1962 PHELPS DODGE / U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR COPPER MINING FILM SMELTING, USES OF COPPER 67864
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This color educational film is about Copper, how to mine for it and its uses. It was made in 1962 and features footage shot at Phelps-Dodge mines.
Opening titles: US Dept of the Interior - Bureau of Mines presents COPPER: THE OLDEST MODERN METAL (:12-:55). The ancient symbol of enduring life is also the modern symbol of copper. Liquid flows through a mine. A solid piece of copper that has been formed through human means. Copper pieces going through production. Copper wire being formed. The wire is being wound up. Copper is number 29 on the periodic table -the table is shown. Animated copper atom is shown and then inside of it is explained (:56-3:04). The metal copper. Pure copper is malleable, conducts heat rapidly, allows it to resist corrosion, permits it to be drawn, and enables it to conduct electricity efficiently. Other minerals are shown. Exploration for copper. The side of a mountain. Men study with microscopes. A man lays out a map to plan. Copper is found in many parts of the world as the map shows. Southwestern parts of the US have copper deposits. Open pit and underground are two ways to mine. A mining plant. Men with hard hats get ready to head into the mines. Copper wire spins off its spool for the elevator. The men exit the elevator and go into the mine. A drill is used to get into the rock. Explosives are placed into it. The mine is blasted to break up the rock. Broken ore is put into chutes then into tiny railcars to transport it (3:05-7:55). Ore is transported up the shaft. Giant open pit mine painting. In an open pit most waste rock is removed. Railcars move waste rock. A bulldozer pushes rock. Men work. A man surveys. Workers communicate with one another, rail lines move. The open pit is in layers. Explosives are placed in position to be detonated. A man waves a flag. A hand operates the button and the explosion occurs. The rock is then hoisted into railcars (7:56-11:00). Rock is moved into the railcars. Only some of this rock contains ore. Railcars slowly move waste rock out and discard it down a hill. Ore leaves on railcars to being its process of becoming pure copper (11:01-12:38). Ore is dumped. Concentrating, smelting, and refining are up next to make pure copper. Concentrating: first the ore is crushed and ground in water, mixed with oils. The process is explained and shown how they get to concentrate. Piles of ore are ground up. The mill pulverizes the ore. The processes are discussed and shown. Ore mixed with water. Concentrate is then upgraded by grinding and floatation and ready for smelting. The process of smelting and what is required to break it down is explained (12:39-16:17). Man in the smelting plant. Slag is withdrawn and discarded. Buckets pour the liquid. In the converter the liquid is poured. Processes explained. Men punch through the air ducts to keep the air flowing (16:18-18:08). The furnace turns. Oxygen reacts with gas goes off as steam. Copper is poured into a casting wheel. Electrolysis purifies the copper. Pure copper sheets are made in the refinery (18:09-21:03). The electrolysis begins. Sheets of copper are melted down and recast for fabrication. The liquid is cast. Copper moves through the plant. Machines at work. Copper wire is made. A copper pipe is made (21:04-23:20). different copper pieces in production. Wire copper is wrapped with tape. Most copper is hidden behind walls and panels or buried in the ground and sea. A space rocket takes off (23:21-25:10). A hand touches buttons and knobs, a reel to reel tape recorder, a hand turns on a switch, knobs turned, lights go on. Neon signs of the big city. A cross. A statue, The Statue of Liberty. Many different uses for copper. A machinist uses copper. A scientist pulls copper from a machine. Copper experiments (25:11-27:29). End credits (27:30-27:42).
Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James. The latter two ran Phelps, James & Co., the part of the organization based in Liverpool, England. The import-export firm at first exported United States cotton from the Deep South to England, and imported various metals to the US needed for industrialization. The corporation acquired mines and mining companies, including the Copper Queen Mine in Arizona and the Dawson, New Mexico coal mines. In 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan.
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the sound track is something else. Love these old films
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And it helps tell the story , un like the new videos of today !
Same here! I was expecting King Kong to pop up during the pit mining scenes to fight the digger "dinosaurs"!
Agreed. So compelling, for a common industrial process.
Plenty of brass in the soundtrack, as there should be in a film about copper!
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you can ALWAYS tell when a video is made in the 60s. There will be thin strips of colorful wavy shapes with geometric lines everywhere. The "technicolor" vibes. Plus the music has to have marimbas and xylophones, throw some sax with trombones and tubas front and center.
As always, thank you...especially since I have been sitting at home.
im pretty sure the slag will one day be seen as a useful ore at some future date
Torriodial doughnut of copper being Spun on the Loom... Quincy Copper mine pre 1900. R.R. 17 Calumet Michigan. Love these films....
Nice. I grew up in a Phelps Dodge copper town (open pit). My dad worked in the lab and when I got out of high school, I worked at the mine in the pit and the mill for a couple years. The gold and silver recovered from the refining process paid for the operation and copper was pure profit. That has all changed - at least in the US. I remember the train leaving once a week to take the copper ingots to the refinery in El Paso. Thousands of the ingots every week.
Former ASARCO tankhouse and PM guy here - not a bad film, The anode caster and wire bar caster looked very familiar.
@@HiwasseeRiver Yup, I recall it was jokingly referred to as "the wheel of fortune". Myself, I worked on the tapping floor.
That has been the normal run as a copper mine and all the gold and silver is profit... They Literally All run together.....
I love these videos. There something so satisfying about watching the melting, forming/casting and refining of metals we use in our day to day lives
My dad worked at Magma Copper Co. in San Manuel, AZ for over 20 years. I only ever got to see the open pit mine and the underground mine. Never did see the crusher, smelter, or refinery. Thanks to this video I now have a better idea of what it was like where he worked.
I still remember back to when I was a kid and from where we lived we could see the glowing molten hot ribbons of slag being poured at night. I still wonder why that Iron wasn’t used for steel production, though.
The Japanese make toys out of it😁
I really enjoy the old time videos you make love seeing something like the light 💡 bulb from what it use to be to the mid 50s please keep the old ones coming and we will watch them all.
Looking up the Wiki on Arizona Copper, the numerous Labor Strikes and attendant violence, posse's, mass arrests and deportations to other states is an eye opener. I moved to Arizona in late 85'. I recall reading of the Morenci strike.
That's a Hamilton 950E Railroad-grade pocketwatch, if anyone wondered.
That score is rockin, yo
Reminds me of my days in the copper mines of Geber...there was a tough gig..
Cool 😭⏬
Man … MST3K really missed out on these gems. I demand these films be riffed!
Thanks Periscope! Good video and the music was over the top and down the other side but it was an old one. Thanks again!
The music from 9:45-11:05 is perfect! Note the subtle descending bassoon lines as the two packages of explosives are dropped down the holes.
Can you imagine a world without copper?
It's called Africa
Those titles and motion graphics are very Saul Bass.
How geologists ever figured out how to find the stuff, or any metal underground always amazes me! Or especially oil under the ocean floor!
Lack of industrial education is one of the major failures of the modern public school system. Young American school students should be required to understand the processes necessary to maintain and advance our exceptional standard of living. Understanding the unpleasantness that is endemic to such processes will help explain why many such industrial processes have been exported beyond the authority of the Congress, IRS, EPA, OSHA, EEOC, Unions and environmental/anti-business organizations.
The Keweenaw peninsula has solid copper in the ground. 99.9 percent pure and pieces as big as busses were and are found
Yes Sir Calumet Michigan pre 1900 the Quincey Mine Railroad 17. Same players for years....
My dad worked for decades for Phelps Dodge. Quite a number of plants in the northeast, Habirshaw, Bayway, South Brunswick.
Who and how in the heck did people ever get the ideas to invent all the machines it takes to make color coated wires miles long and braded even to the smallest diameters???? Amazing people! And the knowledge just keeps getting better just like in the Book of Daniel - Time of increased knowledge so much that man will never be able to slow down the pace again! Vicious cycles.
What an involved and long process-- who thinks up this stuff??! Let alone the machines to do it.
Physicists, chemists, engineers.
Amazing how far we can push this monkey brain of ours, from banging rocks to extracting copper from rocks.
Mostly engineers. Other specialists have a hand in perfecting the processes but firms that specialize in the production of metal refining equipment employ their engineers to design machinery and equipment that can meet the requirements of the client (material to be processed, purity of output product, reliability) and be reasonably if not competitively priced. Then the design must be translated into actual equipment which then relies on their internal blue collar workforce as well as the many subcontractors all with their own engineers and blue collar workforce.
That’s why it was worth it to pick up a copper penny.
Think about how much energy this takes
Love a bit of copper ;)
спасибо супер
So in 1962 at least, rock adjacent to ore and slag are discarded, we are told. We aren't told their destination. No doubt about it, the copper industry is a messy one, hopefully less so from year to year.
Its yet another major environmental disaster. I'm moving to the far northern portion of Michigans UP and a century ago copper mining was the main / only industry ( other than some logging ) . What has been left behind is an environmental, economical, disaster. The " discarded rock " was simply dumped into Lake Superior.
Slag is mainly carbon. Nothing to see here, folks!
@@davidgarris2513 Mother Earth weeps
@@matthewh117 well I did move up here last July. And the few inland lakes are an EPA SUPERFUND site. All of the "tailings" as the mining companies labeled them, were simply disguarded into the lakes. (It's what's left behind after they smash the rock and use arsenic to extract the copper) .
@@davidgarris2513 No not all the tailings where dumped into Lake Superior. When passing over the bridge in Houghton to the Right is where they had a set up yes and shipping. Pre 1900 they where mining lots of Iron Ore in Marquette Area and dont forget silver and Gold...
Love these
If the composer for this film didn’t work for Irwin Allen at some point .. he REALLY missed his calling!.
If you work in a mine I feel bad for you son.
I got 99 problems but silicosis ain't one.
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Hells ya
"...hidden in the deep reaches of space." Back, from whence it came.
💚💚💚💚 bookmark/notes mining outline underneath that road sign underground pattern 👾💻 , toad flotation concentrations , silicon crab grab on the iron , oxygen on the sulfur for the removal to get that pure froth copper ….. 21:30 disco flow flow ect….tbc…..-g-b, bot
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Amancing operation.how many.tons a day.this is a reai 0peration.I know much
about Kennecoth amd Anaconda.
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There's a finish plant in Norwich CT I use to deliver the finished copper rod product to the various companies around the east coast
Copper county is in my home state
Morenci smelter?
Looks like it. The surface mine is undeniably Morenci.
$2.00 a pound #1 bright scrap price as of today !
$3.75 today
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These are the shows we watched in science class. We actually learned something back then, now its brain washing.
I agree about Fox
So true. Public education today is political indoctrination.
That kind of comment is gonna get a OK Boomer real quick.
That statement is intentionally false, otherwise it is ignorance. Which do you prefer?
@@michaelcooney9368 That kind of statement is going to receive a correction, it is a 'an' comment.
Dat original score. Wew
Genesis 4:22 “forger of all instruments of bronze and iron”. You can’t get much older than Genesis...
Copper is only going to get a lot more expensive, take a look at the 'energy' required to retrieve and process the ore, enormous, that was not a problem in the 50's and 60's but in 2022 and beyond that will be a serious issue to contend with. Energy from here on out is going to be used sparingly you can be sure so recycling is going to move to forefront. Notice also that processing releases a significant amount of CO2, not good!
why the feminine symbol is used for copper?
Apparently it comes from alchemy, it's no longer used and no idea why they used it here.
Iron is the one with the male symbol just in case you were wondering.
It's the mirror of Venus, also a symbol for the planet. (I know I haven't answered your question.)
Where's the girl?
I guarantee you, alot of the views are from people who played alot of Minecraft and are looking for inspiration
Bugs Bunny meets Twilight Zone meets documentary, crazy
Funny how the guys are just showing up to work and they already look filthy.
Copper's a feminist.
Why did i click on this video?
It is disconcerting to see so much waste/inefficiency at every step.
Me too. It's still like that!
@@kenmore01 That surprises me. I expected they would have developed better ways by now.
I guess the cost analysis doesn't justify making improvements.
Wait until you see lithium mining.
All the shit pumped out of the stacks of those smelters. No effs given.
My great grandfather was a PD man. Phelps Dodge paid him well enough to by a house that is still in the family.
Unfortunately, my generation of men from my county, unlike our forefathers did not have an opportunity to work for a well-paying company that was famous for taking care of the communities in which they operate, largely because of false information pushed by environmentalist and the EPA.
Rubbish. The ecological damage from these mines and smelters will last for centuries. Tens of thousands of abandoned mines spewing untreated heavy-metal-laced water into streams. Smelters spewed gargantuan amounts of pollution - my FIL worked as a manager in some of the smelters and he had horror stories of the half-assed, no-effs-given attitudes of the companies. And in the southwest, huge amounts of scarce water are sucked up. Good news is many of these practices have been regulated out of existence and new mine plans are much more detailed.
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Rubbish... what part? Are you claiming the company didn't pay him well?
The house isn't in the family?
Did I say, it was completely devoid of adverse ecological impact?
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Also, Phelps Dodge, which was bought out by FreePortMacMoran, was not the only mining company in the west.
Phelps Dodge, did utilize modern pollution control systems in there smelters.
Consider this: Mining, is absolutely necessary for the modern life we have.
That includes, whatever device you used to try and counter me.
@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb And who did your "FIL" work for?
I know exactly what your saying. They have stock piles of this stuff somewhere Michigan had the Quincy pre 1900. C.L. Phelps middles school in my town. Also a Bell Hospital....
I love these old educational and promotional films, but this one has such a cockamamy sound track, as though the makers are trying to match the visual actions with the soundtrack, like Disney’s Fantasia, but in this case it just didn’t work, it’s just damn annoying. Sorry P.F, this one gets a thumbs down, not for your work, but for the crazy musical score. 👎😔🇬🇧🏴
Poor quality sound tracks don't bother those of us who are hearing impaired. We just go the cc route.
You're an idiot. It's called orchestration. It's supposed to match the visuals. This is how it was done before computers.
What do you expect from old American documentaries