Tony:
The practice of students working in the UK the first summer
and abroad the second was also used at Leeds up through the mid '60s
when I was there. Having spent the previous year, before going to
Leeds, as an Apprentice in the Northumberland Area I went down to
Snowdown in Kent where, at 3,000 ft, it was a lot warmer but also
more mechanized. The following summer I also went to Sweden, but up
to Adakgruvan near the Arctic Circle. (That year just about
everyone else went down to Australia).
At Leeds the reports for the second year were evaluated against one
another, and one or more were published in the Leeds Mining Dept
Journal. But I don't know how long that practice continued and I
can't remember whether we got ours back - I do remember that we had
to present them with slides. They were written by hand and the
illustrations were the same way.
Dave
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David A. Summers
Curators' Professor of Mining Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director
Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
University of Missouri-Rolla,
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http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/faculty/biography.html
Rock Mechanics http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/
Waterjet Lab: http://www.umr.edu/~waterjet/
UMR Stonehenge: http://www.umr.edu/~stonehen/
Personal: http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/data/Summers.html
Mining Eng. http://www.umr.edu/~mining/
Waterjet Assoc http://www.wjta.org/
International Waterjet Society: http://www.iw.uni-hannover.de/iswjt/
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