TX Mining Monthly
February 2020
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Executive Director’s Message By Ches Blevins: Education and Outreach, a Goal and Effort Worth the Time
  
Are Education and Outreach REALLY worth our time and the resources and effort it takes to make this consistently successful? While I have no doubt that the answer is "Yes," it’s really YOUR answer with your effort and support that will carry the day! TMRA and I will go where your effort and support allow and direct.
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ROMCO Equipment Company
Waukesha-Pearce Industries, LLC
Industry News
Trihydro Receives 2019 EBJ Business Achievement Award
  
Each year the Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication that provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, recognizes outstanding business performance in the environmental industry with their Business Achievement Awards. Trihydro Corporation is pleased to announce that is was chosen to receive two awards in 2019: Business Achievement: Mid-Size Firm ($50 - $100 million) – Silver Medal and EBJ’s Information Technology (IT) Award.
HOLT CAT
Komatsu Mining
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Safety
Fatal U.S. Mining Accidents Dropped in 2019: Respirable Quartz and Dust Fell to All-Time Low
  
There were 24 mining fatalities in the U.S. in 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reports. This is the fewest annual fatalities ever recorded, and only the fifth year in MSHA’s 43-year history that mining fatalities were below 30.
MSHA: Annual Inflation Adjustment for Civil Penalties
On January 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor is publishing a final rule in the Federal Register that will increase Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) civil monetary penalties by 1.764%.
MSHA Safety Alert
 
 
Reclamation
6 Tips for Achieving Final Reclamation Bond Release
  
For mine owners and operators, achieving final bond release can feel like a difficult-to-reach milestone. Several factors need to align for reclamation success, and attaining final closure often takes many years — or even decades. Over the last 13 years, Trihydro has worked with clients to achieve final bond release for six mine permits in four states (Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas).
Railroad Commission Announces New Surface Mining & Communications Division Directors
The Railroad Commission of Texas announces new directors for the agency’s Surface Mining and Reclamation Division and the Communications Division. Brent A. Elliott is the SMRD director and R.J. DeSilva is the Communications director effective today, Feb. 3.
Legislative Update
Trump Budget Request Said to Include Aid for U.S. Uranium Miners
  
President Trump is planning to request money in his upcoming budget proposal for the U.S. government to purchase uranium from domestic producers, two people familiar with the matter say.
Texas Mineral Resources and USA Rare Earth Commend Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (FPISC) Decision to Add Mining as a "Covered Sector"
Texas Mineral Resources Corp. (TMRC), an exploration company targeting the heavy rare earths and a variety of other technology metals and industrial minerals, and USA Rare Earth, LLC, its funding and development partner, commend the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (FPISC) decision to add mining as a covered sector.
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2020 Quarterly Meeting Schedule: March
DATE:
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LOCATION:
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2020 TMRA/RMCMI Joint Meeting
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2020 TMRA Annual Meeting
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