The Mining Engineer Newsletter for the Mining Engineering Program October 2012

In this Issue...

Message from the Department Chair Profile of Faculty and Staff Welcome New Faculty Members Enrollment continues to grow Update from Experimental Mine September 09 – 12, 2013

EXECUTIVE FORUMS TECHNICAL SESSIONS Student Orgnization Updates Session I Investment Risks & Opportunities Session VI Global Minerals Executive Forum I: Session II Technology Transfer Risks & Engineering Education Update on Faculty Research Global Opportunities & Challenges Challenges Session VII Global Sustainable Development Executive Forum II: Session III Novel Technologies and Session VIII Global Mine Safety & Health 2012 Phonathon Donors Talent for Global Competition Knowledge Gap Session IX Global Markets & Executive Forum III: Session IV Global Venture Capital Acquisition Trading Dynamics & Financing Student Forum (organized & moderated 2012 Development Board Session V International Project Management by students with student presenters) 2013 IME Conference Announcement

Missouri university of science and technology founded 1870 Mining Engineering 226 McNutt Hall | Rolla, MO 65409-0450 | 573-341-4753 | [email protected] | mining.mst.edu Team A made an impressive finish in the second round of the completion. At the Sustaining Growing Programs with a Critical Mass of Faculty and Staff 2012 Professional Mine Rescue Competition in Rolla, MO, Missouri S&T’s Gold The Department offers BS, MS/ME, PhD, and DE in Mining Arabia, our efforts are substantial. Our annual research Team won the Underground Competition, beating all the 12 industry teams and Engineering and MS in Explosives Engineering. We are capacity has been between $2 and $4 million and is expected Missouri S&T’s Black Team. currently developing a proposal to offer a PhD program in to increase to between $5 and $7 million within the next year.

Explosives Engineering, as well as a future graduate program With the growing programs, the number of faculty has Building on the success of the Master Science in Explosives Engineering that was approved in April 2010, the Department is currently working on a proposal to in Mineral Process Engineering. One of the essential increased slowly from 7 (in 2007) to a complement of 11 (with th implement a PhD degree program in Explosives Engineering. The Department is ingredients for sustaining strong program growth is a critical a potential for a 12 position if the program for the Sichuan also leading an effort to establish a Master of Science degree in Mineral Process mass of highly qualified and dedicated faculty with research Missouri University in China program is implemented). The Engineering in collaboration with Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. As part and education capacity. Another important ingredient is a Table below shows the additional faculty with increasing of an effort to increase the faculty size, Dr. Nassib S. Aouad (PhD, Missouri S&T), critical mass of staff members who provide important services program expansion. Given the amount and the intensity of Assistant Teaching Professor, with specialty in Mine Mechanical Engineering, and critical to the core mission. Traditionally, mining engineering work, we still need additional faculty members to sustain the Dr. Lana Z. Alagha (PhD, University of Texas‐Dallas), Assistant Professor, with programs have been very small with few faculty and staff growth of the education and research programs. Despite this specialty in Mineral Processing were added to the Department. The faculty, in collaboration with faculty members from Missouri S&T, other universities, positions. Missouri Set’s Mining Engineering has grown small number, the faculty members have worked hard with a research organizations and industry are leading multi‐million dollar research significantly within the last six years. Our global footprints collective understanding of excellence in research and efforts to expand frontiers and advance knowledge. have extended from Australia, Brazil, Botswana, China, Ghana, education. and Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. In Botswana, China, and Saudi The Department took specific initiatives to expand its research and education capacity. As part of its capacity expansion and renewal initiatives begun in 2009, Periodic Faculty Additions with Growth The 2020 Vision in the FY2010‐20 Strategic the Department completed the Virtual Surface Mining Simulator, which was YEAR FACULTY POSITION RATIONALE Plan states, “Missouri S&T will be recognized unveiled by Chancellor Schrader on April 08, 2012. This facility will be used for 2008 One (Explosives Eng) Growing capacity in explosives research and education and the introduction of the MS degree program as the global university of choice for mining research and education. Significant progress was also made on the Energetic engineering education, research and graduate 2009 One (Mining Eng) Resulted from the Missouri S&T – University of Botswana academic program; will be filled in the specialty Research Facility and the new Experimental Mine Building. Upon completion, area of Mineral Process Engineering employees for the mining industry.” In line these two facilities will expand our education and research capacity in mining and 2010 One (Mining Eng) Resulted from the retirement of David Summers, Curators’ Professor Emeritus and former Director of the with this vision, the Department made explosives engineering. Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center; will be filled in the specialty are of Underground Mining progress in capacity expansion for research 2012 One (Mining Eng) A future Endowed Chair position that comes from the Missouri S&T – SMP Program in Saudi Arabia and education in AY2011‐12. The 2006‐12 The Department also expanded its global footprints within the last 5 years into 2013 One (Mining Eng) A potential faculty position in Mining Engineering upon the inception of the Sichuan Missouri University Mining Engineering enrollment growth is as China, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. In China, the Department will establish a new follows: (i) total enrollment is 88% from 155 Department of Mining and Mineral Process Engineering at Sichuan Missouri One of the core strengths of S&T Mining and Explosives have been great counselors and mentors to a number of (2006) to 291 (2012); (ii) undergraduate University in Sichuan Province. In Saudi Arabia, the Department will establish a Engineering is the set of attributes that qualify the undergraduate students in the programs in the areas of summer enrollment is 50% from 123 to 184; (iii) new Saudi Mining Polytechnic (SMP) to train professionals for the emerging administrative and technical staff in the Department. The S&T and COOP internships and career placements. The Department graduate enrollment is 234% from 32 to 107; mining industry. The efforts in Indonesia will focus on establishing the and (iv) PhD enrollment is 317% from 6 to 25. Department of Mining and Environmental Engineering at the State Islamic Experimental Mine is the consummate laboratory for the Mining has outstanding administrative staff, which works hard beyond Missouri S&T has the largest mining University of Indonesia. These efforts will yield enormous dividends to expand and Explosives Engineering programs. The laboratory sessions the call of duty to support its education, research, and service engineering program in the United States S&T’s Mining Engineering Program and provide opportunities for global exposure for several courses in the programs are taught at the Mine, as mandate. Despite the growth, Missouri S&T support only one based on the 2011 Enrollment Statistics to our faculty, staff and students. well as providing environments for research initiatives, mine and half technical staff positions and one administrative position published by SME. The Department also ranks th rescue and mucking competitions and haunted mine activities. in Mining and Explosives Engineering. The rest are supported on 7 out of the 20 academic departments at Missouri S&T has succeeded in producing highly qualified graduates for the th The leadership provided by the Mine Supervisor and Assistant soft dollars (i.e., non‐budgeted dollars). Missouri S&T based on the End of 4 Week industry and we take pride in their achievements. The faculty and staff members Mine Supervisor has been superb. In addition, the two leaders Enrollment from the Office of the Registrar in have created environments, which contribute to student success. The spring 2012. contribution by the Board, Academy, industry and alumni has been outstanding. As it embarks on the AY2012‐13, the Department will continue to be guided by its Meet the people who are responsible for shaping the Department’s education, research and service mandate!! The graduation rate also increased by 267% five strategic initiatives in the FY2010‐20 Strategic Plan. These initiatives include from 15 (in 2006‐07) to its largest of 55 (in (i) maintaining and expanding outstanding mining engineering education 2011‐12), with 100% placement and the portfolio; (ii) enriching the student experience; (iii) broadening mining engineering highest average starting salary of $73,000. In research; (iv) expanding S&T’s mining engineering capacity; and (v) strengthening RESEARCH AREAS: Surface RESEARCH AREAS: Underground addition to academic and professional national and global partnerships. The vision of global leadership will be achieved Mining; Excavation Engineering; Mining Methods; Mine excellence, our students also made impressive through our core values (excellence, ethics, experience, exposure, leadership, Machine Dynamics, Health and Atmospheric Control; Mineral Longevity; Machine‐Formation Economics; Mine Health and achievements in collegiate mining passion, and tradition) that form the basis of Missouri S&T’s tradition of competitions. At the 2012 International Interactions; Formation Safety excellence. Thank you for your support!! Deformation Mechanics; Novel Intercollegiate Mucking Competition in Oil Sands Mining; Stochastic Cornwall, United Kingdom, the Lady Mucking Samuel Frimpong, PhD, PEng Processes; Risks and Hazards Team B won the Women’s Trophy as World Professor and Chair Engineering Champions. The Men’s Team A won the North Robert H. Quenon Endowed Chair nd American Championship and placed 2 overall Samuel Frimpong, PhD, PEng Stewart A. Gillies, PhD after an Aussie Team. At the 2012 NSSGA‐ Professor and Chair Professor and Director, RMERC SME Mine Design Competition in Seattle, our Robert Quenon Endowed Chair Rocky Mountain Energy Prof.

RESPONSIBILITY AREAS: RESPONSIBILITY AREAS: Experimental Mine Supervision; Experimental Mine Supervision; RESEARCH AREAS: Explosives RESEARCH AREAS: Underground Manages & Directs Mine Tours; Assists Mine Safety Class & Engineering; Drilling and Blasting; Mining Methods; Mine Mine Rescue & Mucking MSHA Certification Commercial Pyrotechnics; Atmospheric Control; Mine Advisor; Assists Chair in Maintenance; Supervises Demolition Health and Safety; Operations Planning for Future Use of Student Assistants; Mine Research; Mineral Economics; Experimental Mine Simulator and Explosives Diesel Particulate Matter; Mine Jimmie Taylor Sr. Summer Camp Staff; Fire Simulation Curtis D. Phelps Experimental Mine Supervisor Sr. Lab Mechanic

Paul N. Worsey, PhD, CEng Jerry C. Tien, PhD, PE Asst. Mine Supervisor Professor & Director, Associate Professor & S&T China Explosives Engineering Liaison RESPONSIBILITY AREAS: RESPONSIBILITY AREAS: Executive Assistant to Chair; Administer Distance Education; Administer Advance & Joe’ss; Administer Mines & Metallurgy RESEARCH AREAS: Blast and RESEARCH AREAS: Mineral‐Coal Administer Newsletter, Website Academy Activities; Assist with Ballistic‐Resistant Structures; Processing; Synthetic Fuels; & Desktop Publishing; Blackboard; Grant Proposals on Advanced Blasting and Waterjet/Hydraulic Mining; Coordinator for Explosives People Soft; General Demolition; Energetic Materials; Nanoparticulate Coal Science Camp; Administer Budgets, Administrative Duties– Chair, Advanced Polymeric and Integrated Manufacturing Phonathon & Fundraising; Faculty, Students & Other Composite Materials; Explosive Processes Coordinate Conferences & Departments Meetings; Contact with Taggants; Explosives‐Driven Barbara A. Robertson Judy Russell Industry, Alums Pulsed Power; Plasma Effects on Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant Jason Baird, PhD Explosion Shocks for Pulsed “Chief Cook & Bottle Washer” Associate Professor & Assistant Power Grzegorz Galecki, PhD Director, RMERC RESPONSIBILITY AREAS: Associate Professor & Director Administer Graduate Students of Mineral Processing Files; Primary Industry Contact

on Interviews and Info Sessions; Assist with Blackboard; General Administrative Duties – Chair,

Faculty, Students & Other RESEARCH AREAS: Rock RESEARCH AREAS: Surface Departments; Travel and Mechanics, Ground Control, Mining, Sustainability, Shirley Hall Reimbursements Microseismic Monitoring, Reclamation and post‐mining Geophysical Methods in Mines, land use, Geostatistics, Senior Secretary Acoustic Emission, Machine‐Formation Nondestructive Testing Interactions, Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Mining Systems

Maochen Ge, PhD Kwame Awuah‐Offei, PhD Welcome to Dr. Lana Alagha Welcome to Dr. Nassib Aouad Associate Professor Assistant Professor & Graduate Coordinator Dr. Lana Alagha has joined mining and nuclear engineering de- Last November, Dr. Nassib Aouad joined the faculty as an partment at Missouri S&T in August 2012. She obtained her PhD assistant professor and director of the online program. Dur- degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007. After that, ing this past year, Dr. Aouad’s efforts were steered toward Dr. Alagha moved to Canada and worked as an adjunct faculty recruiting new students to be mining engineers, expanding member at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada the online certificate and master of engineering programs as RESEARCH AREAS: Mechanical RESEARCH AREAS: Oil Sands Ore from the period of 2008 – 2009. In February 2009, she joined the well as conducting extensive research on truck vibrations. Design and Automation; Machine Processing, Tailings department of chemical and material engineering at the Univer- Health and Fatigue Analysis; Management, Polymer Science, sity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada as a postdoctoral fellow work- He is part of the Heavy Machinery Research Group and Machinery and Whole Body Nanotechnology, Interfacial ing on oil sands ore processing. Dr. Alagha’s research areas focus is currently CO-PI on a CDC-NIOSH grant investigating the “Engineering Solutions for Dump Truck Vibrations and Impact Vibrations; Advanced Vibrations Science, Colloidal Interactions in on applying surface science and nanotechnology in treatment of Modeling and Analysis; Numerical Aqueous Systems, Clays on Operator Safety in High-Impact Shovel Loading Opera- tailings wastes produced from mining operations. Dr. Alagha is tions”. As part of this research group, he is investigating the Modeling and Simulation; Virtual looking forward to initiate a new direction in mineral processing Prototyping; Computational Fluid Machinery and Whole Body Vibrations using MSC.ADAMS Lana Z. Alagha, PhD fundamental research at Missouri S&T based on applying polymer Dynamics by creating system numerical models and virtual prototypes Nassib S. Aouad, PhD Assistant Professor science and nanotechnology to enhance the aggregation of fine which allow extensive simulation scenarios in various severe Assistant Professor & Director and ultrafine particles in the processing of mineral ores. About her environments. During this past year, Dr. Aouad was focusing of Distance Education teaching interests, she is interested in all subjects that deal with on reducing the vertical acceleration on the truck operator’s interfacial science such as mineral processing, flotation, hydromet- seat and working on introducing commercialized components allurgy, colloids, etc. “I am really impressed by the family atmo- to retrofit the trucks to achieve lower accelerations and a sphere here and everybody is volunteering to help”, Dr. Alagha safer working environment. said about her department as she is also enjoying her life in Rolla. Expanding the Enrollment Capacity of Missouri S&T’s Mining Engineering 16 The capacity of the Mining Engineering program at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) has grown significantly 14 over the last decade. Table below shows the enrollment growth trends for the Mining Engineering program from fall 2006 to fall 2012. TOTAL REPORTED INTERNSHIPS AND COOP PLACEMENTS = 64 Within this period, the growth rates are: (i) 88% from 155 (in 2006) to 291 (in 2012) for total enrollment; (ii) 50% from 123 to 184 in 12 undergraduate enrollment; (iii) 234% from 32 to 107 in graduate enrollment; and (iv) 317% from 6 to 25 in PhD enrollment. 10

8 300 Graphic 2 illustrates the enrollment statistics FMEN gathered by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and 6 NO OF 2012 INTERNS 250 UGRAD Exploration (SME) Inc. for all accredited mining 4 GRAD engineering programs in the United States and 2 200 TOTAL published in 2012. The Figure shows that Missouri 0 150 S&T’s mining engineering program became the largest program in the United States effective fall 2007, 100 based on enrollment. Graphic 3 illustrates the distribution of the fall 2012 enrollment statistics. The 50 2012 enrollment shows growth and strength at all levels. The current upward growth trend is a strong The availability of internships and permanent placements for graduates are strong incentives for attracting students into the program. 0 indication of future growth. The graph to the left shows the reported 2012 summer internship opportunities for the Missouri S&T’s mining engineering students. A FS2006 FS2007 FS2008 FS2009 FS2010 FS2011 FS2012 number of the internships were not reported, and thus, not captured in this graph. For example, CONSOL energy had 14 interns, but 2006‐12 Enrollment Growth in Mining Engineering at S&T only 10 interns were captured in the graph. Mining Engineering also enjoys about 100% placement after graduation. Rolla graduated about 50 students in December 2011 and May 2012 with 100% placement and an average starting salary of $73,000.

This growth resulted from strategic and tactical initiatives undertaken by the Department. These Financial aid has been a vital component toward attracting and retaining qualified students into the mining engineering program. The initiatives include marketing and recruiting, explosives Department awarded a total of $215,000 in financial assistance to mining engineering students in the academic year 2011‐12. Sixty engineering graduate program, internships and percent of this amount came from the mining industry, SME, ISEE, and other individual donors and 40% from endowed scholarship. The permanent placements, financial aid, industry‐ Department was able to provide assistance to several students and no student dropped out for due to financial burden to our university programs, international programs and knowledge. Overall, the students in the program have served as our ambassadors to the undecided undergraduate engineering students as they continue to market the program on campus. The industry, the faculty and staff, the Board and the students continue student‐oriented programs. Since the summer of 2005, the Department has hosted between two and to play a vital role in ensuring a full pipeline of highly qualified high school and transfer students into mining engineering at Missouri three explosives summer camps for high school S&T. students. These camps bring an average of 60 students to explore the exciting adventures in mining and explosives. The Department recruits over 70% of the campers into the mining engineering program. 2012 SME Enrollment for US Mining Engineering Schools

Other recruiting programs include the Jackling Intro PhD; 25 FMEN; 32 Engineering Camps, the Mining/Aggregate Industry How to build this building: MS; 26 Nights and high school visits by the students and First, you call DeWayne and Jim- faculty. The MS program in Explosives Engineering SOPH; 47 mie! DeWayne Phelps is operating has aided the growth to a significant degree. There the lift on the ground - he doesn’t ME; 56 are 21 students enrolled in the MS program and 11 students in the graduate certificate program. The like heights. Jimmie Taylor is JUNR; 45 Department hopes to strengthen its enrollment secured in the bucket and secur- SENR; 60 capacity with a future introduction of the PhD ing the panels. The result is the program in Explosives Engineering. The Missouri S&T building shown. We – University of Botswana (UB) 3+2 program also can now work on our brings an annual stream of 12 to 15 students into the equipment inside. junior year of the program.

Distribution of Fall 2012 Mining Eng Enrollment

Under the program, students complete all the fundamental science, mathematics and engineering courses at UB and complete the last two years of the BS degree program at Missouri S&T. The Department is pursuing two similar programs in Indonesia and the Dominican Republic.

Reprint of the newsrelease announcing the signing of the contract be- tween Ma’Aden and Missouri S&T Missouri S&T to make impact on Saudi mining industry News from the Experimental Mine ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) has won a $24 million award from Saudi Arabia to train and educate Greetings from the Experimental Mine: Jimmie and DeWayne say hello. Our summer was busy with personnel for the Saudi mining industry. preparation of the new mine building site and the annual explosives camp. Jimmie just completed 20 years with Missouri S&T. Missouri S&T was selected to be a partner with the Technical and Voca- Some additions to the mine in- tional Training Corp. (TVTC), a Saudi government entity, and the Saudi clude a new Bobcat, 30 Koehler Eng. Abdullah Al-Saif, Chairman Arabian Mining Co., Ma’aden to establish the Saudi Mining Polytechnic lights, a 5 Ton dump truck and the Ma’aden, and Dr. Kent Wry, Provost (SMP). Under the agreement, Missouri S&T and partners from industry erection of the student design S&T, sign the cooperation agree- will train personnel at SMP during an initial five-year period. The award is building that was taken down on ment. potentially renewable for another five years. main campus. With the addition of the donated 30 cordless Koehler Missouri S&T’s partners in this venture include Canadian Petroleum Ser- lights, we can now have 2 full vices, Caterpillar Global Mining, The Doe Run Co., Immersive Technolo- classes at the same time under gies, Orica Inc. and P&H Mining. ground. We also have a 2 person Kennedy Chamber for mine res- Donated by Kennedy Metal Products In January 2011, a Missouri S&T delegation visited Saudi Arabia in prepa- Donated by Koehler cue training and Mine Health and ration for the final bid submission. The contract was signed during a sec- Safety clas- ond visit by the Missouri S&T delegation in July 2012. Another great addition to the mine is a 40'x60' metal building - the former solar car building. “This partnership provides Missouri S&T a great opportunity to shape the It took 11 days to dismantle and over a year to direction of the mining industry in Saudi Arabia,” says Dr. Samuel Frim- erect with some of the work still in progress. pong, chair of Missouri S&T’s mining and nuclear engineering depart- Ambassador to Saudi Arabia J. We laid the foundation in May 2012 and spent most of July working on the building. It will be ment. Smith (r) and Eng. Khalil Al-Watban, President - Ma’aden Phosphate nice to work on equipment inside during the With Missouri S&T leading the way, SMP plans to educate an average of Company, attended th press confer- cold weather. We purchased a new S205 Bob- ence. cat with the donation from Steve and Eliza- 200 professionals annually in mineral processing, as well as surface and beth Lang. This is a great addition to our old underground mining. Bobcat that is 20 years old.

“Missouri S&T has a proud heritage of supplying the world with great New Shop at Mine Moved from Main Campus. mining engineers – a heritage that dates back to our founding in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy,” says Missouri S&T Chan- We recently started a decline in the Wheeler mine. This will cellor Cheryl B. Schrader. “We’re pleased to be a part of this important accommodate the drilling and blasting classes and ensure that partnership, as we believe it will transform the mining industry in Saudi they will always have space for drilling and blasting. The plan is Arabia.” to use a 1973 JOY Air Track to drill in the mine.

“Developing the skilled pool of talent needed to support the expansion Jimmie went to England for the 2012 Mucking competition and acquired an appreciation for the meaning of FLAT ROCK. Dr. of mining in the Kingdom is one of the biggest challenges we face,” says Several students and industry mem- Worsey will run around spouting “Flat Rock” and describing the Ma’aden President and CEO Khalid Al Mudaifer. “We are delighted to be difference between flat rock and round rock!! While traveling bers joined the Ma’aden and S&T partnering with Missouri S&T to deliver world-class training at Saudi Ara- with the Mucking Teams, the group visited London, Stonehenge delegations at the press conference bia’s first specialist training institute for the mining industry. Missouri S&T (the real ONE), Buckingham Palace and old tin mines in Corn- has a long history of excellence and international partnerships, and we wall. The 2012 competition was held at the King Edward Mine. look forward to welcoming their team to Saudi Arabia.” Dr. Worsey, Mrs. Worsey, Jimmie and his wife took advantage of a free day and traveled to Paris by train. While in Paris, Mrs. “Due to the significant developments taking place in Saudi Arabia, the Worsey was the tour guide and walked the legs off the group. TVTC has a new vision for the future of its training that will compete The new Bobcat Donated by Steve Lang with global standards.” says Fahd Al Dohish, TVTC’s general manager of DeWayne accompanied the Gold Mine Rescue Team to New Iberia, LA and the tram came in 8th from a field of 14 teams. the Strategic Partnerships National Center (SPNC). “We are partnering When you are in the Rolla area, we the private sector to establish advanced polytechnics that will graduate would like to show you all the im- skilled Saudi nationals in well-paying technical jobs, thus helping reduce provements at the Exp. Mine. Please unemployment and contributing to community and economic growth.” We have gained a few new items at the mine that have im- call 573-341-6406 or email Jimmie at proved the training that is provided to the students. However, ### [email protected] or DeWayne at we have a growing need for a newer truck that would be used Contact: Andrew Careaga, 573-341-4328, [email protected] Dr Wray is holding a gift presented [email protected] for traveling to Mucking and Mine Rescue competitions. The best would be a 4 door diesel 3/4 ton or 1 ton that could also by Eng Anbdullah Al Saif. More news from Missouri S&T: http://news.mst.edu tow a trailer. All of our vehicles are donations and we appreci- Research Facility (ERF) has modern facilities for the flash x‐ray equipment. The Experimental Mine also Building Capacity for Expanding Mining and Explosives Engineering Programs engineering design, test, and evaluation of blast contains explosives research facilities including an Mining and Explosives Engineering programs at Missouri Engineering Capacity. Specifically, this objective aims at mitigation and defeat concepts, commercial rock blasting underground blast chamber rated at 10 kg TNT net University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) have (i) Completing the new Experimental Mine Building; (ii) techniques and systems, and modern explosives equivalent weight (NEW) of explosives, a 1 kg TNT NEW‐ grown substantially in enrollment and research capacity Expanding Existing Laboratory Capacity; (iii) Building new performance. The ERF (Fig.1) comprises blasting rated surface blast pad with instrumentation bunker, a over the last decade. The enrollment growth rates within Laboratories; (iv) Creating Endowment Positions; (v) chambers (one rated for 1kg of explosives in Fig. 2 and the large format (~50 ft long) explosive‐driven shock tube for the 2006‐12 period are: (i) 88% (total enrollment); (ii) 50% Increasing Personnel Resources; and (vi) Maintaining larger one for 4 kg in Fig. 3, machine shop, computing instrumented testing of full‐scale glazing and wall panels (undergraduate enrollment); (iii) 234% (graduate Strong Enrollment and Recruiting Efforts. The facilities, and explosive magazines. The ERF also contains (up to 6 ft x 8 ft), assorted storage and heavy equipment, enrollment); and (iv) 317% (PhD enrollment). These Department and its Development Board launched the explosion imaging equipment, which includes the ultra‐ and magazine storage for over 3,000 lb of explosives and growth rates are significant given industry demand for Capacity Renewal Efforts in September 2009 to advance high speed Cordin 10‐A framing camera (capable of detonators. Miscellaneous equipment also includes mining engineers driven by the mining industry boom and this strategic objective. The sections below provide 1,250,000 frames per second (Fig.4), high‐speed video velocity of detonation measurement equipment, sixteen‐ aging workforce, and closure and marginalization of updates on the progress achieved to date on various cameras (one, a Phantom V5.1, capable of 90,000 frames channel synergy data acquisition system, pressure several global mining engineering programs. Strategic facets on the program. per second), a gated ICCD camera (capable of single transducers, and eight seismographs. Objective 4 focuses on Expanding S&T’s Mining exposures down to 55 nanosecond exposure times), and

1. Updates on Capacity Renewal and Expansion Initiatives This section highlights the capacity renewal and expansion initiatives on the new Experimental Building, the Energetics Research Facility and the Virtual Surface Mining Simulator.

The New Experimental Mine Building: Expansions are currently underway on the new Missouri S&T Experimental Mine and the Explosives Research Facility. The graphic below shows the 3‐D layout of the new Experimental Mine Building.

Front of Building Back of Building

First Floor of Building Second Floor of Building Funding from industry, university and individual donors the same vintage as the camera system and has a similar has addressed the capital expenditures to finish replacement cost requirement. Currently, Dr. Baird 3‐D Views of the New Experimental Mine Building construction projects at the Laboratory. The remaining supports this research through his SRI account, funded by work to complete the facility include: (i) Replacement of reimbursements from other research projects. Many of The existing facility has a capacity of 20 students, which allow concurrent laboratory sessions of large classes to be the Cordin ultra‐high speed camera, which is mid‐1960s these unfunded projects resulted from the particular does not allow concurrent laboratory classes to be held at taught at the mine. As part of expanding the mine vintage. The technology is obsolete and is not supported student’s interests, because there were no explosives the mine. Multiple sections must be held to complete a facilities, the old student design building has been by the manufacturer. The Cordin is a “draw” for many of engineering requirements from industry to offer to the laboratory session for a large class with current facility. relocated at the Experimental Mine. This facility will the research initiatives currently being pursued in the students. We are very willing to tailor research to suit The new Mine Building will have 3 classrooms with a total provide additional space for important activities at the facility. Current cameras with similar capability are in the industry desires/requirements that have a promise of of 180‐seat capacity. The new facility also has space for Mine. New Experimental Mine Building requires $180k to $225k range. (ii) The flash x‐ray system is also of funding to support the associated research. three laboratories, mine rescue and mucking stations, dry additional $600,000 for completion. rooms, and offices for students, faculty and staff. It will The Virtual Surface Mining Facility: A new laboratory, the Virtual Surface Mining Simulator (VSMS), was completed and unveiled on April 08, 2012 by Chancellor Schrader. The VSMS Facility comprises 2 AES Base Simulators, Dragline Console, Missouri S&T Energetics Research Facility: The Building No. 4 (previously used by the US Bureau of Shovel‐Truck Console and a Command Center. This facility was funded by Caterpillar Global Mining, Luminant Energy, Joy development of the Energetics Research Facility has been Mines). The facility houses two explosive chambers for Global and Immersive Technologies. The facility will be used for research and education in surface mining engineering. It will underway for about 4 years. This facility is located in research and education. The Missouri S&T Energetics also be used to help K‐12 students understand VSMS Facility will help students appreciate the magnitude technological innovations in the mining industry for of the challenges associated with these machines and McNutt CLCs ($300,000) Ted Ruppert $300,000 Complete funding for one 40‐seat and one 30‐seat Computer Laboratories education and recruitment. The facility will introduce K‐ sharpen their critical thinking and problem solving skills to Virtual Surface Mining Caterpillar Global Mining $325,000 Project is fully funded and built; was unveiled by 12 students to surface mining operations via virtual manage and improve such systems in real life. It also Simulator ($700K) Luminant Energy $250,000 Chancellor Schrader on April 08, 2012 environments. It will also provide them with an provides additional hands‐on laboratory that improves Joy Global Inc. $100,000 appreciation of large mining machinery and how they can enhanced experiential learning. Specific courses will be Mine Survey ($325K) Barrick Gold N. America $125,000 Funding remaining is $240,000. be controlled with a touch of a button. It will also developed for training and educating equipment Mine Health and Safety Arch Coal Inc. $120,000 Project is fully funded and it will be located in the demonstrate to young students that engineers can have operators to improve their operating skills. These ($120K) new Mine Building fun on the job. The facility will also allow mining courses will include (i) risks and hazards control and Explosives Facility ($600K) Mr./Mrs. Stephen A. Lang $100,000 Explosives facility is currently underway engineering students to interact with large scale surface mitigation; (ii) planning and deployment of heavy Rock Mechanics Facility Peabody $250,000 Remaining funding is $1 M to expand and renew the mining operations with heavy machinery in the classroom. machinery in rugged terrain; (iii) surface mining methods ($750K) old rock mechanics building It will sharpen students understanding of engineering and equipment; and (iv) tracking and improving key design associated with heavy machinery deployment. The productivity indices of heavy machinery use. Unfunded Proposals ($3.3 M) LABORATORY AMOUNT IMPORTANT FUNCTION Mineral Processing $0.8 M Mining Engineering has hired 2 faculty in mineral‐coal processing and is combining efforts with Chemical Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy to develop mineral‐coal processing, tailings management and sustainable systems. This research facility will provide a core capacity for advancing research in these areas. Rock Mechanics $0.5 M Additional funding required to complete the new Experimental Mine Building New Experimental Mine $0.6 M Additional funding required to complete the new Experimental Mine Building Building Mine Ventilation $0.5 M Expansion of the old Ventilation Facility to incorporate new equipment for research and education Virtual Underground Mining $0.5 M Similar to the Virtual Surface Mine Simulator. This facility will be used for education and Simulator research in underground mine production systems. Mine Survey $0.2 M State‐of‐the‐art technological environment for mine survey Explosives $0.4 M Additional funding required to complete the new Experimental Mine Building Missouri S&T Chancellor unveils the Virtual Surface Mining Simulator Facility (Top Left); The Dragline Simulator (Top Right); and the Shovel‐Truck Simulator (Left)

2012 SME/NSSGA Student Design Contest

S&T Design Team participated in this contest after 2. Funding the Capacity Renewal and Expansion Initiatives being absent for a couple of years. The team made This capacity renewal and expansion initiative was put Kopenitz, Bryan Galli, Michael DeCola, Stephen A. Lang, it into the finals and presented their design at SME together by the Department and the Development Board Gregory A. Lang, Ted Ruppert for their leadership, in Seattle, WA. While our team did not place in the under the leadership of Paul A. Lang, Executive Vice contributions and support for this major effort. Special top three, it gives us an opportunity to rebuild a good President and Chief Operating Officer for Arch Coal Inc. thanks also go to Arch Coal, Caterpillar Global Mining, Joy design team and get back into the competition The cost associated with this initiative was estimated at Global Inc., Kennedy Metal Products, The Doe Run From left: Matthew Ortel; Matthew McHale; Sean about $6.9 million. The Department and the Board have Company, Mississippi Lime Company, Barrick Gold North Steagall; Tyler Leithauser; Greg Gibson and Benja- raised $3.5 million toward the capacity expansion and America, and Immersive Technologies for their min Sutton renewal efforts, as illustrated in Table 1. The outstanding contributions. The second phase of this initiative will raise balance of $3.4 million for specific laboratories is the remaining $3.4 million to compete the expansion illustrated in Table 2. I want to thank all our donors who initiatives. Your support is key to the future of Rolla have contributed towards this major effort. Special Mining Engineering. thanks go to Paul A. Lang, Bill Kennedy, Bruce Neil, Jeff Rosychk, Chris Curfman and Janpeter Bekkering, Steve

Funded Laboratories/Facilities ($3.5 M) Two of our faculty received Outstanding Teach- LABORATORY/AID DONORS AMOUNT STATUS ing Awards in 2012. Dr. Richard Bullock (fourth New Experimental Mine Kennedy Metal Products $1.58 M Remaining Funding is $650,000; Construction is from the right) and Dr. Maochen Ge (first from Building ($2.5 M) The Doe Run Company $250,000 underway with projected finish date of Fall 2013 the right) received the award from Chancellor Mississippi Lime Company $100,000 Schrader and Provost Wray.

34th International Intercollegiate Mining Update from the S&T Mine Recue Team Competition, Cornwall, England 2012 May 7-11 2012 saw the Mine rescue teams travelling to New Iberia Louisiana for the Southern regional mine By: Amanda Baker and Lindsay Brandt rescue contest. The Missouri S&T team competed against 15 other industry teams. The Missouri S&T team The Missouri S&T Mucking teams had a fantastic year; performed will even though they did not earn a trophy. The competing team was: Captain- Casey Slaughter, four teams were sent to Cornwall, England for the 34th Gas Man- Jacob Morris, Map Man- Eric Wesel, First Aid- Katie Sewester, Co-Captain- Andrew Krump, Fresh International Intercollegiate Mining Competition. Members of Air Base- David Stine, Fresh Air Base Assistant- Spencer Evans, Team Alternates- Dana Resmini and Jenna the womens A-team included: Maggie Newsom, Jenna Freese. Below are a few photos from the SE Mine Rescue Competition in New Iberia, Louisiana. As you can see, our team is hard at work. This team placed 1st in the SE Missouri Mine Rescue Competition in Rolla in Freese, Katherine Stockdale, Sara Tipton, and Elizabeth Hunt; September 2012. while members of the womens B-Team included: Lindsay Miller, Lindsay Brandt, Amanda Baker, Kelsey Garrett, and Deanna Fitzgerald. The two week adventure started at the Gatwick airport south of London. After a few relaxing days in London, the group set out for Stonehenge, to be followed by Falmouth. During the six-hour bus trip, there were many naps and a few gas station stops. The entire group got to go and visit the historic Stonehenge Ruins. Once again everyone got on the bus for the final leg of the trip to Falmouth, where the competition events started. During the first night, theteams were left to explore the city. The next day, all the teams went on a historic mine tour that went from the picturesque shorelines of England to the underground tin Womens A‐Team mines. The old tin mines are unique in construction; the mines were dug out under the ocean. The competition events started the next day. A practice day for all the teams was held to get familiar with the equipment and the terrain. The following day was the womens competition day. The Mucking Competition day consisted of seven events: hand steel, swede saw, jackleg drilling, survey, gold pan, trackstand, and as the name implies, mucking.

Womens B‐Team Mucking

Between both teams, gold was taken in 4 out of the 7 events. Womens A-Team earned Bronze medal in the overall standings while Womens B-Team brought home the title of International Intercollegiate Mining Champions back to Missouri S&T. To celebrate the achievements of both teams, the next week was spent touring Dublin and London. In 2013, the competition will be held in Golden, CO at Colorado School of Mines. Both womens teams are working together to reclaim the title in 2013.

Womens B‐Team Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration NSSGA Student Chapter Update Will Thompson, President by Greg Gibson, President The Missouri S&T student chapter of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration would like to introduce the 2012-2013 officers: President Will Thompson, Vice-President Katie Sewester, Secretary Hannah McNally, and Trea- The Missouri S&T Student Chapter of the National Stone, Sand, and Gravel Association is off to a good start this year. We recently hosted the Second Annual Aggregate Industry Night. This year there were four companies in at- surer Drew Krump. Last year the chapter started off the fall semester with the “All Society Annual Social” with ISEE, th NSSGA, and WIM. This social is held every fall to help returning students ease back into school life and to introduce tendance: Lehigh Hanson, APAC Central, Austin Powder, and US Silica. The event was hosted on September 20 in the new students to the societies and their members. Currently, all the organizations are gearing up for the annual Haunt- McNutt Hall Commons. Food was catered from Bandannas BBQ and the students ate and chatted with industry repre- ed Mine, which helps fund the yearly National Conferences For this event, the Experimental Mine is morphed into one sentatives. After dinner, representatives from each company, many of which were UMR or S&T Alum, had presentations scary place. The Haunted Mine benefits all the organizations and is the largest fundraiser for our SME chapter. Our that informed students on what students could expect as a newly-hired engineer. Overall it was a good event that should chapter also sends students to the St. Louis Section SME meetings, which is a great opportunity for students to meet be continued in the future. industry members and find out more about the industry. We have had our first monthly meeting, which was a movie The entire leadership for NSSGA is new this year, and with that we plan on bringing some new ideas to the or- night. We plan to continue the meetings and get industry members to come for presentations. We are also in the pro- ganization. We are currently planning a shooting social. The plan is to bring students out to the Rolla Shooting Club and cess of having an SME/S&T t-shirt shoot trap and sheet, rifles, and pistols. This will be a member only event and NSSGA will supply ammunition and guns. that we hope to have available to all We have a feeling that this event will encourage students to join NSSGA and become a yearly event. the students, faculty, staff, and alum. We plan to have some available at the national conference in Denver this coming February. We also in- tend to be bring one, possibly even, two teams to Denver to compete in the NSSGA competition. Lastly, we will end the school year with our an- nual Senior Banquet.

Thirty-six students attended the 2012 Annual Meeting of SME in Seattle, Washington. The students added one extra day to the itiner- ISEE Student Chapter Update ary and enjoyed the sights and food in Seattle. It was the first time that SME held the annual meeting in Our Student Chapter had another very active year. A large group of students attended the 2012 Annual Conference Seattle, but we hope it will go back of ISEE in Nashville, TN. But this was not the only conference. Several of our chapter members attended the Best in in the future. the West in April 2012. Two of our students presented a paper. We want to thank for the financial support we received to attend these conferences. For several years members of this chapter have provided great pyro displays for campus activities. We continued this over the past year. This Fall we have two displays at night football games. The Annual SUB Block Party is always closed with a big firework. Our students are building a reputation of very great shooters! We work with the other student 2012 Student Award Recipients organizations in the department by hosting socials, providing call- ers for Phonathon and working Haunted Mine. The explosives High GPA Freshman Professional Leadership Award External Relations Award program on this campus is “ex- Anders Hopkins Casey Slaughter Tyler Leithauser ploding”.

High GPA Sophomore Outstanding Metal/Non Metal Graduate Good Citizneship Award Robert Florich Kyle Pfitzinger Kathryne Sewester Paul Schmidt Hannah McNally High GPA Junior Blake Demoss Outstanding Aggregates Graduate Student Activity Award Dr. Worsey and the stu- Tyler Leithauser Michael Allen dents posing for a photo in High GPA Senior Benjamin Sutton Mike Allen Outstanding Graduate Student - Research Bonno Basiami Nashville during the 2012 Osei Brown ISEE Annual Meeting and Conference. Outstanding Graduate Student - Teaching Muhammad Azeem Raza Update from Mr. Windy – Jerry Tien (JCT)

It has been a very busy year for the ventilation group. Women in Mining News Australian Trip The WIM Student Chapter completed a successful year. In addition to joining the other student organizations on Haunted Mine, Phonathon, and other department Current NIOSH project on fire and fire simulation requires us activities, the chapter sent 3 members to the 2012 Annual WIM Meeting in San Diego, CA Ste- to visit major mining countries to examine their mine safety In Australia we visited three mines (two gold mines and one ven O’Donnell, Evan Thibaud and Tristan Worsey attended the conference and really enjoyed the practices and emergency procedures. Up till now, we have gassy coal mine), Queensland Mines Rescue Service, and visited mine sites and safety facilities in Poland, India and safety devices testing centers and extensive discussions for interaction with other members and San Diego. China, the last one on the list is Australia. their best safety practices, mine rescue operations, under‐ ground refuge chambers and safety regulation. The chapter elected new officers and is currently working on an old project that is still very inter- Australia is one of the more advanced major mining countries esting: What’s Mined Is Yours! The members are re-printing the cards showing the materials with a booming mining industry. The high labor costs and needed to, for example, make a sink. The card is then posted next to a sink in the residence hall. first‐world safety regulations, distinctive geology and the im‐ On one of the next weekends, a large number of WIM members will post all the cards around portance placed on mining research by government and busi‐ nesses, has resulted in a mining sector that is quite techno‐ campus. The chapter is also sponsoring a poster contest with a local Middle School. Posters logically advanced, including mine ventilation network model‐ drawn by the Middle School students will be judged by chapter members and the winning class ing, fire‐fighting and mine rescue techniques. Dr. Stewart is treated to a pizza party. The topic is the importance of mining and minerals in our life. This Gillies and I visited Australia in summer 2012. should be an interesting project.

Inside a Refuge Chamber at Daisy Milano Gold Mine near Kargoorlie, WA

Mine Rescue Short Courses in China

JCT and Casey Slaughter conducted two 3‐day safety short courses at University of Science and Technology‐Beijing (USTB) and Xi’an University of Science and Technology (XUST), Shaanxi Province. Both are comprehensive universities with tradition and strong em‐ phasis in mining engineering.

Lecturing at Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an.

The title of the short course is: “Mine Emergency Response, with Special Emphasis on Escape under Mine Fires,” combined over 500 undergraduate and graduate students at both institutions attended these two lectures. It appears the short course is well received, we have been requested to con‐ vert the lecture notes into a formal book on mine rescue.

Center Wrap up

The Western U.S. Mine Safety and Health Training and Trans‐ Services. When it was established in 2004, it was a four‐ lation Center was consortium of four universities (Colorado member consortium consisting of University of Missouri‐Rolla Look at all these smiling faces! This is just a portion of the mining students receiving School of Mines, University of Utah, Montana Tech started (at the time of creation), Colorado School of Mines (CSM), financial aid from the department. Thanks to the alums that set up endowments, and back in 2004). Montana Tech of the University of Montana (Montana Tech) to the industry that supports us, we were able to help most of our students. We want to and the University of Utah. In 2005, Montana Tech withdrew thank all our donors for their assistance. The Western Mining Safety and Health Training & Transla‐ from the consortia. tional Center (Center) was funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Center for Disease The Center is physically located in the Department of Mining Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human and Nuclear Engineering, Missouri S&T and all projects were coordinated and managed through the Center by Dr. Larry R. ing 53 mines in both initial training and follow‐up visits or a Grayson, who left Missouri S&T in 2007 and the Center was total 189 miners reached. CSM’s trained a multiplier of 4 to later transferred to Dr. Jerry C. Tien. This project has multiple have reached 5,203 trainees in six years. The progression subprojects and the primary aim of this project is to reduce among years of miners trained (without a multiplier) has What’s New from Rock Mechanics the number of injuries to miners through an integrated pro‐ been 161 in Year 1; 372 in Year 2; 478 in Year 3; over 500 in gram of training intervention and translational research. Year 4, over 545 in Year 5 and around 610 in Year 6, including The Rock Mechanics & Explosives Research Center (RMERC) has been the DPM project and the Hazard Identification and Risk As‐ buzzing with activity this past year – new projects, new researchers and Over the six years of operation, the Center has taught seven sessment projects. staff, and new equipment. workshops on DPM training reaching 232 students from the Dr. Greg Galecki added a third post-doctoral researcher from Turkey to mining industry. Most of the trainees were from the metal The six‐year project funded a total of eight students (four his team. Over the summer, Dr. Sedat Buyuksagis arrived from Afyon and nonmetal mining in the Western United States. Two Ph.D., two M.S. and two B.S. students, published 16 papers Kocatepe University to work on waterjet-assisted rapid excavation of short courses on mine ventilation had 42 students in two and a 178‐page DPM Emissions Control training manual (with rock. He joined Dr. Gul Akar and Dr. Sezai Sen from Dokuz Eylul Univer- years. Small mine miner training reached 436 miners, includ‐ a DVD). The Center officially ended August 31, 2011. sity, who have been working with Dr. Galecki for the past two years on coal-water-fuel characterization. Refuge Chamber Project Two post-docs have also been doing research with Dr. Norbert Maerz (Geol. Eng.). Over the summer, Dr. Ahmed Youssef – an S&T grad (MS CE‘04, PhD GeoE‘04) – traveled from the Saudi Geological Survey to After the Sago mine disaster, the MINER Act of 2006 mandated that all underground coalmines must install and maintain refuge work with Dr. Maerz on natural hazards. And, continuing his project chambers. Missouri S&T’s Ventilation Group was awarded a project by NIOSH to examine the CO purging process and to determine from the previous year, Dr. Ahmet Deliormanli from Dokuz Eylul Univer- total air quantity and time necessary to lower the CO concentration to safe levels inside the chamber for different inlet/outlet con‐ sity in Turkey worked with Dr. Maerz on issues related to the Graniteville figurations using 3D numerical simulation technique. This research can provide useful guidelines in developing an efficient strategy Quarry. for purging refuge chamber. Last November, Mike Bassett – our newest staff member -- took over from Scott Parker as Senior Research Engineering Technician. Mike hit the ground running and has the RMERC machine shop and Bldg. D in tip-top condition. He has also been working with Dr. Jason Baird on major im- provements to the explosives blast chamber.

Three faculty members have joined our Center in the past year. Dr. Wan Yang (Geology) is analyzing rift basin fills. Dr. Hank Lee (Nuclear Eng.) is fabricating a flat-panel x-ray source from nanomaterials. Last but not least, Dr. Sriram Chellappan (Computer Science) is developing solutions for wire- less sensor networks and communication systems in underground mines. We’re pleased to have them aboard!

We also bid a fond farewell to two of our research investigators: Dr. Louis Ge (Civil Eng.), now at National Taiwan University; and Dr. Mohamed Ab- (a) Physical Model (b) Computational Mesh delsalam (Geology), now the Boone Pickens chair of geographics at Okla- homa State University.

In addition to the new faces at RMERC this past year, we have also ac- quired some new equipment. Two large booster fans arrived in conjunc- tion with Dr. Stewart Gillies’ mine ventilation project for NIOSH, and have been installed at the Experimental 2012 Old Timers Award Mine. Also, a new 125 HP, 90 kpsi The recipient of the 2012 Old Tim- intensifier pump has been extend- ed to us on short-term lease from ers Award is Michael Shuman. KMT Waterjet Systems. Dr. Galecki Mike worked every summer in the has been using this high-pressure intensifier in his work on advanced coal industry and is now working titanium machining with abrasive for Jim Walter Resources in Ala- waterjets for the Center for Aero- bama. Mike received the award at space Manufacturing Technologies (CAMT). the Annual Student Awards Ban- quet in April 2012 Some other topics being researched at RMERC this past year include frac- (c) CO concentration distribution at different cross‐sectional planes inside the Refuge Chamber for middle‐ tured anticline formations, saturated rock fragmentation, robot-mounted inlet at time t = 0 s and t = 100 s LIDAR fusion, and uranium ore borehole mining.

Recently, two of RMERC’s senior investigators, Dr. David Summers (emeri- tus) and Dr. Greg Galecki, received a U.S. patent for jet-assisted drilling/ cutting methods. Expanding Global Frontiers in Mining Engineering Education Expansions in the domestic and global mining industry have opportunities to experience the global mining industry for MISSOURI S&T EXPERIMENTAL MINE UNDERGROUND BOOSTER FANS fueled greater interest in mining and explosives engineering great career opportunities. The global presence will broaden by Dr. Stewart Gillies research and education all over the world. Missouri S&T has the research capacity to cover several industries in several strong and leading programs in mining and explosives countries. The resulting experience and exposure will allow Missouri S&T is working with the University of Utah on a NIOSH funded ventilation research project with engineering, and is therefore, positioned to play a vital role in Missouri S&T to serve the US mining industry with distinction. Dr Stewart Gillies as Co-Project Investigator. In early February 2012 two booster fans were delivered to meeting the global demand for technological innovations and Toward these important objectives, Missouri S&T is Rolla by truck from Spendrup Fans Company, Grand Junction, CO (Photo 1). Spendrup Fans was very the production of highly qualified personnel in these expanding its global presence into several mining countries, generous in this purchase transaction. disciplines. Over the next 10 years, the Department has laid including Australia, Botswana, Brazil, China, Dominican down strategic objectives, goals and action plans to expand Republic, Ghana, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Below are Photo 1 Unloading Spendrup fans and grow its research and education initiatives at home and highlights of our presence in Botswana, China, Saudi Arabia abroad. Missouri S&T’s global presence will expand the and Indonesia. Today, these programs have the potential to Both booster fans were initially checked and tested at the capacity of its mining engineering program and provide our add 4 faculty members to the mining engineering faculty at Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center. The fans students with opportunities to experience diversified Missouri S&T. then went to the Experimental Mine for installation in 150 x portfolio of students and cultures abroad. It will also provide 150 mm treated timber framework bulkheads. The timbers have been bolted by 100 cm fully threaded expanded bolts to Global Presence in Botswana, Southern Africa the walls and the back. Botswana produces 35% of the global gem diamonds. It also produces copper, gold, and coal. However, the country does not have a mining engineering program. In Photo 2 West booster fan installation by Jimmie Smith, Mine 2007, Missouri S&T signed a Memorandum of Supervisor and Grad Student Arash Habibi Understanding (MOU) with University of Botswana (UB) and a specific Implementation Agreement to offer a 3+2 The void between timbers and the wall has been sealed by program in Mining Engineering. Under the agreement, UB applying cementatious plaster mixture on metal laths. students will complete 1‐year pre‐university and 2 years Sealing is achieved by applying expanded foam to minimize university education and transfer into the junior year at leakage through the bulkhead. Kennedy Metal Company Missouri S&T. These students will then complete a 2‐year program leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in donated man doors and metal stoppings for the project. Mining Engineering. Since its inception in the Fall of 2008, 19mm fully treated water-proofed plywood has been used this program has produced 33 graduates with a current (Photo 2) on the bulkheads to seal the open area around the enrollment of 24 students. The photos show a group booster fans. The booster fans have been bolted on painted picture of the Botswana students, a visit to the Okavango steel metal skids for transportation around the Experimental Delta Safari by a delegation from Missouri S&T and a Mine. The skids have been bolted to the floor to reduce vibration caused picture with Her Excellency Ma Seretse, the Botswana by the fans. Ambassador to the United States.

A 12kW three phase 460V motor powers each booster fan. A 76 mm Global Presence in China hole has been drilled passing the power cable underground. The hole In 2010, Missouri S&T along with University of Missouri – Saint Louis is located next to the main pole from which power is distributed (UMSL) completed an MOU with Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (TC‐SWUFE) to establish four throughout the Experimental Mine (shown in Fig 3). engineering programs, nursing and hospitality schools. Under this Photo 3 76 mm drill hole with the 50 mm conduit passing wire to agreement, Missouri S&T will develop Mining and Mineral Process underground Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Engineering Management. TC‐SWUFE, located in Sichuan Province, was founded in 1925 in Shanghai. During WWII it moved to Chengdu Province. In A safety “kill” switch has been installed on the electrical pole (not 1952, Sichuan College of Finance and Economics was formed by shown in this picture). The switch will shut down both booster fans in merging 17 colleges, universities and institutes for higher education. case of emergency. Wires are strung from the mine back. A split box In 1985, its name was changed to Southwestern University of divides the circuit in two for power to each fan. Adjacent to fans Finance and Economics. TC‐SWUFE is one of the top 100 electrical components are installed and each fan is equipped with a independent colleges of China. It was recognized in 2010 for its st variable speed controller. The generous support of NIOSH and the Spendrup and William Kennedy excellent graduates by Sichuan Province and awarded “21 Century These photos show the infrastructure being companies is acknowledged. Innovation Demonstration Site of Education Reform” nationally. developed for the new programs in engineering, This region has the largest concentration of rare earth minerals in nursing and hospitality. the world. New faculty members will be hired to administer and teach the programs.

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News about the Explosives Program Global Presence in Saudi Arabia by Dr. Paul Worsey In 2012, Missouri S&T completed a contractual agreement We have just finished our second year of the explosives masters and have now graduated a total of 9 masters to with Ma’aden, The Saudi Arabian Mining Company and the date with 27 enrolled students in hot pursuit and 8 others in the postgraduate certificate program.. By the end of Technical and Vocational Training Cooperation (TVTC) to the second year we exceeded our 4th year goal and we are now at a sustainable level. establish the Saudi Mining Polytechnic (SMP). This Saudi Mining Institute, located in Arar, Saudi Arabia, will educate The graduation statistics today are: and train professionals in surface and underground mining and mineral processing plant operations. Saudi Arabia has Table Showing Graduates with qualifications 1997 thru May 2012, Explosives emphasis through Masters diversified its economy into mining with strong emphasis on gold, bauxite, phosphate, copper and zinc and other U Emphasis U Certificate U Minor G Certificate G Minor M.S. Total industrial minerals. Its multi‐billion dollar bauxite‐alumina and phosphate‐ammonia‐fertilizer complexes present state‐ Graduates 36 13 71 13 2 9 144 of‐the‐art technologies that present bold initiatives into the next century for its mining industry. Alongside this bold The emphasis was approved in 1997, the minors in 2005, certificates in 2006 and masters in 2010. eW now have initiative is the establishment of a comprehensive institution 13 separate explosives classes being given plus “postgraduate cooperative experience”, “industry project”, “spe- to prepare professionals for the mining industry. Ma’aden cial problems” and “research”. Also we should have an additional class added this spring. The classes span rock and TVTC initiated a global competition via an RFP and blasting, explosives theory, instrumentation, safety, manufacture, pyrotechnics and demolition. The photos above show architecture, desert features and a Missouri S&T was selected as the partner for executing this camel farm in and around Arar, Saudi Arabia. important assignment. This assignment presents a great We are currently in the midst of the submission of a proposal for a PhD in explosives engineering catering for our opportunity for shaping the mining industry of Saudi Arabia. masters’ students that would like to continue. The Masters and PhD are both in house and distance, full and part time and a hybrid of all four, catering both for traditional students and those in industry, unable to attend the univer- sity for an extended period of time because of their work and family commitments. Global Presence in Indonesia In October 2012, Missouri S&T signed an MOU with Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic State University (UIN) in Indonesia to establish a School of Mining and Environmental Engineering at UIN. Indonesia has large reserves of precious, base, ferrous and Congratulations to Dr. Braden Lusk fossil fuel minerals and its home to several multi‐ Some of you will remember Braden Lusk (BS 200 and national mining companies. The School will be a PhD 2006) from when he was a student here. We are vehicle to produce highly qualified graduates to pleased to announce that this February he received meet the talent needs of Indonesia. Under the agreement, the two universities will undertake a the International Society of Explosives Engineers 2+2 BS in Mining Engineering program, distance President’s award and was promoted to Associated education and faculty training and development. Professor of Mining Engineering with tenure at the It will also create research partnerships between University of Kentucky. Braden will be helping us with the explosives masters, joining us as adjunct associ- Missouri S&T and Indonesia’s mining industry and opportunities for international exposure to our The UIN delegation meets Chancellor Schrader (Top Left); Missouri S&T ate professor in the near future and be teaching a students. and UIN signs an MOU (Bottom Left) distance class on blast vibration engineering.

These initiatives are part of the FY2010‐20 Strategic Plan for the Department of Mining and Nuclear Engineering to expand its global footprints. Under the Strategic Objective 5 (Strengthen National and Global Partnerships), the Department seeks to engage national and global universities, industries and research organizations as partners in education and research. The specific goals under this strategic objective include (i) Maintenance of a Strong Development Board; (ii) Enhancing Missouri S&T‐UB Partnership; (iii) Developing S&T‐Saudi Initiative on Mining Education; and (iv) Developing Other S&T International Initiatives. Toward these goals, we The name is Worsey, Paul Worsey. seek to grow in strength and capacity. He likes his Martini shaken - not stirred. Dr. Worsey ready to attend the Mining Hall of Fame Induction Banquet in Las Vegas, NV 2012 Phonathon

Fall is coming to the Ozarks and the annual Mining Engineering Phonathon is coming up. Our students will work the phones from November 4 to 8, 2012. We hope you will take their call and continue your generous donation to the Department. Remember that all the Phonathon donations come to the Department and are split between scholarships and deprtment activities. All four student organizations, as well as mine rescue, mucking and the student design team benefit from the Phonathon. Engaging Our Constituencies for Strong Mining Engineering Education One of the greatest constituencies for Missouri S&T’s Mining Luminant Energy, Martin Marietta, Missouri S&T, Newmont Research Update - Caleb Baumgart Summer Work - Matthew Ortel Engineering Program is the Mining Industry of the United Corporation, NovaGold Corporation, Orica Inc., Peabody This summer I worked for Orica North America in States. We are proud of industry’s contribution to the social The title of my research project is optimal design and use Energy, Vulcan Materials, and Weir International. Watkins Colorado, where I published two technical fabric and economic security of the nation captured in the of advanced structural materials to mitigate explosive papers through the International Society of Explo- and impact threats. This project is funded by the depart- following statements from the National Mining Association. In sives Engineers. I researched the effects of the ini- keeping with the above contributions by the industry, Missouri ment of homeland security under the alert project. It is tiation position in geophysical charges on observed the intent of this project to develop or design a re-deploy- S&T educates future mining engineers with industry as a out-put waves. The research used mathematical partner. Every year, Missouri S&T interacts with industry able barrier capable of providing protection from explo- modeling and worked to improve exploration meth- sive hazards. This protection is to be directly applied to leaders on substantive issues that affect the direction of its ods for oil and mineral deposits. The second project mining engineering education. forward operating bases, extended lines of communica- also aimed to improve current geophysical explo- tion and enhanced protection of buildings with limited ration techniques by investigating the many pos- “In 2008, the mining industry paid approximately $45 billion in space from threat zones. The qualities of the barrier sible causes of frequency filtering in mathematical include the capability of stopping vehicles that pose a models. This research is used to eliminate numerical taxes, royalties and fees to federal, state and local governments threat and mitigate the explosion after an impact without artifacts in computer modeling so that simulations combined. Nearly $107 billion was paid to mining industry creating secondary debris. This is different from currently accurately predict the events that happen during employees in direct and indirect wages and benefits. The total direct and indirect impact of U.S. mining is valued at $1.9 used barriers today in that it is meant to mitigate the blasting. trillion ‐ mining produced $80 billion of finished mineral, metal blast and create a blast shadow, where today’s barriers are only meant to create a blast shadow. To create this and fuel products that were then transformed by consumer industries into goods creating an additional $1.8 trillion in value The Board meets once a year in April. At the April 08, 2012 mitigating effect cavities are created inside the concrete Research Update – Dominique Nolan barrier that are filled with a media. This media is used added. According to U.S. Geological Survey analysis, the value Board Meeting, Chancellor Schrader provided a vision for the to absorb most or all the energy that travels through the Dominique spent the summer doing work in two added to U.S. GDP by major industries that consume processed future of Missouri S&T, followed with the state of Missouri barrier and reduce or remove the spalling effect cre- areas. First, on large linear shaped charge (10,500 mineral materials was an estimated $2.1 trillion in 2010, 14 S&T’s Mining Engineering by Samuel Frimpong, Chair of Mining ated by an explosive on the back side of the barrier. In gr/ft) performance on structural steel targets and percent of U.S. GDP. Minerals and materials processed from and Nuclear Engineering. Updates on capacity renewal efforts minerals account for exports worth as much as $87 billion per other words the purpose of this project is to convert the the effect of standoff on performance of large linear were provided by Paul A. Lang (Executive Vice President and very high impulse pressure loads to shaped charges. Second, the ground work and year.” (National Mining Association, 2012) COO for Arch Coal), Bill Kennedy (President and CEO for lower pressure loads using a media foundation of a literature review for work look- Kennedy Metal Products), Nassib Aouad (Assistant Teaching with the correct density, porosity and ing at the interaction of target characteristics Mining Engineering Development Board: The Board comprises Professor) and Paul Worsey (Professor and Director of geometrical size and shape. (density, UCS, tensile strength, etc.) and how top executives from the mining and aggregate companies, a conical shaped charge’s depth of penetration Explosives Engineering). The Mining Engineering faculty consulting and research organizations and OEMs. Page 36 might be affected by all of those characteris- members also provided highlights of major research initiatives. tics as they interact with each other. contains a list of the current Board Members. The member The Board also focused on summer internships and COOP companies include Arch Coal Inc., Barrick Gold North America, opportunities for the students and scholarships for students in BHP Billiton, Casper Stolle Quarry, Caterpillar Inc., Centerra the program. Chancellor Schrader unveiled the new Virtual Research Update – Phillip Mulligan Gold, Cliffs Natural Resources, Cloud Peak Energy, Conco Surface Mining Simulator for research and education in mining Quarries, Consol Energy, Doe Run Company, Fred Weber Inc., This summer I co-authored a paper in the Hypervelocity Impact Symposium’s 2012 conference proceedings. The engineering at this Board meeting. paper examined the forces imparted on the projectile, of an explosively formed projectile, from the two soft recov- Golder Associates, Goodyear Company, Immersive ery methods used to collect the projectile. Method 1 utilized three polyethylene water barrels placed “end-to-end” Technologies, Jack Kennedy Metal Products, Joy Global Inc., horizontally, providing 2.6 meters (9 feet) of water to stop the projectile. Method 2 is a modification of the soft-recov- Kiewit Mining Group, Komatsu America Corp, Lehigh Hanson, ery method utilized in “Soft-Recovery of Explosively Formed Penetrators” by Air Force Research Laboratory. This method utilizes a series of several materials with an increasing density gradient, placed end-to-end over 14.3 meters Mining/Aggregates Industry Nights: On the eve of every Board Meeting (in (47 feet) to stop the projectile. Despite the fact that explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) of the same design were fired into each recovery method, the projectiles collected using the two methods differed in shape, size, weight, and April), the Department hosts a Mining Industry Night (MIN). MIN 2012 took the number of pieces collected. The force analysis assisted in identifying the source of deformation between the two place on April 07 on the theme, “Marketing the Future Industry to Future recovery methods. Engineers.” Picture to the illustrates the companies that attended the MIN 2012. US Silica, APAC Central, Austin Powder and Lehigh Hanson also I also co-authored a paper with students at the University of Kentucky, examining the effects of age on the accuracy of electric blasting caps, for the International Society of Explosive Engineer’s 39th annual conference proceedings. In attended the Aggregates Night on September 21, 2012. These nights which we examined two different age’s of blasting caps from the same batch one year apart, in addition to caps that introduce the challenges and opportunities in the industry to future were between eight and nine years old. Each system was tested at a short medium and long delay time. Statistical engineers and scientists. The forum is also used as a vehicle for recruiting analysis was conducted to determine the effect of time on the detonators accuracy. This paper quantifies the impor- undecided engineers into the Mining Engineering Program. tance of regular inventory cycling to help preserve intended timing when using non electric shock tube detonator systems. Industry Recruitment: Tables 1 and 2 show the respective lists of companies th I authored an additional paper for the International Society of Explosive Engineer’s 39 annual conference proceed- that visited Missouri S&T to recruit mining engineering graduates for ings. This report detailed the preliminary calculations governing the underwater collapse of an oil pipe via explosive permanent placements and as interns for summer 2013 through the lensing. This report assumed a spherical-shaped, single explosive charge. The calculations assist in identifying how the explosive charge size needed to seal a metal pipe while focusing on one explosive charge acting on part of the Department and the fall 2012 campus career fair. These tables show strong pipe. Future calculations will analyze the combination of multiple explosive charges acting on the pipe as a whole. and vigorous recruiting of our graduates by mining companies. Table 1 2011‐12 Companies Recruiting Through the Department Table 3 Field Trips undertaken by Faculty, Staff and Students in AY2011‐12 RCT # Date Company Info Session Responsible Chapter Society F.T. # Date Course # Catalog Description Enrollees Mines Visited 1 09/06 – 07/2011 BHP Billiton YES Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration 1 02/24/2011 Mi Eng 324 Underground Mining Methods & Equip 44 Doe Run 2 09/08/2011 US Gypsum NO Career and Opportunities Center 2 04/07/2011 Mi Eng 350 Blasting Design and Technology 19 Dyno Nobel 3 09/20 – 21/2011 Martin Marietta YES National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association 3 04/08/2011 Mi Eng 324 Underground Mining Methods & Equip 54 Peabody 4 09/26/2011 UNIMIN Corp YES Women In Mining 4 04/08/2011 Mi Eng 326 Surface Mining Methods & Equip 54 Peabody 5 09/26/2011 Alberici Group YES International Society for Explosives Engineers 5 04/12/2011 Mi Eng 241 Principles of Mineral Processing 28 Doe Run 6 09/26/2011 Luminant Energy YES Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration 6 04/15/2011 Mi Eng 003 Principles of Mining Engineering 48 Springfield Quarry 7 09/26 – 28/2011 Newmont Mining YES International Society for Explosives Engineers 7 04/15/2011 Mi Eng 303 Aggregates Materials Sizing 6 Springfield Quarry 8 09/27 – 28/2011 Peabody Energy YES Women In Mining 8 11/14/2011 Mi Eng 317 Mine Power and Drainage 49 Kennedy Metals 9 09/27 – 28/2011 Arch Coal YES Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration 9 11/18/2012 Mi Eng 003 Principles of Mining Engineering 12 Springfield Quarry 10 09/27 – 28/2011 Cloud Peak YES Society for Mining, Metllaurgy and Exploration 10 12/08/2012 Mi Eng 352 Min Proc I Flotation & Hydrometallurgy 21 Doe Run 11 09/28/2011 Marston NO Career and Opportunities Center Mi Eng 353 Min Proc II Mechanics and Design 12 09/28/2011 P&H Mining NO Career and Opportunities Center 11 03/01/2012 Mi Eng 324 Underground Mining Methods & Equip 48 Doe Run 13 09/28 – 29/2011 Walter Energy YES International Society for Explosives Engineers 12 03/14/2012 Mi Eng 324 Underground Mining Methods & Equip 48 Mississippi Lime 14 10/12/2011 Cargill NO Career and Opportunities Center 13 04/11/2012 Mi Eng 241 Principles of Mineral Processing 37 Doe Run 15 10/25/2011 Consol Energy NO Career and Opportunities Center 14 04/12/2011 Mi Eng 350 Blasting Design and Technology 19 Dyno Nobel 16 11/02 – 03/2011 Patriot Coal YES National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association 15 04/13/2012 Mi Eng 003 Principles of Mining Engineering 50 Pacific Quarry 17 11/10 – 11/2011 Murray Energy YES International Society for Explosives Engineers 16 04/13/2012 Mi Eng 303 Aggregates Material Sizing 14 Pacific Quarry 18 01/18 ‐19/2012 Minova YES Women in Mining 17 04/12/2012 Mi Eng 326 Surface Mining Methods & Equip 49 Peabody 19 02/08 – 09/2012 Foresight Energy YES 18 04/20/2012 Mi Eng 324 Underground Mining Methods & Equip 48 Arch Coal 20 04/25/2012 Vibra‐Tech NO Career and Opportunities Center 21 04/30 – US Steel YES Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Mines and Metallurgy Academy Meetings: The Academy Director of CDC, and the Director of NIOSH, on the conduct of 05/01/2012 comprises distinguished alumni of the seven programs in mine health research including grants awards and research Departments of Mining and Nuclear Engineering, Geological contracts (30 U.S.C. ' 812 (b)(2), (Public Law 91‐173, ' Table 2 Fall 2012 Career Fair Employers seeking Mining Engineering Graduates Sciences and Engineering and Material Science and 102(b)(2)). The committee shall also provide advice on the Accenture Alberici Constructors, Inc. APAC‐Missouri, Inc Arch Coal, Inc. Engineering. The Academy meets twice a year in April and conduct of mine safety research. The committee shall evaluate Ash Grove Cement Associated Electric Coop Barnard Const. Co, Inc. Barr Engineering Co. October. During the October 2001 and April 2012 Meetings, the degree to which: 1) the mine research activities of NIOSH Barrick Gold of N. A. Bureau of Safety & Env. Enf. Caspire, Inc. Chariton Valley Tel. Corp. Dr. Frimpong had the opportunity with the two other Chairs to conform to those standards of scientific excellence appropriate Cliffs Natural Resources Cloud Peak Energy Drummond Co., Inc. Energy Future Holdings share the enrollment growth, research and education and the to Federal scientific instructions in accomplishing objectives in Epic ExxonMobil Freeport‐McMoRan Inc. Gallus Biopharmac., LLC GeoEngineers, Inc. Golder Associates Inc. Grand River Dam Auth. Halliburton capacity expansion initiatives ongoing the Department. mine safety and health; 2) the mine research activities, along or Jacobs Joy Global ‐ Surface Mining Lehigh Hanson MEMC Electronic Mat, Inc. in conjunction with other known activities inside and outside of Meramec Elect. Prod Co. Mississippi Lime Company Orica USA Peabody Energy MSHRAC Meeting and NIOSH Visit: As part of the Mine Safety NIOSH, address currently relevant needs in the field of mine Perceptive Software ProEnergy Services Schlumberger Shannon & Wilson, Inc. and Health Research Advisory Committee (MSHRAC), safety and health; and 3) the research activities produce Specialty Granules Inc TG Missouri Corporation The Doe Run Company U.S. Silica appointed by the US Health and Human Services Secretary, Dr. intended results in addressing important research questions in UNIMIN Corporation US Navy Officer Programs Walter Energy Canada Westmoreland Coal Co. Frimpong attended a two‐day meeting in Pittsburgh on mine safety and health, both in terms of applicability of the research and technological advances in mine safety and health research findings and translation of the findings.” The other Industry Visits and Field Trips: A number of visits were made interns on specific projects these interns completed over the by NIOSH within August 19 – 21, 2012. The charter of MSHRAC committee members include the following: to industry by the faculty, staff and students over the past year summer of 2012. Drs. Frimpong, Galecki and Krishnamurthy are as follows: “MSHRAC shall advise the HHS Secretary, the as part of enhancing our industry networks, alumni relations, also visited Ma’aden and SMP in Saudi Arabia for signing an exposure of students to operating practices in industry and agreement between Ma’aden and Missouri S&T. During that 1. Dr. Cecile S. Rose, Professor & Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Clinic, University of Colorado broadening the education and research experience. Upon the visit, we had the opportunity to visit Ma’aden’s corporate 2. Mr. Brent Chamberlain, Director of Human Resources, Safety, and Health, General Moly, Inc. invitation by Luminant Energy, Dr. Frimpong attended the office in Riyadh for signing the agreement, the SMP Campus in 3. Mr. Dennis O’Dell, Administrator for Occupational Health and Safety, United Mine Workers of America Luminant Mining Conference on July 11 and 12, 2012 in Dallas, Arar and the aluminum and phosphate industrial complexes in 4. Dr. Syd Peng, Director, Longwall Mining and Ground Control Research Center, West Virginia University 5. Mr. Emmett Russell, Director, Department of Safety and Health, International Union of Operating Engineers TX. At this conference, Dr. Frimpong made a presentation to Al Jubair, Saudi Arabia. 6. Mr. Bruce Watzman, Vice President of Safety, Health, and Human Resources, National Mining Association Luminant on “Professional Development: Frontiers of Field trips are important assignments for the experimental 7. Dr. Lawrence Bank, Program Director, Structural Materials and Mechanics, US National Science Foundation Knowledge and Technology for Solving Industry Problems.” Dr. learning process. During these trips, students become familiar 8. Dr. Jeffery Kravitz, Chief, Special Projects/Mine Emergency Operations, MSHA Frimpong also gave a short course on surface mining materials with difficult and challenging concepts in the classroom. These 9. Dr. Darryl Zeldin, Senior Investigator, National Institute for Environmental Health, NIH handling to the participants in the Associate Mine Supervisors trips are essential in the mining engineering curriculum. Table 10. Dr. Jeffery L. Kohler, Executive Secretary to MSHRAC, Associate Director for Mining and Director, Office for Mine Safety and Program at the Luminant Academy in Tyler, TX within July 30 3 shows the field trips undertaken by the faculty, staff and Health Research (OMSHR), NIOSH and August 03, 2012. Upon the invitation by Barrick, Dr. students in the Mining Engineering Program. Overall, 18 field 11. Syd Pen, Brent Chamberlain, Cecile S. Rose, Darry Zeldin, Dennis B. O’Dell, Derek Elsworth, Emmett Russell, Richard J. Fragaszy, Jeffery H. Kravitz, Kelly F. Bailey, Michael Wright, Tony Bumbico Frimpong attended the Barrick’s Interns Day in Elko, NV on trips were undertaken to several surface and underground August 09, 2012. Several presentations were made by senior mining operations involving a total of 610 students.

Coal Rush! Research on Mechanical Properties of Frac Sand by Dr. Greg Galecki Dr. Maochen Ge

When I received a call from a colleague at the 2012 SME Annual Meet- ing to visit Pioneer Pump Incorporated’s booth, I thought of another good “Frac sand” is a high-purity silica sand with very durable and very round grains of a specific size (Figures 1 and application of waterjets for the mining industry. After getting closer to the 2). The term frac sand, comes from its critical role in the hydraulic fracturing process, the technique that is used booth, I was pleasantly surprised. I recognized a few faces from a TV for recovering tight gas and shale gas. Shale gas is considered a major component of the future energy for the documentary standing in front of the booth, so I shouted, “Gold Rush!” United State. After a short explanation that I like gold but I am deeply involved in coal cleaning, we all came up with “Coal Rush!”

Fig. 1: St. Peter sandstone, a primary Fig. 2:A thin section view of the source of frac sand microscopic structure of St. Peter sandstone

The primary source for frac sand in the United States is the St. Peter sandstone. The St. Peter sandstone is very Dr. Greg Galecki (center) with a few team members from the TV different from the minerals and rocks, which have been studied extensively in mining. On the one hand, it is show Gold Rush! brittle, characterized by an unusually high friction angle. On the other hand, it is friable, possessing extremely low, and in most cases zero cohesion. The scarcity of the ground control techniques for this particular mining Let me tell you more about my passion for coal. For the past two years it environment has created many difficulties for the mine operators. has been my great pleasure to work on coal slurry characterization with Do youwant to stay in touch wth post-doctoral fellows Gul Akar and Sezai Sen. After the first year of their stay, funded by TUBITAK and YOK, Drs. Akar and Sen spent one addi- your Department? Would you like In order to resolve these problems, Dr. Ge and his research group have conducted an extensive research to tional year researching coal slurries in my Mineral Processing Laboratory. I to be informed about events on investigate the basic geotechnical properties of the St. Peter sandstones during the past two years. One of the felt honored by their request to continue to work under my supervision, so campus? Receive Job Postings? major achievements resulting from this investigation is the theoretical elucidation of the mechanics of the I came up with funds to continue work on coal-water-fuel characterization. extremely high friction angle associated with the St. Peter sandstone, which is about 60˚ on average and can be By the time you read this article, both of them will be back to Dokuz Eylul University, in Izmir, Turkey to continue their research on mineral process- Then send your email address to as high as 70˚. Figure 3 shows the friction angle determined from the triaxial tests and Figure 4 is the triaxial ing; specifically coal. We have discussed our future plans and can say that [email protected] and ask to be test equipment utilized for this research. our two years of joint research marked the beginning of long term coop- included in our Alumni List Server. eration between Missouri S&T and Dokuz Eylul University. We have close to three hundred At the beginning of July, Mrs. Yaqing Li defended her M.Sc. thesis “Effects alums currently on the list. This of Coal Comminution in Relation to Waterjet and Selected Feed Proper- is a ‘closed” server - that means ties”. I believe her professional life will include further studies involving the only members can post to the cleaning of emissions from coal burning power plants in her home country of China. server - no junk mail!

With these short descriptions of my research involving coal, you can un- derstand why, with a smile, I can say “Coal Rush!”

Dr. Greg Galecki is an Associate Professor of Mining and Nuclear Engi- neering Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology. If you would like to talk more about coal for power generation, you can reach him at [email protected] or by phone at 573.341.4938. Fig. 3: High Friction angle observed for St. Peter Fig. 4: Sample assembly in pressure vessel sandstone prior to the triaxial test

The phenomenon of the extremely high friction angle associated with the St. Peter Stone suggests a fundamental question regarding the mechanical properties of St. Peter Stone, “What are the underlying mechanics for this very Update from Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei high friction angle?” Investigations to date have attributed the high angle to be caused by the various surface properties of the sandstone particles. We, however, hold a very different view on this problem as none of these It has been another great year for Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei (Dr. Kwame) with teaching, research and service all presenting surface properties would be significant enough to cause such a large increase in friction angle. We believe that the interesting challenges and fulfilling outcomes. structure of the sandstone particles is the cause and a rhombohedral model (Figure 5) was developed to simulate the sandstone structure. The Sustainable Mine Modeling Group (SMMG), Kwame’s research group, continued its research on (i) mining and en- ergy sustainability assessment and modeling; (ii) spatiotemporal variation of soil CO fluxes; (iii) operator and mine pro- 2 duction impacts on mining energy efficiency; and (iv) mine design and production planning. Kwame continues to teach undergraduate and graduate students and advise the SME/NSSGA student design competition teams.

This past year, Missouri S&T entered three teams in the SME/NSSGA design competition, which saw fourteen teams overall. For the first time, a Canadian school (McGill University) participated extending the global reach of the competi- tion. One of our three teams made it to the second phase in Seattle and came in sixth overall. We were very proud of all our teams who had to take on this task in addition to their academic work and all the other extra-curricular activities. We are happy with our progress in this competition and hope to do better this year.

The competition has already started for this year. And again, Missouri S&T has three teams participating. We look- for ward to the learning and networking that will occur over the course of the competition. We are always delighted to see our students grow as they tackle real-life problems and receive mentoring from the industry judges. While we under- stand the aggregate slant of the competition (it is after all sponsored by mostly aggregates companies), we will encour- Fig. 5 Rhombohedral packing, a structure model for the St. Peter Sandstone age more involvement by professionals in coal and metal mining to expand the mentoring opportunities the competition offers. The model shows that the particles have to climb to the top of the other particles during the shear displacement. This summer, Kwame was funded by the University of Missouri South Africa Education Program to visit University of the This process is illustrated by Figures 6 and 7. According to the model, the average climbing slope is 15˚. In Western Cape (UWC) and Stellenbosch University (SU), both near Cape Town, South Africa. He was hosted by Dr. Leslie other words, the shear test under a low fining pressure condition will result in an increase of the friction angle Petrik, an associate professor of chemistry at UWC, and Dr. Alan Brent, a professor of sustainable development at SU. by 15˚. This result is an accurate prediction of the extremely high friction angle observed for the St Peter The trip was funded in response to a proposal to collaborate with these two institutions on mutual research interests. sandstone. In addition to its accuracy, the model also explains two other important phenomena associated with the Dr. Petrik has active research in characterizing trace elements in fly ash. Our mutual interest is in the sustainable -ex St. Peter sandstone: very large dilation under low confining pressures and very small or even no dilation under high traction of rare earth elements from this waste stream. Dr. Brent has been working on the sustainability implications confining pressures. of large scale adoption of renewable energy in South Africa. Being a chemical engineer by training and someone who understands resource needs, Alan is interested in where the critical materials (rare earth ele- ments, lithium, PGMs etc.) necessary for renewable energy production will come from. This question is of mutual interest.

Fig. 6 A 2D illustration The visit was a success in various ways. The interaction with these col- of the particle laborators was very successful. Kwame was part of a one-day workshop movement during a led by the collaborators and attended by researchers from UWC, SU and shear test the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He also visited the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) offices in Pretoria and Jo- hannesburg and met with a representative from MINTEK. He also visited the Komati Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, to observe fly ash

management and disposal practices.

Figure 7 A 3D illustration of the particle movement Robben Island - above during a shear test Table Mountain - right

Kwame also got to visit Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years) and Table Mountain. These visits added to the fun and made the visit even more pleasant.

Kwame looks forward to the coming year with excitement and hopes to continue to aid the Department’s vision to become the global choice for mining engineering education and research.

2011 Phonathon Donors

Eric Raymond Achelpohl Jerry Leon Curless Christopher Scott Strickland Roger J. Hull David Nutakor Angelina Anani, Adebowale O. Akinsanya Dr. Abbas Ali Daneshy John R. Stucker Maryam Abdi Oskouei, James D. Humphrey, PE Kurt Benton Oakes PhD student Bruce H. Allen Kurtis James Daniels Gregory F. Sutton MS student Daron Mitchell Hunt Shannon Orr John David Anderson Philip G. Davis Brian C. Syers Ms. Anani joined the Charles E. Hunter Martin S. Oudenhoven Maryam Abdi Oskouei has been group in January 2012. Matthew T. Angle Mary E. Deachan Nancy Lynn Parks Bruce E. Tarantola with the Group since Fall 2011. James Ronald Hutchcraft She obtained her BS Richard C. Dendler Maryam is modeling dragline Lois Appel Todd Parks Emil J. Teisa in mining engineering Earl E. Jackson energy efficiency under uncer- Richard L. Ash Jr. Jeffery Gail Denny Daniel W. Thebeau from Missouri S&T, in Marguerite L. Johnson Dr. Wesley C. Patrick tainty, in order to understand the May 2011. Angelina will William D. Auberry Sureshchandra K. Desai Dustin Ronald Penn Martin A. Thieme effect of operator practices and Tristan H. Jones be working on account- Kwame Awuah-Offei Frank A. Dickof Edward N. Thurmond operating conditions. The main research activities are data James H. Junge Gary W. Perrey ing for pillar extraction in underground mine sequence collection, modeling, and verification and validation. She Jason Baird Adam M. Doerfler Mrs. Richard W. Phelps Dianna K. Tickner optimization. Her research will develop an algorithm Dr. Hemendra N. Kalia has acquire data from an actual mine using data acquisition that determines the optimal sequence of extraction Connie Lynn Bauers Terry C. Donelson William Podrazik Dr. Jerry C. Tien equipment; conducted statistical analysis; and formulated a Harlan L. Kebel in underground room and pillar operations, while John J. Baz-Dresch Terry L. Drechsler Bryan Matthew Tilley modeling framework. She is currently working on stochastic Cyril M. Kinane Amy R. Pousson concurrently accounting for pillar recovery and min- models of dragline energy efficiency. The outcome of this Darryl G. Bennett Michael Leo Droszcz Seth Austin Puls Timothy J. Todd ing risk. Room and pillar sequencing will be expressed Dennis Nicholas Kostic research will increase understanding of the dynamics of Michael Justin Besancon Brianna C. Drury Bruce Carlton Townes as a mixed integer linear programming optimization Mark A. Krigbaum Joseph S. Quinn energy efficiency in excavation and material handling opera- problem and solved using a novel branch and bound David M. Bird Jeffrey C. Dubbert Nicholas Ragsdale Charles W. Travelstead tions leading to advanced technologies to reduce the energy Elizabeth A. Lang algorithm. The model will be validated using real coal Genevieve Marie Bodnar Michael F. Dunn Frank J. Traversone intensity of mining operations. Eugene A. Lang Jr. Rudolph J. Ramstack and metal mine data. Marjorie A. Bohler Donald C Dwyer Richard D Trynoski Gregory A. Lang Stanley E. Rand Scott J. Bohler Jami M Dwyer Richard A. Tucker Paul Anthony Lang Amy M. Reeves Erin Elaine Boren Adam James Eatherton Robert F. Uthoff Mark Boateng, MS Stephen A. Lang Seth A Reeves Robert William Bosch Allan B. Edwards Daniel L. Vaughn student Moagabo J. K. Mathiba, Mary Lou Larson Kathleen A. Reinhold Brian T. Bosecker Paul K. Edwards Joseph Todd Vaughn Mark Boateng joined the PhD student Richard B. Leisure Donald A Richards Jr. Maudine M. Bowman Casimir J. Eichenseer Brett D. Richter Aaron Kyle Velasquez group this semester (fall Moagabo J. K. Mathiba has been Edward C. Leonard 2012). Mark is working on Niles K. Brill Dale H. Emling Robert J Vetter with the Group since Summer Alvina L. Letcher Kenneth B. Rigsby using agent-based model- 2008 and is ready to graduate. Angela R. Brockley Lyle David Evans Patricia Robertson Bradley W. Vollmer ing to characterize dynamic Lawrence L. Lewis Mr. Mathiba has a BE in mining Leslie M. Brockley Phillip S. Fetterman Robert J. Rosser Robert L. Wade interaction between social engineering (Technical University Steven R. Lewis Fredric B. Brost Timothy James Findley Sterling Evans Wainscott acceptance and a mining of Nova Scotia, Canada) and MS Peter Watts Lounsbury Nathan Rouse project. The interaction between community accep- in environmental science and Donald D. Brumm II Patrick S. Flaherty Paul H. Rydlund Catherine E. Walker tance and mining projects is dynamic and not static due George O. Lovland engineering (Colorado School of Mines). Moagabo has been Jason Michael Buenemann Glenn H. Fritz Yvonne Sanders Jeffery R. Walker to changes in community’s demographics, expectations modeling soil CO flux generated by acid mine drainage H. John Lutz 2 Dr. Richard L. Bullock Eric Steven Gamble Christopher James Ward and notions about the mining project from one stage (AMD) neutralization reactions with carbonates (mainly lime- Thomas P. Lyons Earl D. Sanderson, Jr. to the other within its cycle. There are currently no ap- stone) on reclaimed mine land. He has measured CO fluxes Barbara E. Busby Mikel D. Garrett Jacob Austin Scherer David L. Webb proaches to account for the effect of changing char- 2 Adam J. Markus from three reclaimed mine lands in Missouri, Indiana and Terry Alan Bush Fred L. Gatewood Samuel Leroy Weeks Charles F. Marosek Michael Jason Scherr acteristics of the mine over its life cycle (exploration, Pennsylvania, and used various statistical tools to evaluate Frederick J. Campen Jr. Scott F. Geer II John A. Schillie Jared Lee Wehde exploitation, closure, post-mining land use) and how correlations with soil moisture, soil temperature and sample Joshua Joseph Martin that affects the communities perception of mining. The Jonathan Edward Carmack Fiorella Giana Scott C. Weinhold elevation and explored the nature of the spatial variability. Michael T. McCall Bradley S Schreiber goal is to provide a simulation program that will help The aim of the research has been to understand the behavior Emily Carter William E. Giles David Bruce Wilhide Carolyn A. McCannon Jason L. Schroeder stakeholders evaluate mining projects based on dy- CO fluxes measured with chamber accumulation flux mea- 2 James Edward Chaney Robert G. Giovando Matthew Schwent Jennifer C. Winston namic interaction between community acceptance and surement so as to evaluate the effectiveness in delineating Patrick T. McChesney the mining projects. This will aid better decision making William R. Christians R. Larry Grayson Brett Elliott Wissel this emerging hazard to post-mining land use. Clay Allen McNail Christopher Searing by all sides. James A. Ciarlette Andrea M. Green Megan Leann Wissel Larry L. McNary Bahram Shajary Dennis A. Clark Michael W. Gronek James W. Witmer Richard Merczak Charles J. Shields Kenneth D. Cochran Joey Allen Hale Leonard A. Wolff Sisi Que, PhD student Aaron Wade Miller Blake E. Silkwood Jan Conci Jack A. Halpern Morris T. Worley Everett K. Miller Cory R. Smith Ms. Que’s research is on determining the drivers of commu- Mark R. Congiardo Mrs. Warren F. Harter Worsey and Associates Ronald G. Milligan David A. Smith nity acceptance of mining projects. The goal is to advance Johan Coppens Gary Joseph Hatfield Dorris M. Yale Todd R. Mills William C. Smith sustainability science by understanding the drivers of com- Chad Russell Cornwell Andrew J. Heinemann Lori R. Young munity acceptance using discrete choice modeling. This Evan Schoultz Mudd David James Steagall Andrew W. Cox Larry L. Hendren Forrest A. Younker approach will help the industry and regulators understand Brian J. Murphy Paul V. Sterk Lee Ann Cox Robert B. Hopler Jeffrey L. Zelms characteristics of individuals and mining projects that con- Kirk A. Nobis Heather Stevinson Willard E. Cox Harry M. Hoppe, Jr. Ty Zimmerly trol the level of community acceptance. John Novak Michael Stevinson Terry E. Croxford Ivan D. Howard Klaus Nunemacher John N. Stolwyk Bradford C. Cummings Gary Brian Hubbard James M. Stratton Welcome and Congratulations to Board Members

On behalf of the Department and the Board, I welcome the following new members to the Board: (i) Jerry Pyatt, President and CEO for The Doe Run Company; (ii) Bill Ayers, President and COO for Mississippi Lime Company; (iii) Chance Allen, Vice President and General Manager, Martin Marietta, and (iv) Richard Goodridge, Manager of Global Technologies, Orica Inc.

In addition, I would also like to congratulate the following for promotion: (i) Paul A. Lang to Executive Vice President and COO for Arch Coal Inc., and (ii) Pat Risner to President BHP Billiton’s San Juan Mine.

MEMBERS POSITION COMPANY AND LOCATION Jerry Pyatt President and CEO The Doe Run Company Stephen A. Lang* Chairman of the Board and Former President and CEO Centerra Gold William Kennedy President and CEO Jack Kennedy Metal Products Register today at Michael T. McCall* Former CEO and Chairman Luminant Energy September 09 – 12, 2013 Gregory A. Lang* President & CEO NovaGold Corporation miningconf.mst.edu Dennis N. Kostic President & CEO Weir International Richard Marston President & CEO Marston, Golder Associates Havener Center | Rolla, Missouri Rob Vogel President Vulcan Mid West Operations Bryan Galli President ­ Coal Sale Peabody Energy We are excited to Call for Extended Abstracts & Dates: John E. Cramer President Casper Stolle Quarry announce Gary Halverson, Pat Risner President BHP Billiton Regional President of September 30, 2012 – Abstract Submission Opens Paul A. Lang* Executive Vice President & COO Arch Coal Inc., Barrick Gold of North Jeane Hull Executive Vice President, Technical Services Peabody Energy America, Inc. as the March 30, 2013 – Abstract Submission Deadline Steve Kopenitz Senior Vice President – Mining Luminant Energy general chair for the April 30, 2013 – Acceptance Notification David Webb Senior Vice President, Global Coal Cliffs Natural Resources upcoming Innovations Chris Ward Vice President/General Manager Lehigh Hanson in Mining Engineering May 30, 2013 – Presentation Submission Deadline Jeffrey A. Roschyk Vice President – Marketing/Prod. Mgmt P&H Mining Equipment 2013 Conference. John T. Desharoon Vice President, Industry Relations CAT Global Mining Innovations in Mining Engineering Mike Koesterer Vice President – North America Komatsu America Corp u E-MAIL John Anderson Former Vice President/General Manager Martin Marietta Please join us, along with top industry executives [email protected] Chance Allen Vice President/General Manager Martin Marietta and professionals, faculty and students, to discuss u WEB

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THE “START” OF THE MISSOUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MISSOURI SCHOOL OF MINES

Finally, we want to thank you for all your support during this past year. As you have seen in this newsletter, our students, faculty and staff are very active and new projects or events seem to come out of nowhere. However, all these activities help us to “produce” the best young mining engineer possible - and we see that we are on track by increased numbers of companies looking to us for their mining engineers. The formula we use to mix curriculum, student and professional activities is working and we will keep on track. You can be proud of your “Old School” and the new generation of mining engineers. We have some mining companies come directly to the Department to interview. A large number of companies are looking for mining engineers at the Fall 2012 Career Fair. S&T/ MSM mining engineers have an excellent reputation in the industry and we are committed to keep the tradition going.

The Faculty and Staff of the Mining Engineering Program