NGM - Senior MIne Geologist

About the role

Are you a Geology professional who is looking for career growth? Nevada Gold Mines' (NGM) Mineral Resource Management team has the perfect opportunity for you! At NGM, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. Our people division is growing, and we are looking for Senior Geologist at our Carlin operations. As part of the MRM team, the successful candidate will be results centric adding to our already ambitious yet exciting working environment supporting our mining operations. The ideal candidate will possess a background using Acquire and Leapfrog mining software. At NGM, we are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities. Nevada Gold Mines is a joint venture between Barrick Gold Corporation (61.5%) and Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (38.5%), combining their significant assets across Nevada to create the single largest gold-producing complex in the world and realize the full potential of these mines through synergies and best-in-class operational improvements. The massive mining operation comprises 8 mines along with their associated infrastructure and processing facilities that produced an estimated 4 million ounces of gold in 2018. Three of these assets are Tier One gold mines: Barrick’s Cortez; the combination of Barrick’s Goldstrike and Newmont Goldcorp’s Carlin; and the combination of Barrick’s Turquoise Ridge and Newmont Goldcorp’s Twin Creeks. In addition, Barrick’s Goldrush-Fourmile project has the potential to become the fourth Tier One asset in this portfolio. The new JV is expected to generate around $5 billion in cost savings over the next five years. Nevada Gold Mines is operated by Barrick.

Responsibilities

• Provide a strong contribution to the site safety culture and programs, encouraging and ensuring others do the same
• Working under the MRM Leeville Geology Superintendent, responsible for all ore routing within the mine and intimate knowledge of current and upcoming mine plans. (5,000 t/d mine)
• Supervising 4-6 junior geologists.
• Working with all departments such as engineering, geotech, hydrology, metallurgy, and operations to ensure all ore control tasks are completed safely and of quality.
• Review mine plans to ensure mining optimization.
• Close working relationship with Exploration to ensure that the geologic modeling agrees with mapped geology data
• Logging of diamond core
• Ensure quality of mapped data utilizing Deswik and Leapfrog
• Assist with geological studies