Ammonite Senior Consultant Betsy Suppes has been elected vice president of the International Institute of Mineral Appraisers (IIMA) at the Society of Mining Metallurgy and Exploration annual meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona. Suppes, credentialed as a certified minerals appraiser with the IIMA, will hold the office for two years. She presented a paper at the conference titled “Case Studies in Appraisals: When a Few Months Makes a Difference Using the Comparable Sales Approach to Value”. Since becoming a certified mineral appraiser in 2020, Betsy has brought a number of projects into the Ammonite fold for which our firm’s consultants have provided appraisals of mineral interests and served as expert witnesses in litigation matters. Ammonite is currently evaluating the expansion of a large commercial sand and gravel operation onto some 30 acres of a client’s farmland in Central New York. The landowner approached Suppes in her capacity as a mineral appraiser.