Project Summaries: Ground Control

Thyssen Mining, Inc. AAI conducted a review of the tunnel design (completed by others) and recommended changes for Thyssen Mining (the construction contractor) whose corporate office is located [...]

Elk Creek Geotechnical Program Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) has been involved in long-term geotechnical investigation and design at the Oxbow Mining, LLC, Elk Creek Mine, dating back to the [...]

Sandia National Laboratories AAI was contracted to Sandia National Laboratories to provide geotechnical, analytical, and field services to the Yucca Mountain site characterization studies in the [...]

Underground Coal Gasification Cavern Subsidence GasTech, Inc. (GasTech) is in the process of permitting a series of underground coal gasification (UCG) wells as part of a pilot project in the [...]

Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) was contracted to conduct an investigation of a mine roof fall, review repair procedures, develop instrumentation recommendations, suggest modifications to blasting [...]

Longwall Gateroad Analysis AAI performed a comparative stability evaluation for the East Longwall Panel 8 Gateroads.  Four different gateroads were analyzed, including three- and four-entry [...]

West Ridge Resources, Inc. (WRRI) commissioned Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) to analyze subsidence potential from planned longwall mining in the vicinity of the Grassy Trail reservoir adjacent [...]

Mining Engineering Support for Underground Mined Storage Caverns Since 2003, Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) has provided mining engineering support to PBESS for their underground mined [...]

AAI was contracted by the City Engineer for a Midwest municipality to study the practicality of disposing of water treatment sludge in an underground stone mine near the treatment plant. The [...]

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 [...]

AAI has assisted NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) in several of their mining research efforts.  AAI provided the programming for the STOP program (Support Technology [...]

13th U.S./North American Mine Ventilation Conference, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, June 2010 Authors: A. Adu-Acheampong and S. B. Patton (AAI) and J. Breen (Agnico-Eagle Mexico, SA de CV, Chihuahua, [...]