Adrian Vargas
Resource Geologist Manager, Mineral Resource And Reserve Audit at Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAdrian Vargas is a resource geologist and geostatistician with over a decade of experience leading mineral resource and reserve audits at Agnico Eagle and consulting on complex resource estimation projects. He combines practical mine geology, sampling and QA/QC expertise with advanced geostatistical methods—specializing in MIK, non-linear geostatistics and conditional simulation for high-nugget gold deposits. Adrian founded OpenGeostat, an open-source Python/C++ geostatistics library, and brings hands-on software development skills (C++, Cython, Fortran, VBA, SQL) to automate and validate resource workflows. He is an experienced trainer and mentor, having delivered extensive courses ranging from variography to advanced resource estimation and bespoke online mentoring in Spanish. His background spans academia and industry, including PhD-level research and teaching, which gives him a rare depth in both theory and operational implementation. Colleagues value his ability to identify the right techniques and project-specific risks, turning complex statistical models into actionable mine-site decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Phd., Geology, Phd., Geology at Instituto Superior Minero Metalúrgico de MoaSpecialized training in geostatistics, Geostatistics, Specialized training in geostatistics, Geostatistics at Mines Paris
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
geoscience10
fenics10
geostatistics10
geodesy10
geophysics10
abaqus10
python9
fortran9
machine-learning8
orange8
pytorch8
data-science7
tensorflow7
regression7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opengeostat/gslib_new_code
Feb 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
opengeostat/pygslib
Aug 2015 - Aug 2022
GSLIB fortran code wrapped into python
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 302 commits in 7 years
pythongeostatisticsgeophysicsfenicsgslib
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