Desert Trails

Lead mine high up the side of a mountain. From below it looked much bigger than it turned out to be. Intense hike with beautiful views.

Here is a small copper/gold mine just south of Beatty Nevada. Been unable to find any information of the site so there isn't much history.

In central Nevada is a lead mine and mill site that was in operations from the 1920s to 1977. It's aerial tramway held the record as longest tram in the United States for a few years.

A former lead/silver mine is explored. Not much is know about the site, but it is still interesting to check out.

Throughout the mountains of Nevada are numerous charcoal kilns. Here is a couple that are found in a beautiful canyon in central Nevada.

A visit to a silver mine in central Nevada's Antelope Valley.

Checking out a ranch owned by a Paiute known as Wagon Johnnie. It is nice to see the cabin still standing today.

In eastern Nevada, there is a Gosiute story that this cave is a gateway to an other world with lush fields and many usual animals. Access is not always available to enter this other world, but it is told that a strange people live in there and will take prisoner and make slaves of any who dare to intrude on their realm.

A lead, gold, silver mine high on the side of a mountain range that looks to be from a realm of fantasy. With the high humidity in the tunnel, it is like the alchemist is still turning lead into gold.

The deserts hold their water a secret and well out of sight. Many times one needs to search for the water, and when one finds it there is no guarantee that it is drinkable. Now there are many different types of water sources in the desert, here I will show three types that are found.

Here I take you to a mine I have never been to before. I have been wanting to get out to this mine for the past 15 years but have never done it for some reason, so this was the day. All I can say, it was not worth it. Here you will join me on a failed explore. Well, to me it is never a failed explore. I just know now it is not worth traveling to anymore. Enjoy! Note: Tunnel location is given here so any other explorer in this area will know what to expect. Tunnel One: 36.6097, -116.7940 Tunnel Two: 36.6107, -116.7936

Within a large mine, interwoven with many interconnected passages, resides an small and unassuming tunnel with a surprising end.

A look at a former central Nevada Talc/Soapstone mine is visited in this video. Not much in the way of history since it was a company mine complex and nothing good seems to happen at these types of mines. So the video is a tour of some of the ruins and buildings left behind. Links to stills of the site: https://www.instagram.com/p/CODz2T7gAAm/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CODz_93A1Bz/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COD0DeMAWli/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COD0HdZAOvW/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COD0v9egG7d/

Deep in a wide canyon sits a stone cabin with an unknown past. Though in a mining district that dates from the late 1860s, the closets mines to the site are over 3 miles away over very steep ridge lines. So was this a placer mine or maybe it was a business of some type?

For being such a simple mineral, borax has a long history in Death Valley with many fortunes being found and lost searching for this white powder. Here we will visit the Lila C mine. This borax location was witness to one man losing his fortune, while another made a profit. Not much remains of the site today, but it is very important part of the story of borax mining in the Death Valley region.

Hidden in a forgotten canyon, deep in a wilderness area are rock shelters, caves, which contain messages painted on the walls. While some of these paintings can be interpreted, for the majority, their meaning is just as obscure as the peoples who left them. A culture forgotten by time and only remembered in stories and legends.

so I went back this location to explore it further. The location where the tunnel was suppose to be located was back-filled by later mining in the area and does not seem accessible any longer. This explains why I never found it on previous trips into the area. Even the shafts that were suppose to access the lower workings were back-filled. Not what I was planning on this trip, but the area is still nice to see. Stills of the site: https://www.instagram.com/p/CODzanoABeg https://www.instagram.com/p/COD0VnngiPN https://www.instagram.com/p/COD0ZgJg6je

High up a steep and craggy mountain range I take you to an ore chute that is precariously hanging onto the precipice, fighting against gravity to keep from crashing into the abyss below. Now that I have waxed poetic, this is the upper portion of a large silver mining operation which was in operation from around 1910 to the 1930s. With some minor revivals in the 1950s and 1970s

On the side of a steep hill a cabin sits precariously on a tailing pile. For years I have been meaning to climb to the cabin and now it looks like I was a little late because the walls have started to fall in.

Throughout the southwest are stories of lost treasures buried deep in the mountains. The true story is lost and now only told as legends or tales. Here is a story told as a lost mine legend for many years. Though the mine was never truly lost, the original discoverer disappeared in the desert when trying to return to his discovery and was never heard from ever again.

Been unable to find much about this mine. But from what was left at the site it shows that it was in operation in a very small scale from the 1930s into the 1950s. It was such a small production that this impressive talc mine used burros or mules to haul the ore down to waiting trucks. With this trip I have finished exploring all the mines that I have not visited in this old Silver mining district.

Discovered in 1875, the Balance mine was not the largest or wealthiest mine in the region. It did prompt the rush to this lonely corner of the southwest. Bringing people and investors as far as New York to this Lead-Silver mining district.

Hidden high in the mountains is a small ranchers cabin made of Juniper and mud that is left mostly forgotten by the world. Along the way to the cabin I will show you the writings left by previous groups of people who use to wander this land.

This is kind of a part three to the saga of this mine. In the first video I tested camera equipment on the main access level. Then the second level a group of friends and myself acceded into the upper levels looking for a passage into another mine on the far side of the mountain. Now I will take you down to two of the lower levels. I may go even further in a later video. Video One:https://rumble.com/vayuxn-new-camera-equipment-test.html Video Two: https://rumble.com/vc0cmj-searching-for-an-underground-passage.html

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