Here we are at another abandoned mine -- me, Nick, and Traci. There's a lot of cold air coming out of
here which suggests that there might be extensive workings with other openings to the outside.
So let's go in here and check it out!
Okay, I'm just sitting inside the portal and coming down this erosion pile. That's the tunnel
-- it's a straight shot, and you can probably hear the airflow coming across the microphone.
So there's the portal we just came through, and it looks like it's a straight shot.
I see daylight up here!
There's something in that opening. Yes, there's some daylight right up there.
I don't know if it's coming out in the video. It looks like there's a ladder. The ore cart tracks
go that way and this way, too. But let's check out this branch. It's got the daylight. It must be a
dead-end . Here's a carbide can. They always look like that. Miners used carbide in their lamps.
Here's where the daylight was shining down. So, yes, you can see up there.
Yes, that goes to the surface right up there.
So we'll continue down this branching tunnel. The shaft to the outside is right behind me.
Nick has already explored this mine, so uh he's going to wait back at the junction.
He said this goes down pretty far.
Some interesting rock layers there and
all along here.
Still have ore cart tracks.
Here's a nice straight section.
It looks like a fault here on the on the left. This smooth surface
is a fault line. They are usually smoother than that, but that looks pretty smooth.
Of course the pipes down here on the ground would have been for air and water to power the drills.
The tunnel makes a turn here to the right.
You can see all the rock layers. Interesting!
I'm
not sure why they tied that tree trunk there to the pipes. It's tied with
a metal wire. That's kind of interesting!
I still feel a lot of airflow.
The big pipe here would have been ventilation tubing that would be
pumping air into the back of the mine to keep the air circulated.
So here's some flow stone that's forming on the ceiling just right here and nowhere else.
We are still going! We have a split here.
There's the junction in the tracks. This would have been used when an ore cart was coming
from this way towards us and an ore cart was coming the way we're going.
They would've pushed a cart here so the carts could pass each other. That's all that was.
The ventilation tubing is coming down.
Here are two little dugout spots.
I see some sparkly stuff down in there. Someone was digging in there for something.
Well, it just keeps going! This is a really long, straight section.
So we're still headed that way, but right here is a little dug out area next to the tracks.
There's a timber in there, but I don't think that goes anywhere.
But, yes, there's a piece of wood in there -- strange.
Somebody was digging downward.
There's
some kind of survey tag on that wooden wedge. A circular piece of metal.
So we're still headed that way but right here somebody was digging
and exposed kind of a golden brown colored patch. I'm not sure what that is.
Silver? I don't know. I think silver looks like that.
I'm not sure. Let's keep going down this way.
Here's some sparkly stuff here. It's almost like crystals up in there.
I think people come in here with their own tools and start mining
just for fun. They come in here and probably start to mine. That's what it looks like.
Here's more of that golden brown colored stuff, whatever that is.
This just keeps going and going and going!
We are approaching a major junction here. An intersection.
That might be the end there -- I'm not sure. There's a branching tunnel
off to the left there as well. This is a major junction! Here is a tank probably for the air
or water. Yes, that's a water tank then. And some black hose here.
Wow! That keeps going!
It's a little damp in here it seems, but let's go this way.
We'll head down this way.
So here's a branch to the left. Let's keep going straight. This might be the end up here.
I think it is the end. Yes, so that faces out right there.
Well, there's a -- wow! -- a raise going up here! It must go up into a large stoped area.
Yes, it goes up. It turns vertical up there.
That's what that was. There used to be a ladder.
There's the ladder but it's in pieces. The water pipe goes up there, so there
must be upper levels but this tunnel stops right here. Let's go check out the other branch!
Here's probably more of that ladder. It's all corroded.
Look at this ceiling and how smooth it is! More crystals.
So we'll take this branch here.
So above us is that stope,
so who knows what's down here. There could be another access point for that stope.
Yes, here's the end. It faces out right there.
The rock is like iron but I'm not sure....
This valve handle is so corroded that part of it is missing!
So we're going to continue down that junction
where Traci is. We haven't gone down there yet, so let's check it out.
There's a metal ladder over there. Let me zoom-in right there. Nick took a look down here, and he
said below the metal ladder is a wooden ladder. We don't know how far down this goes.
Here's another one of these timbers that's been wired to the ventilation tubing and the air and
water lines. This one is still up in the air and hasn't fallen down like the other one was.
We just were saying it feels like it's 40 degrees in here or something like that.