@@absolut7769 Parker is doing absolutely fine for himself. There's a very decent chance (likely in fact) that he makes more than the CEO of this company.
Quite the operation. I spent 30 years there, and was one of the first operators of shovel 344 and 345. Good job on the video and the “regular joe” explanations. 👍🏻
@mattk7865 I'm in the NV desert now. It sucks. It's already triple digit temps in May. Everything is dusty. When its windy you feel as if you're in a convection oven. There is almost no weather, but it can be catastrophic when it rains. And there's not enough greenery around (but it is a desert after all) People in Vegas really suck for the most part, but you'll also find some of the best people on earth there. Overall I'd rate the NV desert (outside of the cities) an 8/10 solely for the good people, but otherwise sucks
it's also an economy of scale thing. the bigger the truck the bigger the volume of PAY-load, per trip, overall cost of ton miles drops. it also takes decades to get to an operation of this scale. to _start_ a mine at this scale is monsterously expensive and takes years of coordination, because even the equipment suppliers do not carry inventory for example. Those big haul trucks are fairly generic, but an operator can't just call up and order 10-20 units and expect rapid delivery. A multimillion dollar shop needs to be built to even finish delivery assembly.
Dude, mining is one of the most profitable businesses out there. Yeah, it's very expensive on big scale but still insanely profitable.Mine doesn't close bcs it's not profitable, it becomes not profitable when there is nothing to dig anymore.
@@seldoon_nemarNah, not really. Things like gold, platinum or amber can be dug with simple pump and washer facility with cost in range of 50k$ and be pretty much profitable.
@squibbelsmcjohnsonfound long ago ?? Buddy. We’ve only been mining with technology for 40 years. Mining with machinery for 100 years. We’ve barely scratched the surface
There is 6 parts of gold to every trillion parts of sea water. Finding an environmentally safe and economical slight magnetism for gold, then on a big ship troll the seas of the world magnetically attracting gold out of the sea water.
Dec 2017 I had the opportunity to haul the boom pivot base, (63,000 lbs, 9' 6" wide x 13' long x 9' tall) for a Rope Shovel to Round Mountain NV. The Bucket weigh was in excess of 100,000lbs. The bottom door was 13'+ wide x ~20' long x ~2' tall at 35,000 lbs. It took the Cat Team 46 days to assemble the entire project😊 What an experience.😊😊
Welcome to the Silver State! 🤠 This place will make a miner or rockhound out of you before you realize it... ask me how I know 😂 This was a great episode, nice work!👍
I spent some time in Elko, NV and a lot of mine workers and people who work on the machines for the mine come from back east for six months at a time, and then move back to states like Missouri. Talked to a few of them in a bar one night, most of them are young guys in their 20s and early 30s but some of them are almost 60+ and have been working those hot, dry deserts for decades
After the gold bars get to the point as in this video, 80% gold, is that the end of the road for Kinross, or do they refine the gold further else where? Good video!
Make the waste dumps or heap leach look like pyramids. Something to see from the air. How about making a video of decommissioning a big mine? Does a lot of it get buried in the pit?
This is a great video showing the process with great shots. I remember working at Gold Quarry mine with Newmont in summer 2010. Brings back memories. Mining is big business. Crazy enough money can be made to make this happen.
Been watching for years Aaron,,love the content....spent my entire life in the industry...heavy haul transportation.....Any chance you could turn the music down on your videos?...more to a background level!! Thanks.....Dave
I was at a Nevada gold mine, I found a neat heavy dented ball on the ground and brought it inside and put it on my folding table. I came back to the room being evacuated and my ball being removed. Turns out the used ball mill balls can explode from the stress of heating up and cooling over and over as they crush ore. After a few days I found a neat giant scorpion I put in my beverage container and placed on my folding table. The plant manager said I was like a damn child, just touching and picking up everything. All they told me was stay away from cyanide and shinny yellow rocks. Never said anything about balls and scorpions.
What a massive effort. I wonder if the various extraction methods ever stop/start depending on the price of gold (presumably some of the extraction methods cost more/less per ounce)? Or is the price of gold always high enough for it to be worth running the operation always at full steam ahead of time
Wow... What an amazing process... Glad KINROSS Round Mountain of Utah, allowed you into an amazing mine and how the extremely large process is achieved to create gold bars...
Any idea what the time frame is from the day the mine purchases the CAT Shovel to the time it actually begins operation? How about the time frame involved in assembling the shovel onsite?
I work for cat I have worked on two of the shovels at round mountain but I’ve built some but I don’t know about time from factory to the mine but assembly is about two month give or take a couple weeks
With experienced guys a single shovel assembling is 3months max. I was in the assembling team of the same Bucyrus 495HR2 it took us 3 months and all of us were newbie’s to the shovel we only had 3 experienced guys from 🇨🇱.
Great informative video on the complete process. I use to work at a small gold mine and mill in the early 80's. As a young kid in my 20's i learned so much about all the different phases of mining. From geology to labor to mechanic to mill man to cook, i did a lot of different jobs. Mining gets into your blood, its not just a job but a way of life.
There is a new chemical process to extract gold and other rare earth elements from electronics, we will most likely not be sending our electronics to india to have children burn to extract any longer
XCITING STUFF! you forgot to explain what happens to the gravity recovered gold from the shaking table though, where it ends up and what happens to it. None the less, quite cool learning about all these steps "exciting" the gold!!
Wow! That was cool. Now I can put a visual of the mine with the high grade specimens that I recently saw for sale. Nice job. Just for clarity though, cyanide dissolves the gold. Gold will cling to mercury. I'm a retired assayer and refiner of precious metals. Loved my first pit shot also. Incredible!😊
Miami and Globe Az mining district is cool area , Plus new Resolution mine is close by 8K ft main shaft where block cave deep mine is huge deal . Thx for videos worked mining industry for years back in KY live Az now .
I've never understood how that's even remotely feasible considering the size of the operation and how small the output is in physical form. Heavy machines and cost to build the facility and maintain everything. But then again, 15 000 000 Oz of gold is worth $40 billion in today's price. So it kinda makes sense now.
As a retired welder over 35 years, I've replaced enough Gotdayum steel in rock trucks , 777 , 787 , Dozens from a 350 to a D11 cat , Shanks , teeth on shovels , buckets , hoppers belt lines , trains expert on some 1950 model rail cars, to reach Mars and back 3 times ...lol...
It’d be super cool if you looked at the tailings ponds of some of these mines. I know its not the most glamorous part of gold mining but it’s super cool (to me…I work on a TMA) millions and millions of yards of rock/clay/sand placed super precisely
Is that the elko mine ? I toured the elko mine 30 years ago as part of a harnischfeger p&h group . We were told 1.5 million per day in gold. We took a picture of the whole group of about twelve of us standing in the shovel.
Interesting, I ‘m a geologist with some background in mineral processing engineering. I once got a tour of a much smaller scale, but still profitable, mine in the Flowery lode that parallel to and east of the Comstock under Virginia City. They had just cut into old underground works that dated back to gold rush days. We also saw an old and in the day not so well controlled cyanide mill that looks like desert, but was a Superfund Cleanup site.
You should try and do a video on Stillwater mine in Big timber Montana. Just out of Bozeman, Montana. It’s an underground hard rock mine. Pretty cool place. I worked there for a while!
I ❤ gold .... will it hit 2400, 2500 or more before it stops going up ? Just think that it was just around 1800 not long ago. The money you could make in such a short time if you had it to buy before it started going up. I buy for selling in 10 years or more or if SHTF along with silver. Another great video.
It takes a couple years for people to realize that the federal reserve just invented 7 trillion dollars, and they need to buy gold. Also china is getting ready for war, so that will make them sell dollars and buy gold. Thats why gold is moving. Actually gold is not moving at all. its the dollar that is moving
@@adeptpeasant6161 There's not enough gold in all the reserves in the entire world to match the value of U.S. treasuries. You don't know what you're talking about. Let's say, just for the sake of an interesting thought experiment, that you were right (you're not)... The U.S. reserve owns 8,133.46 tonnes of gold (more than the next 3 countries combined). And IF the dollar is ditched, what happens? Would the spot price of gold need to be artificially recalibrated to over $80,000 per troy ounce to meet parity with the world economy? It makes no sense.
Nice documentary i wonder if the host attended the colorado school of mines? I have seen the open pit gold mine in hermosillo mx My fav documentary is "the largest gold mine in the world (spark)
Cant believe they've mined all that gold but they just leave it in those huge ingots outside the mine gates?! Like don't they need to sell some Must be a very trusting neighbourhood..
The new kid on the block is Ukraine, Ukraine has over 2500 tonnes underground so when the war with Russia is over Ukraine will be hot property it has over 14.5 trillion dollars of minerals resources so it's in the top 12 countries blessed on top and underneath. The gold ore will last 100 years.
I would say water is too dense to extract gold with. It's too wasteful in other words, I know it is the most abundant ressource doesn't mean it's the best to work with. Gold is heavy, and I can see they are fortifying their process by making as many systems as possible. But they can make do with very few systems. And have like near 100% extraction success. But switching to less dense liquids might be very tricky. But if they can save on consumption somehow then it could prove to be worth it. Step 1 they put the paydirt in the rock tumbler, take out the fine particles. And dry it. Then they hit it with less dense liquids like alcohols, and the gold is heavier and it stays behind. The alcohol can be recycled.
Love it...the 1st time I was at round man there was a hill. 2nd time small hill. Now a hole. So e nice spots up the hills and a hot springs. Darrough near by. Loved old mines all my life. Pit mining is efficient but kinsey have the same panache. I was in the granite business. Quarry to finished gravestones. It's more similar to this type of mining. Just blasting was black powder as slower expansion and wouldn't fissure the stone. Family was in the cement business which used ball mills. Quite away from old stamp mills. Round mtn is a very impressive operation. More or less like process in old VC for example but modern and huge.
Im going to adopt that... "It was not my first time, but it was sweet" while pointing the finger directly at them. I call them "greenhorn hunters". You know the type. The subtle pissing contest of who has done more and knows more where they take any opportunity to verbally hint at someone being beneath them in one way or another. At least thats the vibes i always get. It drives me crazy
looking at the path the haul trucks take to get out of the mine how often does that route shift as they change working faces like obviously a mine this big should be using electric dive haul trucks with trolley wires, which ofcourse require overhead wire infrastructure that you dont want to be moving around very often does the haul roads and mine faces change around so much to make long(ish) term infrastructure an issue?
It depends on the mine. The mine I worked at had these for a time but only realized a 6% increase in profitability. The solution was to simply buy bigger trucks.
My grandparents used to own a cabin in Kingston, not too far from the mine. I believe that it was a miner who brought it a few years ago but not positive about that.
this video was really well done and informative! it's impressive to see how much gold Nevada produces. but honestly, i can't help but wonder if the environmental impact of all this mining is being overlooked. should we prioritize economic gain over ecological health? just a thought!
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All of a sudden Parker’s 50k ounces doesn’t seem that much… nice vid as always!
Yea no Parker isnt in the big leagues when it comes to gold mining
Ain't no Alaskan gold mine run by one crew, that's for sure 💀
Watch what they do in Australia
@@absolut7769 Parker is doing absolutely fine for himself. There's a very decent chance (likely in fact) that he makes more than the CEO of this company.
This is actual gold mining, not a soap opera. 🍻🇺🇲
Quite the operation.
I spent 30 years there, and was one of the first operators of shovel 344 and 345. Good job on the video and the “regular joe” explanations. 👍🏻
Amazing!! Thanks for making it happen
How much u make
What was it like living in the Nevada desert for so long?
@@mattk7865 fast women, fast equipment, and fast gold! 💪👍🍻🇺🇲
@mattk7865 I'm in the NV desert now. It sucks. It's already triple digit temps in May. Everything is dusty. When its windy you feel as if you're in a convection oven. There is almost no weather, but it can be catastrophic when it rains. And there's not enough greenery around (but it is a desert after all) People in Vegas really suck for the most part, but you'll also find some of the best people on earth there. Overall I'd rate the NV desert (outside of the cities) an 8/10 solely for the good people, but otherwise sucks
Crazy stuff! The statue of the gold bars at the end is so tiny compared to the enormous mining hole! Geez! So much work. Much respect, Round Mountain!
Thats around 35.6bn worth of gold for anyone wondering
Ah yes but how much are they spending on electricity to produce it, that number is probably halved….
@@joelswfx yeah mining is all about maximizing margins or else the operation is futile
Mmmmmmm cyanide
800,000,000 Million/year approx.
@@Nirotix PAID IN CRYPTO TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS? WATER HEIST 1312
every time I see a mining video I cannot believe it's actually cost effective, but I guess it is or they wouldn''t be doing it
it's also an economy of scale thing. the bigger the truck the bigger the volume of PAY-load, per trip, overall cost of ton miles drops.
it also takes decades to get to an operation of this scale. to _start_ a mine at this scale is monsterously expensive and takes years of coordination, because even the equipment suppliers do not carry inventory for example. Those big haul trucks are fairly generic, but an operator can't just call up and order 10-20 units and expect rapid delivery. A multimillion dollar shop needs to be built to even finish delivery assembly.
The almighty God created starving African children for a reason. God is wise and resourceful.
@@Landstalker1999 Man created poverty
Dude, mining is one of the most profitable businesses out there. Yeah, it's very expensive on big scale but still insanely profitable.Mine doesn't close bcs it's not profitable, it becomes not profitable when there is nothing to dig anymore.
@@seldoon_nemarNah, not really. Things like gold, platinum or amber can be dug with simple pump and washer facility with cost in range of 50k$ and be pretty much profitable.
@5:50 - I am already surprised that they skip the larger of the crushing stages and go right to the ball-milling.
They don’t skip it, they do it at the top of the pit and then that crushed rock goes by conveyor to stockpiles
I'm surprised there is enough micro gold in the leaching fields to warrant that extra operation.
99% of the gold on earth is microscopic
@squibbelsmcjohnsonfound long ago ?? Buddy. We’ve only been mining with technology for 40 years. Mining with machinery for 100 years. We’ve barely scratched the surface
@squibbelsmcjohnson lies you speak
There is 6 parts of gold to every trillion parts of sea water. Finding an environmentally safe and economical slight magnetism for gold, then on a big ship troll the seas of the world magnetically attracting gold out of the sea water.
Gold is not magnetic.
Gold, giant craters, heavy earthmovers. This one mini-doc somehow checked all my boxes. Sold! Subscribed!
oh yeah!!
🎶 "She got the gold mine, I got the shaft"
Dec 2017 I had the opportunity to haul the boom pivot base, (63,000 lbs, 9' 6" wide x 13' long x 9' tall) for a Rope Shovel to Round Mountain NV.
The Bucket weigh was in excess of 100,000lbs.
The bottom door was 13'+ wide x ~20' long x ~2' tall at 35,000 lbs.
It took the Cat Team 46 days to assemble the entire project😊
What an experience.😊😊
that's amazing!!
Welcome to the Silver State! 🤠 This place will make a miner or rockhound out of you before you realize it... ask me how I know 😂 This was a great episode, nice work!👍
I spent some time in Elko, NV and a lot of mine workers and people who work on the machines for the mine come from back east for six months at a time, and then move back to states like Missouri. Talked to a few of them in a bar one night, most of them are young guys in their 20s and early 30s but some of them are almost 60+ and have been working those hot, dry deserts for decades
Thank You Kinross for the tour !
Around 35 Billion in today's price of gold. Great video!
You should have replied: “it was a blast”- obviously…. You get set up for comedy gold (pun intended) and miss out… 😂😂
i was waiting for that! lol
Excellent video! Thanks for making this I’m having a nice little binge on your videos. Top quality production.
I find it interesting how many different processes there are for recovering gold.
Yeah this is one of the most simple!
After the gold bars get to the point as in this video, 80% gold, is that the end of the road for Kinross, or do they refine the gold further else where? Good video!
I don’t know where Kinross refines it’s gold but the mines I worked at shipped it all to a specific refiner in Salt Lake City
Thanks for the inside look. It's always enjoyable to drive through Nevada and enjoy the geology
Over the same period of time the Super Pit in Kalgoorlie Western Australia produced 50 million ounces of Gold
Makes bitcoin mining look good environmentally...
They have to mine the gold for the connections don't they?
How you going to build that super computer 😂
You should see lithium mines…. It makes oil look good environmentally…
Except for the massive amount of electricity and electronics in the form of servers that is needed to keep track of the transactions!
SAVAGE!!
Make the waste dumps or heap leach look like pyramids. Something to see from the air. How about making a video of decommissioning a big mine? Does a lot of it get buried in the pit?
This is a great video showing the process with great shots. I remember working at Gold Quarry mine with Newmont in summer 2010. Brings back memories. Mining is big business. Crazy enough money can be made to make this happen.
Been watching for years Aaron,,love the content....spent my entire life in the industry...heavy haul transportation.....Any chance you could turn the music down on your videos?...more to a background level!! Thanks.....Dave
I was at a Nevada gold mine, I found a neat heavy dented ball on the ground and brought it inside and put it on my folding table. I came back to the room being evacuated and my ball being removed. Turns out the used ball mill balls can explode from the stress of heating up and cooling over and over as they crush ore. After a few days I found a neat giant scorpion I put in my beverage container and placed on my folding table. The plant manager said I was like a damn child, just touching and picking up everything. All they told me was stay away from cyanide and shinny yellow rocks. Never said anything about balls and scorpions.
What a massive effort.
I wonder if the various extraction methods ever stop/start depending on the price of gold (presumably some of the extraction methods cost more/less per ounce)?
Or is the price of gold always high enough for it to be worth running the operation always at full steam ahead of time
Wow... What an amazing process... Glad KINROSS Round Mountain of Utah, allowed you into an amazing mine and how the extremely large process is achieved to create gold bars...
We see what you are constantly thinking about A-Aron, separate the race 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Love the edits bruh.
My mom hauls gold ore out of the mine outside spring creek there in Nevada what will blow your mind is Canada owns all that gold
Any idea what the time frame is from the day the mine purchases the CAT Shovel to the time it actually begins operation? How about the time frame involved in assembling the shovel onsite?
I work for cat I have worked on two of the shovels at round mountain but I’ve built some but I don’t know about time from factory to the mine but assembly is about two month give or take a couple weeks
They’re usually ordered years out. Assembly takes a few months
With experienced guys a single shovel assembling is 3months max. I was in the assembling team of the same Bucyrus 495HR2 it took us 3 months and all of us were newbie’s to the shovel we only had 3 experienced guys from 🇨🇱.
Gotta say; I have no clue how this ended up on my for you page.... but I'm glad it did; this was quite interesting!
What do you need to work here Aaron?
Mshaw ? Explosives permit ? Osha as well ?
You need the new miner MSHA training. To work with explosives you have to take the training and be registered with the BATF with no felony convictions
Very interesting video. Step one….. removing the overburden look forward to your next video
What happens to the byproduct? It’s just sand at that point or is it more complicated than that?
They leave it for future generations to deal with.
Damn they dont leave NONE behind😂
Awesome video!
Didn’t know Trojan made explosives but I guess they were already good with explosions
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Great informative video on the complete process. I use to work at a small gold mine and mill in the early 80's. As a young kid in my 20's i learned so much about all the different phases of mining. From geology to labor to mechanic to mill man to cook, i did a lot of different jobs. Mining gets into your blood, its not just a job but a way of life.
Hello Aaron, your mining videos are very well produced and very interesting. It isn’t often that I subscribe after only 2 videos.
Just imagine all this work to produce gold for electronics that just end up in landfills in a few years.
There is a new chemical process to extract gold and other rare earth elements from electronics, we will most likely not be sending our electronics to india to have children burn to extract any longer
I was waiting for Aaron to say he had a blast blasting all that rock!
This is awesome, can I ask what cameras and lens you guys use?
Mine, Mine all Mine!!!! Love that cartoon!
XCITING STUFF! you forgot to explain what happens to the gravity recovered gold from the shaking table though, where it ends up and what happens to it. None the less, quite cool learning about all these steps "exciting" the gold!!
Wow! That was cool. Now I can put a visual of the mine with the high grade specimens that I recently saw for sale. Nice job. Just for clarity though, cyanide dissolves the gold. Gold will cling to mercury. I'm a retired assayer and refiner of precious metals. Loved my first pit shot also. Incredible!😊
thank you!!
How much would it cost to build an operation like this from scratch?🤑
You mean there’s no made up drama and bunch of breakdowns , nice professional setup and video .
Miami and Globe Az mining district is cool area , Plus new Resolution mine is close by 8K ft main shaft where block cave deep mine is huge deal . Thx for videos worked mining industry for years back in KY live Az now .
I've never understood how that's even remotely feasible considering the size of the operation and how small the output is in physical form. Heavy machines and cost to build the facility and maintain everything. But then again, 15 000 000 Oz of gold is worth $40 billion in today's price. So it kinda makes sense now.
Not to mention, they sift and separate all of that material. They could also sell clean fill dirt and landscaping rocks for new construction builds.
As a retired welder over 35 years, I've replaced enough Gotdayum steel in rock trucks , 777 , 787 , Dozens from a 350 to a D11 cat , Shanks , teeth on shovels , buckets , hoppers belt lines , trains expert on some 1950 model rail cars, to reach Mars and back 3 times ...lol...
It’d be super cool if you looked at the tailings ponds of some of these mines. I know its not the most glamorous part of gold mining but it’s super cool (to me…I work on a TMA) millions and millions of yards of rock/clay/sand placed super precisely
5:06 I’m guessing the dump trucks drive on the inside, to avoid the weaker edge 🤔
for anyone interested in how much 15 million ounces cost as of 8 days ago when this video came out it is roughly 3.6 Billion
Destruyendo ,El ambiente ,acabando con toda la vida ,dejando,solo la Tierra sin vida ,tremenda ambicion sin limited.
I’ve worked on round mountain, kennecot, battle mountain, twin creeks . Cortez and a few others
Does that plant make bars all day and night?
or
Do they pour like on a schedule?
or
Just when they have enough gold to pour so many bars?
I curious what happens when a big truck breaks down during the haul back and the road service mechanic can’t fix it, how would u tow them out?
They have a really large tow truck! Most break downs can be fixed right where the truck sits.
That was cool that monument to all the gold taken out of there! 👏
Is it just me or was the ground moving at 3:00? Seems kinda sketchy to have that bucket and truck on that
great video, watching from Sweden !
One of The biggest open pit gold mine in the United States is in Mojave City California. I've been waiting for a video on that one
I live a hour and a half from there. Always wondered how they did it. Thanks.
Tonapah? My brother actually work at that mine back in the mid 80’s….when there was still a mountain.
Is that the elko mine ?
I toured the elko mine 30 years ago as part of a harnischfeger p&h group . We were told 1.5 million per day in gold. We took a picture of the whole group of about twelve of us standing in the shovel.
The video is very interesting, many people would like to have a kilo of gold and see here how much is produced, what life is like.
Do they backfill in compact the holes
Interesting, I ‘m a geologist with some background in mineral processing engineering. I once got a tour of a much smaller scale, but still profitable, mine in the Flowery lode that parallel to and east of the Comstock under Virginia City. They had just cut into old underground works that dated back to gold rush days. We also saw an old and in the day not so well controlled cyanide mill that looks like desert, but was a Superfund Cleanup site.
During an internship with Barrick they let me detonate the charges one afternoon. Was awesome
nice!!
Should see if coeur will let you tour the kensington gold mine in Juneau, Ak.
why is the ground moving at 3:02 lol? just a camera effect? if not thats scary lol
You should try and do a video on Stillwater mine in Big timber Montana. Just out of Bozeman, Montana. It’s an underground hard rock mine. Pretty cool place. I worked there for a while!
I grew up spending summers not far in Red Lodge
The giant greater looks so beautiful on the landscape
Man you are amazing. Love and respect from India
I ❤ gold .... will it hit 2400, 2500 or more before it stops going up ? Just think that it was just around 1800 not long ago. The money you could make in such a short time if you had it to buy before it started going up. I buy for selling in 10 years or more or if SHTF along with silver. Another great video.
The higher it goes, the easier it becomes to de-link from. Bye Bye USD
It takes a couple years for people to realize that the federal reserve just invented 7 trillion dollars, and they need to buy gold. Also china is getting ready for war, so that will make them sell dollars and buy gold. Thats why gold is moving. Actually gold is not moving at all. its the dollar that is moving
I remember when it was under $800
@@adeptpeasant6161 There's not enough gold in all the reserves in the entire world to match the value of U.S. treasuries. You don't know what you're talking about. Let's say, just for the sake of an interesting thought experiment, that you were right (you're not)... The U.S. reserve owns 8,133.46 tonnes of gold (more than the next 3 countries combined). And IF the dollar is ditched, what happens? Would the spot price of gold need to be artificially recalibrated to over $80,000 per troy ounce to meet parity with the world economy? It makes no sense.
Nice documentary i wonder if the host attended the colorado school of mines?
I have seen the open pit gold mine in hermosillo mx
My fav documentary is "the largest gold mine in the world (spark)
That's a good one
Nice operation and thanks for the video
Really, only those three bars worth since 1985 ? So what are they working with one part per million ? 14:59
great job Aaron..... I have relatives that work there. Great to see the bottom of the pit where they work.
Cant believe they've mined all that gold but they just leave it in those huge ingots outside the mine gates?! Like don't they need to sell some
Must be a very trusting neighbourhood..
My kind of humor
The new kid on the block is Ukraine, Ukraine has over 2500 tonnes underground so when the war with Russia is over Ukraine will be hot property it has over 14.5 trillion dollars of minerals resources so it's in the top 12 countries blessed on top and underneath. The gold ore will last 100 years.
I would say water is too dense to extract gold with. It's too wasteful in other words, I know it is the most abundant ressource doesn't mean it's the best to work with. Gold is heavy, and I can see they are fortifying their process by making as many systems as possible. But they can make do with very few systems. And have like near 100% extraction success. But switching to less dense liquids might be very tricky. But if they can save on consumption somehow then it could prove to be worth it.
Step 1 they put the paydirt in the rock tumbler, take out the fine particles. And dry it. Then they hit it with less dense liquids like alcohols, and the gold is heavier and it stays behind. The alcohol can be recycled.
Love it...the 1st time I was at round man there was a hill. 2nd time small hill. Now a hole. So e nice spots up the hills and a hot springs. Darrough near by. Loved old mines all my life. Pit mining is efficient but kinsey have the same panache. I was in the granite business. Quarry to finished gravestones. It's more similar to this type of mining. Just blasting was black powder as slower expansion and wouldn't fissure the stone. Family was in the cement business which used ball mills. Quite away from old stamp mills. Round mtn is a very impressive operation. More or less like process in old VC for example but modern and huge.
You might like a tour of one of the underground mines in Elko, it's a different experience certainly.
How do you keep the water from getting in
Typically is another department in the mine and they drill wells around the parameter and pump out the ground water.
I want the gold! Bring me the gold! I'm bout to uproot that tree!
Im going to adopt that...
"It was not my first time, but it was sweet" while pointing the finger directly at them.
I call them "greenhorn hunters". You know the type. The subtle pissing contest of who has done more and knows more where they take any opportunity to verbally hint at someone being beneath them in one way or another. At least thats the vibes i always get. It drives me crazy
tommy toppers
good video, hanks for sharing.
looking at the path the haul trucks take to get out of the mine
how often does that route shift as they change working faces
like obviously a mine this big should be using electric dive haul trucks with trolley wires, which ofcourse require overhead wire infrastructure that you dont want to be moving around very often
does the haul roads and mine faces change around so much to make long(ish) term infrastructure an issue?
You sound like a 🤡. 😂
It depends on the mine. The mine I worked at had these for a time but only realized a 6% increase in profitability. The solution was to simply buy bigger trucks.
Good video. 469 ton in 30 years isn't bad either. Wondering what the operating costs are ?
Great video guy's, maybe a bit to much brol, or maybe show brol with more voice over😊
Donde ponen toda la tierra extraída de las minas? Se vuelve a rellenar el hoyo después de extraer todo el mineral?
Never knew gold mining got this complex. Great video!
Thanks for watching
That is actually a very simple process! There are several more processes that are way more complex.
You were so close to us. Need to come visit NGM Carlin.
Wow that’s about 1245 ounces of gold and silver etc per day produced since 1985.
What's the procedure for a run a way haul truck??? And what is the final result per ton of rock.
Can the sand after the gold is extracted be used for making concrete?
Excellent as usual!
My grandparents used to own a cabin in Kingston, not too far from the mine. I believe that it was a miner who brought it a few years ago but not positive about that.
We need more of these mines all over
What's the next step for the bars? Like who buys them a place the purifies the gold, or government's or jewelry places?
this video was really well done and informative! it's impressive to see how much gold Nevada produces. but honestly, i can't help but wonder if the environmental impact of all this mining is being overlooked. should we prioritize economic gain over ecological health? just a thought!
ive worked at nevada gold mines. the size of the plants and operating costs are billions also