Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Despite the difficulty in getting the booster fan back to the 933 drift, it really does make a significant difference in the ventilation of the gold mine. We have tested the ventilation with just the main blower on the surface and one can barely feel the air coming out of the ventilation system at the face. However, with the booster fan on, we get quite a blast of air.
It gets very cold in the mine (especially when one is soaking wet) and so, in the summer, the warm air being blown in from the outside actually feels pretty good. It is starting to get cold now though and so that freezing air being blasted in from outside isn’t so nice. I have had to go overseas for a month, but I have been informed that we have had our first big snowstorm of the season already. So, winter is coming fast! When I left last month, we were still wearing t-shirts. However, when I return next week, it sounds as if I will be wearing the heavy Carhartt insulated coveralls.
Despite the progress you see in these videos, there is a lot of backing and filling that must take place. What do I mean by that? We have spent quite a lot of time placing timber sets and shoring up existing support components. However, I was told that a massive quartz boulder just slabbed off around the 1500 and is presently resting on one of the old (and presumably at least somewhat rotten) caps on a timber set. Therefore, our progress at pushing into new ground will be halted while we go back and will be placing steel sets around the 1500. Since the start, there has never been easy, smooth progress and, as far as I know, that really holds true at almost any mine. Mining involves a lot of extremes and this is hard on mines, miners and equipment.
I thank all of you for your ongoing interest in this project.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so I’d encourage you to adjust your settings to the highest quality if it is not done automatically.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: bit.ly/2wqcBDD
As well as a small gear update here: bit.ly/2p6Jip6
You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: goo.gl/TEKq9L
Several kind viewers have asked about donating to help cover some of the many expenses associated with exploring these abandoned mines. Inspired by their generosity, I set up a Patreon account. So, if anyone would care to chip in, I’m under TVR Exploring on Patreon.
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
Despite the difficulty in getting the booster fan back to the 933 drift, it really does make a significant difference in the ventilation of the gold mine. We have tested the ventilation with just the main blower on the surface and one can barely feel the air coming out of the ventilation system at the face. However, with the booster fan on, we get quite a blast of air.
It gets very cold in the mine (especially when one is soaking wet) and so, in the summer, the warm air being blown in from the outside actually feels pretty good. It is starting to get cold now though and so that freezing air being blasted in from outside isn’t so nice. I have had to go overseas for a month, but I have been informed that we have had our first big snowstorm of the season already. So, winter is coming fast! When I left last month, we were still wearing t-shirts. However, when I return next week, it sounds as if I will be wearing the heavy Carhartt insulated coveralls.
Despite the progress you see in these videos, there is a lot of backing and filling that must take place. What do I mean by that? We have spent quite a lot of time placing timber sets and shoring up existing support components. However, I was told that a massive quartz boulder just slabbed off around the 1500 and is presently resting on one of the old (and presumably at least somewhat rotten) caps on a timber set. Therefore, our progress at pushing into new ground will be halted while we go back and will be placing steel sets around the 1500. Since the start, there has never been easy, smooth progress and, as far as I know, that really holds true at almost any mine. Mining involves a lot of extremes and this is hard on mines, miners and equipment.
I thank all of you for your ongoing interest in this project.
*****
All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so I’d encourage you to adjust your settings to the highest quality if it is not done automatically.
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: bit.ly/2wqcBDD
As well as a small gear update here: bit.ly/2p6Jip6
You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: goo.gl/TEKq9L
Several kind viewers have asked about donating to help cover some of the many expenses associated with exploring these abandoned mines. Inspired by their generosity, I set up a Patreon account. So, if anyone would care to chip in, I’m under TVR Exploring on Patreon.
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
