Why would they do that? Medieval mining history continues

[@devarskinnee8760]

The closer to water is the real Gold!but watch out for full inundation i seen it happen.

[@DrSteve660]

Nice to see the original vein mineralisation the miners were seeking.

[@devarskinnee8760]

Cemented gravel in the deep Blue 💙 lead thru mother's load is the richest in real nuggets and vain structures quartz,pices the size of you hand.literaly.that mine looks juicy so much goings on in that geology.

[@peterrussell9231]

Thank you

[@dba750]

Excellent knowledge, I've seen other channels like this but they have no idea what they're looking at. Subscribed!

[@australiantruckspotting8883]

These old mines are absolutely incredible.

[@DFDuck55]

Pyroclastic flow on top of tertiary river bed is fairly common here in my area of Northern California. Some is thousands of years old, but some is just over 100 years old from a local volcano that exploded in 1915 and continued to flow till 1921. In these recent pyroclastic flow areas you can find bits of trees that are still parts of partially burned trees that are not fossilized yet. I live in the valley about 80 miles south of the volcano and this area is strewn with rocks that were thrown here from the 1915 eruption. Another volcano to the southwest of me they use the geothermal heat to spin turbines to generate electricity. This is part of the Ring of Fire.

[@DFDuck55]

The volcano that exploded in 1915 is now called Lassen Peak but is commonly called Mount Lassen. It is 10, 457 feet tall. Before it erupted in 1915 it was 10x the size it is now. Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of the few areas in the world where all four types of volcano can be found, plug dome, shield, cinder cone, and stratovolcano.

[@LanceBeckman]

@@DFDuck55 so it was 100000 feet tall? Sure....

[@DFDuck55]

I didn't say it was 10x taller. I said it was 10x the size. It blew the whole side of the mountain off.

[@laurahaaima1436]

I love the medieval ones! Thanks for teaching history!

[@LostMines]

Our pleasure!

[@jasonprime3574]

Oh you guys HAVE to ROV this place!!! I would absolutely love to see what’s underneath such an old mine!!! I can’t wait to see it when you get to roving lol. This place is absolutely incredible!!!

[@LostMines]

Coming soon!

[@tyree9055]

Thanks for the lesson at 10:51, because while I have gone caving, I've never explored an abandoned mine and that was a nasty eye opener! 😅👍

[@joelkoonce8559]

Top job Mate.

[@petewebster2977]

Geology and History lesson, good stuff . Bring on the next adventure...part 3 . Pete Australia 🇦🇺

[@johnfloydman7735]

Amazing mine 👍🙏 looking forward to part 3

[@CaptainBob42]

Thank you for explaining the mineralogy of the mine. It makes the adventure all the more interesting!

[@janicedaily6043]

Just in time 😎. At least you didn’t make us wait in suspense until Sunday! Beautiful! 🤩

[@LostMines]

Yay! Thank you!

[@yogidemis8513]

Another great video guys, keep them coming!!

[@derekp2674]

Thanks for another interesting video.

[@s.m.g.m2015]

Wow that's awesome guys, enjoying your videos. Like how you talk about ever little detail of each stone.✨thank you.

[@LostMines]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lumberjaxe8910]

Thanks for shareing your Mineral and Geo knowledge been searching for a Channel like this, even though i don't venture into mines, i still like finding samples in creeks and surface, and you help click the puzzle together. Keep Safe Happy 2022.

[@kimbra1132]

U can see how wide the vein is on the back of the mine and the hanging wall and footwall. It's amazing how wide a vein can be and then suddenly it goes really thin to nothing. Looks like an ROV explore mates.

[@3secondleeway]

Great old mine! Seems to me ancient river conglomerates on bedrock might hold placer gold like here in the Northwestern U.S.

[@ih8018]

Followed you both for a while now have you kept any fools gold in your house ? Brilliant video again 👍👍👍

[@PibrochPonder]

Are you planning on doing anything exploring up in the Lake District?

[@phoule76]

Just watching this hurts my back.

[@imaoregonbum6683]

So are you saying that vain is primarily made up of leverite? cause you didn't take any of it out with you.

[@whotknots]

Could the 'fault' that became filled with river rock due to glacial action actually be an even older incline created by primitive miners following veins of mineral down from the surface prior, to the ice age that resulted in a glacier which filled the incline up again later?🤔 That explanation could compliment the fact that you also observed a 'cavity' above the drive you were exploring which was only partially filled with glacial residue. If the 'fault' filled with glacial residue was an really ancient mine an absence of tool marks could be explained by the fact that one very early mining method was to soften rock by heating it with fire then quenching it with water to fracture it enabling easier removal of resulting fragments. Perhaps it was even the advent of an ice age which curtailed earlier mining of the mineral deposit in the first place? Also could the large bit of timber you described as having a 'carved end' that was lying on the floor of a drive you described as 'quite primitive' at 8:04 have originally been a sort of battering ram used to knock fragments of fire fractured stone loose from the face of a drive? What a fun opportunity to let the old imagination indulge itself!😃

[@patriley6227]

Please please please can I come on a trip with you I learned the bare bones at the silver mountain but I’d love to come down with you some time

[@justvin7214]

There is a link in the description to go with Ioan.

[@LostMines]

use the email on the KZbin channel page we can see what we can do

[@jasonprime3574]

Could the hallways be so high from water cutting into the floor sense it’s so old? I know IF it was from water it would only be maybe a few inches deeper. But could the water have lowered the floor. I guess it was still even with that false floor so I guess the miners just cut it that high.

[@edwardhomson]

Glacial conglomerate 😂😂😂 otherwise known as Till or diamictite.

[@telx2010]

The past and hiStory are two different things.

[@robertsnyder5149]

Remember, gold rides an iron horse.

[@weedfreer]

what's the chances that the vein may have continued above the pocket of conglomerate though? Slim to none? 🤔

[@davidsnider1703]

Scarey walking on floor with holes going way down

[@marcosramos4596]

I will for sure pay to go alone once I'm on my feet Financially!

[@paulharries696]

Note to self : I must use the phrase 'glacial conglomerate' in conversation more often...

[@janicedaily6043]

How can I weave glacial conglomerate into a conversation? 🤔

[@cinkidaz]

I'm surprised Bitin' Joe Biden doesn't watch this channel, given that it involves miners and all...... JK - Good stuff!

[@adriannicholson8819]

how is the chick with you and do you what to borrow my ROV no cable and a return setting on it mind you.if you lose it you will be in debt to me for $48.000