Agapito Associates LLC

Grand Junction, CO

Technical expertise and sound analysis for your mining project, both large and small.

Services: 24
Offices: 3
Projects: 3
Leaders: 2
Founded: 1978
Size Estimate: 25-50 employees

Overview

Agapito Associates LLC is a mining and geoengineering consulting practice founded in 1978 and headquartered in Grand Junction, Colorado. It provides technical consulting to producers of metals and industrial minerals, energy production and storage operators, and underground waste isolation projects, with completed work in 35 US states and 28 countries. Core capabilities span mine and cavern design, solution mining, rock mechanics, geologic and geomechanical investigations, slope stability, and subsidence analysis, supported by an in-house rock mechanics laboratory and full field services team.

Founded: 1978
Size Estimate: 25-50 employees

Services

Mining Engineering

across a wide spectrum of mining methods and materials.

Mine Planning Ground-Control Design Ventilation Design Mine-Shaft Planning Construction Management Longwall Mining Resource and Reserve Evaluation Subsidence Analysis Slope Stability Tailings Design Field Services

Rock Mechanics

Application of rock mechanics to underground mine design, supported by an in-house laboratory and field equipment facility in Grand Junction.

Stress Measurements Rock Mechanics and Mine Design Numerical and Geomechanical Modeling

Solution Mining

Design and permitting support for solution mines recovering soluble evaporite minerals.

Potash Recovery Trona and Soda Ash Recovery Nahcolite Recovery Salt Recovery

Underground Storage

Design of mined underground caverns for the storage of liquefied petroleum gas, hydrocarbons, or compressed air.

Project Feasibility

Technical and financial evaluations to guide mining projects from concept to completion, including mine economics.

Geologic Studies

Geological engineering and site characterization studies supporting mine planning and design.

Industries

Mining Aggregates & Quarrying Metals Oil & Gas Energy Storage Nuclear Waste Management

Firm type

Mining Engineering Geotechnical Engineering

Projects

Green River Project NI 43-101 Exploration Target

2025 | Green River | American Critical Minerals Corp. | Mining

Appointed by American Critical Minerals Corp. to define a National Instrument 43-101 exploration target for lithium at the Green River Project.

Resource and Reserve Evaluation

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Nevada Test Site Nuclear Waste Repository Support

1994 | Nevada Test Site, Nevada | Sandia National Laboratories | Nuclear

Provided consulting and geomechanical support services to Sandia National Laboratories at the Nevada Test Site Nuclear Waste Repository.

Rock Mechanics Underground Storage

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US Army Corps of Engineers Geotechnical Services

1984 | Los Angeles, California | US Army Corps of Engineers | Government

Provided geotechnical and engineering services under contract for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Mining Engineering Rock Mechanics

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Leadership

Michael P. Hardy

Chairman of the Board

Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng.

Co-founded Agapito Associates in 1978. Michael Hardy previously worked with Jose Agapito at Golder Associates for six years before establishing the practice in Grand Junction, Colorado.