Special Visit To The Incredible 16 to 1 Mine: Part 10 - 49 Hoist (Final Video)

Well, regrettably, this series on the 16 to 1 Mine, which is the longest mine exploring series I’ve ever done on this channel, comes to an end with this video. In this final video, we ascend a difficult raise to reach the giant 49 Hoist. The primary route to the 49 Hoist was blocked when a section caved in the early 2000s. So, to access it now, one must get on the ropes and make their way up the aforementioned raise. The journey is more than worth it though to see the massive hoist as well as the hoist operator’s throne room.

I really view the Sixteen to One Mine as an incredible mine – for its physical attributes, for its history and for its potential – that is not just a sensationalist title I used to get views... However, the 16 to 1 needs capital. It is limping along now, running well below its true potential. It would be great if they could lease it to a large operator with the budget to establish the full crew it deserves again and to bring all of the mining equipment back online.

As revealed in the excerpt below from “Gold Mines of the Alleghany-Forest Mining District” by Raymond W. Wittkopp and Wayne C. Babros, the present circumstances of the Sixteen to One Mine are not new, but its potential is greater than ever:

“The company has never gotten far enough ahead to fund a major exploration program once proposed by Harvard geologist Bill Fuller Jr. In an August 29, 1965 letter to the president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine Inc., Fuller suggested:

‘A comprehensive exploration campaign should, when finances permit, be undertaken to prospect the northern continuation of the entire vein zone. With more than 1.5 miles of a major vein system barely touched by mining up to now, because of the deep Tertiary cover, and with geologic conditions very similar to the mile already developed by the consolidated Sixteen to One workings, this exists as one of the most promising areas for the development of gold bearing quartz veins in the district.’

This area looks even more favorable today, since government airborne geophysical surveys are available that show the geology under the deep Tertiary cover.”

That speaks for itself and I have nothing further to add…

Thank you again to Duane for graciously serving as such an excellent guide and to the Sixteen to One Mine for hosting us. For those that have come along with us for this series, I thank you as well for your interest and your time.

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Our guide on this tour, Duane, has a YouTube channel of his own in which he has posted videos he has taken in mines where he has worked. It can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxw6cK0-lOubg0XJa3ctSYQ

For more information on the Sixteen to One Mine or even to buy physical gold or stock shares from the company, one can visit their website at: http://www.origsix.com/

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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. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.

So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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