Tombstone's Tough Nut Mine

[@rickkinki4624]

Wow! Touring the Toughnut Mine is definitely on my bucket list! Great video!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

gotta ask what ever happened to your mine .....we have so many questions there sonny Jim

[@TVRExploring]

We're still very busy with it, but I don't do videos on it every week. There isn't enough video from it to do a video on that mine every week. So, I'll mix in a video of it here and there (the next one is tomorrow) along with the regular abandoned mine videos.

[@mchebornek]

Awesome, such beauty, thanks for the slow rolls and pauses that we gander.

[@timmc49]

The blue mineralized material is probably azurite and the green malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. Both are indicative of a copper/silver mine. They are quite beautiful when properly lighted underground. And you did a great job of adding supplemental lighting to a couple of large caverns in those stopes. Very enjoyable tour!

[@TVRExploring]

Thanks for the info! Glad you enjoyed it...

[@davequick5070]

Imagine what's under the bottom of an ocean..

[@ronwhittaker6317]

@@TVRExploring i didn't give it that much credit i thought it was just copper anyway i love azurite. so pretty. when I'm tired and lonely this is where i come helps my mind slow down and focus.

[@z50king29]

My friend Andrew helped get this mine ready for the tour. Glad you were able to visit

[@croatiancroissant28776]

Every mine I’ve ever entered, I’ve feared being buried and left. I’m glad you guys film what Ive never seen, and I wish you all safe adventuring. Good stuff.

[@kimbra1132]

Them copper colors were pretty. Lots of ore left in that mine. Could call this mine the blue silver copper mine. Just gorgous colors.

[@Panzerkita61]

This was amazing. The minerals at the beginning you showed looked like you were inside a Giant geode. Thanks for this truly amazing. Have a great week ✌🏻😎

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it...

[@johncos1068]

Thanks for taking time to show the mineralization.

[@goldminer49niner42]

very nice mine, plenty of high grade silver ore left in that mine. thanks you Justin

[@archstanton9206]

Some of the most amazing mineralization you have ever been able to bring us. My wife was watching over my shoulder and must have said "wow" a 20 times. Really an amazing place.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, this was a particularly good one!

[@garydaniels2002]

ONCE AGAIN GREAT MINE TOUR LOVED ALL ITEMS WHICH YOU FOUND SHOWING TO US🎥🎈😁

[@paulcooper2897]

Thays a pretty cool mine! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@suzannehartmann946]

When we lived there tours were available at the Copper Queen but none of the Tombstone mines.. Tough Nut Mine is a silver mine established just prior to and just outside Tombstone in Cochise County, Arizona. After an early period of operation that began in the late 19th century, the mine was closed and then reopened in the 1970s

[@TheSWolfe]

Glad I revisited this one - it has a little bit of everything. Arizona underground has gorgeous mineralization & lots of well-preserved artifacts. The old blue shirt was a really cool find! Total Snow White and the Seven Dwarves backdrop, the Tough Nut. Wish I had me some graphic art skills...oh well. Another quality presentation. Cheers!

[@worldtraveler930]

It's interesting to see an El Paso Herald newspaper in an Arizona mine, excellent videography as always and wow they were pretty hard core about punching all the way through to the surface and any place they got the opportunity!

[@rolfsinkgraven]

A very nice and colorful explore, with some nice original caves loved watching it.

[@djfaber]

That coors can is pretty rare, it was in that moment between the tab top and flip top we use today (who Coors actually invented), that can was one of the first attempts to keep all the "trash" with the can

[@DFDuck55]

Ermal Cleon "Ernie" Fraze invented the pull-tab, which became an ecological disaster. We used to save them and make chains with them and hang them on our walls. He started working on the idea after being at a picnic in 1959 and having to open cans on his car bumper because no one remembered to bring a church key. He sold the pull-tab to Alcoa in 1963. In 1974 a physician named Lee Rogers swallowed a pull-tab at a basketball game (people used to put the tab down in the can after pulling it off.) This brought attention of the tab hazard to the medical community. That's when Coors came up with the press tabs. An engineer at Reynolds Metals named Daniel F. Cudzik had been working for years on the Sta-Tab which he patented in 1975. The first to use them was Fall City beer, by 1976 most other beverage cans were using them too. Keeping the tab attached to the can resulted in 4 million tons more aluminum being recycled. Few people know of or use this feature, but if you swivel the tab around over the hole, it will hold a soda straw. You might think this is the end of the story, but it's not. As recently as 2010 there were 19 cases of children swallowing can tabs at a single children's hospital. There is a new Smart Tab being worked on with a larger tab that curves up slightly to make it easier for people to open. And the solid tab swivels to cover the hole to keep debris and bees out.

[@SydneyRadio2UE]

I remember it well in the 1970's, as that damn thing was a pain to open, and I mean literally. It was a stupid idea having to release the pressure first, before pressing like hell on the tab to open it with the thumb. I painfully scrapped my thumb more than once, while drunk off my ass. The idea didn't last long because of all the complaints.

[@RealBelisariusCawl]

@@DFDuck55 Thank you for the random information, stranger! My brain is happy.

[@johnbarrios1598]

I sure did... Really enjoy the exploring. Also the artifacts you encounter. Those items from yesteryear..

[@williamwintemberg]

This looks like a nice mine. The colors are amazing! Appears to be stable. The natural voids were really something! Nice explore!

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. Yes, this was a fun one!

[@frankgaletzka8477]

Very amazing mine the colours are very beautifull and the artefakts are very good Thank you for taking me with you Take care have a good week Yours Frank Gsletzka

[@TVRExploring]

Thanks for coming along, Frank.

[@jsullivan9238]

I can tell you the Coors can you showed was from the mid-1970s. This two pop-top setup lasted a year or so then the one we know today followed on soon after. There are several mines on and near my property in northern Nevada and that brilliant blue is very familiar. :) Great vid! You are the first youtube explorer who knows his terms. Bravo!

[@TVRExploring]

"You are the first youtube explorer who knows his terms. Bravo!" That means a lot to me since I worked hard to learn as much as I could. Thank you.

[@danielfmyers]

The mineralization is beautiful

[@TVRExploring]

Good stuff, huh?

[@stevebaseley]

Really interesting looking mine thanks for another great video look forward to seeing more from this area. Thanks 👍🇬🇧

[@TVRExploring]

More good stuff to come!

[@blurboards1]

The geology in this one was stunning.

[@TVRExploring]

I was impressed as well.

[@scotttaylor8498]

Coors and Budweiser. Talk about a gut rinching combination.

[@worldtraveler930]

Just add some tequila and things will go from wrenching to totally ballistic. 😁😳🤢🤮🥺😱💩

[@TVRExploring]

That's the taste of America right there!

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

So many artifacts!! That's what it's all about!! Thanks great video!!👍

[@trinketsmusings]

Man... that one was awesome! So much color!

[@donaldsillence6853]

This is really nice exploration, What great colors, thanks for showing them.

[@Ironsja11]

Tombstone's mines are still full of silver. Problem is most are flooded and the cost of getting the silver out doesn't cover the expenses. Great job Justin thanks for taking us along!

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, most people would probably be surprised to learn of the flooding given how hot and dry it is on the surface, but it's definitely an issue once one gets down a few hundred feet.

[@AGDinCA]

Don't forget to read the description! There's always very good information contained therein.

[@amygawalko]

Thank You for this awesome video, very interesting 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@bobrenner7213]

At 16:47, the lever arm bolted to a gate looks as if it might have been for an ore chute.

[@jamesthompson8008]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@suzannehartmann946]

The reason it was like walking on a paved surface is AZ WAS extremely volcanic. The tuft when mixed with water absolutely forms a substance a lot like pavement. It is also the reason many buildings subside. The volcanic ash when not already compacted will compact when it rains. Since that is a short burst at only some times of the year and not widespread, that leaves a lot of places not yet compacted. So when it happens under your building it can lead to anything from just cracks to losing rooms to the entire house.

[@azthundercloud]

Took the tour to the first level. Amazing.

[@belleange590]

Loving the colors.

[@kyletomorug6780]

Love this mine!

[@diggindiggenit6540]

Way neat mine great footage

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. Yes, this was a fun one.

[@joey.advanced1]

At minute 3:50, I believe that is a detonation spool

[@SevenWelt]

Cool ! 👍

[@richardwarnock2789]

Nice you can Tell a Happy Mine by the Mineralized Color in Person definitely Better !!!; )😎👍👍👍👍👍💯

[@tinan.8228]

My favorite video so far, love to see all the minerals.

[@markattardo]

Fantastic things to see in there!! Hope you got some rest after this.

[@jnolette1030]

I was down in Tombstone last month it was nice. Explored Charleston ghost town and also stayed in Bisbee.

[@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423]

Epic tobacco can!, thanks for the ride!

[@jagboy69]

I passed through tombstone a couple of years ago. The courthouse museum was pretty cool. Lots of very special pieces on display there. I skipped the touristy gun fight crap in the street bs.

[@TVRExploring]

You made the right call there, my friend...

[@billhollinshead]

0:51 Tan crystal clusters could be cerussite (lead carbonate). 24:15 Grayish areas could be acanthite (silver chloride). Elsewhere the blues and greens are azurite, malachite (both are hydrous copper carbonates) and maybe linarite (a hydrous lead copper sulfate) or rosasite (a hydrous copper zinc carbonate).

[@TVRExploring]

Thanks for the info. Your geological knowledge is much greater than mine.

[@AGDinCA]

I believe that insect was _Eleodes armata,_ also known as the armored stink beetle. He was probably dropped into the shaft by one of those pigeons. Close call you had there with a very stinky bug! LOL

[@TVRExploring]

Haha, glad I avoided that. Thank you for the identification!

[@roamer2u2]

That Coors can was from the late 70s early 80s I remember when they first came out with them. It was the first attempt at eliminating the pull tabs.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@slimwantedman6694]

I'll start the bid off at $10.00 for the Budweiser can.

[@explore71australia42]

Nice one mate! Heaps of cool artifacts.

[@olspanner]

Not hard to see why you are adit addicts .Great videos. Thanks again for sharing.

[@napoleano2748]

Some of that dark blue stuff looked like Jade, very cool mine indeed.

[@xXDESTINYMBXx]

Isn't jade green?

[@drumtwo4seven]

Cool 👍

[@DFDuck55]

19:13 I remember when these Coors press tabs first came out, I wasn't a fan of them. The Coors press tab cans were made in 1974 or 75. By 1977 Coors President Joseph Coors noticed a 5.3% decline in sales, and attributed it to people not liking the push tabs, so quit using them. These press tab Coors cans were used in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit. The reason Coors Banquet Beer was an illegal shipment in this movie is it is made without preservatives and wasn't pasteurized, so needs to be refrigerated during shipping. So it could only be sold in a few states near Colorado. In the film they were transporting it from Texarkana, Texas to Jonesboro, Georgia. Coors wasn't licensed to sell beer east of the Mississippi till 1986.

[@TVRExploring]

That's a fascinating history that I knew nothing of. Thank you for sharing that... I remember seeing Smokey and the Bandit when I was a kid, but I never knew why the shipment was illegal. And the absence of a license to sell Coors east of the Mississippi? Again, I had no idea. I always look forward to and appreciate your comments. And I'm not just saying that. I always skim through and look for the comments from you.

[@robertlyman9789]

Wasn't people choking on the little aluminum piece from the can?

[@LAETHERMAXTERPAIN]

Very good! Man 😛

[@ericcorse]

That newspaper was not long after the great war ended. There were some great color in this one. IIRC they did away with pull tabs in the 70's The PA can at 22 looked like it had the remains of a tax stamp.

[@davebeckley2584]

What a remarkable amount of azurite! Skinny pillars like that at 8:41 demonstrated how miners believed in luck. Either the original miners believed they would be lucky that the back didn't come down on what must have been extremely rich ore and a few miners or the owners leased the mining operation out to a contractor who could mine it for a specific amount of time. A couple of issues that created was the tendency to take chances like shaving existing pillars with very rich ore down to the point that men held their breath when they walked by them and second, high--grading had to be tolerated to the benefit of the miners. A contract foreman wouldn't dare punish a miner who happened to fill his pockets, hat, and lunch pail with the richest ore exposed while advancing a face. If the foreman did call out any miner for high-grading the entire crew could, and would, bring mining to a halt but the allotted time he could mine kept passing. The video at 17:01 was beautiful. I captured it to use as background on one of my computers. Thanks for sharing.

[@TVRExploring]

As usual, 100% right in your comment.

[@davebeckley2584]

@@TVRExploring I need to start proofreading but obviously, you got it. Thanks

[@angelaprestwood1351]

sounds like you,re not the only one visiting that mine

[@ralphpatrick3071]

I find natural caves and fishers within a mine, fascinating. They almost look other worldly. Thanks for pointing them out and thanks for this video. Happy and safe exploring, Justin! PS.. Whatever became of your Italian lady friend? She use to accompany you in your early videos. Just curious..

[@worldtraveler930]

I was wondering the same thing?

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you. The geology can be pretty unreal underground... The Italian is still very much around, but also very busy with side projects. She's heading out to Afghanistan next month... That said, I was underground with her last week.

[@ralphpatrick3071]

@@TVRExploring The, soon to be, Taliban stronghold? Hope she has second thoughts..

[@lordfrostdraken]

You fishing underground?

[@ralphpatrick3071]

@@lordfrostdraken Lol

[@malcolm2249]

I have spent a lot of time in the toughnut and empire collecting minerals many years ago. I believe I may have underground maps by ED Wilson somewhere. If you want, let me know.

[@Porty1119]

Nice! This isn't too far from my neck of the woods.

[@TVRExploring]

Still hoping to get out there sooner rather than later...

[@Porty1119]

@@TVRExploring Hopefully you'll be able to! I forwarded you some information on that trammer for when the mine is ready to buy one.

[@TVRExploring]

@@Porty1119 I saw that. Thank you!

[@TVRExploring]

@@Porty1119 Still waiting for the water results!

[@Bloodclart]

Tough what mine? 🤠

[@Ed_in_Md]

There was a Union Sardine Company in Lubec Maine. It opened in 1900. Maybe that’s it. ??

[@TVRExploring]

Cool! Thank you.

[@tomhagen2552]

Have you made any videos about how when and where miners decided to add support timbers? I've seen so many spots in so many mines you've explored where it seems timbers were added in what appears to be random places. I'm sure the old timers knew where to support rock but I'd like to know how they knew, you know?

[@TVRExploring]

I'll get into that in the series I'm working on now where we're opening up the abandoned gold mine... In short, it's anywhere that the rock sounds bad when you sound it with a hammer or scaling bar, where slabs are sloughing off, loose/bad ground.

[@michaelcoker3197]

The Velvet Rocket is still mining!

[@pauly51]

Great shout out from Jeff Williams!!

[@NET-POSITIVE]

You need to bring a blacklight with you to enhance the mineralized colors.

[@josephdaiglejr8509]

You did a great job with the information about the mineralization and taking the time to show it... mine explorers did a 4 part video2 were almost a hour with the last being over 2hrs long they showed the whole complex do you plan on something like that ? I am sure you could ask Andrew if he could help you with access

[@TVRExploring]

I believe the video of two hours that Mine Explorers did was of a different mine in this complex (the Girard). We visited that mine as well, but also went to a lot of different areas than Mine Explorers did. Some overlap, of course, but I tried to differentiate things so that it would be interesting for someone to see both videos...

[@josephdaiglejr8509]

@@TVRExploring i noticed that since I have watched theirs multiple times lol...don't worry cuz I will definitely revisit it and many more of your videos as you do great work

[@edwardmckenzie3402]

Is that bluish ore not silver?

[@johnmercado263]

Awesome channel buddy. Have you been to any mines in wickenburg az? Or aguila az?

[@Ironsja11]

Union brand sardines via the tide institute: UNION BRAND. AMERICAN SARDINES IN OIL. Circa:1903 Description: Packed By The Union Sardine Co. Lubec, Washington County, ME.

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you for looking that up!

[@robertlyman9789]

Damn near $100/pair now new

[@sandmanbub]

@Whoop!!

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Justin, wow some amazing, beautiful colours in that mine, I think my pockets would be full of samples on the way out lol. It really had some interesting features too with various levels and stopes, not forgetting all of the awesome artefacts that were found. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you, Sue. Yes, I love the older mines as they seem to have so much character. I don't just mean the artifacts either, but the entire layout of the mine...

[@SueGirling68]

@@TVRExploring Yes agreed, the history and how hard the miners worked back in the day without the technology we have today is astonishing. xx

[@bernardgonzales4195]

Very nice, will you be taking the extended explore of the mine? I know it's a very extensive mine and easy to get lost as I have seen it.

[@TVRExploring]

Many of the mines are connected underground. To maintain order, I'm doing them one at a time, but, yes, we visited many of the mines in the area. You'll probably really like the remaining two mines I have video of.

[@davidmicheletti6292]

This mine is so open that I would call it an open pit mine with a roof.

[@whiskeyinthejar24]

Have you watched the series of videos on the Arsiccio mine? That was a big one.

[@TVRExploring]

Ha, yeah, that's a pretty good description!

[@MikeOrkid]

Maybe part of a Jim Crow at 3:43?

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, it could well be...

[@gregerisman211]

I could hear Robert, was that Andrew in the yellow helmet?

[@andrewkeepers431]

It most certainly was!

[@brannancloward]

SWEET! You will never be able to make another video again without people wanting to know about an update on your mine. I noticed Jeff Williams gave you a shout out on his channel which was cool! Did you get new audio?

[@TVRExploring]

Oh, he did? What did Jeff Williams say? I noticed a spike in subscribers... The next video on the mine opening project comes out tomorrow.

[@brannancloward]

@@TVRExploring He just talked about how you have ascended to the next level by getting your hands dirty and had everything OSHA and MSHA approved.... He recommended viewers head over to your channel and linked TVR in the description. Cool stuff.

[@TVRExploring]

@@brannancloward That was nice of him. Thanks for letting me know.

[@henryconklin5337]

You need to check explosive. Boxes for dates they started out with one all wooden ones

[@henryconklin5337]

May help date nine

[@ronwhittaker6317]

19:20 my dad could crush a full can like that. people might not think that's much believe me its a big deal . i never could and i get pretty dam strong and the cans by the time i got the strong cans weren't near as stout.

[@americanaxetoolco2076]

You do know that if Doc Holiday catches you down in that mine, it’s your ass! Lol

[@slimwantedman6694]

I'm Yer Huckleberry....

[@kankanfr]

I went into that mine and found a bunch of crystals and a mouse.

[@ronniecardy]

Few good things people have left behind

[@TVRExploring]

I'm glad they did leave them. So many mines are stripped out these days...

[@caseyhazlett7546]

Again tvr #1

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you.

[@raylowery9466]

didn't see even one indication in this mine of ore cart tracks?...................seems strange for how big this mine was

[@nikolaisikes6245]

Around 11:15 there are recesses left on the floor from crossties, but that's about it

[@andrewkeepers431]

Almost all of it was stripped from the mine at some point.

[@NET-POSITIVE]

You should explain the minerals to your audience, most people have no idea about geology in mines.

[@CivilShepherd]

Mining for Artifacts for Mining

[@TVRExploring]

Pretty much...

[@cynthiatyler1606]

Swiss cheese mine.

[@TVRExploring]

That's pretty close to the truth!

[@mrutherford8590]

In the old Text God said the Earth is a dead carcaus . So you are following blood plasma veins that were once flowing and had minerals in it like gold . You are in a 1,000 mile long creature .Flesh does turn to rock .

[@pauly51]

You gotta tell us the strangest thing you’ve experienced in mines. Jeff Williams swears of little people

[@TVRExploring]

This: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oabad3eXe9Z0a6s

[@mrutherford8590]

See mudfossil university to learn the truth about Geology