JC Sandoval

Juan Carlos ('JC') Sandoval is the President of Mining at Andean Precious Metals Corp. (TSX: APM), a publicly traded gold and silver producer focused on Latin America. He sits at the center of the company's transition from a single-asset Colombian operator into a mid-tier precious metals producer, leading the finance and corporate development work that has underwritten that growth.

Sandoval brings more than two decades of experience in banking, finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) focused on the mining, energy, and resource sectors. His appointment to Andean's executive team in late 2022 coincided with the company's push to consolidate its position around the Segovia gold mine in Antioquia, Colombia — a high-grade underground operation that historically produces both gold doré (a semi-pure gold alloy produced on site, requiring further refining) and concentrate, and that generated over 110,000 gold-equivalent ounces in 2024.

Sandoval's remit covers the corporate development and capital-markets work that has reshaped Andean's portfolio. He was central to the May 2021 acquisition of Golden Queen Mining, which brought the Soledad Mountain gold-silver mine in California into the company, and to the subsequent mid-2023 divestiture of that asset to Caliber Mining, with the proceeds redeployed into the Colombian business. In April 2025 he helped structure the US $10.5 million acquisition of Paredes Santander S.A.S., consolidating 100% ownership of the Marmato Mining Contract that Andean had previously operated in joint venture with Gran Colombia Gold.

For resource investors, Sandoval's commentary is most useful when thinking about the financing mechanics behind junior precious metals consolidation. His public appearances — including Proactive Investors webcasts and 121 Mining Investment events in Dubai — focus on capital allocation, cost discipline, and the path to scaling Segovia, rather than exploration upside. Listeners looking for project-level geological conviction should pair his segments with the technical commentary from the company's geologists; Sandoval's contribution is the corporate strategy and balance-sheet lens.

Sandoval's relevance to a mining stock investor is straightforward: he is one of the executives running the numbers behind a small-cap gold and silver producer that has used M&A to triple its footprint in three years. Following his appearances is a clean read on how Andean's senior team thinks about capital structure, dividend policy, and the trade-off between staying Colombia-focused and pushing further into the rest of Latin America.