I LIVED AT THE HOLLAND CAMP FROM 1940 TO 1945 MY DAD WORKED THE APPACHE MINES. THAT WAS THE WORKED SHOP THAT YOU HAD IN YOUR VIDEO. OUR MAIN HOUSE WAS TAKEN DOWN BY SOMEONE IN THE 1980,S. WE ALSO RAISED CHICKENS TO BE SOLD AT MT UNCLES MARKET. MR. VOSE IN GARLOC TAUGHT MY DAD ALOT ABOUT MINING. I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO SO VERY MUCH.

Great....fantastic rock formations, enjoying your videos!!

So Beautiful there,!! I love the desert!! Find these old mines fascinating!!😀❤

Explored all the mines back in 1965 awesome place

Thanks for the video takes me back to the good ole days looking for gold 👍

Great video thanks for sharing

That whole area is awesome. Interesting mine shafts and that twisty bit of canyon at the end reminds me of Utah.

Awesome explore!

Thx for posting! Prospector Dean here from MN. I recently visited the GPAA Duisenburg camp and ran a Royal drywasher for the day with the manufacturer, good times! I found some gold and met some nice people. I am returning to SoCal soon to visit family and plan on returning to the Rndsburg area to do some prospecting on the GPAA claims in the Goler Gulch area and some general exploring as well..I have enjoyed watching your videos while I am stuck here in icy MN and maybe we can prospect together some time when I am out there! Appreciate your posts..

COOL LOOKING AREA. THANKS FOR SHARING.

Love your videos! I’m getting the bug again!!! 😀👍🏻

Thanks for sharing your adventures. Be care and stay safe Out there. Ron

Sir I am astonished on these videos I am a local. I am determined to go and look for them but I will be more than happy to follow you along..

Great video !

Great job on filming, awesome video !

Really enjoyed the video. Nice to listen to someone who knows geology.

That was awesome

Your video was very interesting, makes me want to get out there more often, I am subscribed, thanks

30:33 That's some very interesting geology with those wavy layers

Love it beautiful country 😅😅😅

1:55 bring a ladder or a couple of 4x4's to lay accross it and then you can cross it tied to a rope. Bring some more people back to explore that mine. How deep is the opening at 2:43 ? Bring a lighter with you and if the flame gets low or sputters you know oxygen is low. Sulfides could be a gold mine. They tell what is in the rock by getting rock samples and testing the samples. They look for veins of quarts or veins of minerals and have them tested for how much of what material they contain. Certain types of rocks in certain areas give them a clue where to sample. 13:32 is a rock drill they drill the holes for explosives with those metal rods. From looking at info online there was a lead mine and silver and copper mines nearby along with manganese and other stuff. Nice idea bringing a black light.

God bless you

I love rocks!!

I never think about the radiation. Thanks for the videos on gpaa claims. Subscribed

That channel at the end was really cool.

It’s funny how people from El Paso think this is Tin Mines in the Franklins 😆. The initial desert landscape looks similar but if you’ve ever hiked the Franklins you’d know the views don’t match up.

The calcite under the UV light is cool!

All this time I thought you were in the Franklin Mountain mines in the El Paso,Texas area until I read further down. It does look like the southwest tho. Nice video very interesting and Thanks for posting.

That one with the A frame is over 400ft long and the most spectacular thing I have ever seen.

What kind of detector do you use? I use to swing a Whites Goldmaster V-Sat out there .. Gohler, Bonanza, Last Chance, etc. I spent a lot of time out there but only ever found lots of bird shot and tiny pieces of rusted cans, boot tacks, etc. I finally gave up and headed north above Nevada City to the old hydraulic pits .. where I was successful digging gold nuggets up to about a gram. I never had the courage to go in any of those mine shafts in the El Paso range so this is interesting. Thanks 👍

I’ve always wanted to prospect that area... Stan the metal detecting man just did a video of him finding a small nugget with his gold monster... your videos are really good bro and I enjoy watching you document your prospecting

I’m surprised those mines are open at this late date. I know the BLM made a big push back around 2012 or so to seal up a lot of mines in the El Paso Mountains area. In particular, they sealed up the Stephens Holding Mines. I was glad that we got in that one and filmed it before they sealed it. I think that mine was more in the Spangler Hills if I can remember correctly, but isn’t that all pretty much in the same geographical area as the El Paso Mountains? Regarding the ore car tracks that you commented on, yes, they were usually removed and used elsewhere or scrapped. You found tracks later on in the tunnel, though, so that was cool. You’ve got some good lighting, too, for these videos! Really lights up the tunnels! Anyway, great video!

Straight torture dude, picking out bedrock with your fingers and blowing the dust out 😆

Amazing! Great video. Having trouble finding out where in the Franklin mountains you were. Lived here all my life. Was it East El Paso? Great find and exploring.

Yep that's the Apache, nice find with the drill bit.

Amazing - take care. ¿What are rats been doing there? mining?

When you crush your copper? sample, how do you tell if it has copper, or perhaps any gold in it?

Thanks for posting! What level of difficulty is the road up to Holland camp? Do you think a 4X4 suv could make it? Does the road up connect to 395 or Garlock road? Interesting video, be safe.

Fluorite stops glowing when the uv light is removed calcite keeps glowing for a few second's after the light has been removed.

What part of El paso that?

Is this El Paso, Texas?

why you did not turn on the metal detector?

Are there still a good amount of open mines in that area? I'm heading thru there soon.

Hi new to the video by any chance you know the exact coordinates of the mines

Whats the exact location of those mines

Todo. De México. Territorio.

Rite @ 9:12 you can see what they were chasing that band of "ites" as I call them..... great place wonderful parent rock and titanic plates.

Get a Jeep gladiator and drive up them hills 😃

I live in El Paso TX and I have no idea where you are..can't be to close to town..if you can send me directions in a PM that would be cool..I have heard that the only thing around El Paso was Tin mines

What are the coordinates to this location??

They use a bunch of this rock for the Rail Road

I don’t know what they were mining for in El Paso, I do know that there are a lot of heavy metals in that era especially in the old volcano in (sera Blanca) I don’t know if I spelled that correctly, in that town, before they got water from a pipe line , they used to use wells and there teeth would turn a dark yellow or brown

I see Azurite and led, I,d say Copper mine.

Are you near el paso now?

excellent stuff, but can you please pan a little slower.

Thats a cartel tunnel forsure. Welcome to El Paso

I'm located in El Paso and I've hiked many of the very well known hikes in the area including the Oregon Mountains in Las Cruces. How would I go about finding these that you stubbled across. I'd love to explore not only the ones you show in this video, but many others you have on your channel!

waste all that walking when you could a been detecting all that. It all looked juicy. Speaking of the mines, back then they didnt have detectors so what they reported could be way off. I always detect the mines. Found plenty of little chunks that way.

I get a kick out of people wondering where this is in Texas. "Cartel hole." Nyuk nyuk

Where exactly is this? I live in El Paso and would love to find these shafts

Are you in East El Paso? Might move to East El Paso one day ?

are you cooking anything up there walter white? lol

for your own safety I'd have another person with you, as far as messing with the old mines, cool video my compliments sir

My friend find out where that black sand is coming from that's a good indicator

I'm a local and never seen this

Is that a radiation detector? Legit.

Are you alone or do you have backup

Where is this location at. We wanna go explore

@oidium45, I would like to get in contact with you. I regularly detect the El Paso area and have some good places to hunt that have been passed down to me. I just dont have a partner to go and dont feel comfortable going alone most of the time. I also would be interested in exploring some of these places with you.

Sulfides.

The Apache mine would have killed you .It has poison gas . In fact a friend lowered a bird down in a cage years ago from a fishing pole and the bird came up dead in about 2 minutes . Typically I stay out of mines that have black dirt in the tailing pile

I live in Rancho Cucamonga. If you ever want a partner let me know. I hit up that area at least 10-12 times a year. Steve

That’s not a place you want to go walking at night you’d fall in the hole

Omg! 😩😩😩 you scared meee!!! Get your self out of there!!! It’s dangerous.

So, EL PASO MOUNTAINS IN CALIFORNIA! What a disappointment! 😂😂

Mi

Is that BLM land or what? Cheers.

Fun video ruined by some finger from nowhere that kept wanting to be in the video. I will never understand the overuse of finger pointing as if i cant see what you point your camera at.

MAYBE THIS WHERE THEY TRANFER THEIR DRUGS

Omg! 😩😩😩 you scared meee!!! Get your self out of there!!! It’s dangerous.

Omg! 😩😩😩 you scared meee!!! Get your self out of there!!! It’s dangerous.