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I am a Papua New Guinean Registered Mine Manager with more than 11years experience in the hard rock mining industry.

This includes superintendent level large scale mine operations and plant management. I have managed a huge dredging operation and I have mine waste management and rehabilitation experience. I have a very strong team oriented and posses seasoned leadership skills.

I have under underground experience to and I have done post graduate studies in Japan.

I am a very safety conscious person who leads by example. I am an lead investigator and can do complicated Job Safety Analysis and Risk Analysis.

Objective: For any potential employers looking for seasoned miner

Experience o July 2007 to Date Xstrata Zinc Mt Isa Queensland, Australia
Senior Mine Engineer - Void Management o Review Blast design considering void backs and crown collapsing o Schedule major void filling and probing schedule and synchronize with mine planning for; mine, drilling and blasting.
o Oversee Daily void hazard management, o Void Probe Drilling Data Management, o Portal Relocation Management, o Supervise a team of 7 technical people and other contractors, o Liaise with various stake holders such as short term production planning engineer, drill and blast engineers, Project team, Mine Operations, and senior management.
o Ensure voids are filled so production is not delayed due to void hazards, o Involve signing of on all JSA for void entry and sign off, o Devise management strategy for various drilling program.
o Manage void incidents.
o Manage Geotechnical issues.
o Involve with ICAM investigation and Mine Department's investigation.
o Mentor Graduates.
o Working on implement new void detection techniques such as ground penetrating radar and other geophysical means.
o Involve in major engineering project risk assessment.
o Submit capital expense request for minor projects.
o o Feb 2007 -June 2007 Xstrata Zinc Mt Isa Queensland, Australia
Strategic Long term Planner o Strategic Mine planning, o Portal relocation negotiation and design presentation to x-strata copper o Mining cut back to meet ore targets o Compiling X-strata Board submission for mining contract worth 100s of millions of Dollars, o Involving voids management as open pit enters into underground workings, o Underground access development Contract negotiations worth several million Aus$, o In charge of construction of portal and ground support works for underground access, o Schedule long and short term void investigation, o Setting up procedures especially for crane usage in void area, o Provide advise on ROM stockpile management strategies, o Over hauling Production Data Base, o Involve in various multimillion contract negotiations such as dispatch system, portal relocation and decline construction, o Involve in setting LOM schedule using Mine work Planner schedule, o Involve in long term waste dump site selection, site investigations, designs and Mines Department submission discussions, o Accident incident Investigations, o Handle mine projects such as gravity flow 1.5 km pipeline, o Take on senior production planning role when required, o Develop production KPI data base and network, o Train and mentor graduate engineers, o Supervisor data entry personals, o Got shifted by management as per requirements.
o o Dec 2006-Jan 2007 Xstrata Zinc Mt Isa Queensland, Australia
Voids Scheduler o Mostly notable work involving,
* Programming schedules for voids backing filling: the computer program defines mine working area and schedules void to probe drill and fill in the mining area, o Supervise Civil works,
* Involves road works, drainage, shed constructions etc,
* In charge of construction of portal and underground,
* development, drive for underground access, o Void surveying using CALS laser survey, o Void management projects such as used of bridge over voids, o This involved conceptual design, structural certification, submitting capital request from X-strata CEO, o Got shifted by management due to tough challenges in the Mine.
o o Mid Sept 2006 - Nov 2006 Xstrata Zinc Mt Isa Queensland, Australia
Project Engineer o Project I have work done:
o Review of Fuel budget, equipment usages o Reviewed waste dump environmental issues o Road works, o Civil works, o Underground access development Contract negotiations worth several million Aus $, o In charge of construction of portal and ground support works for underground access, o Pit dewatering simulation and pump sizing.
o Supervised contractors on minor civil projects o Secondment to Void department by Management o Mid May 2006 - Mid Sept 2006 Ok Tedi Mining Ltd Western Pro., PNG
Coordinator(Superintendent) Crushing, conveying and hauling road systems o In charge of crushing and conveying system including 35 personnel that who operate the system, o The conveying system delivers on average about 70,000 tonnes to the mill daily, o Conveyor can deliver up to 4000 per hour, o The system handles about 26 million tonnes of ore per annum o Crushing system, o Managed two crushers that can crush up to 7000 tonnes per hour each, o Supervised the pit road system maintenance team of 10 men, o Be an interface between milling and mining operations, o Manage close to 1 million tonnes of stockpile, o Involve in planning and design modification to improve the system, o Involve in daily ore blending and planning, o Involve in weekly ore plan: such as communicating crushing shuts and stockpile levels and grade control, o Be a main player of maintenance planning and execution, o Responsible for operational budget of over 10million US$, o Carry out daily inspections of the two crushing and convey plants, o Responsible for the mine road network, o This involves long term road and short term, o Pit Drainages jobs, o Other major mine drainage jobs, o Drop cuts for new benches.
o Includes maintenance and construction.
o Responsible for training operator on new routes at the pit or dump pocket.
o Involved in major crusher upgrade work that included:
o HAZOP - a process of identifying operational and environmental hazards or design flaws before construction.
o Construction of reinforce earth worth and permanent ramps.
o Play an active part in Safety and environment issues such as:
o Attending and contributing at Safety meetings, o Involving in incident accident investigation because I am a certified ICAM investigator, o Involve NOSA(National Occupational and Safety Audit - An International Safety Audit Company), o Preparing JSA and review them by JSOs, o Preparing risk analysis and safety management plans for major projects, o Doing work place compliance inspections for contractor fix plants and industrial sites. I am a certified work place inspector;
o Involved in delivery of ore from mining face to mill by liaising with daily planning engineers, geologist production superintendents/coordinators and crusher operators, o Was in charge of fixed plants worth close to 50million US$;
o Involved in planning and supervision of shut downs crushers and ensure there was minimum impact on production, o Resigned due to personal problems.
o o April 2006 - to Mid May 2006 Ok Tedi Mining Ltd Western Pro., PNG
Team Leader Mine Production Planning(Superintendent planning)
o Lead a team 8 technical and mining professionals including; mine project planning, short term planning, drill & blast engineers and drafts men who are responsible for the mine planning of the Ok Tedi pit that handles about 200,000 tonnes of material;
o The pit delivers on average about 70,000 tonnes to the mill and removes about 130,000 tonnes of waste daily. The waste includes limestone for environmental purpose;
o Also responsible for training of the graduates;
o Responsible for and over see, daily, weekly, monthly and annual mine planning and execution;
o Responsible for identifying mine project and ensure projects planning are done on time for implementing. Planning involves designing and costing;
o Monitor weekly, monthly and annual mine production plans to ensure forecast and budget targets are met;
o Responsible for reforecast;
o OTML Management moved me to crushing, conveying and pit services Coordinator.
o o June 2005 - to March 2006 Ok Tedi Mining Ltd Western Pro., PNG
Coordinator(superintendent) Mine Projects and Pit Service o Manage Major (Multi-million) Mine Projects through budget monitoring, maintaining equipment availability, contracts management and project implementation;
o Projects I supervised includes:
o pioneering work for mining, o mine periphery road maintenance, o major drainage constructions, o Geotechnical projects involving dewater drilling and artificial boulder constructions etc, o Pit wall rehabilitation/stabilization project for the west wall of the pit, o Involved in planning and execution of a 18MUS$ in pit crusher upgrade earthworks project, o Major workshop relocation involving working at 30m heights with cranes and man cage, o Supervised Mining of limestone for the lime kiln and environment purposes, a contract worth 2 million US$
o East wall pit wall cut backs;
o Play an active part in Safety and environment issues such as:
o Attending and contributing at Safety meetings, o Involving in incident accident investigation because I am a certified ICAM investigator, o Involve NOSA(National Occupational and Safety Audit - An International Safety Audit Company), o Preparing JSA and review them by JSOs, o Preparing risk analysis and safety management plans for major projects, o Doing work place compliance inspections for contractor fix plants and industrial sites. I am a certified work place inspector;
o Liaise with other teams within OTML such as: electrical department, geotechnical and project engineers to implement projects;
o Supervise about 13 employees directly reporting to me. I also supervise other casuals and contractors;
o Was on succession training list for Mine Operations Manager (Registered Mine Manager);
o Draw up, submit and defend Multi-multimillion US$ capital budgets and project budgets through the chain of management;
o Manage a 200 tonne per day Lime Quarry that feeds the mill of it lime requirements;
o Managing an operational project and services budget of 6Million US$;
o Ensure project costing are appropriately allocated and manage cost of projects through docket reconciliation and cost saving strategies.
o OTML management transferred me to Team leader Mine Production planning.
o o Aug 2004 - May 2005 Ok Tedi Mining Ltd Western Pro., PNG
Acting Site Team Coordinator(Site Manager) at Bige Dredging Operations o Managed over 35 Million US$ Dredging Operation Budget per annum;
o Managed over 80 employees directly - most are contractors and casuals and I managed a site of 300 employees;
o Managed a truly international work force;
o Managed four contractors: Lower Ok Tedi (LOTIC) - labor hire, site security and minor plants, Eurest - LOTIC Joint Venture - Catering and camping, Star West - Earth Moving Equipment, Dredeco International- Dredging Operations and other minor contractors when required for various project such: geotechnical drilling, constructions, vector control, building maintenance, electrical installation, fuel facilities installations etc;
o Liaise with Infrastructure Support Department of OTML to manage and operate a water treatment plant, power station and sewage treatment plant on site;
o Strategically manage daily earth works and dredging operation taking into consideration long term operational plans and environmental impact;
o Manage community threats by devising site specific policies to protect employees, the operations and prevent landowners from take matters into their own hands;
o Implement programs to monitor cost and putting emphasis on cost cutting;
o Budget and schedule activities for the operation;
o Manage and drive safety and environmental issues on site;
o At times take up role as Deputy Registered Managers¡¦ role(PNG Mining Act) when Kiunga/Bige operations Manager go out for leave;
o Liaise with Site Community relations to manage community related issues, at times address confrontation by landowners- always resolve issues by being transparent and using non aggressive methods;
o Review contractor daily and monthly bills and payments;
o Review consultants¡¦ site technical reports - this involves project proposal - such as sulphur separation plant, monthly reports, project progress reports, geotechnical reports, stockpile rehabilitation reports etc;
o Involve in dredged stockpile ARD mitigation workshop held in Cairns January 2004;
o Involve with presentation of defence document to OTML lawyers regarding a fatality and other legal cases held both within the country and overseas;
o Drive NOSA, Environment and Site Risk Action Plans;
o Drive site services construction and installation projects;
o Liaise with environmental department to implement strategic and sustainable stockpile rehabilitation program such a the proposal to use low ANC material to cover a high sulphur stockpile;
o Manage all logistics for the Site;
o Provided an alternative ARD mitigation option by identify a low ANC resource for capping material that saved OTML over US$50 million. That was the capital cost and operational cost for a sulphur separation plant to generate the capping material;
o Manage an implement Sand stockpile Rehabilitation Program involving reforestations, mulching operation, and drainage construction on sand stockpile covering an area of 1000 hectares;
o The dredge produces about 16million tones of sand per annum.
o Managed a small clinic.
o OTML management transferred me to the mine o o Aug 2003 - July 2004 Ok Tedi Mining Ltd Western Pro., PNG
Site Engineer at Bige Dredging Operations o Co-ordinate site surface drainage and construction activities, capture cost and create a data base to manage cost and draw up budgets and schedules;
o Assist in environmental work by identifying, choosing and implementing activities that will ensure the sustainability of the stockpile;
o Supervise all non-dredge related earth works;
o Plan and manage operations budget, regularly monitor performance against budget;
o Ensure contractors adhere and implement safe work practice;
o Promote Health and safety programs;
o Ensure the work is carried out by contractor as per the contract.
o o o July 2001 - July 2003 Misima Mines Ltd Miline Bay Pro., PNG
Mine Engineer o Long term and short term mine planning;
o Was involved on daily basis to ensure ore met milling requirements;
o Co ordinate long term geo technical stability monitoring for mine closure purposed;
o Designing creek channels on fill to replace the original creek channels;
o Designing, budgeting and scheduling of buttress to support high face dumps and reconstruction of dumps;
o Coordinated all survey jobs including: end of month and end of year ore reconciliation, geo-technical survey, design set out and monitoring and directly supervised the surveying crew;
o Carried out investigation of grade variance and established root cause for the variance between the krigged blast hole and mill head grades;
o Coordinate drilling of stockpile and grade estimation;
o Programmed from scratch an object oriented data base for equipment availability, utilization, costing for cost centres in visual basics and Excel for end of month reports and supervised the operation of the data processes;
o Programmed a data base from scratch using Excel and Visual basis to monitor pit wall movement;
o This involved the program calculating vector displacement of individual prisms and groups of prisms representing a region/section of the pit wall and dumps, o Producing reports for the Papua New Guinea Government Mines Department, o The program extracted text data from field electronic survey record and imported the data to Excel then does the vectorial analysis; for individual and regions;
o Reconcile mill through put and mined stockpile material through survey, truck and shovel counts at end of months;
o Involved in the construction of the mini hydro 8km pipe track;
o Involved in the design and construct of pit water major spillway;
o Coordinate end of year reserve reconciliations and calculation;
o Scheduled mining and placement of topsoil for mine rehabilitation with close consultation with environment department;
o Was involved in mining and milling annual through put budgets;
o Was a safety inspector - carried out monthly safety inspection on plants, equipment, sites, buildings etc;
o Implement mine closure plans for satellite and main pits: this involved trenching, pit wall cut backs, and spillway constructions;
o Co-ordinate creek aggradations remedial work and monitoring - these involved creek cross section monitoring and cleaning silt along the creeks bed entry into the sea.
Nov. 1996 - Oct 1997 Porgera Gold Mine Enga Province, PNG
Graduate Mine Engineer o Under ground unit operations: including stope drilling, stope blasting - both up and down holes, raise boring, ventilation monitoring, combustion engine emission monitoring, mine dewatering, development blasting - including drive, pilot holes for stopes and declines, mine services installations;
o Design project including preliminary long term designs for Pit -Anawae haul road;
o Open pit daily production report and end of month reports;
o Involved in underground Exploration drilling.
Jan 1996 - Feb 1996 Mt. Leyshon Gold Mines Queensland, Aus
Student Mining Engineer o Geo technical monitoring ( crack monitoring and installation of warning systems);
o Research on impact on blasting to the pit wall;
o Involved in the tailing dam construction;
o Rehabilitation of tailings dam; these involved using scrapers to mine topsoil and giving a cover of at least two meter and casting seeds on the top soil.
o o Nov 1995 - Dec 1995 Misima Gold Mines Miline Bay, PNG
Student Mining Engineer o Drill and Blast; involving drill, loading shot, blast tie ups, explosive mixing;
o Surveying: involving pit pickups, transfer of PMS, blast hole pick up etc;
o Exploration drill; involving rig set, sample collection etc;
o Environment: Involved in ocean tailings monitoring as tailings was dumped in a deep sea submarine trench.
o o Nov. 1994 - Feb. 1995 Porgera Gold Mines Enga Province, PNG
Student Mining Engineer o General Under ground mining duties including;
o Production and Development, Drill and Blast, Mine Services -meshing, scaling etc;
o Construction of culvert by pass in open stope and ventilation gates;
o Mine sump and dewatering station operation.
Education Oct. 1997 - March 1999 University Of Tohoku Sendai, Japan o Studied as Graduate/ Research student in mine automation involving truck automation with Tohoku University Department of Geo-earth science, Mineral exploitation Laboratory;
o Withdrew from studies due to personal reasons.
1993-1996 University Of Technology LAE, PNG
o Bachelor of Engineering in Mining Engineering;
o Graduated with Merit, won top academic student award and won a Monbusho scholarship to do Masters in Tohoku University, Japan.

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