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EDUCATION
Mountain Valley High School, Saguache, Colorado
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 1992-1997, Junior Status (dropped out)
* Majors: Chemical & Mechanical Engineering
* Special Interest: Geology/Geochemistry
Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, Montana, 2004-Present, Senior Status
* Major: Mining Engineering, Anticipated Graduation December 2006
SKILLS
Mechanical
General maintenance, gasoline and diesel engine repair, basic hydraulics, welding and fabrication, and general gearbox repair. Operation of lathe, milling machine, and general machine tooling.
Computing
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Autocad, Some experience with Surpac.
Mining
Repair and maintenance of underground mining equipment, including pneumatic drills and Deutz air-cooled diesel engines. Stope mining in sub-level, shrinkage, underhand, jackleg room & pillar, and mechanized cut & fill, with all associated development. Underground drilling (jackleg, long-hole, and jumbo), blasting, and installation of ground support, including timber/steel support structures, and rock bolting. Sand, Gob and paste backfill. Surface drilling and blasting, including operation of air-track drills. Basic surface and underground surveying.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
5/97-1/98 Small Mine Development, Rain Mine, Carlin, NV
Underground Miner/ Repair and maintenance of rubber tired underground equipment, repair of pneumatic rock drills and
Mechanic feed legs. Underground mining, including drilling, blasting, drift development, and ground support.
1/98-4/99 Cotter Corporation, Swartzwalder Mine, Golden, CO
Underground Miner Narrow vein mining, including stope development (shrink stopes, and jackleg slusher room and pillar stopes), rail drifting, raise mining, underground timber construction, jackleg/stoper drilling, longhole jackleg exploration drilling, blasting and ground support.
4/99-6/99 Blasting Contractors, Buckeye, AZ
Driller/Blaster Construction blasting, including air-track drilling, surface blasting, and hydraulic rock splitting.
6/99-6/00 Road Machinery Company, Phoenix, AZ
Wheel Motor Teardown, repair and rebuilding of AC and DC wheel drive motors, generators and electrical gear from
Mechanic Komatsu-Haulpak surface mining trucks.
10/00-3/04 Stillwater Mining Company, Stillwater Mine, Nye, MT
Underground Miner Cut and fill mining, underhand mining, slusher and rubber tired, including stope development. Sand and paste backfill.
5/05-8/05 Kennecott Green's Creek Mining Company, Juneau, AK
Underground Daily asbuilt surveying, line and grade, CMS of longhole stopes.
Surveyor
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