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Abstracts

Organized by category (to the left), is a list of all publications/articles prepared by Agapito Associates, Inc. Also included are links to articles written by other organizations relating to projects involving AAI. You may click a selected article to view an abstract or, when available, view the entire article in Adobe PDF format.

See our list of featured publications below.

• Coal

• Hard Rock Mining

• Industrial Minerals

• Oil Shale

• Nuclear Waste

• Numerical Modeling

• Slope Stability

• Tunnels & Tunneling

• Ventilation

Our Expertise . . .

• Mining Engineering

• Ventilation Engineering

• Highwall Mining

• Blasting & Explosives Eng.

• Solution Mining

• Rock Mechanics

• Rock Testing

• Stress Measurements

• Forensic Engineering

• Geology & Drilling Management

• An Overview of the Geology of Solution Mining of Potash in Saskatchewan (Fall 2007 SMRI Technical Meeting)

• Application of propeller fans at Wisconsin Industrial Sand - a case study (Mining Engineering, September 2007)

• Design and Performance of a Longwall Coal Mine Water-Bearing Pillar (26th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining 2007)

• Numerical Modeling of Rock Breakage in Rotary Cutting (ARMA 2007)

• Towards an Improved Stone Mine Pillar Design Methodology:  Observations from a Mistake (26th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining 2007)

• Analytical Investigation of Shaft Damages at West Elk Mine (25th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining 2006)

• Evaluation of Ground Control Requirements for D Orebody Load-Haul-Dump Block Molycorp (Golden Rocks 2006, the 41st U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics: 50 Years of Rock Mechanics - Landmarks and Future Challenges 2006)

• Effect of Full-Extraction Underground Mining on Ground and Surface Waters A 25-Year Retrospective (25th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining held in Morgantown 2006)

• Cavity Shape Characterization of a Rubble-Filled, Solution-Mined Cavity (Solution Mining Research Institute: Spring 2005 Technical Meeting)

• Implication of Highly Anisotropic Horizontal Stresses on Entry Stability at the West Elk Mine, Somerset, Colorado (24th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining 2005)

• Highwall Mining in a Multiple-Seam, Western United States Setting--Design and Performance (24th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining 2005)

• Modeling Block Cave Subsidence at the Molycorp, Inc., Questa Mine—A Case Study (Alaska Rocks 2005)

• Stability Assessment of an Underground Limestone Mine--A Case Study (Alaska Rocks 2005)

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 Project Summaries - Mineral

• Base Metals

• Coal

• Fertilizer Minerals

• Gold

• Limestone

• Oil Shale

• Trona

• Other

 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