Sand to Snow Expedition: Forgotten Mines In Extreme Contrasts

[@Baked_intell]

That winze area was cool 😎 👌

[@Springfield-eo8jl]

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!

[@TVRExploring]

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!

[@leighsayers2628]

Agreed ..my fav mine explore channel

[@williamwintemberg]

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!

[@TVRExploring]

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).

[@OGRocker1]

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. ⛏⚒⛏

[@SueGirling68]

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

[@Carolb66]

Good afternoon Justin & all TVR fans from England ❤❤❤ fab explore as usual. 😊

[@TalRohan]

I'm in Wales ..hello too

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

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!

[@577buttfan]

King of Coal!

[@AnthraciteHorrorStories]

Neat hoist!

[@brianvalley5223]

Those workings look like old-school ingenuity.

[@AbandonedMaine]

Veritable museum of a mine.

[@johncarold]

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

[@Dranzerk8908]

You can really see the sparkles in that gobbing in 2nd mine. Cool video as always!

[@paulcooper9135]

Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@KubotaManDan]

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.⚒

[@TalRohan]

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.

[@-r-495]

the lighting fixture over the hoist is just 👌🏼

[@sierramountainsrailfanning2114]

Good afternoon from California near Donner pass

[@joshuajackson6442]

Wahoo, love the different mines. Thank you

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@parkatkinsons5747]

Cool!

[@DIGGER19860]

ITS PEOPLE!!!!! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!

[@crispy63]

Great video TVR is the best. One of the coolest mines I’ve seen online. I’m joining the team! 🪓

[@ToddHurliman-vn8pt]

Soylent Green, that’s funny right there. You dudes are always entertaining. 😊

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Love the OLIGHT Marauder 2 flashlight.

[@TVRExploring]

It's a great light... The lads in Australia (QLD Abandoned Mines) put me onto it.

[@jagboy69]

Soylent Green IS PEOPLE!!!!

[@archstanton9206]

Very interesting stuff Justin. Yes weather in our Sierras can be a challenge, you guys don't seem to let it stop you though.

[@SDE1994]

And here i was getting worried because you hadnt posted a vid for 4 weeks, good to be back

[@TVRExploring]

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.

[@davegrummett1263]

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.

[@TVRExploring]

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.

[@BrandonChown]

Found your channel recently and its all ive been watching. Great way to relax in the evening watching the mine tours.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. I'm glad that you're enjoying them...

[@stevenhigby3512]

You were able to get a lot in this one really cool.

[@MelvinJ.Chikato]

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.

[@EraX52]

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.

[@kadoj]

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...

[@TalRohan]

its logistics spreading soylent green across the countries ....theres load of em!!!!

[@davidsnider1703]

What happened in the first mine. Looked like there could of been more levels up or down

[@TVRExploring]

Nothing above and the levels down that winze were all flooded...

[@cookudysu90]

@TVR Exploring - what got you into old mine exploration?

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

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!

[@TVRExploring]

Pretty awesome, huh? That is indeed a rare find...

[@vburke1]

Rat poo builds character :)

[@TVRExploring]

We must be loaded with character then because we sure wallow through a lot of it! LOL.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

A bit off all kinds and everything, a few nice surprises aswel, guess getting there was longer than the explore?

[@TVRExploring]

Ha, that is usually the case, I'm afraid.

[@thomasanglin1751]

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..

[@jonsdigs1]

The quartz was never molten. It precipitated out from a hot solution.

[@jacksonholenc]

Yes it did !

[@rsutherland76]

Thank you, came here to say this. This quartz was precipitated through hydrothermal circulation not magmatic.

[@vwr32jeep]

What is the rat’s food source in an abandoned mine? 🤔

[@TVRExploring]

They go outside for food and take it home with them or consume it outside.

[@shospulecolupis9718]

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. 😂

[@mortimerschnerd3846]

Molten quartz?!?! 1700 deg. C.

[@goldcountryexplorers8332]

That last one you visited (IM) was one of the ugliest ones we ever visited

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, that ground was terrible! Did we miss anything there that you saw?

[@goldcountryexplorers8332]

@@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.

[@TVRExploring]

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

[@MiamiMillionaire]

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