Professional experience

 

January 2021 to date

operational advisor for MGA Mining Contractor of Durango Dgo.

Adviser for several mining companies. 

 

March 2016 to date  

entrepreneur for a mining project in Pinos Zac 

 

January 2013-November 2015

Consultant for Compañía Minera Autlán and Baramin S.A. de C.V. 

 

April 2012-December 2012

Adviser for Nyrstar N.V. who acquired Farallon Mining Ltd. 

 

2004-March 2012

General Manager for Farallón Minera Mexicana S.A. de C.V. subsidiary company of Farallon Mining Ltd. In turn, part of the Hunter-Dickinson group of companies in Vancouver. Campo Morado mine with a 200 million usd investment a 2,500 tpd operation, underground mine, cut and fill and a flotation mill. Operating in a very 

complicated social environment, the company achieved full operation in three months and with 0 social problems. 

 

 

2000-2003

Consultant for Teckcominco for the San Nicolás project in Villa González Ortega Zac. The project was suspended due to low Zinc prices.

Consultant for National Gold for the Mulatos project, Son. Conducting negotiations with the Ejido Mulatos.

Consultant to the Secretary of Economic Development of the Government of Zacatecas

Consultant for the Director of Mining Development of the Government of Sinaloa Analyzing mining projects for different companies including Mauricio Hoschild of Peru in the Peñasquito project in Zacatecas.

With Minera de Nukay in Mezcala Gro. to develop a data room to provide the basis for negotiations for the objective of company sale. Negotiations were conducted with the different stakeholders in the acquisition of the project. They were successfully concluded, achieving a sale price of 94 million dollars to the company Wheaton River that developed the project now known as Los Filos Equinox Gold. 

 

 

1995-2000

As an official of Luismin S.A. de C.V. I actively participated in various international forums. I was a representative of Sanluis Corporation on the Conference Board of New York within the North American Council on the Environment. Luismin's representative at the International Council for Metals and the Environment in London, as a member of the Community Relations Committee. In both organizations, the Community Development projects that were designed for the Metates Project and for the Tayoltita Unit were presented, both based on Sustainable Development. Member of the Board of the Mining Chamber heading the Community Relations Committee. A meeting was held in 1999 with all the mining companies of the Chamber to analyse the problems of Community relations, having presented the conclusions of that meeting to the plenary of the Council.

During these years an intense research program was carried out to know the problems of world mining, there were countless meetings with top-level executives from various companies operating in different environments and countries. 

 

 

1998-2000

Luismin S.A. de C.V. as Director of Operations with responsibility for three mining operations producing 196,000 Oz au equivalent. With a combined grinding capacity of 700,000 tons in three plants, two countercurrent cyanidation and one flotation. during this time that SEMARNAT gave the Clean Industry certificate in all the company's operations. Likewise, a social development project was designed within the framework of the philosophy of Sustainable Development that in the long term will achieve a better relationship with neighboring communities. This project was presented at the AIMMGM Convention in Acapulco in 1999, with the title: Comunidad Minera Siglo XXI.

At this time also, the Board of Directors as part of its growth strategy approved exploring the likelihood of carrying out a merger with international companies. For this it was necessary to carry out a process of Due-diligence to the companies: Hecla Mining, Coeur d'Alene, Viceroy and Cambior. This meant visiting and reviewing in detail all the operations of the aforementioned companies covering not only the operational aspects but also the corporate, social and environmental aspects. The companies' mines are located in Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Québec, Yukon, Guyana and Chile. This process lasted three months. Subsequently, the same companies carried out Due-Diligence of Luismin's operations and projects. 

 

1992-1998

Development Director of Luismin S.A. de C.V. This was a newly created position in the company, including the Environment, Engineering, Construction and Metallurgical Managements. The fundamental purpose was to provide technical 

support to the operations to carry out a process of rationalization and modernization of them.

Another of my responsibilities was to be Luismin's representative on the management committees of the Joint Ventures with the companies Cambior and Hecla. 

The projects were Metates in the Municipality of Santiago Papasquiaro Dgo. and El Porvenir in Asientos, Ags.

Metates is a project containing 25,000,000 ounces of au equivalent, with refractory Au problems that required a conceptual process using for metallurgy a sulfide biooxidation system to release Au. The project is still in force pending better prices, but its technology was fully developed. 

El Porvenir is a gold project with 600,000 Oz of gold equivalent, Heap-Leach's project awaiting better prices. All the engineering was carried out for a heap leach with the recovery in activated carbon. 

 

1988-1992

Operations Manager for Minera Mexicana de Avino S.A. de C.V. operation with an initial capacity of 750 TPD, open pit mine, flotation plant. The operation expanded to 1500 TPD. The process of switching to underground mine was designed successful in cost and time. 

 

1986-1988

As an independent entrepreneur in Pinos Zac. In an operation to produce 6,000 Ounces of Au and 100,000 Oz of Ag per year. 

 

1984-1986

General Manager of Minerales de Bolaños S.A. de C.V. The operation consisted of a group of old mines with a flotation plant with a capacity of 1,500 TPD located in the State of Jalisco. 

 

1979-1984

Director of Operations Minera Real de Ángeles S.A. de C.V. This operation was carried out in a deposit with 100 million ounces of silver, the investment required for the project was 200 million dollars the project was completed on time and within budget. The result was that in three months the operation reached its design capacity, 14,000 tons per day. 

 

1968-1979

Compañía Minera Autlán S.A. de C.V. I started as head of mine shift in 1968 and was promoted until I was appointed Unit Manager in 1976.

The operation consisted of two mines, one open pit and the other underground in both productivity records were achieved compared to similar mines. The metallurgical process was a calcination-nodulization of manganese carbonates with a capacity of 300,000 tons of finished product per year. The mining unit operated with high standards of quality and safety. 

 

1967-1968

Compañía Minera La Campaña S.A. de C.V. (Peñoles) Reforma mine, 6 months as mine supervisor and six months as supervisor of flotation mill in an operation of 500 tpd