Uranium Resource Estimate 43-101 Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) was engaged by Concentric Energy Corporation to complete the original independent NI 43-101 Technical Report and resource estimate for the Anderson Mine uranium and vanadium property located near the town of Wickenburg, Yavapai County, in west-central Arizona, USA. Mineralization occurs in the sequence of Miocene-age lacustrine (lake-bed) [...]
Resource/Reserve Evaluation
Paradox Basin Potash Project AAI performed resource and exploration target estimates for Transit Holdings Ltd’s Paradox Basin Potash Project (PBPP) in 2009 and 2010. The PBPP comprises potash (KCl) mineralization in two beds of interest and consists of more than 370 square kilometers of Federal Mineral Leases, currently under application with the Bureau of Land [...]
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 engineering services required to bring this large underground, multi-seam coal mining operation into production. At full production, the New Elk Coal Company mining complex is scheduled to produce over [...]
American Soda, L.L.P. Agapito Associates, Inc. has been actively involved with the American Soda Project from 1997 through 2003. Major projects include: Stability assessment of pilot test cavern for permit application Design of subsurface solution mining plan Design of solution well completion Support in permit application to BLM, EPA, and affected counties Core drilling (7 [...]
Subsurface Minerals Permit On July 12, 2010, Western Potash filed with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) a 43-101 report titled “Technical Report Concerning Mineral Resource Estimates, Subsurface Mineral Permits KP 408 and KP 409, Saskatchewan” prepared by Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI). The permit area is approximately 50 km southeast of the Mosaic Belle Plaine potash [...]
AAI completed an NI 43-101 compliant Technical Report concerning the potash resources contained in the Subsurface Mineral Permit KP 441 in the Langham area northwest of Saskatoon in central Saskatchewan, Canada. The permit area is approximately 50 km north of the crescent-shaped conventional potash mining belt that extends from Delisle on the west to Colonsay [...]
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 at Kazan, Turkey, were completed by AAI. The solution mining option was aggressively pursued by Rio Tinto and AAI was responsible for design of deep horizontal caverns, resource definition, [...]
(now owned by K+S) Feasibility Study Solution Mining AAI recently completed a Feasibility Study in conjunction with SNC Lavalin and Potash One for solution mining the Legacy project located to the south of the KP 289 permit area and where the recent exploration drilling and 3D seismic has confirmed the Measured and Indicated Resource. AAI [...]
Intrepid Potash LLC In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Agapito Associates, Inc. prepared a United States Security Exchange Commission compliant reserve estimate for all five potash operations for Intrepid Potash. This included two underground dry mines located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, an evaporative pond operation near Wendover, Utah, a flooded mine operation near Moab, Utah, and [...]
(formerly ISX Resources, Inc.) Subsurface Mineral Permit AAI completed a NI 43-101 compliant Technical Report concerning the potash resources contained in the Subsurface Mineral Permit KP 289 in the Findlater area in southern Saskatchewan Canada. The permit area is immediately north of the Mosaic Belle Plaine potash solution mining operation and contains similar quality potash [...]
Rio Tinto Technical Services: Conceptual and Feasibility Assessment AAI has completed studies leading to prefeasibility and feasibility level mine plans for solution mining the Potassio Rio Colorado potash deposits in Mendoza Provence, Argentina (now Vale). These deposits have long been known and were drilled in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and again in 2005. A [...]
Numerous projects have been performed for Andalex. A technical review and recommendations were presented on the feasibility of converting mining operations in three seams from room-and-pillar to longwall. The project included reviews of the geologic setting, lithology, structure, and longwall mineable reserves, as well as evaluation of mine ventilation plan, methane control, ground control plan, [...]
