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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Interests
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
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SHINDANO IZEMBA

SHINDANO IZEMBA

Ndola

Summary

I am an action oriented and self-motivated mining engineer with a medium to large scale expatriate, holding a solid open pit and underground mining experience, with 9-year hands on practical operations. This includes experts in safety, concentrating plant management, financial nous, all mining operations and technical from mine prospecting to mine reclamation with specialties (planning ,drilling ,blasting, loading and hauling), as well as strong leadership and supervisory skills. I am ready to take up a challenging and growth building career in relation to mining and processing, with regard to working as a group to achieving organization goals and contributing to its growth at my level best, as I grow my career.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder/Director /CEO

Montana Ore Resource Limited
01.2024 - Current
  • In charge of all (managing operation, financial management, stake holder engagement and business development)
  • All Mineral, mining and processing consultancy.

Mine manager / mining management consultant

Dutch Mining and Processing Zambia
01.2023 - Current
  • Developing a green field copper mine and processing plant. Handling and managing all day to day mine activities, operation, corporate affairs, financial and plant development. Spearheading a technical team of relevant fields to the mine such as (geological, metallurgy plant and project management).

Operations manager

Prolific mining contractors sarl
01.2023 - Current

Lumwana Mining Company zambia

  • Grade Control and Blast Hole Mining Operations (USD 3.500.000) Utilized Epiroc equipment D65 for grade control drilling and sampling Conducted blasting hole drilling with Epiroc equipment D65 Successfully completed the 2.5-year contract

Tenke fungurume congo

  • Handling mining contract scope of work
  • Drilling, blasting, loading and hauling. moved 40,000 tones a day of both waste and ore.

Senior Mineral consultant

Sahan Import and Export
06.2018 - Current
  • In charge of handling all mining project from geologic data analysis, project planning, mine planning, handling all mine document from government and business development.

section manager Rbs Graduate

AAC Mining Executor Mopani Copper Mine Muf - Deeps
09.2021 - 12.2022
  • Engineer In charge of production planning and overseeing all mining (drilling blast loading hauling ,crushing and supporting operations. Heading the all drilling and blasting crew to improve advances and ensure correct mining of excavation at development ends and Mopani capital project.

Rock Tools Engineer

Reliant mining and construction Mopani Copper Mine Muf - Deeps
05.2021 - 09.2021
  • In charge of all activities related to drilling to mention a few: planning, controlling and monitoring performance of rock tool ,7 drilling rigs and 34 operators

Person-in-charge

AAC Mining Executor Mopani Copper Mine Muf - Deeps
04.2019 - 04.2021
  • In charge of all mining operation, then took up 1) loading and hauling 2) safety and cost optimization on usage of explosives and drill bits

First aider

Zambia Red Cross
01.2011 - 01.2019

Mining Engineering Internship

Konkola Copper Mining Nchanga
05.2018 - 12.2018
  • Open pit, underground and all processing plant.

Education

Certificate - Shift Boss RBS Training

Mopani Copper Mine (MCTC)
Mufulira
01-2021

Certificate - Supervisory course

Mopani Copper Mine (MCTC)
Mufulira
01-2021

Certificate - Rock Tool Controller Level 1 And 2

Sandvik
Kitwe
01-2021

Diploma - Mining Engineering

Copperstone University
Luanshya
01-2018

Certificate - Blasting And Charging TRAINING

Sasol
Chingola
01-2018

Certificate - Advanced First Aid

Zambia Red Cross Societyn
Lusaka
01-2017

Certificate - Advanced Computer Microsoft

Akkermanns Amsws.
Ndola
01-2014

License - Class C1

RTSA
Ndola
01-2014

Full certificate - Seniors Secondary School

Masala
Ndola
01-2014

Skills

  • Able to train subordinates, play as a team, lead, and work as a group in an organized manner, and I can handle work while under high working pressure
  • Action-oriented, result-focused, with good personal confidence and high problem-solving skills that I use to handle subordinates and clients
  • Able to work in most SADC countries

Accomplishments

  • Developed a safe and profitable mine site in 6 months that was planned to start production in 1 year, introduced geophysical survey to find good ore bodies and drill targets this brought in extra investment and boosted production and investors confidence.
  • Managed to build a crew oriented in safety knowledge, duty trained, work culture disciplined and production target as a shift boss in 3 months, which resulted in sufficient safety operation and meeting production targets from effective and improved machine utilization in all mining operation (drilling, blasting, loading and hauling).
  • In my all-entire mining career, I have managed to succeed in profitable mining and improving human safety (by training subordinates) and equipment safety (ensuring operators know machine operation procedures and follow all maintenance schedules mostly sufficient pre-shift and mid -shift check) all this mentioned above focuses on maximizing production by reducing delay and downtime, cost reduction and developing the mine to the right specification respectively to all technical my plans.

Interests

Watching and playing football, Knowing new people and learning new things, Reading studying and doing researchers for personal use

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Mining Engineering Section (Eiz) Technologist representative interim committee. Senior Secondary sports School Prefect. Rugby team captain at Secondary Level. Mining Engineering Section (Eiz) Technologist representative interim committee. Senior Secondary sports School Prefect. Rugby team captain at Secondary Level.

Timeline

Founder/Director /CEO

Montana Ore Resource Limited
01.2024 - Current

Mine manager / mining management consultant

Dutch Mining and Processing Zambia
01.2023 - Current

Operations manager

Prolific mining contractors sarl
01.2023 - Current

section manager Rbs Graduate

AAC Mining Executor Mopani Copper Mine Muf - Deeps
09.2021 - 12.2022

Rock Tools Engineer

Reliant mining and construction Mopani Copper Mine Muf - Deeps
05.2021 - 09.2021

Person-in-charge

AAC Mining Executor Mopani Copper Mine Muf - Deeps
04.2019 - 04.2021

Senior Mineral consultant

Sahan Import and Export
06.2018 - Current

Mining Engineering Internship

Konkola Copper Mining Nchanga
05.2018 - 12.2018

First aider

Zambia Red Cross
01.2011 - 01.2019

Certificate - Shift Boss RBS Training

Mopani Copper Mine (MCTC)

Certificate - Supervisory course

Mopani Copper Mine (MCTC)

Certificate - Rock Tool Controller Level 1 And 2

Sandvik

Diploma - Mining Engineering

Copperstone University

Certificate - Blasting And Charging TRAINING

Sasol

Certificate - Advanced First Aid

Zambia Red Cross Societyn

Certificate - Advanced Computer Microsoft

Akkermanns Amsws.

License - Class C1

RTSA

Full certificate - Seniors Secondary School

Masala
SHINDANO IZEMBA