there's a gold mine hiding right up there
and we're going to go find it hey guys my name is Jason and on today's video we're going
to explore the underground workings of the old silver tip gold mine in the Mount Baker mining
District we're going to do some mining we're going to take some samples we're going to find
some amazing rocks and minerals we'll check out some big trees we'll find The Old Mill site look
at some old rusty metal and some amazing views so strap in and enjoy the ride our first stop
today is going to be finding the mill and back in the day in the 40s and 50s they had a mill down
here that consisted of a jaw Crusher a ball mill some flotation cells a rate classifier and some
willly tables there was a building here there's an aerial tram down to the mill so that was what
75 years ago and now you you wouldn't know there was a building here there was infrastructure and
now it's just all trees but I see some stuff here behind me that I want to show you we're starting
to find some stuff that indicates we're getting close old rusty metal is always a good indication
there's a barrel there's some old junk over there but I'm hoping somewhere in here I can find
remnants of some equipment a ball mill would be cool a jaw Crusher uh an Old Shaker table
something like that but I I I love finding old equipment in the woods here's some old pipe
that's a good sign were right on the edge of the Avalanche shoot but what they would do is they
would typically put their Mill buildings kind of right next to these old Avalanche shoots the
reason they did that is cuz they could get the Aerial Tram down to the mill without cutting down
a bunch of trees they had a fairly straight shot but what would happen is if you had a pretty big
Avalanche it would come in wipe out all the trees and wipe out the mill and I think that's exactly
what happened here I believe I'm standing right where the Old Mill building was right in here
looks like maybe an old part of the foundation some big bolts sticking up there's something
over here a big piece of metal here's some ETS there's some old pipe laying down in there so
this is this is where it happened this is where they brought their stuff from the mine what do
we have here here's a concrete foundation thing there what do we have here oh this is this is the
old rake classifier and this is kind of a a Sim similar thing to our spiral classifiers but what
these machines would do is after it was crushed it would go into the bottom of this rate classifier
with a bunch of water and they would overflow probably here out the back and so anything that
would overflow here out the back was fine enough to go onto the tables and the float cells anything
that sank down in this trough would get to the bottom and then this this is just a bunch of
angle pieces of angle all in a big long line run up this trough and what this rate classifier
would do is here's one attachment there's probably another attachment up there so it would drop the
angle down on the bottom of the trough it'd pull it up out of 6 in or something and then it lift
it up and go back and drop it and it would just rake from this one to this one to this one to
this one to this one all the way up and if the larger particles could make it all the way up
out the top they would go back to regrind and anything else that would flow down and eventually
out the back would go into the flotation and the concentration so this is a pretty cool fairly
complicated piece of Machinery to have drug all the way out here into the woods what do we
have up here yeah some see it's all grown into a tree now but there's the shaft it looks like
that shaft went through those eyes there and it goes down and connects to that that rake system
and so somebody worked really really hard spent a lot of money spent a lot of time getting this
thing up here so I'm staying at the Old Mill but I expect that the other stuff the jaw Crusher
the ball mill the flotation cells those are probably scavenged either taken to another M
site or they may have been cut up for scrap um but there I don't see any evidence of them here
right now but this is for sure where the Old Mill was so right in here here's that rate classifier
that's where the mill building was I've walked out I don't know 25 ft away out here into the
Avalanche shoot and this is where see if I can get a view looking up not really but up there to
the north is a big cut that's where the gold mine is and in the winter huge piles of snow get up in
the head of that Valley and then sometimes they come down through this Avalanche shoot and that's
why there's no trees there in front of us there's trees on the right but often times every hundred
years or so you'll get a huge Avalanche that'll come down and it wiped out all these trees and
wiped out the M building and that was it oh look here's a here's another Foundation here so they
actually built it out into the Avalanche shoot some that wasn't very smart another thing to
keep in mind when you're exploring These Old Mill buildings and stuff is if you find it and
you find some equipment I always look downhill cuz everything goes down nothing goes back up
here's some old Rafters here it looks like this might have been the roof at one point there's
some old stuff laying over there some old trobs let's go take a look over here here's some Roofing
and nails so this was part of the M building old tin some sort of old distributor
trough system here look at that what do we have here gutter maybe something to feed the tables
maybe an old set of Lights heck this is an old light wire another set of Lights
I guess must have had electricity or generators up here at one point man this
is a real deal this is this is a heck of a lot of work to get all this stuff up
here come down below the mill building a little bit here's some more tin looks
like a shroud off maybe a g generator or something old I don't know old piece of a car or
something maybe a generator shroud something like that the old clips to hold down the but I mean you
could spend half a day here just looking around for old rusty metal trying to piece together what
these guys did but I'm not so into rusty metal I'm in Gold so let's head up the hill see if we can
find this gold mine well if you're a miner you got to have these around it seems like old bottle
pretty good shape it just really makes me in awe I guess of these oldtimers and what they would do
I mean I can I can't imagine getting a 15 ton ball mill up here today and there's a road within 100
ft of the mill but 75 years ago imagine what the road was like imagine what the trucks they had
how would you get it off once it's up here the jaw Crusher it must have weighed tons generators
buildings all this stuff they had to do it's just unbelievable to me the tenacity they had versus us
today I mean we could rent a for Clift or a crane have it up here here we could build a building
we could do all this stuff and yet nobody in the states is really mining I don't know maybe we've
gotten soft maybe we're just not into Metals anymore maybe mining is just not that important
by the us we had a lot of small mines and I don't know where they went it's incredibly difficult
to capture the Monumental size of the trees that we have here in western Washington but here's a
cedar tree behind me my armspan is over 6 feet and it doesn't even come close to the diameter
of this tree on the butt this is probably a 10 or 12T diameter tree they can grow up to 250 or
300 feet high this tree may have been here since 1,000 ad or maybe longer here's a look up the tree
you can't even come close to seeing the top for those of you interested I have another YouTube
channel called SJ Forest Products I've cut a lot of Cedar I've milled up a lot of Cedar it makes
great saunas great fences great decks you can get three four5 a board foot for Cedar this tree
depending on how tall it is it may be worth 20 or $30,000 here's that big cedar tree we were
looking at earlier I just did the log scale calculation so I determined the volume of
wood if that butt log is 33 ft long and 10 ft diameter at the top there's 27,000 board
feet in that one butt log and at $3 a board foot that's almost $60,000 for One log so when
I said that tree might be worth $30,000 that tree might be worth $100,000 but the next log
up might be six8 feet at the top so there's got to be another 15 or 20,000 board feet in
that log it's it's unbelievable the amount of wood in these trees and the value that they hold
$100,000 growing there in the forest I'm hearing some some knocking at first I thought it was
a woodpecker but I've never heard a woodpecker knock this loud it's up the hill from me a
little ways just bang bang bang bang on the trees I just heard it one time
and I didn't have the camera going but I don't know what that was I know all
the woodpeckers the biggest one we have here is a pated woodpecker I've seen them I've heard them
spooky we're moving from the Timber off into the more open Avalanche shoots I'm going to try and
make it up to this chunk of trees here because it keeps the brush down but I wanted to show you
these this is Western Washington's Cactus this is called devil's club and it's covered in spines
and they have the same thing like a cactus they're Barbed in the end so if they get in you you
have these little blisters and they take forever to go away because that little bar breaks off
under your skin and your body does not like it so you try and stay out of the devil's club but
sometimes you just got to walk right through and be careful so this is what the Avalanche Shoots
look like just covered in this brush it grows under the snow so when The Avalanches come over
it doesn't take out any of this brush stuff and then when it opens up and thaws out in the
spring you get this huge Brushy it's really hard to walk through luckily for me it hasn't
leafed out yet but it's still quite thick and hard to walk through so you really want to stay
out of these Avalanche shoots if you can Doug fur trees 200 ft tall 8T at the base cedar trees looking up the hill behind me huge
Dougs huge Cedars I'm in a Grove of trees right now that's probably worth a million bucks and
it's a quarter of an acre beautiful stuff look at these Cedars over here beautiful Cedars clear
wood that's Prime shake shake wood clear oh I just can't get over it I'm a tree guy what can I say
my kids tease me about being a tree guy but when you get in a stand like this it's hard not to be
I want to talk a little bit about geology now and Western Washington is a little bit unique in that
there have been some pretty big gold discoveries big is the wrong word Rich gold discoveries but
it's really really hard to prospect why is that just look behind me there's no rocks it's all
Duff Boulders that have fallen off the hill sitting on top but there's no outc crop there's
nowhere to get a look at what's underneath the surface and that's a real problem
if you're trying to find gold cuz I come through here I don't know what's under
my feet and it may be 10 ft down so it's very very difficult to prospect here and most of the
prospecting and most of the mines in the district are way up high way above the tree line where you
can actually see the Rocks the problem with that is they're covered in snow for 9 or 10 months
of the year and so you can't get to them and so I think there's some amazing amazingly rich and
possibly incredibly large gold deposits yet to be discovered in western Washington just cuz we can't
find them you can't Prospect this even The Creeks all the Creeks have been glaciated in the last 10
or 15,000 years all the plaster has been wiped out of them so it's really really difficult to find
gold in western Washington I'm out in the middle of nowhere there's no flat spot around it's really
pretty steep there's no trails and look what I found an old piece of tin like an old piece of tin ripping where did that come from I mean I'm up underneath some rock
cliffs in the trees somebody must have built something up higher and it came down
the hill so we're on the right track track well here's a discovery so just down the hill
from me there was some tin just below this u tree there's some more tin right there and
I came up over this little rise there's some tin here's a hinge see that some old
Timbers I think there's a collapsed portal here I'll zoom out so you
can see what I'm talking about yeah there's something soft under my foot there so
I think someone had a little Prospect right down in here and it's since collapsed but there's no
record of this on any map there's no talk about any Prospect over on this side of the creek
or the fault so this is this is pretty cool this is there's probably hundreds or thousands
of these spread out all over the Mount Baker mining district and they're not recorded who
knows what they found it probably wasn't very good since there's not a really huge dump pile
there but someone saw something around here that they thought was good enough to bring all of
their stuff up a bunch of junk and steel and tin and build a portal and see if they could find
some gold so it's it's really really cool for me to come out and find these things this whole
process for me in part is about recording the history of the Mountain Baker mining District
a lot of people will never find it they don't know where it is there's some discussions about
it in old books but getting out here getting it on camera so everybody can see it's pretty
cool we walk down the skinny little Cedar okay be on the lookout for any rusty metal I'm over on the east side of the fault
where the mine's located and the rock type over here is darington filite this is what darington
filite look looks like it's metamorphosed seafloor sediments that have been accreted up on to the
North American Plate and when those sediments got accreted they metamorphosed into kind of
like a shist fillite is kind of the term but there's this what's called sweat quartz and during
that metamorphic process there's bands of quartz in these fillite Boulders and in the Bedrock this
is a big piece of float here my theory on this is that the seafloor sediments have very very finely
disseminated gold and the filite is the same host rock as my mine that I mine gold in it's the same
host rock as some of the other Rich mines in the district and the common factor is all these mines
got to get away from these mosquitoes all these mines have filite close and an intrusive uh ous
Rock So granite a felsic intrusive ous rock and it's really common in gold bearing districts to
have these intrusive Granite plutons come up they bring with them a bunch of water super super hot
water it circulates through the Rocks around them can dissolve some of these Metals gold lead zinc
copper silver gets all this stuff dissolved in these super hot fluids and then as those fluids
find a crack or a little weak spot they will inject themselves into that weak spot forming
gold veins base metal veins that kind of stuff so my theory and I'm going to do whoa and I'm
going to talk about this on another video here in the future about prospecting new gold deposits
in western Washington and the Mount Baker mining District in particular you're going to be looking
for the fillite or these metasedimentary rocks and an intrusive body very very close and you're going
to walk along that contact looking for your gold Rich quartz veins I hope you guys enjoy this cuz
I feel a little bit ridiculous walking around in the woods talking to myself talking about trees
and rocks and gold but leave me a comment down below if you like this you want to see more
of this CU I enjoy doing it and I enjoy the views here's another indication we're on the
right track wire I don't know if that's like an old telephone line or what but it's
running right up through those trees I am sitting right on a fault the valley up
behind me is the trace of the fault it goes all the way up and over the mountain and
it goes all the way behind me and up over the next Mountain this fault contains the
structure that the fluids were placed in that carry the valuable Metals the gold silver
copper lead and zinc on this side the east side it's darington filite on this side is more
metasedimentary more uh calite and carbonates and right where this fault meets and the two
move against each other that's the conduit where these fluids could come up and in place
the ore over on the west side is where most of the mineralization occurs there's nothing that's
been discovered on the east side the gold mine the adits punch into the west side of this fault
and cross cut several Shear zones that hold the metals so that fault runs all the way up behind
me I'll turn the camera around so you can see Goes Down the Avalanche shoot the mill is back over in
these trees back in here but it goes all the way down across the road across the creek and straight
back up the other side right up that gou in the side of the mountain and right over the top of the
mountain so this is a big structure a big conduit for fluids and it's no accident that the miners
found some pretty good gold deposits up right near this fault now as I've been walking up this Talis
in the fault I've been looking for float and every Rock every single piece I see coming off the east
side of this drainage here is all darington filite there's no marish caly nothing whereas just right
over there that's a different rock type and the fault separates the two the old literature said a
barely discernable Trail will lead you up to the C in the mine and that was written way back in 1966
in the olden days so I think I'm on to something here there's what I'm following barely discernable
I'm standing on a Switchback it goes up there and then across the top above that big rock and
between that huge fur in that Boulder so let's hope I'm on the barely discernable path and I end
up at an old cabin site well hot dog my tracking skills aren't too bad there's that big old fur the
trail came right around here onto this flat spot and there's rusty metal there's old cans hey look
at this they don't make them like that anymore Pepsi what else we got we got an old fan over here an old jar I don't know if I want to
open that I think this is blackberry jam and you can still see the blackberries in it
see that I don't think I'm going to open it but somebody left their blackberry jam up here
and I found it but this flat spot here behind me is where the cabin was or some structure
man they did a lot of work to take this out of the hillside cuz it goes way up on this
side and it goes way down on that side down into the creek we're back into the creek
we're very very close I can actually see a piece of rail right behind me sticking out
of the bank there but I've got a couple pieces of float I want to break open see if I can
see some mineralization so here's one of the pieces that caught my eye the old saying the
rder the better I'm going to break this guy open see what we can find here's a fresh break
sulfides lot of shinies in there more sulfides down here and notice it's not in the fillite
this is in more of that calite metasediment rock that in this situation holds the goodies
here's a rock we've seen before I did some videos on this last year this is that green Lite
is what it's called Uh I've been doing a little more research I think this might be garite
would be another term for it it's a nickel ore and it's very interesting that we're finding
it here because it's similar and what I find in some of the other Creeks around it's a very very
pretty rock well not terribly exciting looks like it's mostly filled on the inside and we just had
a few slabs of it on the surface but it's a very pretty green blue color look at that big old
inline six some of you out there may be able to identify that thing based on the history
of the mine it's probably 40 vintage looks like it's on some sort of skid there and they drug
it all the way up here and that's where it lives huh there's some rail coming
out of the Hill there's some more so the mine's just up there
here's the cable for the Aerial Tram and there's the portal
there it is the Silver Tip and not too bad of a view we're just inside
the Silver Tip portal on my left over here is a huge air compressor there's an old air
tank out front behind me there's several hundred feet of workings they Crosscut several
different Shear zones so I'm excited to get back there and look their primary minerals
were gold silver copper lead and zinc here's maybe a little bit better look at that
engine and compressor I have absolutely no idea how they got this up here and in this
portal it's a beast of a machine fuel tank they on front they had a little covered Hutch
for it did a little Timber work here and then there's down into the workings a little bit
of water will hop through I think let's see if we can get through here without
getting totally sloppy wet it looks like it maybe shallows up there
a little bit once we get in here okay all right we're on semi dry ground here so this is actually quite interesting
out by the portal I didn't show you but it was more of that marble stuff and this is a
little lens of filite so we're in that kind of sheer Zone going on here we might
go through a couple different types of rocks someone's been in here sampling or at least flagging old Timbers or sleepers I guess on the floor I'm 6ot I got to bend over
a little bit but not too much here's a little slip it looks like maybe some
mineralization right in there so that looks pretty good it looks like we may be still in the fillite
but there's a series of these Crosscut Shear zones that one goes up there quite a ways five six feet
there's a couple down here that were pretty highly mineralized there's a little raise here is
a slip that they drifted on both North and South that I believe is the structure they were following some good looking mineralization there so we're going to check that
out as well I want to just punch all the way back here though and
see what we see there's a wrap's nest here's some cool old stuff let's see what
this is that looks like a little Slusher bucket whoa there's an air tank track they bent around that's a big tank here again we hit a little seam mineralized gouy looking stuff
that looks like a Slusher bucket to me some old panels it looks like
this was probably abandoned and they came back and worked on that raise after the fact air hose I thought I heard something rustling back
here so I'm a little bit timid but I don't see anything another cross cut I don't
see much in the way of mineralization on this one cc n44 not sure some old
Budweiser cans what year are those from here's a nice little nest for
something that's fresh probably what I heard wrestling around down here and
then they were piling their waist back here it looks like they've filled this
halfway full with junk some old pipe so this is something they were not
planning on continuing it looks like and maybe that's why they quit is because
they've Crosscut three or four different Shear zones and they've gone all the way out
of the fault and they weren't finding any more mineralization so let's go back and see
about what we can find on those mineralized spots on the shear zones the Silver Tip vein was
discovered by HC wells in 1896 and was one of the first discoveries of the district the principal
metals of the vein proved to be gold silver and copper in 1938 the Silver Tip mining company was
formed by Ray block of Seattle a small flotation Mill was constructed on the property in 1945 and
shipments of concentrates and ore were made to the Tacoma smelter in the winter of 1949 1950 a snows
slide destroyed the mill the or minerals appear to be confined to a North 45° West trending Shear
Zone in pre-jurassic filite and celicious shisto marble and contain veinlets of calite as well
as stringers of quart in most parts of the shear zones metallic minerals are sparse and consist of
disseminated pyite ptite and arop pyite however some parts of the sheer zones contain ores these
ores appear to be lenticular replacement bodies in celicious Marble in some ores sphalerite copyrite
and Galina occur as well defined bands with little if any gang assays of Representative material
from these or shoots as well as float showed the following values gold11 to 42 o per ton
silver 1.6 to 49 o per ton copper 49 to 6.41% and lead 05% the longest add it is 240 ft long
and it crosscuts four Shear zones that have been drifted on for a combined length of 180 ft near
the first cross cut which is about 100 ft from the portal a 30t incline raise leads to a small Stope
currently the southern addit is completely caved and I can only explore the northern addit shown
at the upper section of this map we're going to go up that little raise on the first Shear Zone
that we intersect and see if we can find some ore minerals and some samples to take back here's a
quick look at all the Silver Tip claims this is the last seam the farthest seam to the west or
into the workings and it's actually pretty cool you can see exactly where the fault is these
two I don't know if it's a fault the seam the slip and you can pull this rock out and you can
see on it slicking sides from the Rocks moving together but it's right there I mean I can put my
finger on it it's right there all this other stuff is real soft and gouy I can you know it's kind
of clay like very common along the fault zones here's a piece that I think you can probably
see slicks on if I get it in the right light shows the movement of the fault and so in this
case let's see if we can get one kind of in s to it might be hard hard to see on the
camera but I can see in the light that the slicking sides are going this way so
this is like a strike slip movement this would be up and down this is strike slip
and that tells me the last movement this thing could have gone up and down for a
mile and then the last couple of slips could have gone strike slip so I can't tell
you that this went 500 ft strike slip this way but that's the last movement it's and it may
have not moved hardly at all we can't really tell but it's it's these zones that would be the
conduit for bringing the minerals up into the host Rock and if the chemistry is right and
the temperature right and the fluid houses the metals this is where they deposit all
kinds of treasures though an old flat shovel Delco something electric Automotive Electric something I wonder what that
says made in USA I can make that out it's an old electric motor I guess oh there's the other
piece of it what else we got big eyes those are heavy more electrical stuff
I don't know what that is so that ways back to the portal you can probably even see
some light there's some light so I think this is the first Shear Zone the raay
is right there we'll climb up that in a minute but this is the first Shear
Zone I wanted to take a look back here because they did some work moving this way a
couple of stalls one of those are for a Slusher [Music] bucket stalls Timber down on the ground huh did a little whoopy here kind of
curved around here's the fault they were following or the the Metalized Zone cool stag ties they're
hard look at them all probably from that solici fied marble host but I don't see any no Stope
no ore no no nothing here well they had an aerial tram in here so I don't know if they
were just send an ore down from their cross Cuts or if once we climb up this Stope
here we'll actually be able to see some pretty good mineralization it sounds like
most of the mineralization was out in the surface so we'll go figure that out out later
right now let me climb up this Stope that goes up about 45 50° see what's up there well there's
down so we came up that little raise brought you up into the Stope there's some stalls Timbers
looks like they drifted off that way a little bit and looks like they drifted up that way
a little bit but I would would not call this a Stope really uh I don't see anything really
exciting as far as mineralization either this is the end of that what I thought was the
Stope I was concerned when I saw all this wood and stuff down here I didn't like
that but I got up here and they did do a little bit of stooping up in in there I have
no idea how you get a human up there it looks horrible I would I don't even like standing
here but man oh man it's RAV nasty ground I don't well I don't know maybe there's
some rusty looking stuff up there but God how do you convince the guy
to climb up in there and do the work and the other thing is that's perpendicular
to the trace of the fault more or less oh look at those hanging there God look at that one
hanging there oh look at those hanging there I don't like anything I see here oh God they
went over what the heck they went over there how do you get how do you get over
there oh goodness gracious let's get out of here I don't like this at all
what about over here this is that other section yeah see that doesn't that doesn't interconnect do I dare go over there I don't know
if I want to go over there all right I'll go over there all right let's see if we can
get up here without killing ourselves there's a little something over there it looks pretty good actually like this stuff
looks pretty good best best looking stuff God how did they get back up in there that is the craziest little Rat Hole I
wonder if that connects with the other at it somehow well I'll tell you this I'm not going
to be doing any banging on these walls let's get out of here I don't see anything
I don't see anything worth mining up here it did a heck of a lot of work not
a lot of gold I got to get out of here okay oh yeah we're back made it out of the Silver
Tip alive well the portal we just went in was over there and right up here behind me right up in
there is the the southernmost portal but it's caved we're not going to be able to get in
there so let's go try and find some outcrops where we can see some real gold I came up over
the top I'm on the west side of the creek now I would not recommend going that way it's
Steep and nasty and I'm coming down through this Forest kind of down a ridge I came across
this thing I want to show you it might not look like much but it's a stack of rocks and it
looks like somebody stacked those there also in the middle there's some burned wood a
little leveled area it looks like somebody made a little Foundation there a stacked
rocks um oh dead giveaway look at this a shovel handle's long gone that's been here a long time
I think there was a little cabin site here let me look around
a little bit more but this is probably turn of the last century back in the
1900s 19 teens maybe oh there's some more stuff down there oh this is cool guys check this
out there's a big flat spot somebody worked flattening out and then we're finding old
artifacts look at this an old cross cut saw a piece of rail iron old cast part probably do
a stove oh yeah see here's the here's the stove foot manufactured by Pioneer Stove
Company that's a pretty piece there another leg stove leg God somebody pulled that
all the way up here what does this look like oh it's the door the door of an old
cast stove look at that is that called the FL De le isn't that the French the French
symbol who's from France isn't that a French thing that's pretty cool and they they worked on a flat spot
right right here all the way back through those trees it's probably 15 or 20 ft across
by 50 ft long I don't know if there was a whole cabin here it looks like there's a a tree
down here that they may have used as part of the foundation but now the question is what were they
doing there must be some workings pretty close here well I looked all around about half an hour
couldn't find anything no Trails no nothing just this little cabin site and the one up above it
that I'm standing in so I'll dive over the hill see if we can find some outcrops and get some
samples so I've grappled with this in the past there's some cool stuff here that cross cut saw
those legs in that stove that the coolest thing is that stove front there that door with the cast
FL to Le or whatever it is in there I don't know if I should take it it's going to rot away here
in the forest but it's kind of a historical thing as well there's there's no probability of anybody
finding this again um and so I don't really know what to do I'm going to leave it for now I know
where it is but what do you guys think leave me a comment should I take this stuff back and put it
in the museum or should I leave it in place for somebody in 100 years to maybe find it again I'm
going down the hill I'm just below the cabin I'm on what I think if I really use my imagination
could be a trail an old trail um and the the truth of the matter is is I could walk within
50 ft of a portal and not know between the El elevation relief I mean look you know over there
it just kind of cliffs out over the edge between the foliage the steepness the duff it's
really really hard to find anything here well the farther down I go it's getting steeper
not flatter see if I can get you oriented there's about level so it's going way down way down
Steep and then if you look down it just goes way down fast hope I don't get cliffed out
here how in the world did those guys get all that stuff up there I can barely go down this
and they had to take all that stuff up way up tough tough as Nails I mean you look out there
50 ft and you see the tops of trees that are 150 ft tall my fear has almost come true I've
got Cliffs all over there a little tiny Shute right down here I'm Going To Shimmy down and
then Cliffs all over there so hopefully once I get down this Little Chute we won't have as
steep a Terrain to deal with well I just made it down my Chute of Doom there and I stumbled
across this rock it was all rusty see if I can perching the side of this mountain here but
look what you're finding inside pyate cubes mineralization that looks like what
we saw in The Fault underground and if you look down there's a little
fin of it right there it might run down this Chute so now we're starting
to see outcrops of mineralized rocks and it's in that oh mosquitoes look at
how big they are they're huge um they're in that celicious calcified marble looking
stuff and that's where our mineralization is so let's go find more of that I seem
to find one every time I go out in the woods balloon big silver balloon we'll pack him out of
here well this is interesting look here that's a little ladder not a ladder I guess
it's something that they put nails in Cross pieces somebody was going around this corner
on a little Trail there's the trail right there I wonder where it goes I guess we follow
it huh it's going back up I don't want to go up well the trail led me out into the
Avalanche shoot here I'm way down from the mine and against my better judgment I'm
going to go along here see if I can find the creek bed and see if I can find any float
cuz I didn't have much luck finding the source on the way down the mountain I made it into the
creek bed I'm down here whacking on my rocks and there's some really nice pyite in some of these
so I'm finding this kind of quarty I don't know brownish looking Rusty stuff and it's got quite
a bit of mineralization in them I can feel the weight it's heavy there's another piece of this
green stuff here's a little bit better close-up view of it just pyite ptite speckled through
there this will be a good one to take home and slab I want to cut some of these and see what I
can see in them but they're not terribly exciting looking on the outside are they but once you get
inside they're pretty good here's another piece I knocked off that looks like ore to me there's some
of that real pretty green stuff that's some really good looking list one night right there I'm gonna
have to pack him home and slab him up too I found some really good gold in this i' I've slabbed this
and then looked it with the microscope and almost little bands of gold in some of these it's rare
obviously but some of these have some really high grade gold in them let's talk about bears there's
a big pile of bear crap I haven't seen any today but they're around that's my first sign
so I don't have a gun don't have bear spray I got a hammer in rock though maybe
that'll scare them off uhoh I'm on their trail go away Bears here I come I'm back on the road I'm tired I'm hungry
the Silver Tip is up there going to get these rocks back home
we'll slab them up and see what we can find we're in the Rock Shop let's
get a few of these guys chucked up in here get these slabbed up and see what they
look like all right let's have a look here we'll get it wiped off a little bit but
that is a pretty cool looking specimen there here's a look at what we cut we got our
list one here really beautiful green gray white streaks in there I got a couple little lanite
standups that one's got some really cool texture to it and then this piece has a couple a big
pieces of ptite in it I believe sulfide and then I had this piece here that I grabbed
on the way down I don't think I got it on camera I thought when I broke a fresh surface
with my hammer that the little black things or sulfides but now that it's cut I don't know
if they are or not we'll have to take a look at the microscope but I've got a little
stand up of him another little slab and then this one here is so small I'm not going
to worry about cutting it but I think this is probably the ore from the Silver Tip those
guys were going after this is the float full of sulfides now I'm going to use this little phone
microscope to take a look at some of our slabs and if you guys are interested in this thing I got
a link to it in the description below first up is one of our list one night standups here here's a
little interesting section in this standup there's some sulfides right along this little band
and I don't know if that little yellow stuff is gold in there or not but definitely some good
mineralization there's a large piece of sulfide there now let's take a look at this this piece
here with all these little black flecks in it yep sure enough all those little black flecks in this
one are little sulfide crystals it appears to be ptite but this guy is just loaded with
sulfides there's a real nice section of sulfides there and maybe a little piece of
gold right in the middle maybe just under the surface there's a piece of gold right there
right in the center that thing is a little piece of gold it's small but it's in there yep
sure enough I'm going to throw some of these pieces up on eBay if you guys are interested
in getting a piece of the Silver Tip history but thanks everybody for watching I hope you
enjoyed it we'll see you in the next video
