No (Abandoned Mine) Business Left Unfinished

Описание: Returning to this abandoned mine had been on my list for a long time… As I mentioned in my introduction, I don’t like unfinished business and wondering what was up that raise where I left off before had been bothering me for a while. This is an old silver/gold mine (and a dry one), dating back to the 1870s-1880s, and so I was keen to see what sort of undisturbed artifacts from that era might still be present. My optimism was supported by the number of items that dated back to the 1800s that were still in relatively accessible areas of the mine. So, what might be found in parts of the mine that had not been visited in more than a century?

The videos from my first visit are here (I did not repeat the content from my first visit in this video):

Part 1:    • Mine With A Few Surprises: Part 1 - Lotsa ...  

Part 2:    • Mine With A Few Surprises: Part 2 - Lotsa ...  

Part 3:    • Mine With A Few Surprises: Part 3 - Lotsa ...  

That second video shows where I left off last time…

As an interesting “Oh by the way”, Howard Hughes owned this mine for several years during his mine acquisition spree in Nevada.

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You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L

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Thanks for watching!

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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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