10 Biggest Mining Operations in The World 

At 4:44 is the picture of the Bisbee, AZ open pit copper mine. I recognized it from the road turn off at the pit edge. I also knew it by the local landscape. Since you are going to use the pic I will tell folks about Bisbee. There use to be a forest in the mile high mountains around Bisbee until they cut them all down for housing and mine timbers. In downtown Bisbee, there is a Smithsonian museum which is very cool. Also a Queen mine tour where you get to strap on mine gear and go for a mine car ride. When the mine shut down, the cheap housing and store front became the mecca for an art community. I highly recommend a visit to Bisbee and Tombstone which is just northwest of Bisbee. Another reason I know this pic is because both of my parents are from Bisbee and I have lots of relatives that we visited during the summer as kids. The mountains in the very back is Mexico. Thanks for including the pic.

I can see the Bingham Canyon Mine from my house. It is hard to put into words how massive an operation it is. Visiting it you can look down to the bottom and the enormous mining trucks look like little toys. The scale just defies comprehension. It's visible from the entire city. There used to be a mountain there and now it's just a gargantuan hole surrounded by the tailings piles. It's extremely impressive. As for the landslide, they had been very carefully monitoring the hillside with lasers and seismic instruments for months and were able to make sure the mine was empty when it collapsed. Then they spent 2 years digging it all out and got back to work mining.

Thanks for these informations. Please, if you also include metric measurements, a large part of your audience will understand better. ** Merci pour ces informations. Svp, si vous indiquez également les mesures métriques, une large part de votre public comprendra mieux.

Mining is amazing. These are incredible human achievements.

Mining is incredible imo. It's incredible engineering. I found the Chilean copper mine incredible. 10,000ft up and in the middle of a desert!

I used to live in West Jordan, Utah. On some weekends my best friend and I would pile our kids into my truck and we'd drive up the back side canyon just south of the mine. It's the highest point and the view from there is amazing! Sometimes we'd camp near there other times we'd drive into Tooele and get ice cream before driving back home to West Jordan. That particular canyon is closed during winter.

This Aussie had no idea we had the largest lithium mine! Production “exploded”… good word choice there. 😁

I've been to the MIR mine in Russia.... Quite a big hole, bigger than it looks like in the video.... You have to see it to believe it

Thank you for sharing!

I think Chile was set on repeat....

Fun fact: the rock slide at the Kennecott mine took out the visitors center. It was actually kind of cool, it overhung the mine so you could look out and have the best view you could imagine. They decided not to build a new visitors center.. which is probably for the best.

Really really enjoyed watching this my friend, it is very well done. I had no idea that there was so many of these huge mine sites out there 👍👍👍👍

Great video and full of information.

When they say asteroid mining is way too hard and expensive, I always think about these on this list. Some of these are harder to build than catching an asteroid. We have enough money and resources, it is “only” matter of profit.

How does a country go into another country and declare resources for themselves? It's not even there country, but because they "found" it it's theirs!?!?!

Greenbushes lithium mine also has a very in depth planning and infrastructure for mining underground as well. In regards to iron ore mines then I suggest you doore deeper research into Australia as our iron ore open pit mines at Mt Tom Price region in western Australia is larger than the iron ore pit line in Brazil. Regards a west Aussie in the mining industry for now 27 yrs . Just thought I'd point you into the right direction.

The Supa-pit in Kalgoorlie Western Australia certainly was the biggest man-made hole on the surface of the planet. Whether it still is I cannot say. Surprised it didn't get a mention.

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Mining is incredible imo. It's incredible engineering. I found the Chilean copper mine incredible.

😊thank you Michael

Thank you Underworld for covering this 💐 Poor nature and poor Earth😢

Good that number 9 went solar 🎉 but i hate to think where all them solar panels get thrown out after 10 years 😂

Funny how the Soviets gave that dude a 1/4 ounce gold metal and then said "gtf out! This our land now!!" 😅

If you dig too deep you'll awaken the Balrog!!! 😬

Bellissimo... MADRE TERRA RINGRAZIA

Wonderful film.

If it isn’t grown - it’s mined! This truth surprises most people!

Exactly useful video

wow awesome

I worked the slurry pipeline from the mine to the Pacific in 1988 - 89 through the Atacama Desert.

Panguna and Olympic Dam were/are massive too

It’s terrifying seeing how much of the Amazon is gone ….

Never heard of green bushes and I worked in mining industry in australia

Never heard someone say chile so wrong over and over 😂

Bless the People who.dors this for a job i am so scared being so deep under ground

Morenci mine should have been on the list its larger than kinnecot

I thought the Hoffmans would be up there somewhere 😂

I was fast forwarding to see if Kennecott was on list... Yep #1! They have a train that makes its way out of the hole and it takes an entire day so I've heard. Kind of a detail that could have been said. Nobody calls it the Bingham we all call it Kennecott. Just saying

My beloved father was always in dreams to visited the South African's minings, was never able to realised.

The Bingham mine is the world's #1 source of scandium which has no known deposits but is not rare however refining it from random rock of which Bingham is the largest source in the world means that the per weight cost is very high at $270 per gram vs. $75 for gold.

How did you manage to get almost everything about Escondida right, but most things about El Teniente wrong? They are both located in Chile...

363 billions pounds of rocks 🤯

I want some! 🤣

Hmm, no mention of Morenci, Arizona.

What about the Hull Rust Mahoning iron mine in Minnesota.

And now the greedy is trying to figure out a way to mine Asteroids.

We r not human , we r stupid Creature on earth .... We r digging our own grave . One day we will loose our Land , Fresh water , Fresh air , Jungle , Mountain .... We r such a greedy and stupid Creature 😂😂😂.... One Project completed another Started ( And every projects Have a Devastating impact on our earth ) Just wait for another 50-100 years and earth will be no longer Suitable for us to live 😂😂😂 ( Sorry for Our Upcoming Generation) 😂😂😂

At 4:45, the mine you show is in Bisbee, Arizona....not Chile

Why dont they use convairbelts insted of driver the long way up in the mines?

Wow interesante 🧐

Swedens Kiruna Mine is larger than most displayed here, fyi.

Quality

Saludos

You forgot Jalainur mine in Inner Mongolia

How oil is “black gold” weed is “green gold” from a business viewpoint 😄 needs to be legal everywhere already

2:00 in picking up what must be 10kg at least gold bars, leisurely stacking two in one hand... man, that's some bad stock footage.

Papua Nugini bagus good like

Lucky bastards...

thank you Michael idium

What a sad, disgusting world.

Great video, but for God's sake use the metric system !!! It's ridiculous to use stone, ounces and stuff that doesn't even make sense!

Such great destruction

doesnt BHP sell coal why do they need contracts? And its always nice to see a giant strip copper mine thats concerned about a harmless gas destroying the earth…

Pro-tip: "state owned" means "private central bank owned." It ALL goes to the City of London.

Coal mining coming from south Salt Lake area also but I don't know if it stays locally or exported

Nämähän on sellaisia hommia että kerran otettu,ei eikinä uusiudu.

The Americans accidentally found steel in someone's land and they declared it for themselves. That is like walking into someone's house and declaring everything in the house to be your own. Smh.

Face it small compact dense sources are safer than a herd of exothermic rxns. Electric cars have an Achilles heel (explosionfire) Close stator rotor tolerance yield good pick up. That said

Trillion and trillions dollar gold

The fact is USA company has no longer control Grasberg mine in papua

Fun fact, The largest mining operation in the world is under our feet and is so small you need a microscope to see it!

10:47 you forgot to tell if it was the least of highest corrupted country, Denmark is one of the least corrupt countries in the world and it’s been the least corrupt 8 times

Smh, I found some iron in your house. I'll sell it to you - colonizers!

“TURK-wise”

Every mine on this list can't be seen, but the oilsands mines in Northern Alberta can be seen from 7000+ km up in space - yet not on this list !!!! Why? Is it because they aren't deep? Lets look at other comparisons then. In terms of area, the active mining area is just over 1000 square kilometers!!!!! In terms of equipment, there are over 1000 heavy haul trucks operating there. That's more than all the mines on this list combined. Over 300 CAT d11's and 100 Komatsu 575's (thats 20% of all the 575's ever produced!) Manpower - 14 000+ employee's make their living directly from here. Or how about the 2.8 MILLION barrels of bitumen per DAY produced? Yet it doesn't even make your list.

Trillion dollar gold

Yoda was here.

Miners go deeper.

When did they say they started printed money

What about the giant coal mine in Noteo, Greece?

Can't imagine U.S.A going to another country, finding rich ground and claiming it as theirs.

how real is this content?

I make huge profits on my investment since i started mining with Mrs Amelia Ted, her mining strategies are top notch coupled with the little commission she charges on her mine

GET over it ! They are the GODS...it staring at you with a smink 😜

13:59 The lithium battery wouldn't be invented for another 88 years. We have a British chemist named Michael Whittingham to thank for that. Me: Google "who invented the lithium battery" and you get... Stanley Whittingham and Dr. John Goodenough Somebody got their facts wrong.

Are there seriously people who still use the imperial system of units? 🙄

God perfect creation sadly human is so greedy

Made in Abyss

So what Australia own

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING... BASICALLY YOU ARE FAMILLAR ON THE 2/3/4 LAYERS OF THE EARTH OR SOMETHING..THE OUTER CORE INNER CORE/mantle/crust...BUT HOW EARTH MAKE ITS STABILITY TO STAY ON ITS OWN ORBIT? DID YOU KNOW THE MOST IMPORTANT is the MAGNETIC CORE? YOU DON'T FAMMILLAR DO YOU? MAGNETIC CORE IS IN THE HOTTEST PART...FOR YOU TO FIND OUT OK🙏

You can see your license plate from space. Might as well quit using this as a comparison of size.

Se on vain ihmisen tekemään ryöstöä.se on väliaikasta.kaikki loppuu aikanaan,lasku tulee myöhemmin,mitä teit.

r/megalophobia

every single mine been robbed by an american company .. that ought to be number one on the list

First to comment

Could do without the C02 propaganda in the middle

chilean GDP stats you provided are way off.

Welt Aus

The Grassberg-Mine is still the biggest course for the indigenous people of Papua newguine. Because Indonesia imported thousands of rotten Islamists to this region.

Why you destroy the land