{"language": "en", "segments": [{"text": " Copperton, Utah, the model city that copper built with its copper-shingled homes,", "start": 5.22, "stop": 9.4, "id": 0}, {"text": " is the approach to Bingham, a famous mining town with its seven-mile-long canyon", "start": 10.0, "stop": 13.74, "id": 1}, {"text": " street, a narrow lane sprouting frame dwellings.", "start": 13.74, "stop": 16.76, "id": 2}, {"text": " Located 25 miles southwest from modern Salt Lake City, Bingham still utilizes a", "start": 32.92, "stop": 38.02, "id": 3}, {"text": " one-horsepower mail delivery system, with the result that mail is picked up and", "start": 38.02, "stop": 42.28, "id": 4}, {"text": " delivered in real, old,", "start": 42.28, "stop": 43.84, "id": 5}, {"text": " western style. Our next objective is the mine", "start": 56.48, "stop": 62.14, "id": 6}, {"text": " headquarters of the Utah Copper Company.", "start": 62.14, "stop": 64.04, "id": 7}, {"text": " For many years, the scene of feverish activity. Small cable hull trams provide an", "start": 64.6, "stop": 69.78, "id": 8}, {"text": " inclined ascent for several hundred feet, permitting its", "start": 69.78, "stop": 73.02, "id": 9}, {"text": " unrestricted vision of this little town.", "start": 73.02, "stop": 74.98, "id": 10}, {"text": " So vast are the mining operations here, it is necessary to board yet another", "start": 79.08, "stop": 91.74, "id": 11}, {"text": " vehicle, this time the caboose of a supply train to see the world's largest", "start": 91.74, "stop": 97.1, "id": 12}, {"text": " open-cut copper mine.", "start": 97.1, "stop": 98.8, "id": 13}, {"text": " What a spectacle. This man-made wonder and immense amphitheater-like quarry,", "start": 99.42, "stop": 104.86, "id": 14}, {"text": " terraced with 23 benches or working levels, each 70 feet high. The mine covers an", "start": 105.46, "stop": 111.42, "id": 15}, {"text": " operating area of 475 acres. It is 1,600 feet from the crest to the floor of the", "start": 111.42, "stop": 117.78, "id": 16}, {"text": " pit, which is encircled with miles of railroad track over which electric engines", "start": 117.78, "stop": 122.74, "id": 17}, {"text": " haul our cars of 80 and 100 ton capacity.", "start": 122.74, "stop": 125.4, "id": 18}, {"text": " First prospected in 1862 by United States soldiers, it remained dormant until the", "start": 126.16, "stop": 131.64, "id": 19}, {"text": " period of the Spanish-American War, when Colonel Daniel C. Jackling, realizing", "start": 131.64, "stop": 135.92, "id": 20}, {"text": " its great possibilities, made his preliminary efforts to create this awe", "start": 135.92, "stop": 140.26, "id": 21}, {"text": "-inspiring project. Like the fabled ventures of Egyptian pharaohs, this great", "start": 140.26, "stop": 145.04, "id": 22}, {"text": " enterprise too depends upon manpower, and more than 4,000 are employed when", "start": 145.04, "stop": 150.48, "id": 23}, {"text": " operating at peak capacity to handle a single day's output of 70,000 tons of low", "start": 150.48, "stop": 156.56, "id": 24}, {"text": "-grade copper ore. Enough mineral in one day to fill 824 cars, equivalent to", "start": 156.56, "stop": 163.48, "id": 25}, {"text": " a train almost five miles long, and that's mining. Terrace and Tressall cross and", "start": 163.48, "stop": 169.48, "id": 26}, {"text": " re-cross this massive mineral basin. Until 1938, more than 266 million cubic", "start": 169.48, "stop": 176.2, "id": 27}, {"text": " yards of material was removed from this enormous mine, a staggering feat", "start": 176.2, "stop": 181.06, "id": 28}, {"text": " exceeding the total excavations for the Panama Canal by more than 20 million", "start": 181.06, "stop": 186.1, "id": 29}, {"text": " cubic yards. A blasting preliminary is the loading and shooting of spring holes,", "start": 186.1, "stop": 190.82, "id": 30}, {"text": " a prologue to the stupendous multiple explosions.", "start": 191.26, "stop": 193.72, "id": 31}, {"text": " Mechanical molds, electric churn drills burrow into the earth,", "start": 197.16, "stop": 203.84, "id": 32}, {"text": " a chain of holes each approximately 23 feet in depth. Fearless powder monkeys", "start": 204.36, "stop": 209.28, "id": 33}, {"text": " none shall not pack the small but mighty capsules of ammonium nitrate powder into", "start": 209.28, "stop": 214.78, "id": 34}, {"text": " the apertures. Enough explosive to literally move the earth.", "start": 214.78, "stop": 218.02, "id": 35}, {"text": " And here it goes!", "start": 218.56, "stop": 219.46, "id": 36}, {"text": " What an explosion. Thunder over Utah, 125,000", "start": 223.3, "stop": 230.1, "id": 37}, {"text": " tons of mineral dust, a veritable, smoky curtain of copper. This man-made", "start": 230.1, "stop": 235.1, "id": 38}, {"text": " earthquake is the signal that sends empty ore cars on their way to low duct and", "start": 235.1, "stop": 239.5, "id": 39}, {"text": " it becomes necessary to lay whole sections of new track in order to reach the", "start": 239.5, "stop": 243.6, "id": 40}, {"text": " debris. 29 electric shovels stab the earth, giant steel dippers scooping six to", "start": 243.6, "stop": 249.44, "id": 41}, {"text": " seven tons of rocket at a time, completely filling an ore car in the", "start": 249.44, "stop": 253.0, "id": 42}, {"text": " record time of five minutes.", "start": 253.0, "stop": 254.52, "id": 43}, {"text": " Yes, they", "start": 258.52, "stop": 264.2, "id": 44}, {"text": " move mountains here in Utah.", "start": 264.2, "stop": 265.76, "id": 45}, {"text": " And the parade of rock-laden cars starts for the Magna Mill.", "start": 269.2, "stop": 273.74, "id": 46}, {"text": " Part of the blasted material is capping or waste, but this too is utilized. Being", "start": 295.62, "stop": 301.04, "id": 47}, {"text": " dumped so that water may flow through it.", "start": 301.04, "stop": 303.06, "id": 48}, {"text": " And in this manner capture certain chemical qualities with the power to transform", "start": 303.06, "stop": 307.22, "id": 49}, {"text": " tin can shavings into almost pure copper precipitate.", "start": 307.22, "stop": 310.86, "id": 50}, {"text": " In reality", "start": 313.52, "stop": 320.16, "id": 51}, {"text": " these shavings are scrap iron gathered in bales like hay.", "start": 320.16, "stop": 323.68, "id": 52}, {"text": " And pitched into a lengthy trough.", "start": 339.86, "stop": 341.98, "id": 53}, {"text": " Becoming saturated with the copper charged", "start": 346.68, "stop": 353.56, "id": 54}, {"text": " water, the waste iron is magically converted into copper.", "start": 353.56, "stop": 357.1, "id": 55}, {"text": " Troves, technically called launders, deposit the solution in huge settling", "start": 358.14, "stop": 362.02, "id": 56}, {"text": " tanks, extending the length of the plant.", "start": 362.02, "stop": 364.44, "id": 57}, {"text": " At this stage the precipitate is 89% copper and is ready to be transported to the", "start": 365.48, "stop": 371.14, "id": 58}, {"text": " smelter for the fiery baptism which will convert it into solid metal.", "start": 371.14, "stop": 375.06, "id": 59}, {"text": " We leave the precipitate and follow the ore to Magna Mill where we witness", "start": 380.38, "stop": 384.92, "id": 60}, {"text": " an amazing operation.", "start": 384.92, "stop": 386.52, "id": 61}, {"text": " A carload of rock turned upside down like a toy in a powerful rotary dumper.", "start": 388.92, "stop": 395.8, "id": 62}, {"text": " Sharing our fascination is Colonel Daniel C. Jackley, active head of", "start": 398.16, "stop": 402.04, "id": 63}, {"text": " this Jupendous Copper Enterprise.", "start": 402.04, "stop": 403.54, "id": 64}, {"text": " Tons of rock are catapulted into the crusher, looking for all the world like a", "start": 404.68, "stop": 409.1, "id": 65}, {"text": " huge coffee grinder, creating an ear-splitting roar.", "start": 409.1, "stop": 412.12, "id": 66}, {"text": " Conveyor belts carry the grist from crusher to crusher, each chewing the ore a", "start": 412.98, "stop": 417.18, "id": 67}, {"text": " little finer until mechanical classifiers divert into remaining coarse bits", "start": 417.18, "stop": 421.62, "id": 68}, {"text": " to the battery of ball mills.", "start": 421.62, "stop": 423.42, "id": 69}, {"text": " Pulverized to a fine consistency, the ore is mixed with reagents, becomes a pulp", "start": 425.58, "stop": 430.56, "id": 70}, {"text": "-like mixture, and is delivered to the flotation machines where the copper mineral", "start": 430.56, "stop": 434.6, "id": 71}, {"text": " is floated away from the worthless gang or rock and recovered as copper", "start": 434.6, "stop": 438.96, "id": 72}, {"text": " concentrate and then made ready for delivery to the smelter.", "start": 438.96, "stop": 442.2, "id": 73}, {"text": " Here gold strangely enough is a byproduct of copper, being caught in valuable", "start": 444.1, "stop": 449.28, "id": 74}, {"text": " quantities in these launders through which the mill tailings flow.", "start": 449.28, "stop": 452.18, "id": 75}, {"text": " Efficient mining and smelting of low-grade ore makes for continuous activity at", "start": 453.72, "stop": 458.54, "id": 76}, {"text": " the massive Garbio Smelter, where more copper matters produced", "start": 458.54, "stop": 462.64, "id": 77}, {"text": " than at any other place in the world.", "start": 462.64, "stop": 464.36, "id": 78}, {"text": " From one steel volcano to another, the fiery copper lava is drawn, rejecting all", "start": 466.46, "stop": 472.38, "id": 79}, {"text": " waste material or slag. The slag is skimmed off.", "start": 472.38, "stop": 476.78, "id": 80}, {"text": " It is poured into special metal dump cars.", "start": 480.0, "stop": 482.72, "id": 81}, {"text": " Then it is rushed to the slag pile, where it cascades down the side of an ever", "start": 487.74, "stop": 492.94, "id": 82}, {"text": "-increasing mountain of waste.", "start": 492.94, "stop": 494.46, "id": 83}, {"text": " Purged and purified, the stream of molten copper is molded into 450-pound blocks,", "start": 499.6, "stop": 505.44, "id": 84}, {"text": " cooling streams of water playing on the hissing steaming oblongs.", "start": 506.22, "stop": 510.56, "id": 85}, {"text": " And thus, copper is born, born to serve mankind. Slender strands,", "start": 513.24, "stop": 519.44, "id": 86}, {"text": " metal arteries loaded with the life blood of industry, electric power.", "start": 520.08, "stop": 524.44, "id": 87}, {"text": " Hemispheres are linked. A world of speech. That's copper.", "start": 536.02, "stop": 541.82, "id": 88}]}