Mining
A Really Special Mine In An Unexpected Place
A Really Special Mine In An Unexpected Place
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There was an interesting mineral mix at this abandoned mineβ¦ The district was known for copper, lead and silver (which this mine also had small amounts of), but this particular mine was primarily a fluorine-fluorite mine. It is almost unfathomable to me that the miners here could have made a…
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That sucks so bad that the mine is collapsed like that! No telling what all is in there?
we out in central NV last week and wondering thru an abandond smelter site. there were a few stone buildings left but the only wood building left someone has cut the bottom off cans cut down the side flattened them and use them for shingles and siding. hundred and hundreds of cans even protected the home from a fire that swept thru there 20 yrs ago.
I'm pretty sure that beautiful flower is an evening primrose.
You guys got lucky with the truck situation! That could have been really, really bad.
what budget friendly caving helmets and knee pads would you guys recommend
Cool mine. Sad when so much has collapsed. But luck more wasnt looking at how crumbled it was. That truck chassis. tho lol
Schilling was taken over by McCormick in 1947. Im guessing that can is circa 1940 ish.
Too Cool….
Hi Justin, the only thing I could find out about the Schilling company is that it operated from 1881 – 1947.
Just watched your last 4 videos. Dont know much about rocks. But i do know you must have had alot of rain. Dont see the desert that green unless its wet. Cold and gloomy in ND. Great videos guys
Maybe the converted frame with engine and used it as a water pump to pump out water at the bottom of the mine. Either that and air pump or a hoist motor for ore buckets.
What Toyota model was it?
Cool plant find, that's an evening primrose. All things considered it's probably a california evening primrose, oenothera californica, assuming the mine is in California ofc. There are quite a few rare subspecies but it's pretty hard to ID a wildflower just by looks, depending on the local conditions they can look very different and I've spent an unhealthy amount of time trying to ID Washington/Oregon wildflowers from my hikes lol. Also nice can find, at earliest it is from 1881 when the trademark was registered. The company changed the look of the can at some point, and I'd bet money it was after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed their newly built factory. So a safe bet for that can is probably 1881-1906, good call on the late 1800s dating. Fun fact, before founding the Schilling Company the two founders met while working for Folgers, they found out they were from the same home town in Germany and became good friends, so they formed their own company selling baking goods, spices, and a few other items.
That piece of pottery with the partial backstamp, was made about 3 miles from where I'm sitting. It came from Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent, England. It looks like one their backstamps from c1860's – 1891.
It's hard to believe that they would be working there whey into the sides of a mountain like that no wonder there where outlaws it was far easier to kill someone else and steal than do the work
Huge amount of work in the day would have been fantastic to see it when it was being worked to see how many would be there
Could it have been powering some sort of drill using compressed air from air line on the truck engine is what comes to mind or it would not have been worth the effort to get it their an air hammer drill would have made a huge difference in how much they could get out in a day
It would have been useful I think to get the serial number off the engine of the truck to find out what it was and what year it was etc. But maybe they did and just didn't share it? Or maybe it just didn't occur to them.
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Justin- based on the fact they were using the 6 cylinder engine, my guess is that engine was performing two functions. Likely power generator and air compressor. Too bad it has literally be completely removed, it would have been interesting to see how the miners actually had it rigged up.