Mining The Corpse Of A Mighty Ancient River For Gold

looks like a riverbank doesn't it the only thing is on top of a mountain no river around here for miles but it is a river this is the carcass of a mighty ancient river you're gazing upon here and just as modern rivers collect gold ancient rivers collected gold too and the old-timers figure that out and ran underground plaster mines just like this one chasing the gold that collected on the bedrock of the ancient river channels this is a classic example of that right here and it looks like a good one so let's get in and check it out all right heading in definitely not the typical look for a mine is it timbers on the ground right there very soft yeah very sandy and actually surprisingly deep but mines are usually built on incline so hopefully we'll get a bit out of water we're only about 15 feet in i'm already up to my waist it's higher to the left i will move to the left then get off all this uh okay past those timbers and there's still a bunch of timbers i'm walking on but they're lengthwise easy to walk over you see the added benefit right up there still lots of timbers on the ground so even though they're lengthwise it's not easy to walk down quick there might be some strap rail down there i see two dark lines yeah i think i was slipping on a pipe too and now i'm walking in the middle it's easier if you walk in the middle now all right i just went off of whatever i was walking this pipe on the left now coming to the it looks bend solid oh not a good sign that's the portal where we came in you can see the sunlight there and you may have noticed a bit of an interruption in the video and the reason for that is that i abandoned the video when i came around the bend and looked forward and saw that that was to the ceiling it was very discouraging so i thought well i'm not gonna get a video out of this mine so i put the camera away and just sort of poking around and in the meantime just like two little side drifts here and went and checked those out but i didn't even bother recording because you know i thought that they wouldn't go back very far there's also one over here again didn't bother according i didn't think they went very far this one on the right uh just goes back always and it's caved you see the uh ancient river channel here the guts of it here this one actually went back farther and wound around a bit round and round a bit but uh wasn't too exciting i'll show you some still images of that if you're interested in the video probably or maybe now depending on how i feel when i'm editing but you might wonder why did i turn the camera back on well while i was looking around up there my buddy started working on this and worked on it and worked on it and we actually got through it we got to the point where we started taking turns we started seeing progress but we dug this out this is all freshly disturbed because we are pulling back up and through there i know it doesn't look very possible but we got in it so there he goes jake going up through the death chute as he called it good his name is any for it that is a tight squeeze there he goes okay that's the hole that we squeezed up not easy to do as you can see i had to warm our way up there but got it done that i believe ties into the drift on the right that was caved that has that logan's in the right location but you're probably wondering what's ahead of us and i don't blame you because this is pretty interesting you can see of course the guts of the ancient river channel still and we're up on it's kind of hard to tell almost looks like backfill or another shelf you see my other body down there a bunch of ventilation tubing there on the ground and right there and like i said you can see i'm walking on the shelf here a couple slabs down there and the most interesting thing to me actually is that there's pretty good air flow here which did not expect and i have no idea where that could be coming from so i see the old electrical wiring right there this layer is just kind of a cool view you can see there's drift going that way just going that way it's kind of cool if i don't slip going down this you see those slabs come off really easily you see that fracture line right there and there this whole section is ready to come off which is already done where we're standing so hopefully that doesn't do it while i'm going by but that kind of thing tends to happen more often in the winter when it gets saturated but that's what you gotta watch out for let's climb down from that slab there i've got a good view here this year looks like a bunch of serpentine here which no surprise it's crumbly and flaking we've opened up into a nice gallery here you see my other buddy there you go sense of how tall this is he's not a dwarf so that's pretty high he said there's rail there there's a serpentine here in the drift going off to the left with some wood and i have no idea what that is does that keep going where you are yeah um i'm waiting for you i don't know if you want to video the rail under water because the second i walk through you're never seeing anything okay i would i would appreciate that let me just get this or something wood i don't know there's a huge pocket up here oh nice all right let me get this on the left real quick and i'll catch up to you i almost just tripped over a rail careful stepping through that jake okay so that is covered in orange funk i have no idea why that's an old ventilation pipe but look at a spray painted neon but that's not that's some natural a lot of substance back here more of that orange stuff on that old uh can right there that's metal those little things are metal so whatever that is attracted to metal this just stops right here and this branch just stops right here that's it so let's go catch up for that main drift heading to the left from where we are now all right i just came from that little drift run off to the right there left on the way in and i've come into this main attic running ahead and you can see where the plaster material is sitting right on top of the serpentine bedrock here that's normally the sweet spot for the gold is in that zone right there that contact zone where the ancient river material is sitting on the the bedrock just in a modern uh massive mining environment which is a river or stream same deal underground of these ancient river channels just came across there it's hard to walk in here but got over to here and uh big stop gallery up there you can see my buddy on up there anything up there yeah what's up there keeps going oh it keeps going there's a little drift there's a bunch of gobbing there's a everything i'm standing on behind me is a collapse this whole pile's a collapse okay that's normal for this kind of mine yeah if you're a rockhound man you gotta work it out for you up here some good stuff well it's the stuff that caves that's stuff that nobody's ever no human beings ever laid eyes on the colors are amazing it looks like kind of disgusting boxes of melted crayons almost uh huh it was all the way back that way where we were right alongside uh okay cuts back it's dabbing down there that looks like it goes somewhere that way it looks go somewhere all right wow that's good stuff and then there's stuff running off over here is that tie-ins wrap around and tie in as well or probably i'm gonna go follow this and see if it does okay and then oh wow keeps going straight for a long way those are the rails we were talking about those are we are walking those away and these are actually pretty beefy rails those aren't the strap or anything like that those are really strong rails solid rails large rails whatever adjective you want to use they're big this is amazingly high right here wow oh i can see this light and obviously it wraps around i see her light yeah i just saw that too oh yeah 100 because we dug it out so obviously yeah there's a way out that's explains the airflow too i'm very curious where this comes out so jake was up there looking around and said there are about six different drips running off in all directions up there so he came back and we decided we're gonna hit this main drift first and then uh because it's so complicated in here hit the main one first then do side drifts on the way out so let's see where this goes getting slow walking through here because uh there's so much stuff on the ground to trip over and you can't see where you're stepping because there's muddy water very confusing i dropped out this gallery is incredible it's all i don't know why they they ran down so deeply because this is all bedrock up to neck height or so then placer above i don't know why they ran so deeply through the bedrock where i was at okay that's a good sign he said there was a rail up where he was looking around which is a good sign that's an outlet he looked down on earlier that's up where he goes looking around of course all classroom true up there and then there's another one that's this little pocket right there let's see the clear material out there a little uh quartz rain right there see some pipes and a couple stalls up there man i'm tripping over everything it's hard going yeah you guys should be glad i have the stabilizer right now because putting on the stabilizer has to be unwatchable because i'm tripping all over the place just like a nice tumble it's just amazing seeing this ancient river all around me all right here's another section running up to the right my friend jake came down this one so this is as far as any of us have gotten he came out from down there and that's where all those drift levels meandering off were got this ventilation pipe in here see the rails and the water there before i muddy it up and goes up there and turns to the right so let's see what's there these river rocks were laid down when the world was a very different place a couple hundred million years ago that's interesting there's a little branch right there i don't know why that's there except to serve as an indicator for collapse because it's obviously not doing any support or perhaps they wanted to run ventilation pipe off yeah okay that's probably what it was this uh ventilation tubing on the ground it's probably just strong enough for that little pocket right here you can see where they would scratch away at the sides and chase stuff but didn't keep going on that this whole piece of dynamite right there looks like water's getting a bit shallower which is nice it's easier to walk on another pocket so i was talking about it keeps going since i can see we've risen up off the bedrock now so i guess they ran we added to the bedrock to make it more level because obviously the river over time geology shifted and buckled and moved the river channel up a bit in relation to where the attic would run comfortably so uh can't tell before the back that goes but we'll check later anyway i'm saying this pinch is off you think all right well we'll check later to be sure anyway what i was saying is that the they had to make the attitude somewhat level for or cars and such so as soon as they go through bedrock sometimes they don't have to makes more sense now this just keeps running that way big jumble of wood right here looks like why that's something here i'll obviously have something here what is the question there's another drift running over there there's a look at that drift looks like little benches leading up there lots of things to check on the way out those insulators right there this is saying 1930s to me based on the layout and the sorry i tried to walk and talk sometimes when you're concentrating on not falling down see the sandy layers here anyway i'm saying it seems like 1930s based on the style of insulators and such man this keeps going wild hard to walk in but they must have gotten a lot of gold out of here to make this incredible gallery that's 20 feet overhead and just runs and runs and runs unbelievable this is amazing guys i'm totally geeking out on this this is wild see look where they are and look how high it is above them you got that stolen the way but you can get the idea that's crazy you really see the sand layers in here too there's a lot sandier in here that was before they had a false floor or if they just used ladders and picked um that's a good question i don't see signs of an indentation in the sides where they have had false floors so i'm thinking probably ladders because those stole things are not they're not enough of them to have made a platform for them to stand on oh man you can see the sedimentary layers right there imagine what it would look like outside when this river was running through here i thought that just goes forever doesn't it do you see eyes how do you see how far that goes no i can't yeah so i'm saying this nuts oh look at the pick marks you guys see those pick marks they didn't have to blast this this was soft enough i can just pick it out that's crazy you really see the layers of sediment along here which is cool and see where it crosses over there obviously able to run all the way across i can really clearly see the pick marks here look at that i wouldn't even really think this would be a great spot for gold but maybe they're getting some fines out of there it's a piece of rail right there see the rails here maybe they did have a platform hard to say oh wow look at this color display that's cool looking all these minerals here yes that looks wild kind of looks like frosting on a cake or what but that looks amazing wow this is the kind of thing that caver is uh see and geek out on this is really amazing i just think i gave up on this mine too how crazy is that i don't see i was walking away from it we started digging it looks like there's a junction up there there's another shelf here again you can see where they picked everything out there's a view back at them you can see how high it is above them i'm glad they're here so you can see that that's amazing all right let's see what the junction's about that platform idea is making more sense now because it looks like they just drove boards right in the side i don't know if that'd be strong enough to support them i guess if they ran nails into it could do it because yeah it's sand and gravel but after countless millions of years and pressure it's pretty it's not like the sand and gravel you'd see in a normal river it's uh much more compacted yeah you can see bits of wood stuck in the side so i guess they had platforms that we had to stand on so rail junction here and i got something wow that looks pretty messy something going off to the left and a much cleaner looking at it running ahead it says j too so i guess i have to go to the j on the right looks like the remains the dynamite box right there so my drift back here is unbelievable looks like we lost the sand and we're back to sort of the river mud uh it looks like they gouge that out and jam the timber in there maybe for something to stand on so yeah i'm kind of thinking the platform idea makes sense maybe that ladders too made that a combination of everything all right i'm gonna let those guys catch up and then we can uh start down the j drift this way all right my friends caught up to me and uh we all agreed that going down the j drift would be the right move for now we are all we are all jays that's true the mark rock got very dark all of a sudden now look at this you got that white flaky looking rock and then suddenly just super dark that's strange a little pocket overhead of these slabs and uh crumby looking stuff that's more jagged than the normal ancient river channel pretty muddy back here all right it's gonna be a slow section i'll probably pick up over there okay i made it through the dark section there and i've gotten back into more conventional river rock looking stuff some interesting white funk on the ground there don't know what that is but try not to walk through it too much i just fell into it so uh it's not too dangerous because i'm still breathing that's what we found the other day there's a bit of rail sticking out here and that looks like it runs up away but i'm going to stick with the main drag for now i'm sure it keeps running back that way there's a drift there and a stopy section right there oh so dynamite four sticks jake called oh yeah old looking sticks right there looks like dynamite it's a pretty big timber right there all right this looks like it'll be really tough going so i'm gonna put the camera away and uh we'll pick up in sections when we decide what we're gonna do probably keep going straight even though it's starting to look messy all right we just climbed over that section and side drift here actually looks really solid and fairly clean see that gob in there we still think this is the main one going ahead but this side one's calling out to us and it doesn't look too strenuous so give it a shot let's be a very easy mind to get lost in that's for sure oh that's money so yeah look at this gobbing right here that runs back tapers off there huge rocks stacked up in front of us and then that ties through to the main drift where we were these underground plaster mines are pretty messy as you guys can see because this stuff's always crumbling down and well you're going through a river ground's pretty solid where i'm walking right now and what attracted us to this section is just how large and spacious this was yeah they wrapped back around here and stopped yeah there was something back here that was wooden but uh whatever it was is too far gone tell now looks like yeah it looks like bedrocks down here somebody's picking up the boulders through here we got boulders those are pretty big so you can see on the ground there where they obviously had track ties that ran this way it looks like that might dead in there actually i think that does i think we actually might be able to cross something off the list on this massive mine yeah that's it that's the end right well obviously we're going to be heading back down the main drag but i'm glad we did this one because we feel the accomplishment to get at least one thing crossed off the list we just looked down that large drift there i am back in the main drag which runs this way this is a huge pain to climb where all that stuff though so i'm going to turn the camera off and pick up down there we just made it through the water there and come to the next drift section taking off there's that chamber just ends right there doesn't it yeah so there's that timber support chamber ends right there and things just dry out right there that also ends there's a blast sheet or something you can see between them right there a bunch of rocks stacked up here drift keeps running this way uh looks like we're gonna have something to climb over there something kind of interesting you see where that boulder right there fell out of the side of the attic or the rib i'd be at it right there shows you what the underlying rock looks like so since that looks like a climb i think i'm going to turn the camera off and climb over that and turn up the other side we are just back there checking out the side drift there i've come up on this pile here there's stuff running off in different directions so here's a stop up there for rubble the drift keeps going ahead up that way a ladder there and they are examining this section here pretty cool looking those rocks there i've got a feeling actually that this ties into a mine and i explored a number of years ago because that looks very familiar to me and those of you that are watching my videos for a while may recognize that i think that may be where this is um let's go see where they're going i was just down there and following these guys up back in one of these rocky stoke chambers they all look like this you guys it's hard enough to fall they all look like this and anything wooden inside of them is badly rotted and deteriorated so after a while they all kind of look the same and you don't have any chance of seeing good artifacts that's kind of interesting to see they got that cribbing right there so they stuck those boards in there on top of the rock here uh so you use rock and then the wood is cripping you actually don't see that too often in the underground plaster lines so that's kind of cool nothing up there looks like this just wraps around lots of jobbing back here after they took out what they wanted there's no point in hauling these heavy rocks out because here they're not after what's in the rocks they're here after what's around the rocks so maybe brush some sand off the rocks no reason i'm hauling out because they're after the gold between the rocks all right it still runs back there so as i was struggling to articulate these stoop teams are often really full of rocks all right i've been working my way through here from over there open up to another section here see a big slabs down come down there see the quartz there keeps running off there as well this stuff just goes and goes and goes these stoves are huge my buddies are over here behind all these timbers and rocks have come down and looks like it just ends right here they're huge timbers back here huh yeah a lot of them wonder why they had so much unless it was like a storage place for so yeah that uh ends right here i'm thinking this must have been some kind of storage area maybe they had a platform here or stuff on it or they're storing timbers here just finished checking out the stops off to the left there there's a drift running up there that goes in dead ends and i'm coming up on this ladder here and looking at now i'm pretty convinced this ties into that uh underground plots of mine exported a few years ago which is the best underground possibility i've ever explored so not at all sorry to tie into this i think that's really cool going ahead is no longer possible you can see that's the end there and then it just runs up there a little way so i was here years ago but missed that other edit where we came in that shows the value of going back and hitting target rich areas because it's easy to miss stuff back here so i'm gonna go up the ladder and just double check and uh pick up there there's the ladder there just came up i'm up on a different drift level now similar drift level but a different one those rails that are sticking out are there and there coming to another stoke chamber here you see all the gobbing there really large timbers here as you can see those are massive but looking around you you can see why they're needed this is all stuff that's caved so and that that section we couldn't walk down because the main attic couldn't walk down that's the top over that cave down into it so the miners were correct and their placement of the timbering just wasn't sufficient good bedrock layer here you can see pretty clearly along the side and then the ancient river gravel on top there's another stop chamber down there and it runs over through there and down into all that wood down there i'm actually impressed the oxygen meter is not protesting but it's giving the all clear still i'll go look over here real quickly i'm i'm thinking this is it but i'm not 100 yet because i haven't seen anything there's a stoke chamber i'm expecting to see up here it's got a distinctive look that'll tell me for sure i'm on the same line it came from that section push deeper in see how easy it would be to get lost in here all of these look the same there are drifts and chambers running off in all directions they all look the same it's so easy to get back lost back here that a chamber i was expecting to see is in there so this is indeed the mine i uh hit before so i'll link to that in the description below the video so you can see what's here in those other sections that section i just showed you is behind me the way i came out on this trip is from there i want to show you some of these huge slabs have come down back here you see there's actually a timber set down there that's just been crushed under these huge slabs that have come crashing down so enter my underground plaster mines are sketchy as you can see but at the same time this is really impressive so i'm glad to be able to see more of this amazing mine drift level run back there just nuts how much this uh all ties together all right uh my friends started heading back to go check out some of those drifts you passed the way in so they're back that way i'm gonna go catch up to them it's the section that we went and connected to the minex board before we're back at j drift as you can see you can recall on the way in we opted not to do this section i'm still not enthusiastic about this section but i figure it's worth at least sticking our heads down since had the rail coming in here the uh as my friend observed the bedrock here is actually worse than the plaster material because the bedrock is all this um serpentine which is horrible stuff miners hate it runs back to there i think that pinches out back there or it's just cave by the way i'm not crawling through that serpentine to get there yeah look at this serpentine look how flaky and crumbly this stuff is horrible stuff i hate it and like you said it's worse than the plaster material not saying something keeps going a ton of timbers back here big big timbers so you can see the miners back in the day we're concerned about the serpentine as well for good reason it does that yeah look at all these jagged fragments above us it's kind of cool here there's a seam of uh plaster material in the bedrock yeah yeah it's over here it's just blackened rocks yeah black blackened rocks packed in that's exactly what that is i can't looks like it does keep going up there ah this servant is horrible all this stuff on the grounds all the caves and this cave serpentine cave plaster you guys might not want to keep coming on this one um it's getting really sketchy i can go ahead and scout out how that looks up there but if i were you i wouldn't follow me man this is bad the original drift level is way down there somewhere we're walking over the top of uh what used to be the top of the drift level finally getting back into some plasma material something keeps running there uh there's something running off down there and a big stoke chamber here you see up there and it runs up here looks like the slabs peeling off up there this is pretty wild but definitely black in the back and the plaster hey you guys are crazy you came with me what's wrong with you all right let's take a closer look at this stuff still in this large chamber of the miners cleared out here and gotten down lower so i can see what's ahead and you can see it's uh caved right there from the work they did up there and then behind me or i should take to my left there's this drift that was running off here but that is also completely caved or backfilled even if there was a possibility of digging it out i don't want to be digging out to that serpentine so don't care enough to do that and so i think we'll head back to you down the main drift just finished checking out that bad section we're back in this section it's almost like a cathedral right here and we're heading down to see other drifts that we didn't cover on the way in just came through the ancient river cathedral right here we're at the next drift and we bypass on the way in see one of the jakes has already climbed up so um i think we can all do this okay there's a little water feature here it's a hole maybe five feet deep eight feet across completely filled with water there is a timber in it running across it's about three inches four inches under water and then some gobbing climb up and then it just kind of keeps going up like that well let's we'll watch you swim see how it goes all right if i do it will you follow me there's a good chance that's definitely a water feature my friend ah yeah she blowed right in she's soggy so you're not gonna you're gonna deprive our viewers of what is up there if i fell in the water's coming to my neck well then i'm just standing in a wood-filled pool i mean it would make for a good video would yeah all right well can you at least describe what you can see up around the bend i just did it was like it keeps going up and it's kind of small then it either faces out or potentially takes a right all right well i wonder why they had this here how tragic that we won't know what's up there just because you're not willing to swim yeah rude is what it is all right left floor here yeah they fire just falling down to see if they could hit the uh bedrock there or something yeah all right well we'll continue down the back of jake's ancient river cathedral back in the cathedral here and we just looking down that section i've come up to the next drift this one is a bit off the ground as you can see down there and it runs back uh i heard a telephone back there runs back because you have that rubble right there blocking it but it is my turn so i'm gonna scramble up there and see where that ties in if it just doesn't face out there i just climbed up from down there where my friend is and we're going to see what is back here pretty tight squeeze it looks like it might just face out right there but it looks like it might be something stacked back there so i'm going to have to do it unfortunately can't help but geek out on that ancient river gravel that's so cool actually pretty good echo in here um okay it does end there but i can't tell what's below there okay i've reached the point where i can see that that doesn't go anywhere but i'm actually not disappointed to have come back here because if you look at this in front of me have you ever seen anything like that in a mine that's crazy you see how the water gets because it comes up to here obviously but that is some uh very interesting mind funk right there that's that drift we just checked out with the uh well bowl of cream at the end essentially and we are continuing down the cathedral here and hit the next drift we've been making our way down this cathedral the ancient river here and i've come to the next drift section my body's already gone up there and we're gonna shoot down there and see what's up there this looks actually pretty solid with the bedrock here it's not serpentine so looks pretty good up there oh yeah there's rail cool and it just goes awesome we'll pick up where he is now just came from the attic there and it wasn't lying there is rail there that is really cool to see that it's the first time we've really been able to see the rail out of the mud and water except for that one section of branches i like that this is a drift here that's just back filled with calving that's wild that's some serious gobbing too right there oh that does yeah they stop that out of ways oh yeah it goes back far wow completely filled my ceiling that's what you mean yeah they uh they backfilled the hell out of that that was way back did we lose the rail or just uh i don't know the mud did we lose the rail yeah we lost the rail i don't see it but curious there's a lot of stuff pushed over there and that gobbing extends through here pretty impressive a bit of a crouch here bend over to this section that's a big ventilation type right there yeah batteries all right gonna get this stuff that timber support was well intentioned but uh not doing its job anymore all right there's stuff going all over the place here there's something going there something running there and then did you come from that direction the first time yes okay and that ties into that drift you shot up the first time yeah okay that's cool so you have not checked out these no okay well i like to look at that one in the middle the most another section you can see where the contact zone is very clearly right there that's bedrock down below and the ancient river channel all packed up on top of it okay this doesn't look like it goes anywhere nah this just stops right here i made a little bench right there you can see they were chasing the uh ancient river gravel that was on the top of the bedrock right there picking it out but i can see why it's here because there's some grooves in the rock that could have caught gold right there uh it's just as in modern rivers but apparently didn't pay out too well otherwise i'd still have been picking at that for quite a while that's funny the little thing runs down right there almost like he was dug out by a squirrel or some ground squad or something i just checked out that chamber right there my other buddy went down and checked out this one and said it dropped down at one time but now it just pinches out huh yeah it's all back filled in no that makes it easy tell you guys it's hard work getting through this mine good workout so we've got that section was more stuff back there right yeah okay another junction i think okay we'll climb over all that and pick up back there somewhere so we're over there filming and we're making it over this pipe to this other section back that way i have to notice there was a drift running off this way so jake is checking it out tell you guys it's my exploring stuff's hard work this is that back filled drift we passed on the way in it continued through here so we're assessing whether it goes anywhere if it's worth going down pitch is out oh it pinches out yeah all right well you filled your turn we know whose turn it is next there's a little jake making his way out of that section we said we'd come through again not easy another chamber here the main drift levels down that way and we looked up this one in the past but now we're actually up it see the big slabs back here other jake is checking things out up there behind me they cleared out some rock that's the serpentine again you can see where the bedrock meets it right there they cleared this out a little bit but they must have been too impressed because they went a lot farther up this way hard to tell how far that keeps going can't tell if he's just finishing out a stoke chamber or if it's a drift level here we're just down there where my friend's light is now before we've come up to where jake was looking around see what's up here and you see on a big debris pile right now this is all i probably just caved off the uh the back or the top of that as they call it see some big slabs down there uh that's all gobbing through there actually you can see the timber right there it's all filled in with gobbing which looks kind of cool the other jake here with me you can see how far down that runs there's not a drift right there just uh pinches out there on the right so what's left is whatever this is up ahead here just up on that pile a minute ago and there are two drifts down here there's one running back this way which would be a serious crawl to do that one that wasn't very appealing at all and then in front of me here it's a little more spacious but obviously doesn't require scrambling over that they're gobbling all through here though which is kind of cool i have to admit it's almost like i'm not sure if they're using this to help support the uh drift here or not but it kind of looks like it because this is all had uh bobbing rammed into it very sandy right here it's kind of interesting as well hard to climb though but they're a big chamber right here in this uh sandy drift and it drops into something down there just caught up in this pile from down there you can see i'm on the sandy uh wastewater pile here so that just uh pinches out up there it's got this kind of sloping backfill the whole way okay but i can't i can't see the end of it all right but that doesn't look like it'd be that's like one foot hole yeah right there so forget that there is still this dropping off down here so and that gobbing runs back there too which looks kind of cool so we'll drop down there and see what awaits us kind of cool seeing that sand layer right there that's not solid rock that's just compacted sand right there you can see where i suddenly get a bunch of gravel and bigger rocks interesting stuff all right i'll pick up down there next to that gobbing all right as promised i'm down here by the gobbing having a slid down both of us are laying on our backs now because we had to slide down you can see it runs back there and there's about 18 inches of clearance right there and it looks like it drops off again hard to say i frankly don't care enough to uh push through and find out because these all look pretty much the same i think the most interesting thing down here is this gobbing that's all along the side there and over here i spoke to you soon jake's running up there and just taking a look at it yeah we're good this is the end that's the end yep outstanding so that is the end right there we'll head back to the main at it and see if i think we might have covered everything but there's anything else we haven't covered we'll check it out just finished checking out that section which was a good workout and the section we need to run down to intersect the main attitude is there so we're gonna head down there making our way through this stuff which looks like a pain so i think i'll pick up down there we just came from up there and i was hoping it would get easier here but it's not see how my body is positioned and that's because it's very low here and we have to crawl out through this gobbing to there there's something off the left and to the right the main attic should be to the right but we'll find out all right making our way through this extremely low section here all right there's a stop and a lot of gobbing right there and then this is where it drops down to the main attic down here as you can see uh early in the video my buddy looked down from there so unfortunately it's actually probably easiest for us to push on through here and slide down that first section so here we go just crawl through that section where the uh gobbin is right there making our way through all these slabs right here which is a drag i smash my finger on them because they shift whenever you put your hand on them and the main at it should be down there somewhere i'll head back there and see what we can find made our way over the slabs back there and indeed the main attitude is down that way my buddy's dropping down it's just stopy back here still running off in all directions we've seen enough of that we're super hungry we're way overdue for lunch so we're gonna make our way out and uh have some lunch but hope you guys enjoyed this one this is pretty good for a video i abandoned because i thought we were done just to have it turn into this is pretty cool so thank you jake appreciate that starting the process of digging that one out all right i lied i'm gonna film what's going out through this uh tiny hole that was excavated not an easy squeeze but it sure opened up a world of uh underground mine exploring for us all right now i'm gonna turn the camera off for good so we're coming out of the mine and we noticed the sign here sort of hidden away on the side of the road which is obviously an old pg e sign and we have no idea how old it is i'm guessing sort of 20s 30s but it should be easy to look up based on the guy's name right there we can look it up when we get home but this is pretty cool i've never seen a sign like this before we're assuming that says uh safety i mean somebody shot it but we assume it's had an interest of safety only authorized persons may enter the attic is just up there and we found that pg e sign sort of in there this is obviously the electrical building down here you can see the remains of these transformers i'm standing on and then that electric that old vintage electrical equipment down there pretty solid structure right here you can see how thick that platform right there is there's all these metal there's almost like roof shingles but i know they're not i just don't know enough about electricity to know what those would have been there's a huge stack of them right there a couple big insulators right there so i know these were somehow involved in the generation or distribution electricity i just don't know how but i know they're electricians in the audience that will tell us right not that much left out here we were expecting to see uh a lot of gravel and river rock that they didn't use or didn't need in the mine but there's none of it out here at all the thing that's out here is actual waste rock from a mine you know broken up rock like this another river rock so i couldn't have left all of it in the mine you know what happened to it and hauled it away for aggregate or something who knows but as you can see the sun's starting to set so we gotta start hiking out of here so which is out that way all right you know i can't help myself from looking around so we're just looking around some more and came across this old comb which is hard to read on the hard to read the lettering right there but it says warranty something unbreakable been there a very long time and it's broken so should we get our money back

Channel: TVR Exploring

Views: 247,541

Rating: 4.8332901 out of 5

Keywords: Mining The Corpse Of A Mighty Ancient River For Gold, Exploring Abandoned Mines, Mine Fossils, Underground Placer Mining, Ancient River Channel, Placer Mining, Placer Gold Mining, Ancient River, Placer Gold, Fossils, Ancient River Geology, Hidden River, Gold Mining, TVR, Adit, Winze, Breasting, Mining History, Mine Exploring, Underground Mine Exploring, Underground, Underground Gold Mining, Abandoned Mine

Id: G_HQr1WacDw

Length: 58min 51sec (3531 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 05 2020