THE MAGIC OF SULFUR MINING, REFINING, PROCESSING & USE OF SULFUR 65534
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- The educational film, The Magic of Sulphur, is a color film describing how sulfur is found and some of its uses. The film was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines of the United States Department of Interior which existed between 1910 and 1996. It was produced in cooperation with Texas Gulf Inc. in an unknown year, but probably in the 1950’s.
Sulfur pools (0:29-0:46). A burning campfire with a witch doctor dancing around it (0:47-1:03). Ancient Egyptian doctor using sulfur as medicine (1:12-1:21). Burning sulfur pots used as weapons by the Romans (1:22-1:38). In the Dark Ages, Alchemist used bellows to flame up the fire as they attempted to use base metals and turn it to gold (1:39-1:57). The Chinese began to use sulphur, a nitrate, and charcoal as gunpowder (1:58-2:17). The industrial revolution began a need for sulfur (2:24-2:49). Raw sulfur rock (3:53-4:00). How sulfur is mined out of salt domes using the Frasch process which existed between 1895 and 1970 in the U.S. (4:25-5:24). Aerial view of the drilling towers (5:34-5:46). Close-up of the drilling in action and equipment used (5:47-6:47). Core samples of sulfur rock (6:48-6:58). Heated pipe line leading to the collecting station (7:32-7:56). Molten sulfur (7:58-8:33). Measuring tanks (8:35-8:46). Directional drilling illustration (9:23-9:37). Water reservoir (10:01-10:15). Steam, hot water and compressed air are needed to drill sulfur rock (10:33-10:51). Boilers create the steam needed (11:12-11:15). Compressors (11:24-11:29). Water pumps (11:30-11:35). Illustration of how electricity is used to heat the water (11:43-12:28). Bleed wells (12:47-12:57). Bleed water treatment plant (13:07-13:17). Illustration of how hydrogen sulfide is made into molten sulfur (13:40-15:10). Barges transporting molten sulfur (15:40-15:58). Ocean going barges/tankers (15:59-16:28). Solidified storage vats for sulfur (16:30-17:55). Shipping solidified sulfur: bulldozer tractors push the sulfur over the edge of the vat (17:56-18:05). Clam shell bucket crane (18:12-18:34). Railroad hopper cars (19:00-19:17). Chemical transformation of some sulfurs (20:52-21:28).
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I saw this film at my lowest, it saved my life, thank you sulfur
Of the pants, the skidmark
@@dziban303 You're telling on yourself🤭
Lol what?
You're welcome ----Sulfer
Ya boy sulphur here got your back bro
In this anxiety and depression wrought December, this film about sulphur is exactly the boost I needed.
A truly heartwarming film of recovering a lost element. Hope recovered and the blossoming of new things. Thanks to the Magic of Sulfur. Coming up next on the Lifetime Channel. Sponsored by Hallmark Cards.
I now have hope.
One of the most comprehensive films on sulphur I've seen in weeks. Thank you.
Most comprehensive I've seen in the last 24 hours.
@@johnnomikos7272 Now for bismuth.
Must watch for every true sulfur fan.
LOL
@supreme wizard How are there all these sulphur fans but no videos of the great sulphur pyramids 😡
And Billy wants to grow up to be a sulfur worker just like his dad.
While drinking dark beer, with hotdogs with kraut and pickled eggs.
@@TheDustysix I see you like to produce a little sulfur of your own while watching, good man that.
I can still hear the calming comforting classroom projector running.
The old Bell and Howell!!
Ran by Mrs. Kribb.
The fact they actually got the chemistry right with Sulfurous vs Sulfuric acid at the end made me smile.
It was *always* right with these videos.
Film was expensive. They didn't waste it on dumb shit. So you wouldn't find all the misinformation you see today.
@@MadScientist267 ever hear of birth of a nation? white wilderness? propaganda films? misinfo wasnt invented online
@@FirstLast-em5uz Totally different concept. A little common sense goes a long way.
Oh right...
@@FirstLast-em5uz Birth of a Nation was a cinematic masterpiece and 100% correct tho.
Sulfur is crucial to the pyrotechnic arts so I’m a fan!
Nothing better than the smell of molten sulfur in the morning!
smells like money
I am not American, nor am I old enough to remember the 1950s, mid 1960s onwards was my rememberable childhood, but even back then things were more simple and watching these newsreels/promo films reminds me of the “advertising shorts” that were shown at the cinema before during and after the Saturday morning kids session, they were not as long as these and were very locally based, sometimes they were better than the main film. Memories revisited after watching these are real and accurate, not the “rose tinted” ones that us older people get accused of when we say things were better and simpler back then, they were, and nobody will sway my thoughts and opinion. Thanks for sharing 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
if you're not American your opinion doesn't matter...so stfu
better for some and much worse for others. You must be the "some" - and you must not care about the "others". Am I right about that?
So back in the day at the theater they would play stuff like this, would many people see it? I wonder if Texas Gulf pays for this or who pays for this film. That's so awesome to know. Thanks
im amazed at how a documentary about sulfur is getting people out of bouts of deppresion
Yes, they no longer sulfur from bouts of melancholy. I think it's great.
not generally a super popular topic, that sulfur, but this is one fascinating video.
I was born and raised in a town named "Port Sulphur, La."
I know this town. Lived in Boothville at the weather station across from the school. Still have family in Buras.
So was I.
Phosphate mining was big industry in south Florida when I was growing up. Now we just have huge tailings ponds from bankrupt mines filled with what looks like beautiful blue crystal waters. They are in fact giant acid pits
As long as a couple of people got filthy rich that's all that matters.
Phosphate ore is very difficult to find in large quantities. There was a whole island stripped of its land (through the greed of the island's government).
One of the main phosphate mines in the Western hemisphere is in Idaho. Soda Springs. Former Monsanto owned this fixed asset and needed products to cover the expenditure associated with owning a very expensive and specialized type of mining that requires dumping of slag to purify the ore.
Essentially glyphosate was the one they came up with, and then they got into glyphosate resistant GMO crops ! It's an all-in-one package for the chemical age of agriculture. I suspect with modern machine learning and unmanned agriculture machinery, there will be the ability to pick weeds without application of costly herbicides.
When the water runs out in states like Nevada on farm land you'll find dairy farm remnants like you find former silver mining ghost towns. The farmers who once owned those properties will have either moved onto other states or retired.
Sulphur saved my life. Got sepsis from a gunshot wound. Antibiotics didn’t work…even “gorillacillin”. I got pumped full of sulphides, like they used in WW1, and lived.
Good to hear!
Unleash the incredible power of sulfur!
6:00 I've worked on drilling rigs .
And as you see this guy here the machine has a tendency to send you to sleep with boredom, noise, vibration, the constant rocking back and forth.
Generally someone's always working alongside you.
I would keep a few small rocks at arms reach ready to throw at the operator to wake him up ..
This seemed to happen to everyone..
Very dangerous if left unchecked..
There's nothing worse than falling asleep and waking up dead.
I could barely keep up with Sulphurs' intense and fast paced ride. I need a Cigarette after that viewing🥰
I literally had this recommended to me by youtube, I'm watching it. I want to learn about the magic of sulphur mining.
i got a tingly feeling when they showed the water going to the lake or river or whatever it was
I am retired analytical chemist. experience of Ferro alloys,
non ferrous metals, glass, ceramic, coal, lignite, minerals, etc. I like this knowledge. THANKS 👍
Love the two color film process.
I LOVE SULPHUR
Such magic, I remember that spell in Dungeons and Dragons
Sulfur is dope
Best way to celebrate chrismas. Time is 12/31/2022 H: 23:30 and i'm watching this video.
They don't make sulfur documentaries like this anymore
Used to be a heavy metal fan but now I’m moving on to sulfur
How strange that they chose a two-color film process that cannot reproduce the bright yellow of the sulfur! That leads me to guess the footage is much older than the 1950s.
It's probably not a two-color film. Yellow tends to be the first color to fade, leaving just cyan and magenta.
20:30 reduce your fractions kids!
Only true sulfur fans will know.
Another story goes about "Los azufreros" the men who climbed the volcan Popocatepétl every day, to bring sulfur from the crater of the volcan.
This job originates to Hernando Cortez, who ordered his soldiers to go up to the summit, because he knew they would find sulfur there. Needed for gun powder.
Cortez knew this, because the most important source of sulfur in the old world was the volcan mount aetna in sicily.
The sulfur found at volcanoes, is formed by the chemical reaction SO2 + 2 H2S >>>> 2 H2O + 3 S.
Kids! We're going to the sulphur mine!
YAAAAAY!
Barabas brand sulfate, good for the eyes.
idunno i like the freedoc sulfur doc more ... but this is pretty decent....cant belive the amount of safety ...
Who is the narrator in this? I enjoy the sound of his voice.
He's dead now.
Do they still have mines like this?
What an amazing complex process.
Not in the us. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_production_in_the_United_States#/media/File:US_Sulfur_Production_1970-2013.png
Fabulous
I take it this is the 2nd to last PF# film? You guys only use 16 bit integers?
You had me at THE MAGIC OF SULFUR
change in subject, was there a name for the background music used in these documentaries and old movies
So genius! Feeling very greatfull for all that brimstone gives us. Praise the one below.😈
It amazes me, on how much effort went in to making such processes. The human mind is awesome. Imagine the balls one must have, to work in such a hazardous field? One spark is all it takes, and they are running equipment, with combustion engines. It is people like this, that made the Western World shine. Thanks for the film.
love how they talk about the sinking land as good cause it helps them mine it better
Can we be nostalgic for times we didn't live through???????
Most certainly!
At the time 3:50 that looks like John Claude Van Damme as a blacksmith back in the day
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as Refining is Fine and Our Friend Zinc"
Lost lots of pot to russet mites years back, never again. Thanks, sulfur!
Makes me wonder why there is any sulfur mining at all when half the oil industry produces mountains and mountains of high purity sulfur tailings just to remove sulfur from the more common sour crude oil especially heavy sour crude oil. It a really expensive energy intensive process to remove sulfur out of sour crude just so it's sellable on the world market. You would think selling some of that high purity sulfur tailings would offset the massive processing costs of processing sour oil. The world market is flooded with sulfur and it's been almost impossible to sell for many decades there is some much of the stuff
It's only a matter of time before someone attempts to create high altitude sulfur dioxide with it to mitigate global warming a la Neal Stephenson's scifi book Termination Shock
Damn, I want some of this sulfer!! 😲😲😲
I was driving in central California farming area. On the corner of an intersection was a large pile of bright sulfur. Is it so affordable to treat that way?
Sulfur is inexpensive and abundant. It's mostly produced now as byproduct of oil and natural gas processing, probably there is oil refinery or maybe big customer somewhere nearby
I was going to self delete because I had nothing to live for ...... until I found sulfur and this movie.
Now we need to use Sulfur to cool the atmosphere with a bit of geoengineering....
Actually, the US government has hired university professors and other experts to study using jets to release molecules containing sulfur into the upper atmosphere as a way to block some sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface to cool it off, like volcanic eruptions do. That is the only hope of human survival, should global warming get out of control as a result of it getting hot enough to release the trillions of tons of methane trapped in permafrost & on the ocean floor. There is more carbon frozen in permafrost than in all other fossil fuels combined. Watch 'Arctic Sinkholes' done by NOVA on PBS to see more about methane. It is on TH-cam for free.
@@billsimpson604 What if they miscalculate and make the Earth too cold?
@@malachiwhite356 That was already studied. Just like after the MT. Pinatubo eruption, the warming will come right back within about a year of ending the spraying from the jets. So the spraying would need to continue until electrification has replaced most fossil fuel combustion. I saw the scientist who ran the study on TV about 5 years ago. She said there would be zero chance of starting an ice age.
@@billsimpson604 I don't know; scientists 50 years ago were predicting global COOLING from the use if fossil fuels--that they would block the sunlight, etcetera.
I had always wondered where super phosphate came from
Does it smell?
Kind of disappointed there's no little animated character called Sulphie.
Looks like the documentary film is contemporary to the film ten commandments. The narrator & sound tracks were similar. This must be made in 1950's
The outdoor harden sulfur, wouldn't a lightning strike ignite it?
I'm definitely with the "ph" crowd. yes I'm american too
Mad Max 2 vibes from the music
Is natural sulfur pink instead of yellow, or is it the film that does not show the true color?
this is true and all, but Zinc is really where it's at.
"Come back, Zinc, come back!"
Who would have thought that's where matches come from
📍I knew it, ..Earth's crust Rock !!!🤘😎🎸🎸🎸
At 9:30 we see "I drink your milkshake."
But how do I get that good stuff back in my diesel??
Alright life of engineering brought us to actually have a better way in mining hope the use of all the chemicals we produce can continue to go in a great direction..
Ive got a screeching bird of that same name !! A Sulphur crested cockatoo !! Aussie Aussie Aussie ,Oi Oi Oi !!!
sulfuric moment
I'm a little Devil, so of course I love Sulfur.
Kind of makes me feel like getting some sulfur.
Do I work in 1950s American sulfur? nope, but I love the straightforward information presented in this era of 'work' video. Background noise for days, plus, when the zombie apocalypse starts... I'll be 0.01% more prepared for it.
13:20 that water is good to go, I tell ya!
Ancient Egypt, "Salve ?? Salve ?? Who told you to put on a salve ?? I didn't tell you to put on a salve." That was a story from a ancient Egyptian lawyer.
Sulfur is still used in some skincare medicines, but usually only with doctor's prescription. I'm just surprised we kept on doing it.
5:12 how in the world, he came whit that idea....its seen to me, very advance by the time, this brougth light about the no so new fraking metods....
mankind back then finding and processing sulphur.
people nowadays: how to grow tiktok account.
From the makers of "A World without Zinc!"
we all love open air dispersion of chemicals
all jokes asside, thank you and god bless you for saving these - its possible if we end up in war with russia/china that these will be available for 'whos' left.
I just can't get past the fact that there's no Joel and the bots in the corner.
And don't forget : duck and cover !
Looks like the surface of Io, the Jovian moon.
I wonder how bad a fart smells in a sulfur bagged storage facility? I need to know!
I can smell it
Mushrooms and fungi are aligned in their hatred of this video and its fans
It’s sulphuric in my book.
Why did they always have the bizarre music in this era of documentary?
Isnt sulphur dangerous to breath in? I think i read something like it desolves the bones in your chin? To long ago i dont realy remember it.
Phossy jaw
Welcome fellow enthusiasts
160 Celsius
Very interesting.
Neat
This is one of the better sulfur docs ive seen.
Coming from a family of sulfur doc lovers, I agree.
What is the best sulphur doc of all time?
@@JrIcify Sulfur on sulfur.... "The Sulfur Years"
This is almost as wonderful as the magic of zinc
Wait til you kids get a load of the magic of antimony!
Thanks @PeriscopeFilm for making this available!
I used to work in a petrochemical unit that processed natural gas into Methanol, and one of the chemicals known to ruin our catalysts was Sulfur Dioxide(SO2), so the natural gas was passed over a catalyst bed to convert the SO2 into H2S and then ZnSO4, where it was trapped. This is one of the ways natural gas is sweetened nowadays. We leased our catalysts from a supplier, so once the catalyst was consumed, it was sent back to them where they likely converted the ZnSO4 to elemental Sulfur for sale, so full circle!
In college we also learned about the newer sulfur-recapture amines available. The MEA at 14:24 has largely been replaced by MDEA and other more-effective amines, due to its longer lifespan at elevated temperatures. Of course, solid catalysts and water scrubbers are also still very common.
Leasing catalysts. That's an interesting conceptual difference between making money on recycling and saying the product is never really owned by anyone other than the people who processed sulfur in the first place
@@onemoreguyonline7878 You're right, it's like the whole issue with plastic production. The big difference though is that Sulfur is valuable as a feedstock for other products, so it makes economic sense to recover it. Unfortunately, it's more costly to recover plastics post-consumer, so usually nobody wants to handle them.
@@zachalexander963 it really isn't terribly expensive if it's crowd-sourced. The biggest hurdle is redeployment of consumer products.
Have you heard of recyclebot? It's an open-source project trying oh-so-wonderfully to get its feet off the ground. It will recycle a great number of plastics directly extruded onto a filament roll for reuse in 3d printing.
You're right though. I try to buy glass, ceramic, and wood/wood pulp where I can. The sad part is, we are fracking for petroleum, or we're fracking for sulfur. What a conundrum.
@@onemoreguyonline7878 ^”trying oh so wonderfully”?🤔🤔🧐🤷♂️🤷♂️🤡🤡🤡
If oil and gas refining wasn't stinky enough just add lots of sulphur processing.
I worked at a mine for 15 years that was 1 of the highest Sulphur deposits anywhere. All our blasts that we in ore had to be done from surface because it would cause secondary Sulphur explosions. That is where the dust on the walls gets shaken off the walls by the blast, and then the heat of the blast ignites the dust and it explodes. We would end up with Sulphur Dioxide and sometime Hydrogen Sulphide everywhere thru the mine. It would make going underground impossible. Sulphur gas is beyond nasty. It's also water soluble.
Doesn't it turn to sulphuric acid in your lungs/eyes/other wet surfaces? That is indeed nasty.
@@MrAntiKnowledge - In high enough concentrations it will cause you to drown in your own mucus. That's just as bad as it sounds.
sounds highly dangerous
I spent 40 years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo.
@@gastonbell108 do you feel like you wasted 40 years of your life?
Like how they actually explain it unlike today where it's all just bs 🤣
Here is my take on Sulphur. As a 12 year old boy, I was fortunate to go to Italy with my Grandparents. My Grandfathers home town was Naples and one day while on a drive on the Amalfi coast we were blasted with the rotten egg smell of sulphur. Thats when my Grandfather told me that when marble is underground and it is mined, sulphur is a by product. Flash forward to a few years ago I took up sculpting and when my hobby brought me a chunk of statuario marble, as soon as my chisel removed the outer layer of the stone, that familiar smell of rotten eggs assaulted my nostrils. Lets see if mr old school announcer man tells you this.
Sulphur eats train cars like nothing. I've seen interiors of tankers damaged so bad they require dismantle per rule 90 before their 40 year lifespan. A 3070 liner aids in the protection of bare metal surfaces for tank cars.
Amazing documentary, thank you!
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Did you work at Pennzoil Sulpher, Culberson County, TX? They did all their railcar maintenance on-site.
@@rsemrad2 No I work at a refab plant on the east coast. Generally when a tanker car is so badly damaged that it costs more than it's worth to repair and re-line. The tanker car is totalled out and scraped per customer decision. Not to mention that the vast majority of sulphur tank cars use a Hempel 15500 2 coat liner which is literally the worst liner I've worked with. The corrosion resistance is awful and chipping/ peeling of the liner starts well before the 4-5 year lifespan.
I was honestly wondering about that, all those machines rolling around in sulphur...
@@mfbfreak Yeah Sulphur hates bare steel.
These old graphics explains better then today's graphics ... 😆 Seriously
This video got me through another Thanksgiving.
I didn't plan ahead and found my supply of self striking matches had completely run out. Due to the holiday, I could not find any suppliers that were open.
A few minutes into this video I could almost smell the rotting egg like odor I desperately craved. It's not a replacement but it will get me through until the stores open back up and I can buy more matches.
If you're smelling "rotting egg" from "matches", then they aren't matches 🤣
Before WD-45
THERE WAS
SULFUR 😁
A similar process to fracking
Not really... fracking involves pumping a mixture of water, sand, and acid down a well into a very "tight" formation (with pore spaces too small to allow the easy flow of oil or natural gas, such a shales, which can contain enormous quantities of gas or oil within the solid rock, but the particles the rock is made from and those pore spaces are SO tiny that they do not allow the oil or gas to flow through them towards the borehole for economic production of oil or gas in quantity). By pumping this mixture of water, acid, and sand down into the formation at EXTREMELY high pressures (produced by enormous engine driven pumps on the surface, usually several hundred thousand PSI, the rock is "fractured" (fracked) and cracked, the cracks running outward from the borehole into the surrounding rock, and the acid helps eat holes in the rock to expand the passageways. Sand in the mixture settles into the cracks and as the pressure is removed, wedges in place and holds the cracks open, creating a passage for gas and oil to flow out of the surrounding rocks into the cracks, through them, and ultimately flow back to the bore hole and up the well in quantity. Fracking has been around a very long time-- it was first developed in the 40's, but it was uneconomical to do until more recent times due to the low prices of oil and gas. "Tight" formations of oil and gas bearing shales have also been known for a long time, but were uneconomical to produce because the oil or gas couldn't flow through the rock efficiently to the bore hole.
Interestingly enough, in the 1960's under the Atomic Energy Commission's "Project Plowshare" program, several nuclear devices were detonated in tight formations of gas bearing shales in the four corners area near Rifle, Colorado and near Shiprock, New Mexico. These experiments were designed to see if a nuclear explosive device could blast a cavity and fracture the surrounding hard shale sufficiently to allow for economical production of gas from these tight formations. It worked-- the nuclear explosion vaporized large caves at the bottom of the borehole, into which a new casing could be installed afterwards, and the powerful shock waves fractured rock for some distance out into the formations, creating cracks through which the gas could come out of the rock and then blow through the cracks into the cavity around the borehole, allowing the well to produce efficiently... however it was discovered that the gas became too radioactive to distribute commercially, as it flowed through the highly irradiated rocks contaminated with the various radioactive isotopes created by the explosions. The wells were tested then capped and the idea abandoned.
The sulfur mining method shown here is more similar to how old oilfields are "stimulated" by injecting salt water produced naturally by the wells along with the oil or gas, and injecting it back into the formation at some distance from the production well bore, so that it displaces dissolved gas or oil in the formation by taking its pore space in the rock, and forcing the oil or gas thus displaced towards the bore hole, which is usually at a higher elevation in the formation. This eliminates the salt water disposal problem of how to get rid of the brine AND increases production at the wells at the same time. This is in common use in many oilfields, including those in Saudi Arabia.
Later! OL J R :)