With over four years of combined experience in mining engineering education and research, Victor brings a unique blend of technical expertise and industry practice to the classroom. He has served as a Course Instructor in Mining Engineering and Software Training, as well as Principal Research Analyst in Mining Engineering, at the Festari Institute of Professional Studies (FIPS), where he trained professionals and conducted applied research within the mining sector. He currently works as a Mine Planning Engineer at Zijin Golden Ridge, where he applies his expertise to real-world mine planning and operations bringing practical, industry-relevant insight directly into his teaching.
This course gives you a general overview to MinePlan 3D
This course gives you a general overview to Geovia Surpac
Optimise schedule, cut-off, stockpiles and blend together to raise NPV.
Take a block model through pit optimisation, pushbacks and scheduling, and back into design.
From exploratory data analysis to kriging, indicator kriging and conditional simulation
Explore polymetallic pit optimisation by evaluating multiple metal values, operating costs, pit shells, pushback sequences, and mine schedule outputs.
Learn to configure a gold block model, generate optimised pit shells, evaluate project economics, and identify a suitable final pit using Whittle.
Build, interrogate, and composite drillhole data for resource estimation in Surpac.
Introduction to Deswik.CAD for Open Pit Metals
Design, time, and evaluate surface blasts using pyrotechnic and electronic initiation
Learn to design pits, roads, and structures using MinePlan 3D's Pit Expansion Tool.