Ep.35 The Abandoned HILLSBOROUGH Gypsum Mine
Ep.35 The Abandoned HILLSBOROUGH Gypsum Mine
EPISODE 35: This episode features an underground explore of the 100-150 year old HILLSBOROUGH Gypsum Mine, a well preserved classic room-and-pillar mine, well hidden in New Brunswick. Includes Bonus Silo section! (MORE INFO BELOW)
We are a group of Abandoned Mine explorers in Nova Scotia. Abandoned Mine Hunting is somewhat of a cross between the hobby of urban exploration, caving (spelunking), and history enthusiast. If this is your kind of thing, be sure to subscribe so you will always be informed of each new episode.
IF YOU KNOW OF AN ABANDONED MINE IN ATLANTIC CANADA, we’d love to hear from you. Send a private message. We may just come and do an explore and episode featuring your site !
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SPECIAL NOTE: While this type of exploration is almost always kilometers back in deep forest, it cannot always be guaranteed that the land we are hiking is public (Crown). These forgotten old mines/claims are almost always over 100 years old. It is also common that most mine workings have some kind of natural cave-in covering their mouth, after nearly a century of erosion. So some explores may involve preparation of clearing that cave-in, and/or dealing with letting spring water (flooding) out of the adits. These facts, along with the inherent danger of abandoned mines, force us to remain anonymous. We are responsible for our own risks & actions (not yours), but be clear we are not promoting this activity. Only showing you what we do. As with any typical Urban Exploration type channel, our faces and commentary will always be masked. If you are seeing an Episode, it means we are already weeks or month(s) finished with that site and never going back. The delay is intentional, as nothing shown here will be in realtime.
It cannot be stressed enough – abandoned mines or mine sites can pose a ton of lethal threats. *We are not kids looking for kicks* Keep in mind that our group is made up of responsible adults, each with specific skills, and cross-Canada experience with over 100+ mine walks. Most 10 times larger and deeper than will ever be found in Nova Scotia! Specific research is always done beforehand. Required equipment and backups are a must. While it is indeed possible to safely explore an abandoned mine, DO NOT ENTER A MINE without being experienced, or going with an experienced explorer. If you don’t know what you’re doing, STAY OUT STAY ALIVE is the best policy.
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Any clue how deep that pool is?
Please email me the cordinace and any others in New Brunswick I’ve been to the copper mine already would like to check this one out
That deep pool may have been a sump, to collect water in one location to be pumped out of the workings.
Thanks for the great Explorer and sharing your video
Awesome. What kind of light do you use on the camera? That’s pretty bright!!
My dad and I went to check this one out for ourselves recently…..feels much bigger in person than it does in the video! Thanks for checking it out, I wouldn’t have even known that it existed.
If you guys every wanna come down to Pennsylvania USA I can show you guys at least 20 different mines 1 is better than this on the inside
North American weirdness. It’s borough not boro.
Blurs his face leaves his car doesn’t make any sense
Love your videos thank you
Awesome video! i do similar videos i explore abandoned places it would be amazing if you could check it out and give me some feedback. Thanks!
These explores always leave me hanging somewhere, how deep is that pool? Is it just a low spot in the floor? Or is there shaft there? There are any number of viable techniques for sounding that pool that would fit nicely in your pack.
The mud piles also bother me, if I were there most interesting part for me would be tracking down the surface features that go with those piles of mud. Maybe I’m weird.
looks to me like a river is slowly reclaiming that mine. So much river rock and mud.
love the video. thank you. I have one question about the coordinates. when i try the converter, it says the first set is out of range. is there supposed to have 7 numbers? thank you
Another great video of a fascinating mine. Really enjoyed it.
Any idea the coordinates for this site? I knew of a few gypsum mines in Albert County, but not this one.
I’ve been to the silos, wish I had known about the mine.
Good job. Greetings from Poland
Hey this is an awesome video, me and my girlfriend also like exploring caves and mines, I tried locating the area using the UTM coordinates, but can’t seem to get a location, whether I’m typing them in incorrectly or not, any help would be great!
Just went here today. Was inspired by your video on it, actually found your card that you on one of the ledges, crazy how it’s still there till this day!!
Fantastic! I love how the water just flowed into the crack, makes me imagine all kinds of hidden caves and caverns that no one will ever see!!
Stop posting gps coordinates to these places, they’re better kept secret
I totally found this as a teen with a new licence and a mt bike almost 20 years ago. Did not dare go in!! always wondered!!!!
What’s up with that opening on the right that you left marked unexplored on your map?
never new about this-very interesting
item thanks Kenny
Awesome work.thank you for the explore.
Those dirt filled shafts look like they would probably have let in a fair bit of light, could that have been their purpose?
I am from Hillsborough I live in Hillsborough so just a reply to this if you need it thank you for finding the mind and please if there’s anything you need respond to this comment from Hillsboro cousins a couple of more mines in Hillsborough
Just wondering.. Are your mates wanted criminals?
At 9:44 that is a winch. Used either to get ore up a shaft or with a mucker.
Interesting way they mined that, huge caverns, im impressed it had not collapsed more over the years, is Gypsum a soft mineral? Great video, nice to see you guys posting again!