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SUMMARY
Metallurgist. Flotation Expert.
Expertise in R&D (Lab/Pilot-Plant Operation), Plant Operations and Plant Design (Scale-up) and Plant Optimization. Mineral Processing & Hydrometallurgy. Chemical Engineering. Process Control (SPC), Process Improvement and Economic Analysis. Precious Metals. Industrial Minerals. Materials Balance. Computer Expertise.
Systems/Network Administration. Windows/Novell/Macintosh/Unix/Linux.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
SHC, Redwood City, CA 2000 – present
Systems Engineer/Network Engineer:
Desktop support for computer hardware/software and windows NT/Unix networks.
DICI (Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer), Mountain View, CA 4/97 - 1999
Environmental Engineer:
Process Control of Plating Department: Copper, gold, nickel, etc. Environmental Control of liquid wastes.
TMPI (Metals Cleaning Plant), Hayward, CA 1996 - 3/97
Environmental Engineer:
Hazardous Waste Plant Supervisor. Environmental Manager. Process Control. Process of solid and liquid hazardous wastes. Control of air emissions.
BHP MINERALS, Sunnyvale, CA 1989 - 1995
Metallurgist:
R&D: Flotation, Leaching, Solvent-Extraction and Electrowining of copper from Chile, Papua-New Guinea, USA. Flotation, Cyanidation, CIL and Roasting of refractory gold ores. Computer
Materials Balance. Platinum group flotation. Ion-Exchange of zinc.
Environmental Control of metal, liquid and air wastes.
MINERAL RESOURCES INSTITUTE (MRI), Tuscaloosa, AL 1983 - 1989
R & D Metallurgist:
eastern oil-shales, coal, tar sands, potash from brines (Solar Salt), trona & salts (Searles Lake), refractory gold ores. Plastics recycling. Industrial minerals. Computer modeling.
Plant Design. Operation of Dewatering plant. Statistics Applications.
BATTELLE COLUMBUS, Columbus, Ohio, OH 1981 - 1983
Metallurgist:
Design and Operation of Gold Recovery Mobile Plant (Gravity/Magnetic Separation). Flocculation & Filtration. Tin Metallurgy. Industrial Minerals. Titanium ores.
CEPED-CARAIBA COPPER MINING, Camacari, BA, Brazil, 1974 - 1981
Metallurgist.
Manganese, Chromium, Phosphate, Calcium, Salts, Copper, Titanium, gold, etc.
Metallurgical Lab Testing. Pilot-Plant Operation.
Plant Design. Supervision. Chalcopyrite & Bornite Flotation. Crushing,
Grinding, Flotation, Conc. Handling & Tailings Disposal. 100,000 TPY copper concentrate. Flotation & Cyanidation of carbonaceous pyrite-arsenopyrite gold ores (lab,pilot-plant & commercial plant).
EDUCATION
M.S., Mineral Processing Engineering, Columbia University, NYC, NY, USA, 1976
B.S., Mining Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 1973
Computer Systems, IBM of Brazil, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 1970
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
Visa Status: US/Brazilian Citizen.
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