Bafana Sipho Mkhosi
Quarry Manager at IDWALA INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS- Claim this Profile
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Bio
Experience
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IDWALA INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS
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South Africa
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1 - 100 Employee
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Quarry Manager
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Nov 2017 - Present
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Quary Manager
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Nov 2017 - Present
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Quarry Foreman (Pyrophyllite Quarry)
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Jan 2016 - Present
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Idwala Industrial Holdings (Pty)Ltd
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Ottosdal-Witpoort Quarry
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Graduate Geologist/-Jnr Geologist
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May 2014 - Present
As a Trainee Geologist i assumed a role of being an assistant coordinator/"Geologist on site" for a prospecting project aimed at finding extensions of the existing ore body and finding possible new ore bodies. My duties included: - Plotting prospecting trenches~supervising trenching and face mapping these trenches. - Report writing on trenching and drilling (these reports included accounting for "progress on the ground" versus usage of allocated funds each month). - Plotting and pegging new boreholes - Managing 2 drilling teams(or 2 rigs) - Core logging - Core storing - Sample preparation - 1. Core splitting with a diamond saw cutter. - 2. Sample packing and labeling. - Color analysis with Elrepho machine - Report writing on borehole results - Borehole results prep for Surpac
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Idwala Industrial Minerals
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Ottosdal,North West
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General Worker
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Oct 2013 - May 2014
Idwala Industrial Mineral, Witpoort Pyrophyllite Quarry is located in Witpoort farm, 7 km East of Ottosdal, hence my location. For this 8 months i worked as a sorter(sorting contaminated or unwanted pieces of rocks from the good ore). Other duties were : - Sampling color on Pyrophyllite using the eye ball test. - Plant maintenance (i.e. cleaning the plant) Idwala Industrial Mineral, Witpoort Pyrophyllite Quarry is located in Witpoort farm, 7 km East of Ottosdal, hence my location. For this 8 months i worked as a sorter(sorting contaminated or unwanted pieces of rocks from the good ore). Other duties were : - Sampling color on Pyrophyllite using the eye ball test. - Plant maintenance (i.e. cleaning the plant)
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Education
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University of Fort Hare
Bachelor's degree, Geology and Geographical Information Systems(GIS) -
Realeka Secondary School
Senior Cerificate, Mathematics and Physical Sciences