Engineering Project
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CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Given Name (s): Agua Joseph Surname: VERE
Date of Birth: 06/06/76 Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married Home District: Kundiawa/Gembogl
Home Province: Simbu
Hobbies: playing chess, reading, landscaping, innovative in whatever am
tasked for……
Ambition: Be productive and innovative in whatever career I am assigned to and be a team player,
mentor and a raw model in geotechnological environment
Address: i. Home; Agua Joseph VERE
P.O. Box 3857
LAE 411 MOROBE PROVINCE
ii. Work Place: Digicel Mobile Ph: 72931641
Digicel Mobile Personal: 72204550
e-mail: acdy01@r.postjobfree.com, acdy01@r.postjobfree.com
ii. History of Education
2006 – 2008 University of Technology - Lae, Mining Engineering Dept
Doing Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Mining Engineering by research @
Yandera Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum-Gold deposit, Bundi – Madang
Province.
Duration: March 2006 – March 2008
1996 – 2000: University of Papua New Guinea
Bachelor of Science Degree - Geology Major (BSci V, 2000)
1994 – 1995: Aiyura National High School (Grades 11 – 12)
1990 – 1993: Rosary High School, Kondiu (Grades 7 –10)
1984 – 1989: Kunabau Primary School (Grades 1 – 6)
iii. Special Skills and Duties in School
1999 – 2000: President – UPNG Geology Student Chapter for American Association for
Petroleum Geologist.
1994 – 1995: Aiyura National High School SRC Treasurer and Sport
Club President. Also Aiyura Simbu Student Society President (1995)
1991 – 1993: Rosary High School Brass Band President, Musician and Band Conductor
iv. Work Experience
1. June 1998 to end February 1999 – Industrial Training as Student Geologist with Highlands Pacific LTD
(exploration & administration). The fields covered during the Industrial Training were;
(a) Administration work – 19th June to July (1998) and end of November (1998) to early February 1999.
Mainly involved in administration work – computer oriented environment (Port Moresby office) such as;
- geochemical data/data search and data entry database upgrading..
- creating and updating of geochemical database for existing & non-existing ELs for Highlands
Pacific LTD
- data entry using;
- MS excel
- MS access
- digitizing scanned maps and imported and uploading onto MapInfo,
- scanning;
- progress reports
- biannual reports
- annual reports and up-dating the HPL library (cataloging).
- plotting of maps (working out coordinates and scales) and registered in MapInfo
(b) Exploration – early July to end of November 1998
Involved in reconnaissance/follow-up work (a critical exploration stage) at main Yandera Porphyry
Molybdenite-Gold-Copper deposit in Bundi, Madang Province.
- Tasks involved were;
- basemap preparation of the entire license area @ 1:10,000 scale including stream base
topography), villages, known prospects, old sample sites and values, geological
interpretation (update geology)
- collecting of stream sediments, pan. con., rock chips/floats and soils for lab analyses,
- detailed trench mapping (assisted by Chief Geologist Mike Hawkins)
locate the core of the porphyry system and its extension
landowner issue are part and parcel of any exploration activities and Bundi is not an exception. This is
very sensitive issues which I have involved closely with landowners to discuss any associated problems
with senior geologists..
assisted HPL geologists in doing logistics for fly camps for their green and brown fields.
(c) Ramu Nickel Cobalt Project/Trial Mine – mid November 1998 (3 days excursion)
I was shown around the mine trial pit (surface mining) and was briefed by Project Geologist (Charles
Yabone.) about how the;
Mining method that will be applied for the mining and how the cores were logged
This was basically an exposure to pre mine environment.
2. Contract/Casual Employments
Cyprus Amax Exploration – mid May to early June 1999
(a)
Mainly involved in reconnaissance/follow-work with Jerry N. Garry (Cyprus Amax Contracted
Geologist) around Imila Target, Abau District, Central Province.
Task was to recommend on the projects/prospects whether need attention or not, and also to
generate new projects/prospects for Cyprus Amax under the supervision of Jerry N. Garry.
a. Part-time Casual employment with Highlands Pacific – early February to late June 2000
Tasks were;
Creating and updating the database for all Exploration Licenses held by Highlands Pacific, particularly
for reconnaissance and prospects scale data including all the assay results and imports the digitized data
into the existing access database system for future work if need be, eg, Kainantu Prospects (current mine).
b. Geology Department (UPNG) Technical Laboratory Assistant – November 1999 to May 2000
Mainly involved in Thin Section (petrography) production, organizing and analysing, and sieving of samples
for;
Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea
My Research/Special Project on Port Moresby Geology (Geology Department – UPNG)
c. Contract/Casual Employment with Highlands Pacific – July to September 2000
Employed by Highlands Pacific as a contractor/casual employee.
Task assigned was;
- Creating and updating of Kainantu (current mine) region database, particularly for reconnaissance
and prospect scale data including all the assay results and import the digitized data onto the
existing database system for Kainantu region for easy retrieval and processing of information if
needed in future. The work was done under the supervision of Jerry N. Garry and Kohn Digan
(Highlands Pacific Contract geologists).
d. Research in valuable Mineral Database and Project Generation for Simbu Province – early June to
September 2000
The research on valuable mineral in Simbu was proposed by the Simbu Provincial Government in order to let
the people of Simbu know about their valuable mineral deposits and to generate new projects/prospects for
them.
Also most of the data in hard copies were digitized and imported into access database and MapInfo for
analyses and evaluating of valuable minerals. The research was successfully completed under the
supervision of Jerry N. Garry and Kohn Digan (Highlands Pacific Contract Geologists).
e. Contract with National Department of Education under Elementary Education Teacher Support
Project (ETESP) – AusAID as National Elementary Kit Distribution Coordinator and Financial
Administration Counterpart to Elementary Unit on the 27th November 2000 – 13th August 2003.
Task undertaken during the term of contract;
- organizing and running workshop for Provincial Elementary Coordinators (PECs) for budget
approval
- liaison with HK shipping International (Sydney) for dispatched of Elementary Kits from Australia
to PNG and then to provincial centres (contact either Carolyn Ivankin/John Manasa ph/fax: 472
3003 – Express Freight Management) doing monitoring and assessing of Elementary kits
throughout PNG.
- support and advises PECs, follow up HK shipping requests, assess the Elementary kits delivery
plans and statues of the kits, assist with the delivery strategies for each provinces and assist with
management of funds and auditing in each provinces in PNG.
- meet regularly with Australian Team Leader (ATL) and submit regular reports (interim, progress
and period reports) to ATL which addresses activities undertaken, progress to date, problems,
issues and comments, plans for resolution and priority actions.
- Communities awareness regarding Elementary kits through media
- Pay regular visits to provinces to do school-based auditing and assist PECs in regards to
Distribution of Elementary kits
- also as a Financial Administration Counterpart to ETESP Finance Team, I assisted the team by
collecting and collating acquittals during visits to provinces.
f. Principal Consulting Geologist with Enginfortech Consultancy Limited - 2005
Team Leader & Principal Consulting Exploration Geologist in an exploration to Imbongu village in
Ialibu/Pangia District, Mendi SHP Papua New Guinea, in 2005 under Enginfortech Consultancy, Lae –
Morobe Prov. Team carried out regional reconnaissance/follow-up work collecting stream seds, pan con,
rock chips and soil sampling for the prospect. A final report has been released to the appropriate authorities.
g. Senior Lecturer and Section Head of Applied Geology, Mining Engineering Dept, Papua new
Guinea University of Technology – Lae: March 2005 – December 2010.
My career as university academic professional commenced in early 2005 with Papua New Guinea University
of Technology – Lae with Mining Engineering Department. My task is to lecture Applied Geology to various
engineering departments (Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing Engineering, Civil Engineering,
Surveying, Forestry and Applied Sciences (chemistry)) within the university.
During my career as an academic I have involved in a lot of consultancy work with various organization from
exploration to mining, geotechnical and engineering (civil works and constructions) firms, involve in site
investigations (geological, geotechnical, petroleum, etc). Below is an outline of the subjects which I taught the
engineering trend students in the mentioned departments.
1. Final (4th) Year - Petroleum Engineering (Semester Two only)
2. Third (3rd) Year (Semester One)
Part A: Engineering Geology
Part B: Engineering Geology and Mining Geological Mapping
Semester Two
Part A: Exploration Techniques
Part B: Mine Geology
Part C: Hydrogeology
Part D: Introduction to Petroleum Geology
3. Second (2nd) Year Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering, Civil Engineering, Surveying and First
Year Forestry (Sem 1)
Semester One
- Part A: Earth Materials and Processes
- Part B: Structural Geology and Geomorphology
- Part C: Geological Mapping Techniques
- Part D: Geology of Papua New Guinea
Semester Two (Mining & Mineral Processing Engineering students only)
- Part A: Mineralogy
- Part B: Crystallography and Optical
Mineralogy
- Part C: Economic Geology
Part D: Ore Deposits of PNG
h. Senior Underground Mine Geologist (Production) with Highlands Kainantu Limited (Barrick
Kainantu Gold Mine: March – December 2008.
Joint Barrick Kainantu Gold mine as a senior underground mine production geologist after completing my
MPhil with mining engineering dept., Unitech, Lae. During field breaks I was allowed to take up lectures
back at the university, mining engineering department. Kainantu mine ceased operation due to its closure
around December 2008 where most of the employees were laid off.
Tasks involved were;
Underground resource exploration and drilled core logging
Daily running of the grade control and QAQC of sampling
i. Senior Open-Cast Mine Geologist (Production) with Lihir Gold Limited; January – April 2009.
Employed by Lihir Gold Limited as a senior mine production geologist. Tasks involved were;
Daily grade control of the ores
QAQC of sampling
Senior Administration Geologist with Pacific Niugini Minerals; February – November 2011.
j.
Employed with Pacific Niugini Minerals Limited (PNM) as a senior administration and tenement geologist for
the first five months. The other five months was at its Bulolo alluvial project.
Tasks assigned during my employment with PNM were:
1. First five months
Looking after all PNM tenements and liaised with the government agency, the Los and the stakeholders.
Monitor and controlled all technical reports (quarterly, biannual, annual reports), liaised with field
geologists for the report production
Built and controlled PNM mineral database from existing database
Do Quarterly Report for Stock-Exchange
2. Next five months
Senior project geologist with its Bulolo Alluvial project.
See the daily running of the Bulolo project
Supervising of Churn drilling at its Bulolo project
Supervised the contractors for the trial mining or alluvial exploration
Make sure the volume of gold targets were met from the trammel
Make sure all plant hires are adhere and abide to the contract agreement as stipulated
k. Exploration Manager with Kair Engineering Limited; November 2011 – July 2012.
Employed as Exploration Manager with Kair Engineering Limited. As this is a local PNG company with four
newly granted exploration licenses within Papua New Guinea, my tasks were mammoth as this is a newly
established mineral exploration company. Most of the four licenses covered unexploited PNG landmass. The
company was brought from its infancy stage for the first two years period and advance into its second term,
another two years.
Good news for Kair Engineering/Exploration was the securing of the JV partner (Corporate Executive Mining
Limited) from Australia during my management.
l. Senior Project Geologist, Gold Anomaly Limited – Crater Mountain; Late July 2012 – January 2013.
Gold Anomaly Limited (GOA) offered me a senior project geologist position under contract basis. Main tasks
were to see the overall running of the Crater Mountain gold project and the surrounding and other ELs that Gold
Anomaly owns.
Task involved during the short term contract;
Team Leader in regional reconnaissance for its green field within and around the project areas
Make sure QAQC sampling method applied in all sampling done.
Designing of the slope stability (geotechnical engineering) during the bench cutting for the preparation of the
trial underground mine adit
In charged of the Tenement management for GOA and make sure all stakeholders were updated
Attended all Mines Warden Hearing for GOA and was successful in all its ELs Renewal
Supervised drill rig demobilization and rig shift from GOA Crater mountain project to Lufa station for
transportation to Lae
m. Principal Geotech Engineer and Geologist with AJICE Engineering; February 2013 – Current.
Employed as Principal Geotechnical Engineer and senior consulting geologist with AJICE Engineering, a
consulting firm which specialized in the fields of geology, exploration, engineering and mining. As the principal
geotechnical engineer, the main tasks were to see the overall running of the firm and secure tasks and complete
the tasks in according to the clienteles specification.
v. Research
1. The researches done were basically reviewing, remapping, research and interpretation done basing on the
results obtained from analyses.
(a) Geological Mapping of Port Moresby Basement: A mid-Cainozoic Accretionary Prism (as a Research
Project) – early June 1999 to end of February 2000
This was mainly involved reviewing and re-mapping of local geology of parts of Port Moresby by collecting,
analyzing and interpreting samples basing on results obtained. The objective was to redefine geology and
complex orientations of Port Moresby Geology. This was to compare my research work with the previous
workers’ research, e.g., Haig, Rogerson, etc. The research was satisfactorily completed under the supervision
of Professor Hugh Davies and titled, “Port Moresby Basement: A Mid-Cainozoic Accretionary Prism”. The
abstract of the research paper (unpublished) was presented at 2000 Geological Convention in Australia by
Professor Hugh Davies (supervisor). The research was done successfully with minimal supervision from
Professor Davies and Dr. Russell Perembo of Geology Department, University of Papua New Guinea.
(b) A research project on Biostratigraphy study of Poreporena Highway road-cut
face (Burns Peak) and Finisterre Range (Markham Basin), March to May, 2000
This involved the study of microfossils within the Burns Peak Formation unit within
the newly road-cut face to correlate the age of the unit with the surrounding units and
other similar units around Port Moresby and also for comparison with what the
previous researchers’ findings. The Markham Basins is mainly microfossil stud y to
re-determine the age from what the previous workers’ found. This was satisfactorily
accomplished under the supervision Dr. Russell Perembo of Geology Department,
UPNG.
(c). Research Program, ie, Master of Philosophy by research in Yandera Porphyry Copper-
Molybdenum-Gold deposit, Bundi in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, April 2006 –
December 2007.
This research program is a 2 years program, ie., Master of Philosophy by research in Yandera Porphyry Copper.
The aim of the research link exploration and mining in the field of applied geology. Also this research will
reveal the source of mineralisation for Yandera porphyry copper deposits. Research duration is two years and
completed in March 2008.
REFERENCE:
I. Professor Hugh Davies (Professor of Geology)
Earth Science Department - Geology
University of Papua New Guinea
P.O. Box 414
University Post Office
NCD.
Phone: 675-***-****
Fax: 675-***-****
acdy01@r.postjobfree.com
E-mail:
II. Hans Matarab
Senior Production Engineer
MMJV Hidden Valley
P.O. Box
LAE 411, Morobe Province.
Digicel Mobile Ph: (675-******** Email:
III. Ms. Rosemary Green Dr. Ken Ngangan
Australia Team Leader Financial Administrator - AusAID
Elementary Teacher Education Support Project
Building 9
PNGEI/PMIC
P.O. Box 1791
Boroko NCD
Phone: 323 5682 or 323 9860, Fax: 323 9860
IV. Dr. John Witne
(Ph.D. in Mining Engineering)
Mining Engineering Department, Papua New Guinea University of Technology
Private Mail Bag,
LAE
Morobe Province Digicel Mobile Ph: 72496990
Phone: 675-***-**** or 473 4671
Fax: 675-***-****
E-mail:acdy01@r.postjobfree.com
V. Jerry Nombri Garry
Sierra Leone Diamond Company Exploration Limited,
67 Murray Town Rd,
Freetown,
Sierra Leone..
E-mail: acdy01@r.postjobfree.com
Telephone: + 232 (022) 230 536
Mobile: + 232 (076) 869 994 (SL)
Mobile: +675-***-**** (PNG)
Website: www.sierraleonediamond.com
VI. Mr. David Pakne
(Senior Lecturer in Mining Engineering)
Mining Engineering Department,
Papua New Guinea University of Technology
Private Mail Bag,
LAE
Morobe Province
Phone: 675-***-**** or 473 4671
Fax: 675-***-****
E-mail:acdy01@r.postjobfree.com
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