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Mining & Mucking local Moorcroft, WY
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| Title | Mining & Mucking local Moorcroft, WY |
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| Transcript | Office of University Relations SDSM& T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701- 3995 Phone: ( 605) 394- 6082/ 2554 • Fax: ( 605) 394- 6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2000 LOCAL STUDENT PARTICIPATES IN MINING & MUCKING COMPETITION Sara Workman of Moorcroft was part of a ten member student team from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology ( SDSM& T) Mining & Mucking Team that traveled to Montana Tech University in Butte, Montana to compete in the 22nd annual Intercollegiate Mining & Mucking Competition. Workman is a junior, geological engineering major at Tech. The different events of showed unique mining techniques that have been adapted for competition. Men and women competed in seven old time mining methods. The seven events included Hand Mucking – shoveling by hand, fill a one- ton miner's ore cart with muck, the ore car is then pushed by team members down a rail track and back to the start; Swede Sawing – cutting through a wood mine timber; Jackleg Drilling – using a compressor, a cumbersome jackleg drill must be manhandled by a team member to drill horizontally into rock; Hand Steeling – using a hand held sledge and driving a chisel into stone; and Track Standing – requiring speed anc accuracy, railroad ties are set down, then steel rails are laid down and set with sledge hammers and rail spike to accommodate an ore car. Gold Panning and Survey events are also part of the competition. In the women's division SDSM& T took 2nd place in hand steeling, mucking, and swede sawing. The men placed 1st in gold panning. The purpose of the event is to publicize mining engineering education and to give the mining engineers a sense of comraderie with students from all over the world. Mining Engineering Programs, such as the Mining Engineering degree taught at SD Tech, are training the next generation of mining professionals. The SDSM& T women's team consisted of Michelle Lammers ( Sr, Metallurgical Engineering, Cranberry Township, PA), Jill Swanhorst ( Jr, Math, Chelsea), Amber Schmidt ( Jr, Engineering, Aberdeen), Mandy Lilla ( Jr, Mining Engineering, Hecla), and Sara Workman. The men's team consisted of Krystal Lubke ( Jr, Geology, Rutland, ND), Josh Price ( Jr, Geological Engineering, Rapid City), Scott Johnson ( Jr, Electrical Engineering, Moose Lake, MN), Nick Beukema ( So, Mining Engineering, Hayfield, MN), and Paul Chilson ( So, Mining Engineering, Sisseton). ++ 30++ ( I: univrel/ pressrel/ 0500 Mining & Mucking local Moorcroft, WY) |
| Creator | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations; |
| Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; |
| Local Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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| Digital Publisher | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
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| Date | 2000-05-24 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | Is part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection |
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| Submitting Institution | Devereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| CONTENTdm number | 3429 |
| CONTENTdm file name | 3430.pdf |
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