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RESPEC Acquires North American Reserve The Newest Addition to the RESPEC Team Serves the Construction Aggregate and Industrial Minerals Market
RESPEC’s mining & energy summer interns share their experiences Amidst an Unpredictable Work Environment, RESPEC Interns Rose to the Occasion
RESPEC Acquires North American reserve
In July, RESPEC announced the acquisition of North American Reserve, a geologic consulting business serving the construction aggregate and industrial minerals market. The North American Reserve division of RESPEC will remain based in Laconia, New Hampshire.
North American Reserve, founded in 1989, is an environmental, geologic, and mining consulting company that provides geological, technical, and management services to the construction aggregate, surface- and underground-mining, and heavy construction industries. Clients include investors, producers, and operators throughout the US and Canada. North American Reserve has significant experience in every stage of the quarry design process in North America, from resource evaluation, environmental risk assessment, regulatory management, and feasibility studies to preparing documentation supporting planning applications and detailed quarry-phasing plans that can be implemented and used for monitoring and management purposes.
“North American Reserve is well-known within the industry for delivering value and integrity for every client and project they serve. I am excited to have them continue expanding RESPEC’s services to the mining industry,” said RESPEC’s Senior Vice President of Mining & Energy John Morgan.
Mr. Michael Wright will remain as the manager of this division. Mr. Wright’s career has focused on evaluating, permitting, and developing aggregate operations throughout the US. He has a geology degree from Connecticut State University and is a registered Professional Geologist in New Hampshire.
Mr. Wright said, “Our collective experience and desire to grow make this partnership ideal for RESPEC and North American Reserve. While we continue to base our operations in New Hampshire, I’m excited to see how we can contribute to additional projects throughout the country and around the world.”
Other members of the North American Reserve team joining RESPEC include Brett Beliveau, who spent more than 20 years in the military as a civil engineer technician and now focuses on the construction aggregate mining sector; Kirsten Stokes who holds a master’s degree in geology from the University of North Carolina and specializes in geological analysis of soil, groundwater, and surface water; and Derek Drouin, a Geologist in Training and project geologist with a focus on mine planning and exploration.
Visit RESPEC’s website (http://www.respec.com) and North American Reserve’s website (www. northamericanreserve.com) to learn more about
the services that these two companies offer.
For detailed information, please contact RESPEC’s Mike Wright at Michael.Wright@respec.com
RESPEC’s internship program has provided me with a valuable learning opportunity. As a member of the modeling team, I gained exposure to the FLAC3D program and the workflow for geomechanical analysis. The objective of my first project in FLAC3D was writing a function that could verify if boundary conditions had been applied properly to cavern models. The objective of the following project was to investigate how a command approach for cavern excavation differed from the standard method currently used. Through these projects, I strengthened my coding skills, ability to verify results using engineering principles, and overall understanding of how solutions are derived using finite element analysis software. In addition to those projects, I have been working on an internal interactive map called mapFeeder™. The goal of the map is to enable users to effectively search for caverns and locate associated information, including the API number, operator, product stored, and RESPEC reports and sonars. Making this information readily accessible will greatly benefit the Mining & Energy business unit by minimizing the research process. I want to thank RESPEC and the modeling team for the opportunity to be a team member and develop as a young professional.”
Molly Keller
Rapid City, SD
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Mechanical Engineering Senior, Graduating December 2020 The internship program at RESPEC has been an insightful journey for me in coming from an undergraduate program. Regardless of their positions, the people I worked with were encouraging and welcoming. I immediately needed to communicate with other engineers, clients, or even staff outside the department for the tasks that I worked on. Each person was helpful and made an effort to work with me one-on-one. Most of my tasks concentrated on project-related work for mining clients. Whether it was a model generation or extracting postprocess results, I had the department’s help, and the level of teamwork was excellent. Through the tasks that I worked on, I was shown how meaningful the work was. I prepared presentations for my mentor in which some images and tables were used in a client meeting. It was incredible to see my work as an intern being used throughout the company and that I had made an impact.”
Caiden Merritt
Rapid City, SD
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Mechanical Engineering Senior, Graduating in December 2020
For detailed information on RESPEC’s Internship Program, please contact RESPEC’s Amy Hasvold, Strategic Programs Manager, at Amy.Hasvold@respec.com or visit this page on our website: https://www.respec.com/our-careers/internships/
