Mines Like This Aren't Supposed To Be In California
Mines Like This Aren't Supposed To Be In California
The title of this video is a nod to those that say that all of the abandoned mines in Southern California have been sealed up by the government or plundered by “collectors” to the point that they are just featureless holes in the ground… They have not. And the impressive mine in this video is proof of that, despite abandoned mines like this not supposedly not existing in Southern California anymore. These abandoned mines are not unicorns. They are still out there. Yes, one must work much harder to find them now in such places, but they are still out there. We can only marvel at the golden age of mine exploring in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s when such abandoned mines were everywhere…
For a mine of this size, there is surprisingly little information available on it. Part of this is due to the fact that, unlike states such as Nevada or Arizona that have digitized their archives and made them available to the public, California has done nothing with their historical archives other than make them extremely difficult to access. Many of them are in Sacramento, but others are scattered across the state and one must be credentialed to simply review them in many instances. Naturally, even if any of them have been digitized, none of these have been made widely accessible to the public. It’s California. What can I say?
However, even with the obstacles presented by the Golden State taken into account, there is still surprisingly little information available on this mine. Once you’ve seen how large and impressive this mine is, I think you’ll agree that that is somewhat odd.
What I have uncovered seems to indicate that this was primarily a lead and silver mine, with copper, gold and zinc also being present in small, but rich quantities. Works appears to have started in the early 1900s and continued into the 1950s.
Credit for the discovery of this site goes to Mine Explorers (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxhNU-gNyPq2lXA7JhLB90Q)
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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!
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The " Side pockets" as you call them are called Honey pots. 💩
I recently came across your channel because I’m in search of some mines that seem to be forgotten there’s nothing about it on thesiggings website and I can barely find anything on the internet. I’ve resorted to looking on google earth maps. I recently found a map plan of the mines and they are there and huge (new Almaden mines)
Really nice mine and episode!
Great footage brother! keep up the great work!
It’s been a long time since i met a girl hobo
13:46, Carbide residue from emptying the lamps onto the floor?
nnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…. 😛
I’d be willing to bet you’d like to explore the Paris catacombs.
I will bet that this location is mentioned in the MILS / MAS system .
Does not look old
Looks like a Southern Nevada Mine, that’s for sure!
News paper looks early 1900’s. Beautiful mine. Great job finding and exploring these places. Pretty exciting and scary at times I’m sure
The vein in the first large stope is pretty impressive. Y ou can see why they were chasing that. Notable that in the stope you see square manufactured stulls, round tree cut stulls, and pillars. The use of the round stulls dates a section as older. The board with the slates may (and I am not sure) have been to measure fuse. A lot of the small cuts off the adit are more than likely prospects rather than stopes. In a number of them y ou can see drill holes. If they were going to stope and area they would have kept going. Terminology can be different. Where I am from they call the top of an adit the ground since the ground is actually over your head. This was an extensive mine to say the least. Can’t wait for part 2. Stay safe guys
Great interesting video.so much wood used in mine mean u ve to b careful in such conditions. pray for ur safety
Part 2!!!!!! lol
Are there miniature railroad spikes holding the rail to the ties ?
That stope with those pillars was amazing looking
Remember …. There are only two ways to get anything on this planet — you either mine it out of the ground (or underwater) or you grow it .
I enjoy how you do not have music in the beginning of your videos and I enjoy that you do not have music throughout your videos I enjoyed the way you investigate keep up the good work
At 21:33 in the face was another eyelet in the rock. Could that been a wench pulling something, using that eyelet as a force multiplier
Next video?!? Tease! This one was VERY extensive and a lot of fun. Thanks for bringing us along!
Hella sick video man. Super cool to see how savage the old timers were.
A question tho.. How the hell did you not get turned around and lost up in there?
Did you any markings or anything to know your way back? Shit makes me nervous just watching.
Well I loved this segment and am looking forward to the next. Stay safe guys.
Awesome video man.. Cant wait for #2 in this mine
Very cool old mine.👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸
That is an entire mine full of right hand rules. Another great job of exploring!
You are literally one of the best detailed in your video filming You missed nothing that I could tell thank you greate mine great vid Stay safe.
awesome
Great video as usual I can’t wait for part 2
14:35- Also a piece of wood? 😉
How much time did you spend in the mine, and making the video?
Yes, Kalifornia is home of the libturds now. Like the KKK
Damn this mine checks all the boxes… cool relics, colorful ore, huge stopes, deep winzes, in good overall condition, and even natural cave / fissure feature. Looking forward to part 2!
13:05 Just look at that malachite. I would enjoy inspecting the mineralization and ore bodies as much as the mine itself. Let’s have a look! Where’s that geologist.
16:32, graffiti is soot written by flame from carbide lamp?
Is this a Copper mine ? Azurite ?
Great mine. Thank you for helping to keep us going..
I always wonder, and they almost never say, what were they digging out of the mine. What kind of mine is it? So basic.
what do you mean "plundered by "collectors""? it isn’t plundering if it is abandoned.
the lazy bastards shouldn’t have stopped mining. could of had a much better industry without all these nasty chemicals and machines.
Mine has a lot of neat things laying around. Love the big air tank
What were they digging for? I’m from ky. Coal is all that is here.
see a lot of Sphalerite (zinc ore) in the faces and walls and laying about. And come oxidising lead on the walls if I’m seeing right hehe
@ 10:30 An explosives stall possibly?….. @ 27:17 If those pants are vintage, they might be worth allot of money!……
27:08 idk if thats a face
Wow that mine is extensive.
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Would be nuts if they didn’t leave with a couple buckets full of ore
Investigate Tartaria/mud flood. Will explain alot about our inheritance. We dug very little!
32:23 is that water also there was a ladder going down attached to the wall