Joao Rocha

Vice President Exploration @ Algo Grande Copper Corp.

About

Professional Geologist and currently Vice President of Exploration with international experience across mineral exploration, geotechnical drilling, and environmental projects, with a strong focus on Copper, Gold, and Lithium. Experience spans Europe, North, Central and South America, and Africa, contributing to exploration strategy, target generation, resource and company evaluation, and disciplined capital allocation in remote and challenging environments. Also experienced in mine waste management and tailings dam assessments for major mining groups such as ALCOA and Lundin Mining, with a strong emphasis on health, safety, environmental protection, and governance, and the integration of safe work practices into exploration and operational decision-making.

Country

City

Portugal

Industry

Mining & Metals

Skill

Stock market, Project assessment, Project management, Health and Safety, Sampling, Geological mapping, Rock sampling, Target generation, Stream sampling, Soil sampling, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Vendas, Geologia, Geologia de engenharia, Inglês, Hidrogeologia, geotecnia

Experience

Vice President Exploration

Algo Grande Copper Corp.

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

Company Director

RDG Services

2023-7 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Consulting Geologist

Plethora Private Equity Fund

2021-6 - 2025-7 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Worldwide

Consulting geologist, developing early stage multi commodity exploration projects in different jurisdictions worldwide Including: Norway, Serbia, Ireland, Iberia, USA, Canada

Exploration Geologist

Equivest Metals

2024-1 - 2024-7 · 7 mos

Geotechnical Geologist

Golder

2020-7 - 2021-6 · 1 yr

Portugal

Geotechnical field work, tests and sampling at ALCOA – Aluminio, SAN CIBRAN Tailing Dam and Lundin Mining-Somincor Neves Corvo mine Tailing Dam • CPTu test: Execution and field interpretation • Geotechnical “undisturbed” soil sampling and storage of samples (MOSTAP) • Field reports with daily frequency • Procurement and organization during campaigns • Laboratory work: Preparation of samples (disturbed and “undisturbed” MOSTAP samples), specific gravity with helium gas pycnometer, triaxial tests and granulometry tests, density test using high precision densimeter.

Junior Geologist

Mineda - Minas de Portugal

2019-7 - 2021-6 · 2 yrs

Porto e Região, Portugal

Field based independently reporting to manager geologist, in northern Alentejo exploration areas for metalic and non metalic minerals in geological complex terrane - Geological mapping - Geochemical sampling - Managed soil and rock sampling programmes, including submitting samples to the laboratory, databasing samples and results, and compilation of results on GIS. - Prepared technical presentations weekly and monthly in English on project planning and progress for manager - Landoweners and permits management

Graduate Research Fellow

Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto | FCUP

2019-1 - 2019-6 · 6 mos

Porto e Região, Portugal

Ambiental study of soil and water surrounding São Pedro da Cova coal mine for the Coalmine European project, including field and laboratory test and geochemical analysis. Mapping the area, and the contamination influence, all in GIS database and Excel format. Discuss of remediation measures for the containment and reduction of contamination on the environment and population.

Junior Geologist

Argonvia

2018-7 - 2018-12 · 6 mos

Gaia

Planning and execution of geotechnical projects, Portugal A1 motorway project, Metro do Porto project, Waterways (Castelo de Bode dam and Alviela dam waterways), Windfarm Mira project, including other private smaller projects that included: Drill Planning, rig management and supervision (DD) in geotechnical environment, DPSH, LDP. Geological drilling with wire-line. GIS database setup and management. Geotechnical and geological logging and sampling. Water table measurement. Supervision of permeability tests (Lugeon and Lefranc). Field preparation for drilling campaigns. Contact with inhabitants.