The University of British Columbia

I finished my 5 year undergraduate program in 1999 with honours and received a bachelor’s degree at the “Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria” in Lima-Perú. Being one of the top ranked students during these 5 years of school, gave me some advantages in getting an internship at Newmont Peru. I worked part time with Newmont since 1998 and I continued working for that company for 4 years. In 2000, I got my degree as Geological Engineer in the same university after completing a thesis called “Geology and Exploration in the Abra deposit Lima-Ancash”, this Project was sponsored by Newmont Peru. I continued as a junior geologist doing exploration in Peru and Nicaragua for Newmont South America until 2002 when I decided to improve my English language skills and moved for six months to Los Angeles – USA to study English at the St. Mount College. In 2003, back in Peru I started working as a mine geologist at the Antamina Mine for two years where I got a valuable experience in this world class copper-molybdenum-zinc-lead Skarn deposit. In April 2005, I moved to Chile and worked for Mintec Company doing consulting work and technical support for Minesight, a sophisticated software for, among other funcionalities, generating geologic models.  However my inclination for economic geology and my ambition for continue studying were more powerful and I decided to pursue the postgraduate degree at MDRU, UBC in 2008.