Tunnel And Shaft Conference Spotlights Wider Acceptance Of Boring Methods
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 5
- File Size:
- 163 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 7, 1968
Abstract
What progress has been made in rapid excavation of tunnels and shafts? Where do we go from here? To get some answers to these questions was the reason that 500 tunnel men-contractors, geologists, professors, lawyers, mining engineers--came to the University of Minnesota May 15-17. The attendance of 500 astonished conference organizer Professor D. H. Yardley, who had anticipated half that number. They came from Japan, South Africa, Austria, Sweden, and Australia to name a few, and an officer of the Corps of Engineers thought all his people should have been there. The Civil and Mining Engineering Departments of the University combined for the program, which was staged by M. K. Cragun for the General Extension Division. The Saga of the Oso Tunnel The present state of the art of rapid excavation is "good." There is little controversy about where we go from here and what's more, this reporter finds that the technical know-how to automate excavation in any kind of ground is extant, even if it will take some years to achieve this state. In a nut- shell though, the present status can be seen in its various ramifications in the saga of the Oso Tunnel, as told by V. L. "Vic" Stevens of Boyles Brothers Drilling Co. :
Citation
APA: (1968) Tunnel And Shaft Conference Spotlights Wider Acceptance Of Boring Methods
MLA: Tunnel And Shaft Conference Spotlights Wider Acceptance Of Boring Methods. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1968.