Educational Resources

Educational Resources:

• New 'Is Mining Important' video
• 60 Minutes Rare Earths
• Modern Mining - How Eagle Mine produces nickel and copper
• SME Minerals Education Coalition (SME MEC)
• Video: Is Mining Important
• Video: Iron in our Electrical World
• Video: It Starts Here
• Paper: Population and resource growth rates 1946 to 2010
• PowerPoint: Importance of Mining K-12 version
• Document: K-12 version Teacher Notes
• PowerPoint: Importance of Mining
• PowerPoint: Human Dependence on Mining
• PowerPoint: Is Mining Important

Past Subsection Conferences and Online Lecture Series Information

2021/2022 SME Twin Cities Online Lecture Series

2019 - Water and Mining

2018 - Minnesota Mining Industry Overview

2016 - Mining and Industrial Site Life Cycles

2015 - Industrial Minerals of the Upper Midwest

2014 - Eau Claire - Hard and Soft Rock Mining in Minnesota and Wisconsin

2013 - Silica Sand and Construction Aggregate Resources of the Upper Midwest

2012 - Silica Sand Resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin

2011 - State of the Minnesota Minerals Industry

For Dean Peterson's presentation on the Duluth Complex