This is the final video in the series on this mine and, as the title suggests, we head up the mountain to the upper adit and then get underground to explore the surprises that await us within... I would have expected the lower adit to be the largest adit since it is right next to the compressor shack and had such a large waste rock pile. However, it was not to be. The upper adit turned out to be the larger adit. Some things remain the same though - plenty of washing machines up there too… I believe all of the evidence suggests that this abandoned mine operated on a shoestring budget. However, what the miners lacked in dollars, they certainly seem to have made up for with ingenuity. The washing machines, for example - we see them being used for everything from ore buckets to ventilators for the mine. I still wonder a few things - especially where the miners slept since there is no way they commuted in there and yet there was no sign of a bunkhouse or any other shelter for sleeping.
It was an adventure in its own right just getting to this mine, but it was well worth it. I loved the rail going up the side of the mountain, I loved the compressor shack and all of the equipment and materials around, I loved the adits and the features inside (such as the hoist/windlass)… Great stuff all around at this mine.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them - nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand - bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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