Father and son explore the Highlander Mine and Mill, a rare intact historic find!

most of it's probably mental we don't like dark places that are wet and your cost a full brick they have a bunch of for business of it it's not gonna be the place for you [Music] everyone so this week we're gonna go to the Highlander so this is the male at the bottom of Highlander we really wanted to explore this Millis won the first one of the last remaining world intact Mills around and the way we want to get into this male is wanted to start at the very top of the mind and top of the mountain eight hundred feet across the highway vertically he's close to Anne's worth and I want to journey all the way through the whole mine and then come out at the mill and have a look at the mill so it's a big job we were there much of times we couldn't make it all the way through the mind because he didn't have enough rope but this time I'm joined with mice my son came up and visited me for a couple weeks and we're going to some mines here so we packed about a thousand feet of rope and so that's what we're doing we're gonna go down through the whole mountain and try to get to the mill and check out the mill so um yeah so cane hadn't had a lot of experience but he's enthusiastic young fellow there and I enjoyed to spend the time with him so we packed all this rope and we got four cameras we got well quite a lot of good footage this is 360 footage from this new camera that we have and thanks to Kane he's the one to figured out how to edit this it's kind of complicated so it looks like a drone but it's not a drone it's a 360 camera so it's it's pretty cool it gives you some a pretty neat perspective so anyway so we're just coming up to the to the top very top out of the highlander it's six mines that were all put together is a huge lead and silver mine and we're gonna make our way down through them will show leave it here again to look at those trucks there see this truck going down there so there was a another winch up there really easily we're doing easier than the way we win it yesterday I think I kind of forgot which we we can clear all that crumbly stuff eh all being held up by the stalls here almost looks like more of its cave do may be hard to tell about this more recent time yeah she's a random pretty hard outside but it's always nice and tomorrow same look at that when it's croc to hit rats nuts in here this is anyway up with the Ferrell King right just a little winch to haul was probably really old part of the mine just lifting my ass never drop the camera I'm good oh yeah there's an old work right here little slippery in here Sol's I brought my camera well Manny says I'm ahead I might be already pretty colorful my name lots of cool colors in here my street where some of these pirates are people don't know much about minerals okay this is gold a but yes lots of pyrite in this stuff there we go here's a little more cart watch this rock it's really sharp yeah so this is holes you just walk along here where we have our room and you go down buckets dude we've been use for needle buckets yes we gotta be kind of careful around this stuff because you don't to slide down there huh kick one of them big rocks down just for the fun of it I don't want to be down there yeah so those no this is a pulse floor here you can see hey that's all collapsed [Music] dynamite box plug the stopped bolts or something I guess it's easiest way to get around here what's irony well better than having two hands then when you have to hold the flashlight horse comes to earth you just end up out of the bath unplanned it had to do with one hand you should do pretty colorful Leila go let's not hanging over there it looks like snot hey Stella Stella mites we're stalagmites I got corrected on the stalagmites no Stella lights so I'm giving me cuz I said stag noises Sterling's stalagmites yeah that's how you remember you remember the tights are holding tight on the ceiling and the mites they might reach the ceiling we're at the main at the main station here this is basically where the journey begins so there's a perfect world water before for the spring hunt right okay something slips so as you go down you're gonna have to kind of string that rope up see we're gonna go down this or past it a little water water run down it spring break up so whatever all right now it owns a lot dori it just has her office it there's not done about ropes we couldn't let eat enough catch it collab gold mine I appreciate you catching anyways yeah there's nothing there I could make a lot easier I was able to put everything in that one bag right what yep we nearly did pass this level before so we've got three burro till we run out of room we got three ropes one get two in here what in here about [Music] this tree here for real I'm a seal for our air for airline a gasket where the sewer lines hooked together a you bet yeah I don't know what's blue of this so this is as far as we got [Music] I got one more blast a few more feet let's go down separate to the end okay so we're gonna Ken's gonna vote so Ken's gonna what this set up here so you just pull himself up and then if he follows you still hooked into here so okay go ahead up to that next exit we're getting hit on water going down that was pretty easy turkeys keeping any hair into place it's just so can I just keep going down to the bag and then we'll tie another rope point at the end of C it's going to be able because it's it's binding there it's gonna be able to feed in easy you got your hand on those yeah we got your hand on the wrong side the other side up to move hugger sighs honey grooms down there somewhere - so you're not supposed to do it that we were supposed to have one like that never grabbed us and you're supposed to just like that and then you can end up same thing happens you can hold on to it you're supposed to have like I don't hold on guys well one hand over there that's supposed to families okay we're gonna have to get you off line yeah this level you're at Osteria Creek they're a little bit more will feel a lot more water for knowing the truth this code room is getting a little steeper here as you sees too much steeper I can still see the back like Steve Kerr goes T we got a bit of hay here yeah that probably he came for loosens parts covered dryers no God he's not up to much trouble yeah I was a little frustrated because the Rope does no excuse I smiled as you'd like alright so we were in onto something that we weren't expecting Ulsan it's flooded right here look there's no level see it widens out right there obviously ain't getting any further here okay we did a lot of work to get all this well the only thing that you do is maybe going not I might try going down that horrifies for the water is to see how much further down maybe it's not too much food again so Ken about this setup here so you can just pull himself up and then if he falls he's still looking at this okay go up go ahead up to that next exit we're getting hit on water going down I don't know what kind of man that was pretty easy a kind of safety associate foliar you're telling it there so it actually helps a lot when they keep tension on like this [Music] turned out to throw too many bit rocks down on me [Music] beware [Music] some old burlap socks here stocks are pants or something pretty fragile [Music] just taking a break a lot of hard work let me too bad going up the more challenging part to begin on the ropes up so we'll just quote that Nate main level then we'll hold that rope from there believe it the way it is no tie it up there and take that a little break so yeah if you want you can go ahead of me put your your line up running I'll catch up to you here in a minute and then kids to keep up the old man time to disappointment him go further but [Music] all right so we're coming down this other little hole it's not quite as far down but we need to retrieve this bat wander today so take that home with us I guess we left this box here yeah we were gonna pick it up we never did ya know nothing sure got soaked pretty wet okay this is a moisture monitor yeah I guess it's - okay we're on the beach here not too far from this mill so all we've seen so far as a couple of old cabins and the decrepit trailer there's been abandoned for a long time and we're gonna keep me along the beach here and see if we get to that mill so here's the mill well tell you what we're looking at I saw the bottom part there there's the crusher comes out of the mountain there so if you look there there's a bunch of concrete blocks it's completely blocked off so you can't get from the mill to the mine anymore it's completely blocked off so anyways that's the crusher it comes in there it crushes the ore that comes out of the mine and I've been closed down for a very long time so you see that big long walkway there so um so in the video here we'll walk all the way along that walkway and it leads up to a great big huge bin that drops down there and then underneath there there's the whole mill there the all the equipment and stuff so what they do is it goes into a big ball mill it crushes all the ore up and then it goes through floatation swells and stuff and the other thing was interesting is it dumped the Tanners right in the lake so if you look at some of the other videos you notice the water from the creek behind us it comes down from another at it and then just vanishes so all underneath that there's a whole bunch of I don't know a bunch of voids and how much just felt that's all been kind of filled in and just a kind of a nasty sight actually and this is all Ladin stuff face so but they're interesting to see that I don't know if this can be stunned all that much longer it it looked pretty ratty yeah so that you can see the creek there in to the right there and just underneath that of that walkway it just vanishes into the ground so I don't know what's what was all there it's all been abandoned for a very long time so now and we'll show you where the with it worthy where the portal is actually so it was there was a gate on it and this says something about keep out but the roof of it's all collapsed and you can just walk right into it and have a look at it so we'll show that to you in the video because we walked along there with the camera and we got some footage of that so we'll show you what that looks like so but it's not possible to get in from the top of the Highlander and come back oh because it's all flooded and that big concrete dam the bottom there stops water from coming up I screwed it in yet there are all kinds of cool hurry that's all open here all right well that's how look jerkle look see what we got here okay not really actually trespassing cuz we just walked along the beach here see this little mill I'm gonna have a look and see what we got here so this is where the war came over mine long time ago pretty fellow false lore today once so we're not gonna take anything or anything just here take pictures document this this is it all did you all know I never run for a long time oh yeah look at that hey fellas Chalmers it's a crusher a new house crusher well that's pretty neat that's pretty old motor huh just keep going up see how I even get here oh there's a whole made wrench it's melting this is real old or came out of the main level cause you see this hasn't been operating for a very long time it's all abandoned how hard correct this is the crusher I guess door went to the crusher that's to top the crusher oh that's a pretty cool crusher don't you see the mines actually walked right off huh but big concrete blocks in the mine they blocked up portal right off it's not possible to get into the mine from the bottom huh yeah see that's why we render that big wall of water to put it flooded it i sealed it off the concrete flooded it and this is all that's left just to crusher and the conveyor huh well the interest in if we could actually follow the conveyor up that time let's see from the follow the conveyor to the mill so here's that big Kaveri see which would be a cat walk along beside it right on there is so we're hoping to be able to get in the bottom level of mine and follow this cat walk to the mill I didn't turn out that way because they completely sealed off the being at it so hopefully I'm gonna fall through anywhere no one no way real moment how solid this is should put a hand on this compressor liner so the war went from the crusher to the mill here and expect to be a pollen or something here well then it's kind of special about this place is they don't touch him it's right in the lake no it's weird that Ward went right through worried to that bin they could wear that out lots of rats in here look that's how it was constructed the bin about two by sixes or two I eats ball mail pretty first size ball mill rotation you kidding with the callouts skins there's no boss just to see these little guys before the dawn okay this doesn't look to be in horrible shape probably sell it for parts she chose this stuff here there's an interest in remoter your soul and let's see the big ball mill free fair sized ball mill now there's I've been mate there I'll write the bottom of in some mature will come out of the bin right on the ball mill remember this was led mine right mostly a little bit of silver not the long time since any of this stuff is wrong no we'll never run again there's no way up rivers only for sign you're seeing that they didn't obey no I'm operating camera camera up here you see one you see too much for interesting little stuff here just a lot of odds and ends parts fittings all the stuff you need to fix what you the mill here it was gonna again you know I think probably sixties or seventies when this was lost running so you know turbulent stuff there's a big tub here we see the same thing that's a that's a remark yeah flotation tanks big tanks lot belt there some old equipment there I really said we're not here to take anything you're just here to document this mine a few days since a las Occident there's a cool boy yeah there's the Big Ben there's the ball mill that big floatation the agitators we don't have look at the flotation in the agitators it all hurts party this is where the slurry goes in here and then it agitates it you skim off the the perform this chemical form probably through this that thing probably skews more sure which exactly whole bunch of these good million shut er down there's on the order things out of it tanks smoothies agitators oh god just look at the borders in them yeah borders are still left that looks like it won't hit miss engine almost a pretty cool guy yeah that's a big that's a little hit and miss engine I think something like that it'll compress it or something not sure what it is a matter of time till this is all falling down and collapse - - is that sound anymore okay now look at these I don't know what these are for big heavy what's same name on them interesting that there's a bunch of yeah that looks like a ticket just pictures yes this what the top looks like hear all about conveyor up to the top of the main hall to the mill that's reverse another now what's interesting [Music] what's another surprising so as you can see it pretty flooded in here it's falling down but lots of water in here you know possibly at summertime ever get in there was a clear sign really work yeah okay well I guess hope you guys enjoyed this so all we can show you from the Highlander [Music] [Music]

Channel: Exploring Abandoned Mines

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Length: 31min 19sec (1879 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 25 2019