Here we are at the Volcano Mine Pioche,
Nevada October 16, 2018 here is the main
shaft right here with a head frame and a hoist it's a
vertical shaft there are a couple of
buildings here an ore bin still in pretty
good shape that concrete footing there
tracks coming out of the shaft cable is
still here looks like it would have been
an air tank I'm guessing see what we
have in here so that looks like it would
be a compressor doesn't it Julie it's
not a hit-and-miss engine it looks like
there may have been an engine over
here
 
there's a footing down here this must be
where the engine for the hoist was
mounted here somehow and then you can
even smell the oil there can't you and
the cable would have to shoot out this
way somewhere up to the crown pulley and
let's see another footing for something
then there's another tank back here that's
hooked into this tank that's in the
front it's pretty heavy-duty tank there
that line goes back over to this one
they both come together and it goes out
towards the goes into the ground there
towards the shaft here's around the back of
the buildings a water tank I'm
guessing not sure what the stack is for
here there's another water tank on this
side of course the windows are all
broken out nobody can leave stuff alone
can they there's the last view from this
side
nice and dry seems pretty solid a little ore chute it's tall isn't it  it's got to be eight
feet tall
there's a left here's a right taking the
right
this looks like it dead ends right there
stoped area it's solid in here isn't it
let's go back
I've got Julie in the mine today so that
right didn't go very far hmm interesting
let's go this way  want to stay in the
main line there's a ladder with a box
down there of some sort
hmm well this is the hole I was just
looking through and the ladder and down
here are some tracks and an ore cart
what's left of it and you want to go to
the right when we come back here to the
left as we get to it this way that might
go somewhere there's another ore cart
this one is standing upright and this is
either collapsed up here or the end of
the line but I can't believe it would
be the end of the line already oh no it
just turns more collapsed
is that more of that
ladder that we were just looking at that
that looks like a jumbled mess there that
must be all caved in let's see if we can
go the other way I'm sure it went
further that way originally okay we're
continuing on this other way away from
that other collapse here's the number
three chute and a little ladder here
this chute looks like it's full of stuff
following the tracks still seems pretty
solid in here the air feels good too it
smells fresh
a couple more chutes oh boy
tracks are winding their way on down the
line here
a couple more chutes here and some pretty
heavy timbering we have a gate mechanism
here I don't want to pull on it this
one's open
this ones open and it goes quite a ways up
though and this is either caved or it's
the end of the line looks like it's the
face to me that hold the ore back until
they were ready to fill a cart up okay
I got that back open it was a little
stuck when  I shut it so that goes
quite a ways up and lets see if we can find
somewhere else in this baby to explore
must be some event natural venting
coming through here because it's
nice and cool and not really a breeze
but it's fresh so this particular level
doesn't really go anywhere it's
collapsed on this other end I don't know
why the ladder is in the ore chute like
that but unless they use them to
scramble up there so you can see the way
these tracks this is where the cave-in
was not too far past this cart and you
can see how the tracks came up here take
a sharp curve and just stop and they
would dump them down this down to a
lower level there's a drill bit stuck in
there
let's go take a look up here there's a
big timber there there's another drop
it goes a little ways and that looks like a stope up this way I like it when you can see
the vein of what they're following which
I don't even really know what kind of
mind this was I know a lot of them in
this area are silver and lead
boy it's really a maze in here now let's take the
right here
piece of plastic a lot of  heavy timbers and
looks like another chute it's filled in if it
is  look up there oh look we're back
here this is the entrance huh
yeah we went in there loop down there so
there's that big can I just took a
little peek at it what does it say that
gas?
what's it say Julie something gas yeah
well one track still I think the other
ones buried yep there it is
this looks like we had a little collapse
here yeah not going up there not going
anywhere in fact I'm going to back out of
here right now they sure have been
digging all over here though
looks a little dicey there doesn't it
there's a little land bridge right here
but it's not
and there's even a thinner one up here
you don't want to sneeze look at this land
bridge it's barely a foot thick a lot of
these things are circling around these
drifts  they kind of loop around
and that one did too
well I called up an ore chute here I'm in
the process I don't know exactly where
it goes I'm trying to get up one of these
ladders which are just sitting here they're
not really connected so okay there's the
ore chute that I came up there are a couple
of ladders Julie's got her light down at
the bottom so we're on a different level
now there's a piece of ladder
some stoped areas
there's an air line going through here
well my camera died so I'm down to a
cell phone my battery died unexpectedly
there's another ore cart
still got wheels on it that's pretty
cool doesn't look like this goes real
far before it collapses look at this old ore cart
well that's a little guy in there I
can't see up in there
well the tracks go this way a little bit
of roof cave in there another stoped
area and it goes down that's about it
for that kind of dissappointed that my
battery died
here we are back to the ore cart Julie
 you want to try and push it this way okay here goes
look at Julie pulling the ore cart look at her
go
okay fill it up with ore and now push
it back sweet you're a miner so the
last place I haven't explored here is
down these ladders and just judging from
the depth of the outside main shaft where
the head frame is I think this is a pretty
deep mine - they're probably extensive
workings down lower and this ladder
looks like it turns makes it makes a
turn and goes down again another level
and I think it just goes down one level
like two ladders worth but let's drop
rock down here it's really deep watch it
just quit it's like eight or ten seconds
so it's deep however fast that rock goes
and you know you could go down this
ladder another level but I can't blame
Julie for not wanting to go and I don't
want to go by myself so it's still here
for anybody that wants to go  they
were keeping track of loads here looks
like
least an eight-foot-tall
entrance on this the portals collapsed
but still accessible here comes the mine
explorer she's not a huge fan of holes
in the ground as much as I am but we
made it good job with Julie let's go see
what else we have around here
ore bin main shaft the machinery building
and there's a road going up here let's
see where this goes
looks like it must be an old portal here
let's go a look at what's on top of this
big waste rock pile over this way pretty
good little waste dump there let's go up
the road a little more and we'll go see
where it came from probably a shaft I'm
guessing here is the source of this
waste rock pile
pretty good shaft there's another shaft
just over there that's fenced off
there's the head frame I'll bet 
there was a little camp right here on
this flat shelf because I followed this
can dump up and you know how the miners were
the can dump was usually just below
their camp there it is not a bad size
a lot of the the
cans were milk cans condensed milk cans
when you see this little you see two
little holes like that little knife
holes and this those are condensed milk and
this must have been a portal
because it's right by that camp this is
might be the original one who knows
but I don't see a way into it we there's a piece of
stove by or ventilation pipe
thanks for watching the video you guys
we'll see you on the next one
