Inside Sweden’s copper mega-mine | DW News

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Sweden is becoming one of the EU’s key suppliers of natural resources. And without copper, there’s no high tech, no battery or environmental technology. We joined the driver of a giant truck in one of Europe’s biggest copper mines, the Aitik copper mine.
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  • @guderian557
    @guderian55711 ай бұрын

    'miles'? It is not the dark ages anymore, DW. Tell your reporters to use standard units of measurement.

  • @Foersom_

    @Foersom_

    11 ай бұрын

    He probably meant Scandinavian miles, those are 10 km.

  • @andrewturner8491

    @andrewturner8491

    11 ай бұрын

    Why do you consider miles as inferior?

  • @Cerulean_Frost

    @Cerulean_Frost

    11 ай бұрын

    Probably not Scandinavian 'mil'. If this is the mine outside of Gällivare as I suspect I doubt it has more than 15km of conveyors.

  • @Julian-mv5zi

    @Julian-mv5zi

    11 ай бұрын

    @@andrewturner8491because it is

  • @jesse8600

    @jesse8600

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@Julian-mv5zithey are reporting to Americans mostly, the strongest military and economic power in the world. Imagine if this was meant for a weak country like russia, who has to dig trenches and build defenses when they invaded another country lol.

  • @dhawthorne1634
    @dhawthorne163411 ай бұрын

    These diesel-electric with cont actors are pretty cool. When there is overhead power available, they run like a train, If they have to leave the grid for maintenance, to go around a lane blockage or to access remote locations, they switch on diesel generators like a WWII submarine. There's trials of this being done for big rigs on freeways.

  • @SergeyPRKL

    @SergeyPRKL

    10 ай бұрын

    Also, Dual mode buses are a thing. Trolleybus is over 100 year old tech, but before there have never been trolleybuses with diesel and electric in normal service. But now, last 20 years or so, there is some cities across the world who have taken them in use, Seattle had them in the 90's, so they can drive from suburbs with diesel, but when closing the city, connect to the overhead trolleybus cables.

  • @bnkh

    @bnkh

    9 ай бұрын

    @@SergeyPRKL Bergen, Norway has some in use today.

  • @antonhelsgaun

    @antonhelsgaun

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@SergeyPRKLand it exists on trains

  • @SergeyPRKL

    @SergeyPRKL

    9 ай бұрын

    @@bnkh yeah, i know. Been there last summer :) I'm a Finn!

  • @michaelewen5498

    @michaelewen5498

    7 ай бұрын

    The driver also indicated in the video that if she's gone for a week it's difficult to know the transportation paths (presumably because the existing paths have been blasted/taken away). It sounds like a fantastic concept, especially on freeways ~ like a video Tom Scott made a few years ago. I don't understand how this could work economically in a dynamic environment like mining.

  • @Ashadow700
    @Ashadow7009 ай бұрын

    We're pretty fortunate that our mines are located in areas that have both large rivers and are quite sparsely populated, meaning there is less competition for the hydropower. If either of these were not the case, I don't think running the stone mill on green energy alone would be possible.

  • @kronop8884

    @kronop8884

    9 ай бұрын

    Power generated is transmitted from sparsely populated areas by method of power lines to densely populated areas, Sweden has a national power grid. This also means that green energy can be generated anywhere, even abroad since the Swedish power grid is connected to continental Europe.

  • @Mr0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

    @Mr0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

    9 ай бұрын

    @@kronop8884 dock är det ca 3% energiförlust enbart i högspänningskablarna per 10 mil transport, så det blir snabbt dyrt att transportera mycket energi långt

  • @debrickashaw9387

    @debrickashaw9387

    9 ай бұрын

    was about to say this@@Mr0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

  • @lancewood1410

    @lancewood1410

    9 ай бұрын

    Hypocrites.

  • @debrickashaw9387

    @debrickashaw9387

    9 ай бұрын

    what do you mean?@@lancewood1410

  • @drmodestoesq
    @drmodestoesq11 ай бұрын

    It's nice to see that the copper refiners are taking pride in the quality of their copper ingots. I'm sure Nanni would be pleased after his unpleasant dealings with Ea Nasir a few years ago.

  • @raclark2730

    @raclark2730

    11 ай бұрын

    Ah ancient copper quality complaint reference. 😉

  • @rayhans7887

    @rayhans7887

    11 ай бұрын

    Ea Nasir that scammer

  • @perfectlyroundcircle
    @perfectlyroundcircle11 ай бұрын

    God damn, those trucks are absolutely massive.

  • @MarkPemble
    @MarkPemble11 ай бұрын

    I like that waving is required

  • @anuraudagedara3676
    @anuraudagedara367611 ай бұрын

    Hats off to the sound strategies implemented by the company👏👏

  • @cs2forlife

    @cs2forlife

    9 ай бұрын

    They cause irreversible damage to nature. I hope that company goes bankrupt.

  • @Ass_of_Amalek
    @Ass_of_Amalek11 ай бұрын

    driving those machines does look like a really fun job. cleaning and repairing them is another story.

  • @SpencerHHO

    @SpencerHHO

    11 ай бұрын

    Not as bad as you might think and good money, at least here in Australia. Those gigantic CATs don't have transmissions they are much more like a diesel electric locomotive so are relatively low maintenance for what they do. Working as a diesel tech on the mines here can earn earn you mid to high 6 figure salaries for about 6 months of work a year. I imagine the pay wouldn't be as High for people that don't fly in to the remote site and fly home after a couple of weeks but it's good paying work.

  • @Ass_of_Amalek

    @Ass_of_Amalek

    11 ай бұрын

    @@SpencerHHO yeah I know that jobs in heavily industrialised resource extraction tend to pay very well by manual labour standards - it's a relatively small number of humans running very productive and extremely expensive machines. running the machines at a high productivity level and with little damage is worth some expense in labour. even in jobs that are not difficult to fill due to low skill requirements, replacing workers and needing the new ones to learn the ropes generally reduces productivity and safety. with that mine truck driving job, it would probably be particularly bad. I would assume that if you really had to replace a driver with someone with no experience, even someone with driving talent would be very slow in driving and maneuvering for weeks or months, since developing an awareness of the space that giant vehicle takes up must be quite an unusual experience, and learning to drive around the questionably secure edges of that deep pit all day in a hard to handle vehicle is probably quite stressful.

  • @SpencerHHO

    @SpencerHHO

    11 ай бұрын

    @semechkiforputin6920 A couple of experienced drivers of these trucks that I met earned half a million dollars in 2 years. Paid off a massive house in 4 years and semi retired after about 6 years and only works part-time so his savings amd investments can grow in the background. It is hard he was basically in the middle of the outback Australia for 6 years of his life forgoing the usual 2 weeks on 2 weeks off most FIFO workers have. In Australia, one of the last genuinely powerful trade unions covers all minning, construction, engineering and forestry workers and as you can imagine they get good deals for their members and even non members.

  • @Elliott_Elliott

    @Elliott_Elliott

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes I bet she’s making bank too

  • @fredrikcarlen3212

    @fredrikcarlen3212

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@SpencerHHO Unfortunately you won't earn anywhere near those amounts in Sweden. You can expect about $50-60k a year for full time (shift) work as a fairly experienced tech. After taxes that's about 36-40k. Maybe you could get up to 100 before tax if you have some REALLY specialty knowledge and 30 years of experience or something, but that's exceedingly uncommon. At that point you're still only taking home 55k or so though. And then you'll be working in Kiruna, a depressing place where the sun doesn't come up for months in the winter, is 500 miles away from any major population center, and where all the women left to go south years ago so you won't ever find a partner... I worked there for a while; did NOT like it, though admittedly the nature around there is stunning! If you want to earn 100k+ a year in an "industry" field in Sweden, you just move to Norway and work on an oil rig instead. Pays double or triple and with less taxes.

  • @bogdankorolevych2900
    @bogdankorolevych29009 ай бұрын

    I work there! As a heavy truck mechanic! We repair those trucks!

  • @Johnsjoylife

    @Johnsjoylife

    Ай бұрын

    How is it like to be a mechanic of those heavy machines

  • @bogdankorolevych2900

    @bogdankorolevych2900

    Ай бұрын

    @@Johnsjoylife Theres tons of challenges when repairing such big machines, but luckily we have heavy equipment for most jobs and usually everything goes well. The truck themselves are not to complex, most days we servicing, changing hydraulic hoses and doing other back logs. CAT 797 is even more impressive ,but sadly (luckily) we don’t have those here in Aitik mine

  • @luciencitron3015

    @luciencitron3015

    7 күн бұрын

    Hey, Do you know how much money does a truck driver make ? What's the name of the company please ?

  • @bogdankorolevych2900

    @bogdankorolevych2900

    5 күн бұрын

    @@luciencitron3015 The company is called Boliden. I cant tell much about salaries as its something personal, but Im sure truck drivers are getting pretty decent salaries.

  • @mait1995
    @mait199511 ай бұрын

    I was just there in that area tenting couple of days ago. Randomly watched this video and figured out that i am actually next to it. I went to have a peek at the quarry. Did not get too far but it is massive, surrounded by endless forests.

  • @TemalCageman

    @TemalCageman

    9 ай бұрын

    Well... that is a good thing, because trees do live on CO2 and they suck a lot of it up.

  • @lucianocampos9817
    @lucianocampos98177 ай бұрын

    Amazing to see that in Sweden even a truck driver knows perfect English.

  • @OskarXCI

    @OskarXCI

    Ай бұрын

    English is the second language. We teach it as early as second grade in school.

  • @thovsland1
    @thovsland19 ай бұрын

    Fun to see the dam from my hometown in Norway, being used as an example for hydroelectric plant :) Clearly a superior dam

  • @IIAndersII

    @IIAndersII

    9 ай бұрын

    Im from Denmark - and we secretly envy you for a lot of things :) including oil fields and cheap hydroelectric energy

  • @vik6092

    @vik6092

    9 ай бұрын

    That was a Swedish hydroelectric dam no?

  • @fredrikcarlen3212

    @fredrikcarlen3212

    9 ай бұрын

    @@vik6092 Nope. Think they just used stock footage while the script read something different.

  • @cristianluchian4907
    @cristianluchian490711 ай бұрын

    I have always admired Sweden, an industrialized country and a very civilized people

  • @MrConquistador76

    @MrConquistador76

    11 ай бұрын

    Sit over thousands of years of systematized robery. But you liked.

  • @Flummish777

    @Flummish777

    11 ай бұрын

    @@MrConquistador76 L

  • @user-lb7rq1lu1n

    @user-lb7rq1lu1n

    11 ай бұрын

    @@MrConquistador76 you should keep drinking whatever it is you are drinking because whatever it is you have left in your head is not worth keeping so be a good boy and kill the last if your tiny brain now! Thank you!!!

  • @starvictory7079

    @starvictory7079

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@MrConquistador76No.

  • @axeldenvon

    @axeldenvon

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@MrConquistador76huh? Explain yourself

  • @NewsKaAchaar
    @NewsKaAchaar11 ай бұрын

    Great project very well managed

  • @georgeshelton6281

    @georgeshelton6281

    11 ай бұрын

    It's a good thing that I properly inform you that I'm having these American highway workers who are also implanting these pennies into these asphalt streets. Not just throw their pennies out in the streets. That really ticks me off when they really do those things. Whatever happened to when the rich are supposed to support the poor? The case represents the real life "Beverly Hillbillies."

  • @Peppanomaly

    @Peppanomaly

    9 ай бұрын

    @@georgeshelton6281 what are you on about bro

  • @georgeshelton6281

    @georgeshelton6281

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Peppanomaly I'm finding both OLD and NEW PENNYS that were being thrown out into the streets. Being abandoned. Some are being rescued too late. The new PENNYS don't say in God we trust anymore. It's true that I'm sometimes function like a homeless guy.

  • @Karlthuluu
    @Karlthuluu9 ай бұрын

    "Waving is required to see that you're awake and doing fine", I'm sure they were just greeting each other, just like busdrivers do when they pass each other

  • @daneenmurf1043

    @daneenmurf1043

    2 ай бұрын

    Compulsary waving sounds like one of those workplaces pranks, like sending a newbie for a glass hammer or a long weight

  • @joakimbacke6473

    @joakimbacke6473

    14 күн бұрын

    It is a requirement here it's to ensure that we see each other. Cuz we don't only met other trucks but cars and smaller vehicles. It's a way to ensure that we don't crush some one.😅

  • @missthang4982
    @missthang498211 ай бұрын

    That'a girl! 🤜💥🤛.... I'm a Miner and work in a nickel mine. I work 4600 ft underground. Lots of us females down there. Nice seeing a documentary that shows the female roles too. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦✌️

  • @mzee5533

    @mzee5533

    11 ай бұрын

    Good job miners greetings from the coal mines in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta

  • @missthang4982

    @missthang4982

    11 ай бұрын

    @@mzee5533 😊👋 🤜💥🤛 The Highest of Fives 🙌

  • @missthang4982

    @missthang4982

    11 ай бұрын

    @@mountainstream8351 I suppose it would be if you didn't like confined spaces. There's many comparable jobs on surface too, though. 😊 ✌️

  • @mountainstream8351

    @mountainstream8351

    11 ай бұрын

    @@missthang4982 4600 feet underground! I have a heart attack just thinking about that. You are very brave.

  • @Pubbehey1

    @Pubbehey1

    11 ай бұрын

    Yea, girls should not be scared to work in mines. We need equallity you know, you need to work as hard as men or harder to prove yourself. Its not easy, but it is possible if women is up for it. Its always a trade, trade of free time, trade of choices you do, And a lot more! Men might be more free to make these choices easier to have a career, if we talk about biological nature of men & women.

  • @marcinsarniak
    @marcinsarniak9 ай бұрын

    "Waving is required" has to be one of the funniest things I've heard in a while.

  • @kirgan1000

    @kirgan1000

    Ай бұрын

    No its it's bloody serious, it confirm that both have seen each other, its even more important, then you mix heavy traffic and foot traffic. Sometime I do work on road construction on foot, and the dumper trucks wave and we wave back, and they drive past very careful. Unsafe driving will have them banned for life.

  • @FredrikGranlundkayaker
    @FredrikGranlundkayaker9 ай бұрын

    When I grew up, we had to get a couple of weeks of job experience in school. I got two weeks in the laboratory at Rönnskärsverken where Boliden make the final products, e.g. copper, lead, zink, gold and silver. I got to analyse the metal concentrates from Aitik and Boliden's other mines in various ways.

  • @JigilJigil
    @JigilJigil11 ай бұрын

    One day I'll buy one of those caterpillar trucks.

  • @soberman1520

    @soberman1520

    11 ай бұрын

    For what

  • @azumishimizu1880

    @azumishimizu1880

    11 ай бұрын

    Thats pointless. Buy shares in Caterpillar! But a truck? Seems like a waste of money too me.

  • @claesmansson9070

    @claesmansson9070

    11 ай бұрын

    Just fill it up with pop corn and start film.

  • @martiniv8924
    @martiniv892411 ай бұрын

    I was lucky enough to go down the Ancient copper mine ‘Falu’ in Falun in Sweden, further south than this Mega pit Aitik 👌🏻😎

  • @Taggez1

    @Taggez1

    9 ай бұрын

    My brother worked as a tour guide there haha

  • @anthonymcneill1465
    @anthonymcneill146511 ай бұрын

    Impressive and interesting!

  • @kukulroukul4698

    @kukulroukul4698

    11 ай бұрын

    3:12 That STONE MILL is NOT ''the world's largest of its kind'' by NO MEANS !

  • @daheikkinen
    @daheikkinen11 ай бұрын

    Those trucks are crazy

  • @Foersom_

    @Foersom_

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes they are large, but there are even larger ones from Belaz.

  • @JambalayaJimmy
    @JambalayaJimmy10 ай бұрын

    Worked in big open pit mines in Labrador, Canada. Very similar operation to this.

  • @galvinstanley3235

    @galvinstanley3235

    Ай бұрын

    Canada doesn't care about their own land,the tar pits and copper mines are poluting their lands and water.

  • @agw5425
    @agw542511 ай бұрын

    Makes me a little proud to be Swedish.

  • @petter5721

    @petter5721

    11 ай бұрын

    🇸🇪👍🏻

  • @jesse8600

    @jesse8600

    11 ай бұрын

    Join us in NATO!!!

  • @trollingpcgames

    @trollingpcgames

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jesse8600 we are trying. say that to russia's best friend turkey

  • @Axcy

    @Axcy

    11 ай бұрын

    @@trollingpcgames Everything has a cost. We in Sweden are sacrificing our mountains for a better world and we should be proud about that no one else is doing it like we are.

  • @manyulgarprsch

    @manyulgarprsch

    11 ай бұрын

    Why?

  • @erikwibaeus3220
    @erikwibaeus322010 ай бұрын

    The commentsection here is absolutly great. Cheers

  • @studentstudent5044
    @studentstudent504411 ай бұрын

    Best country in the world😎❤️🇸🇪

  • @MrTurbo_
    @MrTurbo_9 ай бұрын

    Imagine trying to impress her with your souped up lifted pickup truck and she's like "Dude, i drive a truck with 3500hp which is the size of your house, get your puny toy car out of my way"

  • @Zerschnetzler
    @ZerschnetzlerАй бұрын

    2:32 this exact moment makes it the most obvious how insanely large these machines are, i have been next to one of the "small" ones (the one in the bottom right corner) and already that felt really big. but seeing it compared to these other vehicles is insane

  • @MidKnightKid98
    @MidKnightKid988 ай бұрын

    Can we just all agree how sick the beat is in the background?

  • @bostromberg4704
    @bostromberg470410 ай бұрын

    I wrote my ph d thesis about dissolved metal contaminants from this mine affecting surronding ground and surface water the dissertation was in the spring 1997

  • @moos5221
    @moos5221Ай бұрын

    Green copper is a funny term, since copper turns green on the surface (patina) after many years of oxidation.

  • @predragnicic7138
    @predragnicic71389 ай бұрын

    I was in Sewell, Chile...that place is crazy

  • @michaelewen5498
    @michaelewen54987 ай бұрын

    The clip that end with the dump truck connected to a Pantograph is cool, but I don't understand how that's a viable approach with mining. The video also states that if drivers go on vacation for a week they have difficulty finding their way around (presumably because their existing path was blasted/taken away). Is it expected that there's a separate dedicated team creating/maintaining overhead electric lines?

  • @KonradParzymieso
    @KonradParzymieso11 ай бұрын

    4:07 best background music

  • @PMMagro
    @PMMagro10 ай бұрын

    My uncle worked In Aitik and we got to visit (several of the cousins) many years ago :)

  • @Desperate4Freedom.

    @Desperate4Freedom.

    9 ай бұрын

    And?

  • @andrewthacker114
    @andrewthacker1143 ай бұрын

    Interesting clip, thanks for sharing.

  • @joergarms1
    @joergarms110 ай бұрын

    Very interesting. Must be great to drive a machine that big.

  • @bigty5474

    @bigty5474

    9 ай бұрын

    bro the mine is located in Kiruna, i let you look up where it is in Sweden and you'll see that even if you drive the biggest machine it's probably the worst place to live. There's nothing there and when i say nothing it's nothing

  • @RegulareoldNorseBoy

    @RegulareoldNorseBoy

    9 ай бұрын

    @@bigty5474 hounestly sound nice. love being alone

  • @Sneaadler

    @Sneaadler

    9 ай бұрын

    @@bigty5474 There is a town with stores, bars and stuff. 23k people live there.

  • @bigty5474

    @bigty5474

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Sneaadler most of them are miners, season workers or rich people that can afford a 2nd house. Appart from that the cultural life is pretty much 0 and you can't go anywhere else than the town itself. Just pure nature and nothing thousand of kilometers around you

  • @janbananberg357

    @janbananberg357

    9 ай бұрын

    @@bigty5474 It's in Gällivare. Right next to Kiruna. LKAB is the second mine there and they are also present in Kiruna.

  • @getous
    @getous9 ай бұрын

    I work there on occation. That electric ramp they are talking about, I haven't seen that been used a single time since we started working there in late February, they always have the pantograph lowered and run on diesel. But hey, sure nice to pat themselves on the back.

  • @fredrikcarlen3212

    @fredrikcarlen3212

    9 ай бұрын

    Obviously... They get tons of government subsidies for that sweet sweet renewable money, got to show the cameras they put it to good use...

  • @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

    @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

    9 ай бұрын

    Greenwashing

  • @danielrodal9305

    @danielrodal9305

    9 ай бұрын

    Since you only work on occasion, how would you know if it's being used?

  • @bjorngve

    @bjorngve

    9 ай бұрын

    They have some difficulties make it work, that's what I've heard.

  • @Desertsol1
    @Desertsol19 ай бұрын

    Very nice, but how do they deal with the biters?

  • @bankabaver4583
    @bankabaver45839 ай бұрын

    And soon... looking forward to the re-opening of the Viscaria mine🎉

  • @PrinsMaandag
    @PrinsMaandag9 ай бұрын

    Interesting take on new ways to produce

  • @skrame01
    @skrame0111 ай бұрын

    I bet the trucks going down could generate power for the trucks going up by regenerative braking.

  • @williamknows3908

    @williamknows3908

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah maybe, but wouldn’t they need big batteries aswell?

  • @skrame01

    @skrame01

    11 ай бұрын

    @@williamknows3908 Just use the overhead wires.

  • @lassepeterson2740

    @lassepeterson2740

    10 ай бұрын

    But the trucks going down are empty and the ones going up are loaded . It would have worked the other way around .

  • @Thellbro

    @Thellbro

    9 ай бұрын

    The diesel electric ones use their electric engines to brake going down. So the energy isn’t lost, but like someone already said, it still wouldn’t provide enough power to propel them going up loaded.

  • @skrame01

    @skrame01

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Thellbro Is there a battery?

  • @homo-sapiens-dubium
    @homo-sapiens-dubium11 ай бұрын

    I'd be curious how the chemical process to extract the copper looks like and if the chemicals can be produced with green energy too..? what happens with the 99.8% "waste-rock" after extraction? What happens with waste-chemicals?

  • @kukulroukul4698

    @kukulroukul4698

    11 ай бұрын

    its pretty straight forward and CHEAP ... the ore itself is EXPENSIVE ! The cooper its easy to refine

  • @kukulroukul4698

    @kukulroukul4698

    11 ай бұрын

    you mean...what happens with all the Mercury resulting from MOVING earth in ALL of the industries around the GLOBE ? It goes into the sea eventually... but it takes centuries to arrive there :) Its UNAVOIDABLE to have mercury when you're moving earth ! Everything ELSE the nature CAN take care of .. except for the Mercury :(

  • @jakobjohansson4924

    @jakobjohansson4924

    11 ай бұрын

    I've worked in an enrichment plant with mills like those. The rock, or sand that it becomes after crushing, milling and refining is sometimes put back in underground mines as filler material. In an open pit mine like this I cannot say for sure.

  • @Hukkinen

    @Hukkinen

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jakobjohansson4924 Can the sand be used for construction? What properties of it are relevant? I learned the sand in desert is not suitable for construction, because its grains are round and thus won't bind with cement.

  • @jakobjohansson4924

    @jakobjohansson4924

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Hukkinen The case might be the same for this left over sand from the mineral-rock. The only use that I know for it is to fill old mineshafts and tunnels to prevent them from collapsing, but ofc there might be other uses too

  • @BMTurceanuHikeRun
    @BMTurceanuHikeRun11 ай бұрын

    Once the mine will be shut off that will make an interesting mountain lake.

  • @nxo91
    @nxo9111 ай бұрын

    Good planning and strategies

  • @musdalifahrumbewa5745
    @musdalifahrumbewa57452 ай бұрын

    Impressive and interesting! thank you for sharing

  • @ummijaan1448
    @ummijaan144811 ай бұрын

    That last sentence was a taunt yo

  • @robinpope894
    @robinpope8949 ай бұрын

    The hydroelectric plant shown at 4:20 is located near Lillehammer in Norway! Google, Hunderfossen dam..

  • @dissaid
    @dissaid11 ай бұрын

    Very cool! 😎

  • @tymz-r-achangin
    @tymz-r-achangin10 ай бұрын

    3:21 Next time give us an actual break down of the processes. So what chemicals are they using and how do they separate the copper from the other things it bonded to without hurting the cooper

  • @svennoren9047

    @svennoren9047

    9 ай бұрын

    When I studied chemical engineering in high school we went on a trip to this mine! The crushed ore is separated by froth flotation. Air is blown through a slurry of ore, and the copper sulfide particles are lifted by the air bubbles and can be skimmed off the surface. That's what's happening at 3:25 in the video. Chemicals used are foaming agents, similar to those used in schampoo. The enriched ore is transported to a smelter where it is heated and oxygen blown through the melt. This oxidises the sulfide to sulfur dioxide, and the raw copper metal can be poured off. The raw copper is then purified by electrolysis. The main problems with the whole process is catching and handling the sulfur dioxide, and the waste sand from the flotation process that still contains a small amount of copper. (The sulfur dioxide is converted to sulfuric acid, and widely used basic chemical).

  • @gustafdahlman8704

    @gustafdahlman8704

    9 ай бұрын

    /Chinese mine executive

  • @Danger_mouse
    @Danger_mouse11 ай бұрын

    1:45 Not well researched... Total weight is close to 600t, but the standard truck transports 370t of payload.

  • @BobiR-bl9fc
    @BobiR-bl9fc11 ай бұрын

    Awesome, I m in Munich, Germany and I wish to find someone for traveling to Sweden too🌲

  • @Bizzishot

    @Bizzishot

    11 ай бұрын

    You are welcome

  • @erikandersson2129

    @erikandersson2129

    11 ай бұрын

    You should visit the Kiruna mine, it’s even cooler

  • @pkgoeswild

    @pkgoeswild

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@erikandersson2129 Yeah it's quite majestic to see the walls of stone surrounding the city.

  • @andrewrees8749
    @andrewrees874911 ай бұрын

    No truck can carry 600 tons, max capacity is 400 tons

  • @kirgan1000

    @kirgan1000

    Ай бұрын

    Is it in metric ton? short ton? long ton?

  • @andrewrees8749

    @andrewrees8749

    Ай бұрын

    @kirgan1000 u.s Ton , metric tonne is 1000Kg which is heavier I guess

  • @linuslundin7868
    @linuslundin78684 ай бұрын

    80-90 miles of road and stretches 4 kilometers from north to south. The deepest part of the mine is now at the 1600 meter level.😮

  • @greggreg2263
    @greggreg226311 ай бұрын

    Very impressive mine🙌

  • @kukulroukul4698

    @kukulroukul4698

    11 ай бұрын

    and VERY very little powders in the air AROUND those mills !!! In romania the visibility is 1meter around a stone mill and the dust is 5 centimeters thick EVERYWHERE in that room :D

  • @kukulroukul4698

    @kukulroukul4698

    11 ай бұрын

    Its an EXCEPTIONALLY clean room for a stone mill there

  • @AdamBechtol
    @AdamBechtolАй бұрын

    Nice, thx.

  • @NYlocked
    @NYlocked9 ай бұрын

    To call a copper mine green would be a lie, sure reduce the diesel etc helps but the trucks still need lubricated oil and alot of it, not metioning the tires, the dust, the water ... mining will never be green and should never be mentioned in same sentence but ofc its very good they take serious steps reducing the pollution of this kind of industry.

  • @user-nd2tp5yv6l
    @user-nd2tp5yv6l8 ай бұрын

    6:00 They did it!

  • @DevinHeida
    @DevinHeida8 ай бұрын

    I surprised they don't have cables for when they go down into the pit. Use reverse regenerative braking and could likely repower the "grid" due to the sheer amount of braking necessary to get to the bottom.

  • @TheYoutubeMethod

    @TheYoutubeMethod

    7 ай бұрын

    Sounds to complicated for a mine. You would need poles in permanent places which in mining there are no permanent places as all will get mined eventually.

  • @DevinHeida

    @DevinHeida

    7 ай бұрын

    @@TheKZreadMethod yeah the only other method I could see is a "discharge station" but likely wouldn't work, like you said will get mined as well as the company not wanting "down time" whilst discharging.

  • @5thjonasbrother219
    @5thjonasbrother2199 ай бұрын

    they terraformed a massive pace of land , hat def seems good for the environment.

  • @elgiganten6154
    @elgiganten61549 ай бұрын

    Long love Sweden

  • @pmr1049
    @pmr104911 ай бұрын

    As a Swed im just amazed didnt knew about all this updates :)

  • @erikedlund2904

    @erikedlund2904

    11 ай бұрын

    U are probably are like most swedes that live in the south that calls 2/3 of Sweden as "the north" without knowing anything about it

  • @pmr1049

    @pmr1049

    11 ай бұрын

    @@erikedlund2904 to be honest i dont care if its in southern part, middle part, north, east or west aslong as it has to do with innovations in engineering or tech its always good. So has nothing to do with geographic at all but nice to see what you values 😉

  • @Ashuowl

    @Ashuowl

    8 ай бұрын

    @@erikedlund2904 As someone from this far up north. Anything south of Piteå is the south for me. The ignorance goes both ways lol

  • @abro528
    @abro52810 ай бұрын

    I'm still trying to figure out how Dwayne Johnson ends up in the worlds largest stone mills...

  • @ericp758
    @ericp7589 ай бұрын

    I’ve worked there as a Diamond driller.

  • @zaryadnik
    @zaryadnik11 ай бұрын

    check the numbers. there are 2 electric motors on truck. for sure its less than 600tonnes per ride, will be around 300

  • @bvbxiong5791
    @bvbxiong579111 ай бұрын

    she got that "big, big energy".

  • @paulcandiago9339
    @paulcandiago933911 ай бұрын

    Grazie, interessante e brave le noste Svedesi.

  • @palawanml5353
    @palawanml535310 ай бұрын

    😮 wow! Monster truck.

  • @chamamemestre
    @chamamemestre11 ай бұрын

    01:47 600 tonnes? That can't be right, the 797F max is 400...

  • @mzee5533

    @mzee5533

    11 ай бұрын

    The reporter did not do his research at all. He’s talking about the shovel as an excavator and sometimes runs with electric yet that machine is fully electric driven

  • @SpencerHHO

    @SpencerHHO

    11 ай бұрын

    I wonder if that is gross weight ? It's GVM is about 620 metric tonnes. A few other issues here too, I'm pretty sure it's 4000 HP traction power too.

  • @MyFolkrace

    @MyFolkrace

    11 ай бұрын

    The digger fills them with 3-4 buckets so around 280 -320 tonnes.

  • @m8pwa_

    @m8pwa_

    11 ай бұрын

    The newer one Komatsu are bigger than the Cats. Taking a load of +400 tonnes.

  • @Thellbro

    @Thellbro

    9 ай бұрын

    @@m8pwa_the 980? I don’t know how much the CAT 797 (the largest CAT) can take in payload, but I think it’s +400 tons.

  • @MiROi555
    @MiROi5559 ай бұрын

    Pretty sure they dont transport 600tons per trip, more like 350-400ton for thos haulers.

  • @waynewallace2061
    @waynewallace206111 ай бұрын

    How much gold is produced as a by product annually?

  • @nenasiek

    @nenasiek

    11 ай бұрын

    13 000 kilos a year, we also salvage 5000 kilos from old tech stuff a year

  • @Thellbro

    @Thellbro

    9 ай бұрын

    From this mine it’s about 2300 kg/year.

  • @flemch6136
    @flemch61369 ай бұрын

    2:25 the teeth makes it look like it's scooping with a jaw which is pretty metal.

  • @kingofthend
    @kingofthend9 ай бұрын

    hmm this seems wrong. You are supposed to mine for copper at around Y=40

  • @ArtemisShanks
    @ArtemisShanks11 ай бұрын

    Stora Copper-Berget - dev it to 30, and build the great project that gives local good produced + and watch it generate more income than a gold mine.

  • @nyakinyuan1005
    @nyakinyuan10058 ай бұрын

    @DW do you have a comparison of Swiss mining in Sweden and Swiss mining in the Congo? It appears there's a huge disparity on environmental effects especially water pollution and low crop produce.

  • @muhughu
    @muhughu9 ай бұрын

    I used to work there for a subcontractor driving a Komatsu HD785. Worst job I ever had.

  • @steevoridgeline
    @steevoridgeline10 ай бұрын

    great video ☀👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @roishadi7183
    @roishadi7183Ай бұрын

    Is there Komatsu unit in this mining?

  • @alvaroludolf
    @alvaroludolf11 ай бұрын

    Yeah.. the green copper sludge is green...

  • @peterp4037

    @peterp4037

    11 ай бұрын

    Being the epicenter of the agenda has its advantages.

  • @masonstump1579
    @masonstump157911 ай бұрын

    A ton of the info is wrong

  • @morganmadison366
    @morganmadison36611 ай бұрын

    They learn such good English. We can't even teach many of American kids basic skills.

  • @Ass_of_Amalek

    @Ass_of_Amalek

    11 ай бұрын

    the average swede might be better at using their/there/they're correctly than the average american. and they certainly are less likely to confuse "have" with "of". 🤦

  • @morganmadison366

    @morganmadison366

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Ass_of_Amalek A school taught language is always a bit different than native speakers, because schools teach perfect language. I could argue all day long with Germans from Berlin that ch is not pronounced like in English.

  • @Ass_of_Amalek

    @Ass_of_Amalek

    11 ай бұрын

    @@morganmadison366 that's called a regional dialect, and those don't replace words with wrong other words that have a totally different meaning/function just because they sound the same or allegedly similar. using the word "whom" wrong also does not become correct just because 90% of native english speakers are incapable of identifying object and subject of a sentence, and to which of those the "who[m]" refers (they otherwise don't have to due to how grammarless the english language is), nor does the plural form of greek loanwords become a correct singular just because most english speakers don't know the singular, like phenomenon or criterion. the worst one, in its severity and how common it is for whatever absolutely bizarre and embarrassing reason, is the "of" instead of "have". if it were up to me, I'd make that one a criminal offense.

  • @Zezam_

    @Zezam_

    11 ай бұрын

    Im curious what you mean with ”of” instead of ”have” can you give an example?

  • @starvictory7079

    @starvictory7079

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@Zezam_The poster means "would've" written like "would of". I disagree about the word "whom" though. Languages change.

  • @dayathidayat8448
    @dayathidayat844811 ай бұрын

    Amazing

  • @harshadushantha9713
    @harshadushantha97137 ай бұрын

    Wow amazing

  • @dogyerf21
    @dogyerf2110 ай бұрын

    How or why does it work for it sometimes but other times too? Does it need an injunction or herp? Could also be the caravanning? Conclusions

  • @AnotherEarthling666
    @AnotherEarthling6669 ай бұрын

    I would say it’s quite far away from “environmental friendly”, even forgetting the diesel they burn, look at that hole 😂

  • @Treebronx
    @Treebronx11 ай бұрын

    I got to wonder what does it cost to mine a pound

  • @madPav3L
    @madPav3L11 ай бұрын

    1:45 get your facts right... 797F load capacity = 363 tonnes (metric tonnes), truck weight 260 tonnes, total about 623 tonnes The biggest trucks in the world are 400-tonne trucks, so 600 tonnes would be a huge improvement...

  • @PunchySugar

    @PunchySugar

    10 ай бұрын

    Was looking for this comment

  • @JohnLundSweden
    @JohnLundSweden9 ай бұрын

    Nice, gäller hålla sig vaken!

  • @Nicosshalagalanis
    @Nicosshalagalanis9 ай бұрын

    I am born and raised in Sweden and I must say that swedish womens is really hardworkers and indenpendent !

  • @seriousplayer1

    @seriousplayer1

    8 ай бұрын

    They really are but its very depending on the location, Norrland folk are the hardiest I would say but the south farmers are just a hardy. Cityfolk are getting lazier every year...

  • @Nicosshalagalanis

    @Nicosshalagalanis

    8 ай бұрын

    @@seriousplayer1 I am born and raised in Helsingborg near Malmö in southern SE. The text you write is 100 % correct beceause of all I read and hear .. 👌

  • @j777barbasiewicz

    @j777barbasiewicz

    16 күн бұрын

    "swedish womens" - help!

  • @blkmoon5596
    @blkmoon559611 ай бұрын

    They have haul truck that are electric and driven remotely using GPS now

  • @Thellbro

    @Thellbro

    9 ай бұрын

    Not electric, but diesel electric

  • @JackDogSteve-jr9js
    @JackDogSteve-jr9js10 ай бұрын

    Waving is smart! In my opinion...

  • @JeffryDua-sw1ze
    @JeffryDua-sw1ze7 ай бұрын

    How to apply a driver here???

  • @Rad-Dan
    @Rad-Dan9 ай бұрын

    Using a dam as a source of electricity is not washing the pollution produced by the mining company, it’s greenwashing!

  • @pukid
    @pukid9 ай бұрын

    It was funny to hear them say "our product has a very low carbon footprint" and then "now it's time to put enough diesel in here to heat a house for a year"

  • @dallysinghson5569

    @dallysinghson5569

    9 ай бұрын

    Perhaps they meant in a relativistic kind of way.... those trucks are shifting thousands of tonnes of rock for months or years but a house just stays still....

  • @doctorprocter4225
    @doctorprocter422511 ай бұрын

    You don't even have to have a driver's license to drive those trucks in Canada. People who work at the mines, get dui's all the time. They lose their license, but not their job. Plus a bus takes them to and from work. But you have to have grace 12 or GED. I don't think that's a legal requirement, more likely company policy

  • @Theorimlig

    @Theorimlig

    11 ай бұрын

    I wouldn't want someone who can't keep their license on any driving job. If you DUI you're irresponsible.

  • @lubricustheslippery5028

    @lubricustheslippery5028

    11 ай бұрын

    There is no buss line to the mine in the Video. You have to drive to it from any habitable house. And the closest village is removed to make space for the mine.

  • @marcusjennifer785
    @marcusjennifer78510 ай бұрын

    Green? How are the batteries made yup its green alright

  • @SnusimOhr
    @SnusimOhr9 ай бұрын

    Rock and Stone brother

  • @Jormunguandr
    @Jormunguandr9 ай бұрын

    I'm learning things ❤

  • @bighairycat
    @bighairycat10 ай бұрын

    Bit of an exaggeration on the truck size, the weight of the truck and payload is 600 ton but the truck itself only carries 350 ton and now they are mostly driven by autonomous systems.

  • @Thellbro

    @Thellbro

    9 ай бұрын

    No, there are about 10 trucks in the autonomous project. About 35 trucks are still driven by drivers. And another 7 is coming. Driven by drivers that is.

  • @user-js6yq4wq9z
    @user-js6yq4wq9z7 ай бұрын

    Салом аз Тоҷикистон❤❤❤❤❤❤.

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