S&T metal mine design team wins second consecutive international competition
Posted by Kimber Crull
Members of the team include, from left, Ayden Yahn, Evan Barth, Toby Lonning, Thomas Barnes, Patrick Hatfield and Garrett Bell. They are joined by Miguel Pugmire, a senior mining engineer with Rio Tinto. Photo courtesy of Bell.
A team of Missouri S&T mining and metallurgical engineering students won the Metallic Student Design Competition at the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) Annual Conference and Exhibition for the second consecutive year.
The contest was broken into two phases, with 18 teams from around the world competing in Phase 1 on their own campuses in fall 2024. Eleven of those teams saw Phase 1 to completion. Then, the top six teams were invited to participate in Phase 2 in February as part of the SME conference in Denver.
For this year’s competition, the teams designed a lithium hard rock mine for the Pilbara region of western Australia.
Posted by Kimber Crull
