Trona/Soda Ash – Agapito Associates LLC

Longwall Gateroad Analysis AAI performed a comparative stability evaluation for the East Longwall Panel 8 Gateroads. Four different gateroads were analyzed, including three- and four-entry [...]

Eti Soda, Inc.—Ankara, Turkey

Industrial Minerals, Project Summaries: Solution Mining, Trona/Soda Ash

Horizontal Stresses as Indicators of Roof Stability

Coal, Gold, Industrial Minerals, Longwall Mining, Metals, Oil Shale, Publications: Rock Mechanics, Publications: Stress Measurements, Trona/Soda Ash

2002 SME Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, 25–27 February 2002 Authors: J. F. T. Agapito and L. J. Gilbride (AAI) High horizontal stresses were recognized to impact roof stability more than 60 [...]

Rock Mechanics Issues in the Trona Patch

Longwall Mining, Publications: Rock Mechanics, Publications: Solution Mining, Publications: Underground Mining, Trona/Soda Ash

18th Conference on Ground Control in Mining, Morgantown, West Virginia, 3–5 August 1999 Authors: A. M. Richardson, J. F. T. Agapito, and L. J. Gilbride (AAI) The trona mines in the Green River [...]

Long-Term Stability for Two-Seam Mining at OCI’s Big Island Mine

Industrial Minerals, Trona/Soda Ash

SME Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 1–3 March 1999, Preprint No. 99-8 Authors: J. F. T. Agapito and R. R. Goodrich (AAI), and M. L. Andrews (OCI Wyoming, L.P.) Two flat-lying trona seams 3- to [...]

Improvements in Resource Recovery at Stauffer’s Big Island Mine

Industrial Minerals, Project Summaries: Rock Mechanics, Trona/Soda Ash

SME Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, 25–28 January 1988, Preprint No. 88-73 Authors: J. F. T. Agapito (AAI) and R. V. Hunter (Stauffer Chemical Company of Wyoming) Significant increases in [...]