Would you risk a 50% or greater chance of death for millions of dollars worth of gold?

[Staximus]

So I have known where this abandoned gold mine is up in the mountains for the last 28 years or so. According to a geological survey done in the mine back during the 50's, there is almost half a billion dollars worth of gold in it. I would need at least a couple million dollars to get the mine going again, but can't bring in a bunch of investors and equipment because it's a mile from the nearest road and in the middle of a national forest. This would be an illegal mining operation to say the least. I would only need a few thousand to get about a million dollars worth of the gold though, and I have it. I never went after the gold when I was younger because the chances of death from a cave in or fall down a mineshaft are pretty high. Now that I'm getting older I'm thinking about it more because I don't have a wife and kids, all my family is dead except my brother, and I need some money to retire by my 60's. What do you guys think? Here's a video of another old mine on the other side of the mountains and this is pretty much what I'll be dealing with, but even more sketchy looking and dangerous 🧐👉💰👉 🤑👉🤡👉🏔️👉☠️

[rigmarole]

Knowledge on mining is pretty widely available. Go watch some Jeff Williams videos if you need some place to start...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1cG62M_i2xQ

[Staximus]

@rigmarole dude that's hobby mining, there's like only a few feet of dirt and rocks above his head. He's using framing fir 2x4's, 2x6's, 4x4's, 4x6's. I'm talking about having a whole mountain above your head and having to use stuff like 12x12 beams

[rigmarole]

He mentions that in the video. The principles are the same though for mining in hard rock mines, just larger lumber if you use wood. If you don't want to use wood then you step up to steel sets or hydraulic props for the same tasks and go to steel mesh and/or sprayed shortcrete. You can also use rock bolts if you have a deeper understanding of the geology of the mine. That said if you don't reinforce where you are working, your chances of death are far greater than 50%... The bigger the hole you make, the more force on that ceiling above you. Whatever you take out removes the supporting base. Thus you need to add supports as you go.

[Staximus]

Yeah you can't those expansion pins or bolts, it's not hard enough rock. Shot crete is not strong enough. It will have to be I beams and expanded steel gratings There's no way to get all that shit back there with a truck, there's no road to the mine. Plus this is an extensive multiple level mine, all that stuff is going hundreds of feet into the mountain. If I ever go in, it will have to be entering the mine in "as is" condition unless I hire a mule train or helicopter to haul the equipment

[rigmarole]

It's in the woods as you say... So logically use what is around you... Wood... Materials are already on the site. You just need chainsaws and fuel.

[Staximus]

I'll have to do it in the middle of the night so the hikers don't call the forest service in to arrest me hahaha

[rigmarole]

Maybe use electric chainsaws to cut down on the noise...

[menina]

I wouldn't risk my life. If I got the gold and then died, what would be the point of going there?

I mean, I understand why you're considering going there now but I think your life is more valuable than gold.

[Imsmurter1]

That doesn't sound like 50% chance so maybe. If it's actually 50% chance like a bomb beneath one of two buttons then no.

[Unit1]

Yeah. I am tired and bored of being broke and not doing anything fun because of being broke, so might as well go for it.

[Anonymous]

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/SSST23SGp04

[exitseven]

Yes, I have cheated death for a lot less.