Recently "Re-Abandoned" Underground Placer Gold Mine

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@dondavis5633 2 ай бұрын

It's often the little things that give us a sense of what a mine and those who worked in it might've once been like. For this video, it was that small "in-out board," with all four of the tags still hanging on the "out" position, just like they did the last time those miners walked away from this claim. It's as if they're patiently waiting for someone to return, pin them on and head once again into the mine and start working it again. I don't know just why that small feature stuck with me the way it did, but it's kind of a bittersweet reminder that time passes and will ultimately leave all of us behind. Great piece of film, as always; thanks!

@christianworthinton8000 2 ай бұрын

@@dondavis5633 Yep.Same here. Attention to detail.👍🇨🇦

@Porty1119 2 ай бұрын

Mining is funny like that. Both of our mines have been opened, abandoned, reopened, reabandoned, re-reopened, and so on, a number of times. Each time some equipment and tools are left behind. We've got tags and lockers with names of guys who've been dead for years, things initialed by old prospectors, a drift driven by a future US president, equipment older than any of us that had itself been mothballed for years and then revived...

@ADITADDICTS 2 ай бұрын

@@Porty1119 Living history.

@VeryNiceSmileDental 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the old video of the mine. It's wild to see how much has changed in 10 years.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, it is great to be able to see "before" pictures or video of a site...

@glennk1429 2 ай бұрын

@VeryNiceSmileDental stole my grandma’s dentures.

@PSBEadventures 2 ай бұрын

Glad you linked that video of what it looked like years ago. Super cool those old ancient river rock, and piles of them!!

@the496elcamino 2 ай бұрын

Just watched the river of gold video, that was probably my favorite. So glad you go that extra mile.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Yes, that was a great one!

@christianworthinton8000 2 ай бұрын

Nice video! My back hurts just looking at those rock piles. Was also seeing hydraulic work.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

The old timers were tough! And, yes, there was a lot of hydraulic work there in the past...

@sanchezbrown6234 Ай бұрын

Dude, you explore the coolest places!

@OGRocker1 2 ай бұрын

Morning Justin, perfect timing.... just finished another video and yours dropped, tool cool...

@TalRohan 2 ай бұрын

Mines are definitely a sort of living organism, they soon start to fail if you don't look after them. The really old mines that are still accessible almost always have a lot of solid rock or theyre dry. In the UK most are at the bottom of the valley and slope up into the mountain for drainage. Twice I have seen plugged drainage shafts cleared and there is so much pressure the water comes out like a solid rod, its not advised to do it anymore for pollution reasons, there are a lot of lead and copper arsenic mines here and emptying a large volume of water out of one of those can be devastating.

@alexreifschneider4332 2 ай бұрын

The way some of those trees were bent, the surface has moved too.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that is a good point.

@bigstick6332 2 ай бұрын

Amazing. Love all the video's recently Thank you

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@ADITADDICTS 2 ай бұрын

This is exactly how the mine eroded shut that I'm working on currently.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

I think the one that you're working on has a lot more potential!

@ADITADDICTS 2 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring Let us hope.

@kerzwhile 2 ай бұрын

Damn.. such a cool place! I'd LOVE to see how elaborate the tunnel system is/was. 😮 Great Vid! 😊

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

So would we!

@glennk1429 2 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploringwhy are you using AI to reply to your viewers?

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Not AI. We WOULD like to see how elaborate and extensive the underground workings are... You can go screw yourself for suggesting that we would treat viewers with that level of disrespect though. Convinced this isn't a bot yet? @glennk1429

@sirmonkey1985 2 ай бұрын

awesome, keep the shorter video's coming when time permits. they're still just as interesting as the main long form Wednesday videos.

@DavidVerbout 2 ай бұрын

I agree! Let's get more info in less time!

@paulcooper9135 2 ай бұрын

Amazing! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

@gerardange 2 ай бұрын

The old-timers first used Oxen then water powered buckets with booms & winches to move all those enormous mountains of large overburden rocks we see today !!! Water power flumed all over and was used before steam powered winches with a booms piled all of it! An enormous amount of labor!!! Those guys were tough as square nails!!!!

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Perfectly said.

@Porty1119 2 ай бұрын

Holy crap that's some bad ground, it's not often you see a drift blow up like that.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, the ground in (and around) the placer mines is terrible!

@NewArcadian 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see the before & after - some rapid degradation. I'd take a guess that a major collapse was the reason they gave up the rehab.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, the underground placer mines are a very tough environment to work in.

@melvinchikato6921 Ай бұрын

Justin, can you provide the website where you look to determine if and when a mine is officially abandoned. Also, where do you look to find amine's owner? Thank You!

@jjskn93 2 ай бұрын

I think there may have been a landslide. There looks like a shelf at 3:16 - towards the top of the hill. From there down everything looks like it's shifting downhill, kinda like a big sand dune. It might be a gradual thing but a few of the younger trees have a uniform bend at the bottom of the trunks, which suggests they all got laid down at some point and were able to bend themselves back upright. Just a guess - so might be nonsense.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, the ground does not seem stable there.

@frankgaletzka8477 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the Video Much waste Rock there must be some decent workings underground . But its gone for ever

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

There was more than one adit in that wash and, obviously, a lot of surface work was done as well. However, yes, even taking that into account, the underground workings must have been extensive.

@renegade44040 2 ай бұрын

High banking an ancient river bend. mining out an old ancient riverbed.

@The_Cultural_Historian_DrRGST 2 ай бұрын

Loved it. . .😎

@BussinJohnson 2 ай бұрын

That must’ve been a nice hike.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, we've spent a lot of time hiking in those mountains and it never gets old.

@BussinJohnson 2 ай бұрын

I’ve been following you for at least 6 years and you have been to some beauties there in the Sierras. Still loving your videos!

@hackertheslacker 2 ай бұрын

Nice timbers

@rachellebrickwell1522 Ай бұрын

Cool.

@JustAnotherPaddy 2 ай бұрын

Yes! Sketchy damp placer time!

@rolfsinkgraven 2 ай бұрын

A lot off big rocks outside wow, but not a very inviting mine eh.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

The underground placer mines are rarely inviting!

@patdenney7046 2 ай бұрын

I forget the name of the mine if I think of it I will put it on this message form but there’s like half a dozen videos when these guys are working with mine and I was it was rehab work they never got it open. They were the hippie type I forget they would work it out in the summertime for a few weeks every year. Somebody else had it open before they did and then it all collapsed for they get to do anything with it. It was a large producer drift A famous but I can’t remember the name

@ADITADDICTS 2 ай бұрын

@@patdenney7046 Was it named after a state in the u.s.?

@oldschoolmoto Ай бұрын

@@ADITADDICTS old neb lol

@ADITADDICTS 26 күн бұрын

@@oldschoolmoto That's the one lol.

@uwillnevahno6837 2 ай бұрын

So even in 2016+ there's no need to remediate a mine once folks are done with operations?

@ADITADDICTS 2 ай бұрын

@@uwillnevahno6837 They probably got the claim in the same way as from the people before. A lot of mines get swept up quicly by another miner soon as the current prospector vacate the claim.

@aaronkeeth651 Ай бұрын

you should come back to work for Harrison

@norandois 2 ай бұрын

Everything cramped suddenly the drift thats sad, everything should be inside

@mysterycrumble 2 ай бұрын

do you ever worry that the waste rock piles will shift under you?

@mfree80286 2 ай бұрын

4:45 the trees tell you everything, that's all unstable ground. The entire hill there moved a few feet not all that long ago.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, that's a good observation. The area was worked so heavily in the past that it probably destabilized everything. And the placer material is unstable anyway...

@IBRAKEFORBEDROCK 2 ай бұрын

A million dollars worth of wood there !! 🤣⛏⛏👍

@dawnac6453 2 ай бұрын

Is that somewhere in Cali?

@jasontimothywells9895 2 ай бұрын

Maybe 😂,

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

I don't know of anywhere else other than a small part of California that has underground placer gold mines that tap into ancient river channels rather than frozen ground in places like Alaska.

@dawnac6453 2 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring I don’t know much about Cali.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

@@dawnac6453 Oh, I understand. I wasn't being snarky in my response.

@MrLeadghost 2 ай бұрын

@TVRExploring we have them in washington as well. See the episode of "nick on the rocks" in liberty wa. The old timers called them potato mines up here.

@adambatchelder4121 2 ай бұрын

That's a odd one. We cut the logs on the trail going into it .

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Oh, yeah? How long ago was that?

@oldschoolmoto 2 ай бұрын

lots good stuff in that area think i have seen you seen you clearing trail on a ktm 300 or beta

@oldschoolmoto 2 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring it still looks the same was there 10 yrs ago

@adambatchelder4121 2 ай бұрын

@@TVRExploring maybe 6 or 7 years ago and than again about 3 weeks ago . Keep running out of Time in that area

@adambatchelder4121 2 ай бұрын

@@oldschoolmoto we have both bata and KTM 2 strokes in our group, so maybe.

@eddiephillips6740 13 күн бұрын

How is it these people are allowed to trash the area they should be made to clean up

@aaronkeeth651 Ай бұрын

let's file on it

@TVRExploring Ай бұрын

There are some good abandoned mines out there that could be filed on, but I think I'd rather file on a lode mine with good ground rather than a sketchy underground placer mine. Yeah, the underground placer mines can have good gold, but you're always going to be sweating about the ground you're working in unless you have one of the rare underground placer mines with stable ground.

@scottfoster2487 2 ай бұрын

You should claim it and use it to demo mining skills.

@sirmonkey1985 2 ай бұрын

placer mines are sketchy, if not maintained properly they do exactly what this one did after only being abandoned for less than 10 years.

@TVRExploring 2 ай бұрын

Yes, an underground placer mine would be pretty low on my list of mines that I would want to be responsible for maintaining.

@mfree80286 2 ай бұрын

The only thing that ground is 100% certain to be useful for is making things disappear. You see the curved trees? It's all moving, sometimes in jumps. I bet a good temblor would cause liquefaction, might have sand blows too in spots.