Stagg Resource Consultants, Inc. (“STAGG”) is a consulting firm that provides a full range of professional services to the natural resource industry throughout the United States and internationally. The firm, which has been in business for 40 years, routinely works in petroleum, industrial minerals, metals, and the coal sectors. The firm has conducted appraisals throughout the United States and internationally covering a broad range of natural resources, including base and precious metal; industrial rocks and minerals; and energy resources including oil, natural gas, coal and coal bed methane.
STAGG’s professional services are divided into eight basic areas, which includes: geology, appraisal, mining and operational analysis, environmental, economic/financial evaluations, acquisitions and divestitures, litigation support and expert testimony, and mineral economics and market research.
STAGG’s appraisals have been prepared for a wide variety of intended uses, including: acquisitions, both in establishing a purchase price and in the allocation of purchase price for tax purposes, and to establish beginning balance sheets; divestitures, in establishing a selling price; exchanges of like assets under Section 1031 of the IRS Code; establishing and maintaining joint venture capital accounts, exchanges between state and federal agencies; collateralization and work-outs in financing; condemnation and takings proceedings; bankruptcy proceedings; divorce proceedings; property tax appeals; estate planning; estate settlement; litigation; and gifting.
Alan Stagg has 51 years experience in the natural resource industry, with particular emphasis on the geologic and economic assessment of reserves and the evaluation of mining operations. Stagg has worked in every coal basin of significance in the United States. He is experienced in the economic and financial analysis of mining operations, an experienced and active expert witness, and a frequent presenter at industry meetings. Additionally, he has served as an instructor at a variety of short courses and workshops regarding reserve estimation and classification and the economical and financial analysis of mining operations. These include workshops conducted for the Ministry of Mines and Geology, People’s Republic of China; the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute’s annual IACET-accredited short courses; and Ernst & Young’s annual short courses on the taxation of mining operations.
On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Stagg will be presenting at the IIMA Eastern Conference and Mineral Appraisal Workshop in Washington, Pennsylvania. This workshop, Appraisal of Mineral Rights — And Some Wrong’s will be of interest to decision makers in the oil and natural gas sector and to legal and accounting professionals.
STAGG’s staff and associates are experienced in the appraisal of individual asset categories and in valuing business enterprises. Individual asset categories include the mineral estate at producing and non-producing properties; surface; timber; and plant, machinery, and equipment. Business enterprise valuations include a wide range of natural resource producing companies.
Appraisals have been conducted for such diverse groups as coal, metal, and industrial producers, oil and gas producers, banks and lending organizations, law firms, the construction industry, a variety of government agencies, and individuals. Associate relationships are maintained with state certified appraisers throughout the U.S., and all appraisals of real property interests are conducted in conformity with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
