Can you imagine the noise in that mill? Our history is amazing

@bryan565656

Ай бұрын

In the Jackson area the stamps ran 24/7 and it was said you could hear them for 20 plus miles away.

@mineoperator

Ай бұрын

It would be cool to build a working replica

This was a fun tour! Thanks for taking us there!

It’s a real gift the Kentucky Mine’s been maintained to the degree it has. Lots of dedicated and capable volunteers. Ron, next time you’re passing through, visit the Empire Mine in Grass Valley. It’s a remarkably well-preserved piece of mining history, too.

Very good tour absolutely interesting thanks for the video

Flashback to elementary school in the early 1970's as the History teacher is telling us about California Gold Rush Days. This kid started daydreaming in class as to what would have this lifestyle been like. Teacher has to slap you upside the head to pay attention. Thank you for this great tour. Not only will I share this video, but I'll also will save to one of my titled favorites. This video is also a good advertisement for the event in 6 weeks. I have always wanted to know how the old timers made heavy duty belts. Then using the force of water to turn a wheel. Great video, it could have been an hour long on this rainy day off and Ida still been glued to the screen. We want to see more, please!

Fascinating!! Love it💛 Thanks for bringing us along, Ron✨

Excellent adventure.

A most satisfactory tour.

That was really cool! Thanks for taking us along haha. Interesting how the Pelton wheel is strong enough to turn everything without any flywheel or gearing. At least i didn't see. Crazy pressure there.

Woulda been awesome to see some of those big old mines when they were at peak output..... So much work!

Hey mine operator! I hope you don't mind that I stamped the like button instead of smashing it as you requested! Ride ride ride!

@mineoperator

Ай бұрын

Even better!

That is one of the coolest places I've seen in a while. Very cool that the stamp mill works just like a giant inline engine.

Nice Ron!! Thanks!

Well that was awesome! Thank you!

Interesting video.

Very cool! Not the only original, working one left in the world, but very cool nevertheless! 🤠👍

There is a few original stamp mills still working in Australia not connected to electricity so this one is not the only one in the world working

In 1991 I was on the Coaramandel Peninsula in New Zealand, we found an operating tourist gold mine that had a working stamp mill and a shaker table just below it, all had ear protection but they ran some ore through it and as it came across the shaker table it seperated into it's different minerals, there were small cans under the end of the shaker table to catch them. We were driving along Mercury bay and stopped at a stamp mill axle with the eccentrics on it, it had come from the Swauk Mining District in Central Wa. State. It just followed the gold rushes around the world.

@mineoperator

Ай бұрын

That's really cool

Pretty cool I've dredged up there back in 1986.

@mineoperator

Ай бұрын

We'd love to hear how it panned out. There's amazing ground up there.

@me5768

Ай бұрын

@@mineoperator We got about 3 1/2 ounces in 3 months darn near starved to death. Glad we got a job chopping firewood otherwise we would have starved. But I wouldn't change it for the world great memories with my brother.

Can you imagine noises that tour Guide. That’s Mrs. Kravitz.

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The stamps fired out of order to keep resonate frequency to a minimum in the buildings

@etarheel1

Ай бұрын

Now you sir or ma’am have the kind of mind that I appreciate ! Tesla in the mix everywhere I turn!

Right on, when was this video shot?

@mineoperator

Ай бұрын

Last Month

1:15 into the video. What is that weird looking heat exchanger apparatus?

Thanks for the heart. I wanted to ask a question. If this mine was called The Kentucky Mine, how did that name come about if it's located in California?

@mineoperator

Ай бұрын

Great question, will have to ask around and find out.

@kurtpeterson315

29 күн бұрын

The people who started it probably came from Kentucky. That is how a lot of mines in gold country got their name. There were a lot of mines named after states. I have read some good books on the gold country history. I go through gold country a lot driving to the Sierra Nevadas in the winter. I love the history too! Enjoy! Kurt in Santa Rosa, Ca.

@scuss2

28 күн бұрын

@@kurtpeterson315 I kind of thought the same thing. But how did those "Moonshiners" get past the Indians? Give them guns and alcohol, then run like hell? Watching Mine Operator, Jeff Williams, Dan Hurd, all say the old miners' sure left billions of dollars in gold behind. Looking at a USGS map and anywhere in Nevada there is gold, maybe not any nuggets, but it's everywhere. I just wished I knew all this information back when I was 20-40 years old and could go hunt some dirt.

Every town in the mountain west back when had a number of those mills running night and day, with boiler fires and furnaces belching smoke and noxious fumes. They were noisy, dirty, dangerous industrial centers and not a single western depicts them even close to what they were actually like. For every cowboy that ever rode the trails there were 10,000 miners! Not to mention the millers, loggers, draughtsmen, blacksmiths, and on and on. The miners got no respect and largely lost their rightful place in the historic narrative .

@markmayer2029

Ай бұрын

Yeah, now days all we have are millions of belching, smoke spewing cars,, as well as electric demand consuming all kinds of natural resources.The modern day Gold rush is the internet, with its supporting cast of characters. I still long for the days of yore, over todays overcrowded, really polluted planet.

@kurtpeterson315

29 күн бұрын

The miners got no respect, that's not necessarily true. A lot of western towns were founded because of mining. A LOT! Mining helped settle a lot of states in the West. Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, just about all of them mining had a hand in. They haven't been lost in history. Nevada is called the freaking Silver State. Enjoy! Kurt in Santa Rosa, Ca.

@kahnfu-zhin8627

29 күн бұрын

@@kurtpeterson315 you’re spot on, friend. I was referring to popular westerns, books, movies, TV. It’s mostly cowboys, whereas mining built the west. And I love mining. And I love the west. And the rest.

@kurtpeterson315

28 күн бұрын

@@kahnfu-zhin8627 True that!