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NoS synopsis: a modern tin mine in Cornwall. Underground workings and ore-dressing plant NCB Commentary - This is Land’s End. Near here the Phoenicians are supposed to have landed. Over two thousand years...
Looks at the role of the EEC, the World Bank, and multinational mining companies in the destruction of the Amazon forest and how it is related to Brazil’s national debt? Filmed over four years at Sossego,...
Compares early method of batch distillation process with later electrolytic and vertical retort continuous processes. Modern automatic process makes use of a blast furnace for which the feed stock is...
Starts by showing how ores are extracted from an underground mine in Cornwall and looks at the variety of minerals found in these ores. Then looks at ways of separating minerals from mined ore using...
NoS synopsis: the part coal plays in the British motor car industry illustrated at the Ford factory in Dagenham NCB Commentary - As in any big industry, motor transport today plays a big part in the...
Shows how the statistical technique of regression analysis is used at three stages in the manufacture of steel pipes to manufacture North Sea oil by addressing the following questions: given the sulphur...
Looks at some of the environmental issues raised by the use of natural resources in the modern urban society. It contrasts a proposed recycling of aluminium drinks cans with the handling of water within a...
Shows in the traditional methods of iron smelting and forging used by the Madi of Uganda. In Eremi only one old man knows how to smelt iron. A younger man goes digging some eight miles away for iron ore,...
BFI synopsis: at the Stanton and Stavely Ironworks, near Nottingham, coal is used to fire No. 5 blast furnace. NCB Commentary - Once iron was smelted - extracted from the iron ore - with charcoal. Then...
The March of Time synopsis: In the latest March of Time release ... the accent is on peace, for it is peace that this time the Allies are determined to win. The film begins by recalling that it was from...
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