Kelli Mccormick Email & Phone Number

Rapid City, Sd, Us

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

As a Senior Lecturer, I teach a variety of classes including mineralogy and petrology, mineral exploration and geostatistics, and geoscience modeling. Additionally, I terach both undergraduate and graduate level computer applications in mining courses. The undergraduate course is focused on Vulcan software, but includes PointStudio and Talpac, The graduate course focuses on Vulcan and Deswik software. I have been an instructor for geology and geological engineering field camps in the summer for the Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station.As a geologist teaching in a mining engineering department, and having spoken in depth with industry representatives, it is clear there is a great need for cross-disciplinary interaction/training among geologists, geological engineers, mining engineers, and metallurgists. Along those lines, I have been focusing on developing classes to serve that purpose. including Geometallurgyc, which I co-teach with faculty in the Metallurgy department. This class emphasizes communication and team work between disciplines. I also teach a course called 'The influence of ore deposit types on the mining cycle'. This class takes a different approach to the same need. It focuses on broader concepts of how ore deposit types control decisions in mining and processing and the environmental challenges.

Rapid City, Sd

As Director of the MSHA state grant program, I scheduled and taught MSHA new miner and refresher classes.

Analyzed and interpreted surface and subsurface geological data in South Dakota. Major projects included the study of glacial sediments in and geologic history of southeastern South Dakota, creation of aquifer materials maps in southeastern South Dakota, and construction of a Precambrian terrane map and basement contour maps across the state, and the study of the assembly of the North American craton in this region. I am also a co-author of the South Dakota stratigraphic correlation chart and the cross-section showing geophysical logs of Phanerozoic rocks in South Dakota, Other job duties included geophysical logging of test holes and drill rig geologist.

Characterized texural, mineralogical, and geochemical halos associated with the embayments and mineralization within the footwall breccia around the Fraser Mine, North Range, Sudbury Structure.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences

Master'S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Geology