KATCHE Adou_CV 2015

540 Linden Ave, Upper Level  Buffalo, NY 14216  (716) 479-1345  kapmineable739@gmail.com
DOU KATCHE C.V. PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE GEOLOGIST
Highly-motivated professional, provided services to mineral companies. Trustworthy, analytical strategist skilled and
ready for challenging changes. Continually focused on building relationships across business lines and enhanced
profitability. Strengthen isknowledge with OSHA 30 hour Construction Safety, 40 Hour HazWoper Trainings, and 8 hour
Pre-Assignment for Security.
Areas of Expertise include:
 Project Management & Assessment  Geological Modelling  English/French/Spanish
 Drilling/Soil and core Logging  Budgeting/Estimating  ArcGIS/ ENVI
 Resource Exploration & Development
 Precious/Base Metal Mining
 Quality Assurance/Quality Control
 Government & Community Relations
 Field Mapping
 Microsoft Office/PowerPoint
EDUCATION
MA in Geology
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Buffalo, NY | 2009-2011
Masters Certificate in Professional Science Management
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Buffalo, NY | 2011
Cumulative GPA 3.368
OBJECTIVE OF COURSEWORK: Broaden knowledge in natural resources research and become acquainted with related
interdisciplinary studies as well as environmental geology. Increase competency and develop team work skills. Improve
capacity to understand and accurately interpret results to discover complex deposits both before and during fieldwork with
sound environmental protection manner.
RELEVANT COURSEWORK UNIV. OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 2009-2011:
Elements of geology research; Hydrogeology; Volcanology; Environmental remote sensing; Communication; Clay mineralogy;
GIS of Earth Science; Graduate Research Ethics; Structural (Advanced Field Method & Adv. Study Fault and Fractures)
(MAJOR); Graduate Research; Intro to Business 1.
MAJOR COURSEWORK ACHIEVEMENTS:
 DEPOSITS RELATED TO VOLCANO SYSTEMS: Overview of major ore deposit models associated to volcano systems
worldwide mined.
 STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY ADVANCED FIELD METHODS: Seminars, conferences, and visits to important geological
sites, as well as fracture data collecting and analysis of Northern Appalachian Sedimentary Basin units.
 REMEDIATION STRATEGY OF CONTAMINATED AREA: Bio-remediation (phyto and myco) strategies suggested to
clean solidwastes, treat surface water and standing water within mine shafts, as well as enhanced monitoring site.
 APPLIED GIS TO SOIL EVOLUTION FOR NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION: Combined GIS methods and
remotely sensed imagery to generate hydrogeological, geological, landform, and streams’ maps. Identification of mixed layer
clay zones proxy to hydrocarbon rich layers in Northern Appalachian Sedimentary Basin.
 PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE MANAGEMENT: Study of discount rate to determine Present Value for making the right
investment in work related equipments. Review a company for an eventual investment based on its financial results including
common size balance sheet, comparative income statement, and some ratio analyses.
- GEOLOGY OF GRADUATE RESEARCH 1:
 Indoor Internship 2010: Implementation of various analyses and visualization techniques based on Landsat
Thematic Mapper to classify landscapes, depict geological lithology, and structures to identify traps and potential mineral
targets in the Sahara Atlas Mountain, Algeria (University at Buffalo)
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-GEOLOGY OF GRADUATE RESEARCH 2:
 Outdoor Internship 2011: Commissioned to prepare a technical review based on available data used for compilation
and found closest mineralization models. Classified targets and design an appropriate exploration program to enhance the
claim potentials (UB and Watts Griffis & McOuat, Toronto).
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSES 2007- 2015:
OBJECTIVE OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Better integrate the 8 e3Plus Principles of PDAC; Practice environmental geology
to familiarize with equipments, methods and technologies to diversify my field of competency in the geological field
 OSHA 30 Hour construction Safety Training |Marie Athey, OSHT, Houston, TX| 2015
Trained to recognize construction workplace health and safety hazards, appropriate practices, usage of PPE, know
constructions standards, and safety guards in heavy equipment environment, confined space performing
 8 Hour Pre-Assignment Security Guard Training, |SWAT Buffalo, NY| 2015
Trained for public, and properties security guards and appropriate actions for emergency response
 40 Hour HazWoper Training, |OSEA Inc. Buffalo, NY| 2015
Training to recognize and understand potential hazards to health and safety, provide knowledge and skill, purpose of PPE, and
avoid or escape from emergency. Relevant equipments, plans, protocols, and rights…
 Soil & Groundwater Remediation Technologies Workshop, |Can. & USA Train. -Buffalo, NY| 2015
Informed of soil and groundwater technologies and knowledge of field and office workflow
 Geophysics for Geologists Workshop, |Greg Hodges CGG Airborne - Toronto, Can.| 2015
Basics geophysics training for geologists, when changes can be detected, geophysics aid to exploration, when consider
geophysics, and understand results and pitfalls
 Health and Safety in mineral exploration Training, |Canada & USA Trainers - Toronto, Can.| 2015
Trained to anticipate, take right action, and adopt results bearing out preventive action; and the 8 e3plus Principles of PDAC
(1-Responsible governance and management; 2-Apply ethical business practices; 3 –Respect of human right; 4 –Commit to project
due diligence and risk assessment; 5 –Engage host communities and other affected and interested parties; 6 –Contribute to
community development and socialwellbeing; 7-Protect the environment; 8 –Safeguard the health and safety of workers and
the local population)
 Mineral Property Valuation Workshop, |Lawrence Devon Smith - Toronto, Canada| 2012
Standards and guidelines for valuation of mineral properties according to the mining industry world’s principles
 Valuation of Mineral Projects, Technical and Financial Modeling,…|Prof. Dennis Buchanan - Toronto, Can.| 2012
The volatile price of mineral commodity impactes the mining and mineral exploration that creates the need to understand the
relation between field technical development project and financial risks on market. Several financial models were analyzed;
joint venture, valuation of exploration properties, preliminary feasibility studies, relation between mineral resources and ore
reserves……software for financial evaluation of mineral deposits….
 Resource and Reserve Evaluation Techniques, Institution, |Belzile Elzear-Quebec City, Can.| 2012
Principles of mineral resource evaluation from QA/QC sampling, assays, results interpretation cross sections of drill holes,
understand geostatistic data practices and common pitfalls…
 Commercial Driver’s License Training, Truck Driving Academy School, |Wilmington, OH| 2007
Trained and drove tractor and trailer.

RESOURCE GEOLOGIST EXPERIENCE
WATTS, GRIFFIS AND MCOUAT (WGM)  Toronto, ON  2011 – 2015
An independent firm providing geological and mining consulting services to the global mineral resource industry
EXPLORATION GEOLOGIST
 Consulted on mineral exploration projects in Canada, USA, South America, and Africa
 Selected projects and identified best targets based on historical data, geological features, and metallogeny;
delineated metal meneralization for deposit development
 Performed stream sediment, soil, rock, trench, shaft, tunnel, drill core, and open pit sampling with QA/QC
 Core logging based on regolith, color, grain size, texture, lithology, structural features, alterations, mineralization,
core recovery, RQD, specific requested analyses (more codes upon request)
 Implemented data management comprised data compilation, collection, review, interpretation; and generated
surface and sub surface maps, cross and longitudinal sections, and bench blocks; GPS reading and resized data to fit;
Prepared progress and technical NI 43-101 reports
 Communicated with authorities and communities for project progress and environmental protection within budget
 Worked under severe tropical, semi arid, high altitude, snow and heat weather conditions in remote localities
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Conducted diamond drill-hole program QA/QC on independent project of a dolostone quarry; located drill hole, core
traying, core logging recovery and RQD evaluation, picturing and sampling for chemical and physical characteristic
analysis of the vertical stratigraphic extent of Devonian dolomite in New Jersey; USA.
 Developed propriety to collect accurate itho-structural, local mining and strategical data to generate geological map
for mineral research and mining activity support of precious and base metals in the Anka Schists belt, Pan-African
formations; NIGERIA (10Kmx3Km zone of Tabular, concordant and igneous ore bodies)
 Assessed a project to locate a geological hazardous environment populated by native community; potential
mineralization for mining interest and primary source of lead pollution; NIGERIA (Tabular, concordant and igneous
ore bodies)
 Performed surface and underground mine mapping of lahar, and lava flow over gold mineralized paleo placer
discondant on truncated old landscape of mineralized dykes bearing schists; gold project in the Melones’ Faults
California; USA (Complex large zone of paleo placer and tabular ore bodies)
 Reviewed field work for Base and Precious Metals’ project assessment in the sheared greenstone formations of the
Abitibi volcanic plutonic sub-province; Sudbury, CANADA (2Kmx0.5Km of tabular ore body)
 Oversaw ~2000 ft to 1500 ft deep diamond drill-hole (DDH) programs; equipment and shade organization, QA/QC,
core logging and sampling for a gold, silver, and copper project in the Maricunga belt; CHILE of South America (low
grade large tonnage ore body)
 Provided team logging and concentrating reverse circulation (RC) drill bulk samples for the Drill Cuttings Platinum
Project at GOODNEWS BAY ALASKA (residual ore body)
 Assessed Gold project in the Paleo-Proterozoic formations of BANFORA BURKINA FASO
 Prepared technical reviews based on drill data compilation and defined closest mineralization models to classify
targets, suggested appropriate exploration program to enhance claim potenials; gold-copper project in the Paleo-
Proterozoic formation; IVORY COAST
 Proposed twine DDH for sulphides ore reserve valuation on Gold Project in the Paleo-Proterozoic formations of
Afema shear zone; IVORY COAST
ASHANTI GOLDFIELDS COMPANY LIMITED  West Africa  1998 – 2004
One of the ten worldwide gold producing company since 1897; now AngloGold Ashanti based in Africa
REGIONAL FIELD GEOLOGIST (1998 – 2004)
 Conducted regional exploration implementing stream sediment, road and trail soil sampling to identify best targets
on Gold projects IVORY COAST and SIERRA LEONE
 Mapped at regional scale, developed detailed grid program on targets for soil sampling, built sections and managed
field data to delineate gold mineralization contours, verified sourcing of mineralization by drill campaigns with
adhesion of local communities’ consent

 Discovered gold targets in shear zones, structural triple point zones, and contact felsic-sedimentary formations
 Prepared documentation for reports, developed monthly budgets, decided appropriate facility for projects and
negotiated compensation for farmers
 Coordinated 2 teams of 25 employees
FIELD GEOLOGIST (SIERRA LEONE 2002-2004)
 Mapped “tropical” duricrust and detailed soil and outcrop sampling program; identified 5Kmx0.5Km low grade gold
bearing felsic intrusive- Banded Iron Ferrifer (BIF) formations
DRILL GEOLOGIST (IVORY COAST 1998-2002)
 Detailed grids on targets to find 2Kmx0.5Km high grade gold mineralization zone in Dingbi; and 10Kmx2Km high
and low grades gold anomaly distribution in the Allangua shear zone
 Managed pitting and rotary air blast (RAB) and reverse circulation (RC) drilling programs and successfully verified
the primary source of mineralization
 Prepared pads, negotiated employees’ contracts and farmers’ compensation for a comprehensive drill program
 Provided QA/QC oversight and supervision, logging, sample selection, and conditioning for sample analysis
 Performed data management for drill sections and monthly reports
SOCIETY OF MINES AFEMA (SOMIAF)  Ivory Coast, West Africa  1990 – 1998
Joint venture between Tsx listed Canadian junior Eden Roc Mineral Corp. and Ivorian government Societe des Mines [SODEMI]
GEOLOGIST IVORYCOAST
 Performed confined space safety practicesin trench, shaft, and tunnel; practiced mining health and safety practice;
implemented site control, respiratoryprotection, noise, blasting, and dust working area proceduresin exploration
and miningenvironment
 Performed trench, shaft, tunnel, drill core, and open pit sampling with QA/QC technics
 Core logging and sampling for mineralized zones intersection and interpretation; core logging and sampling for
metallurgical studies about ore quality and recovery at different benches; valuated ore reserves and conciliated
geological grade control, mining, and plant ore grade data
MINING GEOLOGIST (1993 – 1998)
 Guided 10 Open pit mining as part of the Mining Engineering Team, from lateritic oxide ore throughout transitional
to sulphide refractory ore zone, finding additional zones to extend mine life; gold production project
(1800oZ/month)
 Established correlation ore grade and geological structures, defined and studied geological mineralized units
verified later by sulphide drill holes program; and supported exploration teams with adherence of company
expectations
MINING DEVELOPMENT GEOLOGIST (1990 – 1993)
 Interpreted mineralization length, width, strike, dip, plunge, and sizes of ~ 1km long, sites were trenched and drilled
to valuate ore reserve and improve open pit design; resource development and evaluation program of gold project
in the Afema shear zone
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
COOK MOVING SYSTEMS  MOVER: RESIDENTIAL, OFFICE AND INDUSTRIAL FURNITURES & EQUIPMENTS DEMOBILIZATION/
REMOBILIZATION  Buffalo, NY  2013 – 2015
FIELDBROOK FARMS INC. SANITIZER: CLEANING-SANITIZING PRODUCTIONEQUIPMENTS/ SURFACES  Dunkirk, NY  2008 – 2010
USA TRUCK INC. TRUCK DRIVER: O.T.R. LOAD DELIVERY  Van Buren, AR  2007 – 2008
DHL /ABX  F. HANDLER: INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC FREIGHT HANDLING  Wilmington, Ohio  2005-2007

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ordre des Geologues du Quebec (OGQ)  Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)
Buffalo Association of Professional Geologists (BAPG)  New York State Council of Professional Geologists (NYSCPG)
American Institute of Professional Geologists, Colorado (AIPG)
RECENT REPORTS & PRESENTATIONS
 Co-authored a geotechnical report on base and precious metals property; Churchill Township Ontario, Canada
(2015)
 Co-authored an interim progress report on base and precious metals property; Zamfara State, Nigeria (2014)
 Published Gold Potential in Melones Fault Zone Formations in the State of California, USA Student Outreach; Jan/
Feb/ March 2014 Vol. 51, Number 1 TPG , p. 30-31 (AIPG Student Chapter)
 Prepared Geotechnical Report for targets evaluation and proposed exploration program on Gold-Copper prospect
(Internship, 2011 West Africa)
 Researched present value of opportunities after discount rate for great return (2010)
 Studied liquidity, profitability, and activityratios of company, discussed the trend of the Company and explained the
basis of my recommendation (2010)
 Applied remote sensing and GIS methods using soil survey data to generate stream sediment map for gas and oil
research in the Appalachian basin (2010)
 Developed poster presentation of The Scadding Gold Mine an Iron Oxide Complex Gold deposit, Ontario, Canada,
(2009)
 Correlated stratigraphic sequences and studied fluid flows based on vertical bore holes data for upstreamoil and gas exploration
project (2009)

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