About the Author
As a professional geologist with thirty four years in the mining industry, P. Geo. Ricardo Valls  has extensive geological, geochemical, and mining experience, managerial skills and a solid background in research techniques, and training of technical personnel. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Russian. He has been involved in various projects worldwide (Canada, Africa, Russia, Indonesia, the Caribbean, Central and South America). Projects included regional reconnaissance, 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 magmatic, hydrothermal, porphyritic, VMS and SEDEX ore deposits. Special strengths are related to the acquisition 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. Ricardo Valls is a P.Geo. registered in the province of Ontario.
