Resource Geologist Lubambe Copper Mine Limited

Lubambe Copper Mine Limited (LCML) owns and operates the Lubambe underground Copper Mine located in Chililabombwe District of the Copperbelt Province in Zambia. The Mine which commenced operations in 2012 is situated approximately 468 kilometres North of the Capital City of Lusaka, 152 Kilometres from Ndola and approximately 40 Kilometres from Chingola.
Lubambe Copper Mine sits on an area of approximately 58.1 square kilometres and comprises an existing underground mine, characterised by two distinct limbs (the East and South Limbs) and a processing Plant with a capacity to process up to 2.4 million tonnes per annum.
LCML places the highest priority on safety with a world-class safety system in place and understands its obligations to carry out mining in a sustainable manner. Its Corporate Social Responsibility programme focuses on education, agriculture, health, and infrastructure.

At Lubambe we are committed to managing our business in line with our values. As such, we acknowledge that our People are the most important asset to Lubambe and are the key to our success. Where consistent to our business needs, Lubambe is committed to provide employment opportunities, training, and development for our People. We want our People to be successful.

JCHX owns 80% of LCML, whilst ZCCM-IH owns 20% on behalf of the Zambian Government.

LCML seeks to employ an experienced and qualified individual in the following position:

RESOURCE GEOLOGIST (X1)

This position reports to the Senior Resource Geologist.

Core Purpose of the Position

resource geologist is required to ensure all requisites and critical data is generated to allow for building and updating of the mineral resource block models for the mine.

Key Performance Areas/Indicators (KPA/Is):

• Primary custodian of the geological (acQuire) database.
• Ensure all completed drill holes are captured in the acQuire database.
• Ensure all capture drill holes have meet the set pass/ fail QA QC standard.
• Ensure QA/QC protocols, drill core property tests such as specific gravity (SG and ore mineralogy) are done.
• Planning of underground delineation drill holes to increase drill hole data in low confidence resource categories as directed by the Senior Mineral Resource Geologist.
• Updating of all relevant orebody and Mineral Resource wireframes.
• Ensure the grades used in the POP monthly plans are as estimated from the block models.
• Manage the weekly, monthly stope reconciliation reports.

Academic Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mineral Science (Geology) or equivalent.
• Competence certificate in Geological modelling will be added advantage.
• Member of Geoscience professional body.
• Two to four years’ experience in a Resource or similar role in underground or open cast mining.
• Practical experience in use of application software such as Datamine, leapfrog, Vulcan and or Surpac.
• Practical experience in use of Excel & other related packages to manipulate data.