Join Lila Michael as she learns the mine cycle phases. She will take you through Barrick North America's Cortez Mine, an active and modern gold mine located in Northeastern Nevada. Video produced by Freelance Productions.
In 1970's I did this for a living. That was me and my brother so it's a slightly different scale as this here. But the method of cyanide treatment was just the same. That was in Western Australia. We made a success of it too!
Having visited and documented hundreds of historic mines it was interesting to watch this documentary on modern mining and seeing how modern mining has evolved. Great job on the production!
You'd be interested in checking out Diavik and Ekati diamond mines in Yellow Knife, and some of the Uranium mining techniques being used elsewhere. Uranium mining involves tunneling drifts through clay and shale; They first have to construct massive freezing plants on the surface that pump refrigerant through pipes into the ground. Once stabilized the drifts are made above and below the target ore body. Then the raise bore technique is used to excavate the ore from above using water jets while the ore is collected through a funnel on the bottom drift and sent through sizing mills before being pumped as a liquid slurry to the surface processing plants. Pretty much anything BHP, SNC, and McIntosh/Redpath (Now Stantec).
Hello I was wondering if you had any video reccomendations for a gem hobbyist? I'm trying to learn how to find my own gyms on hikes or as a hobby. Any website or groups you know of? I would love to help a geologist with their digging. I have a strong back and don't mind digging holes and I love breaking open rock!
@@golanoski1 where do you live? This is an interesting facebook group, not sure about any gem groups specifically. facebook.com/groups/1136184309752694/?ref=share
@@cowboygeologist7772 thanks for the reply ill check it out. i live unfortunately in central florida. not much prospecting to do there. buy my wife is a travel nurse so we do get around some. im currently in new york city for about three more weeks so id love to link up with a group or have someone kind of teach me t he ropes while im here. i currently feel like im just winging it watching youtube tutorials. and while its fun i feel uncertain about my ability to properly identify rocks and minerals and basically the whole process of gem hunting
really liked the underground part, as I am a contract remote mucker at a northern Ontario gold mine.......surface open pit mining not so much. Done both, albeit for two weeks in an open pit (never again), after forty one years underground, I still 'love' it! Muck, muck, muck, till you drop.....:)
Can't wait to get back underground...got tired of waiting around for a job, so I got in on the ground floor of a high-grade gold project and am doing most of their engineering and equipment selection. If the job you want doesn't exist, make it so.
Thank you for sharing, this was quite an eye opener. I have been reading and hearing so much about the environmental impact mining has been having and the newer regulations on almost any thing any one wants to do, but this is the first time I have seen how these issues are being handled. It does, however leave open the question of whether or not the open pits left from the mining operations will eventually be at least partially re filled and if some of the underground shafts will be filled in. The section on the underground operations gave the indication that the tailings could be repacked into the shafts after processing to remove the gold and so helping to reduce the negative impact on the land.
I can speak about Barrick Goldstrike also in NV. When they quit de-watering the open pit, it will fill about 25 feet a year with water. So the end result is a lake in the desert, with about 75 feet of wall around it. (I quit work there in 2002, so the exact details get fuzzy) The rock that came out has been re-sculpted and replanted, so moving it back would just be more disruption. This video mentions dewatering the underground at Cortez is also dewatering the open pit, unlike Goldstrike, where the underground is north of the open pit.
Of course the Jumbo guys a Newfie, where ever there is a mine you'll find a Newfoundlander. Also not every mine is as sweet as this one. I've been in 14 different mines in Canada and they all differ, depending on on money. It changes coming from a contractors perspective as well, where bonus is almost half your paycheque sometimes. So, of course your gonna drill as much core as possible, as well as keeping safety a factor. We had 7 years no LTI up in Rabbit Lake, Uranium Mine. Northern Saskatchewan. Just for our Boart Longyear Diamond Drill crew.
Gasoline powered equipment is against the law in Canada at least, we're all diesel powered, but their newest mine about a hundred miles west of here is all battery powered equipment.
It's essentially illegal in the US as well. You can get away with it in big room-and-pillar mines with parallel entries provided the truck isn't shut down underground...MSHA considers it stored fuel at that point. Mostly just supervisors driving their F-150s underground.
If it is in your house it was either grown or mined. metals like lithium, cobalt, zinc and antimony for you bathroom fixtures, lead for your car battery, graphite for pencils, gypsum for dry walls, silver, gold for computer parts, etc. etc. Thank God for miners and Mines.
Never worked in a a mine that deals with metals. some day maybe. but iv ben a haul truck driver at a potash mine in northern utah for 16 years and love it. over past two years I thought about going to precious metals and hopefully make a little more of that $$$$
I can say i worked at Barrick Goldstrike, another nearby mine from 1988 to 2002, and this was our safety protocol as well. Anyone can stop production if they see a safety hazard. One miner had a reaction to a bee sting and every mine world wide added antitoxin to every first aid kit.
Just another hole in the ground with a rabbit warren added to it . Barrick gold used to be in the western Australia region of the goldfields . Used to work for them . I've only got 23 yrs underground mining experience in many mines for minerals ranging from nickel to gold and lithium . Open cut and fill stoping method is mostly done along with block caving method . most places use paste ( cement ) fill and others use waste rock as backfill . Using a jumbo isn't all that difficult when comes to boring out a cut / round , bolting and meshing is where patience and skill comes into play . Scaling is the fun part with a jumbo . Overall just another day at the office . Icon dets are best used for stope firing . Piece of cake using the loaders, trucks etc . Using a loader on line of sight remotes or tele-remotes that takes skill . These loader / mucker operators in this video need to water down the dirt more and stop mucking dry dirt .
pard you clearly have never worked in Nevada. I agree that the muck pile needs to bet wet down before mucking, but if you put water on the muck pile in Nevada it turns to fucking mud and is miserable to muck. Only place I wouldn’t wet down muck piles was NV
ANFO and emulsion out of a UV-11...been there, done that, tasted ANFO all day! No idea what the hell a computer system has to do with that, only time I've seen electronic caps used, the scatter was bad enough that it caused serious underbreak and ground vibration issues to boot.
I had to re-watch parts of it, because the info-dumps were just so fast and they used a lot of jargon. I still didn't understand all of it. And US units are weird, with mixing imperial and metric systems and things like ounces per tonne.
Do you still mine opal? Any tips or resources for a beginner about how to find and join local mining or geology groups? Any tips or video reccomendatioms to.begin mining (gems) as a hobby?
@@golanoski1 Yep still mining searching 4 that illusive million dollar seam :)Just google mining and geology groups in your local area there are plenty of rock hound clubs
@@brucewmclaughlin9072 that gold does pay wages... 401ks but no sir Mr dressup sells most that gold, wreaks (our land... that Nevada land) takes it and goes to Canada where insulin is just 4.25$... to our great USA it's 120.00$ if you love our country THAT SHOULD piss you off.
What happens when the mining stops? Do all the tailings get reclaimed? Do they fill in the pit? What happens to the cyanide? Is mining still profitable if they clean up the site afterwards? In a lot of mining areas there are many sink holes. Is it safe to build houses or do any human activities in the area after a lot of mining has been done there? Or is the land permanently changed and unsafe for human use?
The dore leaving the mine is about 94% gold, it is trucked to the city and refined to 99.99% gold 'for free'. (The impurities are silver and copper, so this still makes the refiner money) Gold is a 'cash on the barrel-head' transaction, the price is fixed daily in London. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_fixing The gold we sold went to electronics, jewelry, and hoarders in India and China.
There is no Split!! They get a paycheck from the company. A regular paycheck every 2 weeks and a footage bonus check. WELL over 100 grand a year. Plus most schedules you only work a half a month and have half a month off with the way the days off and work days fall.
Safety first is a first for me. Nippers under the jumbo boom as they’re actively drilling, climbing through a deep sump. Removing PPE and using the scraping bar. Boggers not putting up bunds in front of an open stope and mucking out. Boggers telling truckies to drive under unsupported ground to get loaded. So many safety breaches I’ve come across
We are running out of sand to make cement of. The building blocks of our modern age. We have placed all cement underground so we where able to mine for gold. If you think about this. Humanity is really weird...
