#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
Great video man watching from Florida
Says 99.9k subs hehe congrats in advanced frank!
This is my favorite mine in Utah. I go here a lot!!
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
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?
me and my buddies climbed down the ladder about 150 feet
That’s an interesting shaft you’ve found. The youngster really stayed with ya. Good for him.
Frank have you been to gold hill utah?
Awesome thanks for sharing!
I grew up just down South from this place
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.
Bit tame by your standards Frank. where’s the challenge?
Love to be there..👍👍
The reaction from that chick at the end makes it seem like she’d be down.
Glad to see you checking out mines in the U.S we have a lot in Nevada also.
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.
Oh cool crystals, wow looks super dry in this mine, looks like your going to enjoy the mines here awesome 😎 thanks for sharing Frank
Epic m/
11 dislikes? Probably bud light drinkers! Thanks for the entertainment, frank!
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
Hey Frank, I spoke to Jeff Williams the geologist Youtuber on here about how you two need to do a cave exploration collab and he said he would. Are you game??
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.
What was the air tank for?..
I thought all the eureka mines were welded shut?
Wow that mine just kept going in all directions! You could camp out in there and explore for a week in there. Really cool.
would that area where the mine was at be worth strip mining?
That kid definitely seemed like the type you had to tell not to touch the loose rock.
Wow, Nice manway in that shaft !! Those ore samples look pretty good – just casualties in the clean-up I guess. There is some good mineralization there still, and the ore might be workable.
Thanks for an awesome tour !!!!
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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.
3.2% Budweiser is probably the Mormons doing
Explored this for a few years now. Cool find!
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.
That is a really cool mine you’re right that would be so awesome
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
12:17 how did you guys get down there without a ladder
Thanks Frank👍👍
Thankyou Frank
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.
Warning : do not go down ropes without a ladder 😉 hahaha
Oh cool love azurite and malachite
AWESOME as always Frank … Thanks Brother 🙂
was cool that the young fella came down with you and did the explore
25:14 🙂
My ass would be lost
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.
Great mine to explore, a shame the others didn’t want to descend those ladders looked bombproof 👍
That’s the perfect mine for me to start in. I love it awesome footage thank you
Just found your channel. Outstanding sir. 👍
Cheers from Northern Utah.
aw man! that’s 30 mins away from me. wish i could’ve went with you guys. looks awesome!
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.
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I should also add that you were in Utah and the beer there sucks extra ass.