Mining Engineering students go underground for experiential learning

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academics 1:18 Mining Engineering students go underground for experiential learning

By:

Tonia Moxley

2 Mar 2022 478

Mining and Minerals Engineering sophomores recently traveled with Associate Professor Emily Sarver to Beckley, West Virginia, to tour an underground metallurgical coal operation. The mine, owned by Arch Resources Inc., has experienced a recent global rise in demand for their product – a specific grade of coal good for steelmaking. Students were led more than 1,000 feet down and two miles laterally into the mine to observe operations, machinery, and safety protocols.

Finding an article or a good lesson. Here when I'm out, I'm bringing in operation around. I got a bunch of them. Imagine that might be people. Now, what we want, I've only read on surface mines. In underground mines really nice applied to some learned it.