Mining Engineering
Since its inception, Agapito Associates, Inc. (Agapito) has provided mining engineering services across a wide spectrum of mining methods and materials, including underground, surface, highwall, and solution mining.
Materials/minerals mining that Agapito has performed include soft- and hard-rock depositional environments:
- Coal
- Potash
- Phosphate
- Limestone
- Oil Shale
- Salt
- Trona (soda ash)
- Base Metals
- Precious Metals
- Industrial Minerals/Aggregates
In addition to general mine design services, Agapito has capabilities in the following areas:
- Rock mechanics including laboratory testing
- Mine ventilation engineering
- Mine planning, include geologic modeling and operations, scheduling, staffing requirements
- Detailed mine design, including geotechnical analysis and infrastructure requirements, capital and operating costs
- Ground control and subsidence engineering
- Blasting engineering
- Exploration programs and resource/reserve evaluations
- Geotechnical instrumentation installation
- Mining methods and equipment specification for:
- Longwall mining
- Room-and-pillar mining
- Hard rock mining , including block caving and backfilling
- Surface and highwall mining
- Permitting
- Merger and acquisition due diligence, operation audits
