Rough Visit To A Mine Not Even Supposed To Exist - Part 2 of 2

This visit was a lot easier than the first one since we were prepared this time. However, for the sake of continuity, I had to keep the same title... Ha, you’d be surprised how much of a difference it makes to have waders. Lights are an obvious necessity in underground abandoned mines (as are the ropes on the vertical work). However, I think the waders represent the biggest (exponential, really) increase in comfort of all of the mine exploring gear. As I have demonstrated a few times, it is possible to go into flooded or muddy mines without them, but it is really not pleasant to do so.

I’d say that the adit I showed in the first video is obviously the oldest at this mine. So, the miners must have liked the gold that they were pulling out of there. There wasn’t enough left of the second adit to date it, but the third adit was consistent with what we’ve seen from mines in the area that were last worked in the 1930s. The clues from that third one are the timber sets and the condition of the timbers, the rail, the ore car, the shape and size of the adit itself and, lastly, the infrastructure left outside. To be clear, I am suggesting that it was LAST worked in the 1930s, but that is not necessarily when it was first worked, as its origins may date back to the 1800s as well (as the adit in the first video certainly does).

It is impossible to tell from the video, but the second adit was running roughly in line with the first adit (but with that small meadow and hill separating them). The third adit punched sideways into the vein that the first two adits seemed to be working on.

I used to break up longer videos into multiple parts that I would try to keep under half an hour as I figured that people would not want to sit through long videos. However, I found that the first video in a series would get a good number of views, but views on the subsequent videos in a series would fall off a cliff. So, I started posting longer videos. I still do some videos in parts if they would just be too long otherwise. This video is kind of on the line as to whether it could be one video or broken into two parts. So, I’ll be curious if it still holds true that views for subsequent videos in a series collapse. That is particularly the case here as the second video is of a higher quality.

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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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