2022 Alabama Mineral Institute Tentative Agenda
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time | Event | Speaker |
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8:00am-8:15am | Welcome | |
8:15am-9:15am | Critical Mineral Recycling and Sustainability | Stefan Hogg
Business Development Associate, LiCycle |
9:15am-10:00am | Electric Batteries for Power and Vehicles | Dr. David Carpenter
Integrity Institute of Technology |
10:00am-10:15am | Break | |
10:15am-11:00am | Alabama Drought Planning and Response Program | Michael Harper, ADECA |
11:00am-11:45am | What does the social component of ESG mean for the mining industry? | Patrick Cagle
President, Alabama Mining Association |
11:45am-12:45pm | LUNCH | |
12:45pm-1:00pm | Afternoon Introductions | |
1:00pm-2:00pm | Rare Earth Elements in Coal Ash – A Review | Kayln Tew
UA Safe State |
2:00pm-3:00pm | The Crab Orchard Mine Pillar Collapse | Robert Kehrman
Director, Geology & Mining Lhoist North America |
3:00pm-3:15pm | BREAK | |
3:15pm-4:00pm | Silica Hazards: MSHA Initiative | Randy Easterling
Safety Program Supervisor UA Safe State |
4:00pm-5:00pm | WATERSTAR:
A new database for storage, retrieval, and evaluation of well and groundwater information for Alabama |
Greg Guthrie |
Friday, October 21, 2022
Time | Event | Speaker |
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8:00am-8:15am | Welcome | |
8:15am-9:15am | GSA Current Critical Mineral Investigations | John P. Whitmore
Geologist II, Geologic Investigations Program Geological Survey of Alabama |
9:15am-10:15am | Diamonds in the Rough:
A History of Alabama’s Cahaba Coal Field |
Dr. James Sanders Day
Professor of History, Michael J. Grainger Professor in Modern History University of Montevallo |
10:15am-10:30am | Break | |
10:30am-11:30am | Geothermal-Resources and Energy – Potential in Alabama? | Caryl Orr
President, Earth Resource Systems, LLC |
11:30 am-12:30pm | LUNCH | |
12:45pm-1:30pm | Information Session | TBD |
1:30pm-2:00pm | Critical Minerals | Jesse Edmondson |
2:00pm-5:00pm | Field Trip – UA Recycling Center |