Quite the operation. I spent 30 years there, and was one of the first operators of shovel 344 and 345. Good job on the video and the “regular joe” explanations. 👍🏻
@mattk7865 I'm in the NV desert now. It sucks. It's already triple digit temps in May. Everything is dusty. When its windy you feel as if you're in a convection oven. There is almost no weather, but it can be catastrophic when it rains. And there's not enough greenery around (but it is a desert after all) People in Vegas really suck for the most part, but you'll also find some of the best people on earth there. Overall I'd rate the NV desert (outside of the cities) an 8/10 solely for the good people, but otherwise sucks
@@absolut7769 Parker is doing absolutely fine for himself. There's a very decent chance (likely in fact) that he makes more than the CEO of this company.
it's also an economy of scale thing. the bigger the truck the bigger the volume of PAY-load, per trip, overall cost of ton miles drops. it also takes decades to get to an operation of this scale. to _start_ a mine at this scale is monsterously expensive and takes years of coordination, because even the equipment suppliers do not carry inventory for example. Those big haul trucks are fairly generic, but an operator can't just call up and order 10-20 units and expect rapid delivery. A multimillion dollar shop needs to be built to even finish delivery assembly.
Dude, mining is one of the most profitable businesses out there. Yeah, it's very expensive on big scale but still insanely profitable.Mine doesn't close bcs it's not profitable, it becomes not profitable when there is nothing to dig anymore.
@@seldoon_nemarNah, not really. Things like gold, platinum or amber can be dug with simple pump and washer facility with cost in range of 50k$ and be pretty much profitable.
Welcome to the Silver State! 🤠 This place will make a miner or rockhound out of you before you realize it... ask me how I know 😂 This was a great episode, nice work!👍
Dec 2017 I had the opportunity to haul the boom pivot base, (63,000 lbs, 9' 6" wide x 13' long x 9' tall) for a Rope Shovel to Round Mountain NV. The Bucket weigh was in excess of 100,000lbs. The bottom door was 13'+ wide x ~20' long x ~2' tall at 35,000 lbs. It took the Cat Team 46 days to assemble the entire project😊 What an experience.😊😊
@squibbelsmcjohnsonfound long ago ?? Buddy. We’ve only been mining with technology for 40 years. Mining with machinery for 100 years. We’ve barely scratched the surface
There is 6 parts of gold to every trillion parts of sea water. Finding an environmentally safe and economical slight magnetism for gold, then on a big ship troll the seas of the world magnetically attracting gold out of the sea water.
I spent some time in Elko, NV and a lot of mine workers and people who work on the machines for the mine come from back east for six months at a time, and then move back to states like Missouri. Talked to a few of them in a bar one night, most of them are young guys in their 20s and early 30s but some of them are almost 60+ and have been working those hot, dry deserts for decades
I was at a Nevada gold mine, I found a neat heavy dented ball on the ground and brought it inside and put it on my folding table. I came back to the room being evacuated and my ball being removed. Turns out the used ball mill balls can explode from the stress of heating up and cooling over and over as they crush ore. After a few days I found a neat giant scorpion I put in my beverage container and placed on my folding table. The plant manager said I was like a damn child, just touching and picking up everything. All they told me was stay away from cyanide and shinny yellow rocks. Never said anything about balls and scorpions.
This is a great video showing the process with great shots. I remember working at Gold Quarry mine with Newmont in summer 2010. Brings back memories. Mining is big business. Crazy enough money can be made to make this happen.
What a massive effort. I wonder if the various extraction methods ever stop/start depending on the price of gold (presumably some of the extraction methods cost more/less per ounce)? Or is the price of gold always high enough for it to be worth running the operation always at full steam ahead of time
After the gold bars get to the point as in this video, 80% gold, is that the end of the road for Kinross, or do they refine the gold further else where? Good video!
Make the waste dumps or heap leach look like pyramids. Something to see from the air. How about making a video of decommissioning a big mine? Does a lot of it get buried in the pit?
Been watching for years Aaron,,love the content....spent my entire life in the industry...heavy haul transportation.....Any chance you could turn the music down on your videos?...more to a background level!! Thanks.....Dave
XCITING STUFF! you forgot to explain what happens to the gravity recovered gold from the shaking table though, where it ends up and what happens to it. None the less, quite cool learning about all these steps "exciting" the gold!!
Wow... What an amazing process... Glad KINROSS Round Mountain of Utah, allowed you into an amazing mine and how the extremely large process is achieved to create gold bars...
30 years ago this pit was way smaller and the town of Round Mountain still existed (since moved S to Hadley). I built a pole barn garage in each town and the pit swallowed the town about 4 years later and I think the owner wanted to jack up his inventory before the town was purchased-
It’d be super cool if you looked at the tailings ponds of some of these mines. I know its not the most glamorous part of gold mining but it’s super cool (to me…I work on a TMA) millions and millions of yards of rock/clay/sand placed super precisely
Any idea what the time frame is from the day the mine purchases the CAT Shovel to the time it actually begins operation? How about the time frame involved in assembling the shovel onsite?
I work for cat I have worked on two of the shovels at round mountain but I’ve built some but I don’t know about time from factory to the mine but assembly is about two month give or take a couple weeks
With experienced guys a single shovel assembling is 3months max. I was in the assembling team of the same Bucyrus 495HR2 it took us 3 months and all of us were newbie’s to the shovel we only had 3 experienced guys from 🇨🇱.
A Huge operation. There are 2 goldmines almost behind where I live in NV Hwy 50. One is not in operation but behind that goldmine is another that does produce gold bars. But all those processing facilities must be underground. There are 2 holes which can be seen from Hwy 50 going east. The money truck was seen by chance about 3 weeks ago. Yes gold bars are processed there. This video was most fascinating to me.
Great informative video on the complete process. I use to work at a small gold mine and mill in the early 80's. As a young kid in my 20's i learned so much about all the different phases of mining. From geology to labor to mechanic to mill man to cook, i did a lot of different jobs. Mining gets into your blood, its not just a job but a way of life.
Miami and Globe Az mining district is cool area , Plus new Resolution mine is close by 8K ft main shaft where block cave deep mine is huge deal . Thx for videos worked mining industry for years back in KY live Az now .
I've never understood how that's even remotely feasible considering the size of the operation and how small the output is in physical form. Heavy machines and cost to build the facility and maintain everything. But then again, 15 000 000 Oz of gold is worth $40 billion in today's price. So it kinda makes sense now.
Wow! That was cool. Now I can put a visual of the mine with the high grade specimens that I recently saw for sale. Nice job. Just for clarity though, cyanide dissolves the gold. Gold will cling to mercury. I'm a retired assayer and refiner of precious metals. Loved my first pit shot also. Incredible!😊
As a retired welder over 35 years, I've replaced enough Gotdayum steel in rock trucks , 777 , 787 , Dozens from a 350 to a D11 cat , Shanks , teeth on shovels , buckets , hoppers belt lines , trains expert on some 1950 model rail cars, to reach Mars and back 3 times ...lol...
Interesting, I ‘m a geologist with some background in mineral processing engineering. I once got a tour of a much smaller scale, but still profitable, mine in the Flowery lode that parallel to and east of the Comstock under Virginia City. They had just cut into old underground works that dated back to gold rush days. We also saw an old and in the day not so well controlled cyanide mill that looks like desert, but was a Superfund Cleanup site.
Is that the elko mine ? I toured the elko mine 30 years ago as part of a harnischfeger p&h group . We were told 1.5 million per day in gold. We took a picture of the whole group of about twelve of us standing in the shovel.
My grandparents used to own a cabin in Kingston, not too far from the mine. I believe that it was a miner who brought it a few years ago but not positive about that.
There is a new chemical process to extract gold and other rare earth elements from electronics, we will most likely not be sending our electronics to india to have children burn to extract any longer
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Quite the operation.
I spent 30 years there, and was one of the first operators of shovel 344 and 345. Good job on the video and the “regular joe” explanations. 👍🏻
Amazing!! Thanks for making it happen
How much u make
What was it like living in the Nevada desert for so long?
@@mattk7865 fast women, fast equipment, and fast gold! 💪👍🍻🇺🇲
@mattk7865 I'm in the NV desert now. It sucks. It's already triple digit temps in May. Everything is dusty. When its windy you feel as if you're in a convection oven. There is almost no weather, but it can be catastrophic when it rains. And there's not enough greenery around (but it is a desert after all) People in Vegas really suck for the most part, but you'll also find some of the best people on earth there. Overall I'd rate the NV desert (outside of the cities) an 8/10 solely for the good people, but otherwise sucks
Crazy stuff! The statue of the gold bars at the end is so tiny compared to the enormous mining hole! Geez! So much work. Much respect, Round Mountain!
All of a sudden Parker’s 50k ounces doesn’t seem that much… nice vid as always!
Yea no Parker isnt in the big leagues when it comes to gold mining
Ain't no Alaskan gold mine run by one crew, that's for sure 💀
Watch what they do in Australia
@@absolut7769 Parker is doing absolutely fine for himself. There's a very decent chance (likely in fact) that he makes more than the CEO of this company.
This is actual gold mining, not a soap opera. 🍻🇺🇲
every time I see a mining video I cannot believe it's actually cost effective, but I guess it is or they wouldn''t be doing it
it's also an economy of scale thing. the bigger the truck the bigger the volume of PAY-load, per trip, overall cost of ton miles drops.
it also takes decades to get to an operation of this scale. to _start_ a mine at this scale is monsterously expensive and takes years of coordination, because even the equipment suppliers do not carry inventory for example. Those big haul trucks are fairly generic, but an operator can't just call up and order 10-20 units and expect rapid delivery. A multimillion dollar shop needs to be built to even finish delivery assembly.
The almighty God created starving African children for a reason. God is wise and resourceful.
@@Landstalker1999 Man created poverty
Dude, mining is one of the most profitable businesses out there. Yeah, it's very expensive on big scale but still insanely profitable.Mine doesn't close bcs it's not profitable, it becomes not profitable when there is nothing to dig anymore.
@@seldoon_nemarNah, not really. Things like gold, platinum or amber can be dug with simple pump and washer facility with cost in range of 50k$ and be pretty much profitable.
Thats around 35.6bn worth of gold for anyone wondering
Ah yes but how much are they spending on electricity to produce it, that number is probably halved….
@@joelswfx yeah mining is all about maximizing margins or else the operation is futile
Mmmmmmm cyanide
800,000,000 Million/year approx.
@@Nirotix PAID IN CRYPTO TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS? WATER HEIST 1312
Gold, giant craters, heavy earthmovers. This one mini-doc somehow checked all my boxes. Sold! Subscribed!
oh yeah!!
Welcome to the Silver State! 🤠 This place will make a miner or rockhound out of you before you realize it... ask me how I know 😂 This was a great episode, nice work!👍
@5:50 - I am already surprised that they skip the larger of the crushing stages and go right to the ball-milling.
They don’t skip it, they do it at the top of the pit and then that crushed rock goes by conveyor to stockpiles
Thank You Kinross for the tour !
🎶 "She got the gold mine, I got the shaft"
Dec 2017 I had the opportunity to haul the boom pivot base, (63,000 lbs, 9' 6" wide x 13' long x 9' tall) for a Rope Shovel to Round Mountain NV.
The Bucket weigh was in excess of 100,000lbs.
The bottom door was 13'+ wide x ~20' long x ~2' tall at 35,000 lbs.
It took the Cat Team 46 days to assemble the entire project😊
What an experience.😊😊
that's amazing!!
I'm surprised there is enough micro gold in the leaching fields to warrant that extra operation.
99% of the gold on earth is microscopic
@squibbelsmcjohnsonfound long ago ?? Buddy. We’ve only been mining with technology for 40 years. Mining with machinery for 100 years. We’ve barely scratched the surface
@squibbelsmcjohnson lies you speak
There is 6 parts of gold to every trillion parts of sea water. Finding an environmentally safe and economical slight magnetism for gold, then on a big ship troll the seas of the world magnetically attracting gold out of the sea water.
Gold is not magnetic.
I spent some time in Elko, NV and a lot of mine workers and people who work on the machines for the mine come from back east for six months at a time, and then move back to states like Missouri. Talked to a few of them in a bar one night, most of them are young guys in their 20s and early 30s but some of them are almost 60+ and have been working those hot, dry deserts for decades
Around 35 Billion in today's price of gold. Great video!
lol no, I’m 2023 all the mines of Nevada produced only $10 billion.
I find it interesting how many different processes there are for recovering gold.
Yeah this is one of the most simple!
Thanks for the inside look. It's always enjoyable to drive through Nevada and enjoy the geology
I was at a Nevada gold mine, I found a neat heavy dented ball on the ground and brought it inside and put it on my folding table. I came back to the room being evacuated and my ball being removed. Turns out the used ball mill balls can explode from the stress of heating up and cooling over and over as they crush ore. After a few days I found a neat giant scorpion I put in my beverage container and placed on my folding table. The plant manager said I was like a damn child, just touching and picking up everything. All they told me was stay away from cyanide and shinny yellow rocks. Never said anything about balls and scorpions.
You should have replied: “it was a blast”- obviously…. You get set up for comedy gold (pun intended) and miss out… 😂😂
i was waiting for that! lol
This is a great video showing the process with great shots. I remember working at Gold Quarry mine with Newmont in summer 2010. Brings back memories. Mining is big business. Crazy enough money can be made to make this happen.
What a massive effort.
I wonder if the various extraction methods ever stop/start depending on the price of gold (presumably some of the extraction methods cost more/less per ounce)?
Or is the price of gold always high enough for it to be worth running the operation always at full steam ahead of time
After the gold bars get to the point as in this video, 80% gold, is that the end of the road for Kinross, or do they refine the gold further else where? Good video!
I don’t know where Kinross refines it’s gold but the mines I worked at shipped it all to a specific refiner in Salt Lake City
Excellent video! Thanks for making this I’m having a nice little binge on your videos. Top quality production.
Over the same period of time the Super Pit in Kalgoorlie Western Australia produced 50 million ounces of Gold
My mom hauls gold ore out of the mine outside spring creek there in Nevada what will blow your mind is Canada owns all that gold
Make the waste dumps or heap leach look like pyramids. Something to see from the air. How about making a video of decommissioning a big mine? Does a lot of it get buried in the pit?
Been watching for years Aaron,,love the content....spent my entire life in the industry...heavy haul transportation.....Any chance you could turn the music down on your videos?...more to a background level!! Thanks.....Dave
What happens to the byproduct? It’s just sand at that point or is it more complicated than that?
They leave it for future generations to deal with.
I’ve worked on round mountain, kennecot, battle mountain, twin creeks . Cortez and a few others
Makes bitcoin mining look good environmentally...
They have to mine the gold for the connections don't they?
How you going to build that super computer 😂
You should see lithium mines…. It makes oil look good environmentally…
Except for the massive amount of electricity and electronics in the form of servers that is needed to keep track of the transactions!
SAVAGE!!
We see what you are constantly thinking about A-Aron, separate the race 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Love the edits bruh.
XCITING STUFF! you forgot to explain what happens to the gravity recovered gold from the shaking table though, where it ends up and what happens to it. None the less, quite cool learning about all these steps "exciting" the gold!!
Hello Aaron, your mining videos are very well produced and very interesting. It isn’t often that I subscribe after only 2 videos.
Do they backfill in compact the holes
Gotta say; I have no clue how this ended up on my for you page.... but I'm glad it did; this was quite interesting!
Didn’t know Trojan made explosives but I guess they were already good with explosions
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Wow... What an amazing process... Glad KINROSS Round Mountain of Utah, allowed you into an amazing mine and how the extremely large process is achieved to create gold bars...
What do you need to work here Aaron?
Mshaw ? Explosives permit ? Osha as well ?
You need the new miner MSHA training. To work with explosives you have to take the training and be registered with the BATF with no felony convictions
Damn they dont leave NONE behind😂
Awesome video!
for anyone interested in how much 15 million ounces cost as of 8 days ago when this video came out it is roughly 3.6 Billion
That was cool that monument to all the gold taken out of there! 👏
Can the sand after the gold is extracted be used for making concrete?
This was a phenomenal video!
Very interesting video. Step one….. removing the overburden look forward to your next video
I was waiting for Aaron to say he had a blast blasting all that rock!
great video, watching from Sweden !
How much would it cost to build an operation like this from scratch?🤑
5:06 I’m guessing the dump trucks drive on the inside, to avoid the weaker edge 🤔
30 years ago this pit was way smaller and the town of Round Mountain still existed (since moved S to Hadley). I built a pole barn garage in each town and the pit swallowed the town about 4 years later and I think the owner wanted to jack up his inventory before the town was purchased-
Mine, Mine all Mine!!!! Love that cartoon!
It’d be super cool if you looked at the tailings ponds of some of these mines. I know its not the most glamorous part of gold mining but it’s super cool (to me…I work on a TMA) millions and millions of yards of rock/clay/sand placed super precisely
Any idea what the time frame is from the day the mine purchases the CAT Shovel to the time it actually begins operation? How about the time frame involved in assembling the shovel onsite?
I work for cat I have worked on two of the shovels at round mountain but I’ve built some but I don’t know about time from factory to the mine but assembly is about two month give or take a couple weeks
They’re usually ordered years out. Assembly takes a few months
With experienced guys a single shovel assembling is 3months max. I was in the assembling team of the same Bucyrus 495HR2 it took us 3 months and all of us were newbie’s to the shovel we only had 3 experienced guys from 🇨🇱.
A Huge operation. There are 2 goldmines almost behind where I live in NV Hwy 50. One is not in operation but behind that goldmine is another that does produce gold bars. But all those processing facilities must be underground. There are 2 holes which can be seen from Hwy 50 going east. The money truck was seen by chance about 3 weeks ago. Yes gold bars are processed there. This video was most fascinating to me.
You mean there’s no made up drama and bunch of breakdowns , nice professional setup and video .
How do you keep the water from getting in
Typically is another department in the mine and they drill wells around the parameter and pump out the ground water.
This is awesome, can I ask what cameras and lens you guys use?
Man you are amazing. Love and respect from India
I live a hour and a half from there. Always wondered how they did it. Thanks.
Tonapah? My brother actually work at that mine back in the mid 80’s….when there was still a mountain.
Thank you! Great Video
Great informative video on the complete process. I use to work at a small gold mine and mill in the early 80's. As a young kid in my 20's i learned so much about all the different phases of mining. From geology to labor to mechanic to mill man to cook, i did a lot of different jobs. Mining gets into your blood, its not just a job but a way of life.
I curious what happens when a big truck breaks down during the haul back and the road service mechanic can’t fix it, how would u tow them out?
They have a really large tow truck! Most break downs can be fixed right where the truck sits.
Miami and Globe Az mining district is cool area , Plus new Resolution mine is close by 8K ft main shaft where block cave deep mine is huge deal . Thx for videos worked mining industry for years back in KY live Az now .
You might like a tour of one of the underground mines in Elko, it's a different experience certainly.
Donde ponen toda la tierra extraída de las minas? Se vuelve a rellenar el hoyo después de extraer todo el mineral?
I've never understood how that's even remotely feasible considering the size of the operation and how small the output is in physical form. Heavy machines and cost to build the facility and maintain everything. But then again, 15 000 000 Oz of gold is worth $40 billion in today's price. So it kinda makes sense now.
Not to mention, they sift and separate all of that material. They could also sell clean fill dirt and landscaping rocks for new construction builds.
That chain link fence is there for someone sticking a hand under the gold saturated last stage😂
Wow! That was cool. Now I can put a visual of the mine with the high grade specimens that I recently saw for sale. Nice job. Just for clarity though, cyanide dissolves the gold. Gold will cling to mercury. I'm a retired assayer and refiner of precious metals. Loved my first pit shot also. Incredible!😊
thank you!!
As a retired welder over 35 years, I've replaced enough Gotdayum steel in rock trucks , 777 , 787 , Dozens from a 350 to a D11 cat , Shanks , teeth on shovels , buckets , hoppers belt lines , trains expert on some 1950 model rail cars, to reach Mars and back 3 times ...lol...
good video, hanks for sharing.
Is it just me or was the ground moving at 3:00? Seems kinda sketchy to have that bucket and truck on that
Interesting, I ‘m a geologist with some background in mineral processing engineering. I once got a tour of a much smaller scale, but still profitable, mine in the Flowery lode that parallel to and east of the Comstock under Virginia City. They had just cut into old underground works that dated back to gold rush days. We also saw an old and in the day not so well controlled cyanide mill that looks like desert, but was a Superfund Cleanup site.
The video is very interesting, many people would like to have a kilo of gold and see here how much is produced, what life is like.
Excellent as usual!
The giant greater looks so beautiful on the landscape
ive worked at nevada gold mines. the size of the plants and operating costs are billions also
Worked there in the early 90’s way before the mills, we just used leach pads
Is that the elko mine ?
I toured the elko mine 30 years ago as part of a harnischfeger p&h group . We were told 1.5 million per day in gold. We took a picture of the whole group of about twelve of us standing in the shovel.
Does that plant make bars all day and night?
or
Do they pour like on a schedule?
or
Just when they have enough gold to pour so many bars?
How much will it cost you to construct such a plant(gold refinery plant)
Didnt show primary crusher, best part.
What's the procedure for a run a way haul truck??? And what is the final result per ton of rock.
What do they do when they are done with that site? Leave a huge hole?
Nice operation and thanks for the video
Should see if coeur will let you tour the kensington gold mine in Juneau, Ak.
One of The biggest open pit gold mine in the United States is in Mojave City California. I've been waiting for a video on that one
That's the Golden Queen mine. It's in Rosamond California just south of Mojave. There is a. Ideo of that on RUclips
Good video. 469 ton in 30 years isn't bad either. Wondering what the operating costs are ?
Awesome vid. Thank you.
My grandparents used to own a cabin in Kingston, not too far from the mine. I believe that it was a miner who brought it a few years ago but not positive about that.
We need more of these mines all over
How does it take to get to the bottom of the pit from the top?
Just imagine all this work to produce gold for electronics that just end up in landfills in a few years.
There is a new chemical process to extract gold and other rare earth elements from electronics, we will most likely not be sending our electronics to india to have children burn to extract any longer
You can retrieve gold from electronics. My 11 year old found a video on youtube that shows you how to do it.
What's the next step for the bars? Like who buys them a place the purifies the gold, or government's or jewelry places?
I didn't hear the horn blow before blasting hello 😮😂😂😂😂😂.
Whos this ran by? Crazy operation.
thank you for sharing, well thought out, regards
During an internship with Barrick they let me detonate the charges one afternoon. Was awesome
nice!!
Hi, I’m from a small town in South Africa, Mpumalanga called Kinross.
Great video guy's, maybe a bit to much brol, or maybe show brol with more voice over😊
4.76198 oz per truck at .54g/t proven... 16.5k per truck at 3.4k CAD tOz... Crazy that just the start of the journey of the Oz too..
Wow that’s about 1245 ounces of gold and silver etc per day produced since 1985.
why is the ground moving at 3:02 lol? just a camera effect? if not thats scary lol