Bringing An Abandoned Gold Mine Back To Life: Part 21 of ?

It has been a little while since I have posted an update, but we have been doing a lot of the same (an endless cycle of drill, blast, haul out the waste rock, repeat) and I have already shown that multiple times. So, I like for there to be something a little different or new in order to try and keep the videos interesting… That is also why I tend to keep the actual mining videos shorter than the exploring videos. Even the most keen mining enthusiasts would likely have their eyes glaze over if I had shown the full forty minutes or however long it was of us disassembling the Jackleg drill.

We’re farther along now, but in the drilling scene in this video, we were probably about 40% done with this side drift at the 1600. The goal is to push ahead for another one hundred feet or so and then to carve out a drill station. The drilling will give us an idea of the location and condition of the abandoned workings above. Our geologist is confident that we’ll be able to block out good ore reserves while we’re drilling to locate and assess the caved workings. However, I think he is underestimating the capabilities of the old timers. We’ll see…

I had hoped that we would intercept some of the caved abandoned workings on this level as we started running this drift. Specifically, I was thinking of those caved drifts that wing out to the left as one is headed back to the 1600 station. However, it now seems that those drifts did not parallel the main adit. If you’ll recall, those caved side drifts are a mystery as no maps survive (or ever existed?) of those old workings.

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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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