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Student Field Trips
Geological Engineering students get involved with a wide variety of
field trips because so much of geological engineering work is outdoors,
and there are a wide variety of applications nearby
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Student class visit to CME industries where we watched how drilling rigs
and equipment were manufactured. We also were given a drilling
demonstration, and the students were allowed to drive the tracked
rig using the remote control joy sticks. |
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Rock engineering class visit to Graniteville MO. Student saw how
large concrete blocks (up to 35 tons) are extracted from the ground at
Missouri Red Granite Quarries. Students also got to visit the
famous Elephant Rocks State Park, as well as visiting Hughes Mountain
where rare geological structures can be observed. |
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Aggregates and Quarrying class visits Springfield Underground, an
aggregate mine that uses the mined-out part of their facility for
underground storage. Pictured (top row) here is the underground
rock crusher and the inclined shaft that brings the crushed rock up to
the surface processing plant. The bottom row of pictures shows the
underground storage operations. |
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Aggregates and Quarrying class visits Winter Brothers in St. Louis.
Sand and gravel are dredged from the floodplains of the Meramac River,
loaded into barges and pushed by tugboat to the processing plant.
The processing plant separates the gravel using screens, and removes the
water from the sand using the sand screws, placing the material in
stockpiles ready to be shipped to customers. |
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Aggregates and Quarrying class visits US Silica operation in Pacific.
This former underground mine extracts almost 100% pure silica (think the
best beach sand you have ever seen). The operation uses a water
cannon to break up the rock into small fragments and to create a slurry
that is transported by pipes to the processing plant. |
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