Biography

Nelson Rumino Espinoza, Civil Mining Engineer from the University of Santiago de Chile and Master of Science in Mining Engineering from the University of Chile. Nelson has 14 years of experience in the mining industry working in the supervision, planning and leadership of multidisciplinary teams. For the last 11 years, Nelson has worked in different areas of Codelco, where he has been in charge of mine planning for Codelco's main open pit operations, such as Ministro Hales, Radomiro Tomic and Rajo Inca. Nelson currently works in the Corporate Management of Mining Resources of Codelco, where he has been in charge of developing the mine strategic business plans for the Corporation in several projects. In the field of innovation, Nelson has led the implementation new optimization methodologies across the Corporation, a success story being the direct block scheduling methodology. In recent times, Nelson has served as the leader of the long-term planning of the Salvador Division, carrying out collaborative work with the geoscience, environment and process areas. Nelson is also responsible for preparing the public reports on Resources and Reserves of the Salvador Division and other studies such as the Autonomous CAEX for the Inca Pit Project.