Thanks, Zac! I sometimes feel like a broken record saying, "A stope is the void that remains after miners extract a body of ore", but, as you mentioned, there are people tuning in for the first time.

@@AbandonedMines11 Yes, me, and i appreciate the explanation, thanks.

@@AbandonedMines11 I love the lengthy descriptions of everything you are looking at. Def my favorite mine explorer!

No problem!

Thanks so much! I appreciate it!

Thanks, man! Always nice to hear from a professional in the field who can correct and clarify some information I present in some of my videos. Thanks for checking in!

Well, if you saw the Ghost Voice Video in the Waldeck Mine and Thru Nite Tc14, you would know that Mr Explorer would say about the descent "wow, must be another explorer or something. I saw some tracks that looked pretty fresh but we should probably head out because we've reached about as far as I can go. It's getting kinda hard to stand up, I think there might be bad air so I'm just gonna go" lol Keeps his cool

🔫🔫 Why would you put that thought in my head

Ive watched the decent then gone into a cave . Talk about creepy.

The Decent was pretty good, but The Amazing was better, imo.

Not recommended. It's similar to exploring a cave. If you go in yourself, espeically unprepared and uneducated of the dangers you could face, you're doomed.

You basically describe my backpack in your comment. LOL Thanks for supporting my channel! I appreciate it. Always nice to hear when a viewer is enjoying my videos and getting something out of them.

I think you might be right, Mike!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for spending some time here. I appreciate it!

I remember one of the guys from Mojave Underground posting on a forum years ago that they encountered a ring-tailed cat really deep in a mine. I want to say it was something like 600 feet underground or something like that.

Andre the Giant Has a posse Really? I did not know that!

It's what those cats do is crawl around in rocks hunting rodents and birds. Used to encounter them rockclimbing AZ. Eyes glow yellow at night.

Thanks for the additional ring-tailed cat information!

I did not see any other modern graffiti inside the mine with a date after 1960, so those explorers may very well have been the last ones in there. Probably not, though. At any rate, it’s quite obvious that the mine doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic to begin with. Thank you for your comment!

They probably are still alive. My grandpa was born 1946 and hes still alive.

@@AverageFrenchPerson I can top that. My grandpa was born in 1938 and he is still around.

My dad was born in 1933 and he is still around!

OHHHH

Thanks, Richie!

Thank you for your comment, Ronnie! I don’t know how many men worked in this mine back in the day but I don’t think it would be that many - maybe four or five at the most? Not really sure, though. Good hearing from you again! Thanks for your support!

I appreciate you sharing this extra bit of information. I kind of figured they would have had some kind of tool to stick in those voids to pull down those ceiling layers that didn’t seem to be hanging on by much.

It did seem rather clean compared to other abandoned mines that I’ve been in, didn’t it? I don’t know - there was something special about this particular abandoned mine that I just can’t quite put my finger on. It’s a special place. Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!

Thanks for your comment! Glad to hear you've gotten back into exploring abandoned mines. I know Colorado has a lot of them. You're in good territory!

Thanks for your comment, Stanley! More videos coming soon!

Thanks, man! I appreciate you stopping by!

Thanks for watching, Laura! Glad to have you following along. I appreciate your support.

Hey, Paul! Thanks for leaving a comment! Glad you enjoyed the video.

I'll have more footage from this mine coming soon! Thanks, Doug!

Glad you enjoyed it Part 3 will be coming out soon. Lot more to see here.

Thank you very much! The older videos are interesting. If you go back far enough, they are terrible. Bad camera, low resolution, terrible filming skills. I've improved over time, I think. Like a good red wine. LOL

Thank you for your comment! I appreciate your support. Glad you are enjoying my videos.

Hi, Mark! Good hearing from you again! Thanks for your comment.

It's been a slow summer. With all the social distancing going on, why not head out to the desert to some abandoned mines? Can't get anymore socially distanced than that, right? Thanks, David, for watching and commenting!

Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know that you enjoy my videos. I do appreciate your support and interest. More videos coming soon!

Thank you very much, Katherine, for watching and commenting!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your support, Dann!

You bring up a good point. Usually I don’t bother handling the artifacts if they are something large like that. It’s best just to leave them alone, I guess. And who can pass by a relatively safe-looking ladder system and not go down it? I know I can’t! LOL

You’re welcome, Bernard! Thank you for following along and supporting my channel. Much appreciated on this end!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know. I hope to take you on another tour of new areas inside this particular abandoned mine soon. Stay tuned!

Thanks for commenting, Tony!

Part 3 is coming soon! Thanks for your continued support here.

I’m glad to hear that! Thank you for the feedback. And thanks for taking the time to comment as well.

I'd settle for a gold nugget!

Thanks, Jordan, for taking the time to watch and to write a comment. Glad you made it home in time to catch the video! Thanks so much for your support

What I find amazing about the retaining walls is that they are on a pretty decent angle. All of those rocks behind the wall are constantly pushing down on the wall, so I'm surprised the walls haven't given way and collapsed. Thanks for your comments, Mike!

@@AbandonedMines11 Thank YOU for taking me places I am unable to go. I live in Hutchinson, KS... Home of the Carey salt mines... Too big to be entertaining but that's the way the rock crumbles 😀

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for letting me know.

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for letting me know! Part 3 will be coming soon.

@@AbandonedMines11 Thank you, Frank! Cannot wait :)

Thanks for your comment! A lot of people have suggested using an RC car or something like that or even a drone to explore less accessible areas of a mine. I would just be afraid of something that high-tech and that expensive getting damaged or becoming totally broken while navigating some of those tight spaces.

Hi, Claudia! Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the feedback. Glad you are vicariously enjoying exploring underground by watching my videos. I love hearing that!

Thanks for watching and commenting!

I always enjoy hearing from miners or retired miners like yourself. Do the mines here in the United States look the same as the ones in South Africa? I suppose they do. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting.

Great! Sounds like you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thanks for tuning in, Rolf! There’ll be a Part 3 and probably a Part 4 coming very soon.

I really appreciate hearing from viewers like you who are really happy and satisfied with my KZfaq channel. Thanks for all of your support and interest in my videos. I really do appreciate it. More videos coming soon!

You got it, Chris! Thank you for stopping by and commenting!

I know of an abandoned gold mine in Nevada that we explored years ago. It had an inclined shaft that went down five or six levels. Mine hadn’t been operated since probably the 1950s. Anyway, a modern mining company went in there and did some surveying with some new, high-tech equipment and discovered some kind of magnetic anomaly a few hundred yatds southwest of the inclined shaft or something like that. Bottom line is that the magnetic anomaly showed that there was more ore left in there. I believe that old, abandoned mine will be turned into an open-put mine to extract the ore that the old-time miners were unable to detect or had no idea was even there in the first place.

Thanks, Ezekiel, for your comment! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos on my channel. Yes, there definitely is something fascinating about old, abandoned mines and going underground into them. I’ll have more videos of abandoned mines coming very soon.

Thanks, Steve! I’ll have to find that footage that Gly shot of a ringtail cat. Would be interesting to see.

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for letting me know. Thank you, too, for leaving a comment!

Yes, sometimes the comments can shed extra information about what was in the video if more knowledgeable explorers and miners chime in with their thoughts and comments.

Thanks, man! More on this one coming soon.

Thank you for watching and commenting! I like the name of your KZfaq channel. The phrase “Lost Places” is very intriguing. I’m going to have to drop in and see what you’ve been up to!

Thanks again, Michael! i liked your story about the ringtail cat urinating on a copper roof that you installed! Thanks for sharing that anecdote. Made me chuckle. Always appreciate your thoughtful comments. And, of course, thank you for taking the time to watch the video in the first place. Part 3 will be coming soon!

How are things with you? Things are going OK with me. Still getting out to an abandoned mine every once in a long while. Glad to hear from you again! Thank you once again for all of your support here.

Hey, Nathan! Thanks for letting me know! Glad you enjoyed it.

Definitely built differently, in a lot of aspects. But they didn't live as long as we do now, though. These old-time miners worked in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions that wouldn't be tolerated today. Different times. Would be cool, though, to time-travel back to the 1880s when this mine was being worked and hang out for a couple days.

Thanks, Wesley! I’ll have more footage from this one coming soon. Probably a Part 3 as well as a Part 4.

You’re right about the humidity, Danny - It really does preserve the wood in these mines. Basically no moisture whatsoever. Thanks for your comment and feedback!

Thank you for your comment! I’ll be posting Part 3 to this video series sometime very soon! Stay tuned!

@@AbandonedMines11 I'm looking forward for the part 3. Good luck out there and stay safe exploring.

You and Julie will like this one! Thanks for taking the time to watch the video, you guys.

@@AbandonedMines11 You are welcome, sir.

Hey, Ruth! Nice to have a fan down under! Thanks for checking in and letting me know you are enjoying my videos. I appreciate that. Thank you for your support.

Thanks for the information! I was not aware of that.

Good to see you back on here watching and commenting! I think your first name was Jeff, right? Anyway, good to hear from you again. Thanks for all of your support over the years!

@@AbandonedMines11 Hey now Frank you are cross-contaminating my on line personas. But yes you are right. I am the guy who likes to remind you that I've been watching since you made videos where you didn't talk. Much prefer the new ones where you talk. ;~)

Thanks for the feedback! Sometimes there is just so much footage or the mine is so extensive that it all can’t fit in one video. That’s the case here. Glad you enjoy the multi-part videos! I think many other viewers do, too. Thanks for stopping by and checking out this latest installment. Part 3 will be coming soon!

@@AbandonedMines11 Part 3, Hell yes !

Thanks for dropping in! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video and comment.

I never thought of that! Having a ring tailed cat around certainly would keep the rodent population under control.

Hey, Sue! There certainly has been a lot of seismic activity in California lately. These old mines sure are getting vibrations sent through them. Jeremy and I saw a ring-tailed cat once but it was outside a cabin at the Minnietta Mine in the Panamint Mountains. I have never seen one down inside a mine. When Jeremy, Tony, and I were exploring the Nikolaus Eureka Mine six years ago, Tony caught what sounded distinctly like a cat's meow in his footage when we were 300 feet underground. None of us heard the meow at the time, though. Tony only heard it when he was playing back his footage at home on his computer. He attributed it to something inside his camera making that noise -- perhaps a gear or ball-bearing turning or something like that. However, it did sound like a meow. Do ring-tail cats meow like an ordinary house cat would? If so, there might've been one way down there in the Nikolaus Eureka Mine.

@@AbandonedMines11 Apparently they don't miaow but make clicks and barks, here is some great info along with a cute pic - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_cat

That area that I looked down into near the end where the ladder disappeared under rubble seemed to go back quite a ways. Also, when I made it down to the third level by climbing down those two ladders, I did not look to see how far the tunnel went to the left. I only went to the right. The upper tunnel is also somewhat extensive.

Thanks for the feedback, Nikolas! Yes, I try to explain and define certain terms. Sometimes I feel it gets a bit repetitive in each video, but I realize some viewers are tuning in for the first time and haven't heard the explanations before.

I’ll have a Part 3 and probably a Part 4 coming out in the series at a later date that will hopefully be showing that area. Thanks, James, for watching and commenting!

The reason I didn’t mention out loud that the cable might’ve caused those grooves in the bend is because I was thinking that the cable would’ve been suspended from the ceiling in the shaft. Just proves how little I know about these abandoned mines even after all these years! LOL

@@AbandonedMines11 suspend from the celling wont work When the have fixed a Big Role vertikal at the timber that had worked well

You're a rarity! LOL

Thank you, Mike, for taking the time to watch and comment. Hope you enjoyed the entire three-part series on this abandoned mine. It was a fascinating abandoned mine!

@@AbandonedMines11 yes, I watched all three parts and thought it was great

That’s a great assessment, Nick! They definitely are time capsules. I like that! Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts!

@@AbandonedMines11 You're welcome thanks for sharing these awesome videos!!

Thanks for commenting, William! Glad to have you along for the ride. Thanks for your support!

Hey, Jeff! No, I’ve never gotten lost while exploring an abandoned mine. I realize the editing of the video makes the mine layout seem rather complicated but it really isn’t. There is usually only one way in and one way out. The branching tunnels usually lead to dead ends. This mine in particular had a grid layout with the two parallel inclined shafts being perpendicularly bisected by the four horizontal levels. Really can’t get lost in something like that. And it’s nice knowing that there’s more than one way out in this mine in case a part of it would collapse.

You really are amazing keep up the good work I love watching you

Actually, I don't think miners made a lot of money. The owner of the mine made all the money. But you're right -- it definitely was some dangerous, confined workspaces. Thanks for your comment!

Many mines had a high death toll, something accepted in those days

Someone else has suggested that wooden wheel might’ve been used with the burros inside the mine. I don’t know. But I think you guys are onto something. I always enjoy when you miners and former miners chime in with your thoughts and comments on things I show in my videos. Often I don’t get things right or don’t really know what I’m talking about, so it’s nice when you can interject your opinions and things like that. I really appreciate it, and I know the other viewers do, too! In a couple of the abandoned mines that I’ve been in, I’ve actually found the bell signal charts at the top of the shaft and things like that. I think I’ve only seen two of those over the last 12 years or so. They are kind of rare. I forgot to mention in my narration that those walls of gobbing are also used for support of the ceiling. Thanks for pointing that fact out about them being used as support. It’s all very fascinating stuff underground, and that’s why a lot of us who do this as a hobby really enjoy it. With modern mining technology, some of the stuff you see in my videos just isn’t done anymore. It’s becoming a lost art form. I’m talking about things like the wooden ore chutes, the timbering, and things like that. Thanks for your support - I really appreciate it!

Great content again! Nicely done. Knowledge is more useful when shared. The vernacular does vary from site to site at working mines, however its mostly universal at the core. The way I was taught was pretend you're looking down the throat of the whale that swallowed Jonah ( ° ). Sounds silly but the rib is the wall of a drift and the ceiling is the back. Made sense to me when I was a newbie but as it turns out that same language is used at other sites. Ingress and egress are terms used at some mines as well.

It wasn’t too bad, Drew. The video makes it look a lot longer and steeper than it actually was.

Glad you enjoyed this video! Thank you for commenting.

I never thought about that aspect of the old-time dynamite being less destructive than the more modern versions. I suppose that would have something to do with how clean this mine was.

@@AbandonedMines11 yes Frank exactly, eg a black powder level would break the rock in the for breast and not shatter the rock in the immediate area,,always check the size of the drill holes, and the different diameters of dynamite in different time periods,I know that's a little beyond exploring but you will get a feel for this. Contractors were paid by the foot, they just blasted there way through,1870s we saw the first contract level drivers in the UK, they were not classed as miners they were developers getting the miners to the viens,

Yes, the gobbing wall that you saw on the second level was in between the second and third level. When I got down to the third level after climbing down those two ladders, I showed the retaining wall on the right hand side. All of that gobbing was sandwiched behind that up to where it formed that wall on the second level in the stope.

When you've done enough of these mines, Barb, they really aren't that scary. I've been in much worse mines than this one. This one was actually kind of nice due to the lack of modern trash and graffiti. Felt like no none had been in it in quite some time. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!

Awesome! I’ve never played Minecraft but I’ve heard good things about it.