MUST arrive by 8 am. Registration open to 30 scouts plus adults. Must fill out appearance release.

Cemex Camp for Boy Scouts 474 Sand Mine

Mining in Society and Geology Badge

Agenda

I. Introduction (9:00-9:10) Community Relations-Sheri Spivey

  Pre-assessment for scouts

II. Safety (9:10-9:30) – potential hazards and protective measures used by miners (Karonica Brice)

  a. How PPE is worn and used, including a hard hat, safety glasses, earplugs,

  dust mask or respirator, self-rescue device and high-visibility vest (Distribute

  students PPE for tour)

  b. Protecting hands and feet from impact, pinch, vibration, slipping and

  tripping/falling hazards

III. Quality Control- (9:30-10:00) (Don Whitley)

IV. Mine tour (10:00-11:30) (CEMEX FEC. Plant Mgr. (Keith Bowen and Mark Loveless)

  a. Tasks required to explore, plan, permit, mine and process the resource

  mined at that site

  b. Tour the plant

V. Lunch (11:45-12:15) (Provided by CEMEX)

VI. Environmental impacts (12:15-12:45) (Cemex Environmental Mgr. – James Mott)

  a. What is being done to help control environmental impacts

  b. General permit requirements

  c. Explain reclamation as it is used in mining and how mine reclamation

  pertains to Scouting’s no-trace principles (show examples)

  d. What values society has about returning the land to the benefit of wildlife

  and people after mining has ended; discuss the transformation of the BSA

  Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve from a mine site to its current

  role

VII. Geology (1:00-1:45) - (Matt Lewis or David Norton)

  a. What metals and minerals are recycled after their original use has ended

  b. List 4 metals and 2 non-metals and find out how each can be recycled

  c. Find out how recycling affects the sustainability of natural resources and

  how this idea is related to mining

  d. Review of Florida Geology

  e. If it’s not grown, it’s mined

VIII. Post-assessment (1:45-2:00) Sheri Spivey