Exploring A 1930s Alaskan Gold Mine!
Exploring A 1930s Alaskan Gold Mine!
In this special 1 hour and 40 minute special presentation, I take a epic adventure into the Alaskan wilderness to completely explore and document the “Nabesna’ Gold Mine. Beginning in 1929, and running all the way to 1942, this old mine is a true time capsule to the life and times of miners carving in success in the harsh Alaska terrain.
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Keep things rusty, except your tools!
What percent of the material from the Mine did they process at this site versus taking it into town to process?
That fender is the back fender of a model A Ford. I’d of grabbed that too.
Brilliant video. Well done for making and sharing it. Those old timers were tough men.
Wow a little over 4billion in gold by today’s prices…
Thank you from Kentucky 🙂
Thanks for sharing, you done a amazing job. I’ve never seen a mining operation that big before with so many buildings on it.
Lots of Amazing history there.
Thanks again, be careful out there by yourself.
View is breathtaking
Such a shame – they took the resourses and left a toxic wasteland.
What do I know. By the equipment and machinery, they must find TONS of gold. WOW.
I enjoyed it. Your camera man isn’t the best. LoL. Good job and thank you for sharing. Cheers
i just scribed love vids of ak
Man you kid did a wonderful job
Wouldn’t it be nice if you took a detector with you and actually found a nugget they missed ,
In the archive film footage, did you see that old red round fender truck. Maybe the fender by the dentside.
A battery and eth fresh feul a cold start.
Awsome video I really enjoyed the trip thanks for the invite
Love your Dodge.
This is by far one of my absolute favorite mine exploration videos. My dream is to move to Alaska someday, I want to purchase a small RV and travel across the West in search of many gold mines starting in San Diego and working my way up to Colorado and then on my way to Alaska, where I would like to stay indefinitely. I am so glad I stumbled across this video. So much about this video fascinates me. Everything from how you climbed up those very steep mountains, to the Old 74 or 75 pickup truck, to the Model T axle that you found, to the drill bit and old radiator. And the views of the mountains literally took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes. This is what my heart has been yearning for since as long as I can remember. I can’t thank you enough for this video 🙂
I wonder by the way its borded up if there still gold in there
What kind of truck it that
Although it has been a while since you posted this.. This was really interesting. Especially mixed with the old film clips. Thanks.
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT VIDEO, THIS IS THE 2 OR 3 TIME WATCHING IT. I LOVE LOOKING BACK WHEN MEN WORE MEN, AND WOMEN WERE WOMEN! SEEING ALL THAT CASTIRON AND HUGE GEARS GIVE’S ME GOOSEBUMPS. AND THOSE OLD AS BULL DOSSER WITH THE CABLE INSTEAD OF HTYDRULICS. THAT PILE OF HAND DRILL BITS DUDE SO FREEKING COOL. O” AND THE VUE IS INCREDIBLE.
Forgot to say .. interesting stuff. 👍
Free zip line!
dam straight down wow
Very cool! absolutely fascinating.
Wow, I was with you the whole time! Thank you so much for the tour and discussion. The view was incredible. I dont know how you did all that climbing. I enjoyed this more than you will ever know.
That was a very cool and interesting video. Nice. Oh yeah you got a real workout that day. Sweet find.
wow they mess2d it up and didnt clean it up just walked away poison stuff wash up good = of course they put up sings keep out they dont want people to spot there poison mess they made bad water yup
real men was made . back then .superman strength
Almost 100 years ago. These dudes were tough pushing carts around.
Great video. Must have taken a tremendous amount of effort to build, supply and maintain a Mine in that type of weather and remote location.
go get the truck
Funny how you glaze past the pyramid that’s clearly part of the landscape.
Some of the wood planks on those old buildings as beautiful it could be repurposed what ashamed of see it just sit there and go to waste
This looks like the kind of place that if you fell or was hit by a falling rock which disabled your body, nobody would find you. The kind of place that you would want to travel with another person to assist you if you were injured.
The youtbube channel "mbmmllc" might be able to assist you with determining what piece of machinery does what in the Mine. He has a website and sells small mining gear.
Yoou are boring. Your voice is monotonous.
43:52 Sign which describes the dangerous chemicals used to mine gold.
44:56 Shows one of the toxic areas where nothing is growing.
wow pretty country
the roads there are just like pa coal mine strip roads rough rock and dirt not repaired ever
These are the numbers I’m getting on an inflation calculator website. In 1940 the Mine had shipped 73,000 tons of ore valued at $1,869,396. In 2023 that amount is worth $40,170,649. So 1.8 million in 1940 to 40 million in 2023. From your facebook link "From 1931 through 1937 he shipped ore valued at $965,000 to the Tacoma smelter. By 1940 the mine had shipped 73,000 tons of ore valued at $1,869,396."
So quiet – very few birds making sounds. Beautiful – would love to be a younger man now and spend time exploring the Alaskan Wilderness. WONDERFUL EDUCATIONAL VIDEO!!!!
The graphics on this new fallout is AMAZING!
so cool
Thanks for bringing us along! Really liked the information and the map tutorial. Most of us would have never seen the mine or the great views of the valley. So thank you much.
Excellent Vidios, thanks. SALUD .
Awesome video young man! Be safe & God bless!
Totally an awesome look back to a time that most of us would never see or really know much about. I was happy to see that you had a good head on your shoulders and was safety minded young man, that whole place is polluted with chemicals, I wondered if some of those 55 gallon drums might be full of toxic waste, there are so many all around the mill site. The mill looks to be leaning and not very safe. The size of the beams were very thick, when that mill starts to collapse, you don`t want to be near it for sure. I was glued to my seat watching this video, never seen anything like this, it is a time capsule. Thank you
This was a good video. It was like looking back into time.
What’s the process once they remove the material from the Mine? I assume they would crush it into a fine rice size or flour state, then run it down a filter device where the heavy gold falls to the bottom early and the lighter rock moves downhill to become waste.