How Iron Ore Mining Works!

[@mike9347]

My little Sister drives those Trains for Rio. We're all very proud of her.

[@gunjitkumar]

That's really impressive

[@Batwam0]

Aren’t they automated?

[@mike9347]

@@Batwam0 yes they are. But switch to manual control once in the marshalling areas for unloading and things

[@AhmadShah-oz5wu]

Brother can l get your number so can we talk

[@dannjp75]

Wow, staying on an automated train. Some level of skill that. Is she an airline pilot on her days off?

[@sergeyf6536]

This is gotta be the most advanced mine I’ve seen - definitely not something I was expecting

[@adamgraham6204]

Gudai-darri is essentially a trial site for much of the automation technology showcased here. Most Rio sites in the Pilbara are a touch more manual.

[@bh8671]

Well it’s not. Third world country like the us. Of course this is better.

[@singularitystudios4502]

It may be advanced but so corrupt.

[@josh.fornite2082]

in aus there are so many regions fuelled by mining. to say its a massive industry is an understatement. iron, coal, nickel, uranium, probably more i cant name off the top of my head. mining is a staple in our economy, both regional and international.

[@mikewasowski1411]

Worked on that job nearly 3 years. Helped design it. Great video

[@rp1645]

My hat is off to you my friend for design that very high tech 😊 operation 😊❤

[@daviddunsby3617]

Killing employment no more workers HUGE PROFITS FOR FOREIGN MINE OWNERS AND SHARE HOLDERS THE AVERAGE MAN GETS SCREWED AGAIN ((((

[@AaronWitt]

brilliant thank you for what you do

[@sparksmcgee6641]

​@@daviddunsby3617 funny how there would be zero jobs if those workers you claim to love would have to develope a mine.

[@peterfalconer-h3k]

@@daviddunsby3617 There's no shortage of jobs in iron ore mines or any mines for that matter. The people that would be required to operate machines if they weren't autonomous only make up a small percentage of the overall workforce.

[@Jipper1984]

Work sites are way, way more interesting than Las Vegas.

[@AaronWitt]

agreed

[@ram_apologist]

Until it's your work site 😭

[@felgercarb3803]

Not if you win in Vegas😂😂😂

[@davefellhoelter1343]

Machine porn for me. started in trades at 8

[@hanibalfischkopf6286]

But you need to get a permit and do you really think you everyone get's a permit?

[@J.fromMichigan]

My stepdad worked as a manager for 20 years at an international corporation called Leco. One of the many things they made was an atomic scanner for the elemental breakdown of the steel and aluminum industries. He said if you put a hotdog on that thin that it would tell you every element and exactly how much was in it. They used metal, etc. blanks to get exact recipes of these metals.

[@flamingfrancis]

If that is LECO (Laboratory Equipment Company), they made analytical instruments back fron the 1960's. Gravmetric Carbon analysers and sulphur analysers were their early units. Commonly used in Chemical Labs in the Steel industry.

[@gregwalker1740]

Spent most of my engineering career in MN Taconite Mining (USA) ... this video is great! Thanks Aaron!

[@rtf1998]

Watching this from my room at that exact mine site, Electrician on the processing plant, not often are exact equipment you’ve worked on in a video like this!

[@Wtfhuntervalley]

*while moisturising his shaven legs*

[@rtf1998]

@@Wtfhuntervalley hahahah gotta keep the fitters excited to get them out of their chairs

[@Wtfhuntervalley]

@@rtf1998 lmfao 😂

[@someguyyeti2505]

I watched this from across the other side of the flats 😂, can see the lights at Gudai-Darri at night.

[@MohammadRezaie-q7q]

How did you get there bro I am 18

[@troymckenna7690]

Awesome Video Aaron, I have spent 5 years working with my team to design and commission the IS&T Technology for Gudai Darri, very complex program, but very rewarding to see your video and know that our Rio Tinto IS&T team efforts is enabling mining operations.

[@AaronWitt]

right on!! thanks for your help in making all of this happen

[@Fattybryce]

I work supporting Rio mining operations in the Pilbara, including this site, here in Perth. Was super neat to see what actually goes on up at the site.

[@peternewman958]

I live in QUEENSLAND and Aaron has shown me so much of what happens in Australia at mining and earthmoving companies around Australia that you just don’t see anywhere else. Its a business that is not Joe Public friendly for visiting or observation. I know all about the red dust from Iron ore as we used to buy vehicles and equipment from aboriginal reserves and ship back here to Brisbane and that dust goes into EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. 😵‍💫😵‍💫🤣🤣

[@thumperjdm]

Amazing, informative video. I find it amazing how much "science" goes into harvesting what's essentially "dirt."

[@AaronWitt]

thank you!!

[@paulschofield2630]

I started my apprenticeship in Geelong, 1970 ,we had the last Blacksmith's shop possibility in Victoria, I did work with them, plus fitting and machining, Iron and steel is everything pushing civilisation forward 💪, love western movies were the Smith keeps the towns running ,Im getting an anvil for my hobbies, great video dude 👍 cheers 🍻 from Byron Bay Australia 🇦🇺 ❤❤😊

[@bobpegram4676]

Great Australian Salute at the end...damn flies

[@dreams2reality410]

It's absolutely amazing. Hard to believe they have perfected autonomous vehicles of that size to perfection.

[@Match2100]

I was a fit-out driver on the autonomous trains project at 8 Mile (Karratha), then went inland to Paraburdoo as driver. Gudai Darri was just breaking ground for construction when I left. The scale of the rail operations at Rio Tinto are incredible, the video mentions 5 to 6 trains a day, that's just the Gudai Darri loadout! There are 12 lodaouts on the entire Rio Tinto network, and when I left in early 2020 they had 52 "tags" or train consists, of 240 wagons.

[@ryanoates5346]

Yeah so true. 5- 6 trains at this baby site. Greater brockman has one leaving the tlo almost every hour. Absolute mind blowing

[@stco2426]

Amazing and well put together film. Thanks!

[@AaronWitt]

thanks for watching!!

[@someguyyeti2505]

I work across these sites as a contractor, mostly across a different iron ore production company, but I do go to Rio Tinto sites from time to time.

[@SproutGardenusa]

The narrator’s voice is perfect, and the diction is so clear. Great timing too!

[@richardjonsson1745]

The level of automation is mind boggling!

[@louwclaassens4988]

I am also working on an iron ore mine in South Africa. Lab specialist. So the video hits home nicely. Everything is red here. But we love the work. Climate here is very similar to the outback. Hot and dry! 😀

[@VanJon23]

Are you based in Northern Cape

[@louwclaassens4988]

​@@VanJon23yes

[@VanJon23]

I was based in Postmasburg,Kolomela and now in Aussie Hope one day Aaron visits S.a

[@louwclaassens4988]

@VanJon23 Cool! I am based at Sishen Mine.

[@bushmagpie3312]

Well done on information. I’ve been in iron ore processing for 30yrs now. All Iron Ore plants work same way (wet & dry) and automated plant, to get the most availability out of the equipment and keep cost low. The plant you’re describing is dry plant, you should go to a wet plant and run through those, they are very interesting. Yes they make millions but the public don’t see the WA business’s these mines support, the huge dollar donations to charity ( telethon, RFDS), mining town funding, indigenous programs, royalties to government and indigenous etc. A lot of expenses for all to benefit from. It takes 5 to 10yrs to have a mine approved and millions of $ before a shovel of dirt is raised.

[@RailFanRob]

I enjoyed part 2 so much I came back for part 1...awesome!!!

[@adrianlang6550]

This is an amazing facility, and a superb video. Who would have known that many parts of the mine are so incredibly automated. Well done Rio Tinto and all it's staff.

[@RyanEglitis]

The amount of autonomous operations they have going on already is really impressive. And at such massive sizes. Great stuff!

[@thestoneforestchannel]

Spectacular to see the complex and expensive process of extracting minerals from the earth...thank you very much for the video, I subscribe to your channel. I am a stonemason and I also reconstruct old stone walls. Greetings from Barcelona.

[@gregkral4467]

Thank you for the tour. Steel industry and manufacture.... man, unbelievable how from small bloomeries to giant foundries and mills, the machinery, the energy..... truly magnificent, and awesome. Thanks, Aaron, you just won another subscriber.

[@kahvac]

Thanks to everyone who helped make this great video !

[@nickburke5263]

Your content is awesome man. I’m a geologist and was quite impressed with how much detail you conveyed. Well done keep it up 👍

[@sayedmahbub8933]

Mining, Construction, Big Factories always fascinates me.

[@redwarf8118]

5:50 how about NOT putting music over the blasting sound ?

[@MarcKemp-s4q]

Hey I actually liked it

[@a-a-ron4679]

How about making your own KZbin video. Board a plane and fly to another country.

[@ewanwiebe]

@@a-a-ron4679why should he? He’s allowed to give feedback to the video in the comments lmao. Why you so butthurt

[@a-a-ron4679]

@ and as a viewer I’m allowed to give feedback on the video and anyone who comments. Why do you care?

[@rankoss3437]

@@a-a-ron4679explosions sound cool, I would also like to hear it. Have heard it irl before, then coal dust rained down

[@CJ-yb8uw]

Been working in the Pilbara mines since leaving school 🤔🤔🤔 that was 36 years ago, I love working FIFO🇦🇺👍😎

[@RebeccaShugg]

Respect to you mate 🙏🫡

[@FreedomRoseStein]

That very last clip, the one with the flys. Not counting the heat, is the number one reason you couldn't catch me dead out there.

[@jimmy_flaps]

Fly net

[@williamgibb5557]

Technology is great when it works and works properly. In this situation, autonomous equipment certainly seems to be the answer. Great video.

[@peternewman958]

AARON glad you are learning the Aussie Salute, in other words how to cope with flies. Its quite the thing and better than swallowing them. A tip if you drink beer always keep your hand over the top of the can or bottle cause the little buggers love beer. I’ve progressed from that and you can buy a plastic cap that fits over you can and turns it into a bottle with a screw lid. That guarantees fly free beer.

[@magneticB]

That's an orefully big mine

[@patrickriley195]

Incredible engineering, it takes a lot of organization to run such an operation.

[@andyramone8497]

Your videos always make me feel like a 6 year old all over again! Live them❤❤

[@rekales5826]

It's lovely to see that a lot of the work is automated.

[@glorfindel8859]

Should come to Indonesia to look at the gold mines there

[@ToxicMrSmith]

Livin' the dream, lovin' the pilbra! Started work in w.a at 18.

[@nathanmatthews-v7e]

Australians are the leaders in mining!!

[@flamingfrancis]

AMONGST the leaders.

[@airlogic]

Gotta love the flying raisins 🪰

[@scottpage81]

a.k.a. Bush sultanas😁

[@donny1boykie]

Sky Raisins

[@Peter-qn3vj]

I can’t believe the level of automation it’s amazing

[@RangieNZ]

"We can cut that out, if we didn't get to press them" LOL

[@manjunathch8679]

Iam not like other youths, I wanted to learn about every types of mining sector and methods, that's why I watch your content ❤🎉😊

[@WaveformV1.0]

The Aussie tax payer and public receives only a huge $1 a tonne for the royalties of iron ore. The rest goes to faceless Corporations who get tax subsidies. Such a shame.

[@tigerpjm]

Except royalties aren't the only taxes paid by the companies, are they? Have a look at the list of the biggeat taxpayers in Australia. Also, do you have superannuation? Congratulations, you're a shareholder.

[@WaveformV1.0]

@@tigerpjm you said it. The public tax payer is forced to buy shares in these companies. The difference is the percentage of said companies owned by the little guy is many orders of magnitude smaller than the big wigs who own it all…!! Figure it out dude.

[@tigerpjm]

@@WaveformV1.0 Forced? What are you talking about? Anyway, I've directed you to the facts, you are spouting fantasies about being forced to do... Something. Grow up.

[@WaveformV1.0]

@@tigerpjm yes the wage earner is required to place 11% of their earnings into superfunds.

[@tigerpjm]

@@WaveformV1.0 Having a responsibility to your self is such oppression! Poor you!

[@guyneeser2029]

Yes, BuildWitt, you go. Love your content!. These giant machines are so fantastic. I would just love to buy one and hire myself out for one of places you visit!!!

[@Peter-qn3vj]

This is an insanely good video

[@AaronWitt]

thank you glad you enjoyed!!

[@souppiyas6987]

My Steel Production lesson is like from 60 years ago technology. Feels good to update.

[@johnnymurff4137]

Awesome video awesome commentary.

[@RafaelMansor]

Next time try to record the gas station for all the machines, greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@coreys_cds]

Great video, the scale of these mines are incredible!

[@SiboBushings]

To be shown in schools, congratulations 👏

[@jacky-raydowdy8833]

I love all the Aussies chiming in how they work there. Especially considering im thinking of doing fifo...

[@jascollinscork]

Great video 👌🏻

[@glennback3105]

I have watched heaps of these types of videos yours are the best

[@AaronWitt]

thank you very much!!

[@wmden1]

I. myself, have no use for Las Vegas, or a beach front vacation. The Iron mine, and or an open pit coal mine, with all of the equipment either or both would be using is right up my alley.

[@LeonardTavast]

The amount of robotics is impressive in these Australian mines. It must be nice to have operators living in a coastal city remotely controlling the equipment.

[@dhufishhunter6455]

Until you realise that the only reason that a mining company that makes tens of billions of dollars profit over the life of the mine is making stuff autonomous because you don't have to pay machines...greedy sods

[@johan790]

​@@dhufishhunter6455still gotta pay the machine maker... Cant be much cheaper, (until you factor in education, at which point its also less of a hassle).

[@xHaRdStYlExHuNgErx]

Also the jobs that are required with autonomous machines are typically higher skilled. Think about all the software engineers, spatial engineers, mechanical engineers required to operate these machines instead of the people inside the machines.

[@singularitystudios4502]

@@johan790 The mining company basically made the machine so…

[@singularitystudios4502]

@@xHaRdStYlExHuNgErx But they were able to afford university, while miners are struggling.

[@bonkerjohn1543]

Great video, great editing. well done team

[@AaronWitt]

thanks for watching!

[@David_Lloyd-Jones]

Good work, well done, and thank you!

[@StevenBoyd-yy6rw]

I found this very interesting

[@Austrialyrics]

I´ve just found your channel, you are doing a great job!

[@AaronWitt]

thank you

[@Walterwaltraud]

"Well that was a blast" lol

[@matiusclicarelli700]

Thank the lord I am studying geology I'd like to see Rio autonomise that.

[@odenttraipser5833]

Glad to see you've learned the Aussie wave 🙂

[@JJPARRA1974]

Love my Rio Tinto job Boron ,CA

[@abeelvago]

13:26 that keyboard... the dust in the shot, made my skin crawl

[@newsgetsold]

15:15 "stay dirty"

[@singularitystudios4502]

Mate if u live in the mines ur always dirty.

[@DanielSouza-mh5qb]

Amazing operations!!!

[@brianminsk8]

This video is so damn good. Top to bottom a gem.

[@coolboy93]

I need one of those giant air filters to use it as a trash bin

[@jimmy_flaps]

For anyone wondering, the safety specs people are using are "Safe style", AS spec.

[@J.fromMichigan]

Well done! I am from West Michigan. Check out the iron ore mining from Minnesota then the transportation via the lakes to places like Chicago IL., Gary IN. Detroit, MI, Windsor Canada, Cleveland, Ohio. Milwaukee WI. The golden age of the vehicle production is the late 1960s you might like it.

[@2valu4ever]

See most of the trucks they use in the Australian outback is the Toyota 79 series? Yeah that’s the proper Aussie workhorse.

[@petepetti]

Great to see more processing plants

[@kckcmctcrc]

There’d be no Vegas without these places.

[@timmyjones1921]

Thank You Aaron ' Very Educational Video.

[@Mohamedmerwany3rd]

I love this picture. Great

[@TOPTECH-r3r]

excellent mining works! great job!

[@Sajohata]

Great engaging peek into the workings of a mine!

[@anirudhgulia9036]

An autonomous mine. I was not expecting this at all.

[@Anthrofuturism]

Nice!

[@rajTrondhjem10]

Simply mind blowing 🇦🇺

[@CraigManufacturing]

Awesome content as always, Aaron!

[@jefferysharp3368]

Cat employee, so glad to see all the “Big Yellow” represented!

[@karstenramcke498]

Very impressive Thank you

[@joelburchardt7491]

As a digger op in the Bowen basin. This is interesting seeing hard rock & just getting to see stuff on site i wouldn’t get the chance to lol

[@AaronWitt]

a lot different than the Bowen

[@renecouture3719]

crazy HUGE equipment. Impressive! Good job on the video.

[@bullydungeon9631]

Ive done fifo work in canada and i know a guy who went out and made huge money in australia it sounds pretty cool

[@MarcKemp-s4q]

Great soundtrack

[@RyanMartin-wg7gm]

Right on Brother thanks 🎉😊

[@PappyGunn]

Very nice video, the technology is amazing.

[@Noname-iq1gz]

I’m amazed by how much automation is going on there.

[@Creaform003]

That shade of red gets into everything, we called it 'pilbara pink'.

[@petermalanchuk8210]

Thank you for a very interesting video, a truly excellent job, Aaron. It is mind boggling as to the vastness of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia and the sheer size of the Rio Tinto Iron Ore mine operations. The shot of the Cat 994K front end loader was impressive, as it always is!☺👍💯

[@bakedbeings]

Nice touch wearing Piastri's colours out there mate.

[@wildcolonialman]

Stunning.

[@FrankHoage]

Very good video, thank you .

[@roguewarrior3689]

10/10 thumbnail

[@Qyzer]

Which one? I've seen 2 already

[@thatfelladownunder9396]

Great video mate. I live in Whyalla (SA). An actual steel town. If you’re heading down this way definitely checkout the steelworks, they have tours but I’m sure if you contact them they might show you the good stuff. It was an interesting place to work (I’m retired now). It also has an interesting history, as does the Shipyard that used to also be onsite. Anyway, just a suggestion if you want to see the hot stuff. 👍

[@AaronWitt]

thanks for watching I appreciate it big time!!

[@michaeltorpy3366]

Wow great video so interesting the plant is incredible 😊😊

[@StormbringerMM]

Sick video dude!!! Love the channel!

[@Earth_Rim_Roamer]

Great coverage! I’ve done research and development of autonomous vehicles during my graduate studies. It’s really impressive to see these systems deployed out in the field in those kinds of conditions. I wonder if they have any human detection methods (for safety and accident prevention).

[@clousejones1563]

they do! They have whats called ODS - obstacle detection system, on the CAT's they use radar and LIDAR detection that covers a 360 sweep of the vehicle continuously. The Komatsu's use Sonar and radar. If an obstacle is detected the truck comes to a stop and to restart the vehicle an operator/supervisor or engineer has to visually go out there to clear it and can restart the truck. That, and any LV's or other heavy equipment on autonomous haul roads have a 50m digital exclusion bubble. If any vehicles come into it's 50, the truck stops - this is besides the dig units, they have a seperate spotting system to call in trucks for loading.