Phosphate Mineral Resource/Reserves and Prefeasibility Study Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) was commissioned by Stonegate Agricom Ltd. to complete a Canadian National Instrument 43-101 independent Mineral Resource/Mineral Reserve estimate and Preliminary Feasibility Study (PFS) for the Paris Hills Phosphate Project located in Paris, Idaho. The Project represents a new underground phosphate rock mine in southeast Idaho [...]
Potash/Fertilizer Minerals
Potash and Borate Mine Planning AAI was contracted by Satimola, Ltd. (Satimola) to conduct a Preliminary Assessment for commercial mining of their potash deposit located in Kazakhstan. In 2006, AAI completed a review of mining options for a borate deposit on the same property. The potash deposits are beneath a dissolution layer and the borate [...]
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 [...]
Preliminary Evaluation, Solution Mining Potash Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) was commissioned to prepare a preliminary evaluation of the potential for solution mining an offshore occurrence of deep, thick, high-grade potash consisting of a mixture of sylvinite and carnallite with associated langbeinite and polyhalite for a prospect in northern Africa. The Scope of Work consisted of [...]
Order of Magnitude Study Rio Tinto Industrial Minerals (Rio Tinto) commissioned Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI), to conduct the Order of Magnitude (OoM) study for solution mining within Rio Tinto’s exploration Permit Areas in Saskatchewan located to the East of Regina. The study included: Establish design criteria for cavern design Evaluate the potential impacts of geological [...]
Intrepid Mining LLC AAI is assisting Intrepid in developing a mine plan and permits for solution mining of depleted conventionally mined potash deposits in New Mexico. Tasks include conceptual planning, mine plan development, permit applications to the U. S. Bureau of Land Management and State agencies, costing and project management.
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 [...]
(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 [...]
Intrepid purchased the Moab, Utah, potash solution mining operation formerly owned by PCS. Solution mining of existing room-and-pillar workings was initiated in 1970. AAI participated in the technical evaluation of resource recovery utilizing long, horizontal solution caverns. Engineering contributions include estimation of cavern heat loss, evaluation of hydraulic fracture gradients surrounding deep caverns, assessment of [...]
(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 [...]
