Nelson Phukubye

Dedicated and experienced blasting profession with proven success acting supervisor at AECI at Venetia mine, professional skills, capabilities and knowledge in an organization which recognized the value of hard work and trusts with responsibilities and challenges.

Technician - Exper Cable

(1999-01 - 2006-12)

Upgraded to the mine

• Driver, installations, repairs and transfers of voice and data cables
• Building new network structures

BLASTING ASSISTANT - AECI

(2006-01 - 2014-12)

Appointed to a blaster

• All the preparations before priming (verification of holes, demarcation and priming)
• Assist with charging, stemming (Bobcat operator) and tie up the blast

Blaster - AECI

(2014-01 - 2023-12)

Retrenchment. Section 189

• Attending daily production meetings
• Risk assessment on the bench with the crew
• Plan job observation once or twice a week on each assistant
• Monitoring charging
• When blasting make sure all the departments has informed (email, two-way radios all channels, notice on the blasting board and sign to acknowledge and sign for evacuation of the personnels and machineries)
• Make sure all the personnels and machineries are out of our blasting radius by driving around and place the blasting guards according our risk assessment
• Ask for a two-way radio salient, switch the siren on and start conducting a blast accompany with blast coordinator
• Ask the who is near the siren to switch it off when done blasting
• After declaring the blast safe then handover the pit to the control or load and haul foreman
• Prepare the blast report

General Education and Training Certificate - Prisma, Extract and Performance management institute (2013-01 - 2013-12)