SME Mining Exhibition to Kick Off Sunday in Phoenix

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) will hold the 2010 annual meeting and exhibition celebrating 100 years of mining research from February 28 through March 3 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Industrial Info will be exhibiting at the show at Booth #1704 and will be giving demonstrations of its Energy and Metals & Minerals Industry project-spending opportunity coverage at the show. Click on this link to set up a meeting. In the Americas alone, more than 800 mining projects are under development, totaling about $330 billion, according to Industrial Info's project database.

Chaired by Bruce Watzman, Senior V.P. Regulatory Affairs for the National Mining Association, the exhibition keynote session will include an address by Richard C. Adkerson, President and CEO of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Incorporated, as well as the following speakers: Jeffery Kohler, Associate Director of Mining for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Steven Leer, Chairman and CEO of Arch Coal Incorporated; Gary Goldberg, President and CEO of Rio Tinto Minerals; Michael Hood, CEO of CRC Mining; Raja Ramani, Emeritus Professor of Mining and GeoEnv Engineering at Penn State University.

Come by and visit us at booth #1704 for a demonstration and learn more about our project coverage and recently released South America Mining Industry Wall Map - 1st Edition.

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