The Chamber of Mines of Peru welcomes engineer Mariano Baylón, representative of the Guatemalan mining company San Rafael.
The superintendent of Risk Prevention of the Guatemalan mining company San Rafael, Mariano Baylón Calderón, visits the facilities of The Chamber of Mines of Peru.
Engineer César Gallardo Vela, president of The Chamber of Mines of Peru, received the mining safety specialist with broad trajectory. They both visited the facilities of our institution.
Engineer Gallardo shared with engineer Baylón the strategic objectives of The Chamber, as well as his institutional and academic work carried out for the past thirteen years.
During his visit, the superintendent of Risk Prevention expressed to the president of our institution his great interest in the work being done. He also commented on the potential in countries with expanding mining industries such as Guatemala.
“The mining sector in Guatemala is becoming quite important in the short time it has been developing,” said Baylón, alluding to the work carried out by mining companies such as Gold Corp. and San Rafael itself. Despite the potential, the lack of adequate legislation means that companies link their performance to suprasectorial regulations, unlike countries with a long mining tradition such as Peru.
“There is a lot of opportunity to implement our own methodologies or developments, but obviously with reference to successful issues,” said engineer Baylón. “Guatemala lacks institutions that technically manage mining. There are courses where the teaching is very superficial,” commented.
According to the engineer, this situation generates a great need in the Guatemalan mining industry, which seeks to increase the technical competence of its mining sector. “For example, in the company where I work, we have specialists from several countries, who say ‘we cannot train our team here’, and we send them to other parts of the world”, explained the engineer.
Baylón recognized the importance of the role assumed by The Chamber of Mines of Peru in a country with a mining panorama like Guatemala.
“You offer a diversity of highly technical subjects, which is what we need now in the industry”, he said. “We now have someone who can fill this technical gap in order to strengthen all of our colleagues.”
The engineer’s visit ended with a cordial greeting and congratulations to The Chamber of Mines of Peru. “I wish you much success in all your work, and may you continue with that fighting and unstoppable spirit of being able to develop more people, so that the mining sector continues to be as beautiful as it has been up to now”, he concluded.
