New! Pre- and post-symposium workshops are now free!
Symposium Registration
Registration for the symposium and all optional activities is available online. The registration module includes options to register for workshops, technical field trips, guest sight seeing trips and additional banquet tickets. For more information, call (775) 784-4062, 1-800-233-8928 or go to the registration website and follow the links. (See below for student and international registration.)
Symposium, optional workshops and technical field trips provide contact hours that may qualify for PDH for PE and other professional certifications. Certificates of completion will be awarded to participants at the conclusion of each registered event; full attendance is required. Participants are responsible for determining eligibility and applying for these PDH designations within their professions.
See below for information about location and accommodations.
Symposium Registration Fees and Options
Symposium/conference registration: $450, includes ticket to exhibits, symposium, welcome reception, three lunches, one banquet ticket and proceedings.
Exhibitor registration: $1,800, includes exhibitor booth, ticket to exhibits, symposium, welcome reception, three lunches, one banquet ticket and proceedings. Additional booth members must register as symposium participants. (See exhibitor information below.)
Student registration: Please download a student registration form.
International registration: For any letters of introduction required for obtaining U.S. visas, please email Dr. Mousset-Jones at mousset@unr.edu.
Symposium Topics and Sessions
See the full schedule of symposium topics and sessions.
Optional Symposium Workshops
Workshops provide contact hours that may qualify for PDH for PE and other professional certifications. Thanks to our generous sponsors, pre-and post-symposium workshops are free. Please register for workshops online.
Saturday, June 7
• Psychrometry, Mine Heat Loads and Climate, and Mine Cooling and Refrigeration
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • FREE, register online
Sunday, June 8 (Concurrent sessions)
• Respirable Dust Control: Workshop
8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. • FREE, register online
• Heat Illness and Heat Stress Measurement
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • FREE, register online
• Strategies and Technologies to Reduce Miners’ Exposure to Diesel Particulate Matter and Gases
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • FREE, register online
Thursday, June 12
• Egress and Entrapment in Underground Hardrock Mines
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • FREE, register online
View/print a full description of the optional workshops.
Optional Technical Field Trips (Post-Symposium)
Technical field trips provide contact hours that may qualify for PDH for PE and other professional certifications.
Wednesday, June 11-Friday, June 13
(After completion of the final symposium session, June 11)
• Technical Field Trip: Coal/Trona Mines
Fee: $300
• Technical Field Trip: Nevada Gold Mines
Fee: $260
View/print a full description of the technical field trips.
Optional Sightseeing Tours
Monday, June 9
• Sightseeing Cruise and Tour: M.S. Dixie II and Cal Neva Lodge
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. • Fee: $74
Tuesday, June 10
• Sightseeing Tour: Historic Comstock Lode and Nevada's Capital City
9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. • Fee: $42
View/print a full description of the sightseeing tours.
Location/Accommodations
The 12th U.S. /North American Mine Ventilation Symposium will be held at John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada, east of the University of Nevada, Reno campus and 15 minutes from the Reno/Tahoe International Airport.
A block of rooms is available for a reduced rate to symposium participants. Please use the code GUNR when making reservations to receive the Mine Ventilation Symposium room-rate discount.
Call John Ascuaga’s Nugget at 1-800-648-1177 or visit the Nugget’s online reservation page and use the reservation code: GUNR. Book by May 26 to guarantee room rate availability.
Exhibits and Sponsorship
Exhibits
An excellent meeting room has been reserved for the exhibit area in John Ascuaga’s Nugget, with ample room to arrange social events and coffee service, etc., during the meeting.
Symposium exhibit booths are available for an exhibitor registration fee of $1,800 each, which covers:
• Rental of one 8’x10’ exhibit space and set up, including one table, two chairs and electricity to the booth
• One complimentary symposium registration
• One ticket to the welcome reception
• Sponsorship of the hospitality bar in the exhibit area (All sponsors will be listed in the symposium program, on the symposium website, on appropriate signage during your event, and on posters throughout the sessions.)
Early exhibit booth reservation and registration are encouraged.
Download a fillable Exhibitor Form.
For more information about exhibiting, contact John Kelleher, president, Schauenburg Flexadux Corp., at (970) 245-9400 or email kelleher@schauenburg-us.com.
Sponsorship Opportunities
If you or your company are interested in sponsoring an event or another portion of the symposium, please contact the symposium coordinators. Sponsorship funds will be used to support and underwrite symposium events and activities.
Activities and sponsorship opportunities include:
• Symposium Refreshment Breaks
• Symposium Lunches
• Symposium Welcoming Reception (poolside)
• Symposium Pre-Banquet Cocktail Reception
• Symposium Banquet
• Symposium Banquet wine and beverages
• Symposium Speaker Breakfasts
• Symposium Conference Registration Handouts (bags, padfolios, etc.)
• Symposium Room Fees
• Symposium Proceedings and CD-Rom
• Underwriting student participation
All sponsors will be recognized in symposium literature and major sponsors will receive complimentary registration and proceedings. For more information and to submit your sponsorship request, download a fillable Sponsorship Form.
Contact the symposium coordinators to discuss donation amounts and the manner in which your donation(s) will be recognized.
Symposium coordinators:
Pierre Mousset-Jones
(775) 784-6959
mousset@unr.edu
or
Keith Wallace
(559) 452-0182
keith@mvsengineering.com
Symposium Sponsors
The 12th U.S./North American Mine Ventilation Symposium is made possible by these generous sponsors and committee members from the mining industry and from allied companies and services. The symposium organizers wish to thank these professionals and corporations for their support of this important mining conference.
Contact
For more information about the 12th U.S./North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, contact:
Dr. Pierre Mousset-Jones
University of Nevada, Reno
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering/0168
Department of Mining Engineering
Reno, NV 89557-0047 USA
(775) 784-6959
Email: mousset@unr.edu
For more information about the Department of Mining Engineering in the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, visit www.unr.edu/mines/mine-eng/
For information on preparing accepted manuscripts, contact:
Keith G. Wallace
Mine Ventilation Services, Inc.
4946 E. Yale Ave., Suite 103
Fresno, CA 93727 USA
(559) 452-0182
Fax: (559) 452-0184
Email: 12thsymposium@mvsengineering.com
Hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in partnership with Mine Ventilation Services, Inc., the symposium is a cooperative effort on behalf of the Underground Ventilation Committee of the SME.
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