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August 2006

International Conference on Ground Control in Mining (ICGCM)


Table of Contents

25 Years of International Conference on Ground Control in Mining —

Reflection on Why and What We Have Achieved? ……………………….......... 3

Sponsors ...………………………………………………………………………..…….….. 5

Organizing Committee Members ……………………………………………..…..……... 5

Proceedings Editors …………………………………………………………..…………... 7

Activities — Golfing and Mine Trip Coordinators …………………………..…….…... 8

ICGCM Webpage Webmaster ……………………………………….……….…..……... 8

Poster Display …………………………………………………...……………….…….…. 8

Proceedings Cover and Certificate Design …………………….………..……….…....... 8

Souvenirs Design and Selection ………………………………….………………..….…. 8

Staff ………………………………………………………………….……..……....….….. 8

Selected List of Authors and Speakers …………………………………..….……….…. 9

Selected List of Attendees …………………………………………………..…..…….… 10

Attendees Distribution Chart ……………………………………………….………...... 11

ICGCM Website URL ………………………………………………………… Back Cover

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Reflection on Why and What We Have Achieved?

by

Syd S. Peng Chair, ICGCM Organizing Committee

I received my undergraduate education in mining engineering in Taiwan. After 4 years of work in under-

ground coal mines in Taiwan, I discovered there was a big gap between theory and practice. This prompted me to came to the US for advanced study in 1965 for further my studies. In 1974 I joined West Virginia University. As I traveled to coal mines performing research in Appalachia, many practitioners did not know what ground control technology was available. Conversely many research results were not realistic as the practitioners found out from application experience. I also found that equipment played a key role in mine design, most ground control prod-ucts in use were developed by equipment manufacturers, and that any new products must be approved by regula-tory bodies before being used in the mines. Therefore, in order to advance the state-of-the-art in ground control, a forum was urgently needed whereby researchers, practitioners (mine operators and consultants), equipment manufacturers, and government regulators could meet regularly and exchange information in a timely manner.

After having solicited support from SME, USBM, and US Rock Mechanics Symposium without success, I

went alone to organize the First Conference in the summer of 1981. The First and Second Conferences were so successful that US Rock Mechanics Symposium asked me to join them. As a result, the Third Conference was held jointly with the 24th US Rock Mechanics Symposium at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. The atten-dance from mine operators was so poor that I decided a separate conference dedicated to mining was the only way to go. We skipped 1984, as I sought input from the stakeholders. In 1985 I solicited USBM’s and MSHA’s support, and they agreed to co-sponsor the 4th Conference. In 1989, West Virginia University hosted the 30th US Rock Mechanics Symposium and the 8th Conference was held in conjunction with it.

All but three conferences in the past 25 years have been held in Morgantown. In 1992, we had the opportu-

nity to go to Australia for the 11th Conference hosted by the University of Wollongong, and in 1996, it was hosted by Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. Logistically and due to popular requests, the Organizing Committee decided unanimously to stay in Morgantown, WV.

We have organized 25 ground control conferences plus three surface subsidence workshops. A total of 1,219 papers have been presented with more than 5,500 speakers and attendees from all mineral producing states in the US and 33 foreign countries*. It is truly an international forum.

During the past 25 years, we have boldly dealt with all kinds of subjects and promoted many innovative ideas related to mining, including legal, exploration, geology and surface and underground mining. We have in-troduced many new ground control technologies to the industry. Some of which have become industry standards today. It has become and is recognized as the best forum for introducing new ground control products.


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Speakers and attendees in every conference include academia, consultants, government regulators, manufac-

turers, mine operators, researchers, and support service providers. There are many heated debates. One unique feature of the conference is that many stay for the technical session until the very end of the conference. It is truly the annual forum for exchange of information among those professionals - we have achieved what we set out to do!

In addition to information exchange, the conference also provides opportunity for commercial deals from

product sales to company mergers/buyouts. Likewise, ground control engineers from individual companies plan and hold their special meetings in conjunction with the conferences.

The conference has also inspired several national ground control conferences in the world, e.g., Australia, China, and India.

I am proud to say that our conference proceedings are different from all other conferences in that I personally

read every paper carefully, make comments, both technically and editorially, and interact with the authors to make it clean, uniform and above all, technically correct. In recent years, members of the Organizing Committee from NIOSH (Gerry Finfinger, Chris Mark and Steve Tadolini) help review the papers.

I also firmly believe that our attendees get the best value out of their registration fee. Aside from quality pa-pers, and well-known personalities in the field, the social events (i.e, reception, golfing, picnic and lunches) pro-vide ample opportunity for friendship. In this respect, I am grateful for our loyal equipment manufacturers for sponsoring these events year after year.

I believe we have firmly established the role of ground control in mine design. Today, ground control is stan-

dard terminology in mining engineering. It has replaced the conventional reference to “Roof Control.” In my opinion, ground control not only covers roof, rib and floor controls, it also includes strata movement including failure between surface and coal seam. With this concept, the line of thought when confronting a ground control problem is wider and broader resulting in more appropriate and lasting solutions.

In the past 25 years, we have elevated “ground control” to become duly recognized as a major discipline in

mining operations. However, there are still many challenges ahead. Problems related to basics remain in nearly all subject areas. Research combining theory and practice must

continue in earnest to improve them. To this end, I have established the annual Syd S. Peng Ground Control in Mining Award with SME (Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc.) in 2005 to promote and encourage the continuing development of ground control technology in mining. * Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzgovina, Brazil, China, Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guy-ana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe.

1981 – 2006 Achievement

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Sponsors

— Year Beginning to Sponsor the Conference —


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Agapito Associates, Inc., Grand Junction, CO 2004 (23rd Conference)

CONSOL Energy, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 1999 (18th Conference)

Excel Mining Systems , Bowerston, OH 2002 (21st Conference)

Fasloc, Inc. (formerly DuPont Fasloc Anchorage System), Martinsburg, WV 1993 (12th Conference)

Hilti Corporation, Tulsa, OK 2006 (25th Conference)

J. H. Fletcher & Co., Huntington, WV 2001 (20th Conference)

Micon, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 1997 (16th Conference)

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Washington, DC 1985 (4th Conference)

Minova USA, Inc. (formerly Fosroc, Inc., Celtite Mining Division), Georgetown, KY

1993 (12th Conference)

NIOSH (formerly U.S. Bureau of Mines), Washington, DC 1985 (4th Conference)

West Virginia Coal Association, Charleston, WV 1994 (13th Conference)

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1981 (1st Conference)

Organizing Committee Members

— Year (Conference) beginning to Serve — Members of the Organizing Committee assist in promoting the conference, identifying speakers/authors, and

selection of abstracts/papers for the Conference program.

Present members Syd Peng, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (Chair) 1981 (1st) Keith Heasley, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (Co-Chair) 2003 (22nd) A. Wahab Khair, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (Co-Chair) 1981 (1st) Chris Mark, NIOSH – Pittsburgh, PA (Co-Chair) 1998 (17th) Mike Amick, Engineering Service Co., Lexington, KY 1997 (16th) Naj Aziz, University of Wollongong, Australia 1993 (12th) Klaus-Dieter Beck, Foundation Coal Corp., Linthicum Heights, MD 2002 (21st) David Bigby, Rock Mechanics Technology, United Kingdom 2003 (22nd) Tom Blevins, Fasloc Inc., Martinsburg, WV 1997 (16th) Al Campoli, Minova USA, Inc., Georgetown, KY 2005 (24th) Bruce Cassidy, Excel Mining Systems, Bowerston, OH 2004 (23rd) Gerry Finfinger, NIOSH – PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 1997 (16th) Dick Gray, Digioia, Gray & Associates, Pittsburgh, PA 1990 (9th) Chris Hamilton, WV Coal Association, Charleston, WV 1995 (14th) Doug Hardman, J. H. Fletcher & Co., Huntington, WV 2001 (20th) Greg Hasenfus, CONOL Energy, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 1995 (14th) Bruce Hebblewhite, University of New South Wales, Australia 1999 (18th) John Hoelle, Anglo Coal Australia, Australia 1995 (14th) Mike Jenkins, NIOSH – SRL, Spokane, WA 2005 (24th) Mike Karmis, VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA 1987 (6th) Frank Kendorski, Agapito & Associates, Lombard, IL 2002 (21st) Hani Mitri, McGill University, Canada 2002 (21st) David Newman, Appalachian Mining and Engineering, Lexington, KY 2004 (23rd) John Rusnak, Peabody Energy, St. Louis, MO 2001 (20th) Vincent Scovazzo, John T. Boyd Co., Pittsburgh, PA 2001 (20th) Steve Tadolini, NIOSH – PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 1999 (18th) Nielen van der Merwe, University of Pretoria, South Africa 1995 (14th) Holger Witthaus, Deutsche Steinkohle AG, Germany 2005 (24th) Kelvin Wu, MSHA, Pittsburgh, PA 1985 (4th) Past Members P. Altounyan, Rock Mechanics Technology, United Kingdom 1999 – 2002 Karl Brandt, DSK, Germany 2004


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R. C. Briggs, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC 1990 – 1991 Fred Carr, Jim Walter Resources, Brookwood, AL 1988 – 1996 Y. Paul Chugh, SIU-Carbondale, IL 1988 – 1990 Matt DeMarco, NSA Engineering, Golden, CO 1999 – 2001 John DeMichiei, Cyprus Amax Coal, Denver, CO 1999 – 2001 Ed Doney, Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. Ponca City, OK 1994 – 2002 I. W. Farmer, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1988 – 1998 Greg Hendon, Jim Walter Resources, Brookwood, AL 1997 – 2000 Ros Hill, NIOSH – SRL, Spokane, WA 2000 – 2004 John Karhnak, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC 1982 J. Hilary Kelley, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1981 - 1985 David Neil, NSA Engineering, Golden, CO 2002 K. Opolony, DSK, Germany 2001 – 2002 Rao Pothini, Island Creek Coal, Richland, VA 1988 – 1999 R. C. Repsher, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC 1993 – 1996 John Stankus, Jennmar Corp., Pittsburgh, PA 1997 – 2002 Lew Wade, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA 1981 C. S. Wang, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC 1985 – 1989

Proceedings Editors

Naj I. Aziz, University of Wollongong, Australia 1992 Ernest Y. Baafi, University of Wollongong, Australia 1992 Gerry Finfinger, NIOSH-PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 2004 – present Kanaan Hanna, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Denver, CO 1996 Khamis Y. Haramy, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Denver, CO 1996 Keith Heasley, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 2002 – present Jay H. Kelley, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1982 – 1985 A. Wahab Khair, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1986, 2001 –

present Yi Luo, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 2006 – present Chris Mark, NIOSH-PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 1999 – present Levent Ozdemir, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 1996 Syd S. Peng, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1981 – present Steve Tadolini, NIOSH-PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 2004 – present


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Activities — Golfing and Mine Trip Coordinators Gerry Finfinger, Greg Hasenfus, Steve Tadolini, Chris Mark and Wahab Khair 1998 – present ICGCM Webpage Webmaster

Felicia Peng, West Virginia University 1996 – present Poster Display Charles (Kevin) Luster, NIOSH – PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 2002 – present Cynthia Farrier, NIOSH – PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 2002 – present Proceedings Abstracts CD David Xianguang Tang, West Virginia University 2000 – 2004 Jisheng Han, West Virginia University 2005 Qinghua Jin, West Virginia University 2006 Proceedings Cover and Certificate Design Yi Luo, West Virginia University 1990 – present Souvenirs Design and Selections Gerry Finfinger, NIOSH – PRL, Pittsburgh, PA 2000 – present Felicia Peng, West Virginia University, WV 2001, 2006 Staff

Karen Centofanti, West Virginia University 1985 – present

Jennet Cooley, West Virginia University 2006 – present Alice Kerns, West Virginia University 1982 – 1990 Sherry Strahin, West Virginia University 1991 – 1997


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Selected List of Authors and Speakers

Over the past 25 years, there have been 1,219 papers presented and published in the proceedings. These papers have 1,390 authors and co-authors. Listed below are only those authors and co-authors with 10 or more papers are listed.

Author No. Paper Author No. Paper Tom Barczak 29 Chris Mark 44

David Bigby 12 Kikuo Matsui 15

Al Campoli 15 Greg Molinda 15

Frank E. Chase 13 Tom P. Mucho 11 Jinsheng Chen 17 David A. Newman 10

Y. Paul Chugh 16 David C. Oyler 12

Dennis Dolinar 19 Syd S. Peng 77

Y. Haramy Khamis 12 Axel Preusse 10

Greg Hasenfus 11 Hideki Shimada 10

Chris Haycocks 24 Steve Signer 14

Keith Heasley 17 John C. Stankus 18

Anthony Iannacchione 14 Daniel W. H. Su 17

Mike Karmis 22 Steve Tadolini 15

Frank S. Kendorski 10 Kot Unrug 18

A. Wahab Khair 15 Ya Jie Wang 10

Yi Luo 23 Barry Whittaker 10

Hamid Maleki 19 Yinxin Zhou 10

Selected List of Attendees

Attendance Awards

Over the past 25 years, there have been a total of 4,173 attendees, excluding the attendees of the Third and Eleventh Conferences. Listed below are those attendees with 10 or more years.

Attendee Years Attendee Year Mike Amick 12 Gene Krupa 13

Tom Barczak 17 Frank Locotos 16

Chuck Battistoni 15 Yi Luo 18

Nelson Blake 14 Chris Mark 21

Tom Blevins 11 Raymond Mazzoni 13

Bill Bookshar 12 Cliff McCartney 15

John Breedlove 11 Peter Mills 10

Al Campoli 16 Mike Mishra 12

Frank Chase 20 Greg Molinda 16

Jinsheng Chen 13 David Oyler 12

Dennis Dolinar 13 Deno Pappas 12

Gerry Finfinger 15 Joe Subrick 16

Dick Gray 17 Vincent Scovazzo 16

Greg Hasenfus 19 Brian Shaffer 10

Keith Heasley 12 Daniel W. H. Su 16

Terry Hoch 19 Steve Tadolini 15

Tony Iannacchione 13 Mike Thomson 15

Mike Karmis 11 Kot Unrug 18

A. Wahab Khair 21 Kelvin K. Wu 22

George Karabin 18 Joe Zelanko 16

Kewal Kohli 15 Ed Zeglen, Jr. 12

Foundation Coal Corporation Special thanks to Foundation Coal Corporation and its predecessor companies for continuing sup-port by sending the largest group of attendees to our conference year after year


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