Special Visit To The Incredible 16 to 1 Mine: Part 1 - Surface Buildings & Equipment

the guy's the old guys the old-timer talk to old timers they used to walk down from the top of the road that's a hell of a hike okay and all this hillside was cut out in the in 1980s so what we have vehicle access and everything right just to start driving instead of walking down and you can still see the old dirt line over here on the old dry huh where the mountainside went up like that Wow see and so there the old guy real treat for you the old compressors I can't wait think that they were still in use up to 1975 Wow and just the thought of that that's awesome it's incredible so one would do now is we're gonna go down back to the shop and well shop now but and show you if you'll wear the old high-grade mill man testers and I got the key to the portal inside kind of give you an idea because the 16 to one shaft is there and it's for another orientation thing so you look at the shaft everything dips to the east so um you'll see that the shops way over there right and the black holes way over here yeah so as you're underground give it like okay pull the compressors here that means sixteen one shafts over here it does a real steep drop and then it kind of levels out okay so didn't see the shaft up at the top but you know it's not a shaft is technically a winds because it's not open at the surface of certain right right it's open yeah technicalities it's open to the surface shaft is not open at the surface it's a winds right but they call it the sixteen one shaft like the tighteners they call it tightener shaft don't open to the service got me right just sounds better I guess but you'll be able to look down that yeah we've actually repelled down in the bottom it's caved in about 200 feet ah mr. the mine has been abandoned most all levels above the well I'd say above the 800 600 or most of its been caved in Wow we had some lessors I guess that had rented the mine pulled a lot of the pillars out on the 600 and so a lot of the mine just have because they're trying to get the little gold that was left inside them a little gold yeah particle well yeah okay so what carried the mind for the last two and a half years we pull the pillar below the thousand I can show you that okay six hundred ounces so we know where it's at yeah they left it there yeah it's got to hold the ground up yeah says therefore the pillars there for a reason yeah this borehole is only a reference so when I take you underground which is almost that the mine almost runs due north and south so right down below us is the 800 level okay you're sitting off the 250 foot level right now okay and what what we're gonna do is we're gonna go down there and when we go in the horrible - you've passed the electrical room and you're gonna be able to look and you're gonna look straight up and you go there's the borehole and directly above us is the old generator room the compressor and everything as an orientation you just realize exactly okay great great so that's the only reason I dragged you over here no I appreciate it orientation is good yeah building after building was built like 19 the other half was rehabbed in 1975 ah a big that big metal one we drove in past and I'm gonna show you that because half of it used to be the dry and the other half was the high grade mill ah where the bird and pan that you saw we actually donated to the mine to the north star mining museum real briefly all these buildings were put in in the 1990s through elite lessee lessor and that had the dry showers bathrooms offices for all the geologists and everything like that through snow load it took in roof and buildings collapsed and huh everything's really kind of sad I mean it's like the rest of or they aren't there tend to go to the wayside unfortunately yeah but the only original building over there still from the 18 1900s is that Matt that room were using as a map room ah okay I know the old dry it's kind of boring but I could show it to you real quick uh yeah absolutely yeah if there's so much junk in there it's kind of be disgrace if it there's the old superintendents house at the top of the hill how about all the guys walk down the hill uh okay they would walk down and then this is where they go into the mine over here okay and there were snow sheds from what was the high-grade mill all along the hillside to the dry still see there's at Russell right you're off and some track see the track yeah yeah so right along here they've since pulled this hillside out put the road in but there were snow shifts so they come in and they could work year-round year-round because they said last year we got five feet of snow and it destroyed stuff yeah okay we it took us two days we couldn't get into the mine I did put a real boring video on where I was plowing some snow up here and I was having fuel problems because I couldn't get to the tank stalling out and all of a sudden the load results cute hello to dice and plow and I was only piling from maybe two feet then but you know just to just to get to the fuel ow that's pretty cool it was all snow shits these guys are pretty sharp because now I keep joking Isis we need to get snowmobiles so we can get to work in the winter and so we were completely snowed out or when you come out and all of a sudden there's a foot of snow on the ground you're like can we get out yeah the ingenuity and the effort these guys know working okay everything down here was hauled in from the top of the hill all these mines you've explored all that equipment got hauled in by mule it's incredible block and tackle some crowd all down the hills I was the most amazing part in these roads and and you know what you look at it and it would be an engineering feat today that they'd go oh how we gonna do that yeah you need to dig up some of those old-timers and ask them yeah so it's being used for storage you can see there was this almost the best one right here so most of these baskets were other they had a that was a propane furnace okay so the heat being generated and then they would raise these baskets you know communities beginning today and all your equipment your street clothes and everything yeah and you'd have your work clothes hanging on there and change out and haul it back up so somebody's running tie it off it's the same thing at the end of the day you'd come back the work back put your work clothes on here let him dry out so see that's that were there benches oh yeah and we actually removed a lot of these baskets because we've basically made another dry huh because this one was just out of play coming down wrong here yet I don't know if you want to see any this but I'll run you here because I'm happy you're here sir Costas my sin deceive all added in the 1990s we've had the block walk accessibility issues yeah just like that was a maintenance room you know yeah Wow which you can see to me how much stuff is still here yeah yeah and of course are the snow load I'm gonna see 2003 so it wasn't that old ok so say here's a citation from 2003 fires genders on the 800 foot level they have received their station so it's terminates actually a termination notice not that citation good ventilation air huh uh yes you can see how it was abandoned I mean personally I would've took that 966 one big dumpster wow that's fine still we put that out from the shareholders meeting every year that's pretty cool excuse me and just this will did you all just and mostly office staff ah okay hanging out in here it's just more storage I'm fascinating to see all this I've always worried about all these buildings where you know yeah yeah this one really wasn't following the vein but they made a shortcut to the mill so they can just tram there or right in there like I said the old-timers had it all planned out so we're gonna take me into the shop and go through everything there I'm traveling late cuz I was gonna find gentlemen here all right let's do my loadout then lithium courted mine light run better in 16 hours sped ranch doing all of our utilities track work it's nice as they call the ironworkers branch to the line and steel we use it lining the track bolts and helping disconnect what they call victaulic fittings pipe ranch actually this is not just your ordinary pipe wrench let's call the wrap wrench it actually has a hammer built in the end of it because the big thing down there is fittings air fittings water fittings all the fittings on the drill you could do 99% of your work with that right here a lot of the guys that's all they carry that's all you need it since we do a lot of track work I carry my spud wrench and then of course we are on the 16 to 1 and you always want your rock pick with you that one's actually not that worn-out but [Music] one ourself rescuer it's a chemically activated and it does not produce oxygen I thinks that most people might think it actually converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide if you can tolerate carbon dioxide you can't tolerate carbon monoxide carbon dioxide or kill you so it actually converts the toxic gases and B it's a chemical reaction it's like one of those heat packs once you expose it the oxygen it generates heat the thing will get really hot if you've ever seen them I can show you one in the lower shop it goes in your mouth like a scuba piece got a piece it climbs the lip time to know that in it yeah they'll tell you whatever you do don't spit it out because it's like oh that's hot I'm gonna spit it out of my mouth and you're dead and a lot of the fatalities was either they didn't have them or they're like I can't tolerate this and they put it out and then they drop dead ah so yeah it's just sad gulps huh too many people cut their hands open touching horts I got I got them everywhere I got a crop seat full of them laughs we had the McKay School of Mines from Reno oh yeah 50 never had just feet of many people on the my property in dirt 50 of them had one down there the ballroom starts slapping the rock uh good a finger hey hey I got you some melty dog healthy so this is my friends Justin and Jake hello Jake they're just enough to your jaw surgery nice to meet you towards us our mechanic Alan and Ellen may or may not know this you're standing in the hybrid mill yeah Yeah right behind you and you might be able to see on the other side there's concrete foundations under here that's where the verb and pants were mounted huh right there yep and I think on the other side there's the first part of it right dere about the base oh yeah so the concrete foundation is hidden under there you see it right along that wall so I actually met and uh of Coleman old-timer he came in here said he was actually in here in the 60s when this was the high-grade mill and they had the two Byrd and pans mounted on his concrete right here and I like how the hint hide it right there look at that that foundation that was where they had a small Joker surrounded where the crush their high-grade right here that's me okay oh so years back they were using this as a blacksmith shop but this was where they actually retorted the mercury don't hang out in there too long yeah okay so this was where they retorted it so that doesn't have a soft sack ball that high grade right there goes birthday on pans you imagine roll right there we're gonna roll with that mercury and they burn of everything here and they crushed it all right dear and that if you want to go ahead and go up that's a old Park sperm Wow this is great man like much done as a pair it's hard to take it all in you know it's just so much going on you know you can spend a month here trying to seriously figure everything out I can make a whole video just to this former milk sorry guys I'm going fast but uh there's so much to see here that's you know I can't really go slow so hopefully I get impression it was here sorry I can't focus on every digital thing I love sure somebody would find that boring but uh yes the heights is amazing and the guys got some great stories okay here's another treat look at this indiscreet Rock concrete wall there hmm I wonder what that is we're gonna find out right now all right you know describe the rubbish debris and see or you locked or unlocked okay out the cookie be right back sure the non excitement wonder all those baskets went from the original dried this was our drive when we had a crew we had a larger crew you can't really raise them very high you have a heater early so this was actually the the assayer office energy august they come up now sale than the materials huh this was this lab so this is where he hung out we converted it into a dry so we get to go back down into that mess down there is a good mess there's a special treat I get to take out for her time I see it your attendance is the best this stool this is original vault Wow okay now look at this chrome steel protected by time walks get a little bit this I actually looked it up herring and a whole Marvin safe company San Francisco Wow okay that's fantastic no this is even better look at that September 1st 1919 Oh Livie that good light right there that's a really cool 1919 yeah how much gold how much gold was in that vault man how much gold did that vault hold just imagine doing this the concrete's whoa so the Steel's up there they won't close but it's double door okay and what they did was the ship boss had a combination the outside door he would open the outside door drop the gold sacks at the inside so then other administration would then come in open the outside door take the gold sacks and then actually bring them in an account for the gold so there was two combos so they would drop the gold and it would literally be a safe within the same little musty yeah that never everybody yeah daily they got more of a modern lock on there instead the time locks but you see they were all in there they actually it was all time locked and I don't know if I could still get us to do it but right here here you let see you let me get out of your way just oh okay there it is Wow that's really cool so the size of this ball it gives you an idea of how much gold was going through here yeah and there was a lot big big big pockets that's incredible I don't think many people have seen this No and so the concrete's actually swelled and the inner door won't close because of the door trim right actually pushing up underneath but yeah that's just I mean 1919 if they're just think of the time yeah that's incredible absolutely incredible that was uh pretty much just heyday wasn't yet for in 1601 and yeah I mean they start hitting some really big stuff in the 1920s and 30s I mean that's when the majority of the war Pakistan out of the line okay ten thousand twenty thousand eighty nine thousand right that's incredible imagine Hills 90,000 pounds pocket yeah I wouldn't be driving twenty-one-year-old Kearney all right let's hit this this side of the building our east side of the building it was rebuilt in 1975 I have some photos of that somewhere here now this half of the building is the original it was built in 1917 yeah I'm actually gonna let some sunlight in there some light helps that's a rebuilt master trimmer yeah a nice trim her sitting right it's it needs battery box and batteries that's it huh yep that's it the batteries are a couple grand and money's tight well yeah so basically your battery box sits on top your resistors that's a 48 volt DC motor you can see how the shaft goes through the motor and there's a worm gear on each end and then that turns basically your differential and drives to the motor so and then the parking brake at the end of the shaft as the brake pulls up it applies the pads to the and the here's here's basically a few different parking brakes if we're gonna try to get to work and your speed controller you see as it makes a series of contacts first year second third and on anything when you change directions there's another series of contacts on the other side they do the same thing so neutral everything's off no yeah ready for batteries so a lot of defunct equipment lots of very defunct but uh that's fascinating mariya it's now a parts its parts museum right arts museum might in history yeah you want to see so this is mine history I'm gonna help you go back another see a little screen right there yes okay now we gonna step back around the other side okay this room was the timekeeper the timekeepers sat in there or the desk right here in this room and I think it's right oh here it is we're gonna tell you those from our last years ago are our shareholders meeting ah right there that's what the time keeper well it's not working the time keeper sat in here and there's an actual log from 1962 and he would clock in who they were what shift they work and if it was a full day half day or 0 day day in half but not and so this is where they actually had a little guy sitting come in to go at is Bob but Bob Bob killed okay in he would clock you in they still crashed in but that's where they crashed in right here and tipped another time but I'm kind of getting ahead of myself because then they would go here here yeah Wow [Music] impressive yeah we'll come back to that this was pulled out just we were using this 12 B in inside net all right here hot okay I've seen your footage you've got them these are inverse old random air compressors man these things are beasts this is some of the bigger ones to stage so your air intake real big piston that was a lower compression it then pushed the air through into a smaller piston when you got the higher compression and then the air was discharged you can see discharge going out the mind there was an error receiver out there these were used up to 1975 Wow they were installed 1917 so what's interesting is it's fascinating seeing you standing next to us and people tell me how big it is that how they actually started with the smaller one before they went to the larger one and I don't think I've ever seen an air compressor that large if you can just imagine Allegheny the whole reason PT knees here was for the mind I have reason PT knees in Allegheny was for the mind so you head out you're huge absolutely huge electric motors and then no they didn't get pull furred and haven't had all the copper windings removed yeah we're not used to seeing that that's right and they still have the drive belts on them that counterbalance weight right there keeps the weight on there I have never tape measure of that but I'm guessing that's probably better than eight foot flywheel yeah that's incredible that's really amazing okay so this is Lisa this is the original building and yeah it's just absolutely incredible yeah that's a good word for it I mean that minutes I mean they don't wanna they really belong in a museum we've said that they'll get you there still it's just actually mind-boggling that they had to take these things in pieces and bring them down the hill not only that they had the especially had the NOTAM rubber it I mean well having the roads it's just incredible imagines getting down yeah I'm you know imagine hawks teens or you know horse something they have to bring them in piece by piece pour the concrete down here and assemble them that's really amazing I mean this one and promise is enormous by itself but then you see this one oh yeah yeah yeah they actually realized they needed more air and they went bigger yeah and um I mean I don't know I mean as far as scale okay now thank you and that's that's the big foundation you Steen and also take that into account and then check him out stand next to that is so amazing that's unreal the actual being a they've been preserved look at the size of those connecting rods and crankshaft I mean I look just like the connecting rod on your in your car you hooked your piston however little bigger there's your piston right here yeah so yeah I mean there's still oil that you just fire these things right back up we're ready to go right yeah I mean so you sitting out there he's at 1975 I think 75 was the last time they were Ram but they're 1917 vintage yeah and they still look fine I think I'm like they used to so I mean I guess they're still here because the mines still operating nobody's had a chance to go for all the parts yeah my god and still here all they did was disconnect all the wire and it was also getting kind of pricey even in 1975 for PG&E bills so they went with a more modern electric compressors yeah I can imagine these were not cheap to offer it really amazing there's so much stuff in here in general yeah I was told by a guy that actually heard these things that he says you could hear it up in town which is up above us I'm sure that they made a thunk thunk-thunk noise you could use it wasn't our stamp mill going it was just probably sound press no suctioning the intake and the compression stroke and and and you see that both went out and they fed a receiver and the receiver was actually mounted out alongside the building and so they pumped it out compressed into the tank and then into the mine and then they used large diameter pipe in the mine which acted as an air receiver so you're not gonna see real small pipe in the mind because once you fire up a drill that takes all the air out so they run large diameter pipe that actually acts as air tanks so they don't have to put air tank in the mine when you do run in and one in the mind because it was having such a long run that they had the build pressure in there I just seen you might have seen air tanks in the mine Weiss they're an air tug or something where they needed that air the volume of air so they put a tank underground but was it actually pretty rare because of the cost involved so yeah you have the time keeper over there and the air compressors here I can imagine that guy I'm trying to talk to the miners coming in it was my dad things stroking away he must been deaf no I don't believe they've had any type of area hearing protection then even now running the jackleg it's 130 decibels earplugs drop at the 29 she'd be running ear muffs it's tough to drop it even a little more but I just can't get over these just scale is amazed the scale this is the biggest this this also help cool the air off with these large chambers down here but this one and look at this the cork manufacturing company this is an automatic oiler so that them up neat now see the Pistons up top all right right there and they could oil the entire machine do that you see each one of these run off like a little brake lines to all the major critical or than points on there and then the others the classic that was not supposed to open like that but just the cap I mean look I get it but the cap comes off if you see these so most were brows in fact look actually this one's nuts yeah okay okay so they would then oil the top of those some of them the cap itself comes off this piece comes off this one the whole thing's threaded but that's the the oil there there but as far as all the others they use that boiler there that's amazing yeah

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Keywords: Special Visit To The Incredible 16 to 1 Mine: Part 1 - Surface Buildings & Equipment, Exploring Abandoned Mines, Mine Exploring, Underground Mine Exploring, Abandoned Mine, Working Gold Mine, Rich Gold Mine, Gold Vault, Sixteen to One Mine, Sixteen to One Gold Mine, 16 to 1 Mine, Underground Gold Mining, Gold Ore, Mine Workshop, Mining History, Historic Gold Mine, Gold Mining, Active Gold Mine, Gold, Antique Mining Equipment, Historic Mining Equipment, Old Mining Tools

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Length: 31min 59sec (1919 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019