Paradise Abandoned Mine - 1890's Blasted Miners Trail - Surprise Discoveries!

Don't miss this adventure as we explore an abandoned mine site located in a incredible setting right out of middle-earth. This copper, gold and silver mining claim dates to the 1890's and is one of the earliest claims in this mining district. This is one of the most picturesque mines we have ever explored!
Watch as we discover some rare artifacts and an amazing 1890's miners trail blasted into the cliffside.
Many ghost towns, mines and other forgotten historic sites in Washington State have already disappeared from history and many more are being lost each year to the ravages of time, wildfire, vandalism, and intentional closure. In addition to our many years of photographic documentation of these important historic sites we are now attempting to video document as many sites as we can so there is a lasting record of these places for future generations.
We hope you enjoy what we do and will join us on our adventures through a bygone era of Washingtons rich history. Not only do we love the history we explore and document, but we truly enjoy sharing these sites and experiences with our followers and viewers.
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[@abandonedminehunters]

Very cool picturesque location! As well as a very cool mine. 👍⛏️🔦

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It absolutely is, Thanks!

[@Victorm.Robinson]

At the base of the waterfall that is the place I would choose to start my digging for pieces of gold FYI and you should too😅😮

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Don't disagree. Thanks

[@user-fd8si8xc9u]

@@Victorm.Robinson I’d love to know what drew your eye to that SPOT, specifically! ( no! I have no interest in digging, I’m just an old woman, learning! The minute I stop learning, I’ve stopped living!) Once a Q comes to mind, I MUST answer it one way or another! Just hoping you’ll make this journey the short way around! T.D-Rogers ( from the Ozark Mountains )

[@magicone9327]

Good chance any heavy’s would be up the ravin caught within a hundred feet where it was liberated

[@CasualObserver99]

Thanks for going in so we don't have to. I always wanted to explore this, so great to see.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Glad we could share it with you. Thanks!

[@scottdilley356]

Oh I'm on the east side I've been al over these mountains but his was the coolest lol once he said he only blasted in thunderstorms so people couldn't find it lol

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@user-fd8si8xc9u]

First visit to your channel; IMPRESSIVE! ( I plan to review previous vids, & expect to sub within 48 hours! Thanks for original content!) Channels, similar to yours, are growing fewer, & farther between!! ( Not too many wanna put in the time, effort, & cash it requires, to create such an amazing end result! 🥂 cheers! T.D-Rogers ( here I am, back to say “Thanks” to all the commentors ! This is a GREAT stress relieving way to spend time AWAY from my beloved Country’s”issues”! You’ve captured BEAUTY, which comes from the Creator- not only in the Video, but in the comments made after it!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very kind of you to say and welcome. Thanks for watching and your comments. We are glad to have you along.

[@charlesdeilke8364]

Might be a stockpile of ore they never bagged to a mule train out.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very possible.

[@speedfreak8200]

Maybe there's a Privy Pit full of old bottles? Video idea 💡

[@paulcooper9135]

Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@westmontable]

What a fantastic location. Thanks for another cool video.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

What you have found is really cool especially the trail along the mountain where it was blasted out

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, it is. Thank you for your comments.

[@loosehandle1]

Amazing site, could have filmed Rambo there

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

No doubt....Thanks!

[@debzj5021]

Lots of huckleberry bushes on the way in. Theres an active mineral claim in the Gifford Pinchot just above Sunset Falls. Would be interesting to find out what all they are mining.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Interesting, know the area will have to look into it. Thanks

[@scottdilley356]

I was around copper city lots of hols dug into pure false gold and lots of copper

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very cool area.

[@ronbarnhardt5201]

Even back then they tried to avoid taxes. If they were gold and silver mines they claimed it was a copper mine. I am from the Motherload of Cali. Did a lot of mining and dredging. Don't claim anything!! 😂👍 Dredging became illegal here in 2009. I still have my 3". Thanks 👍

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you for the comments.

[@rons1566]

Very enjoyable! Your video quality is remarkable!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you very much!

[@nosay2069]

Cool video. I was wondering when you filmed this because It hasn’t been raining much here in western Wa this summer.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It was July of this year. Thanks for the comments!

[@daleolson3506]

That toad looked like my mother in law

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@donaldperson948]

Grab the ceramic thing!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@magicone9327]

Think about how the workers suspended themselves on the wall to drill for blasting!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@rexroad9917]

That is the 2nd wheel barrel I have seen in a mine today. The other was in Wales on the "Lost Mines" YT channel. Both have spoke wheels. When I see boards end to end on a mine floor, I think wheel barrel mine.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thanks for the comments!

[@speedfreak8200]

Wheel barrows remind me of wheeling concrete when I was 18 early 70's no more wheeling.

[@bryankerr9462]

Do you think there used to be a small trestle leaving that mine to cross the falls? Didn’t see a huge tailing pile below the adit.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very possible. The majority of the tailings have washed down the gukch.

[@thomasdurant7907]

I wonder what the development of the mine and the camp site was like. They had to have made a claim and started the tunnel before anything else I would think? Or at least surveyed out how they were going to put that trail in from the camp. I wonder if the went on foot and climbed down from higher up initially? Somebody had to have found this site on foot originally I would think, just boggles the mind how this all might have played out with level of technology that they had.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

In the 1800s, miners and investors used a variety of methods to find areas to mine, including luck, geological surveys, and looking for evidence of minerals. Washington commissioned geological surveys to find new coalfields and mineral deposits.

[@Lucysdad66]

I guess we're not going to see any minner shadows today

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@020Dutchy]

Looks like they wheel barrowed the ore out, see the single board in the center of the tunnels Weird they tunneled left where the vein went straight at 34.00

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you for watching and the comments.

[@scottdilley356]

Oh I did hunt bears and found a couple exploring them

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@bethintexas9678]

What a wonderful adventure!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It was a great site to visit. Thank you!

[@apeters911]

Awesome video guys. Have you ever found any gold in the old mines ?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

No the majority of the lode mine gold around here is not "free milling" It is not easily visible to the naked eye and hast to be extracted from the host rock through a complex milling process in large quantities of ore.

[@allengray5748]

Holy Smokes! That wheelbarrow looks like it was heavy empty let alone full of rock and going over wood and ground through that narrow path!!?! These guys must have came from Tunnass City!!?? Cool exploration! Great Job! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Appreciate that, thank you!

[@speedfreak8200]

Well worth Googling the area. Thanks for your hard work, rewarding as hell, but lots of tramping. Will the Copper stay that bright color when it dries ?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes, the stain or wash maintains the green/blue. Thank you for watching.

[@thomasjones1778]

1:04 someone was trying to take this home bt realized ho much work it wold tae

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Well if someone were to try they would need to bring it down cliffside where its all brush and no trails or roads for over a mile

[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

I was mistaken Washington cool

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@magicone9327]

Any minerals that would be seen with UV light?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

It is very possible.

[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

With all the greenery and the water flow you must be in California

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Western Washington

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

Is this on Private or public land. I know you won’t say… lol. Would like to see the medallion. You can have the death tubes.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

We can say public lands.

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington it looked like it has had very little traffic. That has to be some tough sledding if that’s all they did in 5 years.

[@scottdilley356]

He had a 3/4 wolf and he never feed it I watched it catch alot of fish out of the river man I have story's he told me about the area and I no that

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@donaldperson948]

Just use a metal detector!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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[@terryrempel68]

Looks like some rich material at 25:30, but rich in what minerals? Iron for sure but what else? Seems to be a decent amount of it. Thanks for the vid.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Appreciate it. Thank you!

[@scottdilley356]

Western Washington or up very hight

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes Western Washington

[@donaldperson948]

20 per ton back then or now?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Back then.

[@scottdilley356]

He once told me after we drank some risky he was involved in a survey of all the areas but he didn't tell anything or any one about the hidden mine he started with viles and bags of nuggets he would show me a different kind of metal but would not tell me it's Nam he was up there for 20 years I ran into him then one year he was gone he was very old but he said he found it after the war

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very interesting!

[@scottdilley356]

What I regret most is the 45 years I hunted goat's elk deer I didn't pay alot of attention to all the mines back then I met aa so called professor and he alway had gold but told me where a mine was that hat more expensive thing to mine I did find the mine but I was young and dumb I didn't ask enough about it I'm thinking that it might have been platinum

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Understand that for sure we wish we would have started exploring these sites sooner as well.

[@chris-nwue_B]

Found a wheelbarrow like that in a mine in E wa years ago. It was rusted but in amazing shape due to a mine that was dry year round. I figured it would be about 120 years old today

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

They are very cool.to find and see. We find them somewhat frequently.

[@scottdilley356]

I'd be willing to talk with someone and show them the mountain it's in I'm to crippled up to ever go look again it's kinda funny every year he cam back with new stuff and the wolf invact the wolf was how I found him up there one year it graweld at me when I was coming by hunting it set by the opening guarding the entrance

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Send us an email. Thanks!

[@scottdilley356]

He didn't like to talk about his mine but I no where it is he hid it well no one has ever found it

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

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