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Show Mining Congress Sets Meeting in Seattle The 1961 Metal Mining and Industrial Minerals Convention of the American Mining Congress Con-gress will be held in Seattle, Washington, September 11-13, Julian Conover, executive vice president of the national mining min-ing organization, announced this week. This will be the first time since 1953 that the Mining Congress Con-gress has met in Seattle, he said, and mining men throughout the country are eagerly looking forward for-ward to this opportunity of again meeting in the Pacific North- west. Conover also announced that plans for the convention are going go-ing forward rapidly under the direction of Robert M. Hardy Jr., president, Sunshine Mining Co.. who is chairman of the AMC's Western Division. Hardy has named S. M. Strohecker Jr., manager, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Ne-mours & Co., Seattle, as co-chairman of the General Committee which is making arrangements for the convention. The important post of program committee chairman has been accepted ac-cepted by J. C. Kieffer, general manager, American Smelting and Refining Co., Wallace, Idaho. Under his direction, a nationwide nation-wide committee representing all mining areas of the United States will be appointed, and will develop de-velop a comprehensive program dealing with the industry's problems prob-lems in matters of national policy together with new developments and progress in the fields of minerals min-erals exploration, underground and open-pit mining, minerals beneficiation, and health and safety. |