Nip & Tuck Gold Mine Visit April 2015
Got a chance to go visit the Nip & Tuck Gold Mine last week. Met the owner Steve who lives on the claim full time year round off-grid. Steve is intelligent and very knowledgeable in his trade. He gave me a great tour of his placer claim, explained in great detail how the the gold came to be where it is, the geology, some chemistry some history, a bunch of good info on how to get started on my own claim. I learned a lot!
He helped me setup my mini cleanup sluice at the end of the sluice box under his trommel, gave me a couple of time saving pointers on my panning technique which helped. Even found a bit of the yellow stuff =)
That road going up to the claim? Read the warning in the video. Heed the warning in the video. The potholes are huge and numerous, there is boulder and bedrock jutting out all over, sharp rocks.. and should it happen to rain.... :| Hope you brought a lunch...
Thanks again for the tour Steve. Looking forward to spending a few days out on your claim next time I am out that way.
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The Michigan Mine Mystery (See Description Below)
Please give me your opinion on this mystery in the comments section… In the video, I identify this abandoned mine as the Michigan Mine. I did so because this is how it was identified to me by a very knowledgeable local historian (who was herself advised by some of the mining old timers that were born and died in this area). However, after our visit, subsequent research leads me to believe that this may actually be the Nip & Tuck Company [Mine]. The Michigan Mine bordered the Nip & Tuck and the Nip & Tuck actually purchased the Michigan Mine in 1869 in order to obtain control of their ground. So, it is understandable that the names could be confused or even used interchangeably. However, I want to be as precise as possible with this stuff… So, tell me what you think: The Michigan Mine and the Nip & Tuck were both placer claims. However, the Michigan Mine was an adit driven back 3,000 feet into the Gibsonville Ridge. The Nip & Tuck Mine is described as being situated where a tunnel would have been too great of an expense to run and so a shaft was driven down to a depth of 230 feet. The work in this shaft was aided by a large steam engine situated next to the mine shaft. Further, there is a description of an area below the mine being used for washing the gravel being hauled out. Now, tell me that what you see in the video doesn’t look a lot more like the description of the Nip & Tuck instead of the Michigan Mine?
There are documents indicating that 40 men worked at the Nip & Tuck Mine in 1870. And, although not a trace remains, there was supposedly an engine house built over the steam engine in addition to an abundance of skip cars and flumes on the site. The Nip & Tuck was apparently a profitable mine as an 1871 issue of Mining & Scientific Press describes the mine as returning a profit of 100% over expenses the previous autumn.
The Michigan Mine, at its peak, apparently had 15 men working and even had a blacksmith living on site with his family.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that niche of our history is gone forever. But, guess what? We have fun doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a hundred years, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
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523 Nous sommes invités à une fête des 15 ans
Dans cette vidéo, nous sommes invités à une fête des 15 ans! nous faisons la route jusqu'à Belen en passant par la route 40 et le kilomètre emblématique 4040, pour retrouver nos amis et participer à un anniversaire des quinze ans. Julien cherche encore des pneus, une vrai obsession.
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March Mining Trip 2016
Cold, Rain, Snow, Sleet Hail and Rain. Not much can hold back those afflicted with Gold Fever. Took a trip to visit my friend Steve at the Nip & Tuck at the beginning of March. He let a few of us dig for a day in his personal gold pit. Amazing guy. Cannot say enough good things about him. Taught me a bunch of stuff about the bush, people and gold. Looking forward to learning more.
Bring on the 2016 mining season! Woo - Hoo!!!