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  Rick Baars has been promoted to Project Engineer.
  Congratulations Rick!

AAI Scholarship Fund

As a technical firm, Agapito Associates, Inc. fully appreciates the importance of education.  To this end, we have established the Agapito Associates, Inc. Scholarship Fund to provide financial aid in the form of a scholarship award for undergraduate students enrolled at the Colorado School of Mines who are pursuing a degree in Mining Engineering.  The award is a 4-year award, funded in the amount of $2,000 per year.  To apply for this scholarship, apply to the Director of Financial Aid at the Colorado School of Mines. 

AAI is a RocTest Integrator…

Agapito Associates, Inc. is an authorized RocTest-Telemac (RocTest) integrator, offering instrumentation expertise and installation services.  RocTest is a world leading manufacturer of Vibrating Wire and Fiber Optic high-precision measuring instruments. RocTest products are used in mining and civil engineering projects, including surface and underground mines, dams, tunnels, and nuclear and other large infrastructure works.  For more than 50 years, RocTest has been offering a wide range of cutting-edge solutions for geotechnical applications worldwide.  The RocTest Group counts on more than 140 employees with two manufacturing plants in the province of Quebec, satellite sales offices in France, Hong Kong and two US home office employees located on the East and West coast. Furthermore, RocTest recently announced the acquisition of a distributed fiber optic solutions provider in Switzerland, Smartec. 

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

MIKE HARDY presented his paper on "An Overview of the Geology of Solution Mining of Potash in Saskatchewan" at the Solution Mining Research Institute, Fall 2007 Technical Meeting held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 8-9, 2007.

FRANK KENDORSKI presented his paper on "Design and Performance of a Longwall Coal Mine Water-Barrier Pillar" at the 26th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining held in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, 2007.

FRANK KENDORSKI presented his paper on "Towards an Improved Stone Mine Pillar Design Methodology:  Observations from a Mistake" at the 26th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining held in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, 2007.

BO YU presented his paper on "Numerical Modeling of Rock Ridge Breakage in Rotary Cutting" at the American Rock Mechanics Association general meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2007.

View ALBERT ADU-ACHEAMPONG's and BRIAN MCGUNEGLE's paper on "Application of propeller fans at Wisconsin Industrial Sand - a case study" published in Mining Engineering, volume 59, no. 9, September 2007.

• Mining Engineering

• Ventilation Engineering

• Highwall Mining

• Blasting & Explosives Eng.

• Solution Mining

• Rock Mechanics

• Rock Testing

• Stress Measurements

• Forensic Engineering

• Geology & Drilling Management

 Project Summaries - Mineral

• Base Metals

• Coal

• Fertilizer Minerals

• Gold

• Limestone

• Oil Shale

• Trona

• Other

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 Project Summaries - Capability

• Backfill

• Block Caving

• Directional Drilling

• Forensics

• Geologic Studies

• Longwall

• Mine Reclamation

• Overcoring Stress Determinations

• Resource/Reserve Evaluation

• Slope Stability

• Solution Mining

• Subsidence