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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

Continued

Ron Destefano

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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