Mining Engineering

Mountain Coal

Since its inception, Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) has provided mining engineering services across a wide spectrum of mining methods and materials, including underground, surface, highwall, and solution mining.  In addition to general mining engineering services common to all mining.  Materials/minerals mining that AAI have performed include soft- and hard-rock depositional environments:
  • Coal
  • Potash
  • Phosphate
  • Limestone
  • Oil Shale

  • Trapper Mine

    Salt
  • Trona (soda ash)
  • Base Metals
  • Precious Metals
  • Industrial Minerals/Aggregates
In addition to general mine design services, AAI has capabilities in the following areas:
  • Rock mechanics including laboratory testing
  • Mine ventilation engineering

  • Colony Mine

    Mine planning, include geologic modeling and operations
    scheduling, staffing requirements
  • Detailed mine design, including geotechnical analysis and infrastructure requirements, capital and operating costs
  • Ground control and subsidence engineering
  • Blasting engineering
  • Exploration programs and resource/reserve evaluations
  • Geotechnical instrumentation installation
  • Mining methods and equipment specification for:
    • Longwall mining
    • Room-and-pillar mining
    • Hard rock mining , including block caving and backfilling
    • Surface and highwall mining
  • Permitting
  • Merger and acquisition due diligence, operation audits

Deer Creek Mine