I Went Mining For 12 Hours & Made $____?

Here are some of the minerals I pulled out! www.ebay.com/usr/cerrogordo1865

You should look for minecarts with chests, they only spawn in abandoned mineshafts

“So I did a bit of mining off camera”

For anyone wondering, the sold price for the 12 listings he made on EBay totaled $4,798.99 - when split into a 12 hour shift was $399.92/hour. The description is outdated currently. All of the listing were auctioned, and the highest bids were $636 for a Smithsonite/Malachite/Pyrite chunk, then $610 each for two chunks, one of Malachite/Chrysocolla/Turquoise and another of just Galena (lead). One chunk of a prominent Smithsonite vein sold for $503. The rest were all around the $250-$350 range, and all auctions were bid on between 30 and 70 times, averaging around 40/50 bids.

I am laughing. You need to kick our rears. I am 75 - a great grandma - my grandson Alex showed me Minecraft and it was at the beginning!!! I have played it off and on all these years. I love it. I follow several channels. I watched this channel when it first started and I come back every so often to see how it is going. I love to go mining!!! And yes, the chests - find those chests. I love the blues! I want a necklace out of some blue and purple too. Yup. :-) :-) Can you shine the rocks - to make things to hang on a chain? I think it would be fun to make items - put a small notation as to where they came from! How neat!!! As a piece of history from Cerro Gordo! I'd love to buy one!!!

I am actually a current miner of zinc in Tennessee. It is fascinating and terrifying to see you go after these specimens. We typically try not to go underneath any type of loose rocks as a rule of thumb. To watch you crawl through spaces you can barely fit is crazy. Usually when small rocks fall, big rocks are not far behind.

You have 1.7 million subscribers. Sell your rocks as Cerro Gordo specimens with a note telling the story of your find, your trip down the mine, and a reference to the video. That's what's even more valuable: The story.

I visited Cerro Cordo last week as I was driving back to Canada from Palm Springs with my family. It was a great experience and did check out the museum (thanks Avery) and all the cool nooks and crannies of Cerro Gordo that I've seen in the videos over the last 4 years. The merch they have for sale is great. I highly recommend going for a visit if your car can handle the road. It was curvier and steep then portrayed int eh videos for sure. I now understand why cement trucks refused to go up there. It was great to even run into Brent on his way to the latest adventure and him taking the time to say hi to us. Keep up the great videos and good work you are doing in Cerro Gordo.

Hi Brent Robin Rowe from Selby Ontario Canada. Watched every video you put out so far. Became interested in Cerro Gordo ghost town some 60 or so years ago by reading an article in National Geographic magazine. It really caught my attention and I have wanted to go there ever since , and perhaps I will. It is so good to see someone uprooting his life to follow his dream . And so taking a hike with you would be a buggy on my bucket list . I will be 77 years on July 27 so don’t be surprised when I show up with my girl to spend a night in the new hotel. So I hope you have many more years of fun doing what you love.

Bro is living Minecraft IRL💀💀💀

As a mineral enthusiast, I personally like the natural look of crystals and matrixes. Also a good tip. If you find a pristine crystal formation, try not to break it up if you don’t have to or want to. Palm size ores and crystal might sell for hundreds but person size walls of smithsonite can sell for 10’s of thousands as large crystal clusters like what you have found don’t get preserved too often anymore. Either way I love the video series and can’t wait for the next one!

This ia one of the most interesting and fascinating channels on YouTube. I’ve been watching it on and off since the beginning and can’t beleive it’s still going, and yet totally respect that it still continues to enrich our lives in so many ways.

This video was AWESOME and butt puckering at points. If I saw that squeeze in the 200 level I would have turned around but I almost certainly wouldn't have gone down there in the first place. Thanks for the really cool video, your hard work really shows through.

Thank you for this video. Fascinating look at those old workings. I worked 17 years as an underground bituminous coal miner. Based on those years of experience, there is no way I would have crawled under all that loose, broken top. If you are going to keep doing this, you need to learn how to take down loose top and install roof support to sustain good top. Holes in the ground created by humans are entirely different in character than holes in the ground created by Nature. Old timbers decompose by slowly combining with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and/or carbon monoxide. Make sure you have air to breathe. I would want a couple of 15-minute O2 canisters: One on my hip and one on the elevator---at a minimum. Good luck and God Bless!

Brent, I hate to tell you this, but we as a community took a poll, and we all decided we need an hour long episode put out every day from now on. Thanks brother! 🙃

It's insane how much effort and work you have put into improving this mine. You've made it much more accessible, safer to explore and your restoring and gathering information about it's history and what it currently contains. It's fascinating

The power of music! Dude, when you were struggling in the mine, that eerie music changed "i got slightly uncomfortable" moment into "that is terrifying danger". Your editing skills are 10/10

I give you serious credit man, just watching this video raised my anxiety. I couldn't imagine crawling through there and going through the tight squeeze's.

Since the advent of YouTube, I have discovered so many things that I have missed out on. Like buying a sailboat and sailing around the world or living in an abandoned ghost town and doing all manner of exploration. I am so jealous of the people that get to do these things because when I was young, it didn’t even dawn on me that these were things to do. Kudos to the adventurers. Adventures.

November 1930 was when my dad was born!! I just found your channel and I am so happy I did. I watch a lot of YouTube and this content is some of the best I’ve seen. I absolutely love this stuff but I could never do it and you brought me right down to the bottom so I could see this beauty from in our earth. Thank you ❤