Committees
- Organizing Committee
- Advisory Committee
- Technical Committee
Executive Committe
Raúl Bahamondes
Concentrator Plant Manager, Minera Centinela, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
Andy Fourie
Program Committee
Professor, The University of Western Australia
Christian Ihle
Co-Organizer
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, AMTC, Universidad de Chile
Carlos Barahona
Executive Director
General Manager, Gecamin, Chile
Hugo Quelopana
Program Director
Specialist Engineer, Delfing, Chile
Andrea Rodríguez
Coordinator
Gecamin, Chile
Directing Members
Hubert González
Directing Member
Water and Tailings Manager, Minera Sierra Gorda, Chile
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René Orellana
Directing Member
Water and Tailings Corporate Manager, Codelco, Chile
Caius Priscu
Directing Member
Head of Mineral Residue Facilities and Water Management, Group Projects, Technical & Sustainability, Anglo American
Luis Tejada
Directing Member
Corporate Geotechnical Manager, Vale, Brasil
Oscar Flores
Development Manager - Northern District, Codelco, Chile
Erwin Wolff Carreño
Directing Member
Environmental Manager, Gran Colombia Gold, Colombia
Hugo Andrade
General Manager, Arcadis, Chile
Mario Balbontin
Operations Manager, Integra Ambiental, Chile
Felipe Bañados
Sales Manager The Andes ?? Dewatering & Tailings Solutions, Outotec, Chile
Morné Breytenbach
Managing Director, HUESKER, Australia
José Burgos
Tailings and Water Resources Superintendent, El Soldado, Anglo American, Chile
Alistair Cadden
Principal Mine Waste, Golder Associates, Chile
Gonzalo Caro
Project Director, Project Vice Presidency, Codelco, Chile
Ivan Contreras
Vice President, Senior Geotechical Engineer, Barr Engineering, USA
Robert Cooke
Principal, Paterson & Cooke, USA
Carolyn Díaz
Mine Waste Manager, Golder Associates, Chile
Raúl Espinace
Executive Director, Geotecnia Ambiental, Chile
Daniel Fernández
Business Area Manager ?? Mining, HUESKER, Brazil
Boris Garcia
Civil Works Superintendent, Gran Colombia Gold Corp., Colombia
Patricio Gómez
General Manager, Itasca, Chile
Richard Jewell
Senior Consultant, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Australia
Andrés León
Senior Consultant, Axios Ingeniería, Chile
Gordon McPhail
Director, Water, Waste and Land, Australia
José Mello
VP Operations & Business Development South America, Wood, Chile
Raúl Mendez
Regional Application Technology, Classical PAM, Basf, Chile
Javier Mendoza
Engineering Manager, Anddes Associates, Peru
Henk van Muijen
Market Director IHC Mining & Tunnelling, Royal IHC, The Netherlands
Marcelo Mussé
Owner, Netke, Chile, Consultant, Ausenco, Chile
Nelson Pacheco
Coordinator of Water and Tailings Control Room, Minera Las Bambas, MMG, Peru
Ismael Pardo
Manager of Studies, Minsur, Peru
Denys Parra
General Manager, Anddes Associates, Peru
José De Piérola
Water Resources Manager, Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Peru
Marcos Pinto
General Manager, Códice Ingeniería, Chile
Silvana Dal Pozzo
Tailings Consultant, Arcadis, Chile
Sergio Prado
Operations Manager, Optimiza Ingeniería y Desarrollo, Chile
Juan Rayo
Technical Manager, JRI Ingeniería, Chile
Francisco Reyes
Sales Manager Sedimentation, FLSmidth, Chile
Jorge Riquelme
Project Manager, Hatch, Chile
David Romo
Process Manager, Paterson & Cooke, Chile
Arash Roshdieh
Principal Engineer, ATC Williams, Australia
Leonardo Salas
General Manager, COINGEC, Peru
Samuel Sánchez
General Manager, Ingeniería de Minerales, Chile
Adriana Sánchez
Geotechnics and Hydrogeology Superintendent, Minera Escondida, BHP, Chile
Fred Schoenbrunn
Director for Thickeners, FLSmidth, USA
David Smirk
Managing Director, Phibion, Australia
Fiona Sofra
Managing Director, Rheological Consulting Services, Australia
Nils Steward
General Manager Operations and Development, Weir Minerals, Australia
David Stone
President, Minefill Services, USA
Juan Carlos Tapia
Process and Project Manager, Sedgman, Chile
Romy Valdivia
Project Manager, Anddes Associates, Peru
Pedro Valencia
Technical Manager, Shimin Ingeniería, Chile
Hernán Velásquez
Deputy Project Manager, Geo Monitoring, Chile
Erik Vlot
Global Sales Manager, Weir Minerals, The Netherlands
Antônio Accioly
Process Engineer, Westech Engineering, USA
Corina Aldea
Senior Associate Materials Engineer, Wood PLC, Canada
Ronald Álvarez
General Manager, iProcess, Chile
Juan Pablo Aránguiz
Innovation Engineer, Codelco, Chile
Esteban Arriagada
Engineering Manager, DLS Ingenieros Consultores, Chile
Daniel Bastos
Geotechnical Engineer, Vale, Brazil
María Soledad Bembow
Director, Department of Geological Sciences, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
David Benavente
Process Leader, Paterson & Cooke, Chile
Cristóbal Binvignat
Operations and Engineering Manager, DLS Ingenieros Consultores, Chile
Harold Bolaños
Dams Expert Engineer, Minera Los Pelambres, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
Johan Boshoff
Principal Tailings Engineer, Golder Associates, Australia
Wernher Brevis
Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Heiner Bueno
Head of Operations, Arcadis, Peru
Gino Calderón
Geotechnical Engineer, Minera Cerro Verde, Peru
Carlos Calderón
Tailings Deposition Engineer, Minera Centinela, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
Patricio Chacón
Head of Projects, Arcadis, Chile
Andrew Chryss
Senior Research Engineer, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Australia
Diego Cobos
Geotechnical Engineer, Dynami Geoconsulting, Colombia
VÃctor Conejeros
Academic, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
Glen Corder
Associate Professor, SMI, University of Queensland, Australia
Gonzalo Corral
CEO and Founder, Inteligencia Geotécnica, Chile
Allan Costine
Research Scientist, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Australia
Jerónimo Covacevich
Tailings Director ?? South America, Hatch, Chile
JoaquÃn Delgado
Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Ramón Díaz
Senior Project Engineer, Freeport McMoran, Chile
Peter DiDonna
Chief Geotechnical Engineer, Worsley Alumina, South32, Australia
Pablo Durán
Senior Engineering and Process Leader, Project Vice Presidency, Codelco, Chile
Mansour Edraki
Associate Professor, SMI, University of Queensland, Australia
Paulo Eriz
Geotechnics Leader, Paterson & Cooke, Chile
Mamadou Fall
Full Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Rosa Figueroa
Tailings Superintendent, Teck Resources Limited, Chile
Tim Fitton
Technical Committee
Principal Engineer, Fitton Tailings Consultants, Australia
Carolina Flórez
Geotechnical Engineer, BVP Engineering, Brazil
Silvia Franca
Senior Technologist, Center for Mineral Technology, Brazil
Rodrigo Friz
Senior Head of Projects, Friz & Partners, Chile
John Furlan
Senior Hydraulic Engineer, GIW Minerals, USA
Pamela Garrido
General Manager, JRI, Centro de Investigación, Chile
Alireza Ghirian
Geotechnical Engineer, Golder Associates, Canada
Salvador Gómez
Manager of Plant and New Projects, Fresnillo, Mexico
Noemi González
Senior Programmer, FLO-2D Software, USA
Peter Goosen
Director, Paterson & Cooke, South Africa
Raymond Guang
Tailings Process Specialist, Golder Associates, Canada
Lijie Guo
Professor, Beijing General Research Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, China
Andrew Hall
Process Engineer, Outotec, Canada
Nelson Herrera
Academic, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
Amanda Hevia
Project Engineer, Arcadis, Chile
Waldo Huallanca
Head of Geotechnics, Anddes Associates, Peru
Ãlvaro Huerta
Principal Consultant, SRK Consulting, Chile
Jorge Ipinza
Academic, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Roberto Jamett
Senior Tailings Engineer, Golder Associates, Chile
Sadegh Javadi
Process and Tailings Engineer, ATC Williams, Australia
Fernanda Kemeid
Ash Strategy and Management Lead, Origin Energy, Australia
Christian Ledezma
Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chris Lee
Principal, Golder Associates, Canada
Adam Llanos
Operations Manager, ConeTec, Chile
Sue Longo
Principal, Project Manager, Golder Associates, Canada
Marlene López
Engineering and Process Specialist, Project Vice Presidency, Codelco, Chile
Paolo Maldonado
Head Tickened Tailings Project Engineering, Talabre, Project Vice Presidency, Codelco, Chile
Lars Martinson
Project Engineer, Paterson & Cooke, Chile
Francisco Melo
Technical Officer Metallurgy, Mitsui Mineral Resources Development, Chile
Juan Moreno
Practice Leader (Mine Waste), SRK Consulting, Australia
Yunger Muñoz
Independent Tailings Consultant, Peru
Juan Ojeda
Water and Tailings Senior Supervisor, Mineras Las Bambas, MMG, Peru
Roberto OlguÃn
Geotechnical Engineer, GDE Consultants, Chile
Carlos Ovalle
Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Miguel Palape
Business Developer, MineBridge Software, Chile
Luis Paredes
Senior Geotechnical Consultant, Stantec, Chile
Angus Paterson
Managing Director, Paterson & Cooke, South Africa
Álvaro Peña
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Martín Pérez
Independent Geologist Consultant, Chile
Behnam Pirouz
Principal Engineer, ATC Williams, Australia
Renmin Pretell
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Davis, USA
Andrés Quintero
Senior Project Engineer, Golder Associates, Canada
Jocelyn Quinteros
Senior Process Engineer, FLSmidth, Chile
David Reid
Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
Gustavo Romero
Project Engineer, Con Potencial Consultores, Chile
Pascale Rouse
Project Engineer, Itasca, Chile
Rodrigo Ruiz
Lead Study - Planning and Technical Minerals, BHP Minerals Americas
Alejandra Sánchez
Study Lead, BHP, Chile
Andrea López Schmidt
Senior Civil Enginer ?? DMC Project, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
Keith Seddon
Senior Principal Engineer, ATC Williams, Australia
Anders Sellgren
Emeritus Professor, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Daniel Servigna
Mining Branch Manager, Associate Geotechnical Engineer, Wood PLC, USA
Shahé Shnorhokian
Lecturer and Research Associate, McGill University, Canada
Paul Simms
Professor, Carleton University, Canada
João Soares
Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
Jaime de la Sotta
General Manager, DLS Ingenieros Consultores, Chile
Bernardt van der Spuy
Senior Engineer, Paterson & Cooke, South Africa
Arno Talmon
Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology & Deltares, The Netherlands
Nicholas Thompson
Senior Tailings Engineer, SRK Consulting, Australia
Oswaldo Tovar
Independent Mining Consultant, Peru
Jaime Urquidi
Senior Consultant, Arcadis, Chile
Sebastián Urrejola
Technical Specialist, Anglo American, Chile
Pedro Vadillo
Head of Concentrate and Tailings, CAP Mining, Chile
Claire Vaguener
Lead Engineer Tailings Dam, Vale, Brazil
Pamela Valenzuela
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Ricardo Venegas
Executive Director, CIGOMM, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Mauricio Villanueva
Senior Concentrator Improvement Engineer, Minera Centinela, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
John Wates
Geotechnical and Tailings Engineer, John Wates Consulting, South Africa
Bjorn Weeks
Principal Engineer ?? Director, Golder Associates, Chile
Justin Willis
Tailings Engineer, BHP, Australia
Jose Zuta
Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Teck, Chile