Unfortunately, most of the video is trucks hauling overburden to make a ramp for access to taconite that is below the old mine view site in North Hibbing. The video spends a few moments on the work being done with the gray rock...that is taconite and those trucks are heading to the processing plant.
Recovery of the iron requires fine grinding and concentration of iron-bearing phases, which in turn are formed into pellets suitable for blast furnaces. As high-grade deposits of iron ore have become depleted, taconite deposits have increased in importance as a source of iron ore.
@@carsonsjourney in here its usual 7 days work 7 days off or 4 days work and 6 days off in 12 hour shifts. Driving a haul truck just kills your soul its boring as hell and kills your back. Especially 100 ton Komatsu trucks you bounce like a basketball in the cabin. I drove those for few years it's easiest job ever but dear god never again. I moved to excavators and after that to blast hole drilling and swore to never touch a haul truck again.
It's in a horizontal seam about 500 ft thick that dips slowly to the southeast. Sort of like a coal seam but much thicker. This mine is at the part that's exposed.
Boy, those dump truck drivers sure are inefficient. They should have a ready spot right next to the shovel, and be ready to back up in position as soon as the loaded truck pulls off. If I were their boss, I would be all over them wasting time like that. Let me guess, they are union, right? They could have a lot more tonnage at the end of the shift if they wanted to, easily!!!!!!!
They are in little hurry..... There children and their children will have a job hopefully..... If they weren't making the shareholders profit then you can be assured that they will elect a new CEO who is the type of person that will not pause to bury the workers those dump trucks squish under there 12ft diameter tires in their race to empty the pit by the next quarterly meeting to drive up the stock price so they can pocket they bonus...... . Oh wait .. that actually would lower the price of iron ......
I can't decide if that landscape looks ugly, beautiful or scary.
Very nicely done. Looks like it was taped in Spring 2017.
B Laquisha it could not have been taped then as this video was posted on CZcams in December 2016.
Unfortunately, most of the video is trucks hauling overburden to make a ramp for access to taconite that is below the old mine view site in North Hibbing. The video spends a few moments on the work being done with the gray rock...that is taconite and those trucks are heading to the processing plant.
Recovery of the iron requires fine grinding and concentration of iron-bearing phases, which in turn are formed into pellets suitable for blast furnaces. As high-grade deposits of iron ore have become depleted, taconite deposits have increased in importance as a source of iron ore.
The largest title used to belong to the Hull Rust in Hibbing mn.
I would love to drive the 797 Caterpillar. What a job to have
its the worst job on any mining site. Drive to the pit, mark the time on your report, drive up, unload repeat for 12hours. never again
@@tikkarityyppi how do you work there? Im thinking of moving back to Hibbing and try mining.
@@carsonsjourney in here its usual 7 days work 7 days off or 4 days work and 6 days off in 12 hour shifts. Driving a haul truck just kills your soul its boring as hell and kills your back. Especially 100 ton Komatsu trucks you bounce like a basketball in the cabin.
I drove those for few years it's easiest job ever but dear god never again. I moved to excavators and after that to blast hole drilling and swore to never touch a haul truck again.
12:39, how he/she manage to see the showel from where they sit inside that big showeler? is it camera...
Iron ore seams ,do they sit in layers like coal seams, or is it all iron ore ?
Any gray rock you see is ore/taconite...all of the rest is overburden. Hope that helps.
It's in a horizontal seam about 500 ft thick that dips slowly to the southeast. Sort of like a coal seam but much thicker. This mine is at the part that's exposed.
born in hibbing!!
1963
Only 3 shovels for this kind of big mines
There are several more in other parts of the pit.
Boy, those dump truck drivers sure are inefficient. They should have a ready spot right next to the shovel, and be ready to back up in position as soon as the loaded truck pulls off. If I were their boss, I would be all over them wasting time like that. Let me guess, they are union, right? They could have a lot more tonnage at the end of the shift if they wanted to, easily!!!!!!!
They are in little hurry..... There children and their children will have a job hopefully..... If they weren't making the shareholders profit then you can be assured that they will elect a new CEO who is the type of person that will not pause to bury the workers those dump trucks squish under there 12ft diameter tires in their race to empty the pit by the next quarterly meeting to drive up the stock price so they can pocket they bonus...... . Oh wait
.. that actually would lower the price of iron ......
Been that way since 1977, called ERA. DAVE
Do you really want to make them work every second. Dont you want them to have any pause at all??? lol They need some free time too. -.-
Ridiculous narration.