Tight Squeeze Into A Mine To Find A Maze Of Steep Stopes, Ladders And Colorful Minerals part 3 of 3
Channel: Abandoned Mine Exploring with Tom and Julie
Date: 2021-11-17

In part 3 we climb ladders into the upper part of this abandoned gold mine to find huge stopes and colorful mineral veins. The stopes were very unstable and large rocks had fallen from high up smashing the support timbers and making the area quite dangerous. We follow a waterline through the stope and into the mountain where we find more ladders, wooden ore chutes and a possible route to an even higher level. The mine was discovered in the 1880's and these upper ore bodies were mined before 1900. After 1900 the lower parts of the mine were worked. This three part series is all about the older upper workings. The underground workings of this gold, silver, lead and copper mine are more than 7500 feet in length. It was still being worked in 1936 when the ore averaged 0.63 ounce of gold, 14.5 ounces of silver, 15.9 percent lead, and 0.6 percent copper per ton.
 We hope you have enjoyed this three part video series of this abandoned mine.

Here is the link to part 1 of this video series:
https://youtu.be/_O425c26ISM
Here is the link to part 2 of this video series:
https://youtu.be/UVzr8ViD-H8