You guys are still in my top 3 favorite YT channels! No BS, no virtue signaling, just great content. Looking forward to checking out your "new" winter operations!
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for the kind words. Yes, we try to keep the hype to a minimum unless it is part of a joke and, certainly, the virtue signaling at a zero!
@leighsayers2628Ай бұрын
Agreed ..my fav mine explore channel
@Baked_intell6 ай бұрын
That winze area was cool 😎 👌
@joshuajackson64426 ай бұрын
Wahoo, love the different mines. Thank you
@AnthraciteHorrorStories6 ай бұрын
Neat hoist!
@williamwintemberg6 ай бұрын
It's nice to find a winch still in one piece. That old cut and fill mine was pretty cool as well. Genuine skill stacking the rock! Thanks Justin and Crew!
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Indeed, a winch like that is a rare find! You can really see in a glance when you're in a mine where the miners knew their business (like in the second mine with that stacked rock).
@crispy636 ай бұрын
Great video TVR is the best. One of the coolest mines I’ve seen online. I’m joining the team! 🪓
@BrandonChown6 ай бұрын
Found your channel recently and its all ive been watching. Great way to relax in the evening watching the mine tours.
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad that you're enjoying them...
@brianvalley52236 ай бұрын
Those workings look like old-school ingenuity.
@davegrummett12636 ай бұрын
It was great to see another video, and the assortment was a nice feature. Hope all is well with you and your family, Justin. Keep on keepin' on and stay safe out there.
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Thank you. Indeed, all is well. Yes, more often than not, we actually get an assortment of mines like this. The videos that get posted are usually the success stories.
@johncarold6 ай бұрын
Hi Justin, cool skip and hoist, and yes they look like teeth guarding the opening. WOW !!!! I would love to get a sample from that quarts. What a ton of gobbing, how much time it took to stack that much. What a mess,and only one little pole. Thanks again for the video
@paulcooper91356 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
@AnthraciteHorrorStories6 ай бұрын
You're correct in your assessment where you say it's a numbers game with the abandoned mines. The junk ones greatly outnumber the good ones, here in coal country at least. That last one looked familiar to what we encounter & the timbering is the same thing as here also. Love those mountains in the snow!
@577buttfan6 ай бұрын
King of Coal!
@OGRocker16 ай бұрын
Nice explore, that first mine was awesome. The second, not so much. Bet no one is more disappointed than you. Thanks for the effort just the same. Till the next, take care and stay safe. Greetings from southwest Oregon. ⛏⚒⛏
@archstanton92066 ай бұрын
Very interesting stuff Justin. Yes weather in our Sierras can be a challenge, you guys don't seem to let it stop you though.
@SueGirling686 ай бұрын
Hi Justin, that Quartz vein was crazy. Some nice sparkles of micro Quartz crystals, very pretty. Those mountains look so beautiful and majestic and yes that was very picturesque driving down that snowy road. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx
@ToddHurliman-vn8pt6 ай бұрын
Soylent Green, that’s funny right there. You dudes are always entertaining. 😊
@Carolb666 ай бұрын
Good afternoon Justin & all TVR fans from England ❤❤❤ fab explore as usual. 😊
@TalRohan6 ай бұрын
I'm in Wales ..hello too
@sierramountainsrailfanning21146 ай бұрын
Good afternoon from California near Donner pass
@Dranzerk89086 ай бұрын
You can really see the sparkles in that gobbing in 2nd mine. Cool video as always!
@AbandonedMaine6 ай бұрын
Veritable museum of a mine.
@slimwantedman66946 ай бұрын
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
@DIGGER198606 ай бұрын
ITS PEOPLE!!!!! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!
@parkatkinsons57476 ай бұрын
Cool!
@KubotaManDan6 ай бұрын
My mother's home had those old school pillars in the basement, every time I see them I think of that. I would have stayed in the desert heat after all the rain & snow you folks got. Another great video thanks.⚒
@TalRohan6 ай бұрын
I put pillars in one of the houses I lived in, the floors used to bounce as you walked so I wedged all sorts of stuff down there to sure them up.
@stevenhigby35126 ай бұрын
You were able to get a lot in this one really cool.
@SDE19946 ай бұрын
And here i was getting worried because you hadnt posted a vid for 4 weeks, good to be back
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Just super busy with a couple of other projects and taking a little break after an intense mine exploring run in December/January... Thank you for your concern.
@ExploringCabinsandMines6 ай бұрын
Love the OLIGHT Marauder 2 flashlight.
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
It's a great light... The lads in Australia (QLD Abandoned Mines) put me onto it.
@EraX526 ай бұрын
Who knows what down there in the winze of that first mine, maybe the longest mine cart train ever seen. That snow is beautiful, sad to see a landslide closing off that portal.
@jagboy696 ай бұрын
Soylent Green IS PEOPLE!!!!
@MelvinJ.Chikato5 ай бұрын
Great Video as always! I would like you to give strong consideration to explore the old Union Carbide Tungsten Mine above Laurel Lakes in the Eastern Sierra off Hwy. 395 south of Mammoth Lakes, CA. I have hiked to the top of the hill and made it to the entrance of the mine years ago, but it had water in it so I went no farther. I can't find any info on it. The waste rock pile is immense so it was probably a huge undertaking! My curiosity runs high on this mine. Keep up the great work and stay safe! Mel The Ice Man, Acton, CA.
@jonsdigs16 ай бұрын
The quartz was never molten. It precipitated out from a hot solution.
@jacksonholenc6 ай бұрын
Yes it did !
@rsutherland766 ай бұрын
Thank you, came here to say this. This quartz was precipitated through hydrothermal circulation not magmatic.
@thomasanglin17516 ай бұрын
I remember my Dad watching the movie Soylent Green back in the late 70'. It was a low budget science fiction film where ill and old people are killed and turned into a dehydrated chip of food for the world..
@cookudysu906 ай бұрын
@TVR Exploring - what got you into old mine exploration?
@kadoj6 ай бұрын
Oh! I know exactly where that opening shot was taken, oddly. I think so anyway, unless theres a dead ringer lookalike location somewhere. Considering its very much smack in the middle of absolutely nowhere, I was kinda surprised to recognize that stretch of desert road. My ex and I were out there on an aimless drive one evening and pulled over to look around, and some random guy came hauling ass out of the desert in his truck to tell us that we should get back in our vehicle and leave because there was quite a bit of danger of falling through completely undetectable thin ground into superheated geothermal steam/springs. Needless to say, we took off pretty quickly, because falling victim to nature's false floor and ending up becoming human soup didn't sound all that fantastic...
@TalRohan6 ай бұрын
its logistics spreading soylent green across the countries ....theres load of em!!!!
@rolfsinkgraven6 ай бұрын
A bit off all kinds and everything, a few nice surprises aswel, guess getting there was longer than the explore?
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Ha, that is usually the case, I'm afraid.
@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu87566 ай бұрын
Just run the juice to that winch with a little cleaning and grease and it's ready to get to work. How often do you see that. Great explore!
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Pretty awesome, huh? That is indeed a rare find...
@vburke16 ай бұрын
Rat poo builds character :)
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
We must be loaded with character then because we sure wallow through a lot of it! LOL.
@davidsnider17036 ай бұрын
What happened in the first mine. Looked like there could of been more levels up or down
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Nothing above and the levels down that winze were all flooded...
@mortimerschnerd38462 ай бұрын
Molten quartz?!?! 1700 deg. C.
@vwr32jeep6 ай бұрын
What is the rat’s food source in an abandoned mine? 🤔
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
They go outside for food and take it home with them or consume it outside.
@shospulecolupis97186 ай бұрын
I think a correction may be in order. If that false floor had given way under you, your last video would have been your last video. 😂
@goldcountryexplorers83326 ай бұрын
That last one you visited (IM) was one of the ugliest ones we ever visited
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
Yes, that ground was terrible! Did we miss anything there that you saw?
@goldcountryexplorers83326 ай бұрын
@@TVRExploring other than the large partly buried steam boiler and the ugly small adit we went into there were some random old mining equipment artifacts (metaly-bits) downstream strewn in the creek bed from what I recall.
@TVRExploring6 ай бұрын
OK, cool. I'm glad that you didn't tell me that we missed a huge open adit... I believe that we saw the stuff in the creek. @@goldcountryexplorers8332