This abandoned mine dates back to the 1800s and silver, lead, copper and zinc ore was pulled out of this complex of mines… Several large, abandoned mines connect underground at this site, but the others are totally inaccessible from the surface. The mine we entered from will likely not be accessible for much longer either. We knew that the lower levels of the mine that we entered from were unexplored. So, our goals were to push as deep as possible into this mine and also to see if we could gain access to the neighboring mines.
My friends that you see in this video (familiar faces to any regular viewers) had done some reconnaissance on a prior trip to make sure that the site was accessible and also to determine that, yes, it was possible to push into the lower, unexplored levels. It takes a lot of time to determine which levels are still open versus caved, the optimum way to navigate down through a crumbling mine, etc. So, projects like this are not something that one does in a day.
As you could probably see at the start of the video, this is fairly far from home for me and so I was fortunate enough to be able to piggyback on the efforts of my friends and swoop in for the trip where we pushed into the unexplored areas of this mine, which is always an awesome experience. To be clear, we got up to the edge of the unexplored areas in this video, but we get fully into them in the next video and they were definitely worth the long trip!
This mine complex could be put into “Lost Worlds Project” territory, no? However, to avoid confusion, I will keep the name of this series as is and reserve the use of the “Lost Worlds Project” title exclusively for that particular abandoned mine complex in Nevada that we have been working on for several years now.
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Thanks for watching!
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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.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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23:16 that beer brand seems to be around still…
Why does this look so familiar? 🤔
Cool! 🇨🇦
Loved the start!
Looks like downtown Reno to me…
Very nice , with all the people around above on the ground level , I wouldn't of expected this just around the corner ! 😳😉😎
The sarcasm runs deep with you, Justin! It's amazing that this complex maze of tunnels exists below the streets of Kabul unbeknownst to the passers-by.
Have you ever thought of doing an exploration with any of your subscribers? I would love to explore with you
What? You didn’t find the world’s oldest fez sitting on ancient pair of Levis?
20 minutes in I figured it out. Lol, great troll!
Cinematic gold, flawless transition, editing masterpiece, ❤awesome mine brother, thank you kind sir, much love from Australia 🎉
A nice big stope you started in wow, and a lot more further in and a bit off a mess all over, not strange with all those big stopes , a great explore indeed thanks Justin.
I fell for it too😄
Looks like a labyrinth in there and easy to get lost. Great explore as always, looking forward to part two!
Lots of jokes about tunneling ethnicities to be told here.
666th like! m/ {>_<} m/
great complaints department 😄
thank you for sharing your dips into the underworld
Very awesome and interesting mine. I love all the artifacts. In Australia where I am all those artifacts would be taken and sold by artifact hunters.
I like your jumping right into the video. No pre-yakking is good. But I also enjoyed today's intro. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for this amazing Video.
The Intro is absolut great 😂😂😂
The mine is very good and very dangerous .
A great thank you for taking the risks to bring the pictures to us.
The miners have done a big amount of work but in the end they got a bit crazy with all these levels and sublevels and this very thin space between the levels.😊😊
You did right not to Show the location of the mine.
I am looking forward to Part 2
Greeting from Germany the Harz mountains and the Rammelsberg Mine.
Glück Auf
Frank Galetzka
I don't know if that was meant as a joke at the beginning or what but you look like you're in India or somewhere
The battered bucket was used for carrying out the gold.
Loved the intro! Think you might have something unique to add to the videos 😅
Lol. Love the beginning. I was like wtf. Some Indiana Jones stuff right there.
@8:26 Perfect 'for scale' sequence. Epic space.
Fantastic opening sir
nice, i like the opening vid…great footage of the ore, tools and you guys go all the way
Was all that rock removed from the stopes? Or is some of that natural hollow space?
I would love to have at least two old (riveted preferred) mine carts to use to haul dirt on my property. At the very minimum put solid rubber tires on it but keep it as original as possible!
Having a lot of that trackb would be awesome as well to make a train ride for my granddaughter on our families 20 acres.