Latin American Minerals Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Cameron Tymstra as Chief Operating Officer to oversee the mining and processing operations for the Company's Independencia gold mine in Paso Yobai, Paraguay. He has worked on a number of exploration and development projects across Canada, United States and Colombia. These projects include gold, silver, iron and uranium. Cameron served as the Operations Manager for Northern Iron Corp. where he oversaw the feasibility investigations at their Ontario projects. He spent the last two years as the Mining Engineer at Magnetation Inc.'s iron tailings mining and reprocessing operations in the United States.