TIGER SANDSTONE QUARRY. How we MINE STONE and how we LOAD it into the TRUCK

in stone •  7 years ago  (edited)


In the early days here on steemit it was probably March 2018 I promised to couple of my steemit friends to show our stone quarries and make a post about how we mine stone here in the South of Russia. Well, the time has come. I decided to make this short video, while I was at our yellow-brown Tiger sandstone quarry last time to show everything from inside.
As you can see all the mining process is done by people's hands - manually, the technique is absolutely the same as thousands years before. Among the basic tools are hammers and wedges, so they put a wedge inside the mountain hit with hammer and slice the stone from the mountain. That's it! So easy to tell, so hard to mine. This is extremely hard work and I respect our workers for their hard labor. We basically have people from Uzbekistan and Ukraine working at our quarries. The most difficult part of this job is heavy weight of stones and extreme heat in summer. It's getting up to 50-55 degrees Celsius here in July, and people do work in such conditions to earn money and to provide winter for their families. We use machines for loading stone pallets to the truck. We deliver our stone, all over Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Germany. We also manufacture natural stone tiles, burn stone, and make the edges of the stone rounded, but this all you will see in my next stone videos.

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Thank you for watching this video and wish you have an excellent day!!

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Wow. Very beautiful slabs of sandstone. And excellent hard working men - in the heat of the day. The hottest we had this month is 42C. Nothing compared to your 50-55C. Wow.

Thanks for the video. I have yet to post some of the videos I neglected to edit and upload.

Thank you for your comment @lovenfreedom. These men workers are kind of heroes to me, as they stand this hard work in spring autumn and summer to feed their big families for the whole year and especially for winter when there is no work.
I will also wait to watch your newly uploaded videos.

@johnstone, very interesting video. But isn't it possible to use machines? Or you don't need it, or are the mschines very expensive?

Hello @cryptospa, the reason we don't use machines is that they break the stone, so that it become very small pieces, of course several times in season we use heavy excavators to crash the mountain and to take weak stone garbage to the side. But most of the work on stone mining and putting stone on pallets are still done by people, because this is the only way to produce quality natural stone product.

I never thought about that. I thought all those could be done with diamond saws or some sort of mechanized contraptions. Dang, I learned something today.

Thank you for your comment @enforcer48. Yes for some type of stones as granite or marble in other areas they use those diamond saws and excavators, but here in our region we have sandstone with each layer of stone underlying on different angle to the ground surface, so it is impossible to use any machinery equipment because you have to think how to get every single stone out of the mountain layer and you have to look for the best crack in that mountain to apply wedge into it and then hit the wedge with your hammer with a certain amount of power to have the best result in this very stone size. So taking every single stone is hard though quite creative job to do.

@johnstone, thank you for the answer! Very interesting!

Thank you for watching it, I just included you in my Hello list, because I consider you @cryptospa being my big steemit friend!

@johnstone, thank you!

Wow.. I imagine the amount of stress you go through to get real quality natural large stones. You are a very strong man 💪. I admire your strength and courage brother

Thank you @donefezy, this is indeed very hard work, I used to try to mine by myself, in the early days when there were lack of workers and a lot of orders, I must say this is the hardest work I ever experienced. The weight of one pallet is 2 tons, so basically one worker makes one pallet of stone per day, he takes out of the mountain, hitting the wedge with a hammer, 2 tons of stone and than put those 2 tons of stone on pallet. So this is actually 4 tons of weight each worker have to deal with on a daily basis, not saying of the efforts you have to put to kick the stone out of the mountain.

OMG 😱 4 tons! My salute to you and all the miners at Tiger Sandstone Quarry. Bigger you i pray

Yeah brother 4 tons every day for 6 months (average stone season) not counting those efforts you apply to take every single stone out of the mountain with your hands and hammer. Extremely hard! For the last ten years, that I am doing stone business literally thousands of people came, work 1-3 days and then leave, only the strongest stayed and have made our collective of about 150 workers who are currently working at our quarries and stone bases.

Hi @johnstone and thanks for such an interesting post and video! The process of mining stones is really interesting, I never had any info regarding this before. I wish you all the best in this not an easy business!

Thank you @teneresa for your kind wishes, your words seem to easily cure my exhausted soul )

It's like the granite that exist in indonesia. the stone material used for building hotels and luxury homes. the price is very expensive

Yes my friend, you are right! We sell it very cheap, one pallet of tiger sandstone costs about $175 which make it the price about $7 per square meter of raw sandstone with thickness of 3 sm which can be used for ground pavement.

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