Mining For Beginners - How Does a Metals and Mineral Mine Work?
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 Published On May 5, 2023

How does dirt and rocks turn into gold bars, copper wire or iron pellets? This whole process happens in a mine and in a series of ore processing plants. In this video I’ll walk you through the whole process from the mine face to the shipping port. So let’s get started.

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References in this Video:
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Carlin Trend -    • Mountaintop View of the Carlin Trend ...  

Carlin operations:
https://www.mining-technology.com/pro...
https://s25.q4cdn.com/322814910/files...

Nevadamining - How gold is Produced:    • How gold is produced  

Longest Conveyor belt: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima....

Ore Samples:
Copper: https://www.mindat.org/min-51758.html
Lead: https://geologyscience.com/ore-minera...
Barite: https://geology.com/minerals/barite.s...

Looking for Gold
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/w...

Panning for Gold
   • Gold Panning Tutorial for Beginners -...  

Mine Blast – Above ground
   • World's Biggest Wireless Mine Blast  

Mine Blast - Below ground
   • Blasting in Underground Mines  

Truck and Loader sequence – Above Ground
   • Huge Caterpillar 994 Wheel Loader 215...  

FMG Autonomous Trucks
   • Fortescue’s autonomous truck fleet su...  

Crusher and truck photo
https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/...

Conveyor video
   • Belt Conveyor-the  Transmission Equip...  

Longest Conveyor image
https://inergency.com/worlds-longest-...

Ball mill photo
https://energosteel.com/en/system-of-...

Room of ball mills
https://www.directindustry.com/prod/l...

Roaster
https://www.mogroup.com/portfolio/gol...
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/...

Autoclave
https://www.mogroup.com/portfolio/okt...

Leach heap
https://www.mogroup.com/portfolio/okt...

Froth Flotation – bubble separation
   • Froth Flotation  

Refinery
https://www.smm.co.jp/en/business/rd/...

iron ore pellets
https://www.mogroup.com/mining/pyro-p...

Copper Wire
https://www.mining.com/governments-wi...

Gold pour
https://miningdigital.com/smart-minin...

Underground Loading
   • Sandvik LH517 Wheel Loader Loading At...  

Underground conveyor
   • Conveyor belt system from underground...  

Fatigue Monitoring
   • ZenduCAM: Driver Distraction Monitoring  

Tire MEMs
   • Michelin® MEMS® Evolution 4 - Powerfu...  

Cisco Logo
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/open...

Underground crusher
https://bjbs.csu.edu.au/research/data...

Ore Sorting
https://www.canadianminingjournal.com...



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Cisco Resources:
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Cisco's industry use case sites:
Mining: cs.co/miningportfolio
Energy: cs.co/oilandgasportfolio

All Cisco Energy and Mining Blogs:
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https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/mining

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www.cisco.com/go/oilandgas
www.cisco.com/go/mining

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