Talks

2003 programs

53 entries, newest first.

Dec 29, 2003
Christmas Holiday: No Meeting!
No meeting
Dec 22, 2003
DMC Auction to celebrate 112th Anniversary!
Auction
Dec 15, 2003
Open Talk, Members, Denver Mining Club. Holiday Story Time. Members tell a short story (5 minutes or less) interesting anecdotes about their careers in the mining industry.
Past
Dec 8, 2003
Ed Raines, Vice President, Clear Creek County Metal Mining Association. Frauds, Scams and Questionable Business Practices in the Front Range Mining Industry.
Past
Dec 1, 2003
Gene Michal, Treasurer, Denver Mining Club. Mercury in Your Environment – You Better Love It, You Can’t Leave It.
Past
Nov 24, 2003
Barney Guarnera, President and CEO, Behre–Dolbear & Company, Inc. Where to Invest: Ranking Countries for Political Risk.
Past
Nov 17, 2003
Rick Rand, Tour Director, Tauck World Discovery Co. The Klondike Gold Rush, Alaska to Dawson, Yukon, 1898.
Tour
Nov 10, 2003
Bill Wilkinson, Managing Consultant, Mining, Mincom Co. Computer–Aided Design and High–Precision Systems in Open–Pit Drilling and Blasting.
Past
Nov 3, 2003
Gary Curtiss, Geologist, Division of Minerals and Geology, Colorado Department of Natural Resources. Safeguarding Colorado’s Abandoned Mine Openings.
Past
Oct 27, 2003
Jim Cappa, Chief, Mineral and Mineral Fuels Section, Colorado Geological Survey. Recent Activity, Including Regional Geologic Mapping.
Past
Oct 20, 2003
Stan Dempsey, Chairman and CEO, Royal Gold, Inc. Recent Activity of Colorado’s Number Two Company (Denver Post Top 100 Listing).
Past
Oct 13, 2003
Board of Directors Meeting to be rescheduled
Past
Oct 13, 2003
No meeting. Columbus Day Holiday!
No meeting
Oct 6, 2003
Randy Hubbard, Attorney, Davis, Graham and Stubbs, Denver. The Mystery of the Millsite Opinio – A Potential Major Threat to the U.S. Mining Industry.
Past
Sep 29, 2003
Warren Andrews, Mining Engineer, Professional Surveyor & Historian. Ancient Celtic Copper Mining in America (1800 B.C. to 500 A.D.).
Past
Sep 22, 2003
Lisa Dunn, Head of Reference, CSM Library. Colorado Mining District Identification – Creating Order Out of Chaos from the Mining Literature.
Past
Sep 15, 2003
Norm Phillips, Resource Development Manager, Doyon, Ltd. Resource Opportunities on Alaska Native Lands.
Past
Sep 8, 2003
John Stewart, Historian and Attorney. How I Found the Famous Camp Bird Mine and Made Millions, by Tom Walsh (Portrayed by John Stewart, in costume).
Past
Sep 1, 2003
No meeting. Labor Day Holiday!
No meeting
Aug 25, 2003
Pete Maciulaitis, Mining Geologist. Financing the Gold Rushes of California and Nevada – An Historical Review Over the Last 150 Years.
Past
Aug 18, 2003
Chris Anderson, Community Relations and Communications, Newmont Mining Corp. Is Science Helping to Kill the Mining Industry?
Past
Aug 11, 2003
Ben & Al Frei, Jr., Owners, Walstrom Quarry near Idaho Springs. Aggregate Mining in the 21st Century.
Past
Aug 4, 2003
Dan Witkowski, Course Coordinator, Colorado Mining Association Educational Foundation, and John Eison, DMC–Sponsored Teacher. The Total Concept of the Mining Industry Course, 2003.
Past
Jul 28, 2003
Dan Hausel, Geologist, Wyoming Geological Survey. Rediscovery and Expansion of the Iron Mountain Kimberlite District, Eastern Wyoming – A possible New Diamond District.
Past
Jul 21, 2003
Peter Bradford, President and CEO, Golden Star Resources, Ltd. The Golden Star Turnaround Story – Number 4 in the 100 Top–performing Colorado Public Companies, 2002.
Past
Jul 21, 2003
Board of Directors Meeting
Past
Jul 14, 2003
Peter Keppler, Attorney, Denver. The Next Step – Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability for Mining.
Past
Jul 7, 2003
Dan Shawe, Geologist Emeritus, USGS. Geology, Mineral Deposits and New Developments, Southern Toquima Range, Nevada (includes the Round Mountain and Manhattan Mining Districts).
Past
Jun 30, 2003
William “Bill” Langer, Research Geologist, Mineral Resources Team, USGS, Lakewood, CO. The History and Future of American Aggregate Mining.
Past
Jun 23, 2003
Ralph Fitch, President, General Minerals Corp., Denver, CO. Discovery of the Atocha Disseminated Silver Deposit, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Past
Jun 16, 2003
Doug Young, District Policy Director,, U.S. Congressman Mark Udall. Voluntary Abandoned Mine Cleanup – Status of Good Samaritan Legislation.
Past
Jun 9, 2003
Bruce Geller, Ph.D., Consulting Mineralogist, Advanced Geologic Services, Lakewood, CO. The March 2003 Prospectors’ and Developers’ Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Past
Jun 2, 2003
Ed Raines, V.P., Clear Creek Metal Mining Association. The Cripple Creek Mining District – Its History, Geology and Mineralogy.
Past
May 26, 2003
No meeting. Memorial Day Holiday!
No meeting
May 19, 2003
Doug Magee, V.P. of Research, MGA Communications, Denver. Public Perceptions of the Mining Industry.
Past
May 12, 2003
Frank Seeton, P.E., Mining Engineer. A Review of Fluorspar – Its Occurrences, Markets and Milling Methods.
Past
May 5, 2003
Stephanie Garnica, Director of Latin American Trade, State of Colorado. International Trade and Its Effect on Mining in the Americas.
Past
Apr 28, 2003
Donald R. East, Chairman and CEO, Knight–Piesold International, Denver, CO. Precious Metal Mining Trends in the Americas.
Past
Apr 21, 2003
Leigh Freeman, Management Consultant, Yogo Creek Mining, Llc., Golden, CO. Yogo Sapphires from the Vortex Mine, Montana – Bringing Mother Nature to Market the Old Fashioned Way.
Past
Apr 14, 2003
Jim Hesketh, VP and Principal Mining Engineer, N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Denver, CO. Mining Industry Past, Present and Future: Project Finance and Development in Today’s Climate.
Past
Apr 7, 2003
James Elliott, Scientist Emeritus, USGS, Lakewood, CO. The Ghurayyah mineralized granite, Saudi Arabia – a giant low–grade tantalum–niobium deposit.
Past
Mar 31, 2003
Patrick Taylor, G.S. Ansell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Metallurgy, CSM, Golden, CO. Chemical Metallurgy – Then and Now. (The 2002 Milton E. Wadsworth Award Lecture)
Past
Mar 24, 2003
Gerry Nix, Technology Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. Recovery of Minerals and Metals from Geothermal Brines.
Past
Mar 17, 2003
Ed Hunter, Mining Engineer, Victor, CO. A Concise History of Mine Hoisting in the Cripple Creek District through 1902 – a book review with some general district history.
Past
Mar 10, 2003
Al Hofstra, Geologist, USGS, Lakewood, CO. Diverse Origins of Sedimentary Rock–hosted Disseminated Gold Deposits Worldwide: An Overview. (Note: See GSA Abstracts with Programs, p. 140, Session No. 63-1, Monday, October 28, 2002.)
Past
Mar 3, 2003
Jord Gertson, Consulting Hydrologist in Watershed Management. Rising Groundwater in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado – A Potential Serious Problem.
Past
Feb 24, 2003
Scott Hazlitt, Vice–President, Leadville Mining and Milling Corp. The El Chanate Open–Pit Gold Project, Sonora, Mexico: A Progress Report.
Past
Feb 17, 2003
Holiday: Presidents’ Day. No Meeting! February 10 February 3
Past
Jan 27, 2003
Anna Wilson and Paul Sims, USGS, Denver Federal Center. The Colorado Mineral Belt Revisited
Past
Jan 20, 2003
No Meeting!, Federal Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
No meeting
Jan 13, 2003
Lindsey V. Maness, Jr., Geologist, Golden, CO, and James Roy (Jim) Piper , Geologist, Littleton, CO. Planned “No–Waste Mining” at the Blue Puma Mines, Park County, CO.
Past
Jan 13, 2003
DMC Board Meeting.
Past
Jan 6, 2003
Dick Hutchinson, Fogarty Professor of Geology (Retired), Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO. An Evolving Understanding Between Mineral Deposits and Global Tectonics.
Past

2003 programs

Christmas Holiday: No Meeting!

No meeting. Columbus Day Holiday!

No meeting. Labor Day Holiday!

No meeting. Memorial Day Holiday!

No Meeting!, Federal Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

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