azblackbird Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Some of you AZ guys might enjoy this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Denny Run* Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 That's some pretty incredible stuff there. Definitely a pleasure to watch. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick in Havasu Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Great post. Nice of you to share.Patrick..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Soloman Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 THAT, was GREAT! Very nice job. :wubu: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Wow thank you for a great history lesson.... sure makes me long for simpler times with harder work for your rewards. The "easy" life is leading us astray me thinks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrock Bob Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 How cool is that? I believe that was the best 6 minute video I have ever seen. What a hoot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highbanker58 Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 I agree with Bedrock Bob. That was very well done. I would like to go out to some of those sites with the before picture and just absorb the moment. Thanks for the post -it was something I will watch again. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa-au-nut Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 I love it! Love Minning and Logging History. Spent many hours wandering around in minnig towns and old logging towns here in Washington looking at pictures and wondering about life back then,amazed at what they could do without modern machines. They had TRUE GRITT!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucket Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 That was sweet! Being from San Diego though I hope you dont mind me watching it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gramps43 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Nice music and the pictures twern't bad either. ;) Kinda puts the lie to the myth that miners are despoilers of the land. Ruged but beautiful country, would be nice to detect those old sites.Gramps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williame Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Good job, I could have watched it go on forever if there was more of it. Thanks Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock bubba Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 This is a great video!It proves that time and Mother Nature heal all scars!It would only help our cause to post this on environmental forums!And mention that us small scale prospecters are not in any way causing damage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimN Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 I'm amazed how completely these old mines and prospects disappear. I have been looking for some of the old Cave Creek mines (Maricopa, Phoenix, etc) and there is not much around these old spots to hint at the past. I'm amazed at how few visible artifacts there are.Keep in mind that mining in the 1800s-1900s had much less of an impact on the land than current mining. There were few roads, even fewer motorized vehicles and the volume and nature of the trash was immensely less.I drove past the Newgold facility by Glamis, CA a month ago and that will take way more than 100 years to be un-noticeable.As far as recreational prospecting goes, i don't think there is much you can do to make a real permanent environmental impact. Anything done with picks and shovels will disappear pretty quickly. Commercial mining is a whole other ball of wax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockhunter1620 Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 Awsome then and nows AZ, super cool photos, I'll be showin this video to the ole lady when she's awake, again wat too cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Lobo Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 What an interesting glimpse into Arizona's mining history. I have watched it several times. Well done. good music too. Lobo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 The way they put that video together with the past and then from the same angle or spot as it is today is amazing....I'm sad when I think about how rough life was back then compared to now.....then you walked or rode a horse ordrove a wagon every where you went....no fast foods, all home cooking....no air-conditioning you had screens over thedoors and windows so you could get what breeze there might be and at the same time keep the flies out....The milk came direct from the cow(s)....you could trade/barter milk, eggs, butter, hot bread, lye soap, and back breakingwork for pork or any of the other farm products....For most folks 10-12 hour days of work for $2.00 a month....times were lean and mean....all necessities were scarse....in the video how many fat people did you see in the pics?Back then everyone worked or you starved...no welfare....most folks were honest and a mans word was better thanmoney or a contract....everybody in a community knew who you couldn't trust...they called them "shifty"....When war broke out many entire towns and communities of men volunteered to fight...leaving the women mostly aloneto fend for the family....and they did it too!!My grand-pa was a carpenter...a house he built in the 1800's in Eastern Okla. is still standing and being lived in...not anail in the construction...holes were drilled with a "brace & bit" and a wood dowel was drove in the hole...now and thenmy dad would make a comment about the "good ole days" and my grand-pa always corrected him by saying "thosewere not good days back then"...dad never argued back...Maybe in 2111 somebody will make a video...different technology than now....and people will realize that our generationhas seen more changes, mostly for the better, than any other generation of mankind....Maybe some nut job sitting in Brazil will look at the video and wonder aloud "how did they screw it up so bad anddid you see all those fat slobs"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lve2fsh Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 now and then my dad would make a comment about the "good ole days" and my grand-pa always corrected him by saying "thosewere not good days back then"...dad never argued back...I remember sitting with my grandfather in the house he built in 1930. He had a microwave at that time, a satellite dish, oil heat upgraded from wood then coal, a cistern, not city water but running water in the house and as of 1971 indoor plumbing. I was reading mother earth news and he asked what it was about. I told him it was a bunch of younger people looking for the simpler life. He said there was no such thing and to enjoy the modern comforts. The guy has a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azdigger Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 WOW, What an incredible presentation , thanks much for sharing. Funny how Nature takes back what was her's to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoser John Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 In kalif and still enjoyed it as mining is mining where ever and nuttn' but respect for them oldie but goodies--John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonoran Dave Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Good video...worth waitin for it to load Same is true up north, i've been through places that were large towns back in the day..... mother nature has swallowed it all. Nothing but tundra where thousands of folks sweated and died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdD270 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Wonderful video, thanks for sharing that with us. Awesome music, too.You did an incredible job of finding the same spot to take photos as the old ones were taken. I can't imagine how much time and work that had to take. Bet it was a ball, though.Sure puts to rest the myth of mining destroying nature and nature will never recover from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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