James Perkins

James Perkins

Underground and Surface Diamond driller

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  • Timeline

  • About me

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  • Education

    • Mountain Heights School

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  • Experience

    • Boart Longyear Australia

      Jan 2004 - Feb 2009
      Underground and Surface Diamond driller

      Various sites across AustraliaDuties: Run day-to-day drilling operations and working on track and skid mounted LM75, LM90, ONRAM1000,LF70, LF90D, LF230 and UDR 650, 1000, 1200 drills drilling deep directional holes (NAVI) to depths of 1800m

    • Boart Longyear Zambia

      Feb 2009 - May 2010
      Senior Diamond driller

      Day to day diamond drilling operations Training a national workforce working for BHP Drilling on KWL1600 drills todepths of 1400m

    • Boart Longyear Fiji

      May 2010 - Jun 2011
      Senior Diamond driller

      Run day to day diamond drilling operations and train a national workforce working on track mounted LF90D drillsin very bad ground conditions working for Newcrest

    • VDH Tasmania

      Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
      Underground Diamond driller

      Run day-to-day diamond drilling operations and train new offsiders drilling on Alton drilling HD900 machines and atlas copco U8 drills

    • Traverse Drilling PNG

      Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
      Senior Driller

      Run day-to-day drilling operations, 6 crew, heliportable rigs, diamond drilling deep holes in very bad ground to depths of 2100m usingsandvik DE740 and DE880 drills

    • VDH Tasmania

      Jan 2013 - Feb 2014
      Senior Diamond driller

      Renison bell, Copper mines TasDuties: Run day-to-day diamond drilling operations and train new offsiders drilling on Alton drilling HD900 and LY38 andLY44 drills

    • Jemrok

      Feb 2014 - now
      Underground Worker
    • Barminco

      Feb 2015 - now
      Charge Up
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Cert 3 in mineral drilling operations

      Australian Drilling Industry Association
    • Working at Heights

      Tasmanian Polytechnic (now TasTAFE)