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Mining Engineering Solution Mining Mine Ventilation Engineering Highwall Mining Blasting & Explosives Eng. Rock Mechanics Rock Testing Stress Measurements Forensic Engineering Geology & Resource Determinations	Michael P. Hardy, Ph.D., P.E. Principal/President/Chairman of the Board (University of Minnesota)	Dr. Hardy has over 35 years experience in rock mechanics and mine design project management. Project manager for mine design in coal, trona, nahcolite, borate, gold, and oil shale. Manages projects involving field geotechnical data gathering, numerical modeling, design of underground mines, solution mining, backfill, and geo-hydrology. Taught advanced rock mechanics and mine plant engineering at the University of Minnesota. Past chairman of the Underground Technical Research Council (UTRC) of the ASCE and SME. Committee member for the National Academy of Science, National Research Council on the Waste Isolation Project (WIPP). Registered professional engineer in Colorado and Texas.
Project Summaries - Mineral	Mr. Ross adds over 30 years experience managing mine operations and mining engineering, specializing in underground, surface, and highwall mining. He has extensive underground experience with longwalls, continuous miners and continuous haulage, conventional mining systems, pillar extraction, and mobile roof supports. Tim’s surface mining experience includes dragline, truck/shovel, and contour mining operations. His capabilities include ground control design and problem resolution, feasibility studies, economic evaluations, study and review of mine design, long- and short-range mine planning; mine evaluation, operating and capital cost estimates, equipment selection recommendations, mine staffing and scheduling, new mine start-up; and utilization of seismic tomography for ground characterization projects. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, Kentucky, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. He is also a member of the SME Professional Registration Committee.		Timothy A. Ross, P.E. Principal, Vice President & Manager (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Coal Potash/Fertilizer Minerals Limestone Oil Shale Trona/Soda Ash Base Metals Gold Other
Project Summaries - Capability	Gary L. Skaggs, P.E., P.Eng. Principal & Vice President (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)	Mr. Skaggs has over 40 years mining experience in underground domestic and international mining. He has executive level management experience for large, underground, multi-mine complexes and corporate technical groups. His strengths are integrating operating, technical, and business functions; productivity, quality, and safety improvements, operational and safety audits; reserve and resource analysis; feasibility studies, and due diligence evaluations of mining enterprises. His experience includes trona, limestone and conventional, continuous miner, and longwall operations in coal. He is a licensed professional engineer in thirteen states and the province of Alberta, Canada. Gary is a Registered Member of the Society for Mining, Exploration, and Metallurgy, Inc. (SME) where he serves on the Professional Licensing Exam Committee and the Resource and Reserve Committee. He is a past member of the Council of Education's Accreditation and Curricular Issues Subcommittee, and the ABET Visitors Selection Committee. He was presented with the Ivan B. Rahn Education Award in 2009. Gary served as a commissioner on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc. from 2003 to 2008 as SME's representative for mining engineering. Gary serves as the vice president of the Colorado Plateau Section of the SME. He is a member of the SME Foundation Board of Trustees, the Colorado Mining Association, the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute, and the National Society of Professional Engineers.
Longwall Mining Resource/Reserve Evaluation Solution Mining Subsidence Backfill Geologic Studies Slope Stability Overcoring Stress Determinations Block Caving Directional Drilling Forensics Mine Reclamation
Abstracts	Mr. Vandergrift adds over 20 years experience in mining and geotechnical engineering related to ground control, with emphasis on underground mine design and highwall mine design. Tom provides practical ground control solutions for highwall and longwall mining, and mobile roof support retreat operations. His experience includes design of longwall gateroad pillars, pillar retreat cut plans for both partial and full extraction, stress analysis and mine design in multiple-seam environments, subsidence prediction, design of roof support systems, rock and soil mass characterization, in situ stress measurement, instrumentation, and application of seismic imaging techniques to characterize slopes and foundations. Tom routinely uses numerical modeling techniques to aid in developing geotechnical solutions. He developed a suite of design approaches for highwall mine ground control plans that are currently applied throughout the western United States. Tom is a registered professional engineer in Colorado.		Tom L. Vandergrift, P.E. Sr. Associate (Colorado School of Mines)
Coal Hard Rock Mining Industrial Minerals Oil Shale Nuclear Waste Numerical Modeling Slope Stability Tunnels & Tunneling Ventilation
©Agapito Associates, Inc.	Douglas F. Hambley, Ph.D., P.E., P.G. Associate (University of Waterloo)	Dr. Hambley has over 34 years of experience in mining engineering and geology throughout North America and overseas. Doug’s expertise includes resource and reserve estimation for evaporites, uranium, base metals and aggregates; hard rock underground mine, shaft and tunnel design; ground control in underground facilities in limestone and dolomite; blasting and blast vibration control; ventilation design for underground stone and uranium mines; design of underground facilities for nuclear waste; hydrogeology in glacial materials and sedimentary rock; and site remediation. Doug holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Canada, an MBA from Lewis University, Illinois, and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada. He is a Professional Engineer in Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Saskatchewan and a Professional Geologist in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. He is an active member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration of AIME; the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum; and the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists. (Fluent in French and working knowledge of Spanish and German. Reading knowledge of Portuguese.)

	Dr. Patton has over 20 years experience in the field of mining engineering. Her areas of expertise include ventilation, property evaluation, and mine environmental. Susan has a broad experience background ranging from mine site engineering to research. Mine site experience includes surface coal mine engineering and permit compliance. Susan held a faculty position at Montana Tech where she was responsible for teaching core coursework in the mining engineering curriculum, conducting research and developing coursework to enhance the environmental engineering and aggregate mining offerings. Research projects focused on the mine closure, coalbed methane/longwall mine interaction, and safety. Susan previously served in the management position of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research at Montana Tech. Susan is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, Alabama and Montana.		Susan B. Patton, Ph.D., P.E. Sr. Associate (University of Alabama)

	Martin W. Chenoweth, P.E. Sr. Associate (Colorado School of Mines)	Mr. Chenoweth brings over 25 years experience in civil construction and mining operations. Martin's areas of expertise include mine and quarry planning and blasting. Design experience includes exploration drilling, site characterization, resource modeling, mine layout, equipment selection, and operations. Martin has surface and underground blast design experience in production blasts, controlled blasting techniques, drop raise construction, fragmentation analysis, and forensic investigations. He has also implemented statistical process control at various operations to improve overall efficiency. Martin has represented both sides in construction claims resolution regarding differing site conditions. Projects have included precious metals, industrial minerals, oil shale, uranium, heavy civil mass excavations, tunneling, and shaft construction. Martin is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and a member of the ASCE, ISEE, and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.

	Mr. Kendorski has over 35 years experience in consulting in rock mechanics, mine engineering, blasting, tunneling, litigation assistance, and geology. Provides consulting engineering services to the mining and civil engineering industries in ground control, subsidence, water problems, underground and surface rock mass stability; rock slope design, room-and-pillar design, caving methods, mine and quarry planning, mine and tunnel failures, and vibrations from blasting. Extensive experience in forensic engineering for attorneys and insurers in mine and tunnel failures, underground construction claims, equipment use, business interruption; property and casualty cases, blasting, subsidence, and floods. Responsible for projects in stone, industrial minerals, copper, gold, molybdenum, coal, salt, and sand and gravel. Experience in financial valuations, due diligence, feasibility studies, and preparation of bankable documents. Registered professional engineer in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Presented with the 2006 Rock Mechanics Award.		Francis S. Kendorski, P.E. Principal (University of Arizona, Tucson)

	David P. Conover Senior Physicist (Colorado School of Mines)	Mr. Conover has over 28 years experience as a mining engineer in the mining and civil industries. He developed and expanded the GeoGuardTM shield monitoring system for longwall face management and geotechnical analysis. Dave also developed software programs to aid the mining and civil industries, and techniques to estimate excavation equipment production rates and vibration characteristics for equipment manufacturers.
	Leo Gilbride adds over 13 years experience in mining and civil engineering projects, with emphasis on underground geomechanical design and resource evaluation. Engineering experience includes geotechnical characterization, laboratory testing, numerical modeling, geotechnical instrumentation, ventilation surveying and design, mine economic evaluation, conventional and geostatistical ore reserve estimation, mine planning and feasibility evaluation, and certified resource reporting. Clientele include mine operators in hard-rock, soft-rock, coal, industrial minerals, and stone, and the nuclear waste industry. Geomechanical engineering experience includes ground support design, barrier and yield pillar design, stability evaluation, ground subsidence analysis, mine sequencing, shaft and decline design, entry orientation, multi-seam design, longwall shield capacity selection, underground storage bin design, ground failure investigation, in-situ stress determination, geological hazards identification, and slope stability analysis. Extensive geomechanical modeling experience using two- and three-dimensional linear and non-linear computer codes, including EXPAREA, FLAC, FLAC3D, UDEC, and PFC3D. He has conducted resource and reserve evaluations in zinc, molybdenum, uranium, vanadium, coal, trona, and potash, under the recognized international reporting standards including 43-101, JORC, SME, and the SEC. Mr. Gilbride is a registered professional engineer in Colorado and an active member of SME and ASCE.		Leo J. Gilbride, P.E. Senior Consultant (Mackay School of Mines, University of Reno, Nevada)
	Bo Yu, Ph.D. Senior Engineer (West Virginia University)	Dr. Yu has over 10 years experience in mining engineering. Provides consulting engineering services to the mining and civil engineering industries in numerical modeling, in situ stress measurements, ground support design for underground mines, slope stability analysis, and geological modeling in dam design.
	Mr. Adu-Acheampong has over 7 years experience in mining engineering. Projects include rock mass classification, underground support design, rock mechanics investigation and numerical modeling, ventilation modeling, resource evaluations and laboratory rock properties testing. Project experience spans underground soft rock and coal mining, and open pit/underground hard rock mining.		Albert Adu-Acheampong Sr. Engineer & Laboratory Manager (Mackay School of Mines)
	Hua Zhao, Ph.D. Sr. Engineer (West Virginia University)	Dr. Zhao provides consulting engineering services to the mining and civil engineering industries in numerical modeling using three- and two-dimensional continuum and discontinuum computer codes, including FLAC, FLAC3D and UDEC. Modeling experience includes slope stability, underground mine stability, ground subsidence, rockfall assessment, hydraulic- and thermal-mechanical analysis, parallel communications between small and large models, and user-defined constitutive models. Typical projects include slope stability, cavern stability and subsidence analyses, an underground coal gasification cavern subsidence assessment, a longwall undercut evaluation, tectonic stress estimation, mine room-and-pillar stability analyses and borehole stability modeling, and sludge disposal evaluation in an abandoned underground mine. She is a graduate of West Virginia University with an M.S. degree in mining engineering and a Ph.D. in applied mechanics.
	Mr. Baars is a recent graduate with a growing array of mining and geologic background with the ability to integrate the geophysical method for application to geology. Projects include geologic and geophysical integration and interpretation, block modeling and reserve development/analysis, general field geology and geological engineering applications. Experience includes but is not limited to open pit and underground coal geology/mining, open pit and underground hard rock geology/mining for metals, commodities, and aggregates. Experience also includes multiple geophysical exploration techniques as well as geologic exploration with multiple applications ranging from shallow subsurface remediation, water table identification, geothermal resource exploration, surface mapping, and exploration.		Rick Baars Sr. Engineer (New Mexico Tech)
	Samrat Mohanty, Ph.D. Sr. Engineer (Southern Illinois University)	Dr. Mohanty has a diverse background in mining rock mechanics and civil geotechnical engineering. Projects include rock slope stability analysis, numerical modeling, and underground pillar design. Experience includes coal mine ground control, slope stability, acid mine drainage, pavement/haul road design, directional drilling, and dam/levee seepage and stability analysis. He also has experience in geologic mapping, multiple geomaterial testing and monitoring procedures, and coal combustion byproducts utilization.
	Mr. McGunegle has over 35 years experience in mining operations. Provides consulting engineering services to the mining industry in the areas of mine engineering, mine planning, rock mechanics, material handling, mine ground control, and general mine operations. Projects include ground control problem resolution, study and review of mine design, long- and short-range mine planning, mine evaluations, operating and capital cost estimates, equipment selection recommendations, expert testimony related to ground control and mine design issues, and management of drilling operations. A highly experienced mining engineer with a strong record of success in mine management, engineering, and mine planning. Registered professional engineer in Colorado. (Working knowledge of Spanish)		Brian F. McGunegle, P.E. Consultant Emeritus (Michigan Technological University)
	Jill Lawrence Engineering Technician (Mesa State College)	Ms. Lawrence has over 20 years experience with multiple CADD packages and contouring and graphing software preparing 2D and 3D drawings and maps. She is SIT certified from the State of Colorado in land surveying as well as a recent GIS certification from Mesa State College in geographical information systems and technologies. Additional experience includes advanced raster editing and graphic arts.