Walther Guifarro
The Dalles, OR 97058
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Position Metallurgist
Work Experience
Supermercado Olanchano Grocery Store June 07 - Present
General Manager Juticalpa, Honduras
• Supervise 65 employees; schedules, positions and pay
• Manage distribution with companies such as Nestle, Colgate and Palmolive
Barrick Gold, Bald Mountain Mine May 06-June 07
Metallurgist Elko, Nevada
• Refinery experience; Supervised over three technicians. Melted gold, ran the Electro
Whining cell, retort, collected mercury, etc. Worked on the setup for testing the
Electro Whining cell’s efficiency. Assisted in determining the different flux needed
for maximizing recovery during melting
• Met Lab; Ran bottle rolls, column tests, carbon attrition testing, carbon absorption
testing, acid washing testing, metal accounting data input and analysis, Standard
Operating Procedures creating, writing and implementing.
• Assay Lab; Assisted with mathematical counseling. Worked with Atomic
Absorption and fire Assaying.
• Heap Leach; Ran test heaps, field work on ponding problems.
University of Idaho Mining & Geology Labs January 05 – May 06
Metallurgist Intern Moscow. Idaho
• Worked on mineral extraction by flotation and by bacterial decomposition
• Ran samples with powder x-ray diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscope.
• Created computer models of a bacterial leach pad.
Education
University of Idaho, B.S. Metallurgical Engineering
Idaho State certified engineer-in-training
Skills
Bilingual (Native in Spanish and fluent in English; written and spoken)
Microsoft Office, FoxPro, Access, FlexPDE, Autocad and Matlab operation
Computer language knowledge of Ada95, Java, and C
Microsoft and Linux environments
Oracle systems operator