Oxbow Mining—Somerset, Colorado, USA
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 [...]
Ridges Basin Dam—Durango, Colorado, USA
Weeminuche Construction Authority After detailed design of cable trenches and final instrument specifications included as part of the instrument procurement process, AAI mobilized a field crew to [...]
Chemical Lime Company—Ripplemeade, Virginia, USA
Instrumentation Installation The field work at the Kimballton Mine in Ripplemeade, Virginia, includes NX sample coring of the roof and floor of the 15E level of the mine, USBM-method overcore [...]
FMC Wyoming Corporation—Green River, WY
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. Subsidence Evaluation—Price, UT
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 [...]
Hanging Lake Tunnel—Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA
Parsons Corporation-Colorado Department of Transportation In 2010, Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) provided support to Parsons Corporation in preparing a plan to rehabilitate cross passage 5 in [...]
Assessment of Gate Road Loading Under Deep Western U.S. Conditions
3rd International Workshop on Coal Pillar Mechanics and Design, Morgantown, West Virginia, July 26, 2010 Authors: Tom Vandergrift and David Conover (AAI) Currently accepted longwall abutment [...]
Recent Experience Using Telltale Roof Monitoring Systems
29th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, Morgantown, West Virginia, July 27–29, 2010 Authors: D. Conover and T. Ross (AAI) and D. Bigby (Golder Associates (UK) Ltd) Extensive [...]
Mountain Coal Company
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 [...]
SUFCO Mine—Huntington, UT
Canyon Fuel Company Longwall Mining—Shield Support Densities AAI has performed a full range of geotechnical analyses for SUFCO in support of their longwall operations, including pillar design, [...]
Geotechnical Monitoring of High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Performance
23rd U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, University of California Berkeley, California, 25–28 August 1982 Authors: C. M. St. John (Consultant), and M. P. Hardy (AAI) The paper discusses an approach [...]
