Wizya Silupumbwe

Monitoring and value chain officer at Ministry Of Mines
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(386) 825-5501
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Zambia, ZM

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Experience

    • India
    • Mining
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Monitoring and value chain officer
      • Apr 2021 - Present

      design and implementation of a multi-institutional, multi-purpose, and multi-stakeholder framework for monitoring the country’s mineral value chain from mineral exploration stage to export out of the country’s borders.

    • Metallurgical Engineer
      • Jan 2020 - Present

      Kafue, Zambia Steel plant

    • Assistant metallurgical engineer
      • Aug 2018 - Present

      Lusaka, Zambia Ministry of mines, Geological Survey Department as a metallurgical engineer. • Ensuring the machinery for plant operations is available on site. • Ensure compliance to the inflexible safety policies that exist at the plant. • Giving instruction to incoming personnel about works in progress and safety and health matters. • Inspecting safety equipment in the plant and reporting of defective ones to the safety department for replacement • Practical experience in basic analytical… Show more Ministry of mines, Geological Survey Department as a metallurgical engineer. • Ensuring the machinery for plant operations is available on site. • Ensure compliance to the inflexible safety policies that exist at the plant. • Giving instruction to incoming personnel about works in progress and safety and health matters. • Inspecting safety equipment in the plant and reporting of defective ones to the safety department for replacement • Practical experience in basic analytical procedures and use of basic analytical instruments. • Solvent Extraction and Electro winning. • Inspection of SX/EW parameters such as: Cu g/l in PLS solution, PLS and organic flow, O/A ratio, mixer speed, acidity, current density and organic carry-over. • Copper and Cobalt recovery by flotation. • Mineral dressing; crushing, rod milling, ball milling and pulverizing. • Acid curing, Agglomeration and Leaching by Agitation. • Monitoring and controlling the parameters of leaching circuit; leach pH, leach densities, acid concentration, leach densities, acid concentration, residence time, flow rates. • Basic practical laboratory skills in XRF/AAS analytical technique. • Basic practical laboratory skills in XRD (x-ray diffraction) analytical technique. • Analysis of Gold ores by Fire Assay. • Sieve Analysis • Magnetic separator • Concrete and metal hardness test. • Concrete • Arc welding. • Assay sampling. Research • Practical leach test for different particle size fractions of Copper sample, determining which provides the most efficient recovery of Copper within the shortest amount of time. Carried out at the Geological Survey Department. • Recovery of cobalt from Kitwe black mountain (slug dump) by flotation. Research on why the recovery of cobalt as a by-product of copper flotation from the black mountain material is highly inefficient. Almost half of the available cobalt reports to the tails. Show less

    • Engineering Intern
      • Aug 2018 - Oct 2018

      lusaka, zambia

    • Intern
      • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

      Volgograd Region, Russian Federation • Practical training at krasny Oktyabr (Red October Steel Works) in Volgograd, Russia. Include: 1. Educational internship, acquisition of primary professional skills, Primary scientific-research activity skills as well on-the-job training, acquisition of professional skills and professional activity experience. 2. Research and job shadowing on heat treating processes; Quenching, Annealing, Normalizing, Tempering and Surface hardening. 3.… Show more • Practical training at krasny Oktyabr (Red October Steel Works) in Volgograd, Russia. Include: 1. Educational internship, acquisition of primary professional skills, Primary scientific-research activity skills as well on-the-job training, acquisition of professional skills and professional activity experience. 2. Research and job shadowing on heat treating processes; Quenching, Annealing, Normalizing, Tempering and Surface hardening. 3. Large ingot production. 4. Scientific-research on: Structure and properties investigation of iron-copper-graphite based materials obtained by means of explosive compaction and sintering treatment (powder metallurgy). Show less

Education

  • Volgograd State technical University
    metallurgy
    2014 - 2018
  • Volgograd State Technical University
    Bachelor's degree, metallurgy
    2014 - 2018

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