Student Attachment
Mopani Copper Mines PLC
Mufulira, Zambia
10.2022 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Mopani Copper Mines PLC is a mining company that operates in Zambia, focusing on the extraction and processing of copper and cobalt
- Website: https://mopani.com.zm/mete/
- Taking hourly samples of concentrates and final tailings, preparing and dispatching them to the main laboratory for analysis to ensure effective process control
- Sampling of ball mill feeds, wet heads, final concentrates, rougher concentrates, finals tails and coarse heads and filter those in slurry form using documented methods
- Transferring the hourly cut samples of ball mill feeds into labelled buckets at the sample collection point ready for dispatch to the sample preparation laboratory
- Ensuring the safety of all laboratory users through the proper storage of chemicals and adherence of all laboratory rules
- Sampling and Sample preparations
- Preparation of Laboratory Standards
- Calibration of laboratory Instruments and Apparatus
- Determination of Copper (Cu), Cobalt (Co), Nickel (Ni), Sulphur (S) and Iron (Fe) in Concentrates and Mining Samples Using FAAS
- Determination of Copper Using XRF machine
- Determination of Copper Using Titration method
- Electro-gravimetric Analysis of Copper
- Determination of pH, Electrical Conductivity, Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) And Turbidity In water sample from the Concentrator, Smelter and Mining
- Determination of Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni), Calcium (Ca), Iron (Fe) In water Samples Using ICP-OES in order to control pollution
- Laboratory Analysis of Acid Solubles and Acid Insolubles
- Reporting of results in Laboratory Information Management System(LIMS)
- Ensuring Health, Safety and Environmental Compliances
- Adhering to sectional procedure
- Mopani Copper Mines PLC is a mining company that operates in Zambia, focusing on the extraction and processing of copper and cobalt
- Website: https://mopani.com.zm/mete/
