Hiking Through a Beautiful Forest to Explore a Nasty Hell Hole
432Hi all – sorry for my long hiatus. It’s been a busy summer as usual. I promise there is a lot of good stuff to come. We’re actively working on some new ‘project’ mines that will hopefully turn up some interesting stuff.
This mine is located deep in the forested wilderness of the Washington Cascade mountains. It’s about a six-mile hike to reach the mine. I found it ironic how beautiful this area is, especially in comparison to the nasty flooded abandoned mine that I explored. This mine was basically a prospect. The long crosscut adit was intended for use as a lower haulage for an ore body that would have been worked higher up on the mountain. The ore body was brecciated material with an abundance of pyrite minerals present. As you may have noticed in other mine exploring videos, the ribs and back of an adit are generally covered in blasting dust/dirt. You’ll see in this video, that all of the minerals exposed by the adit are totally visible. Apparently, the adit was pressure washed by the last folks to work the mine. All of the blasting dust was washed away.
Another interesting feature of this mine relates to geothermal activity in the area. There are hot springs near this mine, and unsurprisingly, parts of the mine were uncomfortably hot. Like 90 degrees hot. Not something I’ve ever encountered before.
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