2008 CONVENTION SPONSORS

Titles in blue and underlined are a link to the website or to the presentation

PLATINUM Rio Tinto | Kennecott	PLATINUM Wheeler Machinery Company
GOLD Canyon Fuel Company	SILVER   JBR Environmental Consultants
GOLD Consol Energy	SILVER Lisbon Valley Mining Co.
GOLD EcoShale	SILVER Pacificorp
Bronze Graymont Western US	Bronze Norwest Corporation

 

2008 Utah Mining Association
Convention Presentations

General Session Speaker

 

Biofuels and Oil Shale -- Jacob J. Brown, Legislative Assistant to
United States Senator Orrin G. Hatch

 

Technical Session I: Operational Efficiencies

“Lean for the Mining Industry” -- David K. Sorensen, Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership

• “Six Sigma Breakthroughs” -- Wayne Stewart, Priority Management Group

• “Workforce Challenges in Utah’s Energy Industry” -- Kevin G. Walthers, College of Eastern Utah

• “Gaining Operational Efficiency Through Applied Technology Education” -- Thomas E. Bingham, Utah Manufacturers Association

• “Rio Tinto’s New Distribution Center” -- Louella Miller, Rio Tinto Distribution Center
• “Operational Efficiency Improvement Using a Density-Based, Dry Coal Cleaning Technology” -- Rick Q. Honaker, University of Kentucky

 

Technical Session II: Utah's Energy Future

“Meeting Utah’s Electricity Needs” -- A. Richard Walje, Rocky Mountain Power

“Future of Natural Gas” -- Alan K. Allred, Questar

“Clean Coal Technology & Energy Reliability for the West”-- Thomas A. Sarkus, National Energy Technology Laboratory

“Developing the U.S. Oil Shale Resource” -- Tony R. Dammer, U.S. Department of Energy

“Oil Shale: Washington Update” -- Kurt E. Blase, Center for Unconventional Fuels

“Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: The Evolving Politics of Climate Change” -- Eugene M. Trisko, Washington, D.C.

 

Technical Session III: Exploration & Mine Expansions

“Update on Exploration and Mining in Utah” -- Rick Allis and Ken Krahulec, Utah Geological Survey

“Junior Company Exploration in Utah” -- Stuart Havenstrite, HMS Management Services

“Energy Fuels Uranium Exploration and Mine Develoment in Southeastern Utah” -- George Glasier, Energy Fuels

“Development of the Crypto Zinc-Copper-Indium Deposit, Fish Spring, Utah” -- Ken Puchlik, Lithic Resources

“The Kennecott Molybdenum Autoclave Process at Bingham Canyon” -- Doug Stauffer, Kennecott Utah Copper

“Iron Mountain, Cedar City, Utah: Pigs Can Fly” -- Don Foot, Palladon Iron

“Intrepid Potash’s Utah Operations” -- Rick York, Intrepid Potash - Moab