Latin AmericanMinerals Inc. said July 11 that it has named Cameron Tymstra as COOto oversee operations at the company's Independencia gold mine in in Paraguay.

Tymstra served as operations manager for where he oversawthe feasibility investigations at their projects in Ontario. He spent the lasttwo years as the mining engineer at Magnetation Inc.'s iron tailings mining and reprocessingoperations in the U.S.