Bakhtawar Ali Qureshi Hashmi
Geelong
Summary
Mining engineer experienced as a technical services professional across underground gold mining and mineral sands mining. Through my experience, I have acquired skills in the use of mining softwares: Deswik Suite, Datamine Aegis, Surpac, Ventsim and MS Office suite and worked as an effective team member and team leader applying excellent communication, problem solving and organization skills. My experience is underground production and planning including drill and blast design, short term scheduling, lateral development and stope shape designs, 3 monthly RMP schedules and ventilation surveys. I have experience leading cross functional teams under mine technical services, project management and site contractor management. I am interested in developing and applying my research and analytical skills, my love for physics and experience in mining to create innovative solutions.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Mining Engineer
Mining One Consultants
09.2024 - Current
- Provide operational support to underground mines in drill and blast engineering through preparing drill and blast plans, short term production scheduling and reconciliation
- Provide training to drill and blast engineers for drill and blast design with Aegis design tool and prepare training document for new drill and blast engineers on site to familiarize with site software and drill and blast design procedures
- Report writing for underground mine scoping study.
- Reviewing an existing underground mine's production efficiency and create a schedule for the mine to replicate the current mine plan in Micromine Advance. Adjust current production rates to simulate double production targets and modify current mine design to support double production targets using Deswik mine design package.
Mine Planning Engineer
Catalyst Metals
05.2024 - 09.2024
- Prepare lateral development designs for capital and stoping development and stope shape design followed by subsequent peer review process
- Prepare 3 monthly rolling mine plan and schedule using Deswik IS and Deswik Scheduler
- Ordering weekly explosives using pulse vantage system
- Provide support to drill and blast engineers in relation to drill and blast design and mine weekly schedule
- Monthly reporting reconciling mine to mill and geological physicals
Underground Production Engineer
OceanaGold Corporation
01.2022 - 05.2024
- Company Overview: Underground Gold Mine
- Preparing drill and blast plans, remote bogging plans, production cabolting drill plans for underground stopes using Aegis and Deswik CAD and effectively communicating these plans with mining operations teams
- Design stope shapes and document the stope shape approval process
- Inspections of underground infrastructure, task obs on operations and identify and report areas of improvement in safety processes
- Short term scheduling for mine production and development using Deswik OPS and tracking progress against monthly plan; monitoring compliance against weekly mine plan by coordinating daily with the mine superintendent to ensure resources are allocated to achieving the weekly plan
- Train junior production engineers on drill and blast design and production engineer responsibilities
- Manage and validate production data related to production drilling, production cabolting and stope bogging
- Review production actuals and identify bottlenecks to production operations and provide recommendations for improvements
- Conduct reconciliations of stope blasts to study and identify areas to improve stope recovery and reduce dilution
- Underground Gold Mine
Technical Services Superintendent
Amex Resources PTE Ltd
03.2019 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: Pioneering Iron sand mining company in Fiji
- Departmental management of Technical services including mine drilling, geology, mine planning, surveying, metallurgy and assay laboratory
- Led a team of 22 during the commissioning and production stages of new mineral sands project
- I have helped set up new processes and SOPs while continuously reviewing these to improve technical services support to mine production
- Prepare the 3 monthly rolling and the weekly mine plan and reconcile actuals with the mine planning engineer
- Prepare the LOM and annual mine plan with the mine planning engineer using Deswik CAD, Scheduler
- Set short and long term surveying goals for the mine and review end of month survey data to reconcile with mine operations reports
- Prepare SOPS and review them with the lab supervisor to ensure best practises are in place to produce timely and accurate assay and moisture level results from processing plant sampling, sampled sonic drill holes and stockpile surveys
- Prepare and review metallurgical test work procedures for plant sampling to measure plant processing recovery and measurements as well as stockpile sampling for end product
- Prepare and review sonic drilling and geological core logging and sampling procedures with mine geologist
- Prepare grade control drill plans with geologists using QGIS and Deswik and produce thematic maps for grade, fines and depth of orebody
- Organize resources for department functions liaising with internal procurement, logistics and maintenance teams, suppliers and contractors
- Started up a Geometallurgical test work process to improve projection of the long term mine plan
- Supervised the project of the rebuilding of a sonic drill rig starting from project planning using Microsoft Projects, execution, completion and commissioning
- Pioneering Iron sand mining company in Fiji
Graduate Mining Engineer
Vatukoula Gold Mines Ltd
08.2018 - 03.2019
- Company Overview: Underground Gold Mine
- Prepare mine production reconciliation reports and designs for underground development drives and longwall stopes in Surpac and communicated these designs to mine survey and mine operations team
- Work with mine planning engineers to prepare the 3 monthly rolling mine plan in EPS software
- Update existing underground ventilation model in Ventsim and conduct surface fan surveys with ventilation officers
- Monitoring the weekly progress of development and reconciling lateral advance with mine foreman at the weekly planning
- Preparing designs for narrow vein long wall stopes in Surpac
- Underground Gold Mine
Vacation Student - Mine Engineer
Independence Group (IGO)
12.2017 - 02.2018
- Company Overview: Jaguar Mine - Underground Zinc/ Copper Mine
- I worked as a jumbo driller offsider, assisted development charge crew with explosive collection, transportation and charging headings and stope charge logging; carry out re-entry with reentry crews; operated underground haul trucks and worked with production drill operators in underground mine in Leonora, Western Australia
- Completed a small scale feasibility study to compare the effectiveness of speed rods vs drill tubes in minimizing long hole drill hole deviation
- I organized and managed a survey contractor on site, prepared report on and presented the outcome of the study
- Jaguar Mine - Underground Zinc/ Copper Mine
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Mining)- Honors Class 1 -
The University of New South Wales
Sydney08.2018
Skills
- Mining software skills: Deswik, Datamine Aegis, Micromine Advance, QGIS, Ventsim, MS office
- Contractor Management
- Mine technical services management
- Problem Solving & Critical Thinking
- Project Management
- Leadership & Teamwork
- Technical Report Writing & Consultancy services
Certification
- First Aid Certificate, Fiji Red Cross Society
- Controlled substances license, Worksafe New Zealand
- Full Australian Driver's License
Languages
English
Urdu
Hindi
Hobbies and Interests
- Physics
- Software
- Science
Honor Awards
Australia Awards Scholarship, Commonwealth Government of Australia, 01/01/14, 08/01/18, Fully funded scholarship to study Mining Engineering at UNSW.
Timeline
Senior Mining Engineer
Mining One Consultants
09.2024 - Current
Mine Planning Engineer
Catalyst Metals
05.2024 - 09.2024
Underground Production Engineer
OceanaGold Corporation
01.2022 - 05.2024
Technical Services Superintendent
Amex Resources PTE Ltd
03.2019 - 12.2021
Graduate Mining Engineer
Vatukoula Gold Mines Ltd
08.2018 - 03.2019
Vacation Student - Mine Engineer
Independence Group (IGO)
12.2017 - 02.2018
Bachelor of Engineering (Mining)- Honors Class 1 -
The University of New South Wales
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