Experience

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  Sirius Minerals Plc

  • United Kingdom
  • Mining
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Project Geologist

    • Jan 2017 - Apr 2020

    Project Geologist for the development of the Woodsmith Project, UK. Current role is project-wide heavily involved in the Production & Service shafts (1580m), MTS shaft (360m) at Woodsmith mine site, Lockwood Beck Intermediate MTS shaft (380m), and Wilton site the starting point of the 37km TBM driven 6mOD Mineral Transport Tunnel). The role is extremely wide ranging with collaborations with Sirius' in house technical and engineering staff, as well our direct consulting and contractor organisations.This role has included overseeing the design, procurement and delivery of several multi million pound geotechnical and hydrogeological drilling operations. Acting as project manager and site supervision for Sirius and working extremely closely with leading UK ground investigation contractors, consultants, UK and European laboratories as well as non-standard rock testing including long term creep, rock triaxial & tunnelling-specific testing.Nearly 24 months of ground investigation across the project including;Woodsmith Phase 6 - shallow 50-120m fully cored geotechnical investigation including hydrogeological insitu testing as well as extensive laboratory testing. MTS Phase 2 and 2a - investigation to drive the technical delivery of the Woodsmith & Lockwood Beck MTS Shafts and Caverns as well as MTS Drive 1, 2 and 3. Fully cored boreholes including inclined boreholes to a depth of 500m all inclusive of extensive insitu (single & double packer testing, insitu stress determination, HPDT) and laboratory testing utilising contractors and laboraties in the UK and Europe.Client geologist/engineer involved in delivery of 100m SCL tunnelling for pre-TBM launch tunnel for MTS Drive 1 and now MTS D1 6m OD TBM hard rock open face tunnelling including face inspections and forecasts/lookaheads. Alongside this also implementing shaft logging procedures for Production, Service and 2x MTS Shafts and undertaking shaft logging checks and lookaheads.

  • Project Team - Geologist

    • Sep 2016 - Jan 2017

    Geologist assisting the Project Team with the development of the Sirius Minerals $2.9bn polyhalite project in North Yorkshire, UK.

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  University of Leeds

  • School of Earth and Environment

  • Research Assistant (Isotope Geochemistry)

    • May 2015 - Jun 2016
    • School of Earth and Environment

    Stable isotope geochemist at the University of Leeds with a focus on C, O and S-isotopic analyses of geological and environmental samples.

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  University of Leeds

  • Leeds, United Kingdom

  • Postgraduate Student (Research MSc)

    • Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
    • Leeds, United Kingdom

    To investigate the genesis of polyhalite and it's connection to Z2 Zechstein basin evolution in the NW sector of the Southern North Sea basinThe geochemical and petrographical study utilised recently acquired core material, focusing on the Sulphate Sulphur, Sulphate Oxygen, 87Sr/86Sr and D/H ratios of polyhalite.

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  Sirius Minerals Plc

  • Graduate Geologist

    • Nov 2012 - Oct 2013

    Heavily involved in both the logistical and data interpretation aspect of the on-going onshore mineral exploration drilling (<1.7km), to assess and prove the Sirius Minerals Polyhalite resource. Including the logging of Woodsmith Mine Site's SM11 and SM14 Shaft boreholes experiencing geological and geotechanical logging of rock from 250m to 1580m through Jurassic, Triassic and Permian strataExperience of geotechnical and geological core logging during continuous 24hr coring operations providing real-time analysis to drilling teams and management. Also involvement overseeing wireline operations, interpretation of gamma & density logs for grade estimation, assay interpretation, site investigation and cost-tracking. A varied role alongside internal and consulting geologists, engineers and drilling supervisors as well as providing guidance to geologist interns.