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2010 RMCMI TRI-STATE (MT, ND, WY) MEETING RECAP
The Twentieth Annual Tri-State
Meeting was held in Sheridan, WY on
September 16-17. A total of 81 members
and guests registered for various parts of
the meeting. Ron Destefano from Western
Energyput together an outstanding program.Support from sponsors this year made for some wonderful additions to the meeting. Benetech host-
ed the cocktail hour and the bar. Great hors douvres were available for the hour prior to the meeting.
Other sponsors included Alpha Coal, Arnold Machinery, Atlas Copco CMT USA, Bucyrus, Butler
Machinery, Cate Equipment, CDG
Engineers, Cloud Peak Energy, The Coteau
Properties, Cummins Rocky Mountain,
Dakota Coal Company, Decker Coal, Dyno
Nobel, General Equipment & Supplies,
L&H Industrial, LeTourneau Technologies
America, Modern Machinery, Nelson
Brothers Mining Services, Powder River
Energy, Rimpull Corp., Tetra Tech, Thunder
Basin Coal, Tractor & Equipment, Western
Energy, and Wyoming Machinery.
The meeting began Thursday morning with a Short
Course presented to 18 attendees. Phil Patton fromArch
Western Bituminous Group put this class together. It was
presented by Mark Alspaugh and Paul Ormsbee from
Overland Conveyor Co. who spoke on Overland Belt
Conveyance System Design vs. Reliability. This was thefirst Short Course to be presented at the Tri-State meeting
and it was well received.
The evening social hour began at 6:15 followed by the banquet for 64. Ron welcomed theMayor of
Sheridan, WY, David Kinskey who offered a few words to the attendees. Ron then introduced former
President Curt Belden withPowder River Coal. Curt is also aLife Member of the Institute. He also intro-
duced Ken Miller, Thunder Basin Coaland RMCMI President two years ago. Ron
asked Dave Smaldone,Pacificorp and this years President to say a few words.
After dinner Ron introduced the individual and company Patrons and thanked
them for their continued support of the Scholarship program. He then introduced
the 16 new members. Ron then gave a brief overview of the Institute and asked the
guests to plan on attending the 2011 Convention at the Keystone Resort in
Keystone, Colorado.
Ron congratulated the Institute for receiving the Prazen
Award the week before in Leadville, CO. It is given by the
National Museum of Mining and History and was accepted by
Dave Smaldone, Karen Inzano, and Ken Miller on behalf of the
Institute. The Award is given to a person or organization who has
demonstrated a continuing commitment and successful efforts to
educate the public on the importance of the mineral industry. The
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Award will be kept at the
RMCMI office.
Tom Canter, Executive
Director of the National Coal
Transportation Association, was
introduced as the Keynote
speaker for the evening. Tom spoke onUnintended Consequences. Theevening ended with information about the Friday morning technical ses-
sion, the golf tournament and some additional networking.
Friday morning following breakfast, the group gathered to hear speak-
ers: Professor Tim Considine, a Professor from the University of Wyoming, speaking on PRB Coal
Powering America. They then heard Mr. Chuck Sumner, Technical Manager from Nelson Brothers
Mining, speak on Electronic Blasting Systems, and the morning ended with Mr. Don Collins, COO of
Western Research Institute, who let us know how we can Enhance the Goodness of Coal. It was a well
received morning of presentations and the speakers were thanked for their part in promoting education.
It was then on to the Powder Horn for lunch and golf. We would also like to thank those companies
that contributed to golf prizes: Dakota Coal Co., The Falkirk Mining Co., L&H Industrial, Inc.,
Nelson Brothers Mining Services, LLC, Warren Transport, Inc., and WESCO. For others that mayhave brought gifts with you to share, we thank you.
Erik Strom, Chuck Sumner (Had
Hole in One During Tournament)!!!,
James Burleson, Robert Ingram.
Molly Schwend, Rusty Batie, John Harnish and Dustin
Martens
Jesse Noel, Todd
Huggans, Robert
Montgomery and Randy
Schwandt
Curtis Belden, Russell Kliche,Josh Wynia, and Jason Vollmer
The Tri-State meeting was an excellent program from start to finish. RMCMI
sincerely thanks our speakers, our sponsors, our members and friends. We also thankRon Destefano and Erik Strom for doing
an outstanding job on the meeting and sponsorships and Sonia and Dave Smaldone for helping with Registration and photos.
Long Drive in Fairway - Woman Molly Schwend
Closest to the Pin 1st Shot Greg Dehne
Most Lost Balls Scott Benson
1st Place Net
2nd Place Net
2nd Place Gross
1st Place Gross