| Safety Share: Holiday Road-Trip Survival Tips |
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Are you and your family planning to drive to a holiday get-together this year? Whether you’re heading to Grandma’s cottage or a favorite vacation spot to celebrate holidays with family or friends, AAA has simple tips to help make your drive a smooth one, so you can arrive at your destination safely and without incident. Visit the AAA website for more details.
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| Upcoming Webinars |
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COST: $45 Member | $90 Non-member | $10 SME Student Member
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| Honor an SME Member |
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The SME Distinguished Member Award is awarded to members of 15 years or more who have demonstrated significant and sustained contributions to the minerals industry and to SME. You can honor the persons who have been important to you, your career, the industry and SME by nominating them for a Distinguished Member Award.
The nomination period closes December 8, 2019 for the Class of 2021.For more information and to submit your nomination, click here.
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| Enhance Your Academic Career |
The application period for the SME Ph.D. Fellowship and Academic Career Development Grants will remain open until January 31, 2020. The program was implemented by SME to address the long-term sustainability of U.S. mining engineering, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy programs, and particularly the declining number of senior faculty members teaching those programs.
- Career Development Grant - provides assistant or associate professors with the resources necessary to achieve promotion and tenure.
- Ph.D. Fellowship Grant - provides financial support to Ph.D. candidates with industry experience and a desire to pursue an academic career with the means of acquiring a doctoral degree.
For more information, visit www.smenet.org/students/grants-scholarships or email Academicgrants@smenet.org.
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| Technical Sessions Designed for You! |
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You’ll find unmatched professional development opportunities, including six short courses and over 120 technical sessions and two symposiums at the MineXchange SME Annual Conference & Expo.
Connect to a vibrant exchange of information, ideas and products. Engage with colleagues and thought leaders from across the industry and get the insights, information and tools you need to excel in an era of innovation and economic change.
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| Attention Shutterbugs |
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The 2020 SME Photo Contest is open to everyone!
This year's theme is "Mining Matters: Stewardship, Innovation and Safety”. Enter your best photos that exemplify these traits and show how mining matters both inside and outside the industry.
This is your chance to share your images with others and give the public a different view of mining!
Submissions will be accepted through Monday, January 13, 2020.
- All submissions must be made online using the online submission form.
- Each participant may submit up to three (3) images for consideration.
- Contest is open to all industry members, no conference registration required.
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| Minnesota Conference Registration Open |
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Exciting Things are Happening
The SME Minnesota Conference is the only conference with a focus on the developments, technology, trends and innovations directly affecting the Midwest minerals market. Featuring a wide variety of technical sessions and speakers combined with our expansive exhibit hall, the SME Minnesota Conference is a professional event you will truly enjoy and remember. Mark your calendar for April 6-8, 2020 at the Duluth Convention Center.
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| Graduate Student Research Poster Contest |
The Graduate Student Research Poster Contest recognizes excellence in research in various minerals-related fields by SME. The contest provides an opportunity for the graduate students to showcase their work in a visible setting and to compete for cash prizes based on the quality of their posters as determined by a team of judges. Graduate student education contributes to research in mining and mineral studies.
The Graduate Student Research Poster Contest is open to any SME student member currently enrolled in a minerals-related graduate program. Abstracts must be submitted no later than December 31, 2019. Accepted posters will be on display throughout the 2020 SME Annual Conference.
Download the guidelines for complete information.
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| Mining and the Environment |
Enhance your library with Mining and the Environment: from Ore to Metal, Second Edition. The wide coverage of issues and the many real-life case studies make this practice-oriented book a reference and key reading. It is intended for environmental consultants, engineers, regulators and operators in the field and for students to use as a course textbook.
This second edition of Mining and the Environment includes new chapters on Health Impact Assessment, Biodiversity and Gender Issues, all of which have become more important since the first edition appeared a decade ago. Now available in the SME Store.
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| The SME Foundation works for you! |
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The SME Foundation is the source of funding for outreach programs for K-12 science classroom education, scholarships for students to study various mining engineering and geology fields, and programs to inform the public about the importance of mining in their everyday lives.
SMEF fulfills its mission by supporting projects that disseminate mining/mineral information and technology worldwide; encourage professional development; educate children, teachers, and the public about the significant role that the minerals industry plays in their everyday lives; build consensus for a strong, environmentally sound minerals industry in the United States and the world; and support of college-level students and programs meeting industry demands for engineers and researchers in the future.
The SME Foundation events help raise funds for dozens of programs.
You can support your Foundation in many ways, including:
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Benefit Golf Tourney
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2020 Annual Gala Dinner
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Win Your Ride!
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| Fun Run in Phoenix |
On Monday, Feb. 24, the Health & Safety Division will host the 5th Annual 5K Fun Run and Walk sponsored by Rio Tinto and Predictive Compliance at Papago Park. This year, the run will take place on the Papago Park Fitness Trail, an enjoyable, multi-use trail that navigates the western portion of Papago Park. Sign up when you register for MineXchange.
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CDC Agency Announcement:
Development and Demonstration of
Mine Safety and Health Technology |
The Office of Mine Safety and Health Research of NIOSH is soliciting concept papers to conduct research, exploratory development, testing, or evaluations of new technologies to improve mine safety, or to adapt technologies from other industries for application in mining environments. The primary interest of this broad agency announcement is to promote the modification or final development of practical technologies or systems that can be adopted by the mining community in a short period of time. For more information, click here.
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| Tailings Symposia, and more in this issue! |
SME eNews December 6, 2019
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MINE TAILINGS: PERSPECTIVES FOR A CHANGING WORLD
Feb. 24-26, 2020 at the Phoenix Convention Center. This SME Symposia will explore topics critical to your business and the global mining industry. Designed to fully address the current tailings-related issues facing the mining industry, these symposium sessions offer a deeper understanding of industry developments.
With proper management, the impact that tailings may have on the environment is greatly reduced. Industry experts will present case studies, current and projected trends, new technology on the design, operation and management of tailings storage facilities.
MINE TAILINGS: PERSPECTIVES FOR A CHANGING WORLD
SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS FEATURE FIVE TOPICS:
- Tailings Dam Failures - Lessons Learned & Reputational Risk
- State of Practice Session
- Tailings Governance
- Tailings Continuum – Selection of the Right Tailings Technology
- Importance of CULTURE in Safe Tailings Management
MPD SESSION: MANAGING GANGUE MINERALS
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