Ben Wraith

Experience

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  Mountfords Famous Footwear

  Dec 2006 - Mar 2010

  Casual Sales Assistant

  Sales, Stock take, Stock Transfers, Open and Close

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  Kew RSL

  Apr 2007 - Mar 2010

  Bar Staff

  Duty manager for events, Serving, Restocking, Cleaning, Banking, Open and Close

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  MiniFAB (Aust) Pty Ltd

  Apr 2009 - Apr 2012

  Production Line Operator

  Following SOP's to manufacture microfluidic testing devices under clean room conditions.

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  New Gold

  Apr 2012 - Sept 2015

  Reporting: daily metal accounting, monthly metal accounting, monthly reagent usage, forecasting (both short term and quarterly forecasts), daily performance commentary, monthly plant section reportingPlant Troubleshooting: SAGBC, Copper Flotation, Leaching, CIP, and Gravity Circuit including Gekko ILR, thickening and filtering, Courier 6 OSA, and Operations shift coverageProcess Optimisation: Liaising with the Geology and Mining departments to successfully manage the ROM, restoring the gravity circuit Gold recovery from approximately 10% of mill feed back to a consistent 25% of total Gold recovery through plant surveys, engaging equipment suppliers, trialling new reagents and utilising fundamental leaching knowledge. Streamlining equipment setup and operation to aid the operations team to achieve more consistent recoveries and safety and time management, identifying poorly performing control sequences/ process systems and developing action plans to troubleshoot and restore the circuit to a stable and sustainable operating condition, plant data collection to build a database for troubleshooting future issues, Using plant surveys and sampling to perform mass/water balancing to develop scope of works for equipment upgrades and general circuit health checks leading into modelling using various computer software packages.Maintenance: Calibration and maintenance of online cyanide analyser (Cynoprobe), calibration of pH and DO meters, cyclone inspection and reline, flotation cell inspectionsSafety: Active member of Mines Rescue, management area inspections, safe act observations, hazard identification, incident reporting and investigationManagement: supervision of a mill reline, supervision of contractors, supervision of plant trials Show less

  • Production Metallurgist

    Apr 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Graduate Metallurgist

    Apr 2012 - Apr 2014
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  KBL Mining, Mineral Hill

  Oct 2015 - Mar 2016

  Senior Metallurgist

  Commissioning: Pyrite & Arsenopyrite Flotation Circuit to produce a Gold Concentrate, CIL/CIP Circuit, INCO Cyanide Destruct and the Zadra Elution CircuitAnalytical Lab commissioning; supervision of the laboratory fit out, equipment sourcing, organising staff training for aqua regia digestions. As well as equipment setup and testing; fume hood, AAS (Agilent), Bench top XRF (Olympus) and WAD cyanide determination via photo-spectrometryManagement: Co-ordination of Met team via planning and execution of plant surveys to commission new equipment and identify opportunities in existing fixed plant, review and application of internal and external Metallurgical test workRecruitment of Metallurgical staff; Plant Metallurgists and Metallurgical TechniciansTraining & Mentoring of Metallurgical Technicians, Laboratory Technician, Plant Metallurgist, Operation Shift Supervisors and the plant operatorsReporting: daily metal accounting, monthly metal accounting, rolling 3 month forecastingPlant Troubleshooting & Optimisation: Calibration of the Courier 6 OSA leading to increased utilisation and therefore improved plant operating stability. Review of flocculent dosing/mixing and implementation of de-aeration to reduce flocculent consumption and improve thickener stability.Consulting equipment & reagent suppliers to scope out projects including; 2nd hand filter install/ commissioning, filter cloth optimisation, tailings line upgrade. As well as sourcing suppliers with competitive pricing and excellent service to minimise costs and guarantee plant performance through regular site visits and test work programs.Gold Room Operation: Cleaning of electrowinning cells, flux mixing, smelting and bullion shipmentsSupervision of concentrate sampling; Primary sampling, moisture analysis, secondary sampling, reporting of the external analysis of metal content for sales purposes. (continuous improvement in regards to obtaining best practice in line with ISO12743) Show less

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  Newmont Mining Corporation

  Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

  Contract Metallurgist

  Plant metallurgy coverage, trouble shooting, optimisation and mentoring. Another exciting challenge.

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  Resolute Mining Limited

  Aug 2017 - Oct 2018

  Delivering capital projects by providing technical services across studies, design review, procurement, construction and commissioning. Regular travel to Mali, West Africa. Managing metallurgical test work programmes and providing corporate oversight.

  • Senior Project Metallurgist

    Sept 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Project Metallurgist

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
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  Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture Pty Ltd

  Jul 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Principal Project Metallurgist

    Oct 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Senior Metallurgist

    Sept 2019 - Nov 2021

  • Project Metallurgist

    Jul 2019 - Sept 2019
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  Gekko Systems

  Aug 2022 - now

  • Capital Sales - Senior Process Engineer

    Sept 2024 - now

  • Senior Process Engineer

    Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
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  AusIMM Melbourne Branch

  Jan 2025 - now

  Committee Member