Aluminum Mining: Inside the World's Largest Aluminum Deposits: Mining & Manufacturing
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Welcome to the heart of the aluminum industry! Join us on an immersive journey deep into the world's largest aluminum deposits, where we uncover the intricate processes of both mining and manufacturing. From the rugged terrains of extraction sites to the sophisticated facilities of production plants, we delve into every aspect of aluminum's lifecycle. Discover the relentless efforts, innovative techniques, and environmental considerations that shape the aluminum mining and manufacturing landscape. Join us as we uncover the fascinating story behind this versatile metal that powers industries worldwide.
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AI generated script read by robot voice. At times it is just word porridge.
@Enhancedlies
Ай бұрын
Thank you for saving me from AI hell
@camacho1234
Ай бұрын
the comments in here are sus too
@Stanton_High
Ай бұрын
Dead Internet theory isn't just a theory.
@egay86292
Ай бұрын
Turing test much? AI's yo mamma.
@alexp.6145
Ай бұрын
Eh... humans are overrated. Beep... boop...
All that mining, science, and technical process to cook a baked potato and throw the aluminum foil away.
@bobbythompson6017
Ай бұрын
I save anything aluminum and recycle it
@box3976
Ай бұрын
You pronounced aluminum wrong...
Men do the most incredible things. How did they ever discover all the processes it takes to make the finished product? Just the manufacture of the machinery to process it is mind blowing.
@nicksshitbro
Ай бұрын
Trial and error, just like every other discovery.
@mohamadarifinaliarifin2903
Ай бұрын
And very costly too... All the hardship works bring beneficial to the world. solute.
@beammachine4525
Ай бұрын
fire
@Bob_Adkins
Ай бұрын
Free markets. If enough people need something, they will get it. They work out the processes 1 at a time and slowly perfect them.
@kizzjd9578
Ай бұрын
Whats even more mind blowing is the process to manufacture carbon ceramic or carbon fibre. Theres only 3 factories in the world that can so it. Csiro australia made a small batch but nothing on the scale as the other big 3 manufacturers.
It's not a second digester. It is called a Rod Mill to grind the material into a consistent size before adding it to caustic. It is the first step for the Bauxite. I designed some for Alcoa in America.
@michaels.ramsey7803
Ай бұрын
I'm from Central Arkansas and worked in the refractory field rebuilding Alcoa and Reynolds furnaces.
@slughead
Ай бұрын
Pretty sure it's an AI script read out by an AI voice - Would explain why it doesn't make sense.
I work on aircraft, and it amazes me how strong aluminum can be with the correct engineering. Sheet aluminum is very weak and floppy, but when the same sheet is ridged, bent, or dimpled, and installed, it's profoundly stronger. Aircraft design is amazing.
@t.mendous7922
Ай бұрын
2024 Copper/Aluminum alloy is very strong, usually hardened to T3 and clad with a few thousandths of pure aluminum each side, coming out with the standard 2024 T3 Alclad. It is amazing how a little geometry stiffens it
i worked for 6 years at one of the top 5 biggest aluminium smelter in world. this video recall my all the memories
You have a British accent but mispronounce aluminium.
@peterresetz1960
Ай бұрын
I have personally known two different British born and raised individuals whom both pronounced aluminum (alu-min-e-um). There was also banter about various car parts names such as the trunk is termed a boot, fenders are called wings, and the engine compartment hood is a bonnet. Too many of these KZread channels now are reverting to creating a script and then have a computer generated voice narration.
@LordGizmo
Ай бұрын
@@peterresetz1960 yes the banter is never ending :)
@ashesman1
Ай бұрын
Pretty sure it's a computer generated voice, so maybe forgot to tick the box to say aluminium!
@gugusano
Ай бұрын
Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why
@sticustom
Ай бұрын
Correct. It’s Al You Min Eye Um NOT Al Loo Mim Num
Interesting fact: Aluminum used to be more rare than gold, before they knew how to process it.
@beardedchefau
Ай бұрын
Well they knew how to process it, just not in large quantities, until some someone bailey came along and figured out a system
@johniwanaga3517
Ай бұрын
Technically, it was never rare - just expensive to produce in pure form. Even after figuring out how to process the metal from ore - a cheap source of electricity was needed to make aluminum available to the masses. Coal and oil made the real difference. No other metal's price is as dependent on cheap energy.
@xerxespamplemousse6622
Ай бұрын
Refined aluminum was rare. Elemental aluminum is the most common metallic element in the Earth's crust. Just hard to get pure.
@milwaukeebrewers6337
Ай бұрын
Interesting fact: aluminum has never been rarer than gold at any time in history.
@lanceleavitt7472
Ай бұрын
@@milwaukeebrewers6337 -- You are technically correct. Processed aluminum was only more valuable than gold in the mid-1800s. Elemental aluminum has always been very common in Earth's crustal composition. --- I stand corrected. ---
Astounding heavy equipment innovations showcase the pinnacle of industrial progress.
Very inspiring and informative...Excellent Greetings from a traditional Indonesian gold prospector 🇲🇨🌼✋👍👍
I used to haul aluminum ingets from a plant in Monette, Missouri to a plant in South Carolina so interesting to see how the ingets are made.
@petercrossley1069
Ай бұрын
Ingots. Not ingets.
@CajunInLaw
Ай бұрын
@@petercrossley1069lmao. What an idjet! 😂
Very well done , I worked in a cement plant quarry , processed the rock completely to finished product of bagged cement , or rail car loading . The aluminum process is very interesting , thank you
@americanwoman6246
Ай бұрын
You worked in a quarry? Like lime stone? Or?...
@LordGizmo
Ай бұрын
Thank you. It was a difficult one to do and to not bore the living daylights out of everyone
I dunno where that footageis from or where you got your information but that's not the Gladstone refinery, how do I know? Cause I'm an alumina producer in that refinery only semi accurate things I saw was needing bauxite and crushing it to mix with caustic but we call them mills. The processes mentioned are somewhat accurate
@steelthfighter
Ай бұрын
i noticed things were odd myself. was tempted to flag this as misinformation
@beardedchefau
Ай бұрын
1 severely incorrect fact is at 3:35, it doesn't need to be transported to the refinery because the wharf is attached to the refinery only transport required is from the ship to our stockpiles by conveyor
@steelthfighter
Ай бұрын
Not to mention it seemed like they cut and pasted a lot of the clips out of order. Not sure how far in you got in the video, but I couldn't make it that far
@gradertfamilymakes
Ай бұрын
This channel is fake. It's all AI driven.
@wex9210
Ай бұрын
@steelthfighter "They're some inaccuracies with clips in this video" at the end of the video
From bombers to beer cans, amazing stuff.
Was blown away to learn that cast iron is used to bond anode block and steel terminal!! 🤯
The top of the Washington Monument it capped in aluminum because at the time of completion, aluminum was worth more than gold. True fact.
I’d be Proud of that Purchase!
It's called aluminium not aloominumb.
@bobbythompson6017
Ай бұрын
People get triggered when you say aluminum and not the " other scientific word for it"
Good video Lord Gizmo. T.y.
I'm a wee bit surprised that you didn't have more to say about the vast amount of electric power that's needed to convert alumina to the final-product metal. Essentially, electricity is a raw material for aluminum production -- direct-current, at 5 volts and 100 to 300 kilo-amps. Takes about 10 to 15 kilowatt-hours to produce one kg of aluminum.
@bernardkroeger4045
Ай бұрын
Don't they colloquially refer to aluminum as solidified electricity ?
@not.likely
Ай бұрын
Or how the electricity consumption of aluminum refineries impacts drastically on entire economies. The average taxpayer doesn't realise how much he is subsidizing aluminum production each time he purchases his domestic kilowatt-hours. They also don't mention the fluoride fall out from the smoke these refineries billow and how it poisons the surrounding environment where plants eventually fail to grow...or the intensely high temperatures that that the workers have to face and endure in the smelters and where pouring the aluminium solution. It is a wonderful metal but it comes at a very heavy price to mankind and the environment, so they prefer not talk about it. Australia exports much of its bauxite to countries in Africa for refining. Their pollution laws don't allow them to refine on home soil. Suffer the people of the emerging economies for the love of money
Very interesting thank you ❤
Prachtige documentaire 🎉😊
All that stuff that's in the earth's core is there for a reason
@Dave-ohhh
Ай бұрын
For humans to deplete it
Good job
Excelente
Great Video !! Good
@gugusano
Ай бұрын
Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why
Min 8:00 What happened to those big carbon blocks?
The process is Calcination (roasting) not "calcification."
very amazing and complete video ❤👈
I work in mining. This is the first time ive ever seen blast holes be entirely hand loaded
More aluminum than iron in the Earth's crust?! First I've heard of that assertion.
@bradfordjeff
Ай бұрын
Earth's mantle is liquid iron. The crust has way more aluminum than iron.
@d.jensen5153
Ай бұрын
The earth's crust is approximately 8.2% Al and 5.6% Fe.
@N4CR5
Ай бұрын
@@d.jensen5153allegedly lmao
@ernisj.8087
Ай бұрын
Aluminium ore is Boxite. Boxite can be found in simple clay under your feet.Each clay has some percentage of Boxite.The one whay is usedhas most percentage of boxite.
@ralphaverill2001
Ай бұрын
@@ernisj.8087 Thank you. I had no idea bauxite was so prevalent.
I used to work in a cheese mine
thats a lot of work to make aluminium
What rock are they mining the aluminum from ?
@jmjsr
2 ай бұрын
Bauxite
this was most interesting & more informative.
Aluminium was not made until electricity was invented ,
Does it continue at an age 5 level?
I could not retell this proces...its rather complicated...( interesting vid)
Video focused to much on Anode processing and never explained the Smelting process.
but why does the process begin heating to a temperature in Celsius and end in Fahrenheit?
@mikelastname
Ай бұрын
as the aluminium becomes liberated it has to change to freedom units.
is this melt smelting upper part rail car early era
I just wish videos like this would show the statistics on how many people are injured or killed in the process of bring products like this to people. People take a lot for granted and don't realize some of us put our life on the line so they can enjoy certain products, roads, houses, food, ECT. All we do, for the glory of man.
Nice ❤❤❤l
I totally see this process happening with green tech energy sources
Bauxite is the base ore of aluminium and needs many processes to produce aluminium.
4:46 I thought I'd never hear someone from uk say aluminum correctly 👏👏👏👏👏
Pholabora South Africa Thanks
Holy crap, the British guy pronounced it correctly!! 🤯
Lord Jizmo
AL-U-MI-I-UM
I would love to see a video about ENGELHARD INDUSTRYS ABOUT SILVER
That’s a lot of al-loo-mi-knee-um mate
Much of the smelting footage appears to be from the EMAL facility in Abu Dhabi
Good overall video, but couple of mistakes. The video for alumina production mixes alumina and aluminium process
Humans are so smart
11:19 1m³ of AL weights about 2,7t , for it to weight 30t, you would need a piece that is more than 1mx1m and 10m long, clearly none of the slabs in video is that big
Do you think you could put together a piece on 'Clear Aluminum'. First mentioned on 'Star Trek 4 - Whales'. I believe it is called Gorilla Glass and it might involve doping with Silicon.
@bradfordjeff
Ай бұрын
Gorilla glass is almost pure silicon.
@glenlongstreet7
Ай бұрын
So are transistors, it is the doping that makes it work. Changes the lattice.
@michaels.ramsey7803
Ай бұрын
It's called synthetic sapphire, They make watches and phone screen protectors from it. They use heat to make aluminum dust transparent. (I oversimplified the process for space and time.)
@glenlongstreet7
Ай бұрын
Thanks. I did some research maybe a decade ago. I live near to a very large silicon production facility. Many years ago I was an electronics gem and looked at the chemistry of silicon. But it is all just granite to me. 😉
The only picture of Gladstone is at 3.33 Gladstone is home to 2 refinery’s and smelter and various other businesses Not a bad video which I could understand but from my point the video was slightly out of whack in terms of details to what was coming up on the screen and what you were describing!
Why is it that only the American videos have a million ads??
I love hearing Aluminum pronounced correctly
@callumnicholson5416
Ай бұрын
U would've had a hard time watching this then
Also a key ingredient inThermite....
Shame that the narrative bore no relationship to the video…..crystallization etc was never shown…..
@LordGizmo
Ай бұрын
Yes it was a vey technical video and I was questioning certain aspects as to how technical I could push it without “boring” the living daylights out of everyone.
Thats a lot of pie tins. My favorite is strawberry rhubarb
What is the electric bill and natural gas?
@bobbythompson6017
Ай бұрын
In the trillions
Lord Gizmo please help to find investors for gold and cupper mining of Southern Negros, Philippines. We have some biggest deposit of these minerals but we don't have investors.
Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why
Take care of the aluminum and the aluminum will take care of you.
A.l.u.m.i.n.u.m no aluminium
@nishantkumarverma883
3 күн бұрын
4 years of mechanical engineering and i just came to know this
I think they skipped the electrolysis part after preparing those carbon anode being glued with molten iron to the rod. They simply skipped into metal aluminum process. Crystallized alumina isn't yet metallic aluminum I suppose.
Aluminium, please, you’re English 😂
@chipperthompson8746
Ай бұрын
I watched a documentary recently about the last Space Shuttle flight. One of the astronauts, whom I thought should have been crazy smart, kept pronouncing it "ALUNIMIN". Afterwards, I tried to tell someone about the way that he kept pronouncing it, I had tremendous trouble doing so. It took me about 15 times of saying it in order to get it WRONG(in the way that he was)!
@jommarpino1472
Ай бұрын
Hastilan ka O.a pOdt nmu,
Wtf those are some massive blocks.
What percentage of recycled aluminum make up the entire amount even though a lot of aluminum gets recycled the percentage is probably super low.
Alcoa Plant?
That's crazy Red Rock turns into silver aluminum
Aluminum isn't "mined". Bauxite or cryolite are mined and smelted in a foundry to create to metal.
lots of nice footage... put together with a barely understandable dialogue, read by a person who speaks English well.... but doesn't watch the footage or even understand what's going on.
The music in the video is distracting.!
All I can think about, when “ Mother Earth “ takes her revenge it’s going to be “ Apocalyptic “ for mankind!!!
It's Aluminium, not Aloowminum...
@jml3327
Ай бұрын
Who gives a shit
Gallium and Germanium are rich in side product of Aluminum purify process.
Aluminum and metal teachings helpings all All aluminum is key in grafite use heat in not dont
America made aloominum practical .so they own that nomenclature and pronunciation. Not many people know that the statue in picadlly fountain is made from aluminium which cost almost as much as gold to make before it became cheaper with mass electricity
I learned something from this. However the comments here have me questioning the voice, script, and meaning behind this video.
Alu-mini-um it has two letter i's in it Dag namit!!!!!😂
Can you imagine how many dinosaur/ancient bones and even minerals they destroy without a care
1. The thumbnail is a lie. There are no chunks of Aluminum to be mined on earth. 2. One background song gets infused into another. Hence two songs play at the same time for quite some time. 3. Using the metric system and US system in the same video. Just stick to one. 4. Saying that it will be processed in Gladstone means absolutely nothing to anyone not from Queensland and/or Australia. It would be nice to actually specify the location on a world map, or at least mention the country. Cheers.
but the price of scrap aluminum is very low under a £1 per KG in in Uk
Not the best description of the process. Not much said about the electrolysis process.
Say after me Al U Min Eum!
Al YOU MIN IUM!
@theminiatureconstructionco4556
Ай бұрын
Yes. There is nothing worse than hearing a British person pronounce Aluminium in the American way. 😕
@squamishstu
Ай бұрын
I disagree, there is nothing worse than hearing a British person speak
@rosewhite---
Ай бұрын
@@squamishstu jealousy is a terrible burden. get yourself som e West Yorkshire dialect cds and learn to speak proper.
@theminiatureconstructionco4556
Ай бұрын
@@rosewhite--- they would still sound like Dick Van Dyke......🤣
@rosewhite---
Ай бұрын
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 I 'd like to know who taught him that English accent!"
aluminum or aluminium?which one right?
@danhay8933
Ай бұрын
they are both correct, more than 1 inventor from diff countries ,yet I think only north americans say aluminum
@user-pu2cj3no5f
Ай бұрын
The first person called it aluminum, scientists decided the ium ending would be better to go with all of the other elements ending in ium.
well i know understand why aluminum is so expensive lot of steps and lot of enargy goes into making it. hear i just thaught the eletric furnces was the power hungry part.
So aluminum is basically rock mixed with soda
I mean....this is kind of right. But, its bauxite that is in the earths crust and then it is refined into alumina, which is then turned into aluminum
The heck is that thumbnail?
Aluminum isn't mined. Do you mean bauxite?
All that Aluminum and it's like pulling teeth to get a small AL extrusion 1 meter long.
Aluminium
Aswel , aluminum dust is the largest industrial by product. And the government and corporations found a perfect way to dispose of it. ☁️ 😷
@1:43 I mean really ? You really use excavators and dump trucks ? I’d never thought of that.