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Republic Of Ireland

Republic Of Ireland

Ireland

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

• Business improvement in all aspects of daily mining operations• Setting and measurement of KPIs for senior management• Establishing and implementing operational processes to ensure set KPIs are met• Advising mine management on tools to ensure the sustainability of the mine in the challenging economic climate of Zimbabwe• Utilising google earth and GPS coordinates to establish a low cost mapping of various mine's geographical potential.• Scoped, proposed and acted as the primary broker for numerous mining entities in Zimbabwe

London, United Kingdom

• Various consultations in the mining field. Load and haul, Drill and blast, Machine Utilisation and availability, Maintenance scheduling and Manpower Utilisation.• Business Improvement.• Both open pit and underground operations.• Process plant.

Tanzania

• Responsible for the development and management of the Hansa Group Mining annual financial budget and forecasting of all projects and business as usual. • Worked closely with the CFO and COO in identifying and implementing the annual Hansa Mining operating plan.• Attended the East Africa Operations Management meetings providing documentation and reporting to the COO.• Planning, budgeting of new Kiabakari mining project.• Successfully led and managed the Mining Team to ensure the achievement of the Mining operating goals and budgeted production levels and targets within Hansa Global.• Implementation of controls, standards on all mining projects.• Liaison between mine corporate management and directors.• Liaison between clients and Hansa contract mining.• Management of drill and blast operations.• Implementation of all health, safety and environmental protocols.• Implementation of controls to ensure all KPI’s are achieved and sustained.• Engaged with key stakeholders to communicate and share successes and to identify business support requirements from a continuous improvement, knowledge and document management perspective.

London, United Kingdom

• Accurately analysed work processes, systems, organisational function and structures using interviews, observation, data and statistical analysis studies and techniques to determine where and how to generate measurable benefits• Trained client individuals and task forces in the effective use of management systems, tools, techniques, group problem solving and team building and consensus development skills, to install the appropriate application of the Company methodology• Prepared and conducted meetings and one-on-one interfaces with client and colleagues to ensure the job responsibilities were met• Prepared written and oral feedback, presentation materials, critiques, systems documentation, process descriptions, evaluations, data summaries and reports • Initiated innovative solutions where required and worked closely with colleagues and project management to ensure they were installed for the most effective impact• Equipment Resource Scheduling• Delay Management and Shift Re-organisation• Consult and advise on the gold plant process and recovery to ensure maximum recovery is achieved and budgets are met.• Train and advice on the mining practice within the mining department. Main areas being: The marking of drill patterns. Drilling & Blasting, Load and haul and Health Safety and Environment.• Consult on capital projects, supply chain, and best practices.

Botswana

• A contract blast company for Botswana quarries with a monthly production tonnage of +/- 250 000 tonnes per month.• All blasting and charging carried out by myself using emulsion and shock tubes as the main explosives. • Responsible for the safety, health and environmental issues related to Botswana and to the high standards of the quarries serviced. Involved in training of blasters for the Botswana defence force, the police, the mines department and mining engineering graduates from the University of Botswana. • Responsible for the storage, transportation and strict stock controls of explosives as required by the mines and minerals act. • Dealt with all labour related issues and attended all safety and environmental meetings as required by the quarries serviced. • Involved in road work blasting and trench blasting and a small amount of specialised blasting in built up areas.• Kept records and statistics on noise and vibration readings with details for environmental purposes. • Kept records of all consumables and explosives used so as to calculate powder factors etc. This ensured the best efficiencies and safety related issues were achieved for particular areas and types of blasts.

Zimbabwe

Securing and importing of fuel from Botswana to Zimbabwe for sale due to the economic climate in Zimbabwe.Involved the purchasing and transport of the fuel across the border, as well as sales and distribution to clients.

Zimbabwe

Control of all opencast drilling, blasting and hauling. Staff compliment of 200. Responsible for health, safety, environmental and ecological aspects related to the mining industry. Responsible for maintaining communication channels between top management and the general work force. Maintained communication between the quarry and processing plant management to ensure targets were met.Mine closed due to the poor economic situation experienced in Zimbabwe at that time.Had complete control of security of high security areas and all security personal

Zimbabwe

Full control of the production, reduction, labour, mine budgets, health and safety aspects. Design and test work involved in constructing four new crushing, gravity separation, C.I.P. and C.I.L. plants. Reclamation of old mine shaft.Managed mine and plant to suit production.Ran the refinery plant, elution and smelt.Labour compliment +/- 100, staff, management 8. Five mines under my control. All of which were of high grade gold properties. Tonnage mined and milled per month, approximately five thousand tonnes per month. Gold extraction was firstly gravity, followed by C.I.P, followed by regrind and static leach (C.I.S).Had complete control of security of high security areas and all security personal

Zimbabwe

I joined Acol Chemicals as a Chemical Sales Engineer in the mining division.Travelling throughout Zimbabwe mines to carry out test work on carbon flocculants depressants and all other chemicals pertaining to mining.Consultation to all Zimbabwean mines on chemical usage (carbon, cyanide, flocculants, depressants, acids). Minerals (gold, silver, copper, nickel chrome, coal, platinum, diamonds, emeralds), quarry works road works and gold refractory plants.

Zimbabwe

Managing all aspects of the mine production reduction, labour control (labour compliment +200, management staff 8). H/W and F/W schist underhand mining. Gravity separation to C.I.P. plant +/- eighty thousand tonnes. Duties involved all aspects from mining to producing the final product. Had complete control of security of high security areas and all security personnel.Ensured that all health, safety and environmental regulations were adhered to.

Zimbabwe

• Design and build Gravity circuit to C.I.P. Plant. • Control Heap Leach Operation and Elution Plant. • Reclamation of incline shaft to thirteen level (+/- 550 metres below surface) • Dump retreatment sixty thousand tonnes per month. • Heap leach one hundred thousand tonnes per month. • Gravity separation plant forty thousand tonnes per month. • Labour compliment: 300, management staff: 6.

Zimbabwe

• Running of a Heap Leach operation and gravity Circuit amalgamations• As well as the running of the underground and blasting operations to supply the required thirty tons per day of exceptionally high grade gold ore.• Management and control of security in underground working and processing plants due to the fact that the ore concentrate was of exceptional high grade and value and a security risk at times.

Zimbabwe

Worked as a Mine Captain on three of Lonrho mines, How Mine, Athens Mine and Tiger Reef Mine. I was in charge of production and shaft sinking operations. Promoted to Mine Captain Shaft Sinking Western Division Lonrho. I was then transferred to Athens Mine due to the experience gained on the South African mines in mining in unsafe ground where specialized ground support was necessary. During my mining career, I involved myself in the processing plants. My responsibilities also included all shaft sinking and overseeing of borehole operations.

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Rhodesia

Trained in combat procedures including firearms usage and safety