through, most of Virginia city mine's have bad air, ( no air ) that's what tour guide said. I panned for Gold also, got some flakes👍😊, a couple year's ago--- two Boy's went into a mine on their own, they never came out!! Died, found later BAD AIR!!, A Also geothermal area in most those old mine's, and many under "HOTWATER "I ENJOYED your mine museum! Thank you!!👍😃👍

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Hydrothermal vents sometimes have S02

[@davedeatherage4902]

@@exploringabandonedmines thank you sir for that information on poisonous gas, I had been up to Kamloops Canada in 1969 with my family on a little vacation I was a teenager. I believe if I remember right kamloops is in white Horse county?, I wanted to ask you also do you believe in BIGFOOT? I do about 60%, or so, lots of your films I watched are in rugged Canadian country prime habitat for a creature like that, I had an experience of what could have been a Bigfoot up in Northern California in the 1990's, I Don't drink alcohol, or do drugs. I had a friend with me, that event happened in Mt.Shasta Wilderness Iam am, or was a Professional wrestler, I'm semi-retired now, we were on a trip back from Nevada then, thank you for your mine exploring, and what you do !👍👍👍

[@victoryfirst2878]

You are the man Frank. Really like the show too !!!!!!!!!

[@frankcasey7423]

Thanks for the tour, very cool and interesting! I like the explanation of the history of everything. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!

[@kevcallaghan8487]

Cool Frank enjoyed your tour of the museum 😎

[@AdventuresWithNimby]

Love how you save that history from rusting away. Good stuff and very informative. Would have been crazy hard to work with a carbide light. The things miners put up with to get our ore topside is truly amazing.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Nathan LaBrie We fired up one of the carbide lamps in a mine and yes they put out very little light. Not much more than a candle!

[@jeffreyallen3796]

Thank you for all the interesting finds and knowledge you have shared thru the year

[@DeepPastry]

The museum is coming along nicely.

[@gtgibbsgibbs7599]

Thanks for sharing the collection Frank. I take it your airplane will once again soar over in search of audits? The drone shots are fantastic too. I have my buglight and a self rescuer for your museum with some pay samples and other odds and ends including the brass tag we either turned over or moved to a section spot on the bathhouse wall when you entered or left the mine. There was a matching numbered tag riveted to our leather hefts, if that’s all they could find of us.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yes I will do some work on it when I get a chance. I am always grateful for the things people have donated to the museum!

[@lauraschuler3894]

Very interesting and informative! A lot of cool stuff that you don't see in just any museum.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

And you don't just have a student who knows nothing as a tour guide.

[@rdamp2374]

Great tour of your museum.Can not wait for the videos from Mexico.Videos of 2019 and Anyox documentary.

[@n3lee]

Been following for about 2 months now - still scrolling back through previous explores, but have seen the maturation of your channel. Keep up the great content and delivery -- and don't stop being you, no matter what Hollywood wants... Wishing you many safe explorations in the new year! --Lee

[@diatomsaus]

Some weird tools I've never seen, very eye opening, thanks for the tour!

[@alangoede2073]

Hello here from Bishop Ca. Great videos bud our family is from newfound land freshwater to be exact keep up The good work⛏🧨⚒💎

[@0Hindmost0]

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year from Norway, Frank. Looking forward to season 4, great show!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thank you sir glad you like the show!

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

I was thinking of some from the past, guess I'm getting to be like my parents, back in the seventies. I really like your videos and think I've watch most of them. The time and extra work you do is a great service to the history of mining. The best in 2019. Would love to see you do some in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I think most are being lost and last I heard only one big one is still being mined. Stay safe. Again thanks for the work you do.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks man I do the best that I can, but I can't be everywhere!

[@maximumpower102]

love it frank,i wish i knew you were around here when you went to the sunroe mine in jordan river or the blue grouse,i would have loved to have met you. you should make your travel intinerary public,lots of fans!-Eric from Sooke

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It was a secret mission!

[@lucifer3135]

Awesome collection

[@ClaytonCountyHistoryHound]

I could spend days in the museum looking at stuff, seeing how its put together and trying to make it work. Thanks for the tour. Take care and be safe.

[@Lalunabreeze]

🚊🚊Cool, TY. Going back to watch the Anyox Mine trip. Interesting stuff. Keeping it alive. 🚂 🚊 🛠 ⚒ 🧰 buckets, 🧱 pipes, pots, saws, wheels, engines. Thanks great collection. Nice yellow mucked. Excellent video..🚨. Some of that stuff must have been tough to get.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It was but I enjoy a challenge!

[@jfingerskeys]

nice collection.....Happy new year

[@SmallMartingale]

'19 sounds like it's going to be freaking nuts! I can't wait!!!!

[@southdownsway]

Thanks for all the great work in 2018 Frank. I am really looking forward to the Anyox documentary too. Happy New Year!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks David it will be good we are putting a lot of work into it. The rough cut is almost finished after 2 1/2 months of editing!

[@Gordonseries385]

Thank you for the great tour Frank! Awesome sharing the knowledge, and getting the items for your museum to show them.

[@paigelee6321]

Love the stones and crystals you found awesome

[@jbrobertson6052]

Merry Christmas buddy all the best to you and I wish you luck on your ventures Cheers Oh yeah thanks for the tour ya got a great place there

[@SmallMartingale]

Your museum is absolutely incredible, Frank! It's really neat to hear you talk about your collection, you've came so far since you started all this a few years ago. It's going to be so weird when I see you on TV one day! I know we've never actually met but I'm still going to tell my friends "I knew Frank before he made the big time!". Anyway, thanks for another great year, chief.

[@barbararobinson7980]

Thank you Frank for the tour of your museum, you have it laid out really well. Your information and enthusiasm when showing us some of those artefacts in your excellent collection brings the tour to life. Tippy is still one of my favourites and it’s great how you have it set up on the track with the ore chute. Very much looking forward to Season 4, 2019 sounds like it is going to be awesome. Wishing you a Happy New Year that is filled with lots of exciting new adventures. Cheers 🍺

[@markcollins7254]

Nice additions to your museum. It amazes me what miners accomplished with the crude tools and technology available at the time. Just a comment about the vertical boiler. You mentioned that possibly it generated steam up to 2000 psi. Metallurgy and technology did not exit until the late 1940’s to early 1950’s that would support 2000 psi pressures. My guess is your riveted boiler generated 50-100 psi. maybe 150 psi. at maximum. The steam temperature at a 150 psi. Would have been around 370 degrees, pushing the metallurgy and safety limits of the boiler. I’ve enjoyed all your videos and look forward to the next ones. Wish I lived 2000 miles closer. Stay safe and Happy New Year.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks for the correction........2,000 was just a wild assed guess I had no idea!

[@alurquhart701]

Awesome mine tour! Frank, thanks for saving all of this and sharing it with us all. Looking forward to the New Year's show and 2019.

[@clivekibbler4578]

a film star . frank i new you would be , you deserve it

[@cavslayer7698]

Frank your show rocks . Cant wait till next season and still love the T-shirt ....Will join you New Years ...

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Great.....see you then!

[@kimdalton9868]

Thanks for the tour Frank, what you call a “Mucker” in Canada, we call a “Bogger” in Australia.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

They have different names for things in other regions.

[@nighthunter7917]

Man this is so freaking cool just knowing what all these items have been through

[@motech1093]

Great video thanks buddy.

[@1roanstephen]

The best part of season four is hard to define but your beard is definitely one of them.

[@catpower2951]

All the best in the new year mate🍺🍺🍺🍺👍

[@paulpence8895]

Happy Holidays Frank! Nice collection you have there. Looking forward to 2019 videos, stay safe and keep them coming.

[@richardrobertson1331]

Enjoyed the tour of your museum. I like your enthusiasm for how each piece works. Wish you included a bit on the tail wheel you're rebuilding, and looking forward to another great year of your posts.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Not doing anything on the plane for now...…..too busy it is collecting dust!

[@PaulMcClellanmn]

I am excited for your upcoming new season! Some of the mines you've already been in have been real nail biters. I hope those "nasty mines" you have scheduled don't leave me with a short finger. On your Mexico tour could you go over the what, why, and how, of all the gear you are using Best

[@seanbelhumeur3840]

Frikin còol museum Frank awesome work man.

[@BestBuddies.]

It seems you're collection has really gotten bigger since the last time you filmed it.. I need to ride my bike down from PG and come stay there for a few days and really have a good look and a few beers!!!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

And visit the Silver King...…...we found a way in!

[@BestBuddies.]

oh you DID please tell me you went and explored a bit?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

@@BestBuddies. You bet 2 whole days.......still want to go back!

[@BestBuddies.]

oh man that's awesome see anything good yet???? how extensive is it?

[@jburritt426]

Hope your New Year will be a greatest year yet. What you have done will be hard to top. Have a glorious day Frank. Love the videos.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I have 2 months of shows recorded and they are quite a bit better than what you have seen in the last month!

[@jburritt426]

Cant wait!

[@bogrick1947]

Thanks Frank for another year of great information and entertainment. Hope you and yours had a good Xmas, and hope the new year brings you lots of new discoveries and adventures.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I am sure it will!

[@remmiemax3624]

It is so great to go through your collection and hear the story behind each item. Can't wait for 2019! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

[@johnrobinson357]

That was very cool, thank you for showing us that slice of history.

[@clivekibbler4578]

frank you a star to us but looks like film career beckons ,

[@exploringabandonedmines]

clive kibbler It is hard to say what the future holds. I will keep on Exploring Abandoned Mines shooting the best video I can and posting that. Hopefully someone will appreciate what I am doing and we can reach a wider audience.

[@davecox1402]

Great collection.looking forward to next years exploration, Happy New year Frank..

[@kevinbrennan2004]

Love your passion Frank. You're a bit of a treasure too mate.. Not yet a relic..

[@StvMo1]

Great vid..thanks for the tour..

[@robertsnyder5149]

Your mucker looks alot like ours and ours is air powered too. We tore it all apart and rebuilt it and painted it yellow too.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It is a really common model!

[@grizzly9960]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you for all the entertainment you have brought us this year. Looking behind you sure reminds me of my old stomping grounds (Kamloops)

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I used to have a small ranch up at Red Lake for 17 years …….moved away in 1997

[@TheMrShinagami]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you and your family! Thank you for the tour I really enjoyed it. I cant wait for the new season and the documentary. Will you put the documentary up on you tube for those of us who wont be able to watch it on TV? Also I could not help noticing the plane in the middle of the floor, is that a new one or are you fixing the old one?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

The doc will be on TV and TV as well as anywhere else I can sell it I own the rights to it. The plane I bought and wrecked last fall.

[@pauloneill9965]

Merry Xmas Happy New Year thank you for doing wat do bringing history to life going into places nobody been in a long time? Be it a mine that's been mined ran its cycle from 70s to 1800s mine it all has story to tell. Thank you for telling it taking us along. Your passion is infectious stay safe stay you keep loving life 🎄🎁👍☘🇮🇪

[@paigelee6321]

Thank you 😊 always interesting history

[@budinfield9064]

Just toured the museum from my chair! Can't wait to do it in person!!

[@HollywoodGraham]

The Weather Chanel ran a show featuring mining for precious stones, it was very good but pales in comparison to this type of mining. I will keep my fingers crossed that you have a program on the tube. Thanks for collecting your specimens related to mines and displaying them.

[@canastasiou68]

All the best for 2019 frank,looking forward to more adventures.

[@gumps1986]

Really enjoy the underground adventures. Ever toured the mines around Western Montana? I’m from Butte, and there’s a ton of mining history in the area including a pretty bad ass mining museum.

[@brianfoley4519]

very nice!!

[@thewolf3889]

Merry Christmas Frank. I'am looking forward to New Years eve Live Feed - see ya then.

[@danlutjemeier4183]

Greetings and Thanks from Curlew, your videos are a real treat. I wish I could come see the museum (and the Rock Candy mine again), but now at the border crossing it's "FREEZE FU*KER" rather than the former "Welcome to Canada", from what I hear the US Customs is far worse. Not much left to see here in Ferry County, mostly all collapsed, blown shut, gated, posted, etc...

[@exploringabandonedmines]

The border is the same going both ways.........they have rolled up the welcome mats!

[@hairygriffon4151]

Merry Christmas dude, it's awesome that you will be getting some more publicity!

[@rodgercottrill3342]

Good vid

[@professorsip7242]

Wow

[@RailPreserver2K]

Nice to see the museum has grown, also do you plan on passing it down later on, because I don't want what you've saved to be destroyed later

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No plans to die anytime soon………..I don't know it would be nice to donate it to a society but nobody around here cares about it.

[@jburritt426]

That is so sad. History is important.

[@RailPreserver2K]

@@jburritt426 it is important

[@33ro0]

I'm sure there are some individuals in the his subscription list that might be able to help with saving the legacy!

[@SilverLimey79]

Wow some great relics there. Did you pick these items up when you explored the mines or did you acquire some of these items?

[@johnchalleen3278]

He nicked them.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Found some in mines others were bought or donated.

[@SilverLimey79]

@@exploringabandonedmines nice... Watched your latest videos. Thank you

[@Captivity91]

I hope they make you a show on discovery or somthing that would be awesome

[@exploringabandonedmines]

We shall see, they get you all excited and then put you on the back burner!

[@undergroundmines]

Cool display most never get to see the site hand made stuff

[@evanscreekbrahman7511]

In before the Riff Raff!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

You set your alarm every week for 6 am!

[@scottbaker4314]

Hey Frank do you have any plans on exploring anything in the lower 48, 2019?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Yes...…..but that depends if they let me across the border!

[@farvisions3871]

Don't loose that down home narration. I believe it's part of the show. Also...Does this mean that you have to show some of their videos from time to time?...Watch the viewer numbers go down. There are several KZbin channels that went that way and they started showing video clips not produced by the original owner of the channel. I like your channel Frank just the way it is.

[@MrMitchB]

Cool vid Frank, hey who are those people on the wall? 23:35

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No idea I bought the picture at an auction.

[@giantss2007]

😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

You're the real deal. I've watch a lot of dif. mine explorers, but you go were the other fear to tread, only wish you didn't have the evil music.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Well it is the last time you have to listen to it this year...….unless you mean the track at the end, you are stuck with that!

[@rrich52806]

Next year Frank.

[@lorrinbarth1969]

Ha, "sitting on the edge of my seat editing this" - join the rest of us.

[@robertsnyder5149]

I see you're not a miner or you might know that gold often follows pyrite veins.

[@edwardschmitt5710]

? He said the pyrite had no gold in it. Because gold and pyrite are found together does not mean pyrite has value. This is one of those "expanding on statement" posts. He was not discussing geology in general, and I am positive he knows they are found together because I learned that when he SAID IT in another video. Your post is an insult. Did it make you feel better to appear smarter?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

You are right Edward. In the Highlander mine coming up in a few shows we see some of the richest pyrite deposits I have ever seen but it was a Lead mine that had no Gold. Same with many Copper deposits very rich in Pyrite but no Gold in the formation. Pyrite is common in many mineralized formation it doesn't mean anything. Sulphides and quartz are much better indicators or possible gold bearing material.

[@edwardschmitt5710]

@@exploringabandonedmines Cool! I love your videos I really feel like I'm actually in the mines. And I learn by listening and asking questions. I've only been in iron mines.