More than 37 countries were represented during the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration‘s (SME) Annual Meeting and Exhibit at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City Feb. 23-26. The event featured nearly 700 professional papers presented in 117 technical sessions and eight professional short courses.
According to SME, only the 2013 annual meeting, held in SME’s headquarters city of Denver, rivaled the 2014 meeting’s attendance figures. The Salt Lake City meeting saw the second highest numbers on record, including 6,722 attendees; 804,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space; 613 international attendees; and 656 student attendees.
