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Victoria, Australia

Australia

Renison Bell, Tasmania, Australia

Renison Bell, Tasmania, Australia

Perth, Australia

Delivering capital projects by providing technical services across studies, design review, procurement, construction and commissioning. Regular travel to Mali, West Africa. Managing metallurgical test work programmes and providing corporate oversight.

Perth, Australia

Tanami, Western Australia, Australia

Plant metallurgy coverage, trouble shooting, optimisation and mentoring. Another exciting challenge.

Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia

Commissioning: Pyrite & Arsenopyrite Flotation Circuit to produce a Gold Concentrate, CIL/CIP Circuit, INCO Cyanide Destruct and the Zadra Elution CircuitAnalytical Lab commissioning; supervision of the laboratory fit out, equipment sourcing, organising staff training for aqua regia digestions. As well as equipment setup and testing; fume hood, AAS (Agilent), Bench top XRF (Olympus) and WAD cyanide determination via photo-spectrometryManagement: Co-ordination of Met team via planning and execution of plant surveys to commission new equipment and identify opportunities in existing fixed plant, review and application of internal and external Metallurgical test workRecruitment of Metallurgical staff; Plant Metallurgists and Metallurgical TechniciansTraining & Mentoring of Metallurgical Technicians, Laboratory Technician, Plant Metallurgist, Operation Shift Supervisors and the plant operatorsReporting: daily metal accounting, monthly metal accounting, rolling 3 month forecastingPlant Troubleshooting & Optimisation: Calibration of the Courier 6 OSA leading to increased utilisation and therefore improved plant operating stability. Review of flocculent dosing/mixing and implementation of de-aeration to reduce flocculent consumption and improve thickener stability.Consulting equipment & reagent suppliers to scope out projects including; 2nd hand filter install/ commissioning, filter cloth optimisation, tailings line upgrade. As well as sourcing suppliers with competitive pricing and excellent service to minimise costs and guarantee plant performance through regular site visits and test work programs.Gold Room Operation: Cleaning of electrowinning cells, flux mixing, smelting and bullion shipmentsSupervision of concentrate sampling; Primary sampling, moisture analysis, secondary sampling, reporting of the external analysis of metal content for sales purposes. (continuous improvement in regards to obtaining best practice in line with ISO12743)

New South Wales Area, Australia

Reporting: daily metal accounting, monthly metal accounting, monthly reagent usage, forecasting (both short term and quarterly forecasts), daily performance commentary, monthly plant section reportingPlant Troubleshooting: SAGBC, Copper Flotation, Leaching, CIP, and Gravity Circuit including Gekko ILR, thickening and filtering, Courier 6 OSA, and Operations shift coverageProcess Optimisation: Liaising with the Geology and Mining departments to successfully manage the ROM, restoring the gravity circuit Gold recovery from approximately 10% of mill feed back to a consistent 25% of total Gold recovery through plant surveys, engaging equipment suppliers, trialling new reagents and utilising fundamental leaching knowledge. Streamlining equipment setup and operation to aid the operations team to achieve more consistent recoveries and safety and time management, identifying poorly performing control sequences/ process systems and developing action plans to troubleshoot and restore the circuit to a stable and sustainable operating condition, plant data collection to build a database for troubleshooting future issues, Using plant surveys and sampling to perform mass/water balancing to develop scope of works for equipment upgrades and general circuit health checks leading into modelling using various computer software packages.Maintenance: Calibration and maintenance of online cyanide analyser (Cynoprobe), calibration of pH and DO meters, cyclone inspection and reline, flotation cell inspectionsSafety: Active member of Mines Rescue, management area inspections, safe act observations, hazard identification, incident reporting and investigationManagement: supervision of a mill reline, supervision of contractors, supervision of plant trials

Cobar, Nsw

Melbourne, Australia

Following SOP's to manufacture microfluidic testing devices under clean room conditions.

Melbourne, Australia

Duty manager for events, Serving, Restocking, Cleaning, Banking, Open and Close

Melbourne, Australia

Sales, Stock take, Stock Transfers, Open and Close