#180 Exploring Fascinating Ancient Arizona Mines Rich in Minerals.
#180 Exploring Fascinating Ancient Arizona Mines Rich in Minerals.
Some really old mines with awesome showings of Azurite and Malachite ( Copper and Silver) with Gly Coolness in central Arizona.
Frank, have you ever thought of doing an episode(or just demonstrating) using a carbide lantern? i’d love to see how it was for the old timers. i know acetylene is incredibly bright, but a totally different type of light and it’d make for a neat experience
I love your videos most interesting things I’ve every watched !!! Just found yiur channel going thru all the videos
The varying shades of green amaze me.
Sorry, the temptation was just too much to resist.
From the sound of the rock being released to it hitting the water is 2.8 seconds.
That makes it 124 feet deep. (Having calculated the drag on the rock, which does slow it down a bit. The simple calculation gives 127′. But I suppose you would need to allow for slight inaccuracies in the timing, so there is a tolerance of +/- 8′ for +/- 0.1s either way. 🙂
And if you fell in, no, you probably wouldn’t be dead, but after you had bounced off the wall
a couple of times with your head, you wouldn’t be too well either! Maybe the cold of hitting the
water would bring you round, just in time to realise you were about to drown!! Oh yes, mines are such fun things. 🙂
The accent and mumbling remind me of the old timer in the film Blazing Saddles speaking "genuine frontier gibberish" !!!
Another great video guys!!!!!!! Can’t wait to see what else EAM has in store for us in 2020!!!!!!!
I’ve been in Arizona for over sixty years now. There is a legend for some mine exactly like the first mine you explored. It was Supposedly so rich. They came upon a vein of pure Oreo. The only problem was is they removed the Ore it was sure to collapse. Now do you dare to go back one more time. I live one Black Canyon City AZ. There is a huge mine here. I want would love to show you. Jim BCC AZ
bat brands with frank 😉
A nice one Frank. I bet Jeff Williams is salivating at that colorful ore.
My father used to work for the government and drove around the Arizona desert fencing off old mining holes. Pretty cool to see inside some of these.
I live here and Spend a lot of time exploring these sites but I do not go in….ever. I appreciate that you do and I love your videos.
My family’s home town is Morenci Az my dad and me used to scout that area all the time. This brings back memories. If your still in Arizona try exploring Mulligans peak!
Those mines were done back in that good day when men were actually men and they were proud of doing a hard days work. Now it would be an open pit mine and today’s work force would have to have 6 weeks vacation and no more than a 30 hour work week or they would be off on stress leave from all the dangers of running an excavator and snap chatting. This guy is so easy going. Pretty sure if he ever gets stuck in an old mine he’ll just text his family to say goodbye and tell them , don’t be upset at least I saved you the burial cost !!!
Fearless Frank you make it look to easy
wondering if the water in that shaft could be drinkable if you were in need?…boil,filter…fetched with a rope.
I used to think there wasn’t much that would keep Frank out of a mine. Now we know some overgrown burrs are enough to stop him where he stands. 🌵
😂🤣😂🤣
Hint,the reason the mines are abandoned is they played out,there’s nothing there to make it worthwhile even at today’s prices
You guys have some Big Cajones to do what you just did!!!
Btw is that some Opal I see when you first climbed down? The colors are beautiful!
I want to go there. I’m in Vegas. Take me. 😉😊🙋🏽♀️
Scoping the stoping…………….love it
You have big balls my friend
This video gave me anxiety!! 🤣🤣
well, we have this film so you were not trapped 🙂
Best man on globe from my eyes 👍👍👍👍
you need to carry a cordless hammer-drill with you when convenient……..
San Pedro river prospectors pairadis 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Do , did, can or will you show the locations of these so they can be inquired of?
I tried looking up some of the names you listed but could not get anything concrete on any of them from just the names, would really like to look into them seriously because I have a powerful hankerin to get myself a mine or two!
@tvrexploring what do you think?
Why are people afraid of bats? They are mammals.
where is this? id love to claim it
Y’all do some pretty crazy shit in some pretty crazy/awesome places, but 14:18 is when I would be officially out…..nope. Fk that, I’m done….✌️
I have no clue.
I would love to locate that. What a beautiful spot!! Great job.
14:41 gotem
Holy mine shaft! You found the batcave. 🙂
Most mines in AZ have aspestes ,and all copper mine’s are GOLD MINES .And all Arizona State water well’s where test holes for mapping the placer gold .go to United States department of interior geological gold servay crew map’s there the (GOLD) That will be 1 million bit coin to me , nothing for nothing gives you nothing 🤫 and 50/50 split 🤑🏜️😎
Really pretty miners there. You guys do have good time messing with each other, makes for a fun video!
Not easy getting a sample out of there, you had to work at it a little bit. You found the bat cave there. Lots of the little buggers! Send Gly out there as bat bait, good idea! Those cacti are nasty! Do they just dry up and blow in there or do pack rats carry all that in there. Good stuff, thanks.
looks like the entrance had collapsed. And it appears the rest has also collapsed.
Please stop mentioning where you are other than which state you are in because half the fun of exploring old mines is finding old mines. The US population increases by over a million people a year and tens of thousands of ATV’s are sold every year thus, when you tell people where you are you can bet that in a few years on a Sunday afternoon there will be a 4X4 traffic jam in that area. When you tell the name of the mine you are exploring those of us with the Google Earth Pro mine overlay can go right to it without the pleasure of finding it ourselves. I’m sure there are some people who would like for you to take them by the hand and lead them to the adit but please… Let the mystery be.
Gold ….. Is there gold ? ……We want a gold mine ….. They searched the gold and when it ran out so did they …..
Come to Parker AZ about 20 miles west of there…. a lot of big mines… to big and deep for me
my thing is, i’d be overwhelmed with the though of a collapse and being trapped. omfg i really should get back to the caves in my area and get over this fear. i explored them when i was in my 20’s now in my late 40’s and i think to myself WTF was i thinking back then lol. THANKS FRANK!
The blue and green are copper ores, they were definitely after copper there!
3:51 Cool looking axe.
I <3 <3 all of the minerals in this video BEAUTIFUL!!
I think I saw my EX flying in there.
How often do you come across rattlesnakes!
Is it right? That where you find lots of rats and bats. You find venomous snakes? I’m not to botherd about confined spaces but the thought of coming face to face with a snake!! No chance!!
wow that is crumbly stuff! I think allot of guys would turn white if you tried to get them crawling in there! haha 🙂
i want to see the episode with the spas-12
That first decent my heart was in my mouth for you, Awsome job