How To Mine Gold: Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil Blast

About 4,000 pounds of ANFO (a mixture of ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel) was used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. In this explosion, about 100,000 pounds of the same explosive are used to blast out more material at a gold mine. The blast debris are then trucked to another part of the mine where they are crushed further and then soaked with sodium cyanide to leach out the gold. Pretty friggin' cool!

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[papakeetee]

how do they make ammonium nitrate?? what is it like fertilizer and diesel fuel if som what are the ratios, what the hell kind of fertilizer do you have to do any refining is it true you can fill a coffee can and shoot it and have an explosion any body know???

[timotheophany]

1) I don't know the ratios, 2) If I did, I wouldn't tell you, you sound crazy, and 3) you sound crazy.

[timotheophany]

Thanks everyone for the comments... for the record, I got the information about the explosives mass from the mine staff in person while recording this, so unless they had cause to lie to me, it's accurate. This is a relatively small shot for them. You're right, 100,000 pounds on the surface probably WOULD have vaporized me, but this is a lesson in just how heavy the ground is! The explosives were buried deep, which is why you only got a small lift at the surface.

[JewTubeDidWTC]

If he was stupid enough to make explosives incorrectly and blow himself up, it's just natural selection at work. I'd guess you're the kind of person that thinks kids should just be told to absolutely not touch any guns, and of course they'll do the exact opposite, because you didn't teach them gun safety. Knowledge should be free. Get fucked.

[Agentoxedo07]

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* ANFO LMAO xD

[diapysik]

@papakeetee no you cant shoot it and explode its made with nh3 and hno3 no ratio just pour deisel over AN and no refineing

[fly2000jtb]

@papakeetee It is called tannerite you can buy it legally go to tannrite.com like 89.00 bucks for 10 bottles of the stuff. Joseph T fly2000jtb

[slyscafe]

@papakeetee You can buy it as a fertilizer. The ratio is 95% AN by weight to 5% Fuel by weight, and you can shoot it to make it detonate, but it requires a high-powered rifle.

Oh, and making it is illegal, so have fun with the law, kid.

[hankmanGTA]

Well this is fucking weak video!

[MegaBukaki]

@papakeetee If you tried you would wind up blowing yourself up...amonium nitatre is not safe atoll ecspcialy when you add shit to it...

[NejaziZeciri]

you mean

What % of diesel fuel should be coverd in ammonium nitrate ^^

[miraclo3]

60:40 by weight and not whats ones 60 or 40.

[bustincapz]

about (by wieght(i think)) about 6 %

[Monxer]

What % of ammonium nitrate should be coverd in diesel fuel?