Old Mine Site and Spanish Mines – Uinta Mountains, Utah
Old Mine Site and Spanish Mines – Uinta Mountains, Utah
The mine site at the end of the video is truly amazing and very undisturbed. Many relics lay scattered here and there. I plan on spending more time at the site in the future, who knows, I might find another mine!!! I found one old Spaniard trail marker on an old pine tree not to far from the site, but I have a feeling if I explore around some more I might find others. The original mine must have been deep, the mine dump is massive and very old. Mature pine trees are now growing from the mine dump.
The music at the first of the video is Misty Mountains from the Hobbit. The end song is a traditional Viking Song.
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Where is the basin you call home? We call ourselves basinites, basin Montana. I know where basin drive-in theater is by mount pleasant Utah.
I go bushwhacking in the high Uintas mainly for bigfoot research, but I do occasionally come across man made stuff I know nothing about. Enjoyed your video! Makes me antsy to get back up there, but too much snow to even snowshoe this year
I don’t think those were Spanish markings on the tree. Aspens don’t live that long. Maybe mexican? Great video otherwise.
One of the absolute best videos I have seen in the Unitas. Ty so much and send more plz.
Thanks for sharing this footage and your interesting explanations of what we see. Marvellous mountains, full of life. At least the Americans themselves worked the mines. Your findings show that the Spaniards got into very remote corners, which seems to be generally underappreciated. The dark site of the Spanish exploration was, of course, that they didn’t want to do the work themselves, but that the mountains were also full of native people, that were hunted to do the work in the mines. Also this is an aspect, that is left out of history pretty much. Usually the Spanish mission system is mentioned, which was a system built upon slavery for the females and young children, while the men that were caught, and not murdered, had to slave their live away into the Spanish mines. It was not "pretty".
It must have surely been exciting to find the mine that possibly connected with your relatives. That goes deep! Thanks, also, for sharing that personal story.
Very Interesting ….
At 14.10 you have some wagon parts but I don’t see any tire hoops, probly gone years ago. Seems to me from what I’v seen in you’r videos so far that theirs a lot of gossan or Iron cap shown which means ancient mineral hot springs in a volcanic region. The gold was in solution in iron sulfide water and precipitated out when the pressure dropped and/or cooled at the surface. A lot of miners would beat the gossan up in a mortar and the free gold would be washed out.
I found this site a couple of years ago and metal detected it but I thought it was an old sawmill. This is a cool video
Not at hoyt peak signs every where
Bought this album Pawl D Beats, thanks for listing the music. Enjoying your videos found your channel today 🇺🇸🇦🇺👍 gold rides an iron horse..ok I need to go back to a gold field.
What about the lost josephine mine? LMFAO. People act like there are lost mines that were never worked out. Which is bullshit.
That was really really neat. I enjoyed watching thank you.