Monthly Seminars

Andres specializes in the processes to deliver solid and sound strategies of corporate social responsibility in the mining sector. He was born in Peru and moved to Canada in 1996 after obtaining an MBA from Eastern University in Pennsylvania.

Andres started his professional career as a management consultant with Price Waterhouse in Lima. After this he held progressively senior positions with oil & gas exploration companies and international development organizations.

In Canada, he worked with World Vision Canada as Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, becoming deeply involved with sustainable social development processes and adapting corporate social responsibility strategies of large mining companies.

In 2010, he accepted the challenge to transform a socially distressed project into a $2.0 billion market capitalization with Torex Gold Resources in Southern Mexico. This process took five years of constant engagement and conflict prevention measures, finally rendering a solid social license to operate.

Anna Fonseca has over 25 years of experience in mineral exploration. In 1993 she obtained a BS degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and in 1998 an MSc from the University of British Columbia.

She started her career in the Yukon Geological Survey, went on to work as an independent consultant throughout the Americas and Middle East, and taught Economic Geology at the Ecole Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, France.

Anna brings a wealth of international experience and academic knowledge to her presentations, sharing insights from diverse geological settings and exploration challenges around the world.

Blair Hrabi is a Principal Consultant (Structural Geology) with SRK based in the Toronto office. He is a structural geologist with 22 years of experience gained in the exploration industry, government geological surveys, and academic settings.

His experience is predominantly in Archean and Proterozoic terranes of the Canadian Shield and the Cordillera of North and South America. Blair is an expert in the regional- and deposit scale structural controls on ore deposits, including orogenic gold, epithermal silver-gold, and base metal deposits.

He has extensive experience integrating field, open pit and underground mapping to build geologically sound 3D structural and lithological models to support exploration targeting, resource estimation, and underground and open pit geotechnical studies.

Blair has a special interest in the compilation and integration of diverse data sets to understand the evolution and geometry of complex, mineralized terranes, and to aid in GIS-based prospectivity analysis.

In 2016 Will and his wife Cath Pitman set up Adiuvare Geology and Engineering Ltd. AdiuvareGE provide independent professional advice in the areas of geology and rock mechanics engineering.

Will brings expertise in both geological assessment and engineering applications, offering a unique perspective on the integration of geological understanding with practical engineering solutions in mining and exploration projects.