Holloway Consulting is an expert in heavy civil and mining facility construction claims. Some of our mining projects to be addressed here over the coming weeks include:

Heavy civil and Mining Facility Construction and Claims Expert

In 1978, Mr. Holloway worked as a Project Engineer in the home office of Stearns-Roger on EXXON’s commercial scale oil shale surface mining and extraction plant then to be constructed near Parachute, Colorado.

OPEN-PIT COPPER MINING AND SMELTING; SONORA, MEXICO

In 1979, Mr. Holloway was a Project Engineer in the home office and in the field for the Turnkey Contractor, Fluor Mining & Metals, on this GrupoMexico copper ore open-pit or opencast mining and smelting project.

OPENCAST BAUXITE MINING AND ALUMINA SMELTING; JAMAICA

in 1980, Mr. Holloway was a Project Engineer in the home office and in the field for the Turnkey Contractor, Kaiser Engineers and Aluminum, on this opencast bauxite mining and alumina smelting project.

SURFACE MINING AND RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL; IDAHO

This project and dispute involved Holloway Consulting’s subcontractor-client’s 1995 conceptual engineering and design of automated and robotic systems used in the extraction and disposal of buried nuclear weapons and related materials. The opposition was the world’s largest US defense contractor under contract with the DOD.

UNDERGROUND COAL MINE DEVELOPMENT; WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, AND COLORADO

Holloway Consulting was a damages expert in 2000 for the terminated Houston, Texas-based Turnkey Contractor in litigation on these projects.

OPEN PIT COAL MINES; WYOMING AND MONTANA

Holloway Consulting was also a damages expert in 2000 for the terminated Houston, Texas-based Turnkey Contractor in litigation on these projects.

UNDERGROUND URANIUM MINES; NEW MEXICO AND WYOMING

UNDERGROUND COPPER MINE, UTAH

Open Pit Mining Construction Project Claims and Litigation Topics

All of these projects were constructed through the use of heavy civil soil and rock moving equipment such as dozers, scrapers, excavators, articulated trucks, water equipment, dust control, haul road equipment, compacters, etc. Therefore, we are experts in the analysis of the bid/contract versus actual performance of civil operations using such equipment.

Cut/fill earthwork operations are parts of an heavy civil and mining operation, both in terms of soil and overburden removal and construction of the ever-changing network of roads and drainage involved. In these instances, the techniques, equipment and labor applied are in many ways the same as for normal earthwork operations on a highway project or a commercial development. Likewise, the analyses of changes, entitlement, and quantification remain very similar, whether a mine or highway construction project. As a result, cut/fill earthwork operations are not only parts of our open pit and several heavy civil jobs, but are also parts of numerous other projects, including our highway and commercial bldg. projects.

Rock blasting is normally a part of a heavy civil and mining operations – all of the open pit mining projects shown here, and also parts of other civil projects involved substantial blasting, with and without overburden, and for removal of a rock formations, shaping slopes, etc. Ripping was also part of these projects.

Dams and tailing ponds were at all of these mine sites and were impounded by tailings impoundments, levees, dikes, tailings dams, etc.

These 25-50 acre tailings cells were for disposal of processed ore, with excess cut used for closure cover and other site construction of approximately 3H:1V internal slopes with intermediate benches, and, 10H:1V external slopes to achieve closure requirements. Embankment construction was common to these cells, and ranged in height from ~25 ft. to 75 ft.

Retention/detention basins – mine sites must be equipped with retention basins, wet ponds and/or wet detention basins to manage storm water runoff along with detention basins or dry ponds to temporarily store storm water. The key element is that these facilities must be designed and constructed to minimize mine process interruptions.

Heavy civil and mine site construction means, methods (e.g., haul routes, equipment, etc), equipment spreads and material haul routes are a fundamental element in most or all heavy civil and open pit mining projects, and many other Holloway projects such as airport construction (i.e, DIA runways), highway and road building, etc. Similarly, earthwork and excavation equipment budgeting, utilization and costing and damages are parts of most projects and cases, perhaps most recently/notably at Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Arbitration case.

Synthetic cell liners were not part of our early projects, but have become the norm over the past 20 years.

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