Unfortunately, most of the video is trucks hauling overburden to make a ramp for access to taconite that is below the old mine view site in North Hibbing. The video spends a few moments on the work being done with the gray rock...that is taconite and those trucks are heading to the processing plant.
Recovery of the iron requires fine grinding and concentration of iron-bearing phases, which in turn are formed into pellets suitable for blast furnaces. As high-grade deposits of iron ore have become depleted, taconite deposits have increased in importance as a source of iron ore.
@@carsonsjourney in here its usual 7 days work 7 days off or 4 days work and 6 days off in 12 hour shifts. Driving a haul truck just kills your soul its boring as hell and kills your back. Especially 100 ton Komatsu trucks you bounce like a basketball in the cabin. I drove those for few years it's easiest job ever but dear god never again. I moved to excavators and after that to blast hole drilling and swore to never touch a haul truck again.
It's in a horizontal seam about 500 ft thick that dips slowly to the southeast. Sort of like a coal seam but much thicker. This mine is at the part that's exposed.
Boy, those dump truck drivers sure are inefficient. They should have a ready spot right next to the shovel, and be ready to back up in position as soon as the loaded truck pulls off. If I were their boss, I would be all over them wasting time like that. Let me guess, they are union, right? They could have a lot more tonnage at the end of the shift if they wanted to, easily!!!!!!!
They are in little hurry..... There children and their children will have a job hopefully..... If they weren't making the shareholders profit then you can be assured that they will elect a new CEO who is the type of person that will not pause to bury the workers those dump trucks squish under there 12ft diameter tires in their race to empty the pit by the next quarterly meeting to drive up the stock price so they can pocket they bonus...... . Oh wait .. that actually would lower the price of iron ......
