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| | | | Re: We found gold 250 feet underground!! < Reply # 6 on 12/14/2020 2:20 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Aran That's such a cool project! I take it this is one of your regular haunts then if you're putting that much effort into maintaining access?
| It's a mine owned by Jeff Williams and he wants it accessible so he and his patrons can do some prospecting in there. Below is an interesting story by one of the last guys to work in the mine. If all of this is accurate, there's good reason to keep the mine open. "Hey guys and gal you were standing on that vein. Its under the track. Picture you hand. Hell just draw your hand on a piece of paper. Now trace a line across the top of thumb thru your fingers( you can spread your fingers a little). Now your fingers are the stopes ore shoots ,backing up toward the incline,under the track about 18"s is almost the top of the thumb. Part of the top of the thumb was removed to drive the drift lay the track and access to the "break room", which was down toward the end of the drift on the right. Somebodies been down there since I was last (1984). When you got to the 1st landing you went west, about 20' it drifted south. where it drifted south about 5-8' is where they intercepted the thumb. They were getting paid by the tonnage,so they were moving fast. I believe this was the high-grade sacks that they buried out on the dump that Carl Meyers told me about when he told me and ultimately showed me where the thumb was. Now I went below that in a small drift that went off to the west. I didn't locate it from down there but I never looked up. I lowered Carl down in the ore bucket. He showed me where it was at and at that time there wasn't a pile of dirt (the one Joanne was standing on at the very begining of the video) its under that cause I saw the curved track. Where the track curved there used to be a spur that ran straight into the wall. There was a wall there. on that"spur" sat an old open cylinder pump. Behind that pump was a little hole where I 1st started pulling excellent specimens. I believe that incline is 220-250'. Before you get to the very bottom there will be another drift to the west although if iI remember right (its been along time) there should be one more landing before last one. Carl Meyers was in his 70s when he showed me all this. He didnt have a reason to lie to me,he had nothing to gain. He said the vien never quit. The damn war broke out. How far in depth? Ask Jeff Williams.com he's the geologist.I took 2 yrs at UofA thats it. I think the m+m shaft was 600' deep. The leaser was 160-180' and did connect to the Ruth. We followed adrift going south on the leaser quite aways and always wondered if we didn't hit the M+M??s drift.Now,I took 17 ounces of Au out of that old lab in one week. That old assay lab never did I finish. Never went thru the header pile so ain't know tellings whats still there, I did recover a 1 and a half oz. "bar" that was broke because of the Zn in it. Interestingly 3 years later was heading thru there and had my Lobo at that time and in the same 10' area I found the rest of the bar. It fit perfectly. You all are on the right track, I sold a bucket of that ore in Quartsite for 7000 dollars. Until we meet "may all your days be Golden", Will check out other link in morning. Love your show you all make a great team." Abby
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