Engineering Porn

This 1930s black & white educational/promotional film tells “The Story of Nickel“. It was produced by INCO, the International Nickel Company, Ltd., now known as Vale Canada, Limited. INCO as founded following the discovery of copper deposits in Sudbury, Ontario. During World War II, Inco’s Frood-Stobie Mine Mine produced 40% of the nickel used in artillery by the Allies. Opening titles (:08-:58). Title: Canadian Operations. Huge Reservoir, twenty miles from Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada. Power lines. Sudbury Basin map. Mine near the basin. Miners get to work (:59-2:27). Frood Mine is the greatest nickel mine in the world. Logs come down the river. Steel shop. Miners head to the elevator. Compressed air drill in use. Holes are loaded with dynamite and the ore is shoveled out. Timbers are set into place to prevent a cave in. Electric trams deliver timbers and supplies (2:28-4:42). Ore is turned upside down by a machine, called a tipple. A tipple is a structure used at a mine to load the extracted product for