New Rotarian, Jillian Carmichael gave an interesting talk on the multi-faceted gold mining industry. China, Australia, Russia, the US, Peru and South Africa have the largest working mines. The planets Mars, Mercury and Venus are thought to have gold. Back to Earth, 166,000 tons of gold have been mined with 80% still buried underground. Our neighbor, the Dominican Republic, mined 1,155 tons in 2014. Puerto Rico’s gold mines were depleted by 1570. The ore is drilled and blasted, crushed, leached and poured to make the beautiful metal we so covet. Rotarian Jillian, a native of Hawaii and a graduate from the U of Hawaii at Manoa, has lived and worked in Santiago Chile and later in Denver, Colorado where she is Director of Global Marketing for Cyanco International, a chemical producer to the gold mining industry.
She moved to Puerto Rico two years ago and continues to work in global marketing for Cyanco from San Juan. Jillian was brought to us by fellow-member Ken McGrath, who is also her father-in-law.
Inducted into San Juan Rotary was Jose Rivero-Olmedo (Manufacturing Consultant). Pepito, a Rotarian since 1975 and a Past District 7000 Governor, was sponsored by Past President Juanita Morris.
CONGRATULATIONS to Carmen Hammel as she received her “Rotarian of The Year” award for outstanding Rotary service as Chair of the Speaker’s Committee. Presenting the award during our last luncheon meeting was Immediate Past President Jorge Gonzalez.
