Engineer Supervisor

David Erickson

Consumables Supervisor, Field Supervisor, Safety

Stockbridge, GA

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Consumables Supervisor, Field Supervisor, Safety

Drilling and Blasting Systems - Conyers, GA - August 1992 to September 2008

supervisor, Safety/Task Trainer, Drill Tech.

Duties: Drilling and Blasting Systems (DBS) is a contractor that drills Production Blast holes for quarries and

mines in a four state area. I was with this company for 16 years and performed a number of duties under

different titles.

Consumables Supervisor: Purchasing and distribution of consumables, tools, safety items, Over see the

Rebuilding of DTH hammers, chucks, backheads, and Fabrication of numerous products, wrenches, Bit

grinding stands, fishing tools and miscellaneous tools.

Field supervisor: I supervised Drillers in North Carolina maintaining safety requirements, production goals,

moving drills O.T.R. and Public relations with customers.

Safety supervisor: included, compliance with all state and federal regulations, I wrote the Safety training

program which was eventually accepted and approved by MSHA.

Safety/trainer: Performing MSHA safety training, Annual Refresher, New Miner and task training.

Drill Tech.: Operation of a truck/track drill rig. We drilled production holes and exploration holes. including

standard Maintenance of drill and company pickup, quality control and Customer relations.

Driller

Haily & Rast Joint Venture - Roswell, GA - July 1991 to June 1992

Duties: Operating a track drill and blasting in advance of municipal storm drain construction project.

Mine Planning Engineer

Western States Minerals - Wheat Ridge, CO - January 1991 to June 1991

Supervisor: Dwight Crossland

Duties: Included Evaluation of Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical work Performed and in progress on

Several mining projects. Mine planning and design utilizing Med system software. Operations Engineer for

White Pine mine.

Mine Engineer

Placer Dome U. S. Box - McDermitt, NV - February 1988 to December 1990

Supervisor: Randy Powell

Duties: Included Ore control, mine scheduling, meeting production goals, calculations of annual ore reserves

using in house software, budgeting, long and short range mine planning, surveying, and road construction

projects. I also had the opportunity to become involved with the daily operations of the mill and furnace. This

included experience with bench scale flotation, furnace and leaching test work for the purposes of feasibility

studies.

Quality Control Engineer

Montana Talc Company - Three Forks, MT - April 1986 to October 1987

Supervisor: Bob Walish

Duties: Responsibility for product Quality. This included trouble shooting a new mill during start-up, setting

the grinding conditions for dry grinding mills and trouble shooting the "ladder logic" software for a totally

automated mill. I supervised the lab technicians and set up the sampling and testing programs. The lab

also provided technical support for customers, Exploration Dept., Marketing, and R&D. While I was with the

company Montana Talc became recognized as a quality product.

Supervisor

Western Co. of N.A - Sidney, MT - January 1984 to March 1985

Ken Buhler

Duties: Conducting tests in quality control lab and driving oil service trucks. This company performed Cement

jobs, Frac jobs and acid jobs on Oil wells.

In Partnership - Butte, MT - April 1983 to September 1983

Duties: Reopening a shaft for an underground mine. Mine surveying, mapping, sampling and evaluation.

Production was suspended due to low silver prices.

Metallurgist II

Dresser Magcobar, Box - Houston, TX - April 1982 to October 1982

Supervisor: James T. Gullett

Duties: Mineral Processing test work on Barite ore samples using flotation, Mineral jigs, shaking tables, dense

media, and Pilot plant test work.

Process Engineer

John Peirce - Austin, NV - June 1981 to November 1981

Mill Superintendent

Blue Range Mining Co - Butte, MT - April 1980 to June 1981

Supervisor: Larry Hoffman

Duties: Supervision and Security of 100 S.T.P.D. Gold mill utilizing mineral jigs and shaking tables. The

Underground mine was located 70 North of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Design and renovation of flow circuit

to remove shaking tables and replace them with flotation cells and leach of the concentrate. Carbon in Pulp

final recovery.

Hecla Mining Co. Wallace, Idaho

Title: Miners helper

Duties: I worked as a Nipper, Motorman, Timberer at the Lucky Friday mine. It is a underground Silver and

Lead mine in Mullen Idaho. The Lucky Friday used a horizontal cut and fill mining method. This was my last

summer job while I was in college. I also worked thru the holidays between semesters.

I also completed several tours of Underground mines and the Underground Mine Surveying course as required

by the Mining Department of Montana Tech. at Butte Montana.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Mining Engineering

Montana Tech - Butte, MT

1980

B.S. in Mineral Processing Engineering

Montana Tech - Butte, MT

1980

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