My name is Derick du Plessis. I am a 40 year old South African man with around 15 years experience in the mining industry of which 8 have been fully dedicated in the planning and technical services field combined. I have a good working knowledge of SLC/Block Cave mining methods along with narrow tabular mining methods. I have prior exposure to open pit mining. I have worked with Studio 3, Studio 5 & EPS software (all from Datamine) for the latter part of my career in the Technical Services Field. I have also been designing all the production drill & blast rings in Aegis (also Datamine)