WAL was established in 1977 primarily as a coal lab. Over the years we have expanded our range of services to include water quality monitoring, soil quality and reclamation, cement and fly ash analysis, as well as environmental monitoring and fuel content determination for industries such as coal, petroleum, alternative fuels, energy production and resource mining.With a wide variety of analytical instruments, a large wet chemistry laboratory and equipment to process on-site, we offer organic analysis, gas and ion chromatography, elemental content analysis and hundreds of individual ASTM, ISO, SM, ASA, USDA and EPA methods of analysis. WAL also provides analytical lab consulting, method development, auditing, coal sampler bias testing and third party, on-site lab services.In 1977, chemist Jane Thomas and the late mining consultant Fred L. Smith co-founded Wyoming Analytical Laboratories, Inc. (WAL) in Laramie, Wyoming, to specialize in coal, soil, and water analysis. Dr. LeRoy Jacobs and Charles R. Wilson established a sister laboratory in Golden, Colorado, in 1984. Branch laboratories were established in Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1993, and in Arvada, Colorado, in 2002. From 2005 through 2015, WAL operated the laboratory at the Bridger Power Plant in Point of Rocks, Wyoming. WAL closed the Arvada facility in 2007, and consolidated all Denver operations in a larger facility in Golden. WAL’s Wyoming Division currently comprises the Laramie and Rock Springs facilities, while the Denver Division consists of the Golden laboratory.

Wyoming Analytical Laboratories, Inc. is a full service environmental laboratory located in Laramie and Rock Springs, Wyoming and Denver (Golden), Colorado. We have been providing analytical support to the mining and energy industries since 1977. WAL is a small business, woman-owned and -operated.Since 1977 Wyoming Analytical Laboratories, Inc. has been providing chemical and physical testing services for geological and environmental industries: water and wastewater, soil and overburden, lime and limestone, coal and coal ash, cement and fly-ash, petroleum and petroleum products, hazardous wastes and alternative fuels, miscellaneous materials.Major, minor, and trace elements are determined by selected instrumental procedures: IC, AA, ICP, ICP-MS, XRF, and other elemental analyzers. Organic materials are analyzed by GC, GC/MS, calorimetry, elemental analyzers, and more.