2025 Conference Presentations:

• Bissett

• Deskins

• Thrasher

• VCEDA

 

2024 PE Seminar Presentations​

• Zackary Wedding - Valley Bottom Upside above a Longwall Operation

• Josh Lord -The Importance of Sampling and Monitoring for Mine Fires & Explosions

• Bob Bates - Clearance Requirements

• Pat Leedy - VA Dept of Energy Mined Land Repurposing Title V Program

• Nino Ripepi - Global & Domestic Energy Trends & Carbon Mgmt Opp

• Nathan Kelley - An Analysis of MSHA Fatality Reports

• Michael Long - Machine Learning Applications in Mining

• Jim Pfeifer - Fine Coal Refuse in Dam Construction & Abandonment

• Holly White - Abandoned Mind Land BIL Projects

• Roe-Hoan Yoon - Fine Coal Processing

• Ben Diddle - Improving the Prediction of Dynamic & Final Horizontal Movements due to Longwall Mining

• Daniel Kestner - Economic Development

• Dale Hamilton - Lessons from Recent Pillar "Squeezes" in US Coal Mines

• Brian Dotson - MSHA: Silica Final Rule

• Aaron Noble - Rare Earth Elements

• Ben Beakes - Met Coal Makes Steel

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44th Annual Conference Presentations

• Pocahontas Mine - Passive Treatment System

• Environmental Dept.-Innovations and Initiatives to Improve Communication and Performance

• Norfolk Southern

• CSX - Sara Schryer

• Ernie Thrasher

• Glen Davis

 

2023 PE Seminar Presentations

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• Mike Willis - Coal Mining Safety Program - Virginia Energy

• Pat Leedy - Mined Land Repurposing - Virginia Energy

• Tim Ferguson - Abandoned Mine Lands - Virginia Energy

• Robert Bates - Hoisting Systems Safety Requirements - MSHA

• Timothy Browning - Impacts of the Big Sandy Crayfish on Permitting in SWVA - Artemis Consulting

• Dale Hamilton - Ground Consolidation and Void Fill Products - MSHA

• Chris Mark - Development Mining Near Charted Gas Wells - MSHA

• Richard Bishop - Evolve CAPP - Evolve Central Appalachia

• Ben Beakes - Met Coal Makes Steel - MCPA

• Josh Arnold -Application of Measurement While Drilling Data for Mine Blast Optimization - MCPA

• Tery Taylor - Extraction of Stuck Mobile Equipment - MSHA

• Robert Bates - Underground Mine Power Systems - MSHA

• Chris Mark - The Road to Zero Roof Fall Fatalities - VAMCP

• Dale Hamilton - Coal Mine Barrier Pillar Design - MSHA

• Jesus Romero - Prediction of dynamic subsidence in the proximity of longwall panel boundaries - University of KY

• Steven Schafrik - Evolve CAPP Mining Technology Assessment - University of KY

• Zachary Wedding - Stress Redistribution in Pillars as a Function of Opening and Pillar Geometry and Material Properties - University of KY