Víctor Martínez Email & Phone Number

Providencia, CL

La Coipa

• Hydrogeological supervision of RC drilling in the open-pit at Minera Kinross-La Coipa focused on the study of groundwater flows.
• Technical recommendations.
• Geological mapping of cuttings.
• Supervision of tests (airlift, injection tests).
• Installation of vibrating wire piezometers.

Chile

• Geologist in several projects for geological, hydrogeological and geotechnical characterization, such as "Escondida Mine - Supervision of hydrogeological and geotechnical drilling HTR and Salar de Hamburgo Basin", "El.
• Supervised the drilling work (DDH and RC).
• Geological and geotechnical logging of drill cores (DDH and RC).
• QA/QC and database management of geotechnical logs.
• Core sampling.
• Supervision of SPT, Lefranc, Lugeon, Slug Test and airlift tests (Diver and Level Troll instruments).

Escondida Mine, Chile

• Supervised construction of test pits for soil mechanic tests.
• Monitored the compliance and correct enforcement of the working method.
• Led and evaluated a team of 3 workers.
• Verification of compliance with safety and prevention issues.
• Preparation of reports.

Atacama Region, Chile

• Supervised the exploration of copper deposits "Productora"​ (IOCG) and "Frontera" (Porphyry).
• Monitored the drilling work and making decisions about it.
• Led a team of five field assistants and several drillers and contractors.
• Geological, structural and geotechnical logging of drill cores (DDH and RC).
• Exploration reports and database management.
• Supervised sample dispatch to the lab (QA/QC sampling procedures).

Compañía Minera Cerro Colorado, Chile

• Geological work at Cerro Colorado, a porphyry copper deposit owned by BHP Billiton.
• Geological logging of infill and exploration drill cores (Diamond and RC): identification of rock units, hydrothermal alteration zones, associated minerals and geometallurgy.

Pau, France

• Successfully carried out a Sedimentological study and a 3D Modeling of a Jurassic carbonate platform as an analogue for the Middle Eastern hydrocarbon reservoirs.
• Fieldwork: geological mapping, stratigraphic profiles, photomosaics, sampling.
• Performed the complete office/laboratory work: 3D modeling (“Petrel” software), facies characterization, stratigraphic log correlation, depositional model interpretation, binocular and petrographic microscope.

Valdivia, Chile

• Conducted laboratory work of an Environmental study of sediments from Patagonia.
• Logging of cores.
• Supervised sample preparation and thin sections.
• Performed laboratory tests: lyophilization of samples, measurement of magnetic susceptibility.