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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References in this Video:
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Carlin Trend -    • Mountaintop View of the Carlin Trend ...  

Carlin operations:
www.mining-technology.com/projects/carlin/
s25.q4cdn.com/322814910/files/doc_presentations/20…

Nevadamining - How gold is Produced:    • How gold is produced  

Longest Conveyor belt: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150869/worlds-lon….

Ore Samples:
Copper: www.mindat.org/min-51758.html
Lead: geologyscience.com/ore-minerals/lead-ore/
Barite: geology.com/minerals/barite.shtml

Looking for Gold
www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/holy…

Panning for Gold
   • Gold Panning Tutorial for Beginners -...  

Mine Blast – Above ground
   • World's Biggest Wireless Mine Blast  

Mine Blast - Below ground
   • Blasting in Underground Mines  

Truck and Loader sequence – Above Ground
   • Huge Caterpillar 994 Wheel Loader 215...  

FMG Autonomous Trucks
   • Fortescue’s autonomous truck fleet su...  

Crusher and truck photo
www.911metallurgist.com/blog/crushing-equipment-se…

Conveyor video
   • Belt Conveyor-the  Transmission Equip...  

Longest Conveyor image
inergency.com/worlds-longest-conveyor-belt-system/

Ball mill photo
energosteel.com/en/system-of-a-ball-mill/

Room of ball mills
www.directindustry.com/prod/luoyang-citicic-indust…

Roaster
www.mogroup.com/portfolio/gold-concentrate-roastin…
www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/909599…

Autoclave
www.mogroup.com/portfolio/oktop-autoclave-plant-un…

Leach heap
www.mogroup.com/portfolio/oktop-autoclave-plant-un…

Froth Flotation – bubble separation
   • Froth Flotation  

Refinery
www.smm.co.jp/en/business/rd/smelting/

iron ore pellets
www.mogroup.com/mining/pyro-processing/iron-ore-pe…

Copper Wire
www.mining.com/governments-will-need-to-support-co…

Gold pour
miningdigital.com/smart-mining/first-gold-pour-hai…

Underground Loading
   • Sandvik LH517 Wheel Loader Loading At...  

Underground conveyor
   • Conveyor belt system from underground...  

Fatigue Monitoring
   • ZenduCAM: Driver Distraction Monitoring  

Tire MEMs
   • Michelin® MEMS® Evolution 4 - Powerfu...  

Cisco Logo
www.wsj.com/video/series/open-office/inside-ciscos…

Underground crusher
bjbs.csu.edu.au/research/data-science/projects/min…

Ore Sorting
www.canadianminingjournal.com/featured-article/sor…



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