IMC GLOBAL POTASH MINE AND REFINERY AT CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO 1950s MOVIE 87004
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.พ. 2016
- UP FROM THE BED OF A DESERT SEA tells the story of the New Mexico based potash mine run by the International Mineral and Chemical Corporation of Carlsbad (now known as IMC Global). Released in 1952 or 53, the film is a fascinating portrait of mining in the post-WWII era. Potash is any of various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. The name derives from pot ash, which refers to plant ashes soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing the product before the industrial era. The word potassium is derived from potash. In addition to its use as a fertilizer, potassium chloride is important in many industrialized economies, where it is used in aluminium recycling, by the chloralkali industry to produce potassium hydroxide, in metal electroplating, oil-well drilling fluid, snow and ice melting, steel heat-treating, in medicine as a treatment for hypokalemia, and water softening. Potassium hydroxide is used for industrial water treatment and is the precursor of potassium carbonate, several forms of potassium phosphate, many other potassic chemicals, and soap manufacturing. Potassium carbonate is used to produce animal feed supplements, cement, fire extinguishers, food products, photographic chemicals, and textiles. It is also used in brewing beer, pharmaceutical preparations, and as a catalyst for synthetic rubber manufacturing. These non-fertilizer uses have accounted for about 15% of annual potash consumption in the United States.
Potash is produced worldwide at amounts exceeding 30 million tonnes per year, mostly for use in fertilizers. Various types of fertilizer-potash thus constitute the single largest global industrial use of the element potassium. Potassium was first derived by electrolysis of caustic potash (aka potassium hydroxide), in 1808.
The International Minerals & Chemical Corporation was incorporated in June 1909 as International Agricultural Corporation. It initially owned a number of fertilizer manufacturing plants in Tennessee, all of the capital stock of the Kaliwerke Sollstedt Gewerkschaft Potash Mines in Germany, large deposits of phosphate rock in Tennessee, and all of the capital stock in the Prairie Pebble Phosphate Company in Florida. It added manufacturing plants in Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee within the first few years.
In April 1942 the company merged with United Potash & Chemical Corporation, a subsidiary engaged in the mining and refining of potash salt as well as the production of potassium chloride, potassium sulphate (both fertilizer ingredients), and magnesium chloride, the base for making magnesium metal.
The period during World War II was good for International Minerals, as competing imports from Germany were suspended. The company continued to perform well in the postwar period. In 1947, reflecting record demand for fertilizer, International Minerals reported the best year ever with sales over $50 million, up from $41.3 million the year prior. To take advantage of the heavy demand, the company embarked on a $21 million program to expand production, including new plants such as one in San Jose, California, to make monosodium glutamate, a seasoning agent.
The company continued to achieve new records for sales and earnings during the 1950s and 1960s. Sales were $93.6 million in 1954; ten years later, in 1964, sales were $225.7 million.
International Minerals began acquiring other companies in the mid-1960s. In December 1966 it acquired the manufacturing assets of E.J. Lavino & Company, makers of refractories for the steel industry. In 1968 it added both Chemicals, Inc., of Bartow, Florida, and Continental Ore Corporation of New York. These acquisitions helped lift sales from $299.3 million in 1966 to $501.8 million only two years later.
International Minerals & Chemical Corporation had become a leading producer of mineral and chemical products for industry and agriculture by 1975. It had operations in thirty-five states, as well as in Canada and fifteen other foreign countries.
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My dad worked underground running undercutter and later was a painter above ground from early 40's to the 60's his partner and his him had a picture of them running a undercutter in the reception area of the main office. I saw it once. I wish I could find a copy of it. He did take a break to serve on the USS San Jacinto aircraft carrier Pacific theater WWII. He told me alot of stories. I always enjoyed them. Sad to hear the mine is closed I was going to call them and possibly find a picture of the mural. Thanks for a great video.
The mine isn't closed. Ran by Mosaic now. Lots of old pictures in the office. Bet if you contact them they may still have that picture.
I worked at PCA from 1959 thru 1969 - best job I ever had except when I owned my own hearing aid business from 1970 to present
Haha, from the mine to hearing aids
Huh?
Potash is an important farm fertilizer. Now I understand why it is so expensive. This program is very informative.
Oh neat , Periscope film about potash mining...I'll just watch a few minutes. 32 minutes later....Wow, I know how to run a potash mining and refining operation now.
Basically 95% the same as the Strataca Salt Mine we toured in Hutchinson, Kansas. The mining process anyway. The mine is over 700 feet deep down in a salt bed laid down 350 million years ago. Same undercutting, drilling, blasting, loaders, everything. Only they bring up the busted up salt, for industrial purposes, cattle salt, and the majority of it goes for salting roads in the winter to melt off ice and snow. Table salt is largely produced by hot brine wells drilled into formations under another area about 60 miles away IIRC.
The Strataca tour is really cool... highly recommend it! We went to Hutchinson to tour the Kansas Cosmosphere, which is a space museum with lots of interesting stuff... Strataca is just south of town. At the end of the tour we got to take a chunk of salt back up with us. I got a boulder bigger than a man's head-- they said fine so long as I could carry it! LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
There is no moment in this video that can be skipped. Unlike home made video of various kinds on youtube, where people talk too much.
I worked here for 4 years when it became mosaic
Informative video. Always interesting how they blithely ignored what they did with the waste - just dump it on the ground in some pit.
Last 2 minutes are awesome! Love the pro-America speech on how this business is part of the community.
yea!...made me kinda sad though..
@@jonusjonus9271 Yup, me too. Good times back then, not the same anymore
IMC Global recently merged with the fertilizer business of Cargill Incorporated to become The Mosaic Company.
Figures... Big agribiz tightening its grip on the farmers... squeeze them for every penny, then use that to tighten their grip even further by buying out their suppliers... Why farmers are perpetually on the brink of going broke. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Yup its going to get bad since car gill owns all the food already.
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This mine has been demolished all that is left are the head frames water tower and concrete monoliths it can be located at the eastern terminus of New Mexico Currycombo Road 235
+kcebolpj Thanks, we were wondering what happened and if it was still in operation.
Don't want to be picky but it's Curry Comb Road.
How sad. I wonder what was buried there.
Not sure what you mean man. I worked at this very mine, now known as mosaic. Iv been in these old works and everything has expanded. We no longer blast but use continuous miners and electric or deisal ramcars
@@laythememes9425 potash we know it's important. And it's and the foreign mines are probably going to be shut down because they're in Russia. And we aren't doing business with.
I think it's time to expand.
Nice
Man they were swell jobs
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No face filter masks, nor eye protection.
OSHA would eat their lunch.
I noticed a lack of diversity in this mine.
Quit your whining.
And if it was, you would complain they were being abused.
Usual WOOZLE 'prehistoric ocean millions of years ago'!
Rubbish the entire layers of potash were laid down during The Flood 4,350 years ago!
Narrated by Fred McMurray?
Lol
No narrated by god.
Yes, in the religion of evolution, their "holy spirit" is _time._ When something in their religion makes no sense, they have to add millions or billions of years. Something unknown to anyone.
@@coloradostrong That's right... That's their go-to: "Vast amounts of time will bamboozle them and silence them while they obediently nod their heads and agree with our 'impressive-sounding' theory. If you believe the biblical account of the global flood then it produces the 'problem' of having to acknowledge God and give an account of your life; what you do in both public and in secret.
Hey, Rose. Look up "dendrochronology". There's an unbroken record of tree ring data that goes back 14,000 years. Don't just dispute this without actually looking it up. If you think it's false, tell why it is.