For this explore, we hiked to the Champion Mine and went down the four level vertical shaft. After clearing away loose debris from the collar area, we had to rappel down the first part of the shaft because the manway ladders were unusable due to being exposed to the weather. Once we got down about 40 feet, the ladders were in very good condition.
This abandoned Nevada copper, gold, and silver mine has numerous artifacts like shovels, dynamite box pieces, newspapers, drill bits, cans, and more. There are huge stopes and several ore passes that we comb through during this explore. We climb hundreds of feet of ladders to find the bottom of this three compartment vertical shaft. The first year of production at this mine was 1915. There is not a lot of information available for production numbers for this mine. We hope you enjoy the video!

Here are links to two other videos you might enjoy.
Five level mine with artifacts:
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Ore cars, rock drill in fluorite mine:
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