Alaskan Winter Mineshaft: Gold Mining/Prospecting in

Need a bigger ladder already going by osha standard 😅

When I was up prospecting up near Tok, Chicken, and Jack Wade you could tell where the old timers had been prospecting for placer gold in the permafrost and alluvium as there would be timbers and ashes where they attempted to thaw the ground out. Based on your video I can't tell if you're in alluvium or just digging through rock. Either way keep it up and good luck!

What's your safety plan? Your mine shaft looks sketchy af for getting in and out of. Will you begin building a wooden ladder or what's your plan there? You don't need OSHA to tell you what common sense does: every man should be able to get in/out of that hole on his own. You know as well as we do stuff happens in the Wilderness. On the absurd side, your buddy could take a meteorite to the head and you are gonna die/freeze in that hole alone. More likely he encounters unexpected wildlife, has his own medical event, get's pissed off and tired of your sh*t one day and leaves (we all have it), or encounters robbers at the surface. For all your work, it doesn't seem you have given yourself a way out that doesn't require a second person. Safety First. Don't end up like the mouse. Especially for an unproven prospecting hole. I did a lot of placer gold mining for a lot of years. There was a high chance of me getting pinned 15 feet underwater by falling boulders I was excavating underneath, stuff as big as cars, weighing even more… stuff you can't move on your own, no way to yell for help underwater and when your dredge runs out of gas, your air stops and you're dead. Always have a safety plan. Just curious what yours is? Having your entire crew get pissed off and walk off the job does happen. Medical events happen. Robberies of Gold Miners happens. Whether its a grizzly bear waking up early, coming into camp or an alien abduction… when sh*t happens, it seems one of your butts will be stuck in the bottom of that hole freezing/starving/dehydrating to death. Safety First. That's my message. From one miner to another. Don't mean to be the party pooper, or lecture. But I haven't seen enough gold in your pan there worth dying for. Maybe you can share your emergency plans in an upcoming episode or build a wooden ladder at least. I'd feel better watching your channel knowing you guys are doing this safely and set an example for other hard rock/shaft miners who may be considering doing something similar. Lastly, could you please move that hammer away from the top of the hole (left side) and anything else that can fall in. I know you got the hard hat on. But that does nothing for your back when you're 20-30 feet down, bent over filling the bucket and that 3 lb. steel claw hammer embeds itself in your back or hits your spine, shattering a vertebrae, causing nerve damage, maybe you can't feel your legs now, which means you can't even climb a ladder out of the hole. You don't have enough room to step aside from anything falling in the shaft entrance, even if you saw it coming. Just imagine the worst and prepare for it. If you don't, it will get you, sooner or later. Accidents happen. Workers get mad. In cold weather, hunger, frustration and hypothermia can impact judgement. Structures fail. I'm eager to see how you all do. Please just do it safely. End of the day, your number one priority, everybody's priority above all else, with or without a paycheck, is everyone going home, in one piece, to their families. I do hope you hit some real paydirt. The deeper you go, the more like you are to get hurt, than strike it rich. Just want to see you turn those odds around. Be safe. Be successful. A back surgery for a simple herniated disc starts at about $60,000, and goes up from there. And I haven't seen either of you pull out $20 in gold yet. If that hoist will hold your weight, at least put a climbing rope on it with some loops in it to use as steps every couple feet. Give yourself a way out. I see you've already figured out a 5 gallon bucket filled with 30+ pounds of rock will break free from it's cheap chinese made handle and hit you like a ton of bricks. Good job making the bridle. I'd love to see you fix a few more things. 😉 Heck, dig a small shelf in the shaft part way down and put the hammer or other tools in it if you feel you need it…. whatever makes sense. Just reduce the potential energy of falling objects and always have egress. Don't be so prideful or hubris to not let other veteran miners help you out on here. But if someone on here tells you to start swallowing Tide Pods, ignore those jack*zzes. Good Luck Guys.

I keep praying fory our success !

I really love your videos. Is this private property or a patented claim? Thanks for letting us tag along!

I have enjoyed the videos, thanks for sharing them with us. Could you possibly put polystyrene over the hole when you leave to prevent the frost from forming again?

you look a lot like some of my cousins, are you related to any christianos?

youtube what the fuck! 23 hours and you havent recommended this video to me!?
Ive commented on every video and thumbed up and subscribed! Show me these videos asap youtube!

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20 hours a quarter gram of gold whooohoooo were rich we made 5 buck

Dig deeper you guys are getting ahead of yourselves checking ever bucket for gold. Id invest time in digging and wait until you hit river rock before paning .

Some PGMs may ALSO be in there!

Stuff that the old timers would not have even known existed.

Get a clay spoon for the jackhammer,A smaller demolition hammer could be usefull. interesting to see the progress.

Good thing you have bunny boots on lol I live in wasilla I wish I could come help out

Sands look pretty light and poor. Maybe it will improve deeper and you'll hit well sorted material. Nothing ventured nothing lost.

Great work dudes!!

Gotta start somewhere.

Thanks for sharing! Soon you will need a guard rail around that pit :p

What do you do with the shack at the end of the season? Are you able to break it loose and just pull it somewhere to sit for the summer?

Use your tailings as a dam for the creek overflow

you might want a metal detector probably find some nugs

W watch also I like dudes

Frozen ground seems like a pain.if you don’t have to timber it because it’s frozen maybe not so much a pain

Hello, why don't you put a plastic sheet around the structure of the well to protect yourself from the wind and snow,

Good luck for your future discoveries,