We found LOST underground MUSEUM in Abandoned MINE (PART 2)

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this was a brilliant exploration what we found was nice, and well worth the adventure!
amazing find in this mine, and nice to be back after being on lock down with the virus we have emerged and are finding again! enjoy. Al
Amazing original timber workings still in place in this deep cold wet abandoned mine on to more adventure and exploring of the history of these welsh and ancient mines
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[@TheDamageinc81]

Definitely lives up to the name 'museum' mine. Can't get enough of the history!

[@Steve-ec6ed]

Crazy to think that 150+ years ago someone was cursing about squishing through that muck in their boots and now there is thousands of people from all over the world staring at those boot prints in amazement.

[@catchaser52]

And all they had was candle lights.

[@mickeyfubar69]

You need to bring a black light with you next time .it will bring all the colours of the minerals out of the rock's...great show by the way👍wow wee

[@clivekibbler4578]

great, loved that trip underground . ,,thanks to you both for taking me with you ,,

[@robertmaitland09]

Those child size boot prints, quite moving. Thank you for sharing this with us all, you're both doing some great industrial archaeology.

[@LostMines]

Did you see the video where we actually find childs hobnail boots, that's also very touching

[@robertmaitland09]

@@LostMines I'll have to find that one.

[@LostMines]

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[@skillian09]

I started following you both during this morning after being on my other mining explorer channels. I like your channel substantially because of where you're mining is foreign compared to where i am. I'm in the United states. Sure we have old mines but you have those ancient medieval mines. I've learned so much things from your channel in just a few hours. I subscribed and hit notification button. You're both very knowledgeable and I am highly interested now! You got my likes!

[@johnsmyth6283]

Watching your videos takes me back to my days exploring the Grosvenor in N Wales, some well dodgy ground but huge potential for natural stuff and unless it’s changed, loads of very old workings still to be explored.

[@moles9152]

The tin 'gunpowder' canister at 12:18 is actually a Warming Pan, for safely softening explosives (There had been many accidents with miners trying to 'defrost' explosives beside open fires!!!). It is double skinned - filled with hot water at the small spout & the dynamite/gelignite is kept in the larger centre compartment. They also had a sort of hessian type outer jacket, which has probably rotted away.

[@tomtom4405]

What??? warming dynamite???? Surely it could sweat (tiny drops of nitro) then it'd be really really unstable. I wouldn't even touch a tin to feel if empty like he does here because if there was an old stick or half a stick of dynamite that was old and sweated it might go off. I do some silly things sometimes but I'd never ever touch/move anything that might have once had dynamite in it.

[@katalyze7831]

Thank you for sharing! You allowed me to have an experience which I may not otherwise have ever had. Bless you!

[@glennbaz2]

Great job bringing us all back in time. I like the fact that you do not disturb anything. I hope others follow in your exact foot steps. Would you ever consider attempting to dig a little to see if you can get past the cave in

[@LostMines]

We will try find the shaft and abseil down it, the collapse is just to much to dig.

[@BulletmanDoom]

Brilliant as usual. The 2 of you make all the difference and it's always interesting to listen along. Educational, fascinating to an engineer like myself and so entertaining. Even comes with vintage fartyfacts 😀😀 Thanks guys.

[@derekp2674]

Thanks for another video :) And an amazing set of finds.

[@francisbraden1309]

instablaster

[@grimsmith1]

I know it's frowned upon to remove artifacts from abandoned mines, but what a shame to leave them in place, after all, the artifacts will just rot and rust away to nothing. Especially since you guys run a museum, best place for them.

[@jesseready5667]

Of you really think about it those artifacts are actually trash to the men who left them

[@richardalangriffith]

Thanks guys for taking the time and effort very much appreciated

[@kevinbrennan5113]

The epitomy of mine explorers, in a truly a FAB old mine.

[@LostMines]

Wait until you the the latest video, mega old mine 👍

[@paulkench4812]

That was impressive ,what a mine , thanks 👍👍👍

[@rdamp2374]

Great Finds. The coal mine I worked in we blasted in to old workings My fellow workers found sweep stake tickets on the ground in one place they found out way they were there it was used as the restroom.

[@johnfloydman7735]

It must be like walking through a time capsule 🙏👍 . Hope you and your family's are keeping safe and well in Wales ...

[@LostMines]

All is good 👍 same to you .

[@Nick-he7oq]

This was a really great video. It's like walking in a time capsule. I would love to see this in person but this I guess this will have to do. Thanks for sharing

[@keirfarnum6811]

It’s amazing those boot prints are still there. One would think the water would have washed them away at some point. Remarkable.

[@tarrojones5960]

Just a tip for the camera man you need to get a different torch the one your using has the same refresh rate as the camera and it causes flickering

[@SAHtoshiDude]

Thank you. I wasn’t sure what was going on so I didn’t say anything g

[@TacoDelivery]

its actually just a little bit different from the fps of the camera because you can see the flickering oscillating (the amount of flickering changes with regular intervals). you could probably calculate the hz of the torch by analyzing the footage. also i would guess the torch changes hz based on its temperature because there are times when it does flicker and also big parts where it doesnt at all.

[@oswaldconjugation3647]

Are modern torches powered by an AC supply? Is this an energy saving thing?

[@tarrojones5960]

@@oswaldconjugation3647 no its the fact that no light source is constant it always flickers/oscillates and the camera is just at the right rate that you can see it

[@jungsomewhat]

Enjoyed this more than some of the mine visit videos, then realized it was the unassuming British way ...jolly good chaps😋

[@raphaelferretti6353]

It's amazing that the boot prints are preserved for such a long time next to flowing water! It must be a very constant trickle to never wash them away. Or has the mud possibly harden in some way?

[@LostMines]

The mud has hardened a bit , it places its set hard, yes amazing to see, we have found a level its absolutely covered in them, will film it soon.

[@AdventuresRUs]

Another great video. Learn a lot from you guys and really enjoy your passion! Stay safe and keep exploring.

[@kimbra1132]

Wow mates that explore was great. Love the living mine museums. Lots of artifacts in that one for sure. Keep up the great adventures lads and see ya on the next video.

[@Jennralize]

That copper sulphate flowstone is incredible! Amazing history down there! :-)

[@LostMines]

Thanks, sure is awsome

[@jeffreyrivers1983]

All those people long gone

[@PhilJonesIII]

A toilet with detonator can. Did the miners suffer extreme constipation?

[@Hoosier_Boy]

Incredible finds, thanks for sharing.

[@zw5509]

Good video and great timing for a ghostly painting down the tunnel reflecting the footprints and memories you find. As always, enjoyed and good luck against France! Another record for AWJ! Slainte mhath.

[@FullMetalNobody]

Starts off with that amazing echo which equals...... solid sturdy rock. love that sound. Nice explosive find. Good they weren't sweating. Pretty moist area. We wide step quietly over here. lol This a 2 hour museum tour in 15 minutes. What a fantastic mine.

[@keithlucas6260]

The thing about old dynamite is that the nitro glycerin leeches out of the clay sawdust carrier and becomes unstable...more people have been injured or killed by disturbing old boxes of it... usually it's blown up for safety by a demolition expert.

[@kafir2080]

Brilliant mate I love it keep up the good work!!

[@josetu8237]

You guys found sum neat stuff! Heapsa nicknaks!! Love your appreciation of the old.

[@NeilJ894]

Amazing video and information your sharing, thank you. Those children's boot prints are haunting. God knows what those poor kids went through. Really makes me question if it was all worth it, the whole industrial revolution, and personally I have to conclude no it wasn't. Yes I know my phone and way of life are a product of it but that's a small double edged sword of a prize for such a great cost.

[@cynthiatyler1606]

Brilliant gentlemen.

[@chrismalcomson7640]

I can't think where else you'd see 150 year old footprints in the mud?, amazing.

[@onionhead5780]

Awesome. Like going back in time. Pristine condition unlike every cave I’ve explored that was covered in graffiti. 👍

[@bscrecoveryrescue4791]

Speechless

[@Nyctophora]

Please please please could you see if you can preserve some of these prints and print groups? There is so much fragile, precious evidence there, it's almost like a wet Pompeii of footprints! The adults, the children, the animals, the cloth prints - I know it's old fashioned but what about a plaster cast (or more moderm equivalent) of some, I am so impressed by these finds that would normally be ephemeral but lasted well over 100 years! Thank you for walking carefully and being so aware of your surroundings!

[@MrYabbie]

The footprints were a nice way to show the human element, particuarly the childrens foot-prints. Thanks for showing uas these amazing places.

[@MsDig65]

Deffo best mine ever ! So pleased you leave everything as it is but I've got to be honest I would be taking casts of those foot prints.

[@MsDig65]

P.s your book is out of stock on Amazon best you ring the printers quick. Remember it's not long until we'll all be writing our letters to Father Christmas and you don't want him disappointing us . I'm asking him for a donkey and an old John Deere tractor too but I'm not confident.

[@augistineaquinas3325]

i always return to the Cave to enlighten my friends...

[@peterkershaw748]

Amazing

[@casedoumasr656]

Had a great time and nice to see the old tools and the one holer .But how is it you guys are finding these mine's as adults . I thought a lot of kids would be exploring these old mines I now we as kids did and would tell others as well just like huckleberry finn did great finds and exploring Cjd wash state 🇺🇸

[@LostMines]

We are very fortunate to know a lot of land owners who have the mines on their land also do lots of research.

[@vidviewer100]

amazing thank you

[@zippythinginvention]

That's the most pristine mine of its kind that I've ever seen! But, I don't think that's a collapse at the end. It really looks like backfill from the other side. I wonder if they punched through somewhere else and blocked off the part that you explored.

[@crazymotherofcats3361]

That place seems amazing, breathtakingly beautiful and I absolutely love looking at old artifacts but I would probably freak out down there i don't do well in small spaces all I can think is I'm going to suffocate some how some way I cant sit in a vehicle without window cracked a little

[@TheMercury-13]

Thank God for youtube! 😍

[@simonjones3863]

I'd love to see you guys bringing Time Team into an old mine. That would be neat.

[@womble321]

You should take plaster casts of the prints. There are footwear museums that I'm sure would be interested not just mining. Regarding the explosives a Canadian guy decided to see if explosive in this state still goes bang. It does!

[@Jacob727]

I wish I could find something as half as cool as this

[@remcovanvliet3018]

Might be smart to see if you can change the frame rate on the camera, so it doesn't coincide with the pulse width modulation of your LED flashlight. If it's not possible to adjust the framerate to get rid of the flickering, it might be wise to invest in a different light, with a much faster pulse width modulation. Also... If your torch is too bright for the camera, it might help to use a (semi) opaque white diffuser lens to scatter the light and spread it across your subject more evenly.

[@astrapete1]

I struggled to watch it, the flickering nearly caused a epileptic fit.

[@LostMines]

Unfortunately the camera and torch didn't work well together, all sorted now

[@TheSilmarillian]

Great upload hello from Australia

[@TheMercury-13]

I saw your reply about why there might be so much left behind - mines could go bankrupt & suddenly close overnight, nasty shock for the workers - that could explain the abandoned dynamite? Seems a valuable thing to leave.

[@keithrimmer3]

All this is about 1910 ish nice find .

[@whotknots]

I am an Australian with Cornish heritage and at least some of my ancestors came to Australia as hard-rock miners of copper etc. I too have mined underground for opal and will shortly be returning to that activity. I find your presentations most interesting and enjoyable and suspect that for Cornishmen mining and minerals have become an essential and compelling aspect of our nature. To elaborate on your 'hammer and chisel' remark concerning the shot hole, sometimes ancient miners also used accessories called 'feathers' in conjunction with a chisel to shear or 'cleave' stone. Shot holes drilled by hand with a chisel were used to set charges of coarse grained 'blasting' gunpowder which was usually packed or 'tamped' into the blasting holes with a wooden rod. The reason shot holes for black powder were so large, is because it is a far less potent form of explosive than Dynamite or later variations on that theme which required much smaller bores due to greater efficiency. As it is to this day, blasting was considered a skilled activity in ancient times because if the crude gunpowder of the time was not handled correctly and particularly during tamping, it could detonate prematurely which was a common cause of death and injury. Prior to the commercial availability of gunpowder, hard rock was prepared for excavation by lighting large hot fires against a rock face in a mine. The hot rock was then doused with water to fracture it so miners could remove the fragmented material more easily by manual labor. This was probably the reason the entrances to ancient mines were as close as possible to water sources and is quite possibly a means of dating the era when a mine was established with greater accuracy.

[@TheSilmarillian]

Hello from Lightning Ridge

[@whotknots]

@@TheSilmarillian I have often thought about visiting the Ridge, especially after reading the accounts of the early days written by Ion Idriess in his story titled 'Lightning Ridge'.

[@TheSilmarillian]

@@whotknots Worth a visit its got its peaceful and quiet most of the time

[@kevinfarr4700]

Whotknots, I can't imagine building a large hot fire very far back in those old narrow mines. The whole mine would fill with smoke and the workers would have to be evacuated for, who knows how long it would take for the smoke to clear out, Esp. with those antiquated ventilation systems, if they even had one. I don't know much about mining, and I am certainly not arguing or saying this practice didn't happen, I just can not imagine how bad the working conditions in these very old mines must have been.

[@ColinHarperSummerson]

Really enjoying watching your videos exploring , fantastic, seeing the artifacts too, plus boot prints ,amazing to see, I was wondering if you have ever thought about taking casts of some of the boot prints , would be great for a display?

[@LostMines]

Yes thought about it but really don't want to damage them .

[@MsDig65]

Silicone won't damage the prints of poured in gently. Put a small skewer in to the silicone before it sets to remove without damaging the boot print.

[@robertphillips6296]

Hay, guys Dynamite in that state is very dangerous and can explode without warning!

[@StevenSchoolAlchemy]

Cool beans

[@MaRc-qt9ln]

How is ist impossible That the footprints are still intact? I mean how can they survive the water? Greetings from Germany

[@LostMines]

There is no running water and it's in clay mud .

[@mickeyfubar69]

Wow wee

[@umop3plsdn]

pretty sure the saw is there to cut the spade handles because sometimes they are too long in a narrow spot.

[@cranfillnathan7411]

I think it would be interesting to live in one of those abandoned mines, make a hide away from the world.

[@orchidorio]

Do a search for "cave homes". You'll be amazed. (11/19/20)

[@samanthamcphie9520]

Thank you for a great explore, I wonder why they would have left their tools and valuable water bottles?

[@LostMines]

mines would suddenly close down over night go bankrupt so they wouldn't then be able to retrieve their things

[@samanthamcphie9520]

@@LostMines Thank you, 👍

[@kevinfarr4700]

When you showed the inside of that miner's toilet, I was afraid there was going to be a bunch of big ol' coprolites inside. That would have been a real crazy museum find. Lol Also, it is very scary to me, thinking about these old miners, working in those crowded, narrow, low ceiling shafts with just the light of candles. Fire, black powder and dynamite would not be a comforting combination of safety factors for me, if I were working in one of those old mines back in the day! Lol

[@porkchop803scwilliams9]

Subbed and liked ,,,cool videos

[@raydowley1038]

another nice explore guys, hey Al sort your lighting out, please. have you done a vid where you show an example of the lighting the original miners would have used and worked by?

[@LostMines]

Unfortunately gopro is rubbish its either light isn't bright enough or the lights are to bright se we got new camera and is all sorted now 👍

[@raydowley1038]

@@LostMines looking forward to the next vid then Al with the new camera

[@Herbybandit]

That hefty steel bar is for unblocking the toilet 😂

[@scottcarns5156]

Coolbeens

[@drew-shourd]

whoa...I am so dang claustrophobic that it's hard for me to watch this....

[@paulinho9156]

3:12 Tears of Guthix, if you know you know

[@phlipcyde2861]

Be careful around old dynamite. Something, something, nitroglycerine. Edit: Explosives become unstable with age and may be detonated by shock or vibration. Not to be confused with TNT, Nitroglycerine is highly unstable and if the dynamite "weeps" or "sweats", it may pool up in the container creating an extremely dangerous situation where if the materials are jarred even the slightest, the chemical becomes unstable and can possibly lead to detonation. Keep safe.

[@whotknots]

Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite because Nitroglycerin was far too unstable, toxic and generally dangerous for safe use. Numerous catastrophe's and disasters involving Nitroglycerin had tarnished it's reputation so badly that potential consumers were afraid to use it and many governments banned its use. Nobel discovered that by using a lightweight, porous, granular substance called Kieselguhr to absorb Nitroglycerin it lost none of it's potency but was consistently far safer. When Dynamite ages however, it begins to exude or 'sweat' the Nitroglycerin it contains which is particularly unstable and dangerous at that point.

[@danielritsch4328]

1:25 into this video they filmed a foot print . Did anybody else notice a brass heart pendant on the ground inside the boot print ?

[@ih8hertz1]

I would have took the drinking bottle...I know its better to preserve the site but it would have been nice to treat it and display it in a mining museum before its lost forever

[@backwoodsskeptic8343]

The oil cans don't have spouts most likely due to galvanic corrosion. The can next to the toilet had a powder in it to poor over their "business" to reduce smell.

[@timfubar5439]

Was the mine closed in a hurry? Seems odd to leave so much stuff behind - surely dynamite wasn't cheap?

[@LostMines]

Possible it ran out of money unfortunately we can't gt to the end to see what it was like , the levels above where very rich, video up soon 😁

[@madisongoldsberry7062]

In the US people go bonkers if you find very old jeans.

[@LostMines]

I have heard this before

[@stevenpersoon]

This guy from Cerro Gordo is always excited by Levi's, why though?

[@tammydiesen9031]

You keep pointing out the rods/bars and say they were for ventilation pipes. But could they used them to hang lanterns on them?

[@stevenhunt3113]

Saw a lot of old thing's that belong in a museum, but no museum!!

[@specialized29er86]

The miners must of been short, at our mine were dig the tunnels 6 foot 6 in height so there no bending over for anyone.

[@ridleyscurry2480]

The camera man has a very calming voice

[@LostMines]

A lot of people say that , 👍

[@Jxnskates]

11:49 What is that on the wall? Saw a shaft in socal covered with that stuff. Some places it wasnt as slimy and had shards almost like ice sickles

[@Sailor376also]

There is no such thing as old dynamite,,, it still is dynamite. Nitro mixed with clay as a stabilizer. Scary stuff.

[@jethrodigger]

Really well documented what area of england was this in. Wales? Cornwall? What were the old timers mining. If that Dynamite was from the 1870s it had only just began to be mass produced in england.

[@LostMines]

This is in midwales old lead mines

[@frankhollein7093]

That one box looked like a toilet.

[@LostMines]

Thats what it is 👍

[@drophammer776]

In the year 3000 their will be a documentary called, You Tuber Footprints Everywhere.

[@LostMines]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@wjnahuy]

I think it was in same spot as before.

[@kgh5584]

👍

[@vickyesperanza8267]

Just looking at the age of things, and how fast they deteriorated, has to make you think how old are things really?

[@alasdairmacdonald9121]

Wonderful !!!

[@palmhall]

There’s an Orb at 3:21 that flies past, Tommy Knockers??

[@MrAndysoul]

You just walked past a pick axe head at 0.34

[@ZonkedCompanion]

That saw looked a lot like a stone saw to me not a timber saw. Have found lots of these in sandstone mines. Quite often they used to chisle into the face just enough to drop a saw in so they could cut the rock into chunks. Once cut they then used wedges and winches to crack the chunks of rock out.

[@LostMines]

We don't have sandstone in the areas we explore, its all dug and cut by chisels and dynamite back in the day, the saw was used to cut the timbers . 👍

[@ZonkedCompanion]

@@LostMines ok, yes I'm aware this isn't sandstone haha. Does look identical to a rock saw though. Same length, same tooth pattern.

[@royshideler]

Leprechaun boots

[@royshideler]

What is that gold colored overburden?

[@wendich9859]

5:19 lookes like a skull

[@rhydtuned]

You boys ever been into or looked into Van lead mines?

[@LostMines]

No not heard of them

[@rhydtuned]

@@LostMines Van lead mines near Llanidloes

[@davebeckley2584]

Foot and handprints add so much in visualizing the men working in this dank, dark hole. I question why the miners would leave items such as water jugs in the mine. Even if the mine foreman called a halt to any further work you would think the men would take those reuseable items out with them. They had to buy those unless this mine was an oddity in providing them for the miners. And why leave oil lamps? Considering the miners had to pay for those also and walking in a pitch black tunnel has its hazards its hard to beleive miners would leave them. That dynamite was quite beyond advancing this tunnel any further but it raises the issue of safety. No miner, at least none with common sense, would stab detonators into the sticks of dynamite to be carried around in a box waiting for holes to be drilled. Detonators that relied on a fuse were slowly replaced by electrical detonators around the time your mine was worked in the 1880s but fused detonators stayed in common use for years after. Those detonators were filled with Mercury Fulminate which was suseptible to heat, friction, and shock which is why it is extremely unwise to store them in sticks of dynamite stored in a box that was probably used by a miner as a stool during his lunch break. But that was then and few miners understood Darwinism and the survival of the fittest, and smartest, human beings. In another hundred years will someone find and explore this mine to find your tracks? If you want to leave them guesssing too you need to leave a couple of flashlights and a canteen or two. And do one better than the 1880s miners, instead of hand/foot prints mash your face into the mud. That will really give them something to talk about. Thanks for the great vid.

[@LostMines]

Thanks for checking us out, it is odd to leave things behind for sure, most of the mines we explore we have to open them up as they are collapsed and ones we have been in have since collapsed thats why we are documenting it all now before its gone forever.

[@DFDuck55]

Children's boot prints in an old mine. And kids now days think they are being mistreated and abused if you won't take them to McDonalds whenever they want, buy them the latest iPhone (which they will probably lose, drop, or sit on), or buy them the latest $1,000 pair of sneakers.