Author: Ricardo Valls
Alternate names: Mr. Ricardo A. Valls; Ricardo A. Valls,  P.Geo; Ricardo A. Valls; Ricardo a Valls P Geo; Ricardo Valls Álvarez
Born: 1958
Bio: As a professional geologist with thirty-two years in the mining industry, I have extensive geological, geochemical, and mining experience, managerial skills, and a solid background in research techniques, and training of technical personnel. I am fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Russian. I have been involved in various projects worldwide (Canada, Africa, Russia, Indonesia, the Caribbean and Central and South America). Projects included fromregional reconnaissance to local mapping, diamond drilling and RC-drilling programs, open pit and underground mapping and sampling, geochemical sampling and interpretation, and several exploration techniques pertaining to the search for diamonds, PGM, gold, nickel, silver, base metals, industrial minerals, oil & gas, and other magmatic, hydrothermal, porphyritic, VMS and SEDEX ore deposits. Special strengths are related toacquisition of new properties, geochemical and geological studies, management and organization, geomathematical analysis and modeling, compositional data analysis, structural studies, database design, QA&QC studies, exploration studies and writing technical reports. P.Geo. registered in the province of Ontario.