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Student Field Trips

The Mine Ventilation Class Field Laboratory 1998

The following pictures illustrate some of the many field trips undertaken by the mining students. If any Alumni has similar pictures they wish to share please send them to Dr. Pierre Mousset-Jones (mousset@mines.unr. edu), to be included in this section.

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16-to-1 Mine, Allegany, California a small underground gold mine.		 [mj2 graphic]
Rawhide Mine, Nevada a medium-sized open-pit   gold mine.
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1993 International Mining Competition, Elko Nevada Mackay students in the mucking competition.		 [mj4 graphic]
Round Mountain Mine, Nevada a large open-pit gold mine.
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At the Morenci open-pit copper mines in Arizona.		 [mj6 graphic]
1993 International Mining Competition, Elko, Nevada, alumnus Richard McNeely hosting a student group at the Cobre Copper Mine, New Mexico.
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1993 International Mining Competition, Elko, Nevada, alumnus Skip Leedy in jack-leg contest.		 [mj8 graphic]
Brush Creek Mine Downieville, California, a small underground gold mine.

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