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Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration
Upper Peninsula Section
Technical and Business Meeting

Our 89th Year - Annual Spring Meeting, 2007
Michigan Tech, Houghton
  Mining Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Geological Engineering Students Win UP Section SME and MINE (Mineral INdustry Education) Fund Scholarships
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Jamie Gardiner, senior in Chemical Engineering with minor in mineral processing, receives a UP Section SME MINE Fund scholarship award from Dr. Mike Mullins, chair of Chemical Engineering Department. Cody Suits, a geology senior with a minor in Mining received the SME MINE Fund Award of $750 from Dr. Wayne Pennington, chair of Geological & Mining Engineering and Sciences Department.

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Michigan Tech's MINE Fund Scholarship Award for $750 for Jason Kneibel Geological Enginering Junior with a minor in Mining from Dr. Wayne Pennington, chair of Geological & Mining Engineering and Sciencs Department.

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Scholarship Winners shown here with Dr. Allan Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Mining Engineering

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The banquet and awards ceremony were held in the evening at the Ramada Inn in Hancock. Earlier, during the day-long technical session, ten invited papers were presented on various mining, mineral processing, chemical engineering, exploration and economic subjects.

George Kiiskila, Principal, UP Engineers & Architects, Inc., Houghton, Michigan, presented a technical paper titled Abandoned Mine Closures in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan:

Jon Cherry, Project Manager, Kennecott Minerals Company, Marquette, Michigan presented the Banquet speech on The Eagle Project

Dr. Jim Hwang, Michigan Tech and Jon Cherry, Project Manager, Kennecott Minerals Company

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John McKana UP Section SME Vice Chair and Jon Cherry, Project Manager, Kennecott Minerals Company

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Bill Griffin of U.P. Engineers & Architects talking with one of the technical paper presenters, on the right, Jim Weber, Port Inland Limestone Quarry O-N Minerals, Port Inland Operation, Gulliver, Michigan

Allison Hein, GEM Committee Chair, Michigan Tech

Professor Emeritus Dr. Jim Trow Michigan State University, Geology Department, Christine Houts and DR Karl Nesbitt Michigan Tech Chemical Engineering

Dr. Rod Johnson, Helene Lukey, senior geologist, and Glenn Scott, chief geologist, all from Cleveland-Cliffs, Michigan Operations.

Geolgy student Rex Crouch with Dr. Allan M. Johnson.font>

John McKana of McKana Mines and Minerals

Technical Papers presented

  • Poly-metallic Base and Precious Metal  Mineralization at the Back Forty Project, Menominee County, Michigan: Tom Quigley, President and CEO, Aquila Resources, Inc.
  • Application of mineralogy and geologic domains to ore blending and mine planning, Tilden Mine: Helene Lukey, Senior Geologist, Cleveland-Cliffs Michigan Operations.
  • Source for Banded Iron Formations --- A Different Perspective: Thomas Waggoner, Consulting Geologist, Negaunee, Michigan
  • Polymet’s Northmet Project – Advancing Towards Production: Don Hunter, Feasibility Study Project Manager, PolyMet Mining Corporation, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota.
  • Port Inland Limestone Quarry: Jim Weber, O-N Minerals, Port Inland Operation, Gulliver, Michigan
  • Abandoned Mine Closures in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan: George Kiiskila, Principal, UP Engineers & Architects, Inc., Houghton, Michigan
  • Pond Rehabilitation and Establishment of a Site-Based Environmental Educational Program: Allan E. Koski, Cleveland-Cliffs Michigan Operations, Ishpeming, Michigan.
  • The application of ore characterization in the production of Iron Ore Pellets: Rod Johnson, Cleveland-Cliffs Michigan Operations.
  • Effect of Particle Shape on the Filtration of Iron Ore: J.J. Carlson, MTU
  • Plating copper from dilute solutions using modified activated carbon: Dr. Carl Nesbitt, MTU

MINE Fund Secretary and Treasurer
Chair: Allan M. Johnson, Professor Emeritus
           Dept of Geological & Mining
           Engineering & Sciences
           Michigan Technological University
           Houghton, MI 49931
          amj@mtu.edu

Vice-Chair: John F. McKana,
McKana Mines and Minerals
         jmckana@pastynet.com
         906-482-4236

GEM Committee Chair and Treasurer: Allison M. Hein
          College of Engineering
           Michigan Technological University
           Houghton, MI 49931-1295
           Phone: (906) 487-1821
           Email: amhein@mtu.edu