Senior Metallurgist at Kinross Gold Corporation

Chirano is located in southwestern Ghana, approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city. The mine is within the Bibiani gold belt and consists of 11 deposits. Open pit and underground ore are processed at the Chirano plant. The capacity of the mill is approximately 3.5 million tonnes per annum. Processing involves crushing, ball mill grinding, leaching, and CIL.

Role Purpose

Reporting to the Metallurgical Superintendent, the successful candidate will be responsible for providing metallurgical support to mill operations to ensure optimum metallurgical performance of the process plant and continued growth of the functional activities to maximize operational efficiencies, safety, and cost effectiveness in alignment with the Company’s long-term strategy.

Actively participate in continuous improvement programmes to enhance the performance of the process plant operation, including but not limited to mine-to-mill initiat...