The method he's showing is called froth flotation. He's not mentioning an important part of the process. The process of electrolysis leaves behind "anode slimes". Two of the more common metals in the slimes are gold and silver. The slimes often provide a significant part of the income of the mine.

@JKTCGMV13

4 ай бұрын

Mmmm slime cash 💰🤤

@andrew6464

4 ай бұрын

@@JKTCGMV13slime cash 💰 😩

@Haemaglobin

4 ай бұрын

irl slime rancher confirmed

@shanetuma3845

4 ай бұрын

Well this video is about copper production, not gold.

@aredditor4272

4 ай бұрын

@@shanetuma3845 gold, silver, and other valuable metals are almost always found with copper.

Humans have figured out how to do some wild shit

@neonnova-on1gp

3 ай бұрын

@@mrsstaff7876 yeah like living without water and in polluted area

@2stroke438

3 ай бұрын

*white people

@kuratse205

3 ай бұрын

​@@neonnova-on1gpYou'd be long buried by then.

@williammatthews7735

3 ай бұрын

As we learn the intricacies of the universe, the only things that holds us back are creativity and resources

@HollowMartyr1333

3 ай бұрын

Yet none of it means anything and it's all wrong

the fact that someone looked at the way Factorio smelts copper and said, "hmmm not realistic enough" and then made a mod that mimics this process is crazy.

@jackmeyers7805

Ай бұрын

The fact that you just used a complete sentence where 99.99% of other people would leave it open-ended brings me unreasonable satisfaction. Also I too love Factorio.

@justtestingitout652

Ай бұрын

​@jackmeyers7805 The fact you used and right after a period brings me so much sadness.

@karlking9871

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I tried those mods, and while they are realistic, it made it hard for me to get into it and I gave up. Very cool though, and yes I had the exact same thought when I saw the copper slabs and started picturing belts full of copper plates

@michaelhawkingphd

Ай бұрын

What mod?

@eduardopupucon

Ай бұрын

pyanodon's?

"This copper is 99.9% pure" -Heisenberg

@YodaWhat

Ай бұрын

At 99.9% purity you would go, on average, only TEN atoms in any direction before encountering an impurity atom. :-O

As an electrician who pulls this stuff everyday at work, I find this pretty fascinating.

@rite2bcreative

3 ай бұрын

I've done some contracting work at the Kennecott copper mine in Utah and the entire process including all the products from the other 99% of the ore is crazy interesting. You should look up molybdenum processing and anodes pouring :)

@luigicirelli2583

3 ай бұрын

you, an electrician?! so?

@luigicirelli2583

3 ай бұрын

@@rite2bcreative you've done some contracting work at the kennecott copper mine in utah?! so?

@dingle_supreme

3 ай бұрын

​@@luigicirelli2583yes

@Wranorn

3 ай бұрын

@@luigicirelli2583 So he pulls copper wires for a living and being that I have to explain that connection just baffles me.

"Jesse, we need to cook 99.99% pure Copper"

@lyteyearz5810

2 ай бұрын

Heh heh heh 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@rgolab3174

2 ай бұрын

What are you, like 60 and all of a sudden you're gonna break bad?

@cyepes

2 ай бұрын

ahhhh wire

@5hadyS0Cent

2 ай бұрын

I’m not in danger Skyler, I am the Danger..is my middle name

@quigglesnoopmcboop9087

2 ай бұрын

Uh uh tuco you arent supposed to snort that oh ok

"Ahhhhh, wire." "Yo, Mr White."

@GigaChdad

13 күн бұрын

Hands down best comment

Whoever figured out that process deserves some recognition

@aalapvedpathak6672

3 күн бұрын

Shout out to the process

@Metal_Master_YT

10 сағат бұрын

Well, I'm not sure it was just one guy, it was likely many different invertors coming up with each step, and refining said steps.

@CrucialGaming444

8 сағат бұрын

@@Metal_Master_YT true, makes sense. Either way kudos to them… incredible.

Now I understand the Ea Nasir customer complaint tablet from Ancient Mesopotamia about copper quality

@davidcovington901

4 ай бұрын

Best comment I'll see today, thanks!

@lukehamilton5397

4 ай бұрын

Lol

@OnePlusOneEqualsOnePlusOne

4 ай бұрын

Ea-Nasor: I sell only quality copper He did not mention what quality

@GunGryphon

3 ай бұрын

Think they still do returns? We've even got the recipt.

@krakenpots5693

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. Different techniques back then, I'd suppose...

Copper is one of the most cool metals. It's very malleable, resists corrosion, conducts electricity well, can form a protective layer of patina when outdoors, and it even has antimicrobial properties! The color is also fairly unique.

@user-du1mz5zx7s

4 ай бұрын

And is recyclable..

@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor

4 ай бұрын

And with copper you can make brass, which looks like gold

@milesmccollough5507

4 ай бұрын

@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingForwhich also preserves or enhances nearly all the good physical qualities of copper despite slightly fudging the conductivity

@eisenweg-ry7hf

4 ай бұрын

The more abundant version of gold

@tongpoo8985

4 ай бұрын

And you can use it to make beryllium copper, basically as strong as steel but corrosion resistant and conductive. Incredible material. And yeah the antimicrobial properties are why they use them in IUD birth control

Also forgot to include the part about the companies abandoning the mines after they run dry, turning them into toxic death lakes when the rainfall fills them. It's a necessary part of the process.

@Felix-Sited

Ай бұрын

It's tradition....and completely expected.

@boyinpyjamas

Ай бұрын

i hope we get more of them they look beautiful.

@lochmarFiendhiem

Ай бұрын

Well that's just the way she goes if that part is necessary.

@creepingdeath9795

Ай бұрын

Have to take the bad with the good.

@johnsteel5347

Ай бұрын

​@@creepingdeath9795Or we could make the corporations pay for the clean up.

Minecraft Steve just smelting in in a furnace 🗿

"that's it" it amazes me that people actually figured out how to do all this

@elimarc3891

2 ай бұрын

Thousands of years with no internet or tv. They got bored

@Alknine7

2 ай бұрын

What you really think this that the past people would get bored because they do not have internet or phone 😅u really are just a kid listen thousands of years ago our ancestors dp not get bored because they don't have phone they were continuously developing and and doing much more discoveries​@@elimarc3891

@ImBread88888

2 ай бұрын

Never underestimate the knowledge of humans. Maybe soon, we will turn cooper into a dyson sphere if we focused on using our resources instead of destroying each other.

@Irobert1115HD

2 ай бұрын

@@ImBread88888 nah that takes far far sturdier materials than copper.

@williammcleroy558

2 ай бұрын

​@@Irobert1115HDProbably would take more material than our planet could produce too. We'd have to advance a LOT before even trying to imagine making a Dyson Sphere.

Cover all metals that you can be done or extracted by electrolysis

@bibhutihazarika8610

4 ай бұрын

Godzilla just had a stroke trying to read this sentence!

@Dacy_man

4 ай бұрын

​@@bibhutihazarika8610 bro fr

@StrikesPerception

4 ай бұрын

@@bibhutihazarika8610Hahahaha

@Unknown34083

4 ай бұрын

Metal Too Low Power electric Only copper Fast Power

@IsraelFundedEpstein

4 ай бұрын

​@@Unknown34083 👏

Now we just need a video on how crackheads steal the copper and the cycle will be completed.

Holycrap! Imagine the guy who was first deciding the process to actually get copper.

my minecraft furnace ain't doin allat.

@user-xu4ev4lh6n

2 ай бұрын

I was searching 🔎 for the comment though...😂

@Venkateshwaran_M

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-xu4ev4lh6nso did i

@Kreptic

2 ай бұрын

All that*

@takeru6549

2 ай бұрын

@@Kreptic boowomp

@SirDuckerlin

2 ай бұрын

@@Krepticr/wooosh

I'll finish since the video didn't. After the cathode is put into the furnace, it melts down and the liquid copper is poured out into a continuous bar. While hot, the bar is pulled through progressively smaller and smaller plates with holes in them called dies. From what I've seen, there is a large size finished wire that is transported to other drawing facilities to be further drawn to smaller sizes for different uses.

@certifiedredditgenius

3 ай бұрын

Really, they don't twist it into wire at the same factory?

@Javelina_Poppers

3 ай бұрын

Freeport-MacMoRan has a copper rod plant in Claypool Arizona with the refined copper cathode sheets converted into coils of copper rod.

@seandudley4766

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Mereologist

3 ай бұрын

This is actually where the 'gauge' of a wire comes from. A 1-gauge wire has been pulled through the smallest die that they can force a bar of metal through. A 2-gauge wire has been pulled through a second die that's the smallest a 1-gauge wire can be forced through. And so on. Most wiring for electronics is in the neighborhood of 20-gauge. Huge powerlines and the like are usually much larger than 1-gauge. Of course a lot of wires are more complex than even that. A solid bar of copper - even a thin one - is not especially flexible and prone to 'necking' (bending in one spot over and over which makes it brittle). So many modern wires are instead made of a collection of even smaller strands which are twisted together. A uniform twist in this way not only gives the wires more flexibility, but has been shown to conduct electricity a little better, which seems to prefer moving in spirals. So a 20-gauge wire is often a spiral of much smaller wires twisted together to provide the same overall cross-sectional area (or CAU).

@nas1479

3 ай бұрын

@@certifiedredditgenius Where I work for, the plant that casts out the wire into "rod" only does that. The other plants with the drawing machines which bring the wire to the proper gauge also have "plexers" which twist multiple wires into cable. It all depends on the plant and the product, plus different companies have their own spin on the process.

That's insane that copper is comprised of only 1% of those rocks in that truck load

@pilipolvoron2699

Ай бұрын

It's worth noting a large secondary income for metal & mineral mining is plain 'ol gravel. And gravel is used for a ton of things like concrete.

@SirNobleIZH

12 күн бұрын

​@pilipolvoron2699 another major source of income is that after the electrolysis process, there is an "anode slime" left behind coating the plates. This slime contains high concentrations of gold and silver

As a trucker, I used to ship those coiled up copper wires. I only carried six of them because those things are extremely heavy

This is way different than how the tweekers in my city do it.

@chris76-01

4 ай бұрын

They are experts in copper extraction 😂

@jamesakers1175

3 ай бұрын

They tend to extract everything of value from the home. Preferably when no one is there.

@Mo11y666

3 ай бұрын

This video shows you how to get it from rock to wire...Tweekers show you how to turn wire into a different rock. Theres a whole science to it.

@dp7047

3 ай бұрын

​@@Mo11y666😂😂😂

@laurieb3703

3 ай бұрын

​@@Mo11y666omg 😂😂😂

When you begin to understand things like this, you really appreciate that as end user consumers we can get daily items like this for fairly cheap

@Dr.Kraig_Ren

2 ай бұрын

Copper is fairly expensive for us. I guess u live in a rich nation.

@Dr.Kraig_Ren

2 ай бұрын

People steal copper wires cuz they fetch good money

@alitheeternity4230

2 ай бұрын

I am also sure he missed a step called bessemerization but I am talking from my chem textbook so I don't know if that still happens.

@christianmoore7932

2 ай бұрын

​@@Dr.Kraig_Renyet there are millions of miles of copper wires

@solorollo9756

2 ай бұрын

I’m conflicted, because all these jobs are pretty much being done by robots. It’s wild to me that in the 90s, before widespread computerization, people had a higher quality of life in America and more mobility. How has the computer and robotization of America helped? It really doesn’t seem like it has

those bubbles are truly satisfying to watch

No, you use 8 cobblestone to craft a furnace, than place the ore inside and use fuel, such as any wooden item (like planks, or more efficiently, sticks) or coal to fuel it lomg enough for the copper ore to be transformed into ingots. Then you can use it to craft lighting rods or use it for decoration.

They really went "99%? Nah fam, over here we do 99.99%"

@OmnipotentNoodle

3 ай бұрын

99% purity is actually very low for refined metals, especially when it is going to be used in electrical applications. Every single atom of impurity adds electrical resistance, so 1% impurity in a cable is a LOT of resistance. You can also imagine how that would add up very quickly as more wire is used. Edit: Another way to picture it is that, with 99% purity, 1 out of every 100 atoms is an impurity. With 99.99%, its only 1 in every 10,000. The percentage may seem small, but its a difference in _orders of magnitude_

@Fenestration526

3 ай бұрын

Walter White style

@stephengrigg5988

3 ай бұрын

​@@OmnipotentNoodlethank you, math and chemistry have never interested me, so I don't know much about them. That was a good way of putting it out in simple terms.

@Ceg907

3 ай бұрын

@@stephengrigg5988😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😘😏

@SchweinrichOG

3 ай бұрын

Time to cook!

Crazy how much goes into things we take for granted every day.

@Dragon.Slayer.

3 ай бұрын

Look at how involved a process making a toaster is

We makin lightning rods in minecraft with dis one 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I feel like you should have said "... To the shiny copper wires we know and scavengers love!"

Thank you! My father was a metallurgist many years ago. He poured large manganese bronze propellers for tankers, subs, aircraft and cargo carriers. I miss his metallurgy lectures. I’ve forgotten most of it now but I think I was the only one in my fourth grade class who knew the difference among copper, brass, and bronze! We loved visiting his foundry. Thanks again for the memories!

@chrishaberbosch1029

3 ай бұрын

Nickel

@cloudynguyen6527

3 ай бұрын

Ooh thank you for the story. Though this might be rude to ask but working with that much metal, does it affect your father's health?

@IsraelCountryCube

3 ай бұрын

​No. This ore isn't Radium. Radioactive ores. uranium. I think it's interesting how God legit made a useful but dangerous ore ☠️💀

@junaidhasrat11

3 ай бұрын

Yeppp. Brass and Bronze are alloys of Copper, I myself had interest in metals and their properties since childhood, it was always something only a few knew.

@c.h.5510

3 ай бұрын

Salute to your Dad.. my Mom: Steel mill 30years

I remember when me and my dad would go copper mining during the recession in abandoned homes

@sloanmagnum5009

4 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

@surters

4 ай бұрын

OMGZ that was not yesterday ... ah you didn't mean the great depression ... or did you?

@Babihrse

4 ай бұрын

Hey even the electricians of 08 went into them and ripped the work they did last month after not being paid and let go.

@bullschitt3666

4 ай бұрын

I know some guys that still go cooper mining. They must also go crystal mining because they always have bags full of them.

@thomaslove6494

4 ай бұрын

Aight that gave me a lol

Wow. Loved the shot. Covered the basic for layman perfectly. Thank you.

It’s absolutely amazing that human beings have come up with such processes that the vast majority have no idea makes their lives so much easier.

I tried to refine copper at university and realised bronze age people had better lab equipment than me.

@jasonvoorhees5640

3 ай бұрын

blaming the equipment for ones failures in life is just cowardly and pathetic.

@EarleTKG

3 ай бұрын

I guess you can’t identify a good joke when it hits you in the face. It’s not that serious.

@RetroNBA42

3 ай бұрын

@@jasonvoorhees5640seek help

@jasonvoorhees5640

3 ай бұрын

@@EarleTKG who hurt you?

@connorjohnson8590

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@jasonvoorhees5640Aye don’t be pulling that. You said what you said, own it. Other guy ain’t wrong. Obviously a chemical lab would be ill equipped to smelt mettle compared to a medieval forge, which wouldn’t have ‘lab equipment’ to begin with.

It’s fucking wild how it’s only 1 percent copper yet we extract so much of it on a daily basis that copper is considered a cheap metal

@greenpulseeducation5002

3 ай бұрын

4000 years old technology.

@jaromor8808

3 ай бұрын

huh? is copper cheap? i heard people steal copper wiring like crazy

@pullupullupullup4687

3 ай бұрын

I wonder if society could get these types of facilities going again if we were to miss a few summers due to some type of event

@dylantellez2496

3 ай бұрын

@xZatchx as a current copper miner, copper has never gone above $5/lb.

@sxndwich3395

3 ай бұрын

@@dylantellez2496 Thats raw copper. Not cable/wire.

The transportation part is the coolest IMO, especially in the US, the Iron ore is crushed into pellets and blended with a binder that allows the pellet to hold its shape, which is then called taconite (effectively the same thing as iron ore), then it's loaded into rail cars, and those are taken to ore docks at the great lakes and are then loaded onto ore ship. If anyone is wanting an example of this, look up the LS&I railroad, they're based in Michigan and are the only remaining railroad that hauls nothing but taconite.

NCERT :- "Hold my class 11th Metallurgy"😅😂

Im never going to complain about the price of cable again. Scrap dealer prices are excellent at the moment.

@Cheesepuff8

3 ай бұрын

It’s amazing how much effort people thought can put in to getting 1 material

@ashinonyaa6588

3 ай бұрын

You broke and you steal copper and sell it at th scrap yaard

@markkennard861

3 ай бұрын

@@ashinonyaa6588 haha. No I'm an electrician and after about 12 + months I get around $400 worth.. I install aircon so copper is clean = primo price.

@hhjhj393

3 ай бұрын

When I buy food I tend not to feel bad, like when I buy an Apple, or Yogurt, or meat my brain immediately recognizes that it took an insane amount of labor and knowledge to get me that product so I am fine paying the price for it. When I buy any raw material usually I feel that way, metal, wood, etc. FOR SOME REASON THOUGH whenever I am asked to pay taxes or rent my mind goes berserk. I know that these people PROBABLY do stuff, and I know that technically they own the land therefore they have the right to charge what they want, but the idea that someone can just make money without transforming something for some reason infuriates me, I know my thinking is illogical, but I can't help it. I also get insanely angry the more complex a product is. Like if someone sells me metal I am chill because I am paying for a simple product, but like a car I also get angry especially when I KNOW the car company is screwing me over, or I feel that way. Like I know that they could easily make a 1990s Honda Civic and that's all I need, but instead the only thing they sell is their modern cars with so much unnecessary crap that I am FORCED to buy. If anyone can explain that to me that'd be cool. I spend a fair bit of money on food, but I drive the most beater car available, and I live as cheaply as possible in terms of housing. I logically understand the market and that land/housing is scarce, but it still just angers me. There is something far different to me when buying an apple or a piece of copper compared to buying a new car or an apartment.

@derivitivetrash5457

3 ай бұрын

@@ashinonyaa6588 i made better money scrapping professionally than i did working full time for 30k a yr at the factory. Its not just crackheads and brokies scrapping lol

Man. How wild would it be to give a tour of a factory like this, explaining the entire process in painfully high detail, to someone like Benjamin Franklin. His fascination and joy at seeing how fair science has come would be heart warming.

@NarwahlGaming

3 ай бұрын

My mom and I used to talk about how my grandmother would be astounded by a rotary telephone. Now, my mom would be astounded by a Kindle tablet...

@aardque

3 ай бұрын

Franklin would promptly turn around and invent cold fusion utilizing the tools and technology available today.

@MaximilianonMars

3 ай бұрын

Franklin would probably go to some occult rituals, be a freemason pig and bury more bodies in his chateaus. He was a wicked person.

@rebeccaanne9863

3 ай бұрын

Kennecot copper mine / Bingham canyon mine near where I live in Utah offers them between April and October . They’re currently $6 a person and you have to buy tickets in advance. If you want to see one up close and personal

Nice, quick, concise video.

So much for answering the question you asked us at the beginning of the video

I’ve seen the process in AZ. He left out the fact that the main ingredient in that green slurry is pine oil. It’s the best smelling factory you could imagine.

@doomsdoor

3 ай бұрын

Now you got my interest

@snorttroll4379

3 ай бұрын

Have you got a linl to the smell? A smell link?

@EBO47

3 ай бұрын

In maryvale az ....never thought we processed copper hear ....you still work in that field. Would you recommend it ?

@mensaconservative7887

3 ай бұрын

@@EBO47 I was just a visitor to the Asarco mine near Green Valley.

@eldermillennial8330

3 ай бұрын

Unless you’re deathly allergic to pine resin, like my poor niece! 1 minute in there would put her into anaphylactic shock!

99.99% pure. "Tight! Tight, tight, tight!"

I am a crane technician. I get to go into the facilities responsible for every step of this process. Its amazing to watch

I worked in that industry. There's two ways, depending on the ore. One place had oxide ore and no fire was used at all. They pile it up and and circulate acid through it. It leaches the copper out as a solution which goes directly to electrolysis.

True for copper sulfide ore. Copper oxide ore gets stacked in huge mountains and leached with sulfuric acid. The pregnant leach solution goes to an electrowinning plant where the copper gets plated out via electrolysis. Simpler process that doesn't require a smelter.

@gregorymalchuk272

3 ай бұрын

Does it automatically produce cathode quality copper?

@massive_headwound_harry

3 ай бұрын

@gregorymalchuk272 Yes, it does. I simplified the process a bit. Obviously the pregnant leach solution (PLS) carries impurities as well as copper ions when it comes out of the heap. It goes through solvent extraction (SX) where copper is stripped from the weak acid solution using an organic medium and is then stripped again from that medium by stronger acid. This solution is used to produce cathodes. They get shipped straight to rod mills.

@WhatIsSanity

3 ай бұрын

This process also obliterates the surrounding area with toxic run off. It's easier and cheaper, but causes catastrophic pollution.

@levistrauss5378

3 ай бұрын

​@@WhatIsSanityLeach pads are built on top of multiple layers of thick plastic sheeting. The suction lines that collect the acid solution are on top of the plastic sheeting buried underneath the crushed ore. The sites chosen for leech pads generally have an impervious layer of clay underneath preventing leakage into ground water.

@massive_headwound_harry

3 ай бұрын

@WhatIsSanity There are probably some jurisdictions that do poor jobs managing this type of extraction. Modern mining and processing standards require extensive studies and a high level of engineering and planning to protect the environment while optimizing production. Certainly, there are examples of legacy sites and unscrupulous operators in poor or highly corrupt countries that do not adhere to these standards, but there is nothing inherently wrong with the process if done correctly with properly designed and constructed drainage, multiple impermeable base layers, adequate emergency containment to account for rain events, and well-planned and implemented site closure plan. I work in the industry and have had the fortune of working for responsible employers.

No wonder copper always has value, this process is wild to get it in the first place

@DIY_DISASTERZ

Ай бұрын

Infinite money hack: -Start up copper mining company and copper refining factory. -Set up security team and surveillance systems to ensure workers do not steal. -Give workers 15% of copper produced in a day instead of a wage. -Employ only crackheads you found on the streets. -Profit.

It's Incredible just how labor and resource intense this process is!

Copper can be found relatively pure as well. This is why it’s one of the first metals used by ancient people, along with its malleability.

As a plumber, I love copper. It is genuinely one of my favorite metals! Great and informative video!

@snorttroll4379

3 ай бұрын

Do u not get heavy metal poisoning? And what about pex?

@xxitz_pr0gxx631

3 ай бұрын

@@snorttroll4379 I have been been working with copper almost every day for 6 years, and I haven't noticed any kind of difference, as far as heavy metal poisoning. And I as far as pex, I work in commercial construction in the US, and it typically isn't used in commercial settings.

@DrBright5558

3 ай бұрын

@@snorttroll4379 Copper does not cause heavy metal poisoning, and actually is valued in hospitals for its anti-microbial properties.

@jasonvoorhees5640

3 ай бұрын

@@xxitz_pr0gxx631 plumber? as in you work in other peoples crap?

@alexwood6919

3 ай бұрын

Electcrian here! Same!

"how ore is made to wire" "ore made to slab, it's done"

@darrenwebb5334

3 ай бұрын

The slabs are made into everything else, pipe wire etc.

@MrFelblood

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I came here because I wondered how they draw ductile metals into wire, but all I got was this clickbait.

@laserNU

3 ай бұрын

THANK YOU! I Was thinking the same thimg

That 0.01% left over: “I’m still worthy!”

Kudos to all the scientists (100 - 200) that contributed to that marvellous process.

@capybara9521

Ай бұрын

Scientists ? 99% of all inventions and discoveries weren't found or made by scientists but random people

Copper is so unbelievably important for electrical purposes. It's *everywhere.*

@Malepresentingtimelord

3 ай бұрын

That’s shocking

@harms123

3 ай бұрын

No shit?

@Dx_Hearted

3 ай бұрын

I need more Copper for advanced computer chip

@anshswaroop6849

3 ай бұрын

​@@Dx_Heartedno silver is used in computer chips silver have better conductivity than copper (sometimes gold is used to for better corrosion protection)

@guerillagrowersuk3765

3 ай бұрын

Did you only just find this out or something? 😂

Those surviving 0.01% gonna start their villian arc

14:18 i heard "tryptamine", confusing haha You are one of the best channels and personalities within whole osrs community, sir!

Metals are so fascinating man.

I’m a truck driver. I’ve actually hauled those plates to those facilities before

People wonder how we built the pyramids like we didn't figure this shit out.

@grabballz4857

3 ай бұрын

Now try doing any of that shit without industrial level tech.

@Neco-arch

3 ай бұрын

@@grabballz4857 It will take some time but you could do it

@Sprosbold

3 ай бұрын

​@@grabballz4857Like they did in the copper and bronze ages?

@grabballz4857

3 ай бұрын

@@Sprosbold It's just a stupid point.

@sa1ntluke

3 ай бұрын

Fr, everything that exists today would have whoever built the pyramids thinking wtf

The sheer amount of electricity and materials that are required to produce these extractions is insane. I can't imagine the costs of replacing the grinding materials.

Saw something like this not too long ago at the Royal Canadian Mint. Gold and silver are smelted down from bars, formed into sheets, coins are cut and they dump the coins in the water and run a current through it to get the graphics decorated with whatever gold / silver embellishments.

This is one method to get the copper. At the mine I worked at we sprayed sulfuric acid on big piles of ore, heap leaching. The acid would leach out the copper into the solution. That would then go to a leach pond that one the way up to the refinery would need to clarified, either with a clarification step or through filter media. Once the clarified solution, pregnant leach solution or pls, made it to the refineryit would enter the solvent extraction stage (sx). In the first stage and organic layer floats on top the aqueous layer (pls), in this stage the copper is “pulled” into the organic layer above, basically kerosene or better known as jet fuel. The aqueous layer in the first stage is recycled back to the front end of the stage to ensure maximum recovery. The organic layer then is pumped over to the second stage, where the aqueous solution then floats on the organic layer and the copper is “pulled” into the aqueous layer. The organic layer then gets pumped to a filter to pick up any solids or floaters that may have been picked up, with the filtered organic solution going back to front of stage 1. The copper rich solution from stage 2 is then pumped to the elctrowinning process, known as the tank house. The copper rich solution is pumped through troughs with a substrate to adhere to. The plates at our tank house were very thin copper sheets other plants had thin stainless steel sheets that would split the copper plate off. In the troughs are alternating copper (cathode) and lead (anode) plates. Every plate has a hanger that laid on a bus bar to deliver the electricity to cause the electrolrecipitation on the copper starter plate. The power applied to the process determined the cycle time for collecting the completed plates and putting new starter plates in. Once the copper was pulled out it then was inspected for lead deposition and the smoothness of them, they stack better when smoother and are easier to truck out. Some were cut and sent out for assay to determine purity thus resulting the rating. I can’t remember the ratings, but a certain grade would go to a company owned refinery to be purified further and then made into wire or other products. The above grade would be sold directly to copper product suppliers. Sorry for the novel, hope you learned something.

@d.rodrickeamon6133

3 ай бұрын

In the company where I worked, we had a separate small plant called the Slimes Treatment Plant. The process used hydrogen sulfide gas in special flotation rows of machines. That shit's deadly, and an accident at the rail end with a tanker car could have taken out the concentrator as well as a sizeable chunk of the town over a 1/4 mile away.!

@PMontalvo66

3 ай бұрын

@@d.rodrickeamon6133 yeah hydrogen sulfide isn’t anything to mess around with!

@codiserville593

3 ай бұрын

I did, thanks.

@panzfaust9812

3 ай бұрын

@@d.rodrickeamon6133 god fordbid should your personal H2S monitor go off. Paperwork and safety precaution all day follows.

@shipwreck8847

3 ай бұрын

I stopped reading your essay 20 minutes ago.

Whoever came up with this long yet intricate process needs to be given credit, imagine the science and math that went behind building all the machines and steps to do this?

@albert69Einstein

3 ай бұрын

money. capitalism. sadly, thats where the credit goes.

@DrDiabolical000

3 ай бұрын

Has to have been an incremental improvement process spanning a couple of years. Multiple people would have contributed at each step. I am pure guessing here.

@sleverlight

2 ай бұрын

I dont think its one person, it probably evolved into this by different people trying to make this work

Thank you for an excellent explanation on the copper cathodes processing methods..... 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Sad to hear it. Your channel has been a blessing.

The metal I am most curious about is Tungsten, as that metal has a high melting point and is not very common.

@zay0_n4ra11

4 ай бұрын

Who cares about Tungsten? Just use Iron it works 100 times better me lad 👍

@BlackWolf42-

3 ай бұрын

That airplane you may have rode in has tungsten (W) weights on control surfaces to reduce vibrations. The ball in your pen is W also. That weight in the buffer of your ar is W; likely. Wherever you need more weight to occupy less space, W is important. @@zay0_n4ra11

@wallybee-2683

3 ай бұрын

Tungsten filament for light bulbs!

@ahmataevo

3 ай бұрын

@@zay0_n4ra11 - Need tungsten for homemade tank ammo!

@Aro9313

3 ай бұрын

​@@zay0_n4ra11this comment brought to you by iron gang

Copper is also used for pipes since it's corrosion resistant. It's used for decorations too although brass is more common since it's harder than copper I think. As a musician, I see that timpanis have copper sheets around the bottom. Copper used to be used more for things like roofing, buckets and some tools, cookware, decorations, etc. But it's gotten expensive and now been replaced by plastic, steel, aluminum, and other materials. It's also used in radiators in ACs and for tubing in refrigerators and. As a scrapper, I know that older electric motors and transformers used copper windings. Nowadays, some still do, but many appliances and tools use aluminum instead because it's cheaper, which is disappointing as a scrapper because copper is worth about 10 times as much as aluminum. If you're wondering, in America the scrap price is $3-$4/lb. To compare, for regular light steel and iron(everyday scrap like appliances or an old lawnmower), the scrap price is only about $0.08/lb. This is the lowest price, as you're selling the metal to a third party buyer, which then separates the metals to sell to another company which further separates and processes the metal, which is sold as raw material to many other companies. It all starts at the scrap yard, which pays the lowest price for the material, which makes sense because it then goes through a lot of other buyers until it's made into it's final product and sold on the open market.

"Dribble Dribble Dribble" 😂😂 Paul Petty Pierce

Ea-Nasir needed this.

Not me reciting my chemistry text book 😂

@jeeteshsawarkar1808

2 ай бұрын

Lol me too

I remember as a lad growing up in a prosperous copper mining town. The concentrate to smelting process provided the backbone of the economy. Open pit mining sure leaves an ugly scar on the land but you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 1 percent ore. You have to move a lot of earth to make a profit.

@randmayfield5695

4 ай бұрын

The Green Valley Arizona, the city I live in sits smack dap in between several huge open pit copper mines. The high quality ore was depleted years ago so now they are processing the lower grade ore. It's interesting to see the copper ingots on railway cars as they move through town. If you're ever in southern Arizona it's really worth visiting Bisbee. The small city has a pit that is deep and tours are available. It's one of the most interesting cities in Arizona because of its history. Tombstone is about 45 minutes away also.

@glennhelm9525

3 ай бұрын

As long as we are here, how about the huge copper pits outside of Ely, NV., opened in the late 1890's. The smelter was built north of town & was considered the largest industrial plant west of the Mississippi River for many years after it was built about 1905? Also, the pits near Yerington NV. There is a newer operation east of town pulling gold & copper values.

The tweekers droolin when they see those copper wire spools

As somebody that picks up at a copper mine, it's shipped out on giant rolls, in an oversized wire form, although sometimes it will be in a square wire form too.

The engineering and design behind all the machines and robots is mind blowing!!

@lykosgen7973

3 ай бұрын

Haha just wait till you stand next to one of the cable shovels. They are at least 3 stories tall.

Last video is from the plant I work at haha

@Galaxy_Scout

4 ай бұрын

Oh W

@dylanclark1775

4 ай бұрын

That's very cool! Thanks for the work you do.

@john1802

4 ай бұрын

Cool man

@memetsolder

4 ай бұрын

where?

@pekinoantis4405

4 ай бұрын

​@@memetsolderon the planet earth

What a coincidence, today I read about that in metallurgy (chemistry) and KZread recommend this to me

So, what I’m learning is that without society everything goes away because it is reliant upon technology which is reliant upon a super complex refining process involved with copper wiring.

99.99% purity, you say? -chicken man

@subarunatsuki4145

4 ай бұрын

Gustavo Fring?

@wydra_gaming

4 ай бұрын

​@@subarunatsuki4145~Miner White

@ragefury1817

4 ай бұрын

I knew this comment was gonna be here the minute he said purity

@rihardcisar6961

4 ай бұрын

I was about to comment that 💀

@alphaadhito

4 ай бұрын

Aah, wire....

Please make a video about aluminum and magnesium alloy.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

We basically wouldn't have electricity/electronics without this stuff. It's crazy how much we depend on it.

This video is totally metal. Thanks for this!

@mustang4636

3 ай бұрын

I c wht u did there

We needed this level of quality from Ea Nasir.

Me in the gym between sets “I don’t need rest I need answers.”

Dude that froth thing is out of this world!

Having relied on scrap medals as my main way of survival economically, those solud copper squares look absolutely gorgeous to me.

@latestmush9281

3 ай бұрын

Why can’t we get 100% copper

@Soken50

3 ай бұрын

​@@latestmush9281 Same reason you can't get 100% anything, it gets exponentially more expensive to get the next bit of shmoo out and most of the time 99% or even less is fine for the use case.

@Jupiter-td4kw

3 ай бұрын

@@latestmush9281what do you need a 100% pure copper for?

@TomaHawkBobXIII

3 ай бұрын

@@Jupiter-td4kwhis Time Machine

@countryboy1635

3 ай бұрын

@@TomaHawkBobXIII. Yeah, I tried getting some from a guy in ancient sumeria, the guy ripped me off

The minds that worked out how to extract these minerals are amazing

@mikhalych9748

3 ай бұрын

Most things are discovered by accident or coincidence and build upon the work of others. Its all accumulative.

@mengx94

3 ай бұрын

The pro-SESS is interesting

@jakecharlie9574

3 ай бұрын

These processes are litterally thousands of years in the making.. if say society collapsed and ferral humans in the future had no knowledge whatsoever of anything, and environmental conditions etc where the same it would likely take thousands of years to come back to these processes... occasionally processes are sped up by smart individuals who figure things out, and a lot of the time they happen by chance.. but a lot of the times they happen by chance is when clever people are experimenting random stuff. We all probably remember that one kid who was always doing random weird stuff.. and it's often kids like them that go on to figure these things out. Them and the observant ;)

@Ben-ek1fz

3 ай бұрын

I mean… you dont need to be a genius to smelt copper. People in 4,000 years ago virtually all around the world independently and concurrently figured it out i think its just natural for us to use metals

@Ben-ek1fz

3 ай бұрын

@@mikhalych9748exactly

The video gives pretty nice short explanation on how its done, however there's more details between and within each of the steps, and this mostly focuses on the concentration and pyrometallurgical treatment of copper concentrates. My suggestion for next video: copper hydrometallurgical production, silver/gold recovery via leaching and electrowinning, zinc, nickel, lithium or cobalt production.

Makes you wonder in amazement how they were able to extract metal in the Bronze Age. Great video

"That's it" really underscores the fact that someone developed the process of this amazing feat we take for granted.

@bezbezzebbyson788

22 күн бұрын

Not one person for sure

Good brisk description of a very complex process. The amount of science involved is mind boggling haha

That last 00.01%: “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT”

Well this is very interesting and I have seen the process one almost thinks that copper isn't that overpriced anyway now. Almost makes me think that way.

The first copper wire was made when two Scotsmen found a penny in the same time.

@sforza209

4 ай бұрын

I thought it was two Jews? Hahahahaha maybe that’s when the first gold wire was made.

@yourgoldenretriever

3 ай бұрын

Lol funny but does come off a bit racist

Chile is very copper rich and when I went there on a trip I found their local amusement park (named fantasilandia) had some copper handrails!

@6401gabriel

3 ай бұрын

Loads of copper handrails in chile. The metro system also have them. So users don't spread germs when grabbing the same handrail.

@certifiedredditgenius

3 ай бұрын

​@@6401gabrielthat's cool af

Excellent reel

This is an excellent education. I'm sure people in high school to college are not taught this and this is the real world around us.

That was the best short I've seen in a year.

I live in Michigan, up in the UP are aware some of the purest forms of copper are found in mines, I asked a minor up there what happens when they find large chunks of very pure copper, They said that it's actually difficult to extract at the higher purity levels because it becomes difficult to process it on a manner to get it out of the underground mines. High purity copper underground apparently wicks away too much heat to use heat cutting methods and doesn't come out real well from mechanical methods because it gums up the cutting surfaces.

@AM-bf9tb

3 ай бұрын

What did you get the minor for his 7th birthday?

@idkman2729

3 ай бұрын

you asked who ? 🤨

@Mindboggles

3 ай бұрын

You find a MINOR in a mine?? Damn, Epstein v2 went from the ocean to the mountains I guess.

The basic idea is as follows: #1 find a spot with (relatively) high copper concentration. #2 mine a bunch of it since its still not very concentrated (and there are a lot of people who want copper). #3 crush it so you can separate the bits with a lot of copper from the bits without. #4 somebody big-brain figures out how to take advantage of step 3 and makes the copper ore bits hydrophobic (like oil) so they float on water, then some bubbling would be enough to send it to the top, and leave the rock at the bottom. #5 skim off the copper rich froth and dry it out. #6 smelt it to make copper metal (which also contains other metals like silver, gold etc) and then make electrode plates out of them. #7 use electrolysis to selectively dissolve the copper plates but not the impurities, and which also selectively deposits that copper on the other electrode, leaving the impurities as a sludge that sinks to the bottom. #8 re-melt the copper into whatever shapes you want, and/or draw them into wires etc. #9 refine the sludge in similar ways to get the other metals out and make more total profit. #10 _PROFIT $_

What's funny, is that it's usually profitable to recycle old scrap copper, precisely because they couldn't easily reach greater than 99% purity in the copper, so there's usually significant silver and gold inclusions in it, to the point where it's often more efficient than modern mining practices.