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

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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.
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@bradfordjeff 2 ай бұрын

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

@Enhancedlies 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for saving me from AI hell

@camacho1234 2 ай бұрын

the comments in here are sus too

@Stanton_High 2 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...

@Automedon2 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Trial and error, just like every other discovery.

@mohamadarifinaliarifin2903 2 ай бұрын

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

@beammachine4525 2 ай бұрын

fire

@Bob_Adkins 2 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 2 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 2 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.

@augustlindow1162 2 ай бұрын

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

@bobbythompson6017 2 ай бұрын

I save anything aluminum and recycle it

@box3976 Ай бұрын

You pronounced aluminum wrong...

@roymaduro571 6 күн бұрын

Is’nt it something?

@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

@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 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Ingots. Not ingets.

@CajunInLaw 2 ай бұрын

@@petercrossley1069lmao. What an idjet! 😂

@lanceleavitt7472 2 ай бұрын

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

@beardedchefau 2 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 2 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 2 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. ---

@richardmorrison2686 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@LordGizmo 2 ай бұрын

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

@AgricultureTechUS Ай бұрын

Astounding heavy equipment innovations showcase the pinnacle of industrial progress.

@beardedchefau 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@beardedchefau 2 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 2 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

@jm-ux5dk 2 ай бұрын

You have a British accent but mispronounce aluminium.

@peterresetz1960 2 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 2 ай бұрын

@@peterresetz1960 yes the banter is never ending :)

@ashesman1 2 ай бұрын

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

@gugusano 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@d.jensen5153 2 ай бұрын

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

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 2 ай бұрын

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

@youropionmattersnot 2 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.

@lyleslaton3086 Ай бұрын

From bombers to beer cans, amazing stuff.

@johnbucklerfarms 2 ай бұрын

I’d be Proud of that Purchase!

@rickwestlake3048 2 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

@huwmungus1 2 ай бұрын

It's called aluminium not aloominumb.

@bobbythompson6017 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-nr4mr5ul3u 2 ай бұрын

Good video Lord Gizmo. T.y.

@REV1517 Ай 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.

@corvavw6447 2 ай бұрын

Prachtige documentaire 🎉😊

@aamirniaz6126 2 ай бұрын

Good job

@dailylife3975 2 ай бұрын

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

@Dave-ohhh 2 ай бұрын

For humans to deplete it

@chrisstaylor8377 Ай бұрын

Aluminium was not made until electricity was invented ,

@ralphaverill2001 2 ай бұрын

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

@bradfordjeff 2 ай бұрын

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

@d.jensen5153 2 ай бұрын

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

@N4CR5 2 ай бұрын

@@d.jensen5153allegedly lmao

@ernisj.8087 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@swagzoneus 2 ай бұрын

Great Video !! Good

@gugusano 2 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

@kaitlynlsari681 Ай бұрын

Very interesting thank you ❤

@masonstump1579 2 ай бұрын

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

@JoseCampos-ux6vo Ай бұрын

Excelente

@Greater_pakistan 14 күн бұрын

very amazing and complete video ❤👈

@hg2. Ай бұрын

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

@NormReitzel 2 ай бұрын

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

@GHOSTGXZ Ай бұрын

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

@sackustwilight6957 2 ай бұрын

I used to work in a cheese mine

@markissboi3583 2 ай бұрын

this was most interesting & more informative.

@mack8488 2 ай бұрын

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

@user-xd6tw4lu7v 2 ай бұрын

thats a lot of work to make aluminium

@user-cs7bu4ur1j Ай бұрын

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

@dansteel8805 2 ай бұрын

I totally see this process happening with green tech energy sources

@urbanspaceman7183 23 күн бұрын

AL-U-MI-I-UM

@sunset3052 Ай бұрын

Humans are so smart

@TheCaptainLulz 5 күн бұрын

3:13 - Nope. They are locked to prevent water from getting in and unbalancing the load and thus, the ship.

@timothyrussell1179 Ай бұрын

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

@user-ih9ec1vd1o 2 ай бұрын

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

@Mytube8I Ай бұрын

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

@salmaanibrahim2837 2 ай бұрын

Pholabora South Africa Thanks

@soweseringmodousowe2719 10 күн бұрын

Nice ❤❤❤l

@jonm4501 2 ай бұрын

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

@bobbythompson6017 2 ай бұрын

That's crazy Red Rock turns into silver aluminum

@goldsilverjunkie Ай бұрын

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

@rosewhite--- 2 ай бұрын

Al YOU MIN IUM!

@theminiatureconstructionco4556 2 ай бұрын

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

@squamishstu 2 ай бұрын

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

@rosewhite--- 2 ай бұрын

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

@theminiatureconstructionco4556 2 ай бұрын

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

@rosewhite--- 2 ай бұрын

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

@mickwolf1077 2 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.

@Info.worldwide 2 ай бұрын

What rock are they mining the aluminum from ?

@jmjsr 2 ай бұрын

Bauxite

@sloanmagnum5009 2 ай бұрын

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

@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

@judah400yrs2 Ай бұрын

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

@deltabravo1811 Ай бұрын

Lord Jizmo

@Omglolwut 2 ай бұрын

I love hearing Aluminum pronounced correctly

@callumnicholson5416 Ай бұрын

U would've had a hard time watching this then

@paulemmerson3686 2 ай бұрын

Aluminium, please, you’re English 😂

@chipperthompson8746 Ай 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 Ай бұрын

Hastilan ka O.a pOdt nmu,

@tokstv7601 2 күн бұрын

@@jommarpino1472hahaha amo gajud jaon an sakit ng mga bright 😂

@johnhause7150 2 ай бұрын

Also a key ingredient inThermite....

@daleshelden8394 Ай бұрын

A.l.u.m.i.n.u.m no aluminium

@nishantkumarverma883 11 күн бұрын

4 years of mechanical engineering and i just came to know this

@giuliano170 5 күн бұрын

a l u m i n iu m

@jim2lane Ай бұрын

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

@thomasryan9639 25 күн бұрын

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

@MegaSkypes 2 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!

@robertmurray8815 2 ай бұрын

What is the electric bill and natural gas?

@bobbythompson6017 2 ай бұрын

In the trillions

@everydaybacksbroken2886 Ай бұрын

Wtf those are some massive blocks.

@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.

@Saki630 Ай бұрын

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

@glenlongstreet7 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Gorilla glass is almost pure silicon.

@glenlongstreet7 2 ай бұрын

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

@michaels.ramsey7803 2 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 2 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. 😉

@ChocolateFrog Ай бұрын

Does it continue at an age 5 level?

@jdeleb 17 күн бұрын

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

@mylesbishop1240 Ай бұрын

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

@paladin0654 2 ай бұрын

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

@thelonemoomin 2 ай бұрын

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

@goyacc 2 ай бұрын

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

@ogbonnasam9997 Ай бұрын

So aluminum is basically rock mixed with soda

@JosephKingReloaded 7 күн бұрын

can they turn the red mud into anything? maybe steel ingots

@ThatOldBlackMagic_YouAppear Ай бұрын

is this melt smelting upper part rail car early era

@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

@donaldross4031 4 күн бұрын

aluminium

@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.

@randoir1863 Ай бұрын

aluminum vs aluminium , weigh in !!!! lol

@peteypops 2 ай бұрын

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

@LordGizmo 2 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.

@eddyd8745 Ай бұрын

Say after me Al U Min Eum!

@addictiveaussie 2 ай бұрын

My question is why did the US change the name from 'Aluminium' to Aluminum?

@Brandos_channel Ай бұрын

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

@JoseLopez-mc7kw Ай бұрын

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

@gugusano 2 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

@65gtotrips Ай бұрын

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

@Bob_Adkins 2 ай бұрын

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

@transistor754 2 ай бұрын

lots of nice footage... put together with a barely understandable dialogue, read by a person who speaks English well.... but doesn't watch the footage or even understand what's going on.

@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.

@aaronfurman8208 2 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

@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.

@ca6bal4 3 күн бұрын

The pictures don't necessarily convey the narrative.

@user-uq2rr4xt9g 2 ай бұрын

The music in the video is distracting.!

@laksi0505 2 ай бұрын

Alcoa Plant?

@beancan1751 2 ай бұрын

It's Aluminium, not Aloowminum...

@jml3327 Ай бұрын

Who gives a shit

@alexlindekugel8727 2 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.