Cesar Garcia

Senior Exploration geologist with a background fulfilled with 18 year experience on porphyry, epithermal and intrusion-related type deposits. With interests in exploration, discovery, metallogeny, and evolution of ore deposits.

Currently engaged as exploration manager for LCL resources limited in Colombia, delivering a successful discovery of 1.3 Moz Au IMR in the Tesorito gold porphyry, expanding their resources to 2.6 Moz of gold in 2022.

Between 2013 and 2015 participated as Senior geology leader in the discovery of the high grade core of the Nuevo Chaquiro Cu-Au-(Mo) porphyry deposit, containing 566 Mt @0.64% Cu, 0.31 g/t Au, 4.34 g/t Ag y 127 ppm Mo, the largest Copper porphyry deposit in the middle Cauca Belt, Colombia,

With skills in management of exploration projects, drilling, 3D geology-exploration modelling, creation of regional-district-camp site exploration models. Detailed core logging, geochemical sampling, interpretation of spectral and geophysics data.

- Renewed the mineral resource inventory of Miraflores compania Minera with the discovery of the 1.3 Moz Au @ 0.81 g/t in Tesorito porphyry, Colombia.

-Member of the exploration team that discovered the world-class Copper-gold porphyry of Nuevo Chaquiro, Colombia (566Mt @ 0.64% Cu, 0.31 g/t Au, 4.34 g/t Ag, 127 ppm Mo)

-Member of the exploration team that discovered the world-class gold porphyry La Colosa, Colombia (28Moz Au)

-Robust and Technical knowledge in gold-copper porphyry, intrusion related and epithermal deposits.

- Managed multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality geological interpretations and resource models on schedule .

-Built a new, refreshed and robust exploration target pipe line for the company Miraflores compania Minera

-Successfully managed the +35K drilling campaign between 2019 to 2022 for Miraflores compania Minera.

-Planned and managed exploration budgets up to $10M USD

-Management of the country scale greenfield exploration portfolio in Colombia for Anglogold Ashanti in 2018.

-Successfully executed the discovery drilling campaign of the Nuevo Chaquiro Cu-Au-Mo porphyry.

• 01/2017, The Nuevo Chaquiro Cu-Au-(Mo) porphyry deposit, Middle Cauca Belt, Colombia: Geology Alteration, Mineralization, Economic Geology, 112, 275-294
• 04/2011, Review of Gold-rich porphyry deposits of the Northern Andes, with special emphasis on the Colosa gold porphyry, Colombia, and its comparison with the Central Andes gold-rich porphyry province, Msc. Exploration Geology dissertation, Rhodes University

• Rex Brommecker, SVP Exploration and Geology, SSR mining, +13035068888, rex.brommecker@gmail.com
• Philip Newton, SVP Generative Exploration, AngloGold Ashanti Limited, (+61) 403 025 851, 311 224 0739, pnewton@anglogoldashanti.com
• Jon Hill, Vp, Geology and Exploration, Jaguar Minng Inc., (+55) 31 9617 7970
• Nicholas Winer, Senior Consultant, +55 62 993872013
• Guillermo Rodriguez Ruiz, Regional Geophysicist Manager LATAM, Fortescue Metals Group, +57 1 09277682
• Oscar Sepulveda, Msc Exploration Geologist, 320 835 6558
• Giovanna Angelica Neira, Regional Geochemist LATAM, Barrick Gold Corporation, +57 310 587 2036
• Andres Giraldo, Exploration manager Greenfields Exploration Argentina, Anglogold Ashanti, +54 9 3875 21-6239, agiraldo@anglogoldashanti.com
• Felipe Botero, Senior Spectral Geologist Americas, Anglogold Ashanti, +1 720 8222763, fbotero@anglogoldashanti.com

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