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AAGAPITO ASSOCIATES, INC.
<br />Mining & Cir it Engineers & Geologists
<br />Education
<br />B.E./Honors
<br />Ph.D.
<br />MICHAEL P. HARDY, Ph.D., P.E.
<br />Principal
<br />(Civil Engineering) University of Adelaide, 1968
<br />(GeoEngineering) University of Minnesota at
<br />Minneapolis, 1973
<br />Professional Memberships
<br />Member, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
<br />Registered Professional Engineer, State of Colorado, Texas, Temporary
<br />Member Saskatchewan
<br />Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
<br />Past Chairman, Underground Technical Research Council, a Joint
<br />AIME/ASCE Committee
<br />Experience
<br />1994—Present President, Agapito Associates, Inc. Manage staff of engineers, technicians,
<br />and support personnel to achieve the mission of AAI to provide the highest
<br />quality consulting services to the mining industry. Manage and coordinated
<br />projects involving underground mines in coal (burst -prone conditions), potash,
<br />trona, nahcolite, borate, gold, and oil shale in the United States, Canada,
<br />Europe, South America and North Africa. Project manager of mine
<br />development projects and solution mine development projects including Kazan
<br />Trona Project for Rio Tinto, Hampton Corners Project for Akzo Nobel Salt, Inc.,
<br />shaft and mine planning for Wold Benetron Project, and solution mine
<br />feasibility for American Soda, LLP, Satimola, Kazakhstan, Potash One, Canada
<br />and Rio Tinto in Argentina. Committee member, National Academy of
<br />Science (NRC) committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and NAS/NRC
<br />sub -committee on the United States Bureau of Mines.
<br />1979-1993 Principal and Vice President, J.F.T. Agapito & Associates, Inc. Manager of
<br />projects involving field geotechnical data gathering, numerical modeling, and
<br />design of underground mines and nuclear waste repositories. Typical projects
<br />include management of pre -conceptual design effort and site characterization
<br />plan development for nuclear waste repository in basalt and design analysis of
<br />repository in tuff. Design of underground mines in oil shale, copper,
<br />molybdenum, limestone, coal, and trona. Rock support selection using rock
<br />bolts, shotcrete and steel sets for a variety of tunnels, declines and mine
<br />openings. Manager for characterization studies, including coring, geophysical
<br />logging, rock mechanics testing, gas monitoring, and resource evaluation.
<br />Design of large-scale tests involving thermal loading for in situ oil shale
<br />mining and nuclear waste disposal. Evaluation of alternate mining methods
<br />for underground gold deposit, design and selection of cemented backfill for
<br />high extraction mining, and structural evaluation of solution mine cavities.
<br />Coordinate business development and corporate quality assurance program.
<br />MICHEAL P. HARDY RESUME
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