disintegration
Channel: autowitch
Date: 2021-04-13

This is a pretty rough video. I have been going underground to all sorts of sites for many, many years, and have done a lot of still photography underground. This is the first video I've shot below, and I have a lot to learn.


This is a not-very-successful gold mine. The waste rock pile and buildings near the portal lead me to believe that there would be a lot more here than we found. This mine consists of two drifts in a weak, crumbly gneiss. Both sides had rail (the real stuff, not straps on boards stuff). This appears to be an earlier mine in the area, but it's hard to get a good date.


The stone is weathered, the ribs are delaminating, there is lots of evidence of periodic flooding, and the sweet, sweet scent of sulfides on the left hand side. The stone is literally disintegrating. All in all, I picked a winner here. 


The left side heads straight towards a shaft located roughly 130' from the portal and ends with a small raise very close to that shaft. They started to continue from there, but never mucked the last blast.


On the right side, the closer you get to the face, the worse it gets. There's no evidence that much of value was pulled out of this mine. I suspect there's some lead and silver in here, but it probably didn't assay out to much.


The music in this video is Phantasm by Coldnoise. You can get it here! https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/Waiting_for_Daylight_V1/5_Phantasm_2013

You can check out his other stuff here! https://coldnoise.wixsite.com/coldnoiseofficial

It is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 which you can read all about here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/