How Underground Mining Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

People used to use deer antlers to beat the minerals out of rock hidden in the earth. Luckily, they got better at it, and now modern mining is a mind-boggling process for efficiently removing stuff we want from inside the planet.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Steffi Should Know, GrimhouseStuffWorks.com.
0:34.8	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.6	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant looking chipper and bright eye emboucetailed.
0:47.6	There's Jerry over there.
0:49.2	She's dressed like snow white.
0:51.2	Some birds flying around the place.
0:52.9	Wow.
0:53.6	It's like Disney all up in here.
0:57.0	Why not?
0:58.0	Which by the way, we learned.
1:00.4	The hard way.
1:02.4	Well, I'll make him go work so I'll mess it up again.
1:05.8	That's good.
1:06.8	So Chuck, have you ever been inside an underground mine?
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