Key Staff
Transmin has the team to support any project: testwork, design, and operations
Adam Johnston
Chief Metallurgist
Fellow AusIMM
Chartered Professional (Metallurgy)
Over 25 years experience in extractive metallurgy. Worked on testing, design, construction, commissioning, and operation of a wide variety of processes on six continents.
Luis Miguel La Torre
Principal Metallurgist
15+ years experience in extractive metallurgy.
Lead major improvements in metallurgy and throughput on several operations in South and Central America. Expert in comminution design.
Cesar Fuentes
Principal Metallurgist
15+ years experience in extractive metallurgy worked on several major testwork programs for copper, gold and silver projects.
Leads simulation software sales, gas dispertion studies training and consulting for Transmin.
Leslie Lopez
Senior Geometallurgist
Leslie is a chemical engineer with a masters in extractive metallurgy. Experience in copper flotation, copper leaching, and iron ore befeficiation.
Expertise in geometallurgical modeling.
Loida Peña
Senior Metallurgist
Loida is a metallurgical engineer that has broad experience in flotation development, operations, and geometallurgy.
Cristian Pazos
Metallurgist
Cristian is a metallurgical engineer that has worked in testwork laboratories, phosphate concentration operations and polymetallic flotation operations. He has experience in material balance audits, comminution simulation and process optimization.
Giovana Paz
Metallurgist
Giovana is a metallurgical engineer, has experience in the preparation of engineering documents and advanced data processing and analysis.
Diego Mendoza
Metallurgist
Diego is a chemical engineer that has expertise in geochemistry at laboratory and plant level.
He also has experience in data analysis and process optimization.
Belenia Medina
Metallurgist
Belenia has more than 14 years´ experience developing engineering studies for manganese, barite, copper and polymetallic ores; also has experience developing testwork design and supervision, data analysis and processing, preparation of engineering documents, and geometallurgy.
PhD and MSc. in Metallurgical Engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro-Brazil, Chemical Engineer at San Agustin University (Peru).