Our broad-based approach enables InterCOAL to provide clients with virtually-integrated solutions to today's business challenges.  By understanding and focusing the key elements that drive your organization - strategy, business processes, people and technology. 

We commit to deliver more value and tangible results to our clients, whether to penetrate or develop new markets, raise quality standards, increase profitability, improve efficiency or cut costs.   InterCOAL harnesses and unleashes the power of business transformation for your competitive advantages. 

We help clients achieve these competitive advantages through a range of services: 
· Strategic Visioning & Implementation Services 
· Business Processes Re-engineering 
· Continuous Improvement & "Quick Hits" Deliverables 
· People & Organizational Change Management 
· Technology Enablement, and Infrastructure Effectiveness. 

InterCOAL also provides services in three synergistic areas: 
· Education and Training 
· Enabling Technologies 
· Applications Development 
· Information Technology. 

 
Making Strategic Business Change Happen: InterCOAL focuses on the entire mining business enterprise. Our success factor lies primarily in our constant and relentless approach on integrating four key critical drivers - people, processes, technology and infrastructure to create and sustain value for our customers while managing costs. 
 

InterCOAL has the extensive expertise to effectively develop a customized  Business Transformation and Renewal approach for mining organizations.  We have a team of service line specialists that are familiar with the specific issues and challenges affecting mining organizations. 

InterCOAL's extensive roster of professionals will support and provide you the help to deliver value-added solutions. 
InterCOAL details of provide service in the areas of: 

· mine design and ground control: 

· design of longwall mining systems (advance and retreat, pillarless,        steep seam, thick seam multi-slice with backfilling, artificial roof and sublevel caving) 

· design of room & pillar mining systems 

· roof support design including roof bolting 

· pillar size calculations for longwall and room & pillar mining 

· mine layout design 

· multiple seam mining and seam interactions 

· monitoring and control of mining induced stresses 

· strata de-stressing (large diameter boring, hydro-fracturing and shock blasting) 

· subsidence prediction and control - expertise in sub-sea and under city multiple seam mining 

· hydraulic backfilling, pneumatic stowing and anhydrite packing 

· controlling water inrush hazards 
 

· mine ventilation and safety 

· main and auxiliary ventilation design 

· ventilation network analysis 

· main, booster and auxiliary fan installations 

· remote monitoring of mine underground environment 

· strata methane extraction 

· spontaneous combustion detection and control 

· combating and controlling underground fires including inert gas   applications 

· protection against mine explosions and their propagation 

· respirable dust control 

· air cooling and conditioning 

· mining related hazards and mine safety 

· mine rescue 
 

· mine organization, planning and general management 

· mine re-organization 

· management and supervision of mine production, roadway development, exploration, engineering, capital projects and mine safety 

· production planning and budgeting 

· operational research (the Graph Theory and Critical Paths) and work scheduling 

· mine surveying and sampling 

· underground mine services such as transport, conveying, pumping, power, fresh water and compressed air supplies 

· mine equipment selection including powered roof support, longwall shearers and plows, AFC's, stageloaders, crushers, belt conveyors, roadheaders, continuous miners, battery and diesel locomotives, main, booster and auxiliary fans and pumps, dust scrubbers, etc. 

· remote monitoring and control of underground operations including control of main and auxiliary fans, conveyors, pumps and compressors, fresh water supply and , methane drainage systems