Mining leads to environmental movements and technical conferences

Here are more good reasons why you should be allowed to attend mining-related conferences. Forget the obvious reasons that you are presenting a paper and/or need to keep up with technology in your area of expertise. Let me elaborate on why you should be chosen to go to a mining conference by explaining why I am going to the 2007 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting in Denver.