Viburnum, Mo. (PRWEB) July 17, 2008
A group of regional coal professionals from the Western Interior Basin Coal Forum has an updated perspective about another mining industry – lead mining – following a recent tour of the Doe Run Company’s Southeast Missouri Mining and Milling Division (SEMO).
Nine coal experts, such as six geologists, toured Buick Mine and Mill on June 18. The tour was part of the annual coal forum, which alternates yearly between sites in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma. This year, it was held at Montauk State Park in Salem, Mo.
Scott Kaden, a geologist for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Geology and Land Survey, previously had toured a Doe Run mine, and he believed it would be a great fit for the coal forum.
“Though our expertise is in coal, we’re all geologists and a quantity of us have worked in underground mines in other states,” said Kaden, who organized this year’s coal forum. “The tour was well received, and we all learned a fantastic deal about underground lead mining.”
Fully equipped with difficult hats, safety glasses, mine lights and self rescuers, the tour participants had been escorted approximately 1,100 feet below the Earth’s surface to view different types of mining equipment employed by Doe Run to break, load and haul ore. The group also toured the Buick mill to learn how ore is crushed and further processed to extract the lead, zinc and copper metals.
“As world leaders in sustainable lead mining, it’s always exciting to share our function and foster interest in what we do with other people in the mining industry,” said George Moellering, chief mine geologist and tour coordinator at Doe Run. “We enjoyed sharing information about and discussing the differences – and similarities – involved in our two distinctive industries with the Western Interior Basin Coal Forum group.”
With six active mines and 200 employees per shift, Doe Run relies on a naturally stable environment, proactive initiatives, engineering controls and far more than a century of expertise to develop 1 of the safest mining environments in the world.
About The Doe Run Business
Based in St. Louis, The Doe Run Firm is a privately held natural resources organization and the largest integrated lead producer in the Western Hemisphere. Dedicated to environmentally responsible mineral and metal production, Doe Run operates one of the world’s largest, single-site lead recycling facilities, located in Boss, Mo. The Doe Run Business and its subsidiaries deliver items and services necessary to supply power, protection and convenience. Doe Run has operations in Missouri, Washington and Arizona. For far more information, check out http://www.doerun.com.
Contact:
Kent Martin
314-453-7661
kmartin @ doerun.com
http://www.doerun.com
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