Yucca Mountain Project—Nevada, USA
Sandia National Laboratories AAI was contracted to Sandia National Laboratories to provide geotechnical, analytical, and field services to the Yucca Mountain site characterization studies in the [...]
American Oil Shale Corporation (AMSO)
Piceance Basin, Colorado American Shale Oil Corporation (AMSO) holds one of three preference right leases granted in 2007 by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management for the research, design, and [...]
Sludge Disposal in an Underground Stone Mine
AAI was contracted by the City Engineer for a Midwest municipality to study the practicality of disposing of water treatment sludge in an underground stone mine near the treatment plant. The [...]
Cline Mining’s New Elk Coal Company
Engineering Support for Start-up of Large Underground Coal Operation—Trinidad, Colorado Starting in 2009 and continuing into 2011, Agapito Associates, Inc. has provided most of the mining [...]
White River Nahcolite Mineral Limited Liability, Inc.
Solution Mining of Nahcolite—Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, USA AAI personnel have provided technical support during the development of this pioneer solution mining project using cavity [...]
Colony Mine—Parachute, Colorado, USA
ExxonMobil—Upstream Research Company Since 2007, AAI has mobilized drilling equipment to the Upstream Research Company’s (URC) Colony Mine ten times for a variety of tasks. Core drilling [...]
Molycorp Questa Mine
Molybdenum ore is mined by block caving methods at Molycorp’s Questa Mine. AAI has provided geotechnical consulting services to the mine since 1979 as follows: Evaluation of decline rock support [...]
West Ridge Resources—Price, UT
Longwall Optimization In 1997, AAI conducted three studies for West Ridge prior to mine development. The first study addressed longwall panel orientation based on local fracture mapping, [...]
Rio Tinto Technical Services, Kazan Project—Turkey
Order of Magnitude Studies and Geotechnical Characterization Order of Magnitude studies for conventional room-and-pillar mining, longwall mining, and solution mining of a potential soda ash mine [...]
Oil Shale Grade Variability in Close-Spaced Core Holes in the Mahogany Zone of the Colony Shale Oil Project Area
18th Oil Shale Symposium, Grand Junction, Colorado, April 1985 Authors: H. A. Perry (Exxon Company, U.S.A.), and C. E. Brechtel and M. P. Hardy (AAI) Fourteen close-spaced core holes were drilled [...]
Geotechnical Characterization for Underground Mining at the Colony Shale Oil Property
International Symposium on Application of Rock Characterization Techniques in Mine Design, SME-AIME Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 1986 Authors: C. E. Brechtel and M. P. Hardy (AAI), T. W. [...]
Mine Layout Design for Coal Bump Control
6th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 1987 Authors: H. Maleki and J. Aggson (AAI), F. Miller (Utah Power & Light Co.), and J. F.T. Agapito [...]
