TVR Exploring
Mixing things up for you, dear viewers, with a gold prospecting adventure that I think ties in nicely with the gold mining that I have shown elsewhere on this channel… My interest in mining has long been centered on the history, the engineering talent, the equipment, the miners, etc. rather than on what was being mined and the TVR Exploring videos have reflected that. However, I have to admit that seeing all of the lovely gold that was being pulled out on this expedition, certainly made me more interested in picking up a pan myself and learning more about gold prospecting. But, don’t worry, I’ll keep exploring the abandoned underground mines for as long as I am able to. I tried to include everyone that was looking for gold along the creek in this video, but sometimes I wasn’t there at the right time or I was on the wrong side of the creek or whatever. It is hard to always be where the action is. Officially, Prospector Jake was the big winner on this trip. He did, in fact, locate a great quantity of gold. No question about that… However, I suspect that a few of the other participants may have been playing it a little coy with how much gold they were finding. I’d love for someone to pull a giant gold nugget out of this mining claim. RAD Adventures owns the mining claim, but anyone that comes on a trip, naturally, keeps any gold that they find. The website for RAD Adventures is here: https://gold4gomes.wixsite.com/radadv... I spent most of my time hanging out with the prospectors and filming what they were doing. However, I did get some time to go exploring around the canyon. It feels (and is, really) so remote there that you might as well be on another planet. Or several hundred years in the past… I was going to write “one hundred years in the past” before I realized that this area had a lot more gold miners and mining a century ago than it does now. So, it wouldn’t have felt so remote in 1920 as it does in 2020. There are few places that one can say that about! Personally, I like the feeling of unplugging from everything (no phone service out there!) and being more connected with nature and the people you’re with. So, really, as with all of our mine exploring trips, it is more about the journey and just being out there rather than an experience revolving solely around the gold or the mines. ***** All of these videos are uploaded in HD, so I’d encourage you to adjust your settings to the highest quality if it is not done automatically. You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD As well as a small gear update here: https://bit.ly/2p6Jip6 You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L Thanks for watching!
