From November 25 to 27, 2025, Panama City hosted ExpoMinera Internacional Central America and the Caribbean, an event that brought together more than 1,200 mining industry professionals to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities, with a strong focus on responsible mining, governance, and the attraction of sustainable investment across the region.
JDV Partners actively participated in this key forum, showcasing its consulting services in strategic talent management, aligned with ESG principles and the governance standards required for the responsible development of mining projects in Central America and the Caribbean.
Key Takeaways from the Event
Throughout ExpoMinera Internacional, it became clear that Panama continues to strengthen its position as a regional hub for sustainable mining and specialized business, serving as a strategic meeting point for key industry stakeholders. The discussions consistently highlighted the need for modern regulatory frameworks, greater transparency, and regulatory stability as critical factors for attracting responsible investment to the region.
The event also pointed to structured growth prospects toward 2026, with a strong emphasis on ESG adoption and social value creation as central pillars of mining development. The closure of Cobre Panama was one of the most prominent topics on the agenda, underscoring the urgency of reinforcing legal certainty and prior consultation processes as fundamental elements for the viability of future projects.
In addition, ExpoMinera highlighted relevant opportunities for productive linkages across sectors such as tourism, transportation, and mining-related services, reaffirming the industry’s cross-cutting impact on regional economies.
JDV Partners’ Performance in the Mining Sector (2025)
The conversations held during ExpoMinera Internacional Central America and the Caribbean 2025 reflected the key challenges currently facing the mining industry, including the availability of specialized talent, stronger governance, ESG compliance, and the need for teams capable of operating in complex, high-capital environments. In this context, JDV Partners’ 2025 experience demonstrates how these challenges are being addressed in practical terms across mining projects.
Throughout the year, JDV Partners supported operating mines as well as projects in exploration, pre-feasibility, and feasibility stages, working closely with operators, developers, EPC contractors, and investors. This work focused on identifying and attracting critical talent aligned with both technical requirements and the governance and sustainability standards discussed during the event.
As a result, the firm successfully led the placement of key roles essential to the continuity, efficiency, and sustainability of mining projects, including:
- Financial Controller & Senior Finance Manager
- Senior Processing Plant Operations Manager
- Senior Process Engineering Manager & Senior Metallurgist
- Tailings & Geotechnical Manager
- Operations Manager
- Senior Exploration Geologist
- Fixed and Mobile Assets Maintenance Manager
- Sustainability & Community Relations Manager
- Corporate Affairs / Development Manager
- HR Manager / Talent Acquisition Manager
These searches were conducted under a rigorous approach to technical suitability, leadership capability, and cultural alignment, ensuring professionals well equipped to address the operational, social, and regulatory challenges that shaped the ExpoMinera agenda.
This performance resulted in an average time-to-hire of 53 days, significantly below the industry benchmark of approximately 90 days, supported by a truly global reach across 15 countries and five continents, with searches executed in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
In line with the key messages from the event, JDV Partners’ multisector experience—spanning mining, oil & gas, renewable energy, power, infrastructure, logistics, IT & Telco, and government—combined with its international presence across the Americas, Europe, and Oceania, enables the firm to deliver integrated human capital solutions tailored to the technical, social, and strategic challenges of the modern mining industry.
JDV Partners’ participation in ExpoMinera Internacional reinforces its commitment to innovation, sustainability, and the responsible development of the mining industry, delivering strategic solutions to its clients across the region through highly specialized human capital.
Carlos Gavilanes
Business Development Manager
JDV Partners
Specialized Recruitment / Labor Hire / Outplacement / Employee Wellbeing
About JDV Partners
JDV Partners, an international leader in Human Resources Consulting, Recruitment, and Personnel Selection, specializes in eight (8) interconnected sectors (Logistics / Infrastructure and Construction / IT & Telco / Renewable Energies / Electric Power / Hydrocarbons / Mining / Government). It is experiencing sustained growth in all regions where it operates, focusing its approach on Human Resources with services such as Recruitment and Personnel Selection, Training and Development, Workplace Wellbeing, Implementation of Human Resources Software, Outplacement, Payroll Administration, among others.
Our proposal actively seeks business relationships with companies conducting operations in Latin America, North America, and Europe.
For more details about JDV Partners’ services in Human Resources Consulting, Recruitment, Personnel Selection, Workplace Wellbeing, and others, please contact Juan David Viñas, Managing Director, at +57 300 5551290 or via email at carlos.gavilanes@jdvpartners.com.