Experts, with decades of experience in the mining industry

Willie Hamilton is a Principal Mining Engineer with over 30 years of mine operations and consulting experience. Proficient in surface mine planning, reserve estimation, and financial analysis, Willie is a team player with strong interpersonal and communications skills acquired through previous roles in the mining industry. Willie has provided due diligence and engineering support for both North American and international projects. An experienced mine planning software user, most recently with MineSight™ applications, allows Willie to troubleshoot issues and develop quick solutions. Willie is an effective team leader and mentor and is currently a CIM Peer Reviewer for Surface Mining papers.

Antonio Peralta has 38 years of experience in open pit mine planning, production scheduling, and cost estimating. Antonio has done extensive work with property evaluations, feasibility studies, financial and economic analysis, and due diligence with strong practical experience using Whittle, MineSight, and Surpac.

Joanne is an accomplished Mining Engineer with over 20 years’ experience gained from operations, contracting, and consulting. She has successfully built and sustained positive relations across multiple functional areas, reinforcing a reputation for professionalism and collaboration. Joanne is a dynamic and efficient individual whose technical and organizational skills and interests are well suited for such areas as strategic mine planning, permitting support, project evaluation, and project management.

Todd Carstensen has over 30 years of experience in mine planning and mine operations, working in corporate and mine site roles. Todd has diverse experience in team management, resource estimation, mine design, production scheduling, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, project evaluations, and financial modelling, combined with extensive international experience in North America, Africa, and South American including ex-pat positions in Peru.

Freddy Bravo is a Senior Mining Engineer with over 21 years of practical experience in both mining operations and consulting, specializing in open pit, mine design and planning, ore resource and reserve evaluation, and economic analysis. Freddy has worked on different projects in Canada, the U.S.A., South America, and Africa, and has held senior positions with several mining companies. An enthusiastic customer-driven leader, Freddy effectively uses his expertise in MineSight,™ M24D, Ventsim, Minescape, and Minecad to advance client projects. As a specialist in other mining optimization tools, such as MineSight's Scheduler Optimizer and MS Haulage, Freddy is able to quickly assess client needs.

Ronald Benito is a Professional Mining Engineer with over 28+ years of experience mainly in hard rock open pit mining. Ronald has extensive experience in mine planning from strategic to tactical scenarios with added experience in mine operations, drilling and blasting, and ore control processes while working on international assignments to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chile, and Peru. Ronald is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Julian Herbert has extensive experience working on NI 43-101 compliant and non-compliant studies. Julian has also developed a comprehensive knowledge of hardrock narrow vein mining and scheduling through his work on various mines across Canada. Julian takes pride in his ability to find solutions to unique challenges in his mine design and resource calculation work. As a result, Julian has worked on numerous unique projects including mine ventilation planning at Cameco and narrow vein gold in Timmins Ontario.

Alonso has many years of multinational experience in a range of commodities in both open pit and underground hard rock mining. Alonso’s skills encompass most aspects of underground and open pit engineering from mine planning, scheduling, cave flow modelling to financial and cost modelling, prefeasibility and feasibility studies, and project management.