Geologist resume

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Dennis Slate

12/24 Ore Junction
Mt Melancholy QLD 3010
P: (03) 5555 1111
M: 0400 222 333
E: dennis_slate@email.com

Career Objective

To establish a career in geology where my exceptional organisational skills will be put to best use. I am committed to continuous training and development, and would like to eventually progress to management level as a technical services manager, mine manager or operations manager.

Education

Key Skills and Abilities

Strong work ethic and high performance standards
I am able to learn and understand tasks quickly while performing under pressure, both independently and as part of a team. I have an excellent work ethic and have demonstrated clear attention to detail.

Technical and mechanical skills

• Aligning, cutting, measuring, orientating
• Photography
• Sampling and storing drill core
• Data entry
• Ore spotting
• Ore boundary markouts and trenching
• Pb/Zn Concentrator
• Licence to drive a vehicle in the open pit
• Geological block modelling

Software knowledge

• InSite
• Face mapping
• ROM management
• MineSight
• Acquire
• GIS
• Microsoft Word and Excel

Work Experience

Eclipse Mining Limited is a gold explorer and producer with exploration titles across five goldfields in Queensland.

Responsibilities:

• Log the stratigraphic of the gold hosted quartz veins and surrounding Ordovician turbidite sedimentary sequences
• Mark up sections to be sampled for gold analysis, to then be uploaded to Acquire for interpretation by senior geologists
• Conduct daily development checks and geological mapping
• Perform core logging and sampling, and mineral resource evaluation and modelling
• Perform data collection and reporting

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the graduate geologists as part of the summer vacation program
• Completed data entry using InSite and MineSight
• Conducted ore spotting from the excavator
• Conducted ore boundary markouts and trenching
• Operated the Pb/Zn Concentrator

Achievements:

• Worked in collaboration with the geology superintendent to maintain a smooth transition of data to a new computer software program (MineSight)
• Recognised by the Mine Manager for my proactive attitude towards safety

Responsibilities:

• Completed sampling and storing for the drill core
• Managed core preparation, including marking measurements, photographing and sampling

Achievements:

• Completed a third year university project at the site, which involved assessing the spatial distribution of gold grade within an individual quartz vein relative to its surrounding sediments

Interests

Fishing, hang-gliding and debating.

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