UMR "mucking" teams to compete in Montana
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Members of the men’s and women’s "mucking" teams at UMR will compete in Butte, Mont., against teams from other colleges and universities around the world April 2-3.
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| Members of the 2003 men’s team competing in the mucking event. |
Last year the competition was held on the teams’ home turf with the women’s team placing first and a men’s team coming in second.
The competition consists of teams using old-fashioned mining methods and hand-held tools to compete in timed events, including gold panning, surveying, hand-mucking, hand-steeling, track-standing, Swede sawing and jackleg drilling.
