Nilton Magela Celestino Da Silva

Responsible for:

• Delivering Long Term Mine Plans to clients around the world and several commodities (i.e., Diamond, Gold and Bauxite)
• Strategic mine scheduling in Minemax (i.e., Financial modelling to maximize resource utilization and NPV)
• 3D geological modelling, mine design and production planning solutions
• Pit optimization in Vulcan (i.e., Drainage system, 3D geological modelling and mine design)
• Block model manipulation utilizing Python coding skills (i.e, Geospatial data, Block Model Visualizing and Resource and Reserve reports)

Responsible for:

• Delivering Short Term Mine Plans for open pit iron ore in Carajás Mines, Brazil
• Drill and Blast Engineer and Supervisor (i.e., Developing Blast Plans and managing all D&B related production statistics in order to reducing costs through fragmentation optimization and budget controlling)
• Infrastructure and mine works (i.e., Preparing truck/shovel and drilling activities for safe and productive operations and continuously increasing operational efficiency)

• Responsible for:
• Developing systemic knowledge of Vale's production system such as Mine, Beneficiation plant, Railroad, Port to Client
• Safety Procedures Guidelines Implementation at Azul Mine Manganese and Serra Leste Mine
• Technical Reports and Third Party negotiations for purchasing of new technologies (i.e, Autonomous Equipments for Decharacterization of Dams)

Responsible for:

• Support technical projects and develop new sustainable products from mine tailings and waste from partners
• Elaborate technical reports about mineral processing activities (i.e., operation of calcination equipment, bench and industrial scale crushing and screening tests with iron ore waste )

Responsible for:

• Database querying
• Creating and handling shapefiles and geodatabases
• Analyzing geographical and geological information
• Digitizing geological maps in order to develop a website containing geological data to specialists and students