Christopher Mason

Assist in daily operations of establishing the primary development decline drift for the company along with level accesses..operate Sandvick jumbos, Sandvick muckers, along with Normet Spraymec spraying Shotcrete. All utilities and ventilation for our areas.

• Assisnt in the mining cycle for development and also primary and secondary escapeways
• Bolting using Sandvick bolters to install split set bolts
• Time and loud rounds: Mucking and cleaning to drill headings
• Sandvick and Cat 35 ton haul trucks and whatever else is needed to get our rounds for the day.

• UGRoom and pillar mining
• Drill and bolted primary and secondary headings to Engineers specs..Ran muckers loading trucks and drove trucks depending on the need for that day.

• Miner - Nashville, TN
• Contract Employee Ran excavators, Jumbo drills, loaders and Bolter excavating a tunnel under the State Capital in TN
• Drilled and blast procedure
• Shotcreted as we went along the drift.

• Drilled development rounds to engineer specs, Blasted, Mucked and bolted all rounds
• Split set and Swellex bolting
• Rehab Bolting in primary and secondary headings.

• Built a 160 foot Cavern with 15 foot tunnels under the city of Cleveland
• Drilled and blasted 2 40' diameter shafts and excavated with a Hitachi Excavator; all spoils into a Muck Box lifted out by the crane
• Bench across @ 230' to connect the two shafts and keep going down
• Drilled, blast , muck and bolted tunnels connecting to existing tunnels
• Shotcrete all tunnel work.

• Room and Pillar salt mine
• I Drilled, blast, Mucking, Bolting for development headings
• Rehab bolted old sections of the Salt mine
• Splicing belt lines and mucking out shaft sumps.