We Had To Get The Whole Crew Out For This Large Abandoned Mine

[@rrindsig]

The "dozer" is actually an aircraft tug, for use on primitive airfields. It didn't have a dozer blade. It did have a generator and air compressor, which the miners probably found useful.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

10:11 That was an "Air door". Used to control air flow in the mine. 13:45 Another air door. 14:18 Ferric oxide-iron, If you were looking for gold, that is what you would send in a sample to check. An old miner's saying is : "Gold rides an iron horse". Meaning the heavier metals deposit together. 19:05 That was an old cable operated shovel used to load trucks. The drive carriage is missing. Got reused. 19:51 Notice the flat pads. Used on roads or nice surfaces to pull carts or aircraft (a tug). No blade ever on it. Ordinance Department means it was used to tow a cart with Bombs. No attachment points for a dozer.

[@scottrance-im7xz]

I've watched an enjoyed all these mine explorations for years and I really only can watch your videos . Idk, seems that myself and likely your viewers have come to associate exploring these mines all over the world to places you've been with you , with knowing your voice , and narrarating style which who provides a great experience . So yeah pretty great to follow along on thes3 adventures

[@kerzwhile]

There is honestly something so different about your videos! I think it's how you narrate and actually, in real time, paint a picture in our heads as your showing things and recapping directions and locations. It's hard to explain but Your vids are hands down the best in this genre and honestly the only ones I faithfully watch! Keep on keepin on! 😊 I just a few months ago opened a rock and crystal shop, yeah the metaphysical stuff and I find myself yelling at the screen to grab specimens! Lol

[@TimandLiamsEastcoastkoillc]

That little ultra area look like it's set up for a Wiccan witch. And it's the same you guys couldn't get into the mine and other areas but that looks like a hand cranked shovel. Yeah that's an old cat M2. It's just amazing all the stuff that left behind at this mine thanks for sharing guys

[@cortrichards8179]

Yes, the altar set up etc, is definitely Wicca. Very cool. This is a weird mine so far. Might this be the Red Rover Mine? Or perhaps the John Logan, The Earl or The Topeka Mine? You definitely don't need to answer if you prefer to not to say and I was merely guessing anyway. Thought I would throw the names of those mines out there, just in case! Not that I know very much in regard to California mines, but I do an awful lot of reading about mining, ghost towns and the old West, since I grew up in Montana, where there are so many abandoned mines you can barely go anywhere without stumbling onto one eventually. Which is why I love this channel so much! I love that you guys push the limits a little bit in some of these old mines, but you always remain safe and make good decisions when needed. It's part of what makes this such an excellent channel, along with your narration. Thank you for sharing with us all!

[@uwillnevahno6837]

WIth a router it comes across as being near civilization.

[@cortrichards8179]

@@uwillnevahno6837 I'm sure it probably is.

[@kerzwhile]

Yeah, Deff. Wicca altar, not the bad crap though! More pertaining to the land spirits.. harmless!

[@cortrichards8179]

@@kerzwhile Yup!

[@markhooper5824]

That was brilliant guys.👍

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Nice mine !

[@fredmanicke5078]

20:10 Cletrac high-speed tractor, and almost intact. A real find.

[@paulcooper9135]

Always impressed by these explores ... and jealous that you have such things near you. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@sierramountainsrailfanning2114]

Those cabins were really cool.

[@Djp1989]

What a cool door.

[@williamwintemberg]

The stamp mill made for a fitting end. Thanks Justin and Crew!

[@leighsayers2628]

That's pretty cool flying off in a chopper ..cool ...great explore and vision ..

[@ModernDayProspector]

You guys are seeing some incredible sites. I am envious! ❤

[@rogergriffin9893]

That shed is in good shape!

[@olspanner]

Wow, that was fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Looks like a mine with a few nasty surprises still hidden, great explore loved it.

[@FancyDefect]

Enochian magic, interesting reading.

[@dondavis5633]

That's definitely an underground land of sketchiness! But I like the puppers!

[@davec3459]

Looked like a really interesting site

[@Flyfish325]

I used to search old military surplus sales contracts, mainly related to scrap or unused hazardous materials. Very few contracts exist before 1973. The Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (now DLA Disposition Services, HQs in Battle Creek, MI) managed military surplus sales by DoD civilians until about 2005. They sold everything from bolts to battle ships. These days military surplus sale contracts have been contracted out to private companies and work for DLA Disposition Services. All military hazardous material sales contracts are archived for at least 50 years because of Superfund liability. Most useable property sales contracts are destroyed after a few years depending on dollar amount.

[@rogergriffin9893]

There are large deposits of quartz, limonite and iron in that mine. I would say that substantial gold still exists in that mine. It does have bad serpentine so it needs to be slowly and carefully rebuilt if it was reopened.

[@MikeOrkid]

This is the closest to an anthracite mine I've watched you explore. Good scabby stuff.

[@uwillnevahno6837]

Using an old gold mine for some kind of new age ritual blending several cultures together is a new one.

[@gailhowes9398]

Hello from western Canada! I’m enjoying your videos but could you please tell me why are you checking on all these mines ? I’ve been fascinated by the geology of some of the mines, the one where there was a lot tree trunks used to support the sides of the (walk-ways?) I haven’t Googled for mines in Alberta or B. C. but I’m an old lady now!🤨🤭☺️

[@davidsnider1703]

Cool explore. Sometimes wonder what we missed below but look kinda scarey.

[@robertlyman9789]

Love Nag Champa, burning it now 😀

[@redlight722]

The dozer didn’t have a blade Justin. It was made to pull things

[@chrisstrobel3439]

When I lived up in Folsom (not the prison lol) I use to drive all over the hills of the Calif. motherload country gold prospecting with my Keene sluice box on little off the beaten track river tributaries, and once I ran into some kind of witches coven or something with all kinds of upside down pentagrams and doll like effegy’s (and other weird figures) made from sticks and twigs hanging from the trees in a clearing, I was alone as usual and there was fortunately no one else around, it was VERY spooky, and even though I was getting color in my riffles from the stream .. after about 30min I was just too spooked and booked it out of there. That same summer I also ran into this little community of VERY weird people in the forest in the middle of nowhere with kids that looked like inbreeds with messy hair, no shoes, and tattered clothes from the early 1900’s depression .. they just stared at me with very spooky looking expressions on their faces as I made a u turn and booked it out of there too 😳 By far the worst experience that summer though was the giant mosquito’s up at Woolsey’s flat (an old hydraulic pit) when I was detecting with my Goldmaster V-Sat, after half a day finding gram size nuggets I said screw this and booked it out of there too never to return. It’s cool seeing you guys go into these old mines up there that no money in the world would have been enough to get me to go in 😳 lol. P.S. I really enjoyed your old 16 to 1 series from a while ago .. that was epic 👍

[@Sanjosebuddha]

That was some seriously sketchy ground in the newer section. The rotting support holding that widow maker up... That would have been it for me, lol. I think I've picked up on a pattern from your videos that the gold mines seem to have the worst ground - could be geological or just the gold bug pushing the miners on through.

[@dennistennyson4540]

You fellows need to carry a patching kit with you.

[@charlesdeilke8364]

That M2 HS tractor is worth saving if it is recoverable.

[@gerardange]

Lots of old rounded River channel Rock around that dozer… most likely that heavy equipment & drag bucket were up there chasing that river channel.

[@mezame1626]

17:22 is a kick rail for empty ore cart to be filled next

[@CoryKing]

What are they doing with that router? Star link or something? Powered by a battery bank or solar?

[@TalRohan]

you could do with an extendable selfie stick for drops like that, poke the camera and light out in front of you and maybe see whats going on the new sections of themine really are horrible, weird that the newer workings are in a worse state than the old ones

[@BussinJohnson]

Bro! That would be so cool if all those yellow shiny chunks that you kept coming across were solid 24k pure gold! 😮total payoff👍

[@ScottVanArtsdalen]

That adit behind the US Army dozer has all the looks of a government owned mine.

[@VikingExploration60]

Was that a 12 hammer California Stamp you found.

[@alexduran6742]

Real mine explorers

[@chuckgibson1274]

Why didn't you show the top of the old pass that you wrote down from? They would have been interesting to see.

[@SDE1994]

if there is air coming up the raise then of course must mean there is a lower adit somewhere

[@seldoon_nemar]

I wonder if that steam shovel flipped from weather, or if it was old enough it was on rails and someone stole the running gear and tracks. That's a complete machine though, all that lumber and roof would have been the equipment house. WIld to see that monster and pcv pipe at that same time Also, i really wish you had a done to show some larger context shots of how things are laid out Bonus points if you shell out the big dollars and get one that does LIDAR scanning so you can strip the foliage digitally and see what the mine looks like sans overgrowth (and maybe find overgrown portals that are hidden)

[@White-r4g]

Good afternoon

[@davegrummett1263]

With all that massive rail they used almost like stulls, was the stability of the ground that horrid, or were they over engineering the supports because they planned to throw a lot of rock behind it?

[@jilbertb]

Wican sacrifice cabin? Thanks for the mine and infrastructure tour!

[@danosmixedgrill6067]

HI, At 21 mins there is a high pressure gas cylinder on the bulldozer, do you know what it would be for? Cheers Daniel.

[@daveg2104]

The M2 high-speed tractor is fitted with a 3 stage 2,000 PSI , 16.7 CFPM air compressor. I'd say it's the receiver tank associated with that.

[@karlfonner7589]

The spider on the door are up at Mount Diablo. When they bite you- you know it.

[@anthonyhansford2624]

Don’t think I’ve ever heard you say the words “I hate this mine” 😂

[@RussellNelson]

What is that yellow string everywhere?

[@Dwendele]

I can't believe in the thousands of mine explore vids I've watched, I've never seen someone think to at least chalk or paint XYZZY on a wall somewhere DEEP in a mine. 😂

[@kypparmstrong2775]

Weird man. Weird.

[@charlesnader8713]

Enochian magic temple in the concrete building at beginning of the video.

[@rogergriffin9893]

Yeah the powder room is being used for cultic ceremonies. Not satanic, maybe wiccan?

[@mezame1626]

Kinda looks like they blew that place particularly the stamp mill the wood is like shattered everywhere very interesting

[@myrrhavm]

Most if you are probably too young to remember “The Blair Witch Project”. Those are big spiders. I hate spiders. I’d rather be in a room with Black Widows than creeping spiders. Black Widows stay in their little webs waiting for food to come to them compared to the creepy crawly types that look for food and people to bite. Looks like a good day, to bad some goon found that place as well instead of staying in San Francisco.

[@rogergriffin9893]

Is that helicopter some type of law enforcement? Or is it Forest Service or NPS?

[@JDR1971]

Certainly has been a lot of helicopter content lately...

[@djspatrick]

Yikes. Maybe the mine had a resident witch doctor to exorcise the demons in the waterfall of doom.

[@jasontimothywells9895]

It's those damb mountain hippies belongings. Damb mountain hippies😂

[@shineyrocks390]

That looks like someone's bug out location lol a fallout shelter

[@andrewbarker9773]

lol yeah not the biggest spiders I have seen , I am from Australia mind you lol how weird is that powder room wow,

[@jasondownard7623]

Artillery tractor, no blade....

[@Vintage-Retro-finder]

I think someone living in there

[@Baked_intell]

The mouse castle was cool but the gypsy cave maybe wilder indeed in russia maybe but California 🤔wait nope the mouse still wins

[@qldabandonedmines]

That was a scary one. That gave me bad vibes just watching it on KZbin. That first room was all kinds of odd. I'd suggest that's the mutated Mormon Crickets spiritual HQ.

[@confuseatronica]

please no more of those guys

[@Angl0sax0nknight]

Did you have to show the spiders? I’m not afraid of much but the spiders creep me the F out! I will scream like a little girl when there are spiders. No afraid to admit it. Other bugs don’t creep me out but spiders do.

[@BruceErb-g1q]

Hey do a will it run on that dozer.

[@LadyCatFelineTheSeventh]

I think you found "Mel's Hole"!

[@leighsayers2628]

Flooded mines ..yuck ..many miners drowned in Australian gold mines ..check out the Grand Duke mine history in Victoria Australia ..

[@stupidminotaur9735]

masonic order or hippy college women.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

Why's it gotta be college chicks doing their Wiccan things? Could be some dudes doing weird cricket sacrifices... Just f-in with you. But seriously, definitely not Masonic stuff. At least not legit masons. None of that fits any other fraternal order I've heard of either. Besides, although some fraternal orders do practice solo stuff the whole point of them was a kind of gentleman's club for us boys to hang out in, talk politics or business, and otherwise socialize. This was before the days of social media after all. Also not demonic stuff, such as kids thinking it's good to be evil. You wouldn't see crystals, a feather and the other accoutrements all together like that. Plus they aren't using an demonic looking symbols. My guess is it's a wiccan as they believe in Earth spirits and elementals. The feather, incense and symbols also fit someone of that persuasion.

[@jogden6632]

I'm a Mason and I can say with certainty that is not Masonic stuff.

[@richradley2706]

I've seen bigger hands.

[@MiamiMillionaire]

If you want to repair the hole in your pants, get a bicycle tire repair kit

[@CoryKing]

What are they doing with that router? Star link or something? Powered by a battery bank or solar?