Mining

Schnabel’s strength in mining engineering is rooted in our core capabilities as a firm: geotechnical engineering, geology, and a fundamental understanding of earth systems. With a vast portfolio of projects in active mining, mine closure, and mine reclamation, our teams combine forces to serve clients throughout the full life cycle of mining projects across the country. As a firm, we have decades of experience solving the civil engineering and infrastructure challenges of mining. We know how to design with ground conditions in mind. And we have expertise that spans surface to underground and any commodity from coal to precious metals.

Our highly skilled mining professionals specialize in geotechnical and mining engineering, applying their skills to projects ranging from active mine design to alternative reuse to the rehabilitating of mines that have been abandoned for 100-plus years. Our many services in this field include initial evaluations, subsurface investigations, conceptual designs, cost estimates, final designs, production of plans and specifications, construction administration, and construction inspection. We are also able to leverage our considerable expertise in dams and hydraulics to engineer structures for mine rehabilitation such as flow control structures, bulkheads, conveyance pipelines, run-on/run-off control, and instrumentation arrays to measure flow.