Engineer Plant

JOAO BATISTA CARDOSO JR

email: ******@*****.***

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Palo Alto, CA 94303

Tel: 650-***-****

cel: 650-***-****

SUMMARY

Mine Engineer/Metallurgist. Expertise in Crushing, Screening, Grinding, Flotation, Filtration, Drying, Gravity/Magnetic Separation, Solvent-Extraction, Electrowining, Cyanidation, Roasting.

Expertise in R&D (Lab/Pilot-Plant Operation), Plant Operations and Plant Design (Scale-up) and Plant Optimization. Mineral Processing & Hydrometallurgy. Process Control (SPC), Process Improvement. Gold, Copper, Industrial Sands. Materials Balance. Computer Expertise.

Precious Metals. Sands & Rock & Industrial Minerals. Tar Sands. Salts.

Computer Systems/Network Administration. Windows/Novell/Macintosh/Unix.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

IT Contractor, Palo Alto, CA 2003 - 2008

SHC, Redwood City, CA 2000 – 2002

Systems Engineer/Network Engineer:

Desktop support for computer hardware/software and windows NT/Unix networks.

DICI (Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer), Mountain View, CA 4/97 - 1999

Environmental Engineer:

Process Control of Plating Department: Copper, gold, nickel, etc. Environmental Control of liquid wastes.

TMPI (Metals Cleaning Plant), Hayward, CA 1994 - 3/97

Environmental Engineer :

Hazardous Waste Plant Supervisor. Environmental Manager. Process Control. Process of solid and liquid hazardous wastes. Control of air emissions.

BHP MINERALS , Sunnyvale, CA 1989 - 1993

Metallurgist:

R&D: Flotation, Leaching, Solvent-Extraction and Electrowining of copper from Escondida Mine in Chile, Copper from Papua-New Guinea and USA. Flotation, Cyanidation, CIL and Roasting of refractory gold ores. Computer Materials Balance. Platinum group flotation. Ion-Exchange of zinc.

Environmental Control of metal, liquid and air wastes.

MINERAL RESOURCES INSTITUTE (MRI), Tuscaloosa, AL 1983 - 1989

R & D Metallurgist:

Eastern oil-shale, coal, tar sands, potash from brines (Solar Salt), trona & salts (Searles Lake), refractory gold ores. Plastics recycling. Industrial minerals. Computer modeling.

Plant Design. Operation of Dewatering plant (Screening/Flocculation). Statistics Applications. Plant Design/Startup of Potash Plant in Chile (Atacama Desert).

BATTELLE COLUMBUS, Columbus, Ohio, OH 1981 - 1983

Metallurgist:

Design and Operation of Gold Recovery Mobile Plant (Gravity/Magnetic Separation). Flocculation & Filtration. Tin Metallurgy. Industrial Minerals. Titanium ores.

Industrial Sands, Rock Products.

CEPED-CARAIBA COPPER MINING, Camacari, BA, Brazil, 1974 - 1981

Metallurgist.

Manganese, Chromium, Phosphate, Calcium, Salts, Copper, Titanium, gold, etc.

Metallurgical Lab Testing. Pilot-Plant Operation.

Plant Design. Supervision. Chalcopyrite & Bornite Flotation. Crushing,

Grinding, Flotation, Conc. Handling & Tailings Disposal. 100,000 TPY copper concentrate. Flotation & Cyanidation of carbonaceous pyrite-arsenopyrite gold ores (lab, pilot-plant & commercial plant). Rock/Sand Screening.

EDUCATION

M.S., Mineral Processing Engineering, Columbia University, NYC, NY, USA, 1976

B.S., Mining Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 1973

Computer Systems, IBM of Brazil, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 1966

Languages : Portuguese , English, Spanish

Visa Status: Brazilian/US Citizen.

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