Condor Gold plc has appointed Jair Diaz Navarro as a senior mining engineer at La India project in Nicaragua.
Mr Diaz is a mining engineer with more than 10 years’ experience in mine planning and operations.
He graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering in 2011.
Mr Diaz joined Barrick Gold at the Cortez mine, where his tasks related to accomplishing production targets including short range planning, drill and blast planning and ore control.
In 2013, he worked for Maptek, a provider of mining software, and implemented the company’s products for clients such as Vale (Canada), Newmont (Nevada, Peru and Suriname) and Fresnillo Plc (Mexico).
In 2017, Mr Diaz joined Gran Colombia Gold at their Segovia underground operations, where he improved mine planning standards, mentored local engineers and co-ordinated work with SRK’s consultants to certify reserves according to 43-101 standards.
In 2019, he worked for OceanaGold Corporation at the Haile Mine in South Carolina.
As long-range planner, he was responsible for the annual mine plan as well as reporting annual reserves, LOM equipment requirements, pit optimisations and various trade-off studies to improve shareholder value.
At La India Mr Diaz will be involved in the mining engineering studies for a feasibility study and final designs ahead of the construction of a processing plant and associated infrastructure.
His focus will be on optimising mine schedules to maximise the project’s economics.