He probably meant Scandinavian miles, those are 10 km.

Why do you consider miles as inferior?

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

@@andrewturner8491because it is

​@@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.

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.

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

​@@SergeyPRKLand it exists on trains

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

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.

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.

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

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Hypocrites.

what do you mean?@@lancewood1410

Ah ancient copper quality complaint reference. 😉

Ea Nasir that scammer

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

@@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

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

@@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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

@@MrConquistador76 L

@@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!!!

​@@MrConquistador76No.

​@@MrConquistador76huh? Explain yourself

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

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.

@@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.

@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.

Yes I bet she’s making bank too

​@@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.

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

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.😅

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

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.

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Join us in NATO!!!

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

@@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.

Why?

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

That was a Swedish hydroelectric dam no?

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

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."

@@georgeshelton6281 what are you on about bro

@@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.

My brother worked as a tour guide there haha

For what

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

Just fill it up with pop corn and start film.

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

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

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

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

@@williamknows3908 Just use the overhead wires.

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

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.

@@Thellbro Is there a battery?

And?

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

Greenwashing

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

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

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

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

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...

@@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 .. 👌

"swedish womens" - help!

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

@@bigty5474 hounestly sound nice. love being alone

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

@@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

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

You are welcome

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

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

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).

/Chinese mine executive

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

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 :(

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.

@@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.

@@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

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.

@@TheKZfaqMethod 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.

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

Its an EXCEPTIONALLY clean room for a stone mill there

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

@@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 😉

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

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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

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.

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

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

@@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.

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....

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". 🤦

@@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.

@@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.

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

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

Not electric, but diesel electric

Don't know if its the largest but its a ring drive ABB GMD with a power of 22.5MW. Milling capacity is around 2200 tons ore per hour and The diameter of the mills are 11.6m.

It's 600 tons including the driver...

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

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