Going Deep Underground in the Manhattan Mine
0Spent an afternoon in the desert exploring the massive Manhattan Mine. This was a gold and silver mine that was worked from the early 1900s until the late 1940s. The Manhattan Mine's layout is very unique and somewhat confusing because a long, narrow, deep, crevice-like quarry was dug with tunnels and vertical shafts bisecting it at all angles. In fact, I was able to enter the mine by one tunnel and exit by another tunnel! While underground, I located a large, non-flooded vertical shaft with an impressive wooden headframe above it. There was also a lot of extensive underground tunneling. Outside, the quarry floor itself was pierced with vertical shafts that led to lower levels. Unfortunately, most of these shafts were all flooded with very deep water. At the end of this video, I discovered an unmapped, downward-sloping tunnel near the Manhattan Mine. This tunnel had water in it not too long ago and there were many hoof prints in it, so it seemed to be a watering hole for wild burros who actually enter the mine and walk down the sloping tunnel to where the water would be.
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