Raul has more than 20 years of progressive experience in the mining and exploration industry worldwide with a long trail of discoveries in his back. He has worked in Europe, West Africa, Canada and in several countries of Central and South America, mainly exploring for precious metals. Raul has been continuously developing projects in Colombia since 2010.
He is an early mover in private mining projects in Colombia developing the Santa Ana silver district and Southern Bolivar projects. He consolidated and assisted materializing ASM Fluorspar mining in Utah into Ares Strategic Mining, where he is chairman of the board and served as VP Exploration. Recently held senior exploration positions for Victoria Gold Corp, Tudor Gold Corp and CB Gold (Colombia projects), former VP Exploration of American Creek Resources, G4G Resources, Northern Iron Corp, and Principal Geologist and CEO for Condor Precious Metals Inc. He has a M.Sc. Geology by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) with completed thesis in Fe-REE-Skarn deposits and is Qualified Person for NI43-101 purposes (P.Geo, EurGeol.)
