Ashlu Gold Mine Explore - BC - British Columbia Canada - Backcountry Exporations

A dirt bike ride up a series of valleys in the coastal rain forest of western Canada. We cross a few bridges including a very sketchy home made one at the end. The dirt bikes get to within a hundred yards of the mine portal. This mine produced 6500 ounces of gold from 1935 to 1939 when it was shut down for the war. It was not seriously mined again until 1979 when a company came along and opened the mine up again. They built a 3 million dollar mill that is still there today. It only ran for four weeks then the whole operation went bankrupt. They had enlarged the portals to mine with scoop tram loaders. These machines drive on inclines and deliver right to the mill conveyor.
It's possible to walk into this mine and get to a big chamber that opens up the raging creek. You can find your way down the levels and exit at one of the original small portals. All of the routes down follow the huge quartz vein. The mine is flooded below this point but you can still see into the depths a ways. The drone footage at 15:30 is by the very talented Chadsey. He flies in the 1979 main portal and down through the mine exiting at the original showing. Unbelievable cool footage.
Check out this link to a great description and a few interesting maps.
https://propertyfile.gov.bc.ca/report...