Mining For Beginners - How Does a Metals and Mineral Mine Work?

How does dirt and rocks turn into gold bars, copper wire or iron pellets? This whole process happens in a mine and in a series of ore processing plants. In this video I’ll walk you through the whole process from the mine face to the shipping port. So let’s get started.

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Carlin operations:

Ore Samples:

Looking for Gold

Panning for Gold

Mine Blast – Above ground

Mine Blast - Below ground

Truck and Loader sequence – Above Ground

FMG Autonomous Trucks

Crusher and truck photo

Conveyor video

Longest Conveyor image

Ball mill photo

Room of ball mills

Roaster

Autoclave

Leach heap

Froth Flotation – bubble separation

Refinery

iron ore pellets

Copper Wire

Gold pour

Underground Loading

Underground conveyor

Fatigue Monitoring

Tire MEMs

Cisco Logo

Underground crusher

Ore Sorting

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[vanfja]

As someone in the mining industry, I am super thankful you made this video so I can send to my friends who ask.

[Chris_at_Home]

I worked at the Freeport Mcmoran mine in Iran Jaya for eight months in 1994. This was a big mine. I got to see much of the process as I was supervising network installation from the mine to the port site spread out over 80 miles. When I was there is was a mountain at 13, 000 ft and now it’s a hole in the ground. We used Cisco equipment. I remember when I left there was about 1, 000 PCs and 1, 100 terminals hooked to the network there. This was in 1994 so it was a pretty big network at the time.

[timmackinnon]

Thanks for this excellent video. I bought some mines a few years ago, knowing zero about mining. I have little idea about what I am doing and videos like this are very helpful. Currently mining a 1000 tonnes of Lithium per month and 10, 000 metric tonnes of Copper.

[AleeVetat]

Im just here for my test and to learn more ig, greatvideo helps alot.

[alexyap]

Educational. Preparing myself to explore the mining business . Thanks for sharing.

[isaacdonkoh]

Thank you, the presentation was Excellent

[NorthernGateway]

Great video Roland, keep doing these!

[gkloczl]

Excellent video Roland! Thx for sharing!

[ulama]

I have an interview soon - wish me luck everybody!

[Pete-xeil]

Fairly well explained and I realize you can't list every detail. But any open pit mine I've worked at always sample the drilled blast hole cuttings since that allows the mines on site lab to test and provide ore / waste percentages in a lot more detail and are much more accurate than the original exploratory drilling can do since those blast holes are spaced a lot tighter and only cover in comparison the short distances of what those blast hole depths are .That lab analysis pinpoints where each of those ore / waste zones are after the blast for the shovel or loader operators. Pit planning and / or geology use a computer program to draw.up those maps, and generally the pit surveyors lay out those zones after each blast with color coded flags on stakes using GPS as a visual location reference for the loading equipment operators. That ore / waste rock ratio wasn't covered or the importance of the waste dumps. Not every load goes to the crusher.

[DimasFajar-nsvb]

peace be upon you sir and zamzam water

[heoiling]

thanks for your sharing, I worked in a mine for months and still afraid of those machines and their noises. When I pass by the sub units, I was sometimes wondering would they bite ;)

[namadiri]

Thank you so much for a very informative video!

[Karen__t]

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[domainengineering]

Thanks for your video, I would like to hear more about copper mine, we are doing small scale copper mine,

Just blasting copper rocks and crushing to 0.5mm selling base on % of copper ore

[MineralMavenn]

Love your videos. How about a dive into Fuse Minerals? It'd be good to see how this innovative approach applies to the world of mining and metals. Looking forward to your take on it!

[theburningman]

Interesting. Although, thinking that some of these huge trucks drive on their own like robots, is kinda terrifying

[ghoclsw]

excellent presentation. can i get a reference of how to get the book displayed in the background

[ChrisAlbertH]

Great concise explanation 👍 I was especially interested in the underground mining process.

[SunYat-sen]

gotta start with a wood pickaxe and work your way up from there