Vacancy Details
Employer: Ivanhoe Mines
MBEZE RESOURCES LTD (MBEZE) is an IVANHOE MINES company operating in the Zambian mining sector, with offices in Lusaka (Lusaka Province), and exploration licenses in North- Western Province Zambia near the town of Zambezi. MBEZE is inviting qualified candidates, both male and female, who are interested in this position. The place of work will be located in Lusaka, and extensive field work would be required.
Play your part in our team succeeding...To manage exploration activities and staff using industry best practice with the aim of improving exploration protocols and targeting.
Disclaimer - this role is not open to any third-party providers and any application received from a third-party will be considered as a direct application.
You will have the following:
- Bachelor's degree in Geology/ Mining Geology/ Exploration Geology
- Driver's License
- 10 years of related industry experience in exploration and mining with at least 5 years of field-based exploration experience
- Experience of developing mentoring junior geologist and helping them realise their potential
- Experience working in the Central African Copperbelt
- Experience in exploration management and geological interpretation utilizing advanced geological exploration software packages
- Experience of working with structural and geotechnical data acquisition and interpretation
- Technical report writing
- Technical presentation skills
- Geology data collection and interpretation
- Quality Assurance
Technical Skills should include:
- Numerate
- Computer literate
- GIS Software
Process: Provide supervision, training and mentorship to the exploration geology team.
- To develop and encourage that best practice guidelines are followed in the fields of exploration planning, diamond drilling, geological and geotechnical data acquisition and processing
- To compile advanced geological reports and presentations on Project Geology and Mineralization and to work towards ensuring the project team develop an overall understanding of the geological controls on mineralization of the Project.
- Assist with the supervision of exploration camps
- To manage Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) at a project level and ensure that company SHE policies and procedures are being adhered to
- To assist the geological team in advanced geological, interpretations.
- Be familiar with QAQC and database management.
- Supervision of core logging, sampling, data capture and interpretation.
- Oversee field sampling and drill contractor teams.
- Other duties applicable to the running of exploration as necessary.
The finer details:
When applying, please submit a PDF version of your CV together with certified copies (certification within a 3-month period) of your ID/passport, driver's license and qualifications.
Should you not hear from us within 30 days of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
Disclaimer- Position is for a Zambian national.
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About Ivanhoe Mines
Ivanhoe Mines is a leading Canadian mining company committed to becoming a global leader in the supply of critical resources required to transition our world to a low-carbon, renewable future.
Ivanhoe is focused on developing and expanding its four principal mining and exploration projects in Southern Africa.
The development of the Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), the Platreef palladium-rhodium-platinum-nickel-copper-gold discovery in South Africa, the extensive redevelopment and upgrading of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, also in the Democratic Republic of Congo and exploration on the Western Foreland, near Kamoa-Kakula
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