Solution Mining

With more than 50 years of experience in the industry, RESPEC’s Cavern Engineering group supports nearly all stages of solution-mined cavern development for salt, potash, trona, and other minerals. In concert with our geology exploration, laboratory testing, and drilling services, the team of engineers and scientists at RESPEC assist with planning and developing efficient solution-mine designs that optimize mineral extraction and available reserves. We ensure that no stone is unturned by evaluating solution-mining development projects from a multitude of economic and technical angles. With a diverse geologic, hydrogeologic, and geotechnical background, our team is a combined force for developing solutions to the challenges that are unique to each solution-mining development project.

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CAPABILITIES

  • Drilling Management and Procurement
  • Geologic Coring and Characterization
  • Rock Testing
  • Hydrologic Characterization
  • Solution-Mine Design and Scheduling
  • Geomechanical, Thermal, Thermodynamic, and Hydrological Analyses
  • Subsidence Analyses
  • Field Instrumentation and Testing
  • Disposal Well Design

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One-Stop Convenience

Cavern Experience

Engineering Problem Solving

Optimized In Situ Mining

One-Stop Convenience

RESPEC is fully equipped and staffed with field geologists, engineers and drilling-management experts, a rock-mechanics laboratory, core logging and storage, advanced modeling solutions, and monitoring instrumentation.

Cavern Experience

By using advanced geomechanical knowledge, RESPEC has evaluated more than 1,000 caverns during 4 decades of applied cavern experience in nearly every major cavern-storage region in the world.

Engineering Problem Solving

By building on decades of cavern engineering experience, RESPEC has developed five in-house software programs that were specifically tailored to the unique analysis requirements of solution-mined caverns.

Optimized In Situ Mining

Our award winning interdisciplinary team uses our innovative drilling design to optimize in situ leaching operations.

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