Big Things Have Small Beginnings - Part 4

We finally make it to the bottom of this impressive gold mine! We ended up getting four videos out of what started out as a tiny hole in the ground that we assumed didn’t go anywhere of significance… We thought it was just a little prospect shaft and look what we got instead! It’s all the more impressive to us given the extreme weather in the highest regions of the Sierras and the abundance of serpentine that have combined to take down so many historic mines in the area. I should have kept my mouth shut about the huge potential of that bottom drift (I was tempting fate), but those were perhaps the newest workings in the mine and were built to more modern size standards? We also thought this may have been one of the levels of the Sierra Buttes Mine and so thought it had huge potential for that reason as well. We now know that this was not the Sierra Buttes Mine, but the location of some of the levels of the Sierra Buttes Mine remain unknown and this was in the right place to potentially be one o