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Mildred Inonge Sikopo, Mining Engineer

Mildred Inonge Sikopo

Mining Engineer·Barrick Mining Corporation

Zambia

Master's degree, Mining Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 3 years, 9 months

Mining Engineer

June 2025 - Present

Barrick Mining Corporation

Solwezi, Zambia

June 2025 - Present

• Ensuring the timely completion of Daily, Weekly and Monthly plans and schedules; detailed pit and dump
designs.
• Providing reports on actual and planned production statistics; and prepare weekly and monthly compliance
reports.
• Monitoring and tracking actual pit design implementation to ensure achievement of design criteria.
• Promoting and assisting with business improvement projects.
• Ensuring that environmental policies and strategies are incorporated in the mine plans and designs.

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying

Mining Engineer

December 2024 - June 2025

First Quantum Minerals

Solwezi, Zambia

December 2024 - June 2025

• Short-Term Scheduling: Using Deswik, Develop and update all daily, weekly and monthly mine plans, ensuring
alignment with medium-term budget and forecast targets
• Coordinate with operations teams to ensure all tasks (drilling, blasting, hauling) are scheduled efficiently
• Ensure adherence to the plan and prepare Load and Haul weekly compliance
• Prepare daily blasted stock reports
• Reserves Calculation: Utilizing Deswik CAD to accurately calculate mineable reserves, integrating geological
data and cut-off grades to inform strategic planning and optimize resource extraction
• Ensure the optimal allocation of mining equipment, personnel, and resources for daily and weekly operations
• Collaboration: working closely with cross-functional teams, integrating geological and survey data with
operational planning for smooth execution.

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying

Mine Surveyor

September 2024 - December 2024

First Quantum Minerals Trident Limited

Solwezi, Zambia

September 2024 - December 2024

Ensuring that mining operations are carried out according to plan, maximizing resource recovery, ensuring worker
safety, and supporting the overall mining project lifecycle from design to execution by;
• Spatial analysis and GIS data dissemination for all mine activities and plans
• Pit Floor Compliance; Monitoring all mining floors to make sure all shovels are mining to correct RL to avoid
over mining or undermining
• Daily ore faces update, Flying the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), processing the data to show mining
advances
• Concentrate shed survey; with the aid of the scanner and total station, volumes of copper and nickel
concentrate is measured, calculated and reported on a weekly basis and End of month compliance
• Monitoring mine development and infrastructure which includes dam monitoring and Structure monitoring
within site
• Conducting grade control surveys, Pre-Development and as-built surveys, Pit and dump surveys
• Conducting feasibility studies and planning
• Design drafting; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to input survey data into mine designs (e.g., pit
designs, tunnel alignments, infrastructure placement).

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying

Junior Surveyor

August 2023 - September 2024

First Quantum Minerals Trident Limited

Solwezi, Zambia

August 2023 - September 2024

• Safe and efficient provision of accurate and timely surveying field work and office duties as assigned
• Drill and blast surveys and blast volume evaluations
• Drill and shovel calibration checks
• Dam wall monitoring
• Stockpile surveys and volume evaluations
• Setting up semi and permanent GCPs for geo-referencing purposes of all drone captured data.
• Setting out of Mine Design and Geological requirements.

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying

Trainee Mining Engineer

June 2022 - October 2022

Nima Engineering Firm

Moscow, Russian Federation

June 2022 - October 2022

• Site inspection and Monitoring
• Collection and analysis of geological, environmental and operational data.
• Design and plan for the development of gravel and sand pits.

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying

Trainee Mining Engineer

June 2021 - October 2021

Ekoproektkarer

Moscow, Russian Federation

June 2021 - October 2021

• Execute plans for the development and reclamation of quarries, plans for mining, drilling and blasting and mine
surveying
• Geological surveys
• Creating 3D models, orthophoto plans and topographic plans using a quadcopter( Unmanned aerial vehicle
UVA)

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying

Education

National University of Science and Technology(MISIS)

February 2023

February 2023

Master's degree, Mining Engineering

Russian Federation

Naboye Secondary School

November 2014

November 2014

High school or equivalent, science

Zambia

Skills

COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT

Intermediate

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE

Intermediate

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Intermediate

OPERATIONS

Intermediate

PLANNING

Intermediate

PROBLEM SOLVING

Intermediate

RESULTS FOCUSED

Intermediate

SURVEYING

Intermediate

TEXT MINING

Intermediate

WORKPLACE SAFETY

Intermediate

Languages

English

Native Speaker

Russian

Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Blasting License
Practicing License Engineering Registration Board (ERB)
TESOL/TEFL
Russian Language Certificate

Hobbies and interests

Reading
Cycling,
Painting,
Photography,