#53 Abandoned Gold mines in the Sheep Creek valley.

[@TVRExploring]

It is really impressive that you're able to publish videos once a week. That is a lot of work - not just with getting out to the mine and filming, but with the editing, uploading, etc. as well. Very cool to see those square sets! Like you said, those are rare these days. As always, your determination to get into almost completely inaccessible places (squeezing past the collapsed square set and crossing the rotten false floor) is appreciated.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It is a full time job. Lots of fun but doesn't pay very well!

[@BIGBADWOOD]

Always great videos Thanks and be safe !

[@Caeser194]

Exploring Abandoned Mines In BC ....I drive truck,I run 5 loads with 6 stops a day to NYC.Been doi ng the same runs for 3 years.Your explorations would be great therapy to those of us that are over worked and burned out.Im not crying,just thinking out load.Thanks for all the hard work Frank.

[@barbararobinson7980]

Brilliant drone footage. Thanks for taking us on another immense adventure. Glad you were able to rescue a couple of smaller items, not too much weight for you to carry this time. And the footage that you take from all the mines will be around long after the mines are no longer accessible. Loved this whole episode it was very interesting and exciting as always. Be safe all, and look forward to your next upload.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thank you so much for your support and kind words Barb!

[@ToddEWalnuts]

30:31 Holy shit, Frank. You are the ultimate explorer, and this was intense! Another great video man.

[@mrcr9102]

Hi Frank could you please throw a glow stick down a deep dark mine shaft, I think that would be cool. Thanks for the show I love it.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

That would look neat!

[@poorkitnerd2631]

Your videos are always a good time

[@rayrevolta6198]

You're inspiring me to go find some abandoned mines in the good ol N.B,keep on rocking those mines Frank!!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks Ray I am glad you enjoyed it!

[@frequencyfluxfandango8504]

MOST of us out here will doubtlessly never get to see in any of these mines. Always love to see the drone footage though, as helps orientate one's brayne into what the torraine is like directly outside/around it -and just Getting there in the first place ! Respect and Thanks.

[@daryldetta9104]

Awesome video of the Queen mine Frank> I just bought a two cell placer claim on the creek right below the Queen mine. They lost 31000 ounces of gold out of the ball mill into the creek while the mine was in operation, but they didn't bother with it because they were happy with the 57000 ounces that they got. Hope I can find a little bit of what they lost. Keep up the excellent videos Frank and stay safe.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Quite a bit of that gold must have been in the tailings wich were reprocessed in the later years. Well trucked to the smelter in Trail and treated there. While I agree there probably is a lot of Gold in the creek it is very fine Gold and hard to capture.

[@kennybohey5906]

Hey Frank, "Stay Safe Man'...Your Videos Keep Everyone So Amazed... Thanks 4 The Adventures...!!!

[@skookumchuckreefer978]

Cracked a high test & watching reruns Fascinating. Really. Thanks. This is the stuff that got me hooked 😎👍🍻

[@bobferranti5222]

VERY cool mine, I love watching your travels and I live vicariously through your experiences because I am disabled. In my younger days I would have loved to join you.

[@TheMrShinagami]

Thank you for another great video. I've still not caught up on your old ones yet but I'm nearly there.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

That is a lot of videos to watch....you must be a diehard fan!

[@battonfive]

really enjoyed seeing the old wood work there and the drone earning its keep :-) great walk through and ep, big thanks to you guys for sharing, though I cringe frank when you start burrowing away like a badger there I really do :-D

[@Lalunabreeze]

👍🏼❤️ lol. God Bless the drone... 🤓. Pretty 😎. Dang hard enough climbing that hill but w all that gear, WHEW. But you need it. I like this mine. Looks more like a cave at first. Wonder what made them blast in the particular site. Oh 💩, dynamite 🧨. Take the old barrel pieces, may never see again.

[@jeffmillikan9070]

great job!! you gettn pretty dam good flying the drone.. It thawed out there just a little and you been busy.. 👊👍 Be safe.. see ya next video..

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I was doing good til I landed it in a tall tree a few weeks back!

[@jeffmillikan9070]

lol.. always gotta be a tall tree!!

[@BestBuddies.]

Another great video nice to see you have some buddies come along with you that's nice..

[@grandprismatic]

Nice drone footage and editing Frank

[@auyeah7842]

Great video as usual. Stay safe. Beautiful BC baby!

[@mikeo2893]

Very nice production!

[@rrich52806]

Catching up..great videos!!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks.....it will take a while!

[@thescarlettbandit5542]

Another great video! Those mountains look beautiful! Always enjoy your content, I'm learning a lot from you so thank you 😊 Stay safe!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I also learn a lot from going to so many mines. Also I have learned a lot from comments viewers have made.

[@magsman448]

Frank! Your a mine of fascinating info!!!! Lol!!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I have figured out a few things!

[@Lalunabreeze]

Love this area. Beautiful area. Columbia mine pretty cool, goes way back in.

[@kootenaycat]

I'm not sure how I've missed so many of your videos but glad I went back and watched this one. I was looking for a way across the creek about 3 years ago to where you got to but ventured on the south side instead and discovered the Bonanza. I wonder if that second to last adit in the video was the Midnight adit? I've wanted to get back there to explore that slope and this gave me incentive to go once this snow melts. So much to see up that valley, just need to hike across any slope and you discover an artifact or adit. BTW I think that open stope at the beginning was the Yellowstone. A friend of mine and his Dad opened up the bottom adit and I believe it was the top of the 3 main ones. Plan was to mine out the big ore deposit that the original miners left between 2 of the levels. With the price of gold now I'm surprised they aren't working several of these old ones in the Kootenays.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

The problem is there are no more mills left. Even if you had some good ore what would you do with it?

[@kootenaycat]

I never thought about that. Teck recovers a lot of gold and silver from the lead/zinc concentrate they buy but I guess you'd have to turn it from ore to concentrate first. I wonder where the gold mines in the "golden triangle" of BC north of Stewart are taking their ore?

[@Mr123slayer123]

Keep it up! I really enjoy your work.

[@petermundy3339]

Impressive as always Frank, What is the go with your plane is it being fixed??? That steel tipping bucket frame you found at the entrance of the mine would be great at your museum, You could set up a static flying fox and hang different types of carrying devices on it,. Thanks again love your Video's

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I am going to run a cable so I can put some tram cars on it. The plane has been written off by the insurance company and I am going to stick to flying drones!

[@Seat1AJoe]

Really good lighting!

[@VE6JMB]

Great Show .. Stay safe :)

[@colingoad8210]

Hey Frank, do you remember what episode it was when you found that massive hole full of quartz crystals? I cant remember the name of that location for the life of me, but I've been wanting to go see it for myself!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

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[@scottbaker4314]

Eh?,ehy? Lol!! Another Great video Canadian

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Glad Y'all enjoyed it!

[@samking73]

Those mountains are beautiful!

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It is a beautiful location. Not too sunny in the valley bottoms though.

[@normanmallory2055]

I think that's pretty cool stuff to explore history like that... Trams with not so much the support but the size of the wheels in diameter and weight, how did they get those wheels up to the top of the mtn? Where you are today even with all the support timbers , it looks dangerous to me.. After standing up supporting tons of weight all those years I would be worried if I brushed against one and the whole unit may come down on me.. I like the tool your Drone is that's neat.. Well done, I really like exploring old mines, there are a few where I live..

[@BIGBADWOOD]

How long did it take them to build the square set, as seen at (16:00) ? How many men would have been in this mine at one time working on building the square set ? Thanks another great Video !

[@exploringabandonedmines]

They were all pre notched and would have went up pretty fast. Sometimes they took them down when a stope was mined out and used them somewhere else.

[@BIGBADWOOD]

Thanks !

[@77dpb]

Only 9k subs should be 9m

[@Thelocalbonezchapter]

Anyone else notice that around 14:30 there seems to be light further in the mine ? I wanted to ask if that was someone exploring ahead or some sort of optical illusion?

[@MrDutchman100]

That is so cool, I mine in Washington state we got this hole here that is deep don’t know how deep. One guy used three eighths cable used all 60,000 feet of it and never hit bottom. Melli’s hole. Gold pays the bills Frank find a nice mineralized area and find that shiny yellow metal.

[@dare369]

Can I see this hole?

[@Paleoman]

Do you ever encounter animals such as a bear or mtn lion in some of those adits? In the Sierra's almost every cave I ever encountered (way off the trail & away from people) was a black bear den or possibly a den for a mountain lion. There were lots of deer bones & scat as well as old vegetation that was probably bedding.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I saw one rabbit and hundreds of bats, dozens of rats over the years.

[@logangreen9544]

frank you need a telescopic ladder you can buy them at Canadian tire fairly cheap on sale. they would be ideal for yoU I think they can go more then 20 ft and slide together compact enough to put under a bookbag : ) love the videos by the way keep up the good work : )

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I have one but they are pretty heavy so I have only used it a few times.

[@mlgauss60435]

Thanks again for sharing your hard work! But....once again made my stomach churn toward the end! 😳🤢😳

[@JohnNelson-ft2vd]

Hi frank!!! So sorry bout max!! Any ways have you ever thought about visiting the silver valley in n. Idaho? Lots and many abandoned mines! Just a suggestion!!!! Take care and dammit get a fn. Hard hat!

[@angelob9465]

what happened to doggo Max?

[@mrbakerskatz]

I'm at a loss for words at your 0 fox attitude ,but I thumbs uped the video .

[@royreynolds108]

Comparing that rail with your hand I'd say it was either 8 or 10 lb/yd. Eight lb steel rail was the smallest rolled. It is 1 9/16 inches in height and 1 9/16 inches on the base.

[@aserta]

Would you look at that, really nice picture from the quadcopter, big gaping maw opening in to the ground. When i was a kid i stumbled across one of these up in Germany (i think, back then we traveled a lot). Scared the heck out of me, now i kind wish i could find it again.

[@aserta]

You can make rope savers with pieces of tube. You slice one down the length and fill the inside with foam (so the rope doesn't slip, there's variants for sliding rope but those are more complicated) and you're done. The commercial variant is a lot more expensive and in some cases heavier. I've used them quite a lot and they last (depending on the pipe used, i use PVC that's used here in Europe for electrical routing, the non flammable kind) up to a year, which is ok.

[@ShawnCFarm]

Not aot of mines we can get into here in Ont. Most are sealed off really good.

[@missyd0g2]

very impressive drone video piloting. How is your plane doing? Will it fly again. Love your videos and preservation of the past history.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Thanks but the drone footage should get better just got a set of virtual reality glasses! It looks like the plane is heading for the scrap yard the insurance company wrote it off.

[@mealex303]

frank do you believe in Sasquatch being real? I know it is but I wondered if you may have had any encounters of any kind or found anything strange turning up at old places in the sticks?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No.....I don't believe in them.

[@jeffd6540]

Yikes! On that one...

[@doesitcrush2093]

Very Interesting

[@LastMageOnEarth]

can a drone fly around in a mine if your nearby it ? could it fly up to areas you cant get to ?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It is possible but tricky. The drone uses gps to help keep it stable and level. It gets nervous when the signal is blocked!

[@tommycolton4971]

wow good job not tuching the tnt at the last second ...i thought you jumped back because of a snake or something

[@exploringabandonedmines]

No it was strictly for dramatic effect !

[@davidmicheletti6292]

Do you ever find hot springs frank

[@exploringabandonedmines]

I have not seen any underground......not yet anyhow!

[@Prince_Tricky]

Do you know what they was mining in Sheep Creek?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Mostly Gold and Silver and some Lead.

[@psurepi012]

10:48 So close!!!!!!!

[@superdude7705]

Is it bad to go in mine shafts just after a thaw?

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Near the collars it might be.

[@rickywhite6412]

You've more balls than I not for me LOL...

[@camillefulton7709]

MAN HOW DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING LEFT AFTER HIKING UP THAT MOUNTAIN, GOING THRU MINE, THEN DOWN AGAIN. I WANT SOME 😁 C OFAUSTRALIA

[@exploringabandonedmines]

We have really good beer in Canada!

[@do4267]

Exploring Abandoned Mines can you recommend any particular brand of Canadian beer? I’ve been watching your videos back to back and am curious what kind of beer can power you through so much.

[@GeneStith]

I`ve never been in a mine, it looks risky what you do, take care.

[@exploringabandonedmines]

Like everything else it can be risky if you don't know what you are doing!

[@sandadaily4557]

You bet sitting on the couch lol but if I were younger would drive down from Fairbanks AK. Carry Franks water ha says John

[@dpunched8104]

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[@dpunched8104]

also love your videos