Aluminum Mining: Inside the World's Largest Aluminum Deposits: Mining & Manufacturing

Рет қаралды 423,612

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the heart of the aluminum industry! Join us on an immersive journey deep into the world's largest aluminum deposits, where we uncover the intricate processes of both mining and manufacturing. From the rugged terrains of extraction sites to the sophisticated facilities of production plants, we delve into every aspect of aluminum's lifecycle. Discover the relentless efforts, innovative techniques, and environmental considerations that shape the aluminum mining and manufacturing landscape. Join us as we uncover the fascinating story behind this versatile metal that powers industries worldwide.
Subscribe Right Here
👉 tinyurl.com/Sub-LordGizmo
Watch Lord Gizmo Play List
👉 tinyurl.com/LordGizmo-Playlist
=================================
Visit and subscribe to our Spanish Gizmo channel
Link: bit.ly/3jFJ7Z7
=================================
If you would like to feature your video or reach out for business enquirers please feel free to contact us at contact@lordgizmo.com
#lordgizmo
#onanotherlevel
#powerfulmachines
#satisfyingvideo

Пікірлер: 343

@bradfordjeff Ай бұрын

AI generated script read by robot voice. At times it is just word porridge.

@Enhancedlies Ай бұрын

Thank you for saving me from AI hell

@camacho1234 Ай бұрын

the comments in here are sus too

@Stanton_High Ай бұрын

Dead Internet theory isn't just a theory.

@egay86292 Ай бұрын

Turing test much? AI's yo mamma.

@alexp.6145 Ай бұрын

Eh... humans are overrated. Beep... boop...

@BojaneBugami Ай бұрын

I work on aircraft, and it amazes me how strong aluminum can be with the correct engineering. Sheet aluminum is very weak and floppy, but when the same sheet is ridged, bent, or dimpled, and installed, it's profoundly stronger. Aircraft design is amazing.

@t.mendous7922 Ай бұрын

2024 Copper/Aluminum alloy is very strong, usually hardened to T3 and clad with a few thousandths of pure aluminum each side, coming out with the standard 2024 T3 Alclad. It is amazing how a little geometry stiffens it

@augustlindow1162 Ай бұрын

All that mining, science, and technical process to cook a baked potato and throw the aluminum foil away.

@bobbythompson6017 Ай бұрын

I save anything aluminum and recycle it

@box3976 Ай бұрын

You pronounced aluminum wrong...

@Automedon2 Ай бұрын

Men do the most incredible things. How did they ever discover all the processes it takes to make the finished product? Just the manufacture of the machinery to process it is mind blowing.

@nicksshitbro Ай бұрын

Trial and error, just like every other discovery.

@mohamadarifinaliarifin2903 Ай бұрын

And very costly too... All the hardship works bring beneficial to the world. solute.

@beammachine4525 Ай бұрын

fire

@Bob_Adkins Ай бұрын

Free markets. If enough people need something, they will get it. They work out the processes 1 at a time and slowly perfect them.

@kizzjd9578 Ай бұрын

Whats even more mind blowing is the process to manufacture carbon ceramic or carbon fibre. Theres only 3 factories in the world that can so it. Csiro australia made a small batch but nothing on the scale as the other big 3 manufacturers.

@johndaut2838 Ай бұрын

It's not a second digester. It is called a Rod Mill to grind the material into a consistent size before adding it to caustic. It is the first step for the Bauxite. I designed some for Alcoa in America.

@michaels.ramsey7803 Ай бұрын

I'm from Central Arkansas and worked in the refractory field rebuilding Alcoa and Reynolds furnaces.

@slughead Ай бұрын

Pretty sure it's an AI script read out by an AI voice - Would explain why it doesn't make sense.

@yoursnb17 Ай бұрын

i worked for 6 years at one of the top 5 biggest aluminium smelter in world. this video recall my all the memories

@artelwell8027 Ай бұрын

I used to haul aluminum ingets from a plant in Monette, Missouri to a plant in South Carolina so interesting to see how the ingets are made.

@petercrossley1069 Ай бұрын

Ingots. Not ingets.

@CajunInLaw Ай бұрын

@@petercrossley1069lmao. What an idjet! 😂

@lanceleavitt7472 Ай бұрын

Interesting fact: Aluminum used to be more rare than gold, before they knew how to process it.

@beardedchefau Ай бұрын

Well they knew how to process it, just not in large quantities, until some someone bailey came along and figured out a system

@johniwanaga3517 Ай бұрын

Technically, it was never rare - just expensive to produce in pure form. Even after figuring out how to process the metal from ore - a cheap source of electricity was needed to make aluminum available to the masses. Coal and oil made the real difference. No other metal's price is as dependent on cheap energy.

@xerxespamplemousse6622 Ай бұрын

Refined aluminum was rare. Elemental aluminum is the most common metallic element in the Earth's crust. Just hard to get pure.

@milwaukeebrewers6337 Ай бұрын

Interesting fact: aluminum has never been rarer than gold at any time in history.

@lanceleavitt7472 Ай бұрын

@@milwaukeebrewers6337 -- You are technically correct. Processed aluminum was only more valuable than gold in the mid-1800s. Elemental aluminum has always been very common in Earth's crustal composition. --- I stand corrected. ---

@d.jensen5153 Ай бұрын

Was blown away to learn that cast iron is used to bond anode block and steel terminal!! 🤯

@AgricultureTechUS Ай бұрын

Astounding heavy equipment innovations showcase the pinnacle of industrial progress.

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 Ай бұрын

Very inspiring and informative...Excellent Greetings from a traditional Indonesian gold prospector 🇲🇨🌼✋👍👍

@richardmorrison2686 Ай бұрын

Very well done , I worked in a cement plant quarry , processed the rock completely to finished product of bagged cement , or rail car loading . The aluminum process is very interesting , thank you

@americanwoman6246 Ай бұрын

You worked in a quarry? Like lime stone? Or?...

@LordGizmo Ай бұрын

Thank you. It was a difficult one to do and to not bore the living daylights out of everyone

@beardedchefau Ай бұрын

I dunno where that footageis from or where you got your information but that's not the Gladstone refinery, how do I know? Cause I'm an alumina producer in that refinery only semi accurate things I saw was needing bauxite and crushing it to mix with caustic but we call them mills. The processes mentioned are somewhat accurate

@steelthfighter Ай бұрын

i noticed things were odd myself. was tempted to flag this as misinformation

@beardedchefau Ай бұрын

1 severely incorrect fact is at 3:35, it doesn't need to be transported to the refinery because the wharf is attached to the refinery only transport required is from the ship to our stockpiles by conveyor

@steelthfighter Ай бұрын

Not to mention it seemed like they cut and pasted a lot of the clips out of order. Not sure how far in you got in the video, but I couldn't make it that far

@gradertfamilymakes Ай бұрын

This channel is fake. It's all AI driven.

@wex9210 Ай бұрын

@steelthfighter "They're some inaccuracies with clips in this video" at the end of the video

@johnbucklerfarms Ай бұрын

I’d be Proud of that Purchase!

@lyleslaton3086 Ай бұрын

From bombers to beer cans, amazing stuff.

@youropionmattersnot Ай бұрын

The top of the Washington Monument it capped in aluminum because at the time of completion, aluminum was worth more than gold. True fact.

@user-nr4mr5ul3u Ай бұрын

Good video Lord Gizmo. T.y.

@rickwestlake3048 Ай бұрын

I'm a wee bit surprised that you didn't have more to say about the vast amount of electric power that's needed to convert alumina to the final-product metal. Essentially, electricity is a raw material for aluminum production -- direct-current, at 5 volts and 100 to 300 kilo-amps. Takes about 10 to 15 kilowatt-hours to produce one kg of aluminum.

@bernardkroeger4045 Ай бұрын

Don't they colloquially refer to aluminum as solidified electricity ?

@not.likely Ай бұрын

Or how the electricity consumption of aluminum refineries impacts drastically on entire economies. The average taxpayer doesn't realise how much he is subsidizing aluminum production each time he purchases his domestic kilowatt-hours. They also don't mention the fluoride fall out from the smoke these refineries billow and how it poisons the surrounding environment where plants eventually fail to grow...or the intensely high temperatures that that the workers have to face and endure in the smelters and where pouring the aluminium solution. It is a wonderful metal but it comes at a very heavy price to mankind and the environment, so they prefer not talk about it. Australia exports much of its bauxite to countries in Africa for refining. Their pollution laws don't allow them to refine on home soil. Suffer the people of the emerging economies for the love of money

@ralphaverill2001 Ай бұрын

More aluminum than iron in the Earth's crust?! First I've heard of that assertion.

@bradfordjeff Ай бұрын

Earth's mantle is liquid iron. The crust has way more aluminum than iron.

@d.jensen5153 Ай бұрын

The earth's crust is approximately 8.2% Al and 5.6% Fe.

@N4CR5 Ай бұрын

@@d.jensen5153allegedly lmao

@ernisj.8087 Ай бұрын

Aluminium ore is Boxite. Boxite can be found in simple clay under your feet.Each clay has some percentage of Boxite.The one whay is usedhas most percentage of boxite.

@ralphaverill2001 Ай бұрын

@@ernisj.8087 Thank you. I had no idea bauxite was so prevalent.

@corvavw6447 Ай бұрын

Prachtige documentaire 🎉😊

@Greater_pakistan Күн бұрын

very amazing and complete video ❤👈

@masonstump1579 Ай бұрын

I work in mining. This is the first time ive ever seen blast holes be entirely hand loaded

@dailylife3975 Ай бұрын

All that stuff that's in the earth's core is there for a reason

@Dave-ohhh Ай бұрын

For humans to deplete it

@kaitlynlsari681 Ай бұрын

Very interesting thank you ❤

@aamirniaz6126 Ай бұрын

Good job

@NormReitzel Ай бұрын

The process is Calcination (roasting) not "calcification."

@GHOSTGXZ 18 күн бұрын

4:46 I thought I'd never hear someone from uk say aluminum correctly 👏👏👏👏👏

@markissboi3583 Ай бұрын

this was most interesting & more informative.

@JoseCampos-ux6vo Ай бұрын

Excelente

@sackustwilight6957 Ай бұрын

I used to work in a cheese mine

@user-xd6tw4lu7v Ай бұрын

thats a lot of work to make aluminium

@swagzoneus Ай бұрын

Great Video !! Good

@theengineus Ай бұрын

Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why

@mack8488 Ай бұрын

I could not retell this proces...its rather complicated...( interesting vid)

@dansteel8805 Ай бұрын

I totally see this process happening with green tech energy sources

@huwmungus1 Ай бұрын

It's called aluminium not aloominumb.

@bobbythompson6017 Ай бұрын

People get triggered when you say aluminum and not the " other scientific word for it"

@mickwolf1077 Ай бұрын

but why does the process begin heating to a temperature in Celsius and end in Fahrenheit?

@mikelastname Ай бұрын

as the aluminium becomes liberated it has to change to freedom units.

@timothyrussell1179 Ай бұрын

Holy crap, the British guy pronounced it correctly!! 🤯

@REV1517 29 күн бұрын

I just wish videos like this would show the statistics on how many people are injured or killed in the process of bring products like this to people. People take a lot for granted and don't realize some of us put our life on the line so they can enjoy certain products, roads, houses, food, ECT. All we do, for the glory of man.

@Mytube8I Ай бұрын

That’s a lot of al-loo-mi-knee-um mate

@user-ih9ec1vd1o Ай бұрын

Bauxite is the base ore of aluminium and needs many processes to produce aluminium.

@jm-ux5dk Ай бұрын

You have a British accent but mispronounce aluminium.

@peterresetz1960 Ай бұрын

I have personally known two different British born and raised individuals whom both pronounced aluminum (alu-min-e-um). There was also banter about various car parts names such as the trunk is termed a boot, fenders are called wings, and the engine compartment hood is a bonnet. Too many of these KZfaq channels now are reverting to creating a script and then have a computer generated voice narration.

@LordGizmo Ай бұрын

@@peterresetz1960 yes the banter is never ending :)

@ashesman1 Ай бұрын

Pretty sure it's a computer generated voice, so maybe forgot to tick the box to say aluminium!

@theengineus Ай бұрын

Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why

@sticustom Ай бұрын

Correct. It’s Al You Min Eye Um NOT Al Loo Mim Num

@deltabravo1811 Ай бұрын

Lord Jizmo

@user-cs7bu4ur1j 26 күн бұрын

Take care of the aluminum and the aluminum will take care of you.

@urbanspaceman7183 10 күн бұрын

AL-U-MI-I-UM

@hg2. Ай бұрын

Min 8:00 What happened to those big carbon blocks?

@sunset3052 28 күн бұрын

Humans are so smart

@sloanmagnum5009 Ай бұрын

Thats a lot of pie tins. My favorite is strawberry rhubarb

@goldsilverjunkie Ай бұрын

I would love to see a video about ENGELHARD INDUSTRYS ABOUT SILVER

@jdeleb 4 күн бұрын

Good overall video, but couple of mistakes. The video for alumina production mixes alumina and aluminium process

@Info.worldwide Ай бұрын

What rock are they mining the aluminum from ?

@jmjsr Ай бұрын

Bauxite

@jonm4501 Ай бұрын

Video focused to much on Anode processing and never explained the Smelting process.

@ChocolateFrog Ай бұрын

Does it continue at an age 5 level?

@salmaanibrahim2837 Ай бұрын

Pholabora South Africa Thanks

@bobbythompson6017 Ай бұрын

That's crazy Red Rock turns into silver aluminum

@krisg822 Ай бұрын

11:19 1m³ of AL weights about 2,7t , for it to weight 30t, you would need a piece that is more than 1mx1m and 10m long, clearly none of the slabs in video is that big

@jim2lane Ай бұрын

Much of the smelting footage appears to be from the EMAL facility in Abu Dhabi

@everydaybacksbroken2886 Ай бұрын

Wtf those are some massive blocks.

@peteypops Ай бұрын

Shame that the narrative bore no relationship to the video…..crystallization etc was never shown…..

@LordGizmo Ай бұрын

Yes it was a vey technical video and I was questioning certain aspects as to how technical I could push it without “boring” the living daylights out of everyone.

@Omglolwut Ай бұрын

I love hearing Aluminum pronounced correctly

@callumnicholson5416 Ай бұрын

U would've had a hard time watching this then

@johnhause7150 Ай бұрын

Also a key ingredient inThermite....

@mylesbishop1240 Ай бұрын

Can you imagine how many dinosaur/ancient bones and even minerals they destroy without a care

@thomasryan9639 12 күн бұрын

Why is it that only the American videos have a million ads??

@robertmurray8815 Ай бұрын

What is the electric bill and natural gas?

@bobbythompson6017 Ай бұрын

In the trillions

@judah400yrs2 Ай бұрын

All I can think about, when “ Mother Earth “ takes her revenge it’s going to be “ Apocalyptic “ for mankind!!!

@chrisstaylor8377 27 күн бұрын

Aluminium was not made until electricity was invented ,

@budi0251 Ай бұрын

I think they skipped the electrolysis part after preparing those carbon anode being glued with molten iron to the rod. They simply skipped into metal aluminum process. Crystallized alumina isn't yet metallic aluminum I suppose.

@ThatOldBlackMagic_YouAppear Ай бұрын

is this melt smelting upper part rail car early era

@MegaSkypes Ай бұрын

The only picture of Gladstone is at 3.33 Gladstone is home to 2 refinery’s and smelter and various other businesses Not a bad video which I could understand but from my point the video was slightly out of whack in terms of details to what was coming up on the screen and what you were describing!

@glenlongstreet7 Ай бұрын

Do you think you could put together a piece on 'Clear Aluminum'. First mentioned on 'Star Trek 4 - Whales'. I believe it is called Gorilla Glass and it might involve doping with Silicon.

@bradfordjeff Ай бұрын

Gorilla glass is almost pure silicon.

@glenlongstreet7 Ай бұрын

So are transistors, it is the doping that makes it work. Changes the lattice.

@michaels.ramsey7803 Ай бұрын

It's called synthetic sapphire, They make watches and phone screen protectors from it. They use heat to make aluminum dust transparent. (I oversimplified the process for space and time.)

@glenlongstreet7 Ай бұрын

Thanks. I did some research maybe a decade ago. I live near to a very large silicon production facility. Many years ago I was an electronics gem and looked at the chemistry of silicon. But it is all just granite to me. 😉

@paladin0654 Ай бұрын

Aluminum isn't "mined". Bauxite or cryolite are mined and smelted in a foundry to create to metal.

@laksi0505 Ай бұрын

Alcoa Plant?

@peetsnort Ай бұрын

America made aloominum practical .so they own that nomenclature and pronunciation. Not many people know that the statue in picadlly fountain is made from aluminium which cost almost as much as gold to make before it became cheaper with mass electricity

@rosewhite--- Ай бұрын

Al YOU MIN IUM!

@theminiatureconstructionco4556 Ай бұрын

Yes. There is nothing worse than hearing a British person pronounce Aluminium in the American way. 😕

@squamishstu Ай бұрын

I disagree, there is nothing worse than hearing a British person speak

@rosewhite--- Ай бұрын

@@squamishstu jealousy is a terrible burden. get yourself som e West Yorkshire dialect cds and learn to speak proper.

@theminiatureconstructionco4556 Ай бұрын

@@rosewhite--- they would still sound like Dick Van Dyke......🤣

@rosewhite--- Ай бұрын

@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 I 'd like to know who taught him that English accent!"

@Casitascrawlers Ай бұрын

What percentage of recycled aluminum make up the entire amount even though a lot of aluminum gets recycled the percentage is probably super low.

@Saki630 Ай бұрын

I learned something from this. However the comments here have me questioning the voice, script, and meaning behind this video.

@thelonemoomin Ай бұрын

Alu-mini-um it has two letter i's in it Dag namit!!!!!😂

@ferdinanddiego5242 Ай бұрын

Lord Gizmo please help to find investors for gold and cupper mining of Southern Negros, Philippines. We have some biggest deposit of these minerals but we don't have investors.

@JoseLopez-mc7kw 27 күн бұрын

Aluminum and metal teachings helpings all All aluminum is key in grafite use heat in not dont

@ogbonnasam9997 Ай бұрын

So aluminum is basically rock mixed with soda

@paulemmerson3686 Ай бұрын

Aluminium, please, you’re English 😂

@chipperthompson8746 26 күн бұрын

I watched a documentary recently about the last Space Shuttle flight. One of the astronauts, whom I thought should have been crazy smart, kept pronouncing it "ALUNIMIN". Afterwards, I tried to tell someone about the way that he kept pronouncing it, I had tremendous trouble doing so. It took me about 15 times of saying it in order to get it WRONG(in the way that he was)!

@jommarpino1472 26 күн бұрын

Hastilan ka O.a pOdt nmu,

@goyacc Ай бұрын

Gallium and Germanium are rich in side product of Aluminum purify process.

@eddyd8745 Ай бұрын

Say after me Al U Min Eum!

@user-uq2rr4xt9g Ай бұрын

The music in the video is distracting.!

@Bob_Adkins Ай бұрын

All that Aluminum and it's like pulling teeth to get a small AL extrusion 1 meter long.

@Brandos_channel 28 күн бұрын

Aswel , aluminum dust is the largest industrial by product. And the government and corporations found a perfect way to dispose of it. ☁️ 😷

@aaronfurman8208 Ай бұрын

I mean....this is kind of right. But, its bauxite that is in the earths crust and then it is refined into alumina, which is then turned into aluminum

@theengineus Ай бұрын

Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why

@claudiusstrdamus8839 Ай бұрын

What is missing in this documentary is how the reject from this process is done. This a very dark side of this process.

@OldWrench59 Ай бұрын

"Aluminum" isn't mined, however bauxite is and you need that to make aluminum.😁

@Incogneto1981 Ай бұрын

ALUMINIUM - A LOO MIN E UM! Sorry i'm a brit lol. In American English, this element is called aluminum, while in British English it's more commonly referred to as aluminium. The two names refer to the same chemical element. In scientific writing and academia, both aluminum and aluminium are commonly used and considered correct names.

@65gtotrips Ай бұрын

@1:43 I mean really ? You really use excavators and dump trucks ? I’d never thought of that.

@randoir1863 Ай бұрын

aluminum vs aluminium , weigh in !!!! lol

@alexlindekugel8727 Ай бұрын

well i know understand why aluminum is so expensive lot of steps and lot of enargy goes into making it. hear i just thaught the eletric furnces was the power hungry part.