Helio Tavares

Helio is a Brazilian mining engineer who has been involved with a number of international junior mining groups over the past 20 years. His early career was as a process engineer in the Brazilian coal industry and then expanded his experience through his involvement in the coordination, planning, design, assembly and management of a range of ore processing plants, before establishing his own drilling and industrial process design business. He was general manager for Serabi from 2002 to 2005 and again between November 2012 and May 2019. He has also been a consultant to several international junior mining groups working on projects across a range of minerals including iron ore, kaolin, diamonds and manganese as well as gold.

Helio has a degree in Mine Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul.