Lode Gold Further Strengthens Engineering, Geological, and Permitting Team
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Lode Gold Resources has added engineering expertise to the technical advisory board for its Fremont Gold Mine. Roberto Llovet Vazquez is a mine engineer with in-depth underground mining experience. He specializes in in operating and bringing underground mining projects to production, increasing output, while keeping close control on costs.
“Roberto has hands-on experience taking underground mines through the full development cycle — from PEA to feasibility-level engineering to production optimization —which is directly applicable to where we are today at Fremont. He has executed underground mining at scale across multiple jurisdictions,” said Wendy Chan, CEO and director of Lode Gold.
“Roberto adds relevant experience to our current technical team, which includes Bill Fisher, former chairman of Aurelian, who discovered the Fruta del Norte gold mine in Ecuador — later acquired by Kinross, and now Lundin Gold’s flagship asset — and Martin Stratte, who brings experience permitting mines in California, including Equinox’s restart of Castle Mountain. We now have a great balance of technical expertise spanning geology, engineering, and permitting as we advance the project in 2027,” added Chan.
Roberto Llovet Vázquez is a mine engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid with over a decade of underground mining operations experience, specializing in mine development and cost-efficient mineral exploitation.
He has served as chief operating officer (COO) across multiple underground producing and development-stage operations in Spain, Peru, and Mexico, spanning cut & fill, long hole, and room & pillar mining methods. His track record includes restarting a Buenaventura spin-out silver mine in Peru that had been under care and maintenance for several years. Roberto was instrumental in returning it to profitable production, cutting costs by 50 percent and scaling output by more than 100 percent accomplishing both within 12 months.
Additionally, he led the rapid advancement of an underground tungsten-gold intrusive project in Spain from preliminary economic assessment (PEA) to definitive feasibility study (DFS) and oversaw operations and development at four producing underground silver mines for Grupo México in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Recently, in Granada, Spain, as COO at both Minas de Alquife, the largest iron open pit mine in Europe and at Minera de Órgiva, a polymetallic underground operation, he successfully doubled production while cutting operating costs in half.
As a result of his underground experience he has gained expertise in underground ventilation, blasting design, rock mass support, and metallurgical plant construction.
The technical and permitting advisory team now includes Bill Fisher (Geology), Gary Wong P. Eng (VP Exploration, Engineer), David Gunning (Mining Engineer), Carlos Saban BSc. (Fremont Project Lead, Geology), Jonathan Hill, Fellow AUSIMM, BSc. (Geologist), Martin Stratte, Esq. (Legal & Permitting).
Lode Gold has key assets in Canada and the United States. The Fremont Gold Mine Project is a brownfield project in Mariposa, California with 43,000 m drilled, 10,000 underground channel samples, The roject sits on more than 3,000 acres of 100 percent owned private and patented land which is designated as OZ, Trump administration opportunity zone.
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