" A STORY OF COPPER " 1950s BUREAU OF MINES COPPER FILM PHELPS-DODGE CO. MORENCI ARIZONA XD59904
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This film "A Story of Copper" was produced by the Bureau of Mines in 1951, and informs viewers about the copper production process. It starts with the two different types of mining: surface strip mining and underground tunneling. These are explored in detail including the equipment needed and great footage of dynamite being placed. This is followed by the copper refining process, which includes a lot of grinding, sorting, purifying, and melting to achieve the purity needed for copper. This includes detailed footage of the equipment and the furnaces needed.
0:08 Department of the Interior: Bureau of Mines Logo, 0:15 Title “A Story of Copper”, 0:45 a short text on what is covered in the film, 1:25 overview of a valley and a large copper in the Morenci District, Arizona, 2:46 an excavator loading waste into a truck which it then dumps, 3:05 overview of copper carrying trains, 3:33 New tracks being laid to facilitate ore production, 4:10 mechanics sharpening drill bits, 4:24 blast holes being drilled by churn drills and men preparing dynamite to be put into holes, 6:23 man waves flag as warning signal for everyone to leave, 6:51 man presses detonator and ground explodes, 7:24 excavator loading ore into train and train carries it off, 8:13 overview of the concentrator and smelter, 8:57 ore is dumped from train into a series of crushers, 9:50 ball mills grind down further, 10:31 classifiers further sort the ore with water, 11:29 flotation machines further separating ores, 11:55 massive thickening tanks with ore waste emptying into the canyon, 12:55 “useful” dry ore concentrate dropping off, 13:31 a huge pile of concentrate with a machine slowly chipping away to ensure a steady flow to the furnace, 14:11 inside of the smelter, 14:22 waste “slag” being siphoned off and dumped, 14:41 copper matte siphoned from the furnace and poured into a converter, 15:46 converter empties out blister copper and is transferred to another furnace, 16:22 tree poles being thrown into the smelter to strengthen copper, 17:09 anode copper being poured into forms, cooled down, and chipped into shape by employees, 17:35 overview of Bisbee, Arizona and the copper mine there, 18:19 employees getting onto the elevator to take them into the mines, 19:02 mine carts driving in a dark mine, 20:25 Miner building the supports needed for a new tunnel, 20:57 miners using a machine to create blast holes for a new tunnel, 21:55 miners prepare dynamite sticks and put them in the holes, 22:58 mechanical loader removing debris post blast, 23:20 miners removing parts of the roof to allow for ore scrapping, 24:45 mine carts being filled with ores and driven to be dumped at a transfer point, 25:36 ore is hoisted to the surface in elevator and dumped into railway carts, 26:20 overview of a copper refinery in El Paso, Texas, 26:47 overview of electrolytic baths for copper anodes for purification with large cranes loading anodes in the bath, 28:04 employees preparing cathode starting sheets which are then suspended in the baths, 28:47 Cathodes lifted out of bath, 29:18 Scientists inspecting samples in a laboratory, 29:55 some copper cathodes are cut into shape by employees, 30:12 some Cathodes are being melted in a furnace, 30:39 tree trunks put into furnace to ensure purity, 31:00 refined copper poured into molds, 31:52 employees inspect copper and then stack it, 32:10 copper is loaded into rail cars for transportation, 32:23 different applications of copper such as women working in a telephone operator office, children singing in a radio recording studio, US navy ships driving in a row, train driving, DC-3 flying, the Liberty bell, and the statue of liberty, 33:56 title “The End”
The Morenci Mine is a large copper mine located near Morenci, Arizona, United States. Morenci represents one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world, having estimated reserves of 3.2 billion tonnes of ore grading 0.16% copper. It is located in Greenlee County, just outside the company town of Morenci and the town of Clifton. Freeport-McMoRan is now the principal owner and, since 2016, Sumitomo Group has owned a 13% interest in the mine.
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I live in Swansea, Wales, where almost half of the world copper was smelted during the 19th century. The copper came from Chilli, carried on sailing ships around Cape Horn. During this period it was known a "Copperopolis". The smelting operation created the largest industrially contaminated area in Europe (it looked like the surface of the moon) which was cleared in the 1970's and reused for commercial, recreational and housing. A very interesting look at the work that went into the mining of copper ore. Thanks for another interesting video.
I’ve worked in the acid units at several copper mines. Those are amazing places. I love copper.
I grew up in Morenci and saw quite a bit of this first hand. The smelter eventually expanded to two smokestacks. Unfortunately, a lot of this type of mining is not environmentally friendly. The stream that ran by our high school had toxic waste in it. The air was unbreathable at times because of the sulfur smoke.
I worked in the copper industry for 30 years as a maintenance mechanic,in all phases in the production of copper,for magma, Bhp copper company in san manuel az and asarco in hayden az
Hi, please get me a job with your link 🙏🏼. I am a graduate of Industrial Chemistry in a university of technology.
@@vanyboy6301 sorry I'm retired 7 years now.
Oh great sir, do you face any health issues currently as a result of working in the mining sector for 30 years?
@@vanyboy6301 just a little hearing loss, from all the machines. But I'm 72 also.
@@terrenceprzybylski3226 okay stand strong boss !
I absolutely enjoy almost everyone of the videos you put out. I also enjoy looking up where these places are now and see what shape they are in. THANK YOU for posting all of these great videos.
Love the upbeat ending.
Grew up in Morenci. Never worked a day of my life the mine. Now I know why, it was too damn hard!
Long ago before freeways we would go through Miami-Globe getting home from Texas. Every now and then the mine would be dumping slag off the side of slag mountains. Very cool to watch!
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Interesting that casting wheel of old times used to cast bars instead of anode plates
Use to load up at Morenci. Took it to Connecticut usually. Phelps Dodge.
Here in Arizona, the Resolution will be the largest copper mine in America. Only if the price of copper stabilizes.
Let’s play the “Jolly Coppersmith” as this video plays!
Copper is proper.
Oh yes I eat copper and shove it up my rear several times a day and I like bathing in molten copper even in the summer
wow electric shovel and trains! no diesel haul trucks in sight.
Are these mines and smelters still in use today?
Yes. They’re all over Arizona.
Morenci AZ still is. Many other mines in AZ and NM still going. Mostly open pit.
Good! Like this! Gives jobs and secure that this not an imported resource.
@@j.b.4340 No - you cant smelt copper anymore because too many people were trying to eat it so you better not be saying they still do because that means they are still trying to eat it and then they would have to stop smelting it so you better not be
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Ea-Nasir would like a word
Do not listen to Ea-Nasir. He treated my servant poorly and tried to sell me inferior copper.
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Title is, “A Story of Copper”.
I wonder what 30 tons of air looks like?🤔
China, India and Russia build a coal fired power plant 1 a month, American power plants and copper smelters have modern pollution controls, that cost the company millions of dollars. China, Russia India has no pollution controls, because there is no EPA over there, like in America
One pound of air takes up 13.33 cubic feet at sea level and 70 degrees F. I am currently in a room that measures 10 by 10 by 9 feet high. So the room contains 900 cubic feet of air. The 900 cubic feet divided by 13.33 cubic feet per pound means the room contains 67.5 pounds of air. Imagine what a great volume of air is required to collect 30 tons of air?
@@normchristopherson5799 you not full of hot air.
@@normchristopherson5799 Good example. I worked in a 5000 foot deep underground gold mine in Yellowknife, Canada beside the air intake shaft. At the 135 foot level the heavy plank door leading to the air shaft was impossible to open inwards unless the smaller door on it was opened first to let the pressure off it. We opened this larger door to blow the smoke out of our work place. It happened instantly. One had to be very careful not to be in the door jam when closing that door again as it closed with a mighty slam.
At the 700 foot level in that tunnel between the air doors being used as part of the air path to the bottom of the mine, one had to lean into the wind if walking that direction. Cloths flapped in the wind.
On the surface at the head of the air shaft there were two huge, towering, cast iron, propane gas burners, mounted on edge, one on each side of the shaft that were lit to pre-heat winter air to above freezing. That air temp could have been as low as 40 - 50 below F. Injected sub zero air for months at a time would, of course have frozen everything in its wake, waterlines, gas lines, the ground, ore, etc..
The volumes of air being injected into that mine were immense. Thanks for providing a mental picture of the concept of just how much air that might have been.
@@terrenceprzybylski3226. At the time Obummer was president China was putting a coal fired power plant on line one everyday.
For eight years. It slowed down but still at it. That’s why it was such a big deal when Australia stopped shipping. I mean load ships outside Chinese ports were stopped.
that's a lot of caapir
I wonder when we’ll just flatten the earth? We need to get to Mars.
Yeah, they send it to the u.s. mint and they put the impurities back in.
Back in the old days, half cents and cents were made out of pure copper, but by adding a small amount of tin and zinc, they got a much longer-wearing alloy.
Pure copper is still found in the middle of the "sandwich" construction of dimes, quarters, and half dollars.
Cashless society means no coins, no need for the Mint.
No, they send it to China.
Fact
Well...People at the time had to use the knowledge and technology they had at the time BUT today this whole precess would be considered way too poluting. I know we have to mine for minerals BUT we also have to protect the environment...after all we are part of the environment also. So protecting the environment..ie the land, water and air, we are also protecting ourselves.
Get a life you loser
50's. Looks more like 1938-1941.
Periscope Films continues its annoying time stamp right in the middle of the screen. Total distraction and a big "minus" to the viewing experience.
I used to have OCD too. It's difficult to overcome.
@@slow-mo_moonbuggy Good response... Out of it, I got a kick!
Ask them for a copy without the stamp. It's basically there to keep people from stealing the videos.
Oh give it a rest! I feel lucky I got to see such an old video timestamp or not.
@@exponentialnegative1 First of all, you can mark videos with watermarks that are not visible, and if you need a visible mark, you can also choose a smaller logo in the upper corner of the video. TV stations do it that way too, or at least place the marker at the bottom and not almost in the middle.
Your videos aren't that good that I have to watch all these commercials before I get to watch it.