Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As you likely picked up, events are now well ahead of what is being seen in the videos on bringing this gold mine back into production. A large part of that has to do with the events (discussed in the video I posted in December) that served as a distraction to me over the past couple of months… However, I’m getting back into things now and will get us closer to being caught up (my intention was to have events at the mine running about a month ahead of the videos).
Some cool things have happened at the mine and I look forward to sharing those videos with you. At the moment, we’re pushing a core drilling program that is everyone’s main focus. The core drill is quite a machine to see in operation! We’re not going to resume drilling and blasting until this current phase of the core drilling is complete.
Once we resume driving new drifts, we have some plans to capture a blast on video for you. Another miner on the crew has provided a sheet of bullet resistant glass that we intend to place close to a blasting site with a light and a camera behind it. I don’t mind sacrificing a camera and light for good video. We just need to make sure that the memory card survives!
It was kind of funny editing the video from this summer because there is seven feet of snow up at the mine now. So, it felt surreal to see those hot, dry conditions. We’ll probably miss the snow and cold weather soon enough though.
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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
As you likely picked up, events are now well ahead of what is being seen in the videos on bringing this gold mine back into production. A large part of that has to do with the events (discussed in the video I posted in December) that served as a distraction to me over the past couple of months… However, I’m getting back into things now and will get us closer to being caught up (my intention was to have events at the mine running about a month ahead of the videos).
Some cool things have happened at the mine and I look forward to sharing those videos with you. At the moment, we’re pushing a core drilling program that is everyone’s main focus. The core drill is quite a machine to see in operation! We’re not going to resume drilling and blasting until this current phase of the core drilling is complete.
Once we resume driving new drifts, we have some plans to capture a blast on video for you. Another miner on the crew has provided a sheet of bullet resistant glass that we intend to place close to a blasting site with a light and a camera behind it. I don’t mind sacrificing a camera and light for good video. We just need to make sure that the memory card survives!
It was kind of funny editing the video from this summer because there is seven feet of snow up at the mine now. So, it felt surreal to see those hot, dry conditions. We’ll probably miss the snow and cold weather soon enough though.
*****
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
