GIANT Underground Waterwheel FOUND in 1870 Copper Mine!

[@UKAbandonedMineExplores]

That's in an amazing state of preservation given it's age and the environment it's in. I know a much larger one, but it's not in as good condition as that one, need to make a video of that. That wheel is a thing of beauty, thank goodness it got left in place.

[@BobKernow]

Seeing the waterwheel still in place is amazing, it’s so lucky that it wasn’t taken out and relocated. I would guess that the museum trying to get it was Morwellham in the Tamar Valley?

[@DaiElsan]

Surely, that waterwheel system must be preserved. Its an amazing find. Its historic. Please don't let it disintegrate or vandalised.

[@chrisdaniels3929]

It is so wet. How has it not rotted and rusted in 130 years!

[@therealist3495]

@@chrisdaniels3929 157 years according to the video (they say it was built in 1864)... that is a long ass time for something in such a wet place. don't think it'd survive being moved honestly.

[@chrisdaniels3929]

@@therealist3495 Yes. If it was working it would be looked after, but not when abandoned. It makes one wonder what they used to preserve it!

[@petewebster2977]

Great find ..water wheel.. Now part 3 , what a mine 👍👍👍 Pete Australia 🇳🇿

[@simonjones3863]

WOAH! I couldn't have been any more surprised if it were a grand piano.

[@t.vanoosterhout233]

Well worth waiting for, spectacular water wheel!

[@davidcote1597]

The waterwheel must have been assembled in place by candlelight if it dates back to 1860’s?

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

Straight to the action too on the video. Amazing find.

[@donwright3427]

What even more amazing how it was brought there and assembled with only the dim light of candles

[@tipperarymick5337]

Amazing! Only stumbled across the channel a few days ago, awesome stuff.

[@janicedaily6043]

You’ll get hooked

[@kurtblank6488]

Me too I stumbled on this Channel too. This is incredible. Where did they find this. Whoa

[@kurtblank6488]

Wow. Can you imagine finding something like this. Holy cow

[@jbrobertson6052]

Going to start a drinking game when watching your videos and have a drink every time one of you sas Amazing lol. I lost count of how many times you guys said amazing just in the first few minutes of the video

[@paulaporsche9399]

Would be nice to see the water wheel 🎡 moving again. Cool!.

[@mirkatu3249]

What a fantastic mine, and that water wheel is so cool and was worth waiting for! Seeing the close up of the hydrozincite and copper sulfate inside the water drops was awesome, thank you so much.

[@DrSteve660]

They were not hydrozincite, and the green mineral not copper sulfate (which is water soluble) although it could be a basic sulfate (e.g. brochantite) or the carbonate malachite. I posted a detailed explanation of the copper mineralisation on this thread and it has vanished.

[@mirkatu3249]

@@DrSteve660 Weird it's gone. But thank you.

[@sunray8136]

I love that. Old stuff is far cooler than things of present day.

[@johnschroeder2190]

the waterwheel so cool it should be restored where it sits and pump water again. Such amazing ingenuity. sow long ago

[@cruising1792]

Those tiny needles in the water bubbles are amazing! Like miniature fir trees encased in tiny spheres. Great episode. Can't wait for the ROV explorations.

[@josephkerley363]

That waterwheel was amazing! That's one of the coolest things you guys have come across.

[@ih8018]

Can't wait for the rov episode well done again 👍👍 lads 👍

[@iainweller452]

What an amazing episode that wheel is stunning and those copper crystals were cool

[@derekp2674]

Thanks very much indeed. it was really great to see that waterwheel and pumping column on video, the changing viewpoints allow a much improved experience, even compared to the photos on pages 84 and 77 of a certain book :-) The mineralisation in the water droplets was amazing too.

[@carysw8967]

Amazing, thank you. Looking forward to the next one. I particularly like hearing about the rock minerals.

[@rtqii]

That is a pump, and using large stationary wheels for pumping water in copper and tin mines dates back to the Romans. The Roman mine pump wheels where powered by humans or beasts of burden who walked inside the large wooden wheels to pump the water up. As the Roman empire expanded, the need for copper and tin to make bronze for military weapons and armor meant that mine shafts went deeper and deeper, often many feet below the water table: enormous wheels, 2-3 stories tall, were stacked one atop the other to pump water up from the lowest mine levels. These wheels ran 24 hours a day and were powered by crews of slaves or teams of animals working together. When the Roman empire collapsed, the mine pumps stopped running and the workings were mostly flooded... Many of these Roman era pump wheels are still well preserved under the water in some mines, but scuba diving down to examine them is extremely dangerous, and they are too expensive to pump out.

[@thealonestargazer]

any dive videos for reference?

[@Obermuhle]

Hello you two, the water wheel is great!😀👍‍‍ See that you can get it to spin again 😜 Here in Germany, this type of wheel was called "Wasserkunst". Greetings from the upper mill HUBI :) 👋

[@81bozzaboy]

Wow that would blow my mind if I came across that on one my mine explorations

[@IACooper]

The winze (edit: stope) was dived a few years ago - with nothing of note to report. Stuart posted a video of it on KZbin if you go searching.

[@lindaisenegger163]

Amazing...thanks so much!

[@bc4198]

Oh my god that's SO FREAKING COOL 🤯. Imagine if it were still turning...

[@kurtblank6488]

Wow Holy Cow. What A find you guys. Incredible

[@bullsboat1]

Pardon my language but....holy shit! That's awesome!!!!

[@ttxela]

A favourite place for sure 👍

[@downloadjunkyadventures]

Awesome finds. That a shame it's getting pounded with water for sure a museum piece.

[@AurProspector]

The constant water is what stops it from eroding

[@dyldwl8906]

I been in this one not long ago!!!! It's just unreal amazing how they build that in their.

[@richardalangriffith]

Absolutely fantastic, thank you for all your hard work and effort. Diolch yn fawr.

[@boblemon8337]

Man theres amazing contact points there it has to be gold laden very mineralized I would love to process that down for you.

[@bryanquick3349]

this sort of technology is so much more interesting and complex than 'the electricity runs the pump'

[@andymoseley2230]

Wow, absolutely mind boggling, thank you for sharing this with us

[@ambread1]

Good find that being an inquisitive scouser Iv seen a few good mines and underground structures but that water wheel is mind blowing probably best underground structure yet intact still,seeing what the old timers where capable of back then too,never ceases to amaze me.basically using burning torches or very early miner lamps,simply incredible stuff👍

[@Fell_Wanderer]

Great channel guys, Yohan is a wonderful historian. Amazing footage rediscovering the past of Welsh mining history. There are many coal mines in Wales, why don't you explore those as well?.. mabe answer in a future video. ATB, guys

[@davekreitzer4358]

Very cool 🕶️ This must be a UK mine , at least the accent is 😎🥴

[@dreamwidow4290]

its a pump run by water to bring air to the inside of the mine and get rid of built up c02, and fresh water to hydrate.

[@wadecartwright4277]

I live in Washington state and I know where there is a lot of copper mines I have never seen anything like that that's incredible I live at the foothills of Mount Rainier there's copper mines everywhere up here from the turn of the century the forest is so thick up here you just stumble across them I usually find them by the tailings piles not always though incredible find you guys keep it up I'll be watching you guys from now on thanks for the video

[@davegreen9155]

The word "STEAM-PUNK" totally popped into my head......

[@p.m3735]

Great episode some fantastic stuff. The water wheel is amazing. Looking forward to see film from the ROV.

[@johnfloydman7735]

Very impressive 👍 love that waterwheel 🙏

[@Panzerkita61]

Incredible! It still shocks me to see the ceilings of the shafts so very short when one realizes it was children punching through the solid rock. Hurry with the next posting 🙂 Thank you again for all the hard work you both do so we all can watch. Have a great week ✌🏻😎

[@joshjablonicky171]

That was more than the coal mines kids got put to work not saying didn't work and hard rock mines either. And most mine chests are only told they needed them to be they were punching It out by hand and later with explosives the only removed what they had to also people are a lot shorter back then than they are now. All that needs to be taken into consideration of why they only made mines only so tall and so wide. If you had to dig all that out by hand you'd only take out what you have to.

[@carmineredd1198]

it doesn't matter the size of the person, only the size of the ore car or wheelbarrow sometimes they would dig into the wall so two carts could pass

[@zevynozevyn4102]

Next mine or cave you go too, bring a blacklight with you, it will help make yours and our experience better

[@mikewinings4120]

"so ready to be r.o.v'ed,oh yeah,,you guys are so explicitly funny,love the water wheel lift/ pump apperatus,love the geology lesson,some of it is similar to us over the pond,but so much can be different, thanks for the video!

[@brianwilliams3729]

Another fantastic Video! I really do wish I could go along the geology and the mining history is amazing, a completely different social and political time in Wales! The work was hard and so the lives.. Is Ioan planning on giving any lectures at all? Would be brilliant as his knowledge is awesome. An old mining saying "Gold rides a Iron Horse'.......

[@RickNelsonMn]

Fantastic!

[@Mine-Finder]

That's incredible. You won't find anything like that still standing in U.S. mines.

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

The US wouldn't have been using water power in the 1870's. There are plenty of mines from that era that are still fairly intact, they're just far from civilization.

[@australiantruckspotting8883]

That is incredibly cool

[@deanmc178]

you could try using a gopro with a backlight attached above it , will give some good footage

[@Gadeto]

Amazing video and mine. The blue stuff at min 3:00 is copper sulfate, its not a secondary mineralisation. Also the stuff at min 18:00 is copper sulfate. They must not always have the typical blue colour, also green is very common. Malalchite is not seen here on your clip. Its formed out of Azurite when its gains water. They are both secondary copper ores.

[@photobillyexplores]

was looking at this the other day, information seems vague is its locked or not :/ have to come down a shot that water wheel its amazing!!

[@Seat1AJoe]

Awesome

[@robanderson4137]

Should have seen the giant flywheels they used on the pumps in virginia city...absolute massive.

[@ronphillips379]

Great video 👍 Thanks..

[@rshutterbug47]

Thats Cool

[@tr1ppyh1ppy]

thats dope

[@jw2218]

Museum would be better off making a replica of the water wheel.

[@carlthornton8706]

Very Good!... 104 🐄🦉🏴‍☠

[@alexandertroup5324]

The grave had a board that would be a good study of who and when if it's real And it looks real

[@johnball2]

been there watch out for the shafts as you explore hard to see them

[@carmineredd1198]

they should remake it in stainless steel

[@chrisdaniels3929]

Wow

[@mikedoblo4782]

should get the wheel working again

[@boblemon8337]

the old timers just amaze me sooo talented I'm glad they didnt have our technology there wouldnt be a bit of gold left

[@paulpaul5606]

It need s to be in a museum

[@Cj-bw3hn]

Do you ever pump the water out ?

[@TIMMEH19991]

When did the mine fall into disuse?

[@janicedaily6043]

We arrived! Have we been here before? 🙃

[@ChelseaSierraK.]

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[@anvilbrunner.2013]

9:47 & 9:58 Whose whistling in a mine ? Coblynau is it ?

[@rickylappin8862]

Yes so lucky the water wheel wasn't taken out . Just let it rot in place were only a few people can see instead of many people seeing and appreciating .

[@adambrinkley4014]

So all that intricate gearing and machine cut teeth were all founded by :The only smithy in the village, in 1870.

[@boblemon8337]

is the ore I'm seeing silver ? it sure looks like it !

[@montneymon-ta-knee6810]

2:22 DM the light shins on

[@DFDuck55]

Awesome seeing the waterwheel still fairly intact. I have never seen anything like that here in Northern California. Mining was just beginning here around 1870, and in the beginning it was mostly hydraulic where they used monitors (water canons) to blast down entire mountains. They caused a lot of damage silting up the rivers causing flooding of entire towns down stream. Once that was outlawed the miners started drift mining following the tertiary river beds, and using steam power. --- Do you happen to know what time period, or who coined the term "coffin level"? You were the first I heard it from and I assumed you were the ones that came up with the term. But Milda tells me it is an old term. --- Do you happen to know "Ben o Cam"? He is another explorer in Wales, exploring sunken ships, ocean caves, and some diving in mines. kzbin.info

[@philliphanford2792]

I'm not catching how they use water to pump water out since they have water coming in to run the wheel. I think it is lucky to be 20 feet tall.

[@LanceBeckman]

Try even getting that out of the mine. Will be there forever

[@chrisdaniels3929]

Lol. It is reminiscent of a large engine wheel left in situ in a precinct in Bolton, Lancashire.

[@ohusky271]

my dudes found the dwemer ruins

[@joshjablonicky171]

That water wheel should definitely have been taken out of there and preserved in a mine museum where people actually go enjoy it learn more about it. Few more years that things going to be completely gone if left in the mine.

[@edwinhsingmaster9135]

Amazing wheel. Too bad your sound levels are all over the place. Some you can understand, some not. Consider acoustics, too

[@TheLadsOutdoors]

Does it spin tho

[@monkeybarmonkeyman]

How deep down is that wheel, eh?

[@chrisstaylor8377]

if the quarst

[@stephanb.3342]

Has any blueprint of the waterwheel made based on this one? And stop teasing us like that! ;-)

[@iankynaston-richards883]

Not exactly "FOUND" though was it? It's well known and therefore not lost.

[@theogdirkdiggler]

"Pelton Wheel" "gobbing"

[@debbiecooper3661]

Isaac damn sure didn't gold mine Africa Egypt and Great Britain. They damn sure did us

[@clarkkent7821]

What the hell did he say

[@martynwatson4929]

Copper carbonate

[@pa5287]

what was that scream like sound at around 18:20

[@LanceBeckman]

Your mom

[@pa5287]

@@LanceBeckman daddy let you play on pc i see

[@antin.w.o]

are you in jail uk p.l.c

[@hueyh9773]

Too bad you got the wrong guy making script I can't understand a word he said I hear is water sound and him going by them that's it nothing what the hell man it's like having a jolly girl behind the the video and laughing all the time and laughing and laughing so she's trying to make it so happy and it is so lame make a door you people can hear us or we can hear you there you go