Pit & Quarry, July 2015
PI T QUARRY HALL OF FAME all types of mining including mineral mining prospecting and transportation of minerals He says the museum gets about 20000 visitors per year NMHFM honors 232 mining industry leaders The museum inducted Dr Frank Aplan T S Ary Ralph Bailey John Campbell Greenway and Edward Steidle to the museum this year When Pit Quarry approached the museum with the suggestion of adding an aggregates exhibit Whittington realized one could bring in more visitors A lot of people who read the magazine are The NMHFM includes an exhibit from NASA that showcases what the future of mining could be like on other planetary bodies located in the Midwest or East Whittington says But at the museum weve made a lot more inroads in the West This is a great opportunity to expand our presence to another part of the country and to another segment of mining Fulop says the partnership gives the magazine a tangible place to honor its hall of fame inductees Without the partnership the only place we had to showcase our inductees was here in our office in Cleveland Ohio Fulop says But if we showcased our inductees here no one in the industry would have been able to see their plaques Partnering with NMHFM means we have a brick and mortar place to showcase our hall of famers Bernie Grove a 2014 Pit Quarry Hall of Fame inductee of M J Grove Lime Co says he feels honored that hell be included in NMHFMs exhibits Grove appreciates that more people from the aggregates industry will be represented in the museum The National Mining Hall of Fame Museum is almost legendary to anyone in the mining business Grove says I recently did a tour of it and got to see all the legends in there from the mining industry Its really a great place to go 46 PIT QUARRY July 2015 www pitandquarry com
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