"A very special rock" sums it up beautifully.

Love spark. Great documentaries with 30 less commercials then other documentaries on you tube

Respect to all hard working Australians from England! All the best. Some great music on this episode by the way. Listening in the background. Such as @ 37:15. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for uploading this - I'm writing a story based on Australian mining and this is a great starting point for information. Cheers.

This is just a really feel good documentary. Maybe a little generalized but Australians seem like very easy going, happy people. The mines are so incredible.

Was watching mining then I was watching horse racing ?😂

....and I cycled the coast line in 2009...was the best adventure so far in my life...amazing country.

Wodgina was a Tantalum mine before Iron ore. Sons of Gwalia. Old "J " block In Camp, the memories .

Sun: Is blasting absolutely as hard as it can Excavator @ 4:15: Has work lights on

Thanks for this fantastic video. I am thinking its such an adventure...

Wonderfull video as always. Very inspireing

Iam Shawn pennant from Jamaica I love watching you show

this is some old material from mining boom that was in Australia about 7 years ago. first mine that they show is Wodgina mine which was iron ore mine and is closed since 2017

I use to work at Wodgina back very 2000's when We were mining Tantalum

I been to wogina iron ore mine way back in 2010 for giving them filtered water dispensers business through cool clear

A lot of ejection from that blast - fly-rock and stemming to the moon :)

10:51 This man loves the bush!

No talk about geology, technology, and not much about mining. Just a company’s promotional video with a happy face on every thing.

Mining supports our way of life! Great to see the industry booming in Australia

Good doco. I quite fancy working in the mines. I worked offshore in the Northsea for years and also offshore and onshore in NZ. Living in NZ now, but love Aussie. Spent 4 years there during the 90's. Only thing I'd need is my NZ Passport, then I could work in Aussie. I also love the desert. NZ is the opposite. Greenery everywhere here. but no dangerous Snakes here. I'm a sparky, but to be honest, I'd give it up and drive one of those giant trucks. That would be very cool.

I am passionate about Australia, I hope one day to visit that wonderful country. I would love to visit an iron ore mine in the Pilbara sometime. Congratulations for the videos! Greetings from Asunción, Paraguay!

I installed Open Pit Blast hole drills in AU back in the 80, 13 trips in.

that one is boring. Could be easily compressed to a 5 min video.

thank you for great detail video

Fantastic documentary! Well done again Spark!

Excellent, keep up the great work. No mining in this country means we all go BROKE!

I lived in the upper peninsula of Michigan where iron ore mining is still happening and in northern Minnesota. I hope that in Australia the miner's do not have air conditioner :)

Love the channel

on the other end of the scale we have an iron ore mine in an opposite climate on opposite ends of the globe called Baffinland in Nunavut. Canada. A very large scale mine that also must transport the ore overland to a shipping port where it heads overseas. biggest difference is we have to wear more than a tshirt outside.

looks a good mining site ,, at the end of December 1968 i went up to mt Newman working as a plumber ,the construction camp was good the work was ok i left newman in mid october 1969 ..

fantastic stuff

WTF?!?!?! .....Atlas Iron - Wodgina Mine Site has been closed for the last 5 years ..i hope they do come back though...great company from what i have heard, Pro-Tip: ... Pardoo Roadhouse Beef Gravy Roll ...a definite must

50c wow buddy done well mate

Well Atlas is now owned by Gina Reinahrt

its also steel going in to tanks and warships :O oh dear that did not age well..

Maybe outlet should make their own Foundry

When an Aussie tell you what’s going on . You gotta believe him/her . Great people great country

Not to be too critical of what was a good video. If a little outdated. Just one small note the Capital of Australia is Canberra not Sydney though some would like give the impression that it is.

amazing video!!

We love Australia

Gawd! 10 mins in and I had to stop. As a former Karratha resident and surveyor this Atlas advert made me want to vommit. I've surveyed Wodgina Tantalum mine back in the early-mid nineties, long before FIFO stuffed up the joint, when the Pilbara was an unforgiving adventure. Oh! and no mobile phones, internet or dongas with ensuites ;)

wonderful attitude, thats something we have lost here in Canada..... doing it for the country! So many here have become ME Me's and are compromised by self interest. The attidude is worth more than the iron ore.

Ah my lovely country

Whoever did the soundtrack for this is an absolute genius. Why are they wearing safety helmets? There is nothing going to fall on their heads.

Nice video. Obviously a marketing tool for Atlas Mining, but good on them. I'd work for them in a second. Some of the dumbest comments ever read on KZfaq though. That's saying something. I wish this company all the best.

If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined!

Very beautiful place

24:17 there it's a cross , just after the ambulance pass , talking about safety !!!

Ok. This time I’m first to have my interest Sparked !

"Whats happening in china is an amazing story" Then shows a clip of bali indonesia.

22junho2021, terça-feira, 20h55, 🇧🇷 Assisti primeira vez este video. Hoje. Muito legal. Cenas reais.

13:06 "And then there's the reserves." As he signals to the rest of Australia.

As a previous earth works heavy machine operator eg smaller dumpies water carts and excavators I'm definitely interested

Not sure why you have the founder of Atlas on, as the company was bought out by Gina Reinhart and Fortescue Metals.

THat day at the races looked like an absolute nightmare.

great!

What a great story. Its certainly sparked my interest

It's amazing what can the human brain do

What towns and suburbs in the pilbara region that still do mining?

Wonder what would happen to all the ore in the event of an E.M.P? :) hahaha

Hey all you out there working loving it yes...but I would love to get some of that work too how can I get a JOB THERE???????

That Cup Race was 2012 =D ....good ol'e days

Good conditions fo new generation

You guys need to get some rare earth experts on board as part of your team. You may have some rare earth components or minerals there that are worth hundreds of times more than the iron or you’re getting out of the ground.

"Whats going on in China is amazing, our iron ore is building houses and cars" don't forget the tanks, warships and missiles soon to be aimed at you.

One big PR video for Atlas mining!!

It’s a pretty special rock lmao

Asian marketing helped I am shure

Oh my God Yes ' Iron Ore is what caused the Industrial Age to boom around 1857 , Iron Ore is what makes it possible for cities to grow up wards and vehicles to be produced on mass and many many of the every day house hold items we use. While Gold is the Boom of safe investment through out the ages , Iron Ore is what makes Industry & building possible so Iron Ore is The Red Gold of Industry. Bravo Hip Hip Hooray To Atlas Inc In Australia & AK Steel in America.

Electricity wires are not made from Iron, sorry mate.

Health and safety rep not wearing safety glasses lol

I wish we could buy work trucks like the Toyotas and Nissans in this film here in America.

"I love the bush" * cuts to shots of the vast expanse of breathtaking Australian bush that his company is responsible for destroyoing.

جميل روعه

150 crore worker want iron mining in Australia 2024

Are they stilling mining, as there stock price is almost zero. Like 5 cents a share.

40:40 what clutch?

This is where the iron bank came from

The owner loves the Bush Like hell does he just check out the environmental issues

Why'd the close?

Nothing worth preserving in the Hot outback - Mine it all i say dig Huge holes & create water storage for the future . win win =

That drop at 1:47 tho

We want to work with genius Engineers of Australia.

Wonder what kind of license you have to hold to drive those big dump trucks

I worked at Wodgina when BGC had the mining contract. I think I lasted about a week! People don't call BGC a Big Gang of C**ts for nothing!

Does anyone know the grade of the ore?

Norway has been taxing Oil and energy corporations that extract oil and gas from its offshore wells at 65% plus since the 1960s. The tax proceeds are directed to Norway’s Sovereign fund which can finance projects of national importance. How big is the Norway Sovereign Fund? Well it’s the largest Sovereign fund in the world at about $ 1 Trillion US dollars. Norway has 6 million people which is about 1/4 of Australia’s population. Australia’s mining and energy sectors are almost 90% foreign owned with US corporations owning about 2/3. These multinational corporations pay very little in Australia, are subsidised by the tax payer to the tune of $29 billion annually and barely employs 3% of the Australian workforce. Australia’s policy platform in this sector is effectively giving away one-off natural resources and threatening Australia’s long term prosperity. On this point alone, I don’t know of sillier country in the world

Yes iron ore is a huge contributor to the Australian economy. And many mining company employees working within the mining sector do make exceptiona amounts ofl money . However that said, as with any work place employees do make sacrifices such as F. I. F O. But for many employees in the mining industry statistics do however indicate high rates of alcohol abuse, and high rates of separation and divorce. Adding to this is also the alarmingly rates of burn out, fatigue ,sleep deprivation , social isolation , anxiety and stress. All of the above are closely linked to high rates of underlying mental ihealth conditions. This is attributed to mining companies not taking full responsibility for employees time management needs and their E.S.W.B. The biggest resource of Australia is quote Australian people and their families. Sure live viable and sustainably from a financial perspective. In closing all mining companies need to start ensuring that all employees have rosters that constitute quality time to share with their partners, and also their families.

100.000 parts of Australian Mines Ltd... will be skyrocketing in the next years and I'm rich

guys, the scene in which there are durian stalls along the road, that ain’t China

Great program, however Canada has the world's largest coastline. Australia is ranked 7th.

if I had the money I would build a huge suction pipe that just sucks the material to Port. It goes in chambers, each chamber has a huge suction block off and it just moves it. Think of the petrol saved.

Trillion dollar bigness

😲 wow I want to work australia 🌏 mining ☺️🤔

The multiple points on China are interesting... wondering if there was intentional marketing there for any Chinese viewers. Not good or bad.. just curious.

I worked for Peabody Inc for 7 yrs in Wyoming good old USA one of the largest surface coal mines in the world and Colorado underground coal mine, it was a blast 🤣🤣

There are approximately 24 million people in Australia.

Two Fun Facts: Iron Ore isn't a rock. It's actually a metal, like gold, silver, or copper. Two, my dad actually has a pen pal from Australia

It's time you start smelting your own iron or else it will get shipped back as devastating cans of misery.

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