Lesetja Mokgokong

Metallurgical engineer with years of experience in ferrochrome production through smelting at 63 MVA closed submerged arc furnaces with preheating kilns, served as a continuous improvement driver of the Metallurgical process through controlling consumable stocks, reporting and analyzing production performance ,making recommendations and implementing projects in a safe manner. This includes demolition, relining, commissioning and operation of the two sub-arcs. Experienced as an expert witness for relines, tap hole rebuilds and commissioning of submerged arc furnaces. This includes work carried out at our chrome recovery plants for where the slag produced at furnaces is processed through jaw and cone crushers for liberation and then screened for size separation prior to classification by cyclones and then to gravity separation units ,spirals and jigs. Thus has been exposed to both Mineral Processing and Pyro metallurgical environments in the years of service at Samancor Chrome.