The First EAGE Online Workshop on Mineral Exploration in Latin America
3 November 2021 | Online
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Telma Aisengart
Professor Ken McClay
Ken McClay, graduated from Adelaide University with a BSc Hons and completed a MSc & PhD at Imperial College, University of London, and a DSc from Adelaide University. He is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London and an Adjunct Professor in the Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources at Adelaide University.
Ken has carried out wide-ranging research on all aspects of applied structural geology and has consulted for both the international mining and petroleum industries. He has given numerous short courses on applied structural geology as well as undertaken numerous collaborative research projects with industry. He has undertaken research on stratiform Pb-Zn deposits in western and northern Canada, , NW Alaska, Greenland , NW Argentina, and Australia and on porphyry Cu deposits in Northern Chile. He has carried out field -based research in NW Scotland, the Spanish Pyrenees, Indonesia, Yemen, Iran, Australia, Canada, USA, Chile, Argentina, Greenland, Norway, Turkey, Ethiopia and Gulf of Suez and Red Sea Egypt. Research interests include extensional, strike-slip, thrust and inversion terranes. He has written a book for mapping structures in the field, edited five major volumes on thrust tectonics, and has published widely on structural geology and tectonics. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Member Geological Society of Australia. Ken focuses on field analogues for geological structures to illustrate structural styles and mechanical stratigraphy, on analogue modelling of faults and fold systems and on seismic interpretation of sub-surface structures. Current research projects include tectonic evolution of the Northern Chilean Andes and the development of porphyry Cu deposits, fold and thrust belts in accretionary terranes, and on passive margins.
Ismael Moyano Nieto
Geologist (2002), Msc in geophysics (2015) and curren-tly PhD Geosciences candidate at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá). He works as a geologist–geophysicist for the research group in applied geochemistry and geophysics at the Dirección de Recursos Minerales of the Servicio Geológico Colombiano (SGC). The scope of the project at the SGC is the acquisition, modelling, integration and interpretation of airborne and ground geophysical data to evaluate mineral resources potential, regional geotectonic and metallogenic characterization, and other geoscientific applications.
Mehrdad Bastani
Mehrdad Bastani has a PhD in geophysics from Uppsala University. He has been employed at the Geological Survey of Sweden since 2000 working with processing and modeling of large geophysical datasets including airborne magnetic and electromagnetic. He has been involved in development of data acquisition systems used for the ground and UAV-borne near surface electromagnetic surveys. He also works as an adjunct professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University since 2019.
Dr. Diana Comte
Full Professor AMTC-FCFM Universidad de Chile.
Dr. Diana Comte, seismologist and PhD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is a Full Professor of the Department of Geophysics and Director of R&D of the Advanced Mining Technology Center, both Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile. Diana has led numerous scientific projects focused mainly on seismotectonics, seismic hazard and local earthquake tomography in different regions of Chile and Peru. She is author of 59 WoS articles and has more than 2000 citations. She has recently oriented her research to reduce the scale of the passive seismic tomography at district and mine level in order to define the 3D structure of the intrusive bodies associated with mineral deposits (Los Bronces-Los Sulfatos Anglo American; Los Pelambres Antofagasta Minerals; Spence BHP Billiton and CODELCO. She has investigated the seismic sequence of earthquakes in Chile and Peru during the last 30 years: 1985 Mw8.0 Central Chile; 1995 Mw8.0 Antofagasta; 2001 Mw8.4 South of Peru; 2001 Mw6.3 Aroma fault system; 2004 Mw6.5 Falla El Fierro; 2010 Mw8.8 Maule, 2014 Mw8.2 Pisagua; and 2015 Mw8.4 Illapel. She also supervises postdoctoral, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students at the University of Chile.
Lorena Bancheros
Lorena Banchero studied Engineering at the University of Chile and received a master's degree in geophysics in 1995. Her entire professional career has been dedicated to mining, specializing in mineral exploration for the discovery of new fields. She has held positions in companies such as Western Mining, Codelco, Xstrata Copper, and has been a mining consultant in numerous companies with projects developed in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Mexico.
In addition to being an explorer, she has also devoted herself to entrepreneurship, as co-founder and CEO of the company GFDas, where she carries out technological and innovation developments integrating geosciences and drones. Six years ago they developed the first unmanned airborne geophysical system in Chile.
Lorena is also a wife, mother of 3 children and grateful for the privilege of working in what she likes the most, applied geosciences.
Gladys Smith
Gladys started her career in the mining industry working for a Peruvian mining company in London where she received an apprenticeship in Minor Metals, after a few years she was the Minor Metals Department Manager.
At that time there were very few women involved in the trading of metals, working for a producer gave her the opportunity to work with other producers, traders, buyers from around the world.
She decided to star her own trading company (Sanav Ltd.) and have been doing it so for 25 years, during all this time she have had contact with many international associations such as the Minor Metals Trade Association where she was a member of the board for 8 years, International Lead and Zinc, Bismuth Institute, Cadmium Association, Chairwoman for Friends of Peru Charity. She have been invited by organizations to present papers in several conferences around the world. At present She is a consultant in Transformation.
She joined Women in Mining UK first and later International Women in Mining (IWiM) as a volunteer as she felt there was the need of an organization who could work for the benefit of women in the industry, as Latin America was behind other continents they decided to help and give support to volunteers who wanted to start a WIM organization in their country, at present all the mining countries in Latin America have a WIM organization. Mission accomplished.
As Head of Engagement for International Women in Mining – IWiM, she is giving support to other WIM organizations in different continents.
Armando Diaz
Mining Engineer from the National University of Engineering UNI Peru; CIP 62467; MBA, PM and PHD candidate from University Texas El Paso (UTEP), work experience of more than 30 years in mining industry in the 4 continents (Africa, Asia, North America and South America); from negotiation, acquisition, planning, operation and successful community relations in all projects in charge.
University professor in CSR at the national University of engineering UNI-Peru.
Implementation of a new effective social philosophy with local communities, based on the generation of Trust from before arriving at the site, understanding that the problem with the communities is a matter of the sociological and anthropological scope and not technical.