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• Position: Careers - International Intercollegiate Mining Competition - Brief article

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Call it more March Madness. The International Intercollegiate Mining Competition, held this year at the University of Nevada, Reno, in March, combined the passion of sports with the grit of hard-core mineral mining. This year's contestants--mining engineering students from 15 colleges around the world--reenacted 18th- and 19th-century backbreaking mining techniques, including those used during California's Gold Rush in the 1840s and 50s. The jackleg event, for example, tests who can bore...