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Company ProfileAppalachian Mining and Engineering, Inc. (AME), incorporated in 1985, is a mining and geotechnical engineering firm with offices located in Lexington, Kentucky. AME offers a full spectrum of mining and geotechnical services for the coal and limestone quarry industries. These services include
- mine design and layout, - mine ground control investigations (roof, pillar, and floor stability), - multiple seam mine planning, determination of upper/lower seam interaction, - subsidence prediction and abatement, - rock and soil slope stability analysis, - break through analysis for coal refuse impoundments, - mine ventilation evaluation and planning, - hydrologic investigations, - rock/coal strength and physical property testing, - mineral reserve studies, project feasibility studies, and mineral property valuation.
Expert testimony is provided for ground control, blasting damage, subsidence damage, "lost coal" claims, mining impact on groundwater quality and quantity, mine fatality and injury, and stability related problems.
The President of Appalachian Mining and Engineering, Inc., David A. Newman Ph. D., P.E., began his career in the mining industry as an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. AME was formed to fulfill his desire to see ground control research implemented in the field and to work on challenging engineering projects. David A. Newman is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealths of Kentucky and Virginia and States of Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana. Stability investigations rely upon accurate determinations of the strength and materials properties of rock, coal, refuse, or soil. Recognizing the need for a state-of-the-art laboratory facility to conduct this work, Geolab was established in 1990 as a fully equipped soil and rock mechanics laboratory. A full suite of strength and physical property tests can be conducted in accordance with ASTM, AASHTO, and ISRM standards. Geolab features a state-of-the-art computer controlled, 200,000 pound capacity SATEC load frame enabling a full range of compression and tension testing capabilities with rapid turn around time. The SATEC machine is calibrated one generation from the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. Rebar and roof bolt pull-out testing is available for mines and construction projects. Full drafting and reproduction facilities are available for project work including ACAD 2007, digitizer, and an "E" size inkjet color plotter. In addition to in-house computing capabilities for rock mechanics, slope stability, multiple seam interaction, numerical modeling of stress fields associated with mine development, financial analysis, and subsidence prediction, AME has access to the main frame computer and resident programs at the University of Kentucky.
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