Moose Crossing Aggregate Resource Assessment

Client: Ministry of Transportation

McElhanney assessed aggregate potential on the Moose Crossing Pit in Ootsa Lake, near Smithers, conducting test pit programs to assess quantity and quality of aggregates.

Handheld real time GPS was used to map area topography, locate reserve boundaries and determine test pit locations to get good coverage of the aggregate deposit.

McElhanney provided project management, supervision of field work, laboratory testing for gradation analysis, sand equivalent, micro-deval, magnesium soundness, relative bulk densities and absorption, and provided comprehensive reports for each pit detailing quantity, quality, and suitability of aggregates in each pit. Quality assurance testing was undertaken during the subsequent successful aggregate crushing contract.

McElhanney’s team of drafting specialists and engineers can provide detailed pit assessments in as little as two weeks in our in-house physical properties laboratory.