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Ever since reading 'Roughing It'-Mark Twain been wanying to see the Comstock. Bucket list !

Incredible amount and sizes of lumber. Love the steam locomotive.

"Looks good!" Lmao! 😂

Just got done sampling that red and black clay sand. Ran 2 pans down to concentrates. My first time. The most difficult material you can pan. . Now I know. I tried the prehistoric glacial river bed gravel clay sand, from my land and it's not bad. It's not aggressive panning, it's appropriate panning 🤠⛏️🦅⚡🌊 I found a gold flake in the concentrates. I'm going to run a box tomorrow. Set up a pump and coconut fiber filter. Heavy black sand and red sand don't want to move.

THANK YOU GUYS,,WOW LOOKS LIKE YOU HAD GREAT FUN AND RIGHT IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT..STAY AWESOME..

Very educational video How far do you live from there?

Beautiful narrated Jeff.. To get permission as you do show the respect you have with in the mining ⛏️ community and industry. Yes . Many lost their lives.. Thanks for sharing this. Say hi to Lila.. Cheers Tony Famo59 👍🍻⛏️

P.s ,, thank u for the choo choo ride . I hope Slim wasn’t the conductor!! God forbid 😂😂

What a tragedy back then. So much history to explore one can’t do in their lifetime. Amazing stuff. Ty and Lila 😊

I wouldn't be sticking my hand in there on the off chance you find a bit of gold

Thanks for taking me along vicariously, and teaching me geology. I love rocks but I'm a disabled Navy Chief and I'm lucky to walk 300 yards. I get to go on adventures without the pain. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Thanks!

Fun to watch Jeff talk about those Bolts 🔩!!!; )

Jeff have you been in the Crown Point or Yellow Jacket mines?

"haunted" 😂😂🤣🤣

3 pron bots on this one!

Three specimens in a single bucket? 😮

Thanks Jeff, I'll never get to visit as many beautiful places as you....I truly appreciate the scenic stories❤

Satisfactory‼

Great video, Mr.W!❤‼🤠

Does that tunnel near the end of the video have to be that wide? Seems like it would be more economical and would use a lot less wood to make it "people-sized". Is it because the wood has to shore up the walls?

It´s not mold, it´s wood eating fungus. Serpula lacrymans

Jeff, I have a general geology question for you. Why does my home state (arkansas) have a lot of the same geological markers (i.e. sandstone, silica, etc, but there is no precious opals? Virgin valley new Mexico has wood opals. I can't find the actual reason why no one has found them here. We have diamonds, gold (not much but some).. there's a bunch of premium geological processes going on here, but no opals? What gives?

too bad those would be illegal on the west coast

In the clay areas drill up and install drain pipe with holes. 2”-6” pipe 20-50’ into the high water pressure areas. Holes large enough to allow water and some mud to drain the water and some of the mud to release pressure. It’s what we did in the kennecott copper pit in Utah. Dug a two mile loop between the north and west walls. Spurs along the drift loop where Boart would set up and drill. Drilling the holes drains the water from that entire section of that wall. That was done and was successful in reducing pressure on the wall. That was done to prevent rock sliding off the walls Very successfully. We were going to move to the south and east walls. Kennecott decided to postpone the move because they had a huge payoff to make for another mine. They started several years later but a little late. Soon after they started the south west wall collapsed. I was an electrician working there from a commercial/industrial contractor. High voltage lines feeding into the 480 transformers which supplied power to Atkinson drilling rigs for making the loop and Boarts bore hole drills.

Slim might pop out!!❤

Damn I was getting real dizzy watching this on a big screen monitor when you were dropping the camera down those shafts lol. Absolutely love the exploratory/history episodes ol'mate. Keep 'em coming, luv ya work

I'm curious where the timbers came from? I see no trees anywhere.

dude trying to keep that mine from collaspe, is fighting a losing battle. Once something begins moving it tends to keep moving, especially when it's trillions of tons. water, 6lbs a gallon. i wouldnt be going in there.

Looks like a place to retire

Thanks for always sharing the coolest places to visit love your channel 👍

Blessing to you Jeff and your wife!❤❤

May our lord and savior bless her surviving families be blessed and those who have died may they rest in peace.😢😢😢

Incredible to think of the old timers replanted the trees they would have some timber to offset replacing the old sets by now.

No way I'm going in there.

State doesn't want to have its very own mine to have for tourist

I like your strong feeling of positivity and joy. You always motivated 100% and you love what you do. And be lucky to have a charmed wife by your side. 👍 One of the coolest, most interesting channels in the world wide web. 🔝

“So, C’mon (oh you don’t know) LET’S GOOOOOO!!!” 😂 Also, that sound at around 10:00 of an actual steam #locomotive starting up was SURREAL! That train horn too! Thanks for sharing Jeff! Yet another great #adventure! 🙌🏼

I'm sure it must have been mentioned already but I will ask anyway. Aside for financial reasons and soft ground, what would prevent the use of something like a drag lines that could work from the landing in front of the porthole on solid ground and micro machines for the rest of it. To remove some or all of the back to relieve the pressure and facilitate better dranage? By removing the heavily saturated clay it would easily compensate for the weight of micro dozers or excavators. The man could work much safer to reline the portal before installing drain tile and restoring the surface. Even if only done for the first 100'. For such a historic place even just cutting it back and moving in the Portale? Just some random thoughts from old welder.

Right or wrong still an experimental influence

Hello Jeff, If someone wants to see a (smaller) Cornish pump, they can go to the Northstar Power House in Gass Valley, Ca. I believe that it is still operable. The primary timber used in the Comstock mines was pine from the east slopes of the Sierra and the Tahoe basin. Pine will stand up fairly well in dry conditions. Dry did not describe the Comstock mines. The timbers rotted rapidly in the wet conditions. This is what is happening in the Chollar. All the old timbers are now very rapidly disintegrating with the influx of water. The timbers being used to hold the workings up are Douglas-fir, a much stronger wood and somewhat more durable in wet conditions. One reason the timbers had to be so large originally is that pine wasn't as strong, but it was available. A good source of much more information is "The Big Bonanza" by Dan DeQuille (William Wright). Jeff, have you ever visited the Quincy #2 hoist and mine in Hancock, Michigan?

i was last in virginia city about 30 years ago.ive been there a total of 4 times. my father who was married 3 times,seemed facinated with virginia city.he brought each of the women he eventually married and at least 1 other,to visit here.i look thru old pics and theres one of his second wife in front of the BUCKET OF BLOOD SALOON...nearby the Deadwagon,on display for tourists.Its maybe the only place in the world where you can gamble in a casino or drink in a hundred year old bar that actually had a private entry into the mine workings in the back office areas of the establishment. my father would sometimes spend time in wyoming during summer break from school.my grandmother had 4 younger sisters the 3rd oldest gladys married Ray Jenks who was a miner and had attended the colorado school of mines...i was 11 when my dad took me to atlantic city wyoming to visit aunt gladys and uncle ray....they lived on homestead land located between atlanhtic and south pass city.uncle ray had owned a mine in new mexico i dont know more other than he had done very well in the years shortly after ww2 enough to have owned an airplane and such.around 1949 he cashed in his chips there and took hid wad up to wyoming and bought the DUNCAN MINE.my dad was 15 when he spent the whole summer there and was tasked with the job of mine hoist operator.my grandmother had forbidden him from going underground due to the danger.and maybe there was a law against child labor.anyway,i got to tiur the abandoned mill and checkout the hoist operators seat...look over the edge and down into the shaft...it was sketchy as the railings rickety and the floorplanks old.even at age 11 i understood the risk here...1 mistake and your dead! i found on the net a few years ago that the state of wyoming had gone in years ago and cleaned up the site...scraping up the tainted dirt from cyanide leeching pind and backfilling the shaft with that and mine tailings to mitigate any risk to future visitors.its part of a state historic district now. i had the time of my life that trip...ive always wanted to go back. most of the gold up there was freemill but i was surprised to read of some large placer nuggets found along rock creek. jeff if you visit this area,the fremont mining district,it would be worthy of an episode.south pas city is preserved with its wildwest look and is a popular tourist area. it is also known as the first place where women were given the right to vote in the USA. someday i hope to go backif you go there..take your metal detector,do a little homework.theres at least one pike of tailings in the southeast corner of atlantic city that was highgraded...this is where my great uncle ray who was a licensed assayer took us to fill a couple bags which we panned in a galvanised tub bask at the homestead 77 had a bad drought and their spring had nearly gone dry. anyway i suspevt that my fathers infatuation with virginia city was fueled by his several trips to wyoming growing up in the 50s. theres still a mountain full of gold there but nobody wants to ruin the place with open mining operations...i saw that 1 company was looking at perhaps coming in with a long drift and pulling ore out without the public ever seeing much....leaving all the old surface works intact. maybe they could partner with ELON MUSK and use a tunnel boring machine.

I live 15 minutes from there.

Oh yes Jeff even the second pair of pants blown clean of!....👖👖💥🎇☄️haha great video Jeff greetings from the Netherlands 🎉

Have you ever explored the tunnels for the residence of Virginia City so during g the bad winters they could get around and avoid the snow drifts.

I remember the seepage trying to burst up the mine. As u said the clay expands as it grabs up the water. It imparts a hydraulic force. And then the rot 😮. "I can fix this". I love that mans attitude.

Triangulation,triangulation, or something. hummed to the tune of Heinze Ketchup commercials. its making me wait its keeping me waiting waiting

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I'm with the guy who quit.

I just can’t imagine how terrifying a fire in those mines would be! I’d have to imagine a blaze could last for months with all those timbers.