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Another Piece Of (The) Rose Quartz

This one keeps pulling us back… And there’s a simple reason for that. Every time we go, we find something new. This whole complex is just covered in adits. Most of them are inaccessible, but the sheer number of them is staggering. My exploring buddy (his channel is Adit Addicts) did a separate trip here at the start of winter and discovered yet another adit not far from the one in this video. It took some work to squeeze into and, once inside, did not extend back far, but, like the adit shown in this video, seemed to connect to other levels below. There were also an interesting series of stulls in the adit he located. He has not posted that video yet, but below are a couple from my early exploring days of other parts of the Rose Quartz Complex (I caution you that the video quality is nowhere near as good as that allowed by the gear I have now, but you’ll get the idea if you’re curious).

This adit is located farther down the creek:



This inaccessible adit is up on the ridge:



Likely of more interest, the 1918 Mines & Mineral Resources of Plumas County from the California State Mining Bureau has the following on the Rose Quartz Mining Company:

“This property consists of nine claims, names unknown, none of which are patented. There is a total of 180 acres with a length along the lode of 3000'. High lava-capped peaks and deep V-shaped canyons mark the surface.

The main vein (No. 1) is developed by a 178' crosscut adit to the vein, cutting it 150' below the outcrop, and 60' driven along the vein. There is also a winze on the vein extending 30' below the tunnel level. The No. 2 vein is developed by a 60' shaft with a 50' crosscut from the bottom, and the Rose vein by a 259' crosscut adit, meeting the vein 100' below its outcrop, with 95' driven on the vein. Drilling is done by hand. The deposit consists of quartz veins evidently following a siliceous porphyry dike in slates. The workings are in the decomposed dike and no crosscuts have been run to true walls. Nos. 1 and 2 veins, parallel and 85' apart, are made up of quartz and decomposed porphyry containing free gold, auriferous arsenopyrite and galena. The foot-wall of No. 1 vein is not determined, the hanging wall is slate. It varies in width from 10' to 15'; strikes N. 7° E. dips 70° E., and has a proven length on the surface of 1000'. No 2 vein has slate walls, is 50' in width, strikes N. 10° E., and dips east. The Rose vein is a quartz vein in slates with a filling of rose quartz. It varies from 3' to 6' in width, with an average of 4' strikes north and dips east. It carries free gold and a very little galena and arsenopyrite. No. 1 vein averages $9; No. 2, where 15' wide, runs $4.80 a ton; where 30' wide, it runs $3.50. The Rose mine is a very good-looking prospect, and from panning of ore appears to be well worthy of extended development. Final judgment can not be passed until the veins are crosscut and developed at deeper levels. Masses of arsenopyrite are found, which can be burned and show a large amount of gold. Free gold also occurs in the center of hard, glassy looking quartz, not associated with sulphides nor a product of oxidation. Galena in appreciable quantities is associated with the arsenopyrite. There are on the property a blacksmith shop and cabins; a 5-stamp Hendy mill, rock breaker and concentrator to be run by a distillate engine are being installed. A tramway will be installed from the mouth of tunnel No. 1 to the mill, a distance of 300'.

Labor cost from $3 to $3.50 per day in 1914. Transportation 1 cent per pound from Quincy.”

Obviously, times have changed! However, the remains of much of the equipment described in 1918 can still be seen (as you saw in this video). There is more closer to the top of the ridge as well.

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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.

I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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Exploring The Yuba River Mines: Part 1

David Howard, our guide on this jaunt, dug into the history of the first abandoned mine we visited (the lode mine) after our trip and discovered that there were actually four adits at the site. The adit we explore in the video is apparently the last one that was driven in to the quartz, with the others being higher up toward the ridge. Now, before you succumb to feelings of tragedy that we did not know about – or visit - the other adits… We DID notice waste rock and mining activity farther up the steep canyon walls. Unfortunately, it was my turn to investigate and so I scrambled up through the thick poison oak and brush, but I did not find any additional adits. Granted, I didn’t go to the very top where the highest adit is supposed to be, but I was in the neighborhood where one or two of the others should have been and I didn’t see anything. So, they may have eroded shut. This lode gold mine used a Pelton wheel for power (which may be what that cement foundation down by the creek was). There was also a 20-stamp mill at the mine (although we did not find any trace of it). A tramway apparently brought the ore down to the stamp mill. The mine was running flat out in 1915, but was reported as being idle by 1917-18 due to high costs. As an interesting “oh by the way” detail – the mine was sold in 1916 for $25,000 in fine, pure gold. At the time, that was 1,209.5 ounces of gold. Today, those same ounces of gold would be worth approximately $1.5 million. So, you can see the corrosive impact that inflation has had on the value of our currency over the decades.

David Howard said that when he drove up to the second mine site (the placer mine with the crane) in the late 1960s or early 1970s that a wild-looking, grizzled miner burst out of the cabin and came running up to shove a rifle into his stomach. This dramatic appearance was followed immediately after by a well-dressed, distinguished-looking gentleman who strolled out of the cabin, smoking a pipe of the sort Sherlock Holmes would have smoked, and calmly defused the situation. Gold mining really attracts all sorts… As I roughly explained in the video, the miners at this site excavated down below the waterfall that can be seen in the drone footage. I’m sure there was already a pit of sorts here created by the waterfall, but the miners removed all of the large rocks and other material, expanding the depth and size of the underwater hole. Undoubtedly, there was gold found in the material they extracted. However, the beauty of their location and their pit of gold is that because it is so deep and the entire course of the river is funneled through a tight slot above the waterfall, everything being carried by the river has to pass over the pit. Gold is very heavy and so even during a major flood, a significant amount of the gold being carried downstream would drop into the pit the miner’s created and because it is so deep, it is unlikely the gold would be dislodged once it dropped down there. So, in effect, what they had is a gold mine that recharges itself every year. They just needed to scoop out and sift through the new gravel that accumulated after every winter and spring. I imagine that a significant quantity of gold was extracted from this site over the years and I imagine that there is a significant quantity of gold there now (especially after the recent winters we have had) waiting for someone to recover it.

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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. That is what these videos are about... Fortunately, these efforts are a labor of love for us rather than a tedious chore.

So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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Historic Gold Mine & Mill Deep In The Forest – Part 1

This mine was once made up of several smaller claims and the earliest records I can find on those date back to 1867. However, by the turn of the last century (1900), these appear to have all been consolidated into the large operation seen in the video. Given the large number of adits and trenches, the number of collapsed structures (I only showed a small number of them in the video), the large stamp mill and the need for a cemetery, this was obviously a significant mining community during its heyday.

The guys I explored this site with are the Gold Country Explorers and credit goes to them for locating it. Gold Country Explorers find and post pictures of some really awesome places. You can find a link to their material here:



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An early (1800s) California State Mining Bureau report had this to say about the mill at the site:

“A 20-stamp mill was located on the east side of the creek, with 900-pound stamps driven by a Knight wheel under 94’ of head from a 1,650’ long ditch; only one battery of stamps was reported as being in running order.”

A later report (1900s) adds these additional details about the mill:

“The mill at this time is described as possessing a 50-ton daily capacity, with a jaw crusher, 10 stamps, and ball mill in closed circuit with a Dorr classifier. Riffles were set below the stamps, and amalgamation plates below the ball mill. Three Fagergren flotation cells were followed by two Kraut cleaner-cells. A 200-hp diesel engine drove a generator to supply electric power, and a 440 cfm compressor was driven by a 100-hp motor.”

Now, you may notice a discrepancy here as the first description mentions twenty stamps and the second description mentions ten stamps. As you saw in the video, the ruins of the mill at the mine site now has ten stamps. So, does that mean that an earlier mill was torn down and replaced by a new mill? Possibly. However, in the picture in the video, which was taken in 1937, a flume can be clearly seen leading toward the mill. Presumably, it was still being used when the photograph was taken because it appears to be maintained and in good condition. So, perhaps the mill was remodeled or rehabbed and ten stamps were taken away? The first report mentions that only one battery was in working order…

In further support of this idea is the manufacturer’s stamp on the stamp mill itself. Union Iron Works of San Francisco ceased to be an independent company in 1902 when it was absorbed into a conglomerate called the United States Shipbuilding Company. This, therefore, dates the stamp mill to the time of the original report and would seem to suggest that it is the same mill.

The last records of work being done at this mine date to 1939.

You can perhaps better understand how everything is laid out at this abandoned gold mine by knowing that I did not backtrack or meander at all during the video, but continued in a steady downstream direction. So, the order in which objects of interest appear in the video are the order in which they are laid out across this sprawling site.

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All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so adjust those settings to ramp up the quality! It really does make a difference…

You can click here for the full playlist of abandoned mines:

Thanks for watching!

*****

Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.

So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
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