Over $48 BILLION in 100 Years | Mining Copper with Montana Resources
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Published 2022-08-30
In today's vlog, Aaron and BuildWitt were in Butte, Montana with Montana Resources, visiting their massive copper mining site. There were 495 shovels, 994 loaders, and more.
They mined the gray ore and hauled it to the crusher, which crushes 80 tons an hour, then went to the plant, where it would be turned into copper. Initially they blast the material to get that perfect fragmentation. It also creates less work for the crusher, making it essential for mining. This work is reliable, high paying, satisfying, and has great security.
Overall, this job focused on the processing part of mining. The ore gets mined with the shovels, hauled out of the pit, brought to the crusher, the material goes into a secondary crusher, and then goes into the plant. Once it goes into the plant, it's combined with water and thrown into ball and rod mills. The metal balls pulverize the rocks to a powder, then are pumped out into flotation tanks and combined with chemicals. After it's separated, you have copper which is sent to smelters.
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Video Chapters
0:00 - Intro
2:32 - 495 Loading 793
5:42 - In the Pit
8:01 - Talking Blasting
9:27 - Dozer Hybrid
11:33 - Heavy Machinery Symphony
12:44 - Mining Overview
16:03 - Outro
All Comments (21)
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Seeing a dozer in the back of a mining truck is awesome
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Hi Aaron My grandfather was the one who purchased the first 990 and 992 loaders to convert into the Tiger 590 and 690 wheel dozer. They purchased the IP from us in 97' and today branded the 844 and 854. We was based in Perth WA at the time, but today back home in the UK and today sell a bunch of special applications for the Cat/Volvo dealerships - water carts, fuel carts, fuel lube, hooklifts etc.
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Best job I ever had was in a small open pit. That was 50 years ago but this video shows the whole process very well, even though Butte is miles bigger than where I worked. Incidentally, Butte is one of the world's great mines and it reallly was an engine for development of the American prosperity. Not enough people appreciate this!
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I would like to mention two things, the video editing is awesome and the information presented is useful! Combine the both and you have an awesome video! I love the vids and they really help solidify some concepts in my materials engineering class, thank you !
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Back in the earlier days of copper mining at Butte, the ore was very rich and produced world famous mineral specimens such as Covellite (Purple Copper Ore) Such specimens are greatly sought after by collectors and attract a premium price now.
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These videos just keep getting better and better I really hope you guys never quit making them especially the way you explain everything in detail it’s perfect
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I love what you are doing to promote American business. Always inspiring.
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Always cool to see a B495 ERS or CAT 7495 working. I enjoyed my time in South Milwaukee making this awesome equipment
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This video should be required viewing in public schools to teach our young folks about the necessity to mine copper, if they want to drive an electric vehicle.
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Copper is one of the few metals to be found in it's natural, metallic state in nature. Large chunks of it play havoc with the tramp cylinders on gyratory crushers.
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I love this channel so much. Such good insight into the mining industry.
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Excellent video my man. Keep it up!
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I have been down what was the highest grade ore copper mine in the world - Ecton Mine in Derbyshire, UK. It’s ore averaged 17% pure copper, but the mine was played out by the late 1700s. I understand the best mines now are less than 1% copper and the global supply is only going to get worse.
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Killer video man!! They just keep getting better, from NYC to Butte MT!
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I love this channel. I hope to see it grow
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I love all the explaining forreal more of that please!
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Great point you make regarding job security, AMEN to job security. Another lovely vid cheers.
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Fantastic learning experience. Everything fits together and is presented very well. Thanks for sharing.
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Now you need to get with John Sacco from Sierra and do an episode on how this copper concentrate becomes real copper and how recycling plays a huge part in all combined with new construction.
