#175 Utah, Down The Big Shaft!

#175 Utah, Down The Big Shaft!

We continue south exploring Abandoned Mines in America and discover the awesome historic mining area just south of Salt Lake City. Eureka has many abandoned mines and some huge deep shafts!
#eureka
#abandoned mines
#historic mines
#abandoned
#adandoned mines in the USA
#minecraft

#DANGEROUS MINES

50 Comments

  1. Paige Lee on November 2, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Oh cool love azurite and malachite

  2. Bob Calgary Canada on November 2, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Thanks Frank👍👍

  3. kai kealoha on November 2, 2022 at 11:44 am

    Explored this for a few years now. Cool find!

  4. Charles Owens on November 2, 2022 at 11:46 am

    Thankyou Frank

  5. Shawn Ainge on November 2, 2022 at 11:47 am

    Utah beer was 3.2% for a long long time. The only place you could get a higher percentage was in liquor stores. They finally changed that law about a year ago.

  6. Gabrocol on November 2, 2022 at 11:47 am

    12:17 how did you guys get down there without a ladder

  7. Todd Kesler on November 2, 2022 at 11:47 am

    I grew up just down South from this place

  8. Gaz Tinsley on November 2, 2022 at 11:48 am

    Warning : do not go down ropes without a ladder 😉 hahaha

  9. John brownlee on November 2, 2022 at 11:50 am

    What was the air tank for?..

  10. 5050 ODDZ PROSPECTING on November 2, 2022 at 11:51 am

    That’s UTAH beer. lol Rest of the country 5.9% or more.

  11. LBCAndrew on November 2, 2022 at 11:51 am

    Budweiser in Canada is the same Alcohol as here in the United states. The difference is how they’re measured. In Canada, the alcohol content is measured as a percentage of mass (weight) where in the USA it’s measured as a percentage of Volume. Alcohol weighs less than water and is approximately 4/5 as dense. A beer that is 4% ABV in canada is 3.17% ABW in the united States.

    So the lesson we all learned from this is Budweiser is piss, regardless of what country you buy it in.

    /edit
    I should also add that you were in Utah and the beer there sucks extra ass.

  12. Kevin Brennan on November 2, 2022 at 11:53 am

    Bit tame by your standards Frank. where’s the challenge?

  13. Benson on November 2, 2022 at 11:57 am

    The reaction from that chick at the end makes it seem like she’d be down.

  14. Kyle Koch on November 2, 2022 at 11:57 am

    I thought all the eureka mines were welded shut?

  15. Steven Higby on November 2, 2022 at 11:59 am

    Glad to see you checking out mines in the U.S we have a lot in Nevada also.

  16. Paige Lee on November 2, 2022 at 11:59 am

    Oh cool crystals, wow looks super dry in this mine, looks like your going to enjoy the mines here awesome 😎 thanks for sharing Frank

  17. Allen Larabie on November 2, 2022 at 12:04 pm

    Love to be there..👍👍

  18. TideOfaMoleculeWeOnceKnew on November 2, 2022 at 12:04 pm

    I just got lost in your video, didnt know if i could find my way back. I did.

  19. YinYang Studios -Y.S- on November 2, 2022 at 12:05 pm

    its funny how ppl say they cant do anything but no offence but this man here looks to be old enough to have kids that a grown and here he is climbing down mines. btw love the videos <3
    edit: btw new sub so just watching a bunch ik this is a old video

  20. Joshua Norris on November 2, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    Says 99.9k subs hehe congrats in advanced frank!

  21. Tom Kirk on November 2, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    Just found your channel. Outstanding sir. 👍
    Cheers from Northern Utah.

  22. Nick lutes 420 on November 2, 2022 at 12:13 pm

    was cool that the young fella came down with you and did the explore

  23. Gold Pro Unlimited on November 2, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    Awesome thanks for sharing!

  24. Brad Mcmullen on November 2, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    to bad that you had to hurry, that’s what happens when you have to really on other people. there looked like there was some other drifts going off to the left. that would have been interesting.

  25. SekTauBand on November 2, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    I live not too far from Eureka. i’m the one who sent you the video of the giant winches and cable house last year. glad to see you got in! you should check out Mercur, Jacob City, Ophir, the East Tintics, Cedar fort and Carbonville. LOTS of mines throughout this area of Utah. The ones in Cedar fort have MASSIVE open stopes probably 300 feet deep vertical.

  26. scott findlay on November 2, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    I got the privilege of going down the North Ore chute in the Kennecot copper mine decades ago, 3000 feet straight down, it was covered over by new tailings expansion but in 2007 they recovered it with a concrete collar all the way down and replaced everything in the bottom including new head frame.. i wish they would have let me take some pics but it was a very hush hush thing that i was allowed in since i knew somebody at the time… I love these vids of the old mines. I’m no longer able to explore them so its nice to see these.
    Kennecott Utah Copper and Gold contracted Atkinson to recover its North Ore Shoot (NOS) that was built years before but had since been capped, backfilled, and abandoned. To uncover the old shaft, crews excavated a 230-foot-deep, 28-foot-diameter shaft through unconsolidated waste rock fill to an existing heavily-reinforced concrete shaft collar. Once complete, Atkinson installed a new shaft collar and concrete liner throughout the new excavation, and later removed the existing shaft collar and dewatered the 3,300-foot-deep, 20-foot-diameter shaft.

    Late in 2007 the scope of work expanded to include a permanent headframe structure, construction of all surface infrastructure, and a complete retrofit of the underground facilities. The scope included furnish and installation of a dirty water pumping system, shaft steel, ventilation system, and station development.

  27. Alex Cooley on November 2, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    Should you push a piano down those holes in the floor, will you get A Flat Minor?

    Nice Video, I am looking for a series of these people who were also looking around in these mines looking for UFO’s? maybe? I don’t know. There is a music track that plays through the videos.

  28. Apex 801 on November 2, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    11 dislikes? Probably bud light drinkers! Thanks for the entertainment, frank!

  29. grandprismatic on November 2, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    Epic m/

  30. bran dino on November 2, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    This is my favorite mine in Utah. I go here a lot!!

  31. MikeOrkid on November 2, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    That kid definitely seemed like the type you had to tell not to touch the loose rock.

  32. ttxela on November 2, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Great mine to explore, a shame the others didn’t want to descend those ladders looked bombproof 👍

  33. Spidy Kat on November 2, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    That’s the perfect mine for me to start in. I love it awesome footage thank you

  34. power band on November 2, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    aw man! that’s 30 mins away from me. wish i could’ve went with you guys. looks awesome!

  35. Kyle Koch on November 2, 2022 at 12:25 pm

    Frank have you been to gold hill utah?

  36. Orenthal Simpson on November 2, 2022 at 12:26 pm

    3.2% Budweiser is probably the Mormons doing

  37. jeepejeep on November 2, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    Wow that mine just kept going in all directions! You could camp out in there and explore for a week in there. Really cool.

  38. bran dino on November 2, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    me and my buddies climbed down the ladder about 150 feet

  39. Cutthroat Mc Rage on November 2, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    AWESOME as always Frank … Thanks Brother 🙂

  40. Kevin Brennan on November 2, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    You ever wonder what’s "behind that closed door", collapses, back fills etc, that you can’t get to Frank? Do you ever wish you could go back there with a shovel chain saw etc?

  41. Copen Bros on November 2, 2022 at 12:32 pm

    There’s a lot of mines in Milford Utah that haven’t been explored out west farther west there is even a ghost mining town called frisco

  42. jdcrowe82 on November 2, 2022 at 12:32 pm

    Awesome mine Frank. I hope you are able to go back to that mine & explore as much as you can. It looks really cool from a viewers perspective. Hope you’re having a great time down here in the states. I wish there were gold mines in KY, you wouldn’t have to worry about 3.2% beer. I’d hook you up with some good proof moonshine. lol

  43. LBCAndrew on November 2, 2022 at 12:36 pm

    I think many viewers, myself included got the idea that if it echos its solid and if its muffled its loose…. from one of your early videos. I distinctly remember you saying that. doh! Shit happens. You’re learning and we’re learning right along with ya.

  44. Stan Lamborn on November 2, 2022 at 12:36 pm

    That’s an interesting shaft you’ve found. The youngster really stayed with ya. Good for him.

  45. Iam Kronix on November 2, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    My ass would be lost

  46. LIV2500 on November 2, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Spent a lot of time out in that area shooting jackrabbits. Mines and tailings everywhere. Many are barred off now. Definitely a place to go prepared for the worst. People die of dehydration/heat in that desert about every year.

    Speaking of ghosts: While I don’t believe in the supernatural personally, I’ve heard some first hand accounts of some crazy stuff going on in that area. Hearing a baby crying from the junipers at 2am 50+ miles from anywhere (multiple experienced outdoorsman who knows what a bobcat sounds like), bare footprints in the fresh snow around their car that didn’t come from or go anywhere, nice flashlight cutting out in a mineshaft and it getting really cold and a terrible smell from nowhere (flashlight worked after), etc. It’s the area the skinwalker legends originated and not too far from the Uintas which are supposed to be a supernatural encounter hot spot. In terms of things that can be actually proven a year or two ago there was a double homicide where the perpetrator tied the victims up, drove them out there, stabbed them, and dropped them down a mineshaft. Took a huge search effort and several months to find the bodies.

  47. Jared M on November 2, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Great video man watching from Florida

  48. Spidy Kat on November 2, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    That is a really cool mine you’re right that would be so awesome

  49. Jim F on November 2, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    There something about bud light drinkers that just sucks. I literally just watched a wilderness canoe video, and the guy found a couple bud light cans in a pristine river.
    I’m sure you know that Canadian bud is brewed under license by Molson, so it’s Canadian strength.

  50. jack kridler on November 2, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    would that area where the mine was at be worth strip mining?

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