Alfonso Rodriguez MSc, P.Geo.
Senior Geologist
Alfonso has over 15 years of experience as a geoscientist working in the mineral exploration and mining industry. He is a Professional Geoscientist (P. Geo) registered with Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC) since 2015. He graduated as a Geologist from the Santander Industry University in 2005 and received his MSc from the University of British Columbia in 2014, where he worked on the hydrothermal evolution of Andean epithermal and porphyry precious metal deposits.
He was a member of the Ventana Gold Corp. geology team, which successfully defined a world class gold deposit in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia before being taken over by AUX in 2011 (currently Aris Mining Corp.). More recently, Alfonso was part of the GT Gold Corp. team contributing to the Tatogga project, located in BC’s Golden Triangle, until its acquisition by Newmont Corp. in 2021. Alfonso’s experience ranges from grassroots to advance stage DDH exploration projects as well as developing underground and open pit mining projects in several jurisdictions. Alfonso re-joined APEX in 2021 as a Senior Project Geologist contributing to client’s projects providing field work, planning, data analysis, training, and technical reporting.
Services Provided
- Project management
- Ground geophysical surveying: magnetics
- Surface and underground geological/structural mapping
- Mine grade control
- Property reviews and assessments
- Exploration targeting: geological mapping, geochemical sampling, data analysis and interpretation,
- Drill program management
- QP property visits, project valuation
- Technical report writing
- Assessment report writing
- Training, management, and mentorship
Deposit Styles
- Orogenic Gold Deposits (Archean terranes – Western Australia)
- Porphyry copper and Epithermal gold-silver-copper deposits (Andes, Canadian Cordillera, Nevada-USA, Luzon-Philippines, South Pacific)
- Intrusion related gold systems (Colombia and Yukon-Canada)
- IOCG deposits (Chilean Andes)
- Greenstone belt copper/gold, nickel, cobalt exploration (NWT and Nunavut)
- VMS copper and base metal deposits (Fiji, BC-Canada)
- Structurally-controlled mineral deposits
- Orogenic and Greenstone belts Gold Deposits (Nova Scotia-Canada, Archean terranes – Western Australia)
- Stratigraphically controlled deposits