A mining/metallurgical professional with post graduate industrial working experience of more than 30 years. Extensive exposure was gained in mineral processing and pyro-metallurgy environment. Background is in both plant operations technical support and management roles makes me a well-balanced all-rounder. Vast experience was gained in the processing of COAL, DIAMOND, CHROME, PLATINUM GROUP OF METALS/NICKEL/COPPER, VERMICULITE, PHOSPHATE/MAGNETITE. PROJECTS experience of 2 years doing Contracts Management of mineral processing equipment suppliers. EXPATRIATE experience of 8 years, working for diamond operation (4 years) and for a coal operation (4 years) in Africa CONSULTANCY FOR coal, magnetite recovery and copper recovery from smelting slag. CURRENTLY Energy Minerals Officer - Coal and Hydrocarbons (Oil and Gas). ACHIEVEMENTS • Worked with Suppliers and Logistics team and ensured all processing equipment was delivered on site in time for installation. • Teamed up with operations and maintenance personnel and improved the yield of the coal product by 4 units of percentage. • Successfully re-commissioned the dense media separation and diamond recovery plants. • Managed to run safely a project to recover diamonds from recovery plant tailings and achieved a Mine Call Factor of one (1) • Resolved a problem whereby big diamonds with high value were lost to the tailings. • Successfully implemented a project which resulted in reduction of consumable costs and improved process efficiencies. • Suggested the screening of ore fines at mines to effectively use the transportation capacity and ore handling facility. • Proposed the screening off fines and barren oversized material upstream of the mineral processing plant to boost plant throughput, reduce dust and minimize drying energy costs. • Doubled recovery of an industrial mineral resulting in slashing of the mining costs by half, reduction by 42% the working days and reduction of