Production Geologist is responsible for geological data acquisition through diamond drilling
and production stoping.
Key Performance Areas/Indicators (KPA/Is):
• Conduct rig checks for safety, adherence to safe working standards. Frequent
PTO’s are a requirement.
• Ensure production daily reports are updated.
• Plan and formulate all geological production holes and issue layouts.
• Attend daily meetings with the Projects team to discuss upcoming diamond drilling
sites and any other challenges to drilling.
• Generate geological drilling schedules and communicate the schedules to mine
planning on a weekly, monthly and or annual basis.
• Monitoring all geological production drilling activities-hanging wall diamond drilling
contractor on collar surveys.
• Supervise all geological drilling activities and effectively communicate with all
drillers (Lubambe and Contractors).
• A plotted summary of holes is required at the end of any sequence of drilling in a
diamond drill bay.
• Geological logging, sampling, and despatch to analytical lab of all diamond drilled
core.
• Generate, validate and issue stop wireframes to planning.
• Attend weekly production meeting to address issues delaying diamond drilling and
or highlight risks to business plan.
• Give guidance on areas ready for stoping in terms of available stope wireframes.
• Implement and conduct QA/QC on all resulting geological samples.
Academic Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mineral Science (Geology) or equivalent.
• Member of Geoscience professional body.
• Two to four years’ experience in a Production or similar role in underground or open
cast mining.
• Practical experience in diamond and or RC drilling.
• Practical experience in use of application software such as Datamine, Vulcan and
or Surpac. Geological modelling in leapfrog will be added advantage.
• Practical experience in use of Excel & other related packages to manipulate data