1. MASAUSO MUMBA
(MEIZ, MAuSIMM)
Independence Avenue, Kitwe, Copperbelt 10101
Home: 00260 212 210280 • Cell: 00260977444741
mumbamasauso@zambia.co.zm
SUMMARY
A capable, results orientated Mining Engineer with 10 years mining experience in mine planning and
operations. Record of leading high performance teams and of successfully increasing efficiencies and
productivities whilst reducing costs. Ability to keep a level head at all times, nurtures and grow a
business, evaluate opportunities and risks and also deliver innovative new solutions to challenges.
Possessing excellent client facing and configuration skills and highly successful in helping define
company direction, achieving goals and optimizing business.
Currently looking for a suitable senior position with an ambitious company either in Mine Planning or
Mining Management.
HIGHLIGHTS OF MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Acting Mine Manager
Chief Planning Mining Engineer
Senior mine planning Engineer,
Consulting Mining Engineer (Business & Technical Support),
Short term Mine Planning Engineer
Graduate Mine Engineer,
Trainee Mining Engineer
HIGHLIGHTS OF TECHNICAL SKILLS
Proficient in Budgeting and costing.
Proficient in strategic mine planning,
Long term mine planning,
Short to medium term mine Planning
Consulting Mining Engineering.

2. Proficient in budgeting and Financial Performance
Proficient in Mineral resource management and Modelling
Business Development
HR Management Skills,
Staff and Management Skills Development,
HIGHLIGHTS OF COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in Surpac General Mining Package,
Proficient in Geovia Whittle Optimization Software
Proficient in Geovia Minescheduling package,
Proficient in Microsoft Packages (Excel, Access, Word, etc.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Has headed technical teams and helped in defining the mine business unit plans for the life of mine
Developed departmental Financial Operating Budget of more than US$90m and capital Budget of more
than US$20m per year
Been successfully part of the team developing the Mine financial operating budget
Helped reduce mine operating costs and improving total mining unit costs through contract renegotiations
and improvement on mining efficiencies
Have supervised mining contractors and specifically controlled all the unit operations with over 1000
employees
Have been a Business Development and Technical Support Manager for an African Renowned for a
consulting Company during consultancy and has helped generate more than US $100k as a direct
employee contribution through business creation with some mining companies as a Mining
Consultant
Have demonstrated skills of developing other employee’s skills through coaching and training and hands
on experience

3. EXPERIENCE
RANDGOLD RESOURCES
Abidjan, Abidjan
Senior Open Pit Mine Planning Engineer 01/2013 to 03/2015
- Responsible for mentoring local Employees
- Budgeting and Costs controls
- Mine Planning in long term
- Improving Mining Efficiencies
- General Mining Management
Detailed work experience with Randgold in Ivory Coast:
In charge of Mine Planning and Production Planning section
- Prepare Pit Design and Optimization using Geovia (Gemcome Mining packages-Surpac,
Minesched and Whittle)
- Preparing Dump Designs and Optimization using Geovia (Gemcome Mining packages-
Surpac, Minesched and Whittle)
- Preparing Quarterly, Yearly, LoM Plans
- Scheduling and chairing weekly and monthly Mine Planning meeting with the mining
department and the mining contractor
- Liaising with the contractor on all contractual issues
- Assisting in the preparation and submission of monthly reports to the mine manager
- Establishing and meeting time lines
- make sure Mining compliance with all Government and mining regulation
- Designing and making available all data sheets to the users

4. AFRICAN MINING CONSULTANTS
Kitwe, Copperbelt
Mining Engineer -Mine Software and Technical support Business Development 2010 to 2012
AFRICAN MINING CONSULTANT
Lubumbashi, Katanga
Worked on Various projects that brought Value to these companies:
2012 Underground Mine development and Production Scheduling (Mopani UG Mines)
2012 Mopani Copper Mine Open Pit Production Scheduling
2012 Grade Control model solids modelling and mine planning in DRC at BossMining
2012 On site Mine planning Technical assistance in DRC at Ruashi Mining (Acting Chief
Planning Engineer)
2012 Ore reserves calculation for Mopani Underground Operations (all Sites in Kitwe and
Mufulira)
2011 Scheduling of Chingola refractory Ore Dumps Optimisation
2011 Design and scheduling of Etoile Mining project in Congo DR.
2011 Database creation of Boko Songho project for geological modelling in Congo
Brazzaville-republic of Congo
2011 Advanced Drill and Blast and mine design Surpac Training for Mopani Copper Mine
Engineers
2011 Surpac Foundation Course Training for Chibuluma Copper Mine Engineers
2011 Advanced Minesched Training in Development and Production Scheduling for
Underground for Mopani Engineers
2010-2011 Mine Planning and Technical support services– Ruashi Mine Copper/Cobalt Project,
DRC
Managed Technical support and helping in software business development
Worked for Metorex, ENRC BossMining, Mopani Copper Mines, Chibuluma Mines, Konkola
Copper Mines,

5. FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS
Solwezi, Zambia
Mine Planning Engineer 2008 to 2009
In charge of short term Mine Planning of two big open pits with annual production of finished
metal of over 250kt
Monthly Planning- Planning and scheduling of short term monthly plans which includes blocking
of the areas for ore and waste stripping, planning the volume and tonnage of ore to feed the crushers
for one month to three month, production of monthly block model reports in Surpac and Microsoft
excel, supervising the implementation of a month plan and liaising with a mining contractor on how
best to realize the plan, setting out mining targets for both ore and waste.
Weekly mine planning- Planning and scheduling of mining unit activities which include: design of
drill and blast patterns for short term weekly schedule, planning blast inventories to feed the process
plant grade-tonnage requirement. Producing mine plans using Surpac mining software, supervising
the implementation of the weekly plan, liaising with the mining contractor to ensure the plan is
implemented and followed.
Daily Mine planning- Planning of 24 hour line up, this include making maps using ACAD software
to show daily equipment locations on the mining faces.
Controlling of pit and dumps- checking that mining and filling conforms to the desired design by
ensuring that material is mined to the correct design. Controlling the way blasting is done to ensure
minimum ore dilution.
Chairing and Directing meetings- Chairing of Pre production planning meetings where the
contractors’ project manager, client’s mine manager, contractors production manager, shift manager,
drill and blast superintendents, dispatch Engineers, Chief Geologist, production Geologists, planning
engineers (contractor) formed part of the quorum.
Contracts supervision-have supervised the following project works; haul road lighting project,
construction of explosive manufacturing plant project and underground dewatering project. Specific
projects cost managed ranged from $US 794 000 to raising and ensuring invoices claims of up to $15
million.
Teaching of some experts and some local staff Surpac skills and planning skills, supervised
University students doing their final year projects at the University of Zambia.
Graduate Mining Engineer: 2007-2008: Kansanshi Mine Plc – First Quantum Minerals Ltd
• Drill and Blast operations
• Load and haul operations
• Survey
• Geology work
• Grade Control work

6. • Mine Equipment Maintenance work
• Mine Planning process
• Process plant operations
Trainee Mining Engineer: 2006-2007 Kansanshi Mine Plc – First Quantum Minerals Ltd
• Drill and Blast
• Load and haul
• Survey
• Geology
• Grade Control
• Maintenance
• Mine Planning
• Process plant
Trainee Mining Engineer: 2005-2006 Chilanga Cement Plc, Lusaka, Zambia
• Quarry Operations
• Cement Plant Operations
Trainee Mining Engineer: August-Sept 2005 – Phoenix Kafue Granite Quarry - (Kafue-
Zambia)
• Drilling and blasting
• Crusher plant operation
• Quality control and quality assurance of crushed aggregates
Other Experience: At the University Of Zambia.
Surpac Mining Software Tutor. (November 2007 to April 2008).
Teaching specialized Mining software to Geology and Mining Engineering Students from second years
through to fifth years.
Couching members of staff (lecturers) in Surpac software from departments of Geology and Mining
Engineering (From March to April)
CAPABILITIES:
Capable of working in dispatch, capable of working in drill and blast engineering, capable of working in load and
haul section and capable of being in senior management positions.
Computer skills:
Advanced user of MS Word, MS Excel, Ms Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, and MS Access. Advanced
user of Surpac, Whittle, Minesched, Carlson, AutoCAD & blast map.

7. RESPONSIBILITIES HELD AT UNIVERSITY:
@ The University-
Committee member of University of Zambia Mineral Society (UNZAMS) (a student association in the school
of mines) - 2005
President of UNZAMS (in the school of mines) – 2006 academic year
Former Member of the Senate Curriculum Review Committee of the University of Zambia (university
senate), as a student representative. The committee comprised of schools of Natural Sciences (NS),
Engineering (ENG) and Mines.
Awards:
1.0 The Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) Plc Prize for the BEST FINAL YEAR PROJECT IN MINING
ENGINEERING
2.0 Engineering Institution of Zambia paperate competition (Got second position) awarded on 17th May, 2008
3.0 The Zambia Federation of Employers Labour Day Celebrations Award for the Best Planning Engineer
awarded on May 1, 2009
Certifications:
1.0 Certificate of Participation- Engineers Registration Board of Zambia Paperate
Competition: paper Title-Optimization of mining Unit Operations to Meet
Production Targets at Kansanshi Open Pit Mine-Case Study. Paper came
Second best
EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE: MINING ENGINEERING (First Class degree-Degree with Distinction)
University of Zambia, Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia
Degree with skills in:
- Investment analysis
- Mine Management
- Mineral Economics
- Mine Planning (UG & Surface Open Pits)
AFFILIATIONS
Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ)
Member of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAuSIMM)

8. Languages: Excellent English, Medium French and Swahili:
Referees:
1.0 Mr Edwin Mukonka, GM African Mining Consultants ltd (emukonka@amc-africa.com Cell: 00260966825144)
2.0 Mr Chris Cusack, Technical manager Iam Gold Canada (cjcusack@gmail.com or chris_cusack@iamgold.com)
3.0 Peter Shankaya, Senior Mine Planning Engineer, Agbaou Mine in Cote D Ivoire (0022577736453)