What's the most misunderstood thing about mining?

@Immortal..

Жыл бұрын

Miners

@Tra-vis

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea they’re legally required to reclaim/replenish the land when they finish up mining. I figured most mines just close up and leave the land barren

@curtis-thebicentennialist1776

Жыл бұрын

Only coal miners are required to perform stringent reclamation. Any other industry or individual can go out and turn an area into a environmental and ecological war zone without regulatory consequence.

@jacobszymczak9323

Жыл бұрын

That most "eco" people think all miners just make a giant hole and pollute everything in a 100 mile radius and destroy the ecosystem then move on. There's so much more to the entire process with reclamation and safety and eco during the mining process

@k.n.o.w2692

Жыл бұрын

“The knowledge of the miners”

You provide your viewers with an unwavering amount of knowledge and education. Anyone would be dumb not to study these videos and use them to their advantage.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks Travis I really appreciate that. I'm doing my best

You should show people how they mine for battery metals for their "environmentally friendly" EV's. They really should be called blood metals for the same reason they call blood/conflict diamonds.

@diegobob3306

Жыл бұрын

I would be curious to see some lithium mines, though I'm sure there are good and bad examples and even within the same country... but yes, it would be educational to see those mines, hopefully one day? Although there is less incentive to show those mines, the EV industry with a sterling white reputation... why show people the unpleasant truth, vs coal mines trying to prove their bad reputation is largely undeserved

@muhammadnihal2089

Жыл бұрын

Exactly 💯

@SovereignTroll

Жыл бұрын

And you want war for polluting other countries? The West is being subdued due to thus destructive thinking. You cannot destroy the environment, no country "owns" it.

The quality of these videos is high, especially with the coloring work. It's well-produced, but not over-produced. Aaron is direct and well-educated on the subjects and that causes the content to hold viewers' interest very well. All of these come together to give high quality documentary-style "vlogs" that are reliable and (literally) down-to-earth, since Aaron has no facade unlike what you see in actors and presenters that usually do documentaries of these kinds of things. (such as Modern Marvels on Discovery).

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for the kind comment and for watching. We're doing our best to give a real look into this world most people don't know even exists

@xXPacoXx100

Жыл бұрын

Dude, check out his website and look at the founding members. This guy is a shill for construction companies. You fell for his facade the moment you thought he was being down to earth lmao.

@WatCharles

Жыл бұрын

@@xXPacoXx100 His whole company is centered around making construction companies look interesting and the work being pretty cool, if not meaningful. He better shill for them if he wants to stay in business.

I work in a deep mines in eastern KENTUCKY, 3rd shift 11pm-9am. Coal is all we have, I’m a 3rd generation miner in the same seam of coal POND CREEK seam my dad and grandfather worker in, in the 70’s and 80’s. We’re upwards of 3 miles underground.

@Mark-pp7jy

Жыл бұрын

Respect to you, your father, and grandfather! Be safe andrew!

I've toured a coal mine in Colorado and found it truly interesting. I love that old mines are being reclaimed. But of all the advances the industry claims as virtue, how many were done without government regulation. I'm not certain we should be praising the industry for simply obeying the law. I've never been congratulated for not driving while drunk.

@mtp123fly

Жыл бұрын

Yes based on being forced by the government coal has improved. But there are still many nasty places left. Look at mountain top removal and the water issue they cause and left unresolved. Yes this is a great PR video, not does not show the full picture.

@coolroy4300

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations for not driving drunk 👍

@TheAdekrijger

Жыл бұрын

That is not the same. Not being allowed to do something isn't the same as being required to do something.

@tabortollefson

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAdekrijger Pa-tay-toe pa-tah-toe

Love the NAACO series and seeing all the mines. My dad has been with NACCO for 30+ years and it has provided an amazing life for me and my brothers! Was blessed to intern at Sabine mine for several years while in college. Many memories from that operation and the amazing people that work there!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

wow that's fantastic to hear

Very very well explained I work in a quarry where we process high calcium limestone and they burn our stone in a power plant to neutralize the acid in the coal

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

that's awesome. Thanks for watching Paul

First of all, amazing content! I'd love to see more details (if permissable). Like how the pits are planned, the coal is found, site maps, etc... Like in depth interviews with the people who do the planning, that could be it's own video! Then you could do a whole video on the soil movement, what the over all plan is, the trucks and machines moving it out and back in. A video on The coal, what quality is needed before it starts going to the power plants, the different machines used, how much is actually moved, the whole supply line of it. Finally a video showing the land reclamation process, how it's starts, planting, terrain matching, everything you can with actual footage of the work. Maybe a whole video just for the repair shop! I do love your videos but always wish there were more details and descriptions. I love watching the big machines do their thing but often feel like you could've spent a whole video on one machine explaining how it works and why it's the way it is. I honestly think that you could make a lot more videos with the locations you go to and the content you film. But I know it's also a lot more work and setting up more specific filming. Regardless keep up the great work!

I love when a video gives me a new appreciation for something I didn’t understand before thank you for that :)

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching and for keeping an open mind Tyler

It's easy to reclaim if the area is already flat terrain in the mountains it's a totally different story

@greyfox79007

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they gloss over mountain top removal mining. There is a mountain before mining, and it aint there after mining.

@butspan7618

Жыл бұрын

@@greyfox79007 unless there removing snow caped mountains the environmental damage is minor.

@asherdie

Жыл бұрын

@@greyfox79007 they should replace the coal removed with liberals.

@michaelbranham5854

Жыл бұрын

Yep backing haulers around the tops of the highwalls.. spent many nights doing that.

@finscreenname

Жыл бұрын

On the other hand a mountainous region may benefit from an area with a flattened landscape.

Amazing videos! Only thing I'd love to see would be a tour of some of these power plants where the coal is brought. Try and show people the scrubber systems used, and what they do with the ash. Thanks for all your content and showing how the world lumbers on!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

haha if only we could get into a power plant... doubtful it'll happen unfortunately. I'd love to show that side of things

@Jordan-rc7hl

Жыл бұрын

That's my current field as a stationary steam engineer. It's pretty amazing to see what actually goes on inside the large plants that people never hear about. It's unfortunate they won't let you tour a large gigawatt facility but maybe try smaller plants? There are really cool systems going into place from ultra low nox using def injection to high tech scrubbers in the stacks. I work in a lumber mill running the boilers that burn biomass to spin a turbine to produce all of our power and create the heat needed to dry the kilns. Every step is being taken to ensure a clean vibrant future for the Maine woods.

@cmm3338

Жыл бұрын

@@AaronWitt Come out too Utah, I have some family friends in that industry with the ability to grant you access. DM me.

@Obshowersyndicate

Жыл бұрын

I install exterior trim made from fly ash

I really wish you could get this out to a much larger audience. I'm in the oil/gas industry and our land reclamation programs are similar on a smaller scale, as you can imagine. (Much less surface disturbance). The general public should be more aware of what the energy industry really does. Best I can do to help you is give you a thumbs up!

@Fredster2020

Жыл бұрын

You think putting some grass over a coal mine fixes coal problems??

@zAlaska

Ай бұрын

There are millions of abandoned wells in North America. Like Hanford, there are a lot of facilities that don't comply with modern regulations that were abandoned decades ago. Cleaning up and Make It Alright meanwhile eliminating the EPA, and deregulating that you can dump anything. Both popular sentiments within Congress.

Great vid! When you said "without coal, we wouldnt have electricity", I agree. But I would also say "without coal, we wouldnt have steel, silicon computer processor chips, or concrete", just to mention a few necessities. My motto is: Earth First...we'll mine the other planets later!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Great points

@berenlea486

Жыл бұрын

You dont need coal for any of those things, coal is just the super cheep option there are other ways to do them that dont involve coal or any other fossil fuel for that matter

@curtis-thebicentennialist1776

Жыл бұрын

@@berenlea486 Wow! It seems that i have just found the only person who knows how to produce steel without coke, produce silicon chips without high purity silicon, and replace flyash in concrete mix.

@jeremygrubb1434

Жыл бұрын

@@curtis-thebicentennialist1776 good point I’m a coal miner in Kentucky people just don’t realize what all coal provided for them but what Do I know

I was at that mine in the early 80's building the two Bucyrus Erie machines. Worked for a company out of Evansville Indiana. Reagan was president and what good times! Good ol rock n roll hair bands and beautiful Texas women then too!

Very well made video. I am a mining engineer myself and I always want to make a video like this to show the world how much they misunderstood mining.

Again, great video Aaron. I think you hit the jackpot with dealing with this niche of the Dirt World. Not a lot of people know about the backside of how our world is powered and you bring the information to all of us! Thank you

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much I appreciate your kind words Dan

This was my favorite video yet. Excellently made. Thank you!!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks Johnny!

I think you have a small window to see how Germany mines coal still. Top content again 👍

Thanks Aaron, interesting to learn about the reclamation process. Could you talk about the wider environmental implications of coal mining on climate? I.e. burning coal as a driver of climate change (you mentioned the coal here was being used in power plants)

@Fredster2020

Жыл бұрын

No because the video wouldn’t make sense then

@any0n378

11 ай бұрын

Maybe you should go and research climate change, and look at the methods used to determine if the climate is changing and by how much and how the CO2 link factors in to the debate. If you think this episode on coal mining was interesting, prepare for your mind to be blown.

What an amazing video……you need to get this on discovery so the whole world can the amazing work they do

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

we're doing our best to get there!

Thank you so much Aaron for publishing this. Excellent content 4 the word to see

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for watching

I absolutely love you channel! Great job explaining COAL!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks Don!

Love this video! Awesome perspective and production.

This is exactly the kind of information I've been looking for!! Thank you!!

This was a great video and thank you very much for bringing this to a lot of people that have no idea of how much work goes into mining coal and then how much work goes back into the reclaiming which in most cases makes the land more usable and valuable leveled out in places than it wasn't before the mining . 🤗👍💫

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

Well made and informative look forward more like this.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks Michael!

Another great video. Enjoy this type of content

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks David!

@HeathFarms

Жыл бұрын

I’ve learned a lot about Naples Florida thing s I never knew yet I live there!

That was absolutely amazing!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

This is a very well done documentary/production, or whatever the term for this is. I love it. Keep it up

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!!

Love your videos. I'm happy to see you liked the 800. I have been working for Tennant for 25 years.

Keep up the good work! To be blue collar to be American means we support ALL energy. We need jobs, honest work, and energy people need to know that those of us who work in the energy sector don’t want to destroy the planet, for god sakes we play in it, live in it and die in it! You live in the city and you don’t want to live in the dark ages? You need dirty jobs to fuel your excess. Keep it up man! They’re tryin to kill my state of Wyoming cause of just plain ignorance.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@louiearmstrong

Жыл бұрын

Coal isn't going anywhere soon, but Wyoming is digging its own grave by relying on coal for most of the state government revenue. They need to embrace some newer, cold weather friendly industries like data centers and industrial marijuana, instead of crying when Washington state doesn't want to export Wyoming coal, or shitting on Bill Gates for wanting to invest billions in Wyoming nuclear

From coal country I thank you. I have never been part of the industry but I see and hear about what’s going on up in the mines all the time. Appreciate your content.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoy it!! Thank you for watchinf

wow, I just found your channel today, i'm impressed. I absolutely had no idea that mining operations were restored after being mined.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

glad you're here!

Great video and I love how you explained everything I got s lot of information from this video now I know more about coal mining than I did before! Great video and I’m looking forward to another watch me work video soon!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!!

Worked at a long wall mine for 10 years on the surface as a dozer operator. Before cline passed away it was the best place I ever worked after he passed not so much. But I do miss it.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

really cool Dan. Thanks for watching

This is one of your most informative videos Aaron. Very enlightening. Mike 🇦🇺

Awesome video Aaron. Keep up the great content.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

Nice filming!

Absolutely love these videos ,As a mining boilermaker working on the biggest machinery in the world in the Hunter Valley Australia. It's great to see how mining operations work a round the world with your video Aaron. Also Aaron when are you coming Australia would love to see a video of the super pit in Kalgoorlie or Mt Thorley coal mine.

Thank you.....good to see this again...I worked in coal mining in South Africa...I loved it

Used to run a Tennant s30 for a few years I bloody loved that thing ❤️🇦🇺

Dude your channel is sweet. Keep up the good work. These videos are great quality

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

Great video again

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Company I work for installs the electrical equipment, cables, operators chairs and such. We bring the machine to optimum working condition. Been on all the dragline machines in your videos and a lot more. Great videos keep them coming.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

That’s really awesome you get to work around these machines

Really cool stuff I bet you put in a lot of time and effort to make this video flawless

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for watching!

I love your videos, keep up the good work!

As a coal mining industry employee you have done justice to the industry

Keep up the good work !

Great video!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

Damn. These are some good videos

Dude thank you for this, it was great.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Ben

I'm pretty impressed at how it looked afterwards. Remarkable! But also nobody can deny that we should reduce coal usage as much as feasible.

GREAT VIDEO!

Excellent

Nice video!

The Big Muskie's uncle, cousin, little brother? I like these the is always something new I learn watching these.

This whole video is massively eye opening. I can't say how right you are when I think of coal mining, even though I know its not the case, your mind still goes to the guys covered in black head to toe with a pickaxe and a oil lamp. The reclamation is amazing. The one thing I will say is these dude for sure SOUND like miners haha.

Coal is certified organic!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Ain’t that the truth

Great video.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

Love the vids. It'd be helpful for regular joes if you referenced cubic yards when describing machines... this dragline bucket pulls x yards. For the normal dirt monkey the size of these things is astounding. Keep up the good work.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Gotcha will do thanks John

Bravo!

There was two drag lines that size or a little bigger running around my house back in the 70-90s area after they shut down I got a chance to explore one of them they are so huge

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

They’re awesome machines

Awesome video

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

All the love from the UK. Here's a point, I'm old enough to remember the buildings in the "Northern Town" where I live being black because most people had coal burning fires/stoves in their houses. These building have been cleaned and look nice and clean. If you go to wikipedia and look up Sellafield Nuclear site, part of that talks about a clean up(for part of the site) running until 2104. TWO THOUSAND AND ONE OH FOUR, boy oh boy I shudder reading that. Many thanks for this vid.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks Daniel

You have really stepped up your KZread game recently!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

we're doing our best!!! Thanks for watching. Only up from here

Gotta comment, great video Aaron!

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

I worked in an open pit mine that was a smaller scale. It's called Pabco Gypsum of Las Vegas and it's the only drywall manufacturer that mines gypsum and puts it straight into the production plant. This is a great video and I love seeing the reclamation process.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome

Hard to get a grasp on how gigantic them machines really are !!!! Almost prly drive a truck into the bucket of that 6020!!!! 🤩 🤩 🤯

I know this business very well for many years.

You joke but I always though the floor cleaning machines were so cool in the truck shop.

I worked at an surface coal mine in Montana for about 5 years. I saw first hand all of the rules and regulations that mines operate under. Complicated work. As far as I'm concerned it was one of the best paying in wages and benefits jobs I've ever had. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend anyone working at a coal mine.

You know what would be a good video series is if you went down to Texas to shoot some videos on the oilfield, wether they are spreading the used mud, or building the pads or actually drilling or fracing the well, with your quality of videos that would be amazing to watch

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

problem is the oil companies chase us off

@byrdprecision8824

Жыл бұрын

@@AaronWitt thats what sucks but thankfully I’ve been an insider on the downstream of things, my dad used to crack and now we own a trucking company hauling crude oil through out Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and just all over where ever pays the best.

@byrdprecision8824

Жыл бұрын

He used to frac*

Aaron awesome video

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thank you Robert!!

@robertandreoli9764

Жыл бұрын

Aaron your welcome I work for a construction company in new Hampshire in there gravel pit👍

Would love to see a video like this showing off a smaller aggregate operation. My particular one is ran by a large company, but we're their basement essentially. I work production and maintenance on the plant and fill in as needed. We're lucky to go a week without fighting the plant. We crush roughly 2500 tons a day, but the whole crushing operation is ran with 5 people. 1 loader man, 2 haul truck drivers, and 2 at the plant.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

we will see what we can do

PA Mining did a live Q&A stream a couple weeks ago and he talked about some of this. It's quite interesting what people don't realise and what other refuse to say on the subject.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to look around for that

great video. Thanks for putting this together.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

Am I the only one that sees that dragline and wants to drive that thing ! well not drive it but operate it ! it looks like a lot of fun 😁👍 yes I already operated equipment so it's not a huge leap for me obviously I already like operating equipment but still that thing looks awesome 😎👍

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

they're very neat I'd love to operate one too!!

So pleased to see the reclamation after coal mining. I'm interested to know what happens when coal runs out?

I am an in school for environmental conservation and i think ill show this to my professor because a lot of students here in New York just don't understand anything about mining because were all mainly hydroelectric or wind and solar now.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

yeah but funny enough a vast majority of our power is still from coal and gas...

@Oliver-Kirsch

Жыл бұрын

@@AaronWitt Yea, where i'm from in buffalo most of the area is powered by Niagara Falls and everybody in the area thinks that people who don't use hydroelectric are doing something wrong, when in reality its just not possible in most areas because people just don't have that kind of access. And Niagara Falls it barely powers two cities so i'm and im not sure where people think the other power comes from in the winter when its frozen over ori n other areas in new york further away 🤣 Your videos are really good man keep it up.

I wish the mining companies in Wv would reclaim their mines as well as this company does

I install exterior trim made from fly ash the stuff is amazing

Good blokes digging up the mineral , making tha mun , fair play to them

i loved this bcs it’s not what i thought it was going to be about

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

Oh look electric car fuel. Wait until you find out what it takes to mine material for all those Californian batteries you can’t charge.

Would love to see ya come to trapper mine in Craig Colorado

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

that would be a neat one to see

I think Aaron is an equipmentphile the way he's talking about that excavator

Thank you coal for all the good times, but those times are a changin'.

Coal is the bedrock of modern civilization.

Here in Australia, we've a few problems with owners not being on top of their rehab, until quite a bit later in the operation. This is more an issue with older mines, where rehab wasn't taken as seriously as it should have been. Most current mines are pretty on top of their rehab from the moment the dirt starts getting moved. Rehab has to be designed into the mining operation. How well do you guys cope with acid sulphates in overburden? This is something we've only just realized is a problem here in Aus in the last 10 years or so, and has the potential to be a major issue?

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

not sure. I'll ask about it next time I'm with these folks

@richardhaselwood9478

Жыл бұрын

​@@AaronWitt Yeah, Australian operators basically took the attitude that "Acid sulphates. That's only a problem in hard rock mines!" Then they ran some tests, and got a very rude surprise.... Especially when you consider you need to design spoil piles to last about a thousand years if they are part of final landforms. One more question. Are these guys in pit dumping? Obviously, that's the case with the dragline, but with truck and shovel operations, it normally gets transported to a spoil pile. I ask because, over the last few years, a few operators have been regretting in pit dumping because with the substantial increase in coal price, digging deeper is now really worthwhile. A number of pits in Australia are going to nearly 200m, or deeper, seam thickness dependent Unless your pit has been already filled in (another reason some big operators, e.g. Glencore, don't like draglines.)

@andreyfomenko2644

Жыл бұрын

@@richardhaselwood9478 Well, they reference a regulation from 1970', so I wouldn't expect a stringent rules on a modern lookout on a soil chemistry.

@richardhaselwood9478

Жыл бұрын

@@andreyfomenko2644 It's not just soil chemistry though. You need to have a good understanding of the chemistry of all your overburden, otherwise, you get unpleasant surprises 20 to 30 years later.

@rebeccamcgrew9681

Жыл бұрын

Before mining, we drill cores to 10' below the lowest coal seam we mine. Samples are sent for laboratory analysis & if acid forming materials are identified, we know to bury them so no acid seeps will form in the reclamation.

Kress Manufacturing is still in business....Peoria, IL

Never knew Texas had coal. Being mined and taken directly to the power plant is a definite win for the environment and, yes, the company. Cheaper costs and less transportation pollution.

Well made video, probably wanna turn your music breaks down a bit in volume as we have to keep adjusting our volume. Cheers.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dan

the area made into ponds by Big Brutis when it was mining is some best fishing you'll ever have in southeast kansas. just like stated in the video, you would never know it was a coal mine field.

Wow...😱👍❤👍👍👍

First, this channel is great and i just discovered it. Second, how are coal miners still getting black lung if coal mining isn't what it used to be?

@thangknowa3288

Жыл бұрын

Mostly underground mining, look up "Longwall Mining". All the dust you can stand, and then some.

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

yep that's all a different type of coal mining. This is surface mining. Thanks for watching!

@mzee5533

Жыл бұрын

Let me tell you simple answer for that is people don’t use the protective equipment they’re provided by the company. I’m in this industry i see it everyday. Yesterday another guy he was nearly crushed while lifting the cutting edges by a magnet 🧲. And this was not reported to the management. So don’t blame the companies but we grow up people are a big problem. Don’t expect a safety officer to chase you around to wear a musk or follow the safe procedure of doing a job.

I have seen that mine from a distance!!

Blue Collar Photography & Eric Jumper are unsung heroes of Build WITT

@AaronWitt

Жыл бұрын

agreed

The current regime needs a massive reminder of how important mining - especially coal is to America - if they cared. Those surface coal mines looked nothing like the Congo where humans are mining cobalt by hand. Appreciated.

Have a good look at lithium strip mines and the sulfiric acid leach pits