Abbie Thompson

Seeking a challenge career with a progressive organisation that provides an opportunity to capitalise my technical skills and abilities in the quarry/mining industry. I am an experienced and ambitious production leader knowledgeable about quarry/mining practices and regulatory requirements. I am looking for a prospect to learn different aspects of production and broaden my knowledge. I direct and motivate employees to accomplish challenging performance and quality objectives. Successful at keeping costs low and employee job satisfaction high while promoting safety and compliance.

• Cyclosizing and cycloning
• Flotation and Filtration
• Laser sizing
• Wet screening and Dry screening
• External and internal sample dispatching
• ELS by Carbon Disulphide
• Copper Leaching (12hr)
• Grinding and Pulverising
• Free acid titrations (auto-titrator)
• Cyanide detoxification
• Gas Pycnometer
• Camsizer
• VisionSizer

• Knowledge of function/operation of Control room software program
• Techniques to develop and optimise feeders, screenage, crushing and classifying through CitecScada software
• Conducting Belt cuts to troubleshoot plant performance based on tonnages and through/outputs.
• Working with Borals technical managers for needs of materials across all buyers, prediction of plant performance based on maintenance schedules and downtime, as well as building charts/trends of our site products.
• Conducting and participating in drone work and flyovers for quarry Volume Software Propeller
• Involved in the blast preparation and blast process alongside our main contractors- Orica. (Providing log book experiences)

• Current First Aid and CPR
• Bronze Medallion
• Higher School Certificate (HSC)
• Cert IV Emergency Response
• Confined spaces
• Low Voltage Isolation
• Gas and Atmosphere monitoring
• Sign off Permits to work

• ICP-OES operation, calibration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Sample preparation; Crushing, pulverising, weighing, digestion, dilution.
• Water testing; HACH machine, ICP-OES water sample operating and calibrating
• XRF- Handheld operating. Verifying CON samples within the process plant.
• Specific Silver (Ag) samples preparation and digestion method
• ICP-OES plant, water and silver Standard mixing.
• Syngistix software knowledge and operation.
• Understanding and application of NATA, ISO 17025 Standard.
• Copper and Lead Titrations.
• Moisture analysis of cake samples.
• Au Analysis on AAS
• Ammonium acetate digestion
• PXRF Sample preparation
• Attention to analytical details in every part of sample preparation.
• Laboratory Safety Coordinator; compiling documents such as SWI’s, SOP’s, Risk Assessments, safety checklists, Safety management plan, induction programmes, conducting internal audits as well as actively apart of the mines Emergency Response Training team.

• Ning Liu, Laboratory Supervisor, 0429376293
• Therese Hadaji, Mine Engineer Boral, 0449233195
• Keisha Northey, Training and Assessor Boral NSW, 0403320677
• Brett Byrne, Boral Superintendent, 0428361478