Agapito Associates, Inc., (AAI) has served the mining industry for 34 years in the disciplines of mining engineering, civil engineering, geological engineering, and geology. AAI offers expertise in rock mechanics, mine planning, and resource assessment. Specialties include mine design, mine planning, rock testing, numerical modeling, instrumentation design and installation, stress measurement, ground control, subsidence, solution mining, ventilation, highwall mining, slope design, mine backfill, equipment selection, cost estimating, permitting, feasibility, due diligence, expert testimony and independent resource evaluation for TSX/SEC/JORC reporting. AAI also offers rock mechanics testing, underground core drilling, underground directional drilling, core logging, and geologic modeling.