Geometallurgist & Geotechnical Engineer | Anglo American South Africa

Moses Skosana Pr.Sci.Nat is a Geometallurgist at Anglo American, bringing a rare dual lens to slope stability: deep geotechnical engineering experience layered with geometallurgical expertise. This combination gives him a fuller picture of how ground behaviour and material characteristics interact — from the initial soil test pit through to final slope design.

His path into this dual specialism was built over more than four and a half years as a Geotechnical Engineer (PIT) at Anglo American’s Northern Cape operations, where he ran daily risk assessments on pits and waste dumps, geotechnical core and chip logging, slope stability and waste dump design analysis (Limit Equilibrium Method), digital face mapping, and kinematic analysis. He monitored design and highwall performance using Slope Stability Radars, investigated fall-of-ground incidents, led Geotechnical Engineering Hazards Awareness training, and mentored a team of three geotechnical engineering interns. His underground experience adds a further dimension, spanning rock engineering risk assessments, QC/QA on support designs, and involvement in resin optimisation and tunnel excavation projects.

He broadened this further as Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Robert Bird Group in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, providing oversight on geotechnical investigations, data acquisition and interpretation, design analysis and review, and rock and soil instrumentation and monitoring — guiding teams and clients through complex deep and shallow excavations and stabilisation works.

Earlier in his career, Moses served as an Engineering Geologist on the South African National Defence Force’s Dolomite Rehabilitation Project (Eccles and Lyttelton Formation), running risk assessments on SANDF infrastructure, analysing synthetic aperture radar data, conducting soil test pits, and completing dolomite stability assessments and inherent hazard classifications. He also served as a Reserve Force Officer (Lieutenant) in the Logistics Division, holding Facilities Officer and Transport Officer roles — leading teams of up to 28 employees and managing a fleet of 122 vehicles.

Moses is a Professional Natural Scientist (Pr.Sci.Nat), registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions

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