0:00 The Widowmaker mine beneath Delamar
2:09 How Delamar became a gold town
4:33 Rails, ore chutes, and the industrial mine
10:11 Descending through failing timber and shafts
11:57 Silica dust and the cost of the gold
14:15 Lost sections and artifacts underground
20:24 The mine closes and access disappears
22:33 What Delamar’s ruins reveal

I descend into Delamar, Nevada, a ghost town built above a 16-level gold mine known as the Widowmaker. Along the way, I explore the ruined town, the cemetery, and the industrial system that once carried ore through the mountain.

I follow Joanne Lightheart’s expeditions through ore chutes, rails, shafts, ladders, square-set timbering, and dangerous collapsed workings. The mine’s abandoned tools, ore cars, powder boxes, and other artifacts reveal how miners lived and worked underground.

I also examine the silica dust that made Delamar infamous, the human cost of its gold, the discovery of lost sections, and the modern closures that may make parts of the mine unreachable forever.