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Solution Mining

Agapito Associates, Inc., (AAI) offers integrated capabilities in geology, permitting, drilling, rock mechanics, and solution mining design. The AAI staff offers over 20 years experience in salt, potash, sulphur, trona, and nahcolite solution mining.  AAI has provided solution mining expertise worldwide. AAI’s solution mining services include task-specific technical support, feasibility assessment, and complete solution mining project management.

Capabilities

• Geological characterization
• Lithologic, structural, and geotechnical logging
• Laboratory testing
• Geophysical log interpretation
• Resource characterization
• Drilling management
• Directional & conventional drill planning
• Field operations management
• Solution mining well design
• Monitoring well design
• Solution mine cavern design and stability analysis
• Solution mine cavern characterization
• Subsidence analysis and monitoring
• Well field design
• Solution mining instrumentation and equipment selection
• Solution mine planning
• Capital and operating estimates
• Permitting (EA, EIS and UIC)
• Project management
• Operational efficiency evaluations
• Solution mining well remediation
• Solution mining well and cavern abandonment
• Feasibility studies
• Due diligence

Featured Project List

• Mining Engineering

• Ventilation Engineering

• Highwall Mining

• Blasting & Explosives Engineering

• Rock Mechanics

• Rock Testing

• Stress Measurements

• Forensic Engineering

• Geology & Drilling Management

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• American Soda, LLP, Piceance Creek Basin, CO
• AmerAlia, Inc., Piceance Creek Basin, CO
• Copper Eagle Gas Storage and Gas Commission, Phoenix, AZ
• Denison Resources Corporation, Piceance Creek Basin, CO
• Eti Soda, Inc., Ankara, Turkey
• Intrepid Mining, LLC, Moab, UT and Carlsbad, NM
• NaTec Mines Ltd., Piceance Creek Basin, CO
• Natural Soda, Piceance Creek Basin, CO
• Rio Tinto, Ankara, Turkey
• Rio Tinto, Mendoza Province, Argentina
• Southern Electric International, Wyandotte, MI
• Vulcan Chemicals Company, Sedgwick County, KS
• White River Nahcolite, Piceance Creek Basin, CO
• Wold Trona Company, 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