Temple Mountain…Old Uranium Mine District

Temple Mountain…Old Uranium Mine District

Temple Mountain is an old uranium mining district near Goblin Valley, Utah in the San Rafael Swell area. It’s one of my favorite places to explore in the area and look for radioactive rocks. The area has miles of old mining trails that are perfect for off-road exploring and camping. All of the mines in the area are sealed up or gated. Most of the mines are abandoned and offer an interesting look into the areas past.

If you are looking for some uranium ore check out uraniumstore.com

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50 Comments

  1. George Kafantaris on January 11, 2023 at 10:13 pm

    Prety sure uve answered this a thousand times,but could u tell me the make and model of ur uv flashlight?

  2. Aether togoddy on January 11, 2023 at 10:13 pm

    dude you need to dial down the audio on the beeping holy crap

  3. Will C on January 11, 2023 at 10:13 pm

    Drew–As much as I loved the photography and the subject (former Navy nuke), I seriously enjoyed the soundtrack you employed for this work. Is this something available out there for purchase?

  4. Blacksmith Cowboy on January 11, 2023 at 10:14 pm

    Pretty familiar with the area in your video. My Father & Grandfather both mined uranium, the later mined in canyons that are now the bottom of Lake Powell.

  5. Paul Wright on January 11, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    Well done, this is terrific content, 10/10 👌

  6. Viv on January 11, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    This should definitely have more views… Stupid algorithm

  7. Jim Nichols on January 11, 2023 at 10:16 pm

    bottom midframe @11:34 there is a purple glowing circle highlighted in the UV light, is it a survey pin wonder?
    And late to the party as always but I want to thank you for the videos and the time it takes to create them.

  8. Tim L on January 11, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    Awesome video ! We camp there every so often. Never thought about bringing a black light. Beautiful pictures. Back 30 years ago me and my sons used to go in some mines near Mercur. Brought out some very nice stalactites !

  9. Joe Murphy on January 11, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    Very interesting!

  10. Jimbo Slice on January 11, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    U were smart not walking on those wood planks. An injury sustained in such a desolate unforgiving place could cost some1s life.

  11. Venator Class on January 11, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    Iran should be next

    Them and their nuclear program

  12. Broguns24 on January 11, 2023 at 10:20 pm

    9:04 I’m distracted by a blinking white dot in the sky

  13. Will K. on January 11, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    Dude if this video doesn’t deserve a "like" idk what does…cool stuff, thanks for showing us around.

  14. da mad dog on January 11, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    Question, do you glow in the dark??????

  15. dedsert on January 11, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    "no way into these mines"
    bro, angle grinder.

  16. Krav Stema on January 11, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    Speak Friend and enter

  17. Tony on January 11, 2023 at 10:25 pm

    Great video chief. I explored a couple of the mines in buckhorn wash before they shut down. I’m going to check out more of the swell come spring

  18. Brute Claw on January 11, 2023 at 10:27 pm

    Great video on the area. Growing up my parents would take us out in that area just about every weekend. And we were able to explore that 1st portal you looked at. There was not even a gate back then. And we found a lot of interesting things to look at. I don’t know if it was that portal or one of the other ones in that area (Been over 30 years at this point). But we found a blast pattern still loaded and ready to fire. Needless to say, we got out of there as fast as we could.

    Also while in the Temple Mountain area we found some nice specimens of petrified wood that we decided to take home with us. And by setting a 35mm camera on top of the samples, we discovered that they were radioactive samples. Those ended up outside in the front garden after that.

  19. kh40yr on January 11, 2023 at 10:28 pm

    The true origin of that incredible bomb. The dirt of Mother Earth

  20. Dennis Dowhy on January 11, 2023 at 10:28 pm

    How is it you are not growing a third eye or dead from poisoning when walking right up to radioactive deposits at 140k rads/sec?

  21. Coty Hoepfner on January 11, 2023 at 10:29 pm

    is this by green river?

  22. Brandon Wilson on January 11, 2023 at 10:30 pm

    Wonderful video and you have my heart aching to get back home to the desert. Please, I have to know, what type of camera were you using?

  23. RHEC 1776 on January 11, 2023 at 10:31 pm

    That’s super cool

  24. Nitul Das on January 11, 2023 at 10:32 pm

    Temples, uranium deposits and biiigg doors…. 😆😂👍🏼 isn’t that suppose to be a secret

  25. T Stahler on January 11, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    Apparently things didn’t end well for the last iteration of humanity. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

  26. Chris Larson on January 11, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    My guess to the layer with uranium and fossils: huge flood

  27. alopam on January 11, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    If there was ever a video worth 2 likes (or 100x likes), this is it!

  28. southern scientist on January 11, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    Absolutely stunning man…this place, earth, is so beautiful. I find myself at a loss for words. Ty for putting this together 🙏🏻

  29. Nathan Wilson on January 11, 2023 at 10:39 pm

    How long was the mine in operation? With all the old wood structures, makes it seem much older than I would have figured uranium would have been sought.

  30. Ben Krevatin on January 11, 2023 at 10:40 pm

    I work in a uranium mine in south Australia using a different way then a conventional mine, we use a leaching process wish you could come out and document how we do it, it is a mind blowing way from drilling to sucking to refining it and packing it.

  31. Luca Martini on January 11, 2023 at 10:40 pm

    What a place!

  32. Melon Lord on January 11, 2023 at 10:41 pm

    So is this where radioactive stuff glows green “myth” comes from?

  33. Chris Daniel on January 11, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    It would’ve been cool if you dropped a GoPro with a flashlight pointed in the same direction as the lens was filming down that mineshaft on a fishing line to see what was beneath the earth

  34. bmay81 on January 11, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    I have the Uranium Fever song stuck in my head from this 😂

  35. shane mcdaniel on January 11, 2023 at 10:44 pm

    I did learn and enjoy this documentary, however the sad music was annoying i had constantly mute it.

  36. Tan Man on January 11, 2023 at 10:45 pm

    you got a dose for this vid

  37. Jonathan Duaz on January 11, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    How you found out there uranium what geology machine you used

  38. Mas Tluob on January 11, 2023 at 10:50 pm

    A bit too theatrical for me

  39. Paul Vichroski on January 11, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    This was Great from Start to finish!!! What is the name of the music that starts at the 11:30 mark of the video?

  40. Ghost Senshi on January 11, 2023 at 10:53 pm

    I kept noticing the hot pixels while you talked by the truck at night, was that just your camera or actual radiation hitting the pixels!?

  41. Mário on January 11, 2023 at 10:53 pm

    The poetry of opening part is the best I ever saw here

  42. the pope on January 11, 2023 at 10:57 pm

    I was watching this and couldn’t help but notice white dots appearing on screen, starting at 7:35. is this perhaps gamma rays hitting the camera lens? Though unlikely it is my hypothesis.

  43. peter joyce on January 11, 2023 at 10:58 pm

    Cut down on the useless time lapse & drone shots, 3 and half minutes worth from @11:47 alone. In a 20 min vid thats ridiculous.

  44. Jack Stoltz on January 11, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    I wonder how many unknowing hikers spent a might sleeping in a radioactive mine

  45. Shortwave Hiker on January 11, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    What kind of camera was used to film this? The nighttime looks great on video

  46. John Marks on January 11, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    Have you read up on The Nuclear Boyscout?

  47. 𓆏 on January 11, 2023 at 11:05 pm

    Radioactive drew what? What did it draw?

  48. Sinky on January 11, 2023 at 11:08 pm

    I was hoping you’d drop a rock down that mine shaft.

  49. Rich Nakatsu on January 11, 2023 at 11:08 pm

    I really enjoyed your video! Learned a lot!

  50. Charles Chidsey on January 11, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    Great drone footage and videography in general. The montage of camera angles capturing your hike up to the mine entrance was quite professional. Keep up the great work! All success to you in 2023 and beyond.

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