Underground Mining
Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) has many years of experience in providing underground mining engineering services across the entire spectrum of mining methods in soft- and hard-rock-depositional environments.
Our experience includes underground mining engineering applications in:
- Hard- and soft-rock mining
- Longwall mining
- Room-and-pillar mining
- Block caving and backfilling
- Sub-level caving
- Stoping systems
- Shaft design
Our capabilities
- Design and evaluation of mining systems
- Design and evaluation of ground support
- Design of access slopes and shafts
- Resource recovery optimization
- Mine Planning including geologic modeling and operations scheduling
- Design and evaluation of ventilation systems
- 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
- Merger and acquisition due diligence, operation audits
