Ben

About me:

Candidate Info :
I have been working in the mining industry for twenty years and have had a Varity of jobs started out as a relief driller in exploration at Meekatharra in 1996 and spent 8 years there. Progressing through the mine in other areas as Laboratory Shift Supervisor, and had the opportunity to get into Fixed Plant Area and helped out in all areas of the plant ranging from CIL\CIP tanks, Elution Circuit, Gold pouring and learning the ball mill process of the Fixed plant also the mobile plants ranging from forklifts, bobcats, intergraded tool carriers and front-end loaders. Left when I got redundant in 2004 From there I moved over to the northern territory and spent up until 2009 as a Fixed Plant Operator in a veririty of mines from gold to nickel Now I have been in the Production side of mining and have become a Mobile Plant Operator and have based myself in Brisbane and am looking for a career close to home

Experience :
Worked As Mobile Plant Operator at OM Manganese N.T from September 2012 to November 2015
• Experienced on Dozers Cat D6, D10R & Komatsu 375A-6
doing Tip heads, leveling off pit floors, rehabilitation on waste dumps clearing of trees, pushing down stockpiles,
leveling off waste dump areas, putting in ramps for pits and all other aspects of dozer operations in a mining environment
• Experience at operating Graders 14G & 16H in a production
mine site
• Experienced at Operating Dump Trucks Komatsu Dump
Trucks 785-5 & 785-7 in dry & Wet conditions
• Experience at Operating Water Trucks in a mining
enviroment
• Have helped out with loading dump trucks with a Cat 988
Loader

Worked As Dump Truck Operator at G&K Aker N.T from November 2009 to September 2012
• Experienced at Operating Dump Trucks Cat 769, 773& 777 in dry, Wet and Hard rock conditions
• Experience at operating Graders 14G & 16H in a production
mine site
• Experience on Dozers Cat D7, D9N, D10N & D10R doing
Tip heads, leveling off pit floors, rehabilitation on waste
dumps
• Operating It 28 on screening plant for stemming and It 62 around maintance workshop and pulling out sump pumps
• Have used Kamatso excavator 650 & Zaxis excavator 450 in mine production environment
• Also have had experience on wheelie dozer & water truck

Worked As CEMENT BATCHING OPERATOR at WAGNERS QLD from October 2009 to November 2009
• Time allocating cement trucks to jobs around the Dalby area
including power stations, gas sites and drilling rigs
• Handling customer service, money and banking
• Maintaining material in the yard

Worked As CONCRETE TRUCK DRIVER at WAGNERS in QLD from July 2009 to September 2009
• Driving a 8 meter bowl tri-axel cement truck to various sites around chinchilla including power stations and gas sites
• Offloading cement for house slabs, piers and dams
• Experienced at using a 13 split gear crash box
• Loading cement material into a hopper for distribution in trucks

Worked As Mill Operator at MILL/FLOTATION/PASTE PLANT/FRONT-END LOADER from February 2007 to February 2009
MILL/FLOTATION/PASTE PLANT/FRONT-END LOADER
• Operating and maintaining a 130TPH ball mill, one primary
crusher (automatic) 2 thickeners (one Con the other Tails) all
automated on a system by Citec.
• Operating and maintaining a nickel flotation circuit,
involving a flash hopper, a conditioning tank, 2 rougher
tanks, 3 scavenger cells, a rougher cleaner cell and a
scavenger cleaner cell all automated on a system by Citec.
• Operating and maintaining a 120 TPH paste plant circuit, and hitting the mixing targets on a day to day basis written up by the plant metallurgist.
• Operating and preventative maintenance on a day to day
basis (12 hour shifts) in a CAT 972 Front End Loader while loading into the ROM bin at 100 to 130 TPH.
• Safety Representative of Processing Crew

Worked As DEWATERING OPERATOR at Mine Maintaince and Construction N.T from November 2006 to February 2007
• Learning all aspects of the dewatering area including the operations of the vertical nickel press (6 TONNE dump
load).
• Cleaning up the cons shed with either a bobcat or IT 14g.
• Weighing up the Con for the trucks on a weight bridge.
• Learning the operations of the lime plant.

Worked As GOLD ROOM OPERATOR at TOM’S GULLY MINE N.T from February 2006 to November 2006
GOLD ROOM OPERATOR
TOM’S GULLY MINE N.T.
Feb 2006 to November 2006
• Operated an Elution Circuit using a Zadra method and operating the gold room.
• Operated and maintained a Crusher Circuit.
• Operated Front end Loader Case 928b and 921b and loading
dump truck.
• Operated Dump Truck 769.

Worked As Mill Operator at Giants Reef Exploration NT from July 2004 to December 2005
• Supervising a crew of 3 while Supervisor is off site.
• Running and maintain a Ball mill (30 TPH), and using an
Allen Bradley system for the mill.
• Running and maintain the tanks (2 leach and 5 carbon in pulp).
• Running and maintaining the Elution circuit, (method-zadra).
• Running and maintain a knelson concentrator and acacia
reactor.
• Using and maintain a ph probe (manual and automatic)
• Experienced in all aspects of an atomic absorption
spectrometer.
• Experienced in all gold room procedures.

Worked As Laboratory Shift Supervisor at St Barbara Mines WA from October 1996 to July 1998
Supervising a team to analyse samples from the processing plant and form the mining and exploration operations. ?
Duties included sorting and logging of samples in to Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). ?
Preparation of samples using LM-1 Milling machines for gold determination by fire assay. ?
Senior Fire assayers using 50 pot multi- pour system. ?
Gold in process liquor by DIBK extraction followed by AAS determination. ?
Dissolved oxygen, ph and cyanide determination on process liquors. ?
Carbon Activity tests. ? Gravimetric Gold Bullion analysis using sulphuric acid. ?
Data entry and reporting of results to Process Manager. ?
Mill Operator on one sag and two ball mills (450TPH). ?
Tanks Operator (2 CIL and 6 CIP tanks). ?
Elution Circuit Operator (method-Angelo American. ?
Experienced on bobcats’ forklifts and a CAT 924g inter- graded tool carrier (including all attachments) and a CAT 988 Front-End Loader•

Worked As Rousabout at mullewa shearing sheds from April 1989 to October 1991