Thanks for including information about our Taxes for their mining companies and including some of the pollution issues. Commercial aircraft construction contains approximately 11-13% steel by volume (so your video wasn't wrong) but most of the metal is aircraft grade aluminum alloy which contains trace amounts of copper, magnesium, and zinc ... People love the new buzzwords; carbon fiber and the 787 has it but that is imperfect as well. Above all; Recycle. *Sure that cuts out the Mine owners and SURE they HATE that...* ...but now that people can take a close look at Mars and realize that living on it is no picnic and probably not possible for a very long time to come, maybe the most hardened among us will start caring for the only Planet we've got.*
When I was a kid - mid 60's - in north east Ohio, it would take about 15 minutes walking the railroad tracks to find enough taconite balls to fill a 1# coffee can. We would then have slingshot ammo for weeks!
In Colorado magnetite is pretty abundant, and occurs at up 80% iron content. The mine that I was at was there for gold, but it's very common to find gold mixed in with magnetite. The magnetite ends up being a "waste" product that is pulled out of the ore stream with a large magnet. It was sold (back then) to CF&I in Pueblo. (I saw this process at a gold mine in Colorado).
This was an awesome video Connor Tenold! Well done! When I went to Northern Michigan University, I cross country skied. A bunch of us would go west of Marquette about seven miles where a railroad crossed US-41. It was fun to ski down the snow covered tracks. Those tracks lead to Marquette's upper harbor where train cars would unload their pellets into freighters. It was fun to watch that happen, too ...kind of noisy, though. At the time, everybody called them taconite pellets. The pellets at the top of the train cars would bounce out of the train cars and land between and to the sides of the rails. I scooped up some of them once with a McDonald's cup and used them for a speech class. They used what was essentially a mammoth sized vacuum cleaner to suck up the pellets that had bounced out of the train cars. They didn't do it often as they would wait until it was a profitable thing to do. I saw that happen once. It was also really, really noisy. Another thing that made cross country skiing down those tracks interesting was that about two miles north of the place where the railroad crossed US-41, there was a wooden trestle bridge that crossed a really scenic gorge. People told me that it was 250 feet from the tracks to the river below. I hiked out there once in warm weather. Some of my friends made their way down to the river and they looked very, very small so, the people who mentioned the height of the bridge may have been correct. I never went out there with a tape measure so, I don't know for sure. From the trestle bridge, you could look down the gorge which opened up into a valley and you could see Lake Superior which was about five or so miles away. I don't know if the gorge had a name but the name of the river was the Dead River. Up the river form the trestle bridge maybe a little over a mile, there was a really cool water falls. Haha, see what I did there "...cool water..."? The water in the Dead River was always pretty cold. We used to go out there in the late summer and try to swim down to the river bed where the water from the falls flowed into a large pool. We would only get so far. Even though you were still swimming you wouldn't go anywhere. The water falling into the pool which was kind of bowl shaped had to move up out of the bowl to continue down the river. It would push you up. If you just stopped trying to swim, it would push you up to the surface. I never spent more than a few minutes at a time in that water because it was so cold. Those were great times that gave me some fond memories. Here's a question for a future video: What's life like for a sailor o a Great Lakes freighter? What do you have to do to become a sailor on the lakes? How do you become a ship's captain? I have some insight into this because my uncle was a Great Lakes freighter captain but, a few of your viewers may not know. Another question I have for you is more personal. I don't remember if you ever covered it in a video or not. What got you so interested in Great Lakes shipping? Finally, have you ever seen the RU-vid video, "The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead" by, Caitlin Doughty? She talks about the Edmund Fitzgerald and some other older Great Lakes Freighters or more accurately, some of the people still aboard.
Thanks! And thank you for the idea. Ever since I was really young my family would go to Duluth every year. I just liked the ships from the start. I don't even remember when I started liking them I think I just liked them from the start. I have videos from every trip of every ship I've seen. If you were to watch all of them you can see how I've improved in videography over the years. As I got older I started getting more interested in the more complex parts of shipping on the lakes. Eventually I started a channel and the rest is history as they say.
@@ConnorTenold Even since I signed on as one of your subscribers a couple of years ago, you've improved considerably. You presentation is much more smooth and your editing is getting to be quite good. Even your voice has changed (gotten deeper, lol) Most of these things can be chalked up to experience. That's where your keen interest in Great Lakes shipping becomes a key. You're not going to learn nearly as much from that experience if you're not all that interested in the subject. I like that you're starting to include subjects that are dependent upon Great Lakes shipping. You obviously did a considerable amount of research to be able to present this video. So, once again, well done, Connor!
@@HahnJames Thanks again! I really think experience is the best way to learn something. It makes me sad to see my generation not respect their elders as they have a considerable amount of experience and a lot more than kids my age do. I relate a lot more to older generations and through that i've learned some things from their experiences.
@@ConnorTenold That's kind of refreshing to hear (read). I wish that more people your age had a similar attitude. I've found that my judo students are very respectful and attentive to what I have to say. I think that they're probably in aminority in their age bracket. The youngest is 20 and the oldest is almost 27. You're pretty rare for someone who is age 16/17. When is your birthday, anyway. When it comes around, I'd like to sneak a casual Happy Birthday, Connor into the comments. At any rate, I am going to guess that you find that those in the older generations are less judgemental of you than are your peers. There are a lot of people in the older generations who can be highly judgemental of teenagers, though. Many of those people tend to teat teens as thought they're empty glasses. That's just not productive in dealing with teens. I try to approach everybdy that I encounter in my life as though they have something to teach me no matter their age. Usually, I'm not let down. I have learned loads about Great Lakes shipping just from your channel.
@@ConnorTenold I was going to mention this earlier but, I forgot. Another name for the material that wa left over form the ore processing is, 'stamp sand." If you were to go up the Keweenaw Peninsula, that peninsula that extends to the north from the main Upper Peninsula in Michigan you can see places where they just piled it up. They had been dumping it in the lake but wave activity especially during heavy storms just washed it back up on shore. The stamp sand was full of toxic trace metals like aluminum, chromium, zinc, arsenic, manganese, cobalt, lead, copper and others. Most of the levels are harmful to others. All of the depostis of this stuff that I've seen didn't have anything growing in it. Not even dandelions and those pesky plants will grow almost anywhere.
As you might think, the turnover to taconite was a lifesaver for northern Minnesota. Almost everyone had a "ranger" relative in and out of work. After the bust in timber, there would have been not much left for population.
East Texas has a fair amount of limonite deposits that range from 40 to 60% iron. The early settlers mined it to smelt in bloomer furnaces to make pig iron and used the limestone slag to make cement. During WW2 the War Department had a basic steel mill built here to produce bomb casings. Twenty miles to the east the WD built a TNT plant that was loaded into the aerial bombs 7 miles to the NE at an ammunition plant that was built out in Caddo Lake.
The era (then and now) of _"don't recycle anything, just keep destroying"_ -> 2:50 because YOUR Taxes -> 0:54 pay THEIR Costs but THEY keep the Profits.
There is still high-quality iron ore in Norther, NJ and adjacent New York State but it would have to be mined traditionally (not open bit) which is too expensive. The Sterling Forest Mine produced ore from before the revolution to the 1920's. The ore from the mine produced a chain that was stretched across the Huson River to keep the British from sailing up it. If they had they might have won, the war.
It’s crazy that just appealing the ruling let them continue to dump waste in the water . Why wouldn’t they just say hold off until we find out what’s actually going on . Did you say what they even used tacomite for
@Gator-357 Thanks for telling me! Because of this I was able to pronounce it correctly in another video I did on ore docks. I will say though, Grammar is different than pronounciation.
Just South of Ironwood Michigan there is iron ore shaft mine about 1,500 ft deep. The ore never played out, but high production costs and low iron ore prices closed it. There is still a new drainpipe put in so that in the future it could be pumped out and reopened. But with the fascist lefties in charge of Michigan for decades there are now rules that would probably never let it be mined again. Some of us are our own worst enemies.
What's interesting about efforts to lower pollution is things like electric cars still pollute. In order to make those cars you still have to pollute. So it defeats the purpose anyways.
@@ConnorTenold Actually I think the reason to have an EV is short tips and cost per mile. Many in the Midwest have cheap enough E rates to take advantage of that. A friend tells me 6 cent per mile long term.
@@debi5292 Under the Obama administration, many of the coal-fired power plants were not just shut down, but were totally demolished. All of the electrical generating equipment & electrical transmission equipment were turned into scrap metal. The entire facilities were destroyed. These plants provided a huge amount of electric power that was not only inexpensive but reliable. Instead of coal, the newer plants burn huge quantities of natural gas. Many people who heat their homes with natural gas were wondering why their bills were getting so high. It was the law of supply & demand at work. In Georgia, they recently completed the addition of 2 more nuclear powered units to 2 units that have been in operation since the late 1980's. It's called Plant Vogtle, & the 2 new units cost well over $20 billion & took about 10 years longer to complete than what was originally stated. All of those costs, including overruns, will be paid for by their consumers. There are those with an agenda who are trying to drag down the country. "Green" energy sounds like a wonderful plan, but it is never going to replace fossil fuels. In order for a country to prosper, it must have a great industrial base, & for the base it must have cheap & reliable electric power. Last summer, the state of California was telling owners of EVs not to charge their cars during heatwaves. Their electrical grid, along with a lack of generating capacity, can't support their infrastructure, yet they insist on mandating new rules & requirements that are not capable of being met. An eye-opening video, available to watch here on YT, is called "Planet of the Humans". I highly recommend everyone watch it. Take care.
@@UrbicideThey stopped building nuclear generation plants decades ago due to the antics by suppliers, subcontractors and unions that drove up the costs and delayed completion for years. Everything was to be inspected before being used and as construction progressed yet nothing was. They'd get one phase completed that would fail inspection so was torn out so they could start over.
