FELIX ASAMOAH-FOFIE

• Commissioned and ramped up plant, increasing throughput above 40% of nameplate capacity.
• Setup metallurgical accounting database and sampling protocols for metal reconciliation, metallurgical reporting and plant performance monitoring.
• Prepared annual and life-of-mine budget for process department and exercised effective budgetary control to ensure that reagents and consumables are used within approved limits.
• Led value delivering continuous improvement initiatives to maintain CIL recoveries within target though CIL residence time was reduced by 30% due to increased throughput.

• Interfaced with EPCM contractor to review contract deliverables such as Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P &ID) and Long Lead Items specifications and sizing.
• Coordinated test work for flow sheet optimization.
• Designed and supervised metallurgical test work program for heap leach design.

• Managed team, and coordinated metallurgical and continuous improvement projects.
• Prepared annual capital and operating budget for process plant.

• Managed production team, ensured safe and efficient operations of the 3.5MTPA process plant consisting of a three-stage crushing circuit, Milling (Ball and SAG circuits), CIL, Elution (ZADRA), Electrowinning and Smelting, Tailings Storage Facilities.
• Coordinated maintenance and troubleshooting.

PROIOR TO JAN 2019

• Senior Metallurgist : September 2013 to December 2018
• Production Metallurgist : November 2005 to August 2013