Nadeau-Magnola Mine

[@angiebevan8739]

It's quite amazing to see how intact some of the machinery is! Some of the hoses on the machines look in fairly good condition! Great video! Would really enjoy exploring there! Thanks for sharing with us.

[@alphabror835]

Thank you for recording this and thank you for sharing your adventures 👍👍. Awesome times

[@f150twinturbo7]

Another awesome exploring video Matt. I cant definitely see my self doing some metal detecting there. Great job 👌

[@BrettHoustonTube]

Wow, that's a lovely area. Thanks for the tour.

[@Smithsgold]

Cool tour !!!

[@SagebrushRebel]

I really enjoyed this video, as I used to live in this area in 1996-1997, somehow missed it. I did try driving up Indian Wells Canyon at that time but roads were too gnarly for my 2WD Toyota truck. Doing research on CDMG's Mines and Mineral Resources of Kern County, Calif., I read that the Sieberts family was involved in this area in 1930's-1950's. Good for them, exploiting natural resources to make a living. The Magnolia Mine was a gold and tungsten mine, and the Nadeau Mine was a gold mine. This was a junior mine as they say. I see in the video a Ball Mill at 6:31, and at 7:06 is a shaker or jig device, using shaking to separate gold from concentrates. Also you show a large vat with a propeller. This is a cyanide vat for use possibly in the flotation process? The gold-bearing crushed ore is added to a dilute cyanide solution where they agitate it, then allowed to settle, the solution is drained off to be processed in a zinc-lead precipitation process, which product is then smelted. Keep on going!

[@Oidium45]

Thank you for the information! Even today 4WD would be recommended for the last bit of road. I believe you are correct about the equipment and the cyanide flotation makes sense and would certainly explain why it was so far away from the rest of the camp :)

[@mojavegreen1804]

Now all ya have to do is carry that equipment out and make a pretty penny on scrap metal.😉. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.

[@Oidium45]

I am going to assume that was a joke! It was great seeing all of that equipment still standing.

[@mojavegreen1804]

Yeah. A bit of a joke. Can you imagine trying to lug all that stuff down that hill?

[@angiebevan8739]

A Lot of great history here!! Awesome video!

[@alphabror835]

The big heavy wheel with the good bearings looks like an ore crusher missing the front door

[@anthonytorres8871]

It looked like a wire ladder by the spring. It was near where the mine was maybe covered up intentionally and you showed the tracks in the wet sand.

[@pnwprospecting]

That’s definitely a cool area!

[@tasdgoldprospecting2979]

Great video mate keep up the good work 🤠

[@weekendprospector9787]

A homemade, small rocker box could help with sampling. I'd have a heart attack being there and not sampling. 🤪 thanks for sharing.

[@Oidium45]

You have no idea man! There was free mill gold there and lots of quartz veins popping through everywhere surrounding the mine! I had my gold bug 2 in the car but not enough time to break it out. A return trip is certainly in order.

[@edkubinski]

It looked like some kind of ore crusher to me? Part of one at least. Very cool place!

[@kevinhoney1385]

Kool man wish i was with ya my brother.

[@adventureswithwhiskey7752]

Great video! I've had that spot on my list for a while now. No evidence of the arrastra still there huh?

[@Oidium45]

I could not find anything that stood out.

[@adventureswithwhiskey7752]

Thanks! Just found my first one out in Joshua Tree. So now I want to find others.

[@Oidium45]

@@adventureswithwhiskey7752 i can point you to one near ridgectrest.

[@Dragon90815a]

That big fly wheel is a rock crusher

[@danishnative9555]

I think your videos are getting better. Document it now before it's all gone.

[@Oidium45]

Thanks

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

you sweep at all with I think a gold bug is what I saw on 1 video might be she-lite (tungston ore) all over the place pat says tungston ore there is usually gold maybe don't know if I spelled she-lite right the one big drum with the gear around it is a ball mill for crushing ore

[@Oidium45]

It was certainly scheelite. It would be cool to find some for sure!

[@rodder2046]

That truck that is on it's side looks to be some kind of air compressor

[@Oidium45]

I was so busy being impressed with the surroundings that I had not noticed that the "truck" did not have any steering or drive shafts. I believe you are correct. It looks to have been a fancy air compressor/trailer which was likely pulled up to the mine.

[@DianaGarcia-gp9mw]

Donde es hay?

[@sailingsolar2371]

Those are Army tires.

[@Oidium45]

It would not surprise me much that a mining camp would purchase military surplus.

[@luishuerta1165]

Can you drop the coordinates to this place please?

[@Oidium45]

I cannot but if you are really inerested it is nearing Ridgecrest.

[@SagebrushRebel]

You should check out Frank Hood's videos of this area. He has a video of the Hi-Peak Mine (as listed in Kern County Mines & Mineral Resources report) which he describes as the Tungsten Peak Mine, that is what is seen on the old topo maps. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqfcm42Am9aEl7c

[@Oidium45]

Thanks, I will certainly check them out!

[@Nonononono_Ohno]

I think it's spelled Magnolia, not Mangolia. Magnolia, like the plant, or like Pierre Magnol who described the plants.

[@Oidium45]

Actually, it is magnola. Thank you for the correction though.

[@Nonononono_Ohno]

@@Oidium45 Are you sure? I'm getting more hits on google for "Nadeau-Magnolia" than for "Nadeau-Magnola", and Magnolia would make much more sense, given that "Nadeau" is a French sounding name as well, and given that there's even a town called "Magnolia" in CA... Anyway, thanks for the great videos!

[@Oidium45]

@@Nonononono_Ohno Nadeau-Magnola Mine Indian Wells Canyon Rd, Onyx, CA 93255 maps.app.goo.gl/8xYyB16Zo8FoyXP9A

[@Nonononono_Ohno]

@@Oidium45 Cool, thanks :-) At 16:32 in the video, on the left side of the entrance, I see a lot of this strange combination of yellow, dark orange, deep red and dark chocolate brown one often sees in uranium mines... probably only iron, but who knows. If you happen to get there again, maybe you could do a short check with a geiger counter, please?

[@Oidium45]

@@Nonononono_Ohno you got it! I know they were removing gold, silver and tungsten ore.

[@pingpongballz5998]

How was the road up there?

[@Oidium45]

Not terrible. A bit of a long drive though. The last stretch was a bit rough. I would recommend 4x4 unless you do not mind walking up the last little bit of road.

[@pingpongballz5998]

@@Oidium45 I have a Subaru Crosstrek AWD

[@Oidium45]

@@pingpongballz5998 You may have some issues with the last stretch and end up using your chevrolegs.

[@pingpongballz5998]

@@Oidium45 lol that's no problem. I don't mind hiking.