Mario Hernandez A.

A mining engineer and founding member of S.L.M. El Indio mining company. Subsequently became Manager of Exploration Administration for St. Joe Minerals, the subsequent owner of El Indio and Pascua, both of which he is an original owner.

He subsequently participated in a program run by BTX Ltd for Anglo American/Cominco where the projects Marte-Lobo, Esperanza, the Maricunga Belt, Pimenton, West Wall and Novicio were discovered. He was the original partner in the acquisition of Refugio (today the Maricunga Mine of Kinross) and Santa Cecilia, and member of the team which discovered Regalito, now Pan Pacific Copper’s Caserones project.