What Did We Find Deep Inside This Abandoned Mine?

I'm about to do an explore. See how big the waste rock pile is. And down here the local rancher has some troughs and stuff, but they had a plank road similar to what you see in the Mojave. Look at the size of that ventilation system. Now, I'm hoping that the light works out because I had it mounted on a a shotgun mic mount. Here, I'll show you. Because I can't use the normal light that I'm using for one reason. I'm going into a mine with a walking stick. Look at the size of that track. Now, this was mostly copper, but they also produced gold and silver and some lead out of this area. And I'm sorry for the weird noise I'm making. Because, I'll show you, I'm wearing hip waders. On this trip, I'm doing a few mines that require this setup. I should have waited till winter because it is hot in these things. I've only had them on for a few minutes. I've got some antelope. It's not flowing as heavily as it was before. But it's nice, good water. A bit more shallow over here. Let me get my light turned on. There we go. Whoo-hoo! It's gonna get more shallow, but you can see just at the entrance. Oh man, this gunk, this mud. There we go. Trying to find the best route. Let me turn on the turn up this flashlight a little. Okay, so there's max power. That's a deep little hole. When I was debating if I should bring my hip waders or my chest waders, I almost brought my hips, hip waders, and I am glad I didn't. So, see, you can still, I don't know if you can see it, but there's still track down there. But the reason why I'm using this light instead of my camera light is this light is waterproof. Just in case. And the camera rig is waterproof, so. Not that far from the entrance. And it hasn't gotten any shallower. As a matter of fact, it's gotten deeper in a couple places. There we go. It's finally up to my knees. You can see how high the water does get in here. Trying to walk in between the track sleepers. Oh, you can see the track still. I'm using the visibility of the track to help determine the depth of the water. It's starting to rust. Of course, it's in water. Of course, it's going to start rusting. I'm just surprised it hasn't delaminated so far. That's telling me that this water isn't acidic. It's alive! I mean, look how thick these tracks are. It's almost like railroad tracks. You can see the water flowing towards me. I'm not too happy about my lighting situation, but you gotta do what you have to do. A lot of sulfites. I had to stop the echo of me walking. It almost sounded like machinery. Wow, it's almost like it was painted in sulfur. It looks like it's left of a bucket. It's actually pretty. Wow, I know I'm not saying much, but that's the only thing I don't like about that shotgun. You see how the light's bouncing? I'm trying to hold it as stable as possible. It's pretty sensitive. Oh, what's this? Just water. It looked like it was collapsed. You know, it looked like it collapsed downward. That's neat. That's cool. Oh, it still rolls. I really apologize for the shaking light. I thought it was gonna work out better than what it is. I just didn't want to destroy the camera light. Well, it looks like the end. Yeah, that's it. This is a neat little explore. Back down here. So I'll meet you guys up at the surface. I need to get a picture of that cart. I was hoping to go back a little bit further, but unfortunately with that collapse, I wasn't gonna climb over it. It didn't look like it continued on anyways. The collapse looked like it was all the way up to the top of the mine. And with that, I'm gonna go ahead and call it the end of today's adventure. Let's get you excited to do some exploring on your own. Do it. Have fun. Be safe. I'll catch you guys on the next one.