Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited,
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Multiple Positions - 1982 - 1989
Nkana No 2 Cobalt Plant before wet commissioning - 1982
Positions held:
Assistant Superintendent – Technical – Copper Smelter 1989
smelter using reverberatory furnaces and peirce-smith converters
complex of 4 sulphuric acid plants using plant offgas for acid production
Senior Supervisory post with responsibilities that included:
fluid bed roast / acid leach (with thickeners and filtration) / electrowin (both copper and cobalt tankhouses) 220 tpm cobalt plant
Senior Metallurgist - Cobalt Plant & Acting Plant Metallurgist - Cobalt Plant
1984 – 1986
Responsible, at various times, for the operational control of a Fluid Bed Roaster, three Copper Electrowinning Tankhouses, one Cobalt Electrowinning Tankhouse as well as leaching and filtration sections.
Junior Metallurgist - Cobalt Plant
1982 – 1984
Entry-level position on the Commissioning team for the new 220 Tonne per month Cobalt Plant. I worked shifts for 17 months performing process control and training plant operators on each equipment unit as we commissioned it.
I came off shifts to take my turn performing metallurgical accounting and would have been one of the last (before PCs) to carry it out by hand calculation.
Assistant Superintendent – Technical – Copper Smelter 1989
smelter using reverberatory furnaces and peirce-smith converters
- Responsible for trial work; the training of 1,150 employees and metallurgical & financial accounting.
- Improved acid gas capture efficiency by over 10% despite the system being in a poor state of repair and budget constraints.
complex of 4 sulphuric acid plants using plant offgas for acid production
Senior Supervisory post with responsibilities that included:
- Initiation and control of day-to-day testwork and plant troubleshooting.
- Supervision, development and motivation of both technical and non technical staff.
- Plant Accounting – financial & metallurgical – budget preparation and cost control.
- On my own initiative - with a fair degree of departmental latitude - I identified, tested and implemented various import substitutions which had the capacity to embedded savings of over >$US500,000 each year in foreign exchange. The most important of these was the local manufacture of saddles and other acid plant ceramics by a sanitary ware manufacturer.
- I set up and ran an Acid Transport scheduling system that, at a time of increasing transport constraints, greatly reduced consumer plant outages due to the non-availability of acid.
fluid bed roast / acid leach (with thickeners and filtration) / electrowin (both copper and cobalt tankhouses) 220 tpm cobalt plant
Senior Metallurgist - Cobalt Plant & Acting Plant Metallurgist - Cobalt Plant
1984 – 1986
Responsible, at various times, for the operational control of a Fluid Bed Roaster, three Copper Electrowinning Tankhouses, one Cobalt Electrowinning Tankhouse as well as leaching and filtration sections.
Junior Metallurgist - Cobalt Plant
1982 – 1984
Entry-level position on the Commissioning team for the new 220 Tonne per month Cobalt Plant. I worked shifts for 17 months performing process control and training plant operators on each equipment unit as we commissioned it.
I came off shifts to take my turn performing metallurgical accounting and would have been one of the last (before PCs) to carry it out by hand calculation.
