Jason Baker Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Ns, Ca

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Cooks Brook, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia, Canada

- Touquoy Open Pit Gold Mine Start-Up.- Manage operations personnel (50+ employees) and ensure all mine planning and operations goals are fulfilled safely in accordance to the companies safety standards and Safe Work Procedures (SWP's). - Develop company wide mining processes & guidelines.- Develop and implement safe work procedures with respect to mine operations, engineering and environmental controls.- Coordinate engineering activities (drill & blast, mine planning).- Manage incidents, incident investigations, and implement corrective and preventative actions.- Coordinate department hiring needs, manage disciplinary action, and promote employee development.-Ensure all site functions work collaboratively including Mine Engineering & Operations, Mobile Maintenance, Dewatering, Human Resources, Geology and Accounting.- Tailings Management Facility (TMF) Construction Management & Coordination.

Halifax, Canada Area

· Mining & Metallurgy discipline lead for eastern Canada.· Developed companywide mining processes & project guidelines.· Coordinate resources; assign work to other engineers within the company.· Mentor & guide junior engineers within SNC-Lavalin.· Project Manager on several mining projects.

Halifax, Canada Area

- Pre-Feasibility & Feasibility Level Studies- Open Pit Optimization- Open Pit Planning/Design/Scheduling- NI-43-101 Reporting

Nova Scotia, Canada

Services offered:- Drill Plan Design- Resource/Reserve Estimation- Pit Optimization- Pit Planning/Design/Scheduling- Reconciliation- NI-43-101 Reporting

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Project Manager for several projects involving pit optimization, pit planning/design, resource estimation and geotechnical considerations.- Have co-authored several NI-43-101 compliant and non-compliant resource estimations involving several different commodity types (Au, Ag, PGE’s, Cu, Ni, Co, Pb, Zn, Li,) as an independent QP.- Have completed several pit optimizations, using Whittle, and detailed pit designs/scheduling/developments for clients involving different commodities (Au, Ag, Ni, Li, Pb, Zn) as an independent QP.- Have completed pit optimizations and resource estimations as a co-author of Preliminary Economic Assessments (PEA).- Have also successfully completed geological modeling projects (data compilation and interpretation) and drill program design projects.

Fall River, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Under contract with Inter-Citic Minerals Inc to perform resource modeling and open pit optimization on their Dachang gold deposit in China in support of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA).- Created geological model from drill hole data base and sectional resource.- Created a resource block model using GEMS software for the purposes validating project resource estimation.- Determined optimal open pit scenario using Whittle software.- Created Life of Mine plans/schedules from the optimized Whittle pit.

Gays River, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Managed the Engineering/Geology Department at Acadian Mining Corporation’s Scotia Mine Lead/Zinc site.- Responsible for long and short term mine planning as well as production through the use of resource modeling software for everyday operations in a Lead/Zinc open pit mining operation, ensuring that production targets are met on a daily/monthly/annual basis.- Responsible for resource modeling of the North East underground expansion of the Scotia Mine, as well as four other gold properties, which the company holds in Nova Scotia. - Responsible for grade control of ore feed into the mill and ensuring that the grade meets budget targets on a daily/monthly/annual basis- Responsible for coordinating/planning blasting operations with blasting contractor.- Responsible for monthly reporting of production results to corporate head office. - Play an active role in safety at the mine site and ensure that the mine is in compliance with all Nova Scotia Occupational Health Safety and Mining regulations.- Served as the Chair Person for the mine sites Joint Occupational Health and Safety committee.- Responsible for creating and submitting annual Report of Mining Activities to government.- Completed detailed reclamation plan, including geotechnical considerations, to submit with our mine lease renewal.

Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Prepared and managed capital investment projects involving detailed planning, budgeting, scheduling, as well as ensuring compliance with all Nova Scotia Health and Safety Regulations.- Assisted in daily and short term mine planning through the use of Gemcom’s Surpac and GEMS software.- Coordinated the ship loading schedule and rock haulage schedule to the ship loading facility.- Responsible for recording and documenting monthly, quarterly and annual water samples for quality purposes.- Filled in for Department Manager in her absence, involving the management of 40 unionized employees in daily production, maintenance and safety.- Managed a variety of projects including improvements to sink float system and building, replacement of 200 ft cantilevered conveyor, installation of new sump/pump dewatering system, office renovations, installation of security system equipment and installation of a railroad spur line into our ship loading facility

Kilgore, Texas, Usa

- Part of a team that implemented a Behavior Based Safety (BBS) Program at the Texas facility, with responsibility for ensuring that all employees actively participated in the program and that the results were reported to management.- Working directly with customers onsite, obtained the geophysical and petrochemical properties of a reservoir critical to oil and gas production via open hole wireline logging techniques, managed millions of dollars of equipment, and supervised employees on site ensuring the jobs were performed safely.

Tamaqua, Pa, Usa

- Participated in a variety of projects including computer aided short and long term mine planning, road design and construction, detailed mapping, environmental control and blasting seismography, in addition to conducting a feasibility study on further mine development in an open pit coal mine.- Involved in surveying the mine and implemented a new GPS surveying system.- Responsible for recording and documenting monthly water samples and submitting the results to OSHA.

Brookfield, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Dalhousie University co-op position. - Assisted the Mine Engineer in limestone quarry daily duties including blast hole planning, surveying, mine planning and scheduling, equipment utilization monitoring.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mining And Mineral Engineering

Master Of Applied Science (Msc App), Economic Geology/Geostatistics, A

Diploma In Engineering, Engineering