SME Twin Cities 2015 Annual Conference 51st Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals

SME TC is hosting this year’s Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals. The one-day conference will feature one-on-one discussions with mining experts in the field of crushed stone, iron ore, peat, silica sand, and more. The forum is a must for all mining professionals, exploration companies, and consultants.

Register Today! Visit SME TC’s website to reserve your space: http://community.smenet.org/smetwincities/home

AuGuST 18, 2015 Earle Brown Heritage Center

Brooklyn Center, MN

This year’s technical sessions include:• Fundamentals of successful land rehabilitation• PM4 silica monitoring data review• Peat mining and product applications• Industrial mineral overview • Legislative and regulatory updates for Minnesota mining • Mineralogy and genesis of Jamaican Bauxite ores• Silica sand market update• Environmental impacts of industrial silica sand mining• Industrial minerals exploration strategies• Aerial reconnaissance using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)• Land use investigations and historical imagery• History of ice harvesting• Assessing the alkali-silica reactivity of concrete • Central Texas silica sands

Join us for the One-Day

Conference with companion field

trips offered before and after.

Conference Registration: $150, Student Registration: $50

Sponsor & Exhibitor Costs:PLATINUM SPONSOR: $2,000 SILVER SPONSOR: $500GOLD SPONSOR: $1,000 HOSPITALITY SPONSOR: $300EXHIBITOR BOOTH: $800 EXHIBITOR ADDTL. STAFF: $40

Online and walk-up registration available through Aug. 18.

SME Twin Cities 2015 Field TripsMining today involves so much more than just drilling, blasting, big holes, and cool rocks!

Join us to experience the diversity of mining in Minnesota from very different operations. The 2015 field trip series, sponsored by SME Twin Cities, will exhibit unique applications related to:

• Mining • Asphalt and concrete recycling• Processing • Efficient supply chains• Geology • Product specifications • See capitalism at work! • Reclamation using urban development• Innovative partnerships: city stormwater and water supply systems

Choose to attend one or both and experience mining in Minnesota!

Register Today! Visit SME TC’s website to reserve your field trip space: http://community.smenet.org/smetwincities/home or http://www.smetwincities.org/.

AugusT 17, 2015 Highlights Include*:

Tiller Corporation’s very large sand and gravel operation at Maple Grove, which mines Quaternary unconsolidated materials deposited by glacial meltwater.

The Kraemer Mining and Materials crushed stone quarry operation in Burnsville, which mines the Ordovician Prairie du Chien dolomite.

Fairmont Santrol’s industrial silica sand operation near Shakopee, which mines the Late Cambrian Jordan Sandstone.

AugusT 19-20, 2015 Highlights Include*:

Coldspring USA’s dimension stone quarry. See mining done in a Paleoproterozoic granite in Rockville, MN to obtain large 15-ton blocks with no cracks.

Coldspring USA’s dimension stone processing plant in Cold Spring, MN.

Premier Peat’s mine and processing plant, which mines Holocene peat near Cromwell, MN. Have you ever seen a vacuum as big as a T. Rex?

Hibbing Taconite’s iron ore mine, processing plant and taconite pellet plant, and loadout rail facility, near Hibbing, MN. The mine is within the Paleoproterozoic Biwabik Iron Formation.

Get a glimpse of a historic site related to a famous Minnesota ROCK star!

*PleAse nOTe: Field trip destinations are subject to change.

AugusT 18, 2015 2015 Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals SME TC is also hosting the 51st Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals. The one-day conference will feature one-on-one discussions with mining experts in the field of crushed stone, iron ore, peat, silica sand, and more. The forum is a must for all mining professionals, exploration companies, and consultants. http://geologyofindustrialminerals.org/

Online registration

for field trips available through

Aug. 1.

One-Day Field Trip: MON. AUGUST 17, 2015

Meet at the Earle Browne Center in Brooklyn Center 6155 EARLE BROwN DRIvE, BROOkLyN CENTER, MN

Stop 1: Tiller Corporation in Maple Grove 1.5 HOuR TOuR OF MINE AND RECyCLING CONCRETE FACILITy.

Coffee Break TILLER CORPORATION

Stop 2: Kraemer Mining & Materials Quarry in Burnsville 1.25 HOuR TOuR OF MINE, PROCESSING PLANT, AND wATER PLANT.

Lunch Break ENJOy LuNCH TAkING IN vIEwS OF THE BuRNSvILLE quARRy.

Stop 3: Fairmont Santrol’s Silica Sand Operation in Shakopee 1.5 HOuR TOuR OF PROCESSING PLANT AND A LOOk AT THE MINE.

Coffee Break FAIRMONT SANTROL.

Return to Earle Browne Center in Brooklyn Center END OF TOuR.

8:00 AM

8:30 AM

10:00 AM

11:15 AM

12:30 PM

1:45 PM

3:15 PM

5:00 PM

Two-Day Field Trip: WED. AUG.19 & THURS. AUG. 20, 2015

Day One

Meet at the Earle Browne Center in Brooklyn Center 6155 EARLE BROwN DRIvE, BROOkLyN CENTER, MN

Stop 1: Cold Spring USA’s Quarry in Rockville 45-MINuTE TOuR OF quARRy.

Stop 2: Cold Spring USA’s Stone Cutting Plant 1.25 HOuR TOuR OF STONE CuTTING PLANT.

Stop 3: Lunch Break at Quarry Park ENJOy LuNCH AND OPTIONAL 15-MINuTE wALkING TOuR.

Stop 4: Premier Horticulture in Cromwell 1 HOuR TOuR OF PROCESSING PLANT, MINE, RECLAIMED MINING AREA AND “FARMED” AREA wHERE SPHAGNuM IS HARvESTED.

Arrive at Hibbing Park Hotel (Lodging)

Buffet Supper SuPPER wILL BE SERvED AT THE HOTEL. TIME TO MINGLE, vISIT, AND CHAT. NO EvENING EvENTS PLANNED.

Day Two

Breakfast Buffet SERvED AT THE HOTEL. BuS wILL LOAD FOR DEPARTuRE AT 8AM.

Stop 5: Hibbing Taconite’s Iron Ore Mine 3 HOuR TOuR OF PROCESSING PLANT, MINE PIT, AND OvERLOOk OF TAILINGS BASIN AND STOCkPILE RECLAMATION AREA.

Stop 6: Hull Rust-Mahoning Mine Overlook ENJOy LuNCH wHILE TAkING IN SCENIC vIEwS OF THE MINE.

Return to Earle Browne Center in Brooklyn Center END OF TOuR.

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

10:15 AM

11:45 AM

3:15 PM

5:30 PM

6:30 PM

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

11:45 AM

4:15 PM

SME TC’s One-Day Metro Field Trip Route

SME TC’s Two-Day Statewide Field Trip Route