Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The series on this abandoned silver mine in the famous town of Tombstone, Arizona is going to be good – one of the best I’ve done… However, I’m on a mine exploring trip right now where time and charged batteries are in short supply. So, view this video as the first step into the Girard Mine and things will just keep getting better and better as we work our way down.
The Girard Mine is a gigantic labyrinth of underground workings with large sections of it still unexplored. In fact, you’ll see us push into unexplored areas that are stuffed with artifacts and history in this series. It takes time to drop down that far into the mine though and there is plenty of interesting stuff to see along the way. So, we’re starting at the top and I’m going to show you what it takes to get into those unexplored areas!
If you want to see part of this mine yourself (and there is a LOT to see), you can arrange a tour through goodenoughsilvermine.com or on Facebook at “Tombstone’s Goodenough Mine Tour.” They offer different tours that range from areas that absolutely anyone can visit to very challenging sections.
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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!
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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
The series on this abandoned silver mine in the famous town of Tombstone, Arizona is going to be good – one of the best I’ve done… However, I’m on a mine exploring trip right now where time and charged batteries are in short supply. So, view this video as the first step into the Girard Mine and things will just keep getting better and better as we work our way down.
The Girard Mine is a gigantic labyrinth of underground workings with large sections of it still unexplored. In fact, you’ll see us push into unexplored areas that are stuffed with artifacts and history in this series. It takes time to drop down that far into the mine though and there is plenty of interesting stuff to see along the way. So, we’re starting at the top and I’m going to show you what it takes to get into those unexplored areas!
If you want to see part of this mine yourself (and there is a LOT to see), you can arrange a tour through goodenoughsilvermine.com or on Facebook at “Tombstone’s Goodenough Mine Tour.” They offer different tours that range from areas that absolutely anyone can visit to very challenging sections.
*****
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
