Photos Courtesy JR Ancheta/UAF
UAF students visit the Silver Fox Mine in October 2017.
UAF mining school looks to boost Delta center use
fall, so, even weeks later, her mem- ories of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ mine training center re- mained vivid. “It’s over-the-top reinforced because they want to have every- body get the experience of putting in bolts and the support system for the rock,” the UAF student recalled. “Every square inch is covered by some kind of bolt or other piece of metal.”
Brokaw, a sophomore in UAF’s mining engineering program, and three other students had spent a day in September at the facility near Delta Junction. “I’d never been underground, so I was very excited,” she said in late October. That’s how UAF educators want students such as Brokaw to feel about the center and the training available there.
Students continue to earn valuable skills in training BY SAM BISHOP SPECIAL TO THE ALASKA MINER Shelby Brokaw had never visit- ed an underground mine before this
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The Alaska Miner
Winter 2022
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