Piceance Basin, Colorado American Shale Oil Corporation (AMSO) holds one of three preference right leases granted in 2007 by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management for the research, design, and [...]
Engineering Support for Start-up of Large Underground Coal Operation—Trinidad, Colorado Starting in 2009 and continuing into 2011, Agapito Associates, Inc. has provided most of the mining [...]
ExxonMobil—Upstream Research Company Since 2007, AAI has mobilized drilling equipment to the Upstream Research Company’s (URC) Colony Mine ten times for a variety of tasks. Core drilling [...]
Molybdenum ore is mined by block caving methods at Molycorp’s Questa Mine. AAI has provided geotechnical consulting services to the mine since 1979 as follows: Evaluation of decline rock support [...]
West Elk Mine—Somerset, CO AAI has provided underground geotechnical engineering services to Mountain Coal Company’s West Elk Mine since the 1980s. Services include installation of geotechnical [...]
Longwall Optimization In 1997, AAI conducted three studies for West Ridge prior to mine development. The first study addressed longwall panel orientation based on local fracture mapping, [...]
Order of Magnitude Studies and Geotechnical Characterization Order of Magnitude studies for conventional room-and-pillar mining, longwall mining, and solution mining of a potential soda ash mine [...]