Weird Mine Takes Us In One Side Of The Mountain And Out The Other

[@theinstructor2687]

I enjoyed this video a lot. Thanks. It's a real stope opera.

[@williamwintemberg]

If the ore bodies weren't interesting, what was on the other side of the mountain was the icing on the cake! Needless to say, miners were busy for a while. Thanks Justin and Crew!

[@jonbarfield2828]

Awesome video!

[@jonbarfield2828]

Thanks for what you do!

[@TroyDowVanZandt]

Speaking of open stopes, those viewers from the Tucson area who were around in the 60s and 70s may remember the mines on the north side of the Santa Rita Mountains associated with the ghost town of Helvetia. The road in took you past a hill, half of which was a giant open stope in the shape of an opera shell. In the back was a vertical shaft that led down to a series of drift levels. Sadly, all these mines were eventually sealed or blown shut.

[@robmez]

Brilliant commentary once again on an amazing mine , this channel just keeps getting better , many thanks

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying the content.

[@deepbludude4697]

Great upload what a tremendous amount of work these miners acomplished its just mind blowing!

[@davegrummett1263]

Definitely very neat railroad Justin. I too enjoy those. Following tracks, be they old freight train lines, logging railroads or mining tracks. I was especially envious when in an episode on Frank's channel (I think) the friends he was exploring with and him got an old electric trammer running.

[@qldabandonedmines]

What a journey. Loved the look of the rails twisting through the mountain on the back side of the tunnel. It was an impressive scene. Great exploring Justin.

[@OGRocker1]

I agree Eb, howdy my down-under mining mate, ...🦘🤠🍹

[@qldabandonedmines]

@@OGRocker1 G'day OG! What a small world it is! How good was this episode! We have to get over there one day soon.

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Justin, that was a pretty cool explore around the hills and that first mine was a good one with the way it wrapped around itself. I confess I have never seen a tensioner quite like that either, still a very cool find though. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤

[@TVRExploring]

Thank you, Sue. Yes, this was one of those where I couldn't decide if I liked the surface or underground stuff better.

[@SueGirling68]

@@TVRExploring I'm inclined to agree. x

[@Baked_intell]

Cool mine for sure really enjoyed it

[@David-jn4fx]

Enjoyed that man! Quite the maze mine journey 🤩 You always take us on amazing views!

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Cool mine, I still find it hard to believe how hard those old timers worked. Thanks for doing the video

[@nielsen145]

with all the work that has been done here, they had high hopes for the area and the mine, was like a swiss cheese, all the holes, not organized at all. another great explore by you and your friends

[@markhooper5824]

That was ace mate. Loved everything about this mine. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@railroaderreddoor76]

WOW!! I think this might be my favorite mine. Thanks.

[@TVRExploring]

It was definitely one of my favorites.

[@deepbludude4697]

Man how far did they have to man haul all the rail and timber? This was cool, I dig all that rail! I just cant imagine this kind of hard core mining taking place now a days where would you find enough commited folks to support the effort? Great video I really enjoy these thanks!

[@HollywoodGraham]

Great explore, thanks for finding this one.

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota

[@rolfsinkgraven]

This should be called : the here and there everywhere mine wow interesting place with some very nice surprises inside and outside wow, nice one again Justin.

[@markattardo]

Another amazing mine system!!! Wow!

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

I suspect the pipe ore chutes were simply for high grading into small containers, while the bulk of the ore went down the ore chutes.

[@OdySlim]

Whats a miners favorite day? Give up? Winzeday ..... Regards from Ody Slim

[@straybullitt]

I was going to say Payday! 💰

[@ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

Another excellent explore.

[@67volksrodder]

Very nice how it went through the mountain. So many prospect sites. Great video. Keep them coming.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, this was a fun one to explore. You don't see the tunnels (versus adits) very often.

[@LawnMower-hu9pw]

This one was a lot of fun

[@timothymilam732]

So other than the initial starting date, and that's probably rough guesstimate at, because they could have been there for a while before someone realized that they hadn't filed the claim due all the exploratory holes poked everywhere around the outside of the tunnel. They must have used a million sticks of dynamite, couple thousand feet of primer wire, and who knows how much was used of rail, lumber, and consumables such as carbide, nails, track spikes, drill bits, other such things. Just the extent of the outside rail system, would have worn out who knows how many picks n shovels alone, that's not including the actual mine work itself consumed. It did appear that majority of the lumber appeared to be second hand from the looks of it, because it wasn't the raw surface found timber, nor did it all have the fresh milled appearance that most of the mines you see in the dry climate mines. How close were there any roads to the tram lines, or were there any. I recall seeing a road off in the distance from when you pointed out the second tram going down to a station. You didn't mention if they were processing the oar on location, are if it was transported in it's raw form to another remote location somewhere some distance away? Sorry, but you know by now that I tend to be very long winded about most everything. Very interesting how they always seemed to circle back around the stopes one way or another. Something else that caught my attention, for as much waste an oar as they obviously moved, there were actually very few actual oar shutes that i recall seeing, and as much as they twisted around plus up into huge stope areas there wasn't but a few altogether in total. Unless I missed something obvious to everyone else, but I recall one made of pipe, at best half a dozen wooden ones, and maybe two locations were a wench was possibly used of some sort. Other than the one laying outside, but considering the shear amount of stopes, I'd have figured they'd had been 10 times at least that amount. And no miner's graphiti, are oar cart counts on the few oar shutes anywhere. Anyone else notice these two things that stand out to me as unusual, and what happened to all the rail and ties that were inside. Because I didn't see any piles as is normally the case in most mines with that amount of distance they covered, and I can see maybe part outside, but no way they pulled everything inside and sent it out there well still actively mining the inside. Just few things Justin that I find unusual for typical miners to normally do without doubt.

[@OGRocker1]

that is a way cool mine Justin, more, more ...... ⛏⚒⛏ 🍻

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, I particularly enjoyed this one.

[@perstaffanlundgren]

Cool that the line of the tram is left in place ,reminds of the tramlines around cerra gordo . I should be very intresting to se a effort to restore the tramtowers and tension station's , on some sites ,in cerra gordo some of the ore buckets is still left hanging on the lines. In Sweden we had two old ore tram lines that was scrapped quite recently, the lime tramway forsby- koping was the one of the longest in the world, totalty scandalous the owner got permission to tear it down. Should have been preserved!

[@jimfrommars2591]

Could you tell us what state you are in?

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

Looks like there was a lot of lensed ore bodies in this area

[@freeridemoto7133]

Reminds me of war eagle mine area / colombia mine area whole mountainside is swiss cheese, thank you again TVR funny you going to spots i’ve been to many moons ago

[@CeeTee13282]

Super cool, like an ant farm

[@markbottcher9623]

Wow, thats some mine. Like swiss cheese.

[@shacuras8201]

2:27 This mine is fake, it's a movie set! You can clearly see the plaster at this part. Jokes aside, great video 👍🏻

[@shanemcguire170]

Just curious on this one... Silver, Gold, Taconite, (Iron Ore), Manganese, what was the mineral they were after here...?

[@tj7870]

this stopes for you!

[@ronaldhatch8859]

Awesome mine. I have seen pipe chutes before in the oatman Arizona area

[@mikewilliams8510]

Great video. It looks like a lot of people would have worked there.

[@TVRExploring]

Yes, it does seem like it.

[@stevenhigby3512]

Great video, a lot of workings there. They muat have been getting a lot og

[@highdesertexplorer123]

That tram line cable tensioner was one of the coolest things I’ve seen. A great example of how crafty those miners were and had to be way out there in those days.

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

Looked like some swiss cheese mining. Could of used a drone to find more secrets. Liked the cable tensioner. I've used simular myself. Good day.

[@TVRExploring]

They definitely Swiss-cheesed that mountaintop. The drone would never have worked in the wind that was whipping through there that day...

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

@@TVRExploring Yep. That wind did sound like it was strong.

[@garyday5299]

With all the stopes and tunnels, are the ore pockets the size of swimming pools, or is the ore distributed like veins and capillaries, and they're just following small amounts? Also...how much dynamite would it take to make all the tunnels and stopes, or was a lot of this just done with drills?

[@sirmonkey1985]

swiss cheese mountain.. :)

[@Baked_intell]

The stoll in the opening of the open stope that was hit by rail was the guy pounding it in tight was using a long hammer so he wasn't right under the overhang is my guess set it in place stand back 10 ft to whack

[@frankgaletzka8477]

This mine area is very interesting. I always wonder how the miners live there . No water nothing around . Or is there a settelment near by. Thank you for the video and the look in the past. Yours Frank Galetzka

[@vburke1]

Swiss Cheese ahoy!

[@DIGGER19860]

so you found a tunnel and not a adit lol

[@TVRExploring]

Exactly!

[@brianvalley5223]

It's like a block of Swiss cheese.

[@Lucysdad66]

Lucy wants to know if you drop popcorn so you can find your way out ?..

[@TVRExploring]

No need for popcorn. Mines have an order and logic that one can follow... If they become particularly complex, one can always resort to the "right hand rule" in order to avoid becoming turned around.

[@darknes7800]

Many stopes, chasing ore !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@c3h84ever]

adit and stope what is the difference? been watching your channel for a year or so,think I'd know the difference, nope

[@daveg2104]

An adit (rom Latin aditus - entrance) is a horizontal (or near horizontal) passage driven into a hill/mountainside. It often has a slight upward slope for drainage (which can also help with haulage), but if it is very sloped, it will be an incline shaft. A stope (uncertain origin, possibly from step, as ore is often extracted in steps/benches from ore bodies) is an excavation in a mine where ore is being/has been removed. For mine explorers, the chamber left after the ore has been removed

[@c3h84ever]

Thank you, great explanation

[@collincluff7955]

Have you considered using a metal detector in your explorations?

[@robertlyman9789]

Follow the exterior rails with a drone

[@robertlyman9789]

For all the rotten pants laying around, must been some bad food, and the shits going around 😂

[@pogos6633]

No miners Graffiti ?

[@TVRExploring]

That was a bit odd, huh?

[@michelehowe9396]

YO! YOU STILL HAVE THAT VIDEO OF THE DRAGON COMING UR WAY, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND IT! YO?

[@daveg2104]

Dragon? Are you referring to the mine with the weird sound? That would be the Engilchek video. Otherwise, I will need more info. Unless Justin knows what you are talking about.

[@collincluff7955]

Hey guys, you should be careful about exploring old mine tunnels because of the potential buildup of noxious gasses in them. There's a reason why there are ventilation lines in them.

[@TVRExploring]

Although you may have good intentions, your comment is insulting for its ignorance and its presumption of our ignorance. You are clearly not familiar with underground mining and are simply regurgitating alarmist nonsense that you heard somewhere in an effort to seem knowledgeable or to somehow involve yourself. We have explored over 1,000 abandoned mines now... Do you think that we have not all also worked as professional underground miners? Do you think that we are unable to identify which abandoned mines present potential air issues and which do not? Do you think that we do not carry gas meters? The really funny thing is that this is actually one of the safest, LEAST LIKELY mines that we have ever visited to harbor bad air.