Samuel Escobar Gil

Samuel Escobar Gil is an experienced mining engineering professional currently serving as an Underground Mine Planning Engineer and Geotechnical Engineer at Rio Tinto since January 2022. Previously, Samuel worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Mining Engineering Department at West Virginia University from January 2020 to December 2021 and completed an internship as a Geotechnical Engineer at Rio Tinto in the summer of 2021. Earlier career experience includes the role of Mining Engineer EIT at Zijin-Continental Gold, where responsibilities included supervising labor and managing cost-related information, as well as a work study focused on health and safety in an artisanal underground gold mine at Aris Mining Marmato. Samuel holds a Master of Science in Mining Engineering from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.