The Robert E. Murray Innovation Award was established in 2017 to recognize individuals or organizations who advance the mining industry through the implementation of technical innovation. Its primary focus is to award operations or organizations that are changing the mining industry through the inclusion or adaptation of cutting edge technologies and innovative processes. It will recognize an organization or individual that has implemented a new technology, or approach that has seen their idea come to fruition within the past five years.
Past Award Recipients
2023 – CONSOL Energy Inc.
2022 – Hecla Mining Company-Lucky Friday Mine
2021 – Stratalis Consulting
2020 – James D. Humphrey
2019 – Innovative Wireless Technologies
2018 – National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health