Jairo Naranjo Ruiz

Exploracion de Oro en Colombia. Geoquimica y Perforacion en dos Distritos Auriferos.

Senior Geologist. Exploration activities (grass roots, greenfield, brownfield). Project Management. Properties Valuation. NI-43 101 Reports, Due Diligences, Auditing of operations. Countries: Brazil – Colombia. Commodities: Fe, Coal.

Project Management (a team of 4 Geologist, activities of mapping, drilling (RC), sampling - geochemistry. Radiometric measures). Properties evaluation. GIS (using ArcGIS and AutoCAD) coordinator. GIS support for Elko office (Elko-NV, USA). Reporting to Country Manager and Board of Directors. General meetings assistant (periodical meetings held in Western USA). Commodities: Coal (Thermal and Met Coal), Gold and Uranium.

“Cauca – Romeral Project“, Antioquia-Caldas-Risaralda (Colombia). Field Geologist, Surface mapping and stream/pan concentrates sampling. Loading and analysis of ICP geochemical data using ArcGIS. “Stratigraphic and Structural Survey at Choco Basin (Colombian Pacific side)”, Stratigraphic columns survey, detailed description of sedimentary sequences. at 1:100 scale. Structural mapping. Sampling for geochemistry, petrophysics and petrographic tests.

Services to several companies and individuals. Exploration and Data Management. Mining (Coal) and E&P (Hydrocarbons). Also, Substituted Teacher (basic geology- Universidad Piloto de Colombia, Bogotá). Location: Bogotá, Colombia. Clients: AGN Exploration (E&P hydrocarbons industry consultants for Ecopetrol S.A., National Hydrocarbon Agency-ANH, Others) TGT Gamas (Mud logging services company, DrillingView-software tool). Sominco S.A., coal areas evaluation in Boyaca-Cundinamarca (Colombia).

Location: Quito, Ecuador. Project: International Bid Roud for E&P hydrocarbon areas. Quito-Ecuador. Duties: Data management Coordinator of projects for E&P hydrocarbon industry, and Customer Support for Offering Oil Companies. Databases (MSAccess), digitizing, scanning, data loading process, data cataloguing.

Location: Bogotá, Colombia. Duties: Data Management projects for E&P Hydrocarbons, mostly. Some for Mining Industry.Data management: databases (MSAccess, Oracle, Excel spreadsheets), project coordinator (digitizing, scanning, data loading process, data cataloguing).

Location: Bogotá, Colombia. Duties: Data management: databases (MSAccess, Oracle, Excel spreadsheets). Mining sector (in Colombia) Consultant (commodities demand-offer, mining operations production costs).

Commodity: Precious minerals exploration. Branch offices: HGB Ventures Ltd (Guyana) - HEMMCO Kyrghyzstan (Central Asia) Duties: Field exploration (rainforest), mapping and MMI (mobil metal ions) soil sampling, lab results interpretation using MapInfo, prospects evaluation. Precious metals exploration. Developmen – Evaluation project: Underground mapping, galleries survey, channel chip sampling, ICP results interpretation. AutoCAD operator, familiar with DataMine.

Location: ORIENTE MINE. Boyaca (Colombia, Western Cordillera foothills). Eastern emerald belt of Colombia. Commodity: Emeralds, hosted in albite-calcite-dolomite-pyrite-beryl veins in Cretaceosu shales/limestone altered sequence (“Albitization”-carbonate). Duties: Consultant geologist (field and underground mapping, autocad drawing, underground bulk sampling, stream sediments sampling, assistant for the senior staff).

Location: Boyaca (Colombia, Western Cordillera foothills). Eastern emerald belt of Colombia. Commodity: Emeralds, hosted in albite-calcite-dolomite-pyrite-beryl veins in Cretaceosu shales/limestone altered sequence (“Albitization”-carbonate). Duties: Exploration geologist: surface mapping (1:10.000), Core logging (AQ size, underground exploration). Mining geologist: technical department chief, labors direction, general manager and operations chief advisor, autoCAD operator, Surpac Operator.

Mining and Environmental Consultants. Activity: Associated Geologist: environmental studies, mining consultant.

Location: Valle del Cauca State (Southwest Colombia) Commodity: Construction aggregates (Cretaceous, Volcanic oceanic sequence), Open pit operation, including and milling. Duties: Blasting (patterns design, drilling with track drill, explosives supervising), loading and milling operations supervising.

Location: Valle del Cauca and Cauca States (Southwest Colombia) Commodity: Steam Coal (Tertiary), 36,000 Tons/yr. Underground Operation, Steeply coal seams between 0.4m-1.2m average. Duties: Underground mapping, surface mapping. Safety supervisor, Underground surveyor, Production supervisor.