My Uncle Dick was a geologist involved in exploration for copper. He used to say Any fool can find oil, it takes brains to find copper. This video proves his point.
Who was the narrator? His narrative along with his diction was absolutely stunning. Writing such as this, along with the quality of the narration should be part of our education system.
I worked in a couple of open pit copper / gold mines over about a 40 yr period. THIS is how a proper documentary is supposed to be done with accurate well researched facts. I've not seen one single modern mining video that wasn't full of poorly researched and made up B.S. Yet today unlike when this one was filmed we have all the information anyone would need for that fact checking right at our finger tips. Marion spent a lot of time and money to get this one done as well as it is. Funny to see what they thought was large equipment at the time though. But the general methods and techniques haven't changed all that much. In pit rail lines would be a rarity anywhere in North America that I know about today as the economics of rail movement of material and cost per ton have changed in favor of trucks and some in pit crushing of ore at the biggest mines.
Thats because people are being made to be helpless idiots who need their nanny state and are more concerned with how they feel than truth. They want to hear how evil and crooked and destructive these companies are. While there ate crooks an any industry that makes real money, once again the facts are unglamorous and dont line up with the agenda of making sheep so all power can be totally removed from the civilians. The ones who have the power when they know the govenrment works for them and are not our leaders. They are employees who are representatives of the people ... So now mining is a low brow job thats only destructive. Never mind the reclimation programs that the mining companies started on their own well before laws where passed forcing land reclimation. Anyone with half a brain can see that if you want to continue making money by digging up a natural area you put everything back so nature will take over easily when finished so the public outcry and protests are Minimal. It not perfect but most of the succesfull mining companies may know how to handle their business. Just a guess. Sorry general "people " piss me off because of how stupid they really are and its getting worse. As a student of dying skills im learning about geology and mining . i prospect to learn small scale what to do and how to track mineral depostion...i will have to move from this state to start actually mining if i dont wamt to deal with being a pirate in the eyes of new york state...though im not sure their claim to precious mineral rights counts being tbat its called the kings law...which following the laws of the crown on u.s. soil is considered treason according to the constitution...id love to see this states government tried for such things...sorry for the book.
These mines are still there. They are known as toxic waste dumps now. Why the mining companies were allowed to move out without cleaning up their messes is beyond me.
the mines are not the waste dumps, it is the refinery's....and if not for them, you would not be typing your message, you would be writing it with a stick in the sand
@@Laura-wc5xt Did you ever climb the side of the Bluebird mine in Superior? They dumped thousands of barrels of acid on top that which all ran into Queen Creek, poisoning it forever. Casa Grande has another mega toxic waste dump.
@@bingosunnoon9341 that is why there is copper wire on top of those pylons carrying the electricity down into your house that gave you the ability to type that and powers the light bulb so you don't trip over in the dark and a hot shower TV....etc etc....
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Lignin sulfonate. The stinky, sticky gooey waste product of bleaching paper pulp. Ground-up trees are washed in sulfuric acid and that eats the binding lignin (tree glue) away into this waste product, leaves bleached cellulose for paper.
Oh, how I enjoy all these documentaries. Please keep uploading. Your hard work is appreciated.
My Uncle Dick was a geologist involved in exploration for copper. He used to say Any fool can find oil, it takes brains to find copper. This video proves his point.
No civilization without copper. It's been critical since the ancient Greeks and Romans.
what a neat video, I work at the Asarco Ray mine complex, I drive a 400 ton haul truck.
Who was the narrator? His narrative along with his diction was absolutely stunning. Writing such as this, along with the quality of the narration should be part of our education system.
I worked in a couple of open pit copper / gold mines over about a 40 yr period. THIS is how a proper documentary is supposed to be done with accurate well researched facts. I've not seen one single modern mining video that wasn't full of poorly researched and made up B.S. Yet today unlike when this one was filmed we have all the information anyone would need for that fact checking right at our finger tips. Marion spent a lot of time and money to get this one done as well as it is. Funny to see what they thought was large equipment at the time though. But the general methods and techniques haven't changed all that much. In pit rail lines would be a rarity anywhere in North America that I know about today as the economics of rail movement of material and cost per ton have changed in favor of trucks and some in pit crushing of ore at the biggest mines.
Thats because people are being made to be helpless idiots who need their nanny state and are more concerned with how they feel than truth. They want to hear how evil and crooked and destructive these companies are. While there ate crooks an any industry that makes real money, once again the facts are unglamorous and dont line up with the agenda of making sheep so all power can be totally removed from the civilians. The ones who have the power when they know the govenrment works for them and are not our leaders. They are employees who are representatives of the people ... So now mining is a low brow job thats only destructive. Never mind the reclimation programs that the mining companies started on their own well before laws where passed forcing land reclimation. Anyone with half a brain can see that if you want to continue making money by digging up a natural area you put everything back so nature will take over easily when finished so the public outcry and protests are Minimal. It not perfect but most of the succesfull mining companies may know how to handle their business. Just a guess.
Sorry general "people " piss me off because of how stupid they really are and its getting worse.
As a student of dying skills im learning about geology and mining . i prospect to learn small scale what to do and how to track mineral depostion...i will have to move from this state to start actually mining if i dont wamt to deal with being a pirate in the eyes of new york state...though im not sure their claim to precious mineral rights counts being tbat its called the kings law...which following the laws of the crown on u.s. soil is considered treason according to the constitution...id love to see this states government tried for such things...sorry for the book.
@@coreymerrill3257 thank you...well said, Paul
well said Sir
3:06 is the Lavender Pit in Bisbee, AZ
bingo sun noon...i see you are stuck at home during the pandemic and bored enough to sit and watch these 40yr old videos like me
Good video. By being involved in a granite quarry a lot I understand how this goes. Good Video and Thanks for keeping it alive!
This mine is still open and operating with even bigger machinery.
Around 2:30 is the Ray Mine, with the towns of Ray and Sonora in the background (they no longer exist)
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21:44 that's eucnik, westerns custom built Euclid lld with twin 12v71 detroits.
Euclid...great company
I wish they were still there
If the time display is necessary, please relocate it out of the image frame.
Agreed!
These mines are still there. They are known as toxic waste dumps now. Why the mining companies were allowed to move out without cleaning up their messes is beyond me.
the mines are not the waste dumps, it is the refinery's....and if not for them, you would not be typing your message, you would be writing it with a stick in the sand
@@Laura-wc5xt Did you ever climb the side of the Bluebird mine in Superior? They dumped thousands of barrels of acid on top that which all ran into Queen Creek, poisoning it forever. Casa Grande has another mega toxic waste dump.
@@bingosunnoon9341 that is why there is copper wire on top of those pylons carrying the electricity down into your house that gave you the ability to type that and powers the light bulb so you don't trip over in the dark and a hot shower TV....etc etc....
@@russellking9762 Is that hot shower heated by electricity, gas, or some other fossil fuel? Hhmm.....................We wonders, yes we wonders.
Danke!
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Hi, can anyone catch the name of the by-product mentioned round 23:35 to make the roads? I just can't make it out.
Lignin sulfonate. The stinky, sticky gooey waste product of bleaching paper pulp. Ground-up trees are washed in sulfuric acid and that eats the binding lignin (tree glue) away into this waste product, leaves bleached cellulose for paper.
lignin sulfonate
How much do we use now?
Not easy to find or figure. We import many things with copper in it as well as export some. China uses the most, but much is exported to the U.S.
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