 Hello, everyone. So in today's video segment on a day in the life of mining engineer, I got with me here, Bailey Sermon. Bailey is a mining engineer and training working in Canada here. Bailey, can you introduce yourself a little bit? Tell us where you work, what your job title is, and a little bit about your education background. Hey, so a little bit about me. I'm a fiancee, a new mom. Congratulations. Thanks. We just adopted a little boy. I live in Sudbury. Life's pretty busy. I'm a dog mom too. I started schooling-wise. I was going to be a conservation officer for sure. I was set on it and then I decided last minute to go to environmental science and then I wasn't really challenged. So last minute, again, I was kind of like well not last minute. I was two years into my environmental science degree. I was like not really enjoying this. It was really vague. I didn't know where I would end up and I started to pursue engineering and I know mining doesn't really seem like it fits the bill, but I always sort of felt like I could change things if I was a mining engineer. And I grew up in a mining town. And now I work for a BBA consulting firm and yeah, I'll be a P.N.G. in less than a year and life's been good. Yeah, that sounds excellent. Alright, lots of good things happening for you. Can you tell us a little bit about a day in the life or maybe even a week in the life of your role as a mining engineer? I know day to day we have a lot of different tasks that we take on so maybe even if you need to go through say like a week that's fine too. Sure. So consulting's a little different than operations. It's 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and you work on a variety of projects through a week. I give you the COVID version or I can give you the normal version. COVID I work from home right now. It's a little different. Starting to open things up so the office is opening up slowly and normally you go into the office and you have a group of about 20 people now in Sudbury. BBA is pretty big in like Quebec area more than Ontario and yeah, you do anything. You do trade-off studies and consulting for mining companies. You can do any sort of mine design from PEA to feasibility level and depending at what point in your project you're at will depend on what your day looks like so that can be a multitude of things. I just came back from a six months of comment in Thompson Manitoba actually where I was doing scheduling so I was working with operations and helping them schedule day to day stuff so that was an interesting adventure. I got stuck up there with COVID so I didn't actually get to fly home on my rotation off but it all worked out and it's a good experience and had lots of fun up there so other than that. What type of projects do you get to work on? Because it sounds like you go through different types of projects through different rotations. For sure so I can't disclose who we work for but say mining company X hires us. Currently we're doing some open pit design. We have some underground expansions so they're just going deeper in one mine so they'll give us their ore body or inferred or terminated or whatever. They give us what they think they have and we basically take that and we create the mining for them. So that's done in Deswick a lot of the time. I can't say I've been working on too much of that right now just kind of getting out of the scheduling and stuff. I had quite a bit of time off after working for six months straight. Sounds like you do a bunch of work all the way from scheduling stuff to the more of the economic side which is like the PEA that you mentioned. Yeah so you can do NSR values so you're calculating excel sheets on excel sheets or you can be working in Deswick doing mine design. Sometimes mine site doing open pit yeah it can really range. You can do a haulage study so literally just cycle times to designing the benches so it really ranges in consulting which is cool. One thing I really enjoyed is that you get to work on a lot of different projects so you get to see a lot of different things. Alright and you already answered my next question which was what's one favorite thing you have about your work. So why don't we skip to the very last question which is do you have any advice for people who are looking to become mining engineers? I guess my biggest advice this is like I wouldn't say regret but if you can travel when you're young go to the cool different mine sites that you will once you have kids at home and you're in a house and you don't want to leave as often right so there's flying fly out in very remote locations. Go check those projects out because you won't get to forever and it's so worth it. I did do a bit of time in different remote sites but I just wish I had a bit longer. Gotcha alright so that wrap up wraps up this interview here. Where can people find you because I know you're very active on Instagram. A mining girl is my Instagram account and I kind of just tracked my travels throughout Canada so far, only Canada unfortunately. Waiting to go overseas once COVID ends. We're working on a project in Kazakhstan actually right now. I won't say for who but... Cool. So if they want to ship me over there just for like a week or so that'd be awesome. And I know that we had other colleagues in Morocco for a bit so things like that. I'll track my journey along there and I kind of give like information about mining if I can. LinkedIn I don't stay very active on it but I'm on it a bit so feel free to look me up there. That's just Bailey Sermon so. Cool well Bailey thank you very much for this interview. No problem thanks for having me.