An Insider’s Look At Active Placer & Lode Gold Mine: Part 3 - Quartz Veins

we go in here have this please rub you can see that slabs up there another baby smiles right there this one's right here pushing 80 slabs yeah there's a little baby pretty big networking always butter here you can step into it if you want but you see if you sit in it for any amount of time and twist your feet around you get stuck you know all that's been I'm gonna be just dip it I'd run that before our voices don't echoing wanna for those are huge slabs and it breaks off way up there you know 7,500 feet up did they work this or where they did where he was found in a channel up here bucks new hobble up there they they pressed it up there I've been back up there and just goes up this crack for days and just be huge slabs Wow and they're standing on vert you know on edge vertically they just fall over down on it yeah it's a total failure the ash layer up there just building on a big coal yes why is like a pillar right there actually that's that's laughing oh man let's love and the there to repeat my return here through better but the door that's fine those axles on decline us cannot get down that are you know it was pretty clear you know when we first were in your working really the elevation is simmering in your legs for the scene they'll see a nice spot where there's a browse city house in Berkeley this is all call this claps nothing like here hall and having the track and it was also underneath the track was just all mud so we had to balance everything in here after you know something like this knob off and out that's why you have this brace in here okay you got your squeeze box yes yeah it needs you can scamper back up there Dustin and you'll give you a chance to talk through and you see the other side of those slabs okay yeah there he goes through minute goes to your little dog hole then you pop out and do like a hallway technique that's big old sad to tell out of there yeah it's with a little bit of sign of gobbing maybe ya just noticing that huh this stuff very slippery right here and just all that apart please going from there and coming up this way that is a mess back here as you can see is bad news it's amazing they are working back in these conditions enough isn't it just squeezed up that passageway there and I've talked into an old haulage at it they've abandoned and you can see all these slabs they've come crashing down okay Erin estimated they're 500 tons each I'm just completely filled in this whole area stir the other side here you can see the timber supports there and yeah I ran back that way and it's been abandoned that's wild no get over here not at all I know there's absolutely a backhoe at all this is a background has those slides behind me demonstrate interesting okay just came down from there and we're continuing down the main hall of Doug which my friend that it's so small here you can see with this range that the trains straight besides this is hurt too much for total fiction yeah we had our toe snap back here you know forced in between this lagging in the back is where to set up and approximately in this area and we are drilling a cross track that's the limiting you know access to the rest of the mine you having any way you can bring material through you know Amani would really stop drilling process you can't stop pull out keep bringing it down to the dissipates polymers one of these holes that we have drill here is where we get water for from little bit of herpes treatment huh you see the outside help stuffing it's stirred up old flow down there yes those it's an abandoned equine hunt we back build in there I go down sixty eighty feet all the way this is our refuge chamber right here huh yeah Piper in through the bottom of it's a bit field of equity game water behind it help my said oh it's sealed often a lot of debris to get into it makes sense you know first aid station is food and water you got the thirsty ground water table recommend I'm going to it and it has to be airtight seal the kitchens a fire or any other exposure that makes sense and basically you know this is where forward by people or whoever was working underground would come in to take our future there's a very severe interview basic I mean he needs to make it feel more like home now this is an abandoned ahead drift section of an attic that went through and we sealed it off by putting the block in there and picking it airtight we chipped to make it more accommodating you have to chip it all out chipped it all out by hand Wow actually wall electrics pater sound nice they were very very hopeful prep you came over there Duncan here there's some primitive gobbing in here this is section where they switch here so it's with cars out on the material there's a dam back there which we're getting half the water volume flow with how this mine crumbling a little tight okay if you go you go back there you take a left I don't you want to do that or not you go back in there you'll see a little crack you dive do it you know start seeing the quartz go up and there's more slabs then you come to an air door it's there and it's beautiful beyond that it's like and there's like a winds right there that they started a dig but it's an older section of mine all right just came from over there maybe away over the damn evil water back here and case you can pick up on it before it doesn't add it used to keep running this way as well obviously there's not accessible in any way now and conceive of some huge slabs that come down on this drift the left here not sure how far it wouldn't squeeze back here but we'll take a look bear with me okay we're gonna knock chamber now this is nuts seems you all this huge slabs that broke them off and come down look up there as well that's nuts Wow not safe ground that is for sure huge huge slabs I squeezed through that tiny slot right there here's looking back to that chamber of spilled all these slabs that came down and it must be a very violent thing to see or it would be a very violent thing to see that was coming down so those came down and sort of skewered the fact that there's a drift level it runs off back here I just watched him go up there that way we'll come on this way remains about here and over here we're gonna come here the rails I've seen all that they would just back in stock so you thought the baby was dropping down here but I think it's a plugged they've got much every but yeah goes down drops off there there's a little bit for the channels and I just stopped right there so I got one that was on the right now alright we just looked down there and no but this much they're bright looks like you've got some primitive going here slabs now come down here and there that runs up away get up times a stoker if that's just old cave material but it goes up it way that's about a foot scraping on the world keeps going this way since then I was just looking up into you can see some slabs left them down here big slab of quartz right there actually though we've got Jeff love with us they're a little way but then look how its delaminating right here the slabs are breaking down and it made an almost like an archway of cave material or kV and material right there this is really bad ground huh and yeah I said let's keep from that way they all pick up right there all right just came to you there I can see more pieces of quartz back here pretty interesting actually all on there one big slabs have come down you see everything is just breaking apart and fractured and drifty from them back that way so I'll get over this mess and pick up over there all right just came through there and look how bad that is so that stuff's just fractured that's ready to come down at any time there's actually nothing supporting that at all above it either so yeah this is a sketchy sketchy ground definitely more and more quartz appearing here I'm sure you notice there's no echo and my voice either but yeah I definitely got the cords back here okay yeah core severe interesting good I might not declines in there out there that's filled in keeps going this way Yeah right there slightly right there pretty bad ground here okay now that those courts and that's just sedimentary layers right there villain there may be a stove or something up there old rotten Timbers right here yeah go back there we chamber here you can see they took a lot of material out of here yeah those up a way it's a part of a stump chamber right there looks like eros nothing else came back here and breathing harder see the remains of the Timbers on the ground right there [Applause] yeah that just goes back there and irfs cave or just that's where a stoked chamber ends but that's as far back as that good interesting lots of dimensions and layers to this mine just realized that's a huge slab right there they came down I was enjoying a slab I thought was just you know the edge of the scope that is actually a huge slab that came down that is wild really unsafe ground here interesting stuff alright let's go back and rejoin the others and see the rest of that's mine continuing down the main here this above us was a big slab 700 here's a lot of quartz that comes through here on eyes first Bain who runs through close-up now they will continue to find the vein in this direction right here will run laterally laterally along the little bit so we've left the plaza behind now in the lower territory back into salt here see this is where everything changes over to hand power you know we don't probably draw the train back in their behalf but you see there's other mineral alteration right here the crowd yeah leaching out of the pump you know it could be you know just part of the low you see the parks main stringers right in here it runs along here it's highly mineralized looks like sulfites in it hi it's been breezy a tattoo which is smashed and reassembled under pressure who's not always good for gold precipitated here's another damn and then all this water how this mine is coming from beyond this collapse it's up here oh this is example smiling see you above us yeah this is all number 10 rebar right here and there place one next to each other to hold the roof up through the collapse see why I see a ground up there your Timbers are spaced two feet apart to take more weight piece of rails employee right here for a beam to go cross because there's low Headroom another section that has been tracked like this Witcher yeah what's fair to hit huh right here you can look down and see the winds right here oh yeah the winds right there or a majority of water from the other nothing yeah large Horn of it yeah a beard huh this is a major class section right here that's laughs all the way up into right here where they was cleared we see the volume of material it takes to just hold in place yeah you know there was a dam in place back there to capture the water and send it to another in this particular instance rebar was used but he's guardrail a river which locks into place I'll have a palace built if it's an example of timbering you know keeping it in place tight with wedges and drive a legend over here and walks it all in not again a piece of rail is employed for Penn State and this is our our last drill station right here is uh where we are last what we were doing was down hole right here and of course it was in track broken ground sure and made it really difficult but that was another direction in the mine we're gonna eminent excluded or that collapse out and continue on to access main channel portion of mine that works back there yes uh-huh this is of course being right here this is changed you see that string areas there's a little string right there and I only have a boom quartz from here over all the way all there see up yeah missed that two reports on top of slate huh this wasn't like this is a drilling classic to make it spacious for the core drill you have your she'll run you know way up here one time I didn't have a water Eagle that's providing water there's issues with what the drills does by not being using casing on it see how big it made it yes huge yeah and that wobble causes deviation and the tip of it and it could be it going any which direction you know kind of thing that was goes up to another level you can climb up there ways but just collapse again okay but there is other levels above us you know there's that section of a Tim Burton area Becker where we first came in there is a center rail up above us huh but just underground workshop right here you know I have a trailer receiver right here because we had a pipe vise mounted on a receiver hitch to hold onto the pipe bill to break stuff loose and you see a crystal bug right there where the crystals are the size of your fist oh yeah extremely fractured mineralized ports in here yeah there's plenty a good crystal look flopped out of here me I don't believe in breaking them out of the rock i barred them on the ground that's good enough for me and you have to give them to your lady okay but yep this is the back this is barb you've gotten huh this is probably the last few boxes of quarters sharidan evening empty boxes example this is our little workshop back here instead of having to go out and get a wrench or something like that you bring it all in here so you don't have to leave any sense of a long trip out it takes an hour for somebody do all up and come back yeah you know and that just eats up your date don't you bring your lunch underground you eat on the ground stay on the ground if you got a pissy piss on the ground you got it mud monkey or mud Falcon you just like take it outside house you should actually do before work yeah and this right here we'd have our drill exhausting into this to keep the noise down ah and you know of course it all freezes up nice cuz yeah I'm compressing huh a little rod there doesn't pull rocks out of the freaking holes as though yeah very interesting man think you bring a different spot for our girl steals to be you know so they're not in a big mess you know standing up everywhere falling over yeah cycling down to go home there goes the generator here at cycling dinner that's pretty cool

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Id: 5KKZAAPVU2s

Length: 25min 5sec (1505 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 26 2020