PENNSYLVANIA MINING PROFESSIONALS

Speaker: Nathan Garlitz, PE/PG; Young & Associates Engineers and Surveyors The East Brady Tunnel, situated in Brady Township, Clarion County, PA, was used from 1915-1984 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and later by Consolidated Rail Corporation for rail commerce. During the term since its abandonment, it has gone through incremental conditional declines. The most notable deterioration, as is often the case, has been caused by water. As Allegheny Land Trust (now Armstrong Trails,

RES Enlow Fork Stream Mitigation Bank in Washington County, PA Speaker: Jon Kasitz of Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC As regulations covering every form of land-development project (mining, energy, transportation, commercial/residential, etc) continue to evolve, more and more projects are requiring one or more types of compensatory mitigation or ‘ecological offsets’ to mitigate the project’s unavoidable impacts to sensitive environmental resources, such as wetlands, rip

Speaker: Zachary Hordeski, PG; Hydrogeologist – Endeavor Professional Services This presentation focuses on the advantages of utilizing borehole geophysics during the exploration phase of subsurface mineral exploration. After providing an explanation of each of the essential geophysical probes, this presentation highlights how these tools can be used to provide a set of quantifiable, precise, and repeatable data including key lithologic data, structural data, and several othe