Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As I think you’ll see in this video, this abandoned mine was consistently great in delivering interesting features and artifacts. Finding the ore car on that sublevel was a nice treat, as was finding that stand for a pneumatic drill and the other cool things down there…
Given the age of this mine and the amount of historical mining equipment we found in the more accessible areas, I am quite curious about what might be hidden away in those stopes that were impossible to access. Or how about any hidden sublevels off of those steep ore passes?
I know a small team of mine explorers that made a stunning find after dropping down a small shaft at a mine that received a fairly heavy flow of traffic and had, consequently, been completely stripped out. The small shaft they went down was next to a large adit and looked inconsequential. It didn’t have any timbering or infrastructure – it was just a hole in the ground… It also wasn’t easy to drop as there were no easy anchor points. All of these details had kept anyone else from bothering to drop down it. I was thinking of a scenario like that when looking at those ore passes!
For those of you that missed it in the last video, silver, lead, copper and zinc were extracted at this mine.
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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 I think you’ll see in this video, this abandoned mine was consistently great in delivering interesting features and artifacts. Finding the ore car on that sublevel was a nice treat, as was finding that stand for a pneumatic drill and the other cool things down there…
Given the age of this mine and the amount of historical mining equipment we found in the more accessible areas, I am quite curious about what might be hidden away in those stopes that were impossible to access. Or how about any hidden sublevels off of those steep ore passes?
I know a small team of mine explorers that made a stunning find after dropping down a small shaft at a mine that received a fairly heavy flow of traffic and had, consequently, been completely stripped out. The small shaft they went down was next to a large adit and looked inconsequential. It didn’t have any timbering or infrastructure – it was just a hole in the ground… It also wasn’t easy to drop as there were no easy anchor points. All of these details had kept anyone else from bothering to drop down it. I was thinking of a scenario like that when looking at those ore passes!
For those of you that missed it in the last video, silver, lead, copper and zinc were extracted at this mine.
*****
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
