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PLANET; ARIZONA’S OLDEST COPPER MINE

PLANET; ARIZONA’S OLDEST COPPER MINE

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“Abandoned and Forgotten Places”

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In this episode I take you to Planet, Arizona’s oldest copper mine and we begin our adventure searching the districts oldest workings from 1863.

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  1. You should get a tethered treaded drone that would fit through bat bars and go into mines deeper and see around corners. God forbid something bad happens, you have the tether that you have strengthened with paracord or something and pull it back home.

  2. These surface exploration episodes are great especially because of all the extra drone recon footage, and when you're hiking around with minimal edits I feel like I'm there with you. Those blue/green rocks and sparkles of galena make me wish I could zoom in for an extreme closeup.

  3. I believe the oldest copper mine was one on the Gila River, roughly halfway between Albuquerque NM and Tucson AZ, operated by the Spanish in the late 1500's. This according to a history book "After Lewis & Clark" by Robert Utley.

  4. Australia Watching . Morning Gly and Subscriber friends around the world .Never miss an episode love see you do you awesome stuff . Nice to see Subscriptions have moved up from 173 k to 174 k lets keep it going and have a member's party at 200k . Thanks friend Gly anther nice watch . God Bless and spread you passion of life .

  5. Gly, have you ever considered going overseas to do some recon into how some of the ancient civilizations, like the Roman Empire, Egyptians, Aztecs, Mayans, Incans, Babylonians, etc..mined their Gold and other precious metals? 🤔

  6. There's a lot of mines in this area. Some very hidden mines and some privately owned mines. A friend of mine has a large private mine north of Parker. One day Id like to take him up on his offer to show off some of it.
    Thank you for the video!!

  7. Please Stand By yep, I remember those and us kids were the remote control. "Snattle-rakes" 😅 I do that with some words, too "Flutter-bys" Love hearing the history of these places. Looking forward (as always) to the rest.

  8. Good to see you today Gly. Awesome BLUE wow 😮 👍🏻. Neat mining site and the blue amazing ! Yea that crumbly stuff is unnerving with the widow makers . And the Snattle Rake 😂 😂 Be safe out there ! See you next weekend ! Can’t wait for more BLUE ! 👍🏻

  9. That flatland behind the hill that you're viewing, is that where the "town" was located? Neat geology all around in this ancient lava flow area. Now all the Basalt is broken and cracked up from weather: wind/rain events. I like your motto of barbed wire, "the "velvet rope" to adventure". Put that on one of your T-shirts, I'll buy that from your store. Super interesting geological area and I got to see it from your drone work. Thanks for today's explore.

  10. This is a good one nice job. Back to the geology, Tuff, or pillow basalt or just basalt? Back aches cure at Foxes in Parker on the river, won't fix the back but you will feel better thank you stay safe ALL!

  11. hello gly!!! i appreciate you!!! the black rock in the area is that lava? it looks so old. could you pick off the ground outside the mines some of the rocks to sale? thank you for all you do

  12. That area used to be a practice gunnery range during WW2. The target revetments were covered with black gravel. *Which turned out to be .50BMG bullets. which were weathered. There was a really nice incline that went for about 100' and at the bottom had a vertical shaft with collar, handrail and a ladder at the bottom. If I remember right the incline faced west.

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