Elk Creek Geotechnical Program Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) has been involved in long-term geotechnical investigation and design at the Oxbow Mining, LLC, Elk Creek Mine, dating back to the [...]
Instrumentation Installation The field work at the Kimballton Mine in Ripplemeade, Virginia, includes NX sample coring of the roof and floor of the 15E level of the mine, USBM-method overcore [...]
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 [...]
West Elk Mine—Somerset, CO AAI has provided underground geotechnical engineering services to Mountain Coal Company’s West Elk Mine since the 1980s. Services include installation of geotechnical [...]
Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) contributed to nearly all phases of the design and construction of an underground butane storage cavern located in Neal, West Virginia. The cavern was built for [...]
Geotechnical Evaluation and Longwall Feasibility AAI performed geotechnical and economic evaluations for the feasibility study of longwall mining at the Trapper Mine for Mencon, LLC. A [...]
Rock Mechanics Productivity and Protection, 25th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Evanston, Illinois, March 1984 Authors: S. J. Mitchell and J. F. T. Agapito (AAI), and L. A. Weakly (Exxon [...]
Rock Mechanics, 7:101–120, Springer-Verlag, 1975 Authors: B. T. Brady, V. E. Hooker and J. F. T. Agapito Preliminary results are reported of a cooperative research agreement between the U.S. [...]
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 [...]
17th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Snowbird, Utah, 1976 Authors: J. F. T. Agapito (AAI) and J. B. Page This paper describes part of a geotechnical study based on stress determinations and [...]
Alaska Rocks 2005, The 40th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics: Rock Mechanics for Energy, Mineral and Infrastructure Development in the Northern Regions, Anchorage, Alaska, June 25-29, 2005 [...]
19th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, May 1978Authors: J. F. T. Agapito (AAI), and J. W. Bennett and J. P. Hunter (Stauffer Chemical Company of Wyoming) This [...]