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EDUCATION
* B.Sc. (Honors) Mining Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2004
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AFFILIATIONS
* Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
* Northwest Mining Association
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EXPERIENCE AND WORK HISTORY
McINTOSH ENGINEERING, Tempe, Arizona, USA (2006 to Date)
Intermediate Mining Engineer, McIntosh Engineering Incorporated
Provide technical mining support including stope and infrastructure design (with Vulcan 3D software), and reviewing and updating existing mine plans. Assist in the development of equipment specifications, costs, schedules, and feasibility-level reports.
STILLWATER MINING COMPANY, Nye, Montana (2004-2006)
Miner I
Assigned to a conventional narrow vein slusher cut and fill stope. Operated a jackleg drill and slusher to complete mining cycles. Additional responsibilities included work area inspections, blast design, explosives handling, and basic construction and general maintenance. Also workerd in mechanical overhand and underhand cut-and-fill stopes using various sized LHD and jumbo drill equipment.
Fill-in Leadman
Responsible for crew supervision upon the shifters absence. Tasks included pre-shift safety meetings, stope inspections, and basic computer skills.
SOUTHERN NEVADA LABORER'S, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SAN XAVIER MINING
LABORATORY, Sahuarita, Arizona (Fall 2005)
Assistant Instructor
Assistant Instructor for Tunnel and Shaft Training Class, responsibilities included monthly 80-hour tunnel and shaft, safety and skills training course. Course involved teaching conventional mining cycle, vocabulary, procedures, and safety practices to new miners.
FRONTIER KEMPER CONSTRUCTORS, INC., JONES FORK MINE, Hindman, Kentucky (Summer 2003)
Intern (Labor and Engineering)
Assisted the site project engineer; responsibilities included surveying, slope design projects, concrete slump tests, purchasing and daily logs. Mr. Vatterrodt also worked with the mining crews on utilities installation, LHD and jumbo operations, resin bolt installation with jackleg drills, explosives handling, and general maintenance.
MODULAR MINING SYSTEMS, INC., Tucson, Arizona (2002-2003)
Intern (Engineering Department)
Generated digital evaluation models (DEM) and land use overlay files from ASCII and AutoCAD data taken from mine sites to be used by the radio frequency engineer. Other tasks included equipment testing and documentation.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, SAN XAVIER MINING LABORATORY, Sahuarita, Arizona
(1999-2004)
Foreman of Mine Operations (2002 – 2004)
Responsibilities included explosives handling and blast design, work area inspections, task training, and safety education.
Volunteer Miner (1999 – 2004)
Conducted basic mining cycles including jackleg drilling, blasting, scaling, split-set bolting, and operating an overshot mucking machine. Additional responsibilities included welding, track laying, LHD operation, basic underground safety equipment and procedures, and general maintenance and repair.
CONSOL ENERGY, BAILEY MINE, West Finley, Pennsylvania (Summer 2001)
Intern (Labor)
Worked with underground crews on track laying, air-wall building, water pump installation and maintenance, trolley wire installation projects, and general mine maintenance. Additional tasks included belt splicing, belt moves, shoveling belt line, and maintenance of belt drives and rollers.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, MINING AND GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, Tucson, Arizona
(Winter 2001)
Intern (Lab Assistant)
Responsible for the cleaning of a ventilation lab, updating AutoCAD drawings of coal-methane monitoring and measuring equipment, and writing summaries on research topics.
PHELPS DODGE MINING COMPANY, SIERRITA, Green Valley, Arizona (Summer 2000)
Intern (Labor)
Operated 240-ton CAT 793B haul truck. Inspected trucks for safety and mechanical problems before each shift. Additional responsibilities included work with the Dispatch System and general open pit operations.
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TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Technical Consulting Expertise
* Vulcan Mine Plan Software
* Mine 2-4D Design and EPS Scheduling Software
* iGantt Scheduling Software, Production Scheduling and Budgeting
* Mine Ventilation using Vnet 2003 software
* AutoCAD Software
* Reserve Sampling and Fundamental Mine Economics
* Surveying – Equipment and Procedures
* Underground Mine Safety
Operations Experience
* Mining Methods: Overhand and Underhand Cut-and-Fill
* Drilling and Blasting
* Crew Supervision
* Mining Equipment: Jackleg drills and slushers; various sized MTI and Wagner LHDs, tractors, Atlas Copco and MTI jumbo drills, Getmans, DUX trucks and skid-steer loaders.
Mine Operations Experience
* Consol Energy, Bailey Mine, USA – Worked with underground crews on track laying, air-wall building, water pump installation and maintenance, trolley wire installation projects.
* Consol Energy, Jones Fork Mine, USA – Worked as summer intern for Frontier Kemper on an access slope for coal mine in Kentucky.
* Phelps Dodge Mining Company, Sierrita, USA – Operated 240-ton CAT 793B haul truck. Inspected trucks for safety and mechanical problems before each shift, worked with Dispatch System and general open pit operations.
* Stillwater Mining Company, Nye Mine, USA – Convention narrow vein slusher and mechanized cut-and-fill stopes.
Mining Engineering and Studies
Mr. Vatterrodt has provided assistance on the following engineering studies.
* Blue Pearl Mining, Davidson Mine, British Columbia, Canada – Assisted with the feasibility-level design work of 2,000 tpd molybdenum mine.
* Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., Lac de Gras, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Underground mine layout and design for the scoping/feasibility study.
* Ivanhoe Mines Mongolia Inc. XXK, Hugo Dummet Mine, Mongolia: Assisted in developing a scoping level mine design for an early mine using block caving at production rates up to 50,000 tpd. Currently assisting with the pre-feasibility mine design and scheduling of 80,000 tpd block cave mine.
* P.T. Freeport Indonesia, Grasberg Deposit, Indonesia: Assisted in mine design and layouts for a 160,000-tpd block cave mine, including detailed construction access for large underground crusher installations.
* Campo Morado G9 Project, Farallon Resources Inc., Mexico: Assisted in mine design and layouts for a 2,500-tpd mine scoping level study.
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