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2002 programs

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Dec 26, 2002
No Meeting! Hope all have a Merry Christmas!
No meeting
Dec 19, 2002
DMC Auction of Mining Memorabilia! At the celebration of our 111th Anniversary we collected $644.70! Proceeds go to help worthy mining–related events, etc. For more information, click AUCTION!. To be followed by DMC 111th Birthday Party.
Auction
Dec 12, 2002
Thomas G. Goonan, Minerals Information Team, USGS, Lakewood, CO. Copper Production Technology – A History of Obstacles Overcome and Human Needs Met.
Past
Dec 5, 2002
Thomas R. Fisher, PhD Candidate, Colorado School of Mines. Precambrian Tarkwaian Gold Deposits, Ghana, West Africa.
Past
Nov 28, 2002
No Meeting! Hope all had a Happy Thanksgiving!
No meeting
Nov 21, 2002
Randy Scheffel, Consulting Metallurgical Engineer, Castle Rock, CO. Copper Heap Leach Design and Practice.
Past
Nov 14, 2002
Ron Schmiermund and Barbara Filas, Knight Piesold and Co., Inc., Denver, CO. Practices Which Cause Problems in Assessing Environmental Liability for Mining Projects – A Contractor’s Viewpoint.
Past
Nov 7, 2002
David M. Abbott, Senior Associate, Behre Dolbear and Co., Inc., Denver, CO. A Potpourri of SEC Observations Concerning Mining Companies.
Past
Oct 31, 2002
Bob Macdonald, Director of Metallurgy (Retired), Newmont Mining Corporation, Golden, CO. The Great Carlin Gold Robbery, with Comments on Newmont’s Assaying and Metallurgical Programs.
Past
Oct 24, 2002
Tom Hendricks, President and Rob Akright, Vice President, Calais Resources, Inc., Denver, CO. Calais gold projects in Colorado, Nevada and Panama.
Past
Oct 17, 2002
Steven R. Holen, Curator of Archeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Prehistoric Chert Mining on the Great Plains.
Past
Oct 10, 2002
Craig Johnson, Research Geologist, USGS, Lakewood, CO. Environmental Aspects of Cyanide Use at Gold Mines.
Past
Oct 3, 2002
Ed Raines, Geologist & Mining Historian, Jamestown, CO. Frontier Mining Methods, 1859 to World War I. (Relax and enjoy a longer, 70–minute talk.)
Past
Sep 26, 2002
Betty Gibbs, President, Gibbs Associates, Co., Boulder, CO. Mine Computing –– What Works, What Doesn’t.
Past
Sep 19, 2002
Ken Chlouber, Hard–Rock Miner (also Colorado State Senator and Candidate for Congress from Colorado’s First Congressional District), Denver, CO. Legislative Issues Important to the Mining Industry.
Past
Sep 12, 2002
James A. “Jim” Cappa, Chief, Mineral and Mineral Fuels Section, Colorado Geological Survey. Colorado Minerals and Mineral Fuels Activity, 2001. Web–Site: http://www.dnr.state.co.us/geosurvey. Gemstone Deposits of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region Symposium, September 7th 10th, 2,002 at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO. Sponsored by Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter, Colorado School of Mines, Geology Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The symposium was preceded by the Denver Gem and Mineral Show, whose theme was Colorado Gemstones, September 13th–15th, 2,002.
Past
Sep 5, 2002
Francis F. Pitard, President, Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants, Broomfield, CO. Practical and Theoretical Difficulties When Sampling Gold.
Past
Aug 29, 2002
Pete Modreski, Geologist, USGS. Colorado Gemstone Occurrences.
Past
Aug 22, 2002
Monte Swan, Vice President, MagmaChem Co., Evergreen, CO. Pathways of metal migration in strike–slip fault regimes –– a guide to porphyry copper–gold discovery.
Past
Aug 15, 2002
David Winger, Water Conservation Specialist, Denver Water. Xeriscape – A Practical Way to Garden (Workable suggestions to greatly reduce lawn area, water consumption and high water bills).
Past
Aug 8, 2002
Dan Witkowsky, Course Coordinator, Colorado Mining Association Foundation, Inc., and Bill Coffey, DMC–Sponsored Teacher, Chatfield Senior High School, The 2002 Total Concept of the Mining Industry –– A Course for Teachers. Web–Site: http://www.mines.edu/Outreach/Cont_Ed/total.htm .
Past
Aug 1, 2002
John Stewart, Attorney/Historian. History of Gold Dredging, and Preserving the Snowstorm Gold Dredge, Park Co., Colorado.
Past
Jul 25, 2002
Harry Covey, Miner & Boulder County Mine Owner. Some Secondary Copper and Zinc Minerals from Arizona Mines and Other Sources – A Slide Show.
Past
Jul 18, 2002
Doug Hock, Director of Public Affairs, Newmont Mining Corp., Denver. The New Newmont – Acquisition of Normandy and Franco–Nevada, and the Future of Newmont.
Past
Jul 11, 2002
Stewart Sanderson, President, Colorado Mining Association, Denver. Mining in Colorado and the West – An Update.
Past
Jul 11, 2002
DMC Board Meeting.
Past
Jul 4, 2002
No Meeting: Independence Day!
No meeting
Jul 3, 2002
Visit to USGS Ice Cores Laboratory.
Past
Jun 27, 2002
Carlos Tamayo, Supervising Environmental Engineer, Parsons Engineering Science, Inc., Denver. Mexico‘s Mining and Environmental Challenges.
Past
Jun 20, 2002
Lee Fronapfel, Ventilation Engineer, Climax Molybdenum Corp. Overview of the Henderson Mine Operation Near Empire, Colorado.
Past
Jun 13, 2002
David Holmes, Industrial Minerals Consultant. Marine Transport of Industrial Minerals and Aggregates on the West Coast, USA.
Past
Jun 6, 2002
Leonel Lopez, International Mining Consultant, President & CEO, GM, Inc. Mineral Exploration in Latin America.
Past
May 30, 2002
No Meeting: Memorial Day!
No meeting
May 23, 2002
Terry J. Crebs, Consulting Geophysicist, Lakewood, CO. The Voisey’s Bay, Labrador, Nickel–Copper–Cobalt Discovery and Its Colorado Connection.
Past
May 16, 2002
Bruce Geller, Consulting Mineralogist, Advanced Geologic Services, Inc., Lakewood, CO. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention, March, 2002.
Past
May 9, 2002
Roman S. Popielak, Principal, Steven A. Osterberg, Geologist, and J. Larry Breckenridge, …, Knight Piesold and Co., Denver, CO. Water Resource Development in the Arid Andean Altiplano, Southern Bolivia.
Past
May 2, 2002
Ms. Leslie Noyes, Author, Earl Beistline, Collaborator and Ernest Wolff, Collaborator. A book review and book–signing. Rock Poker to Paydirt –– A History of Alaska’s School of Mines and Its Successors, and History of Alaska’s Mining and Oil Industries.
Past
Apr 25, 2002
George E. Reeves, Mining Attorney. Filing Pre–1866 Claims Under FLPMA (Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976) and Some Legal Anecdotes. (See DMC Professional Paper published herein.)
Past
Apr 18, 2002
Paul C. Jones, President, Sovereign Gold Company, and Hugh B. Miller, Assistant Professor/Mining, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering, University of Arizona. Small Resource and Mining Companies –– Present and Future.
Past
Apr 11, 2002
Harold Backer and Allan Juhas, Consulting Geologists, Parker and Lakewood. Minerals Exploration in Kazakhstan.
Past
Apr 11, 2002
DMC Board Meeting.
Past
Apr 4, 2002
James Graham, President and CEO, ConverDyn, and Chairman, Cotter Corp., Englewood. The Nuclear Energy Industry.
Past
Mar 28, 2002
Karen J. Wenrich and Peter J. “Pete” Modreski, Geologists/Mineralogists, USGS. A Tale of Two Beautiful, Unique Caves –– Silent Splendor, in Limestone; and Clear Creek, in Granite.
Past
Mar 21, 2002
David Vardiman, Manager, Exploration, Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co. Recent Exploration Activities in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado. David Vardiman was unable to attend: Alan Lloyd, x 4008 spoke in his stead.
Past
Mar 14, 2002
Judy Hamilton, Consulting Groundwater and Engineering Geologist, Engineering and Environmental Aspects of the Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River, China.
Past
Mar 7, 2002
Robert Bassett, Attorney, Dorsey and Whitney, Denver. New Coal Mining Opportunities in Colorado: The Lorencito Project.
Past
Feb 28, 2002
Lindsey V. Maness, Jr., Geologist, Emamudin Ghiasi, Geohydrologist, Farookh “Fred” Djahanguiri, Mining Engineer, Abdullah Ayazi, Engineer, and Bahram Jafari, Petroleum Engineer,. Energy & Mineral Resources of Afghanistan.
Past
Feb 21, 2002
J.P.H. “John” Steele, Professor, Western Mining Resource Center, Colorado School of Mines. Stereo Vision and 3D Modelling for Remote Control of Mining Equipment.
Past
Feb 14, 2002
Gil Cisneros, President and CEO, Chamber of the Americas, Denver. Mining Opportunities in the Americas.
Past
Feb 7, 2002
Jim Reed, Director of Research and Development, RockWare Earth Science Software, Denver. Three–Dimensional Visualization and Analysis of Geologic Data.
Past
Jan 31, 2002
G.M.L. Robinson, Senior Project Director, Environmental Strategies Corporation, Denver. The Mystery of Summitville: Where Did All the Money Go?
Past
Jan 24, 2002
Peter A. Howie, PhD. Candidate, Mineral Economics, Colorado School of Mines. Mineral and Metal Prices: Mechanisms, Instability and Trends.
Past
Jan 17, 2002
Ed Raines, Vice–President, Clear Creek County Metal Mining Association. How I Spent My Vacation: In Search of Cornwall’s Mining Past.
Past
Jan 10, 2002
ASARCO, Inc., Video. America’s Buried Treasure.
Past
Jan 3, 2002
Peter J. “Pete” Modreski, Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey. Colorado – Wyoming State Line Diamond
Past

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