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Rock Mechanics

Agapito Associates, Inc., (AAI) is capable of providing a variety of services which characterize the geologic and hydrologic setting, and supplement the design and construction of underground and surface facilities.  The scope of these services ranges from the initial site characterization to project completion.

Why AAI?

• Over 25 years of experience

• We understand your needs

• Planning, data collection, and interpretation services available under one roof

Capabilities

• Site characterization

• Mine stability assessments

• Design of underground and surface rock mechanics programs

• Installation & monitoring of instrumentation

• Mine reclamation

• Overcoring stress determinations

• Laboratory & in situ testing

• Hydrological & gas testing

• FLAC/UDEC modelling

• PFC modelling

• Underground core drilling

• Geotechnical database design & management

• Geologic & geotechnical logging & mapping

• Rock slope design

• Subsidence evaluation

• Groundwater monitoring

• Permit support (EIS, EA)

Featured Project List  

• Mining Engineering

• Ventilation Engineering

• Highwall Mining

• Blasting & Explosives Eng.

• Solution Mining

• Rock Testing

• Stress Measurements

• Forensic Engineering

• Geology & Drilling Management

• AmerAlia, Inc., Nahcolite and Sodium Leases, Piceance Creek Basin, CO

• American Soda LLP, Yankee Gulch Sodium Minerals Project, Parachute, CO

• Asamera Minerals (USA), Inc., Cannon Mine, Wenatchee, WA

• BHP Billiton, San Juan Mine Instrumentation Project, NM

• Copper Range Co., White Pine Mine, White Pine, MI

• Colowyo Coal, Longwall Pre-feasibilty Study, Meeker, CO

• Homestake Mining Company, Mine Sealing Slope Stability Evaluation, Pitch Reclamation Project, Sargents, CO

• Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Spur Ventures Inc., Yichang Phosphate Evaluations, FL (China)

• FMC Wyoming Corporation, FMC Trona Mine, Green River, WY

• Mountain Coal Company, Geotechnical Instrumentation for Panel 14 Gateroads, West Elk Mine, Somerset, CO

• OCI Wyoming LP/Rhone-Poulenc of Wyoming, Big Island Mine, Green River, WY

• Rogers Group, Inc., Bloomington Crushed Stone Underground Project, Bloomington, IN

• Sandia National Laboratories, YMP North Ramp Geotechnical Logging, Albuquerque, NM

• Shell Oil Co., Oil Shale Tracts C-11 and C-18; Red Pinnacle & Zeta Projects, Piceance Creek Basin, CO

• Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, PB Power, Santeetlah Dam Stress Determinations, Boston, MA

• Solvay Minerals, Inc., Stress Determinations, Green River, WY

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Expert System for Diagnosis Seepage Problems Associated with Dams

• Wold Trona Co., Inc., Benetron Underground Project, Green River, WY

Project Summaries - Mineral

• Base Metals

• Coal

• Fertilizer Minerals

• Gold

• Limestone

• Oil Shale

• Trona

• Other

Project Summaries - Capability

• Backfill

• Block Caving

• Directional Drilling

• Forensics

• Geologic Studies

• Longwall

• Mine Reclamation

• Overcoring Stress Determinations

• Resource/Reserve Evaluation

• Slope Stability

• Solution Mining

• Subsidence