Seminar in MPE

Students will gain knowledge in a wide ranging set of interesting topics, concepts and real- life experiences in MPE

Restricted special topics to be covered include the following: (i) Sustainable Mineral Resources Development: Seeing the big picture: Mineral Exploration, Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing Technology, and Extractive Metallurgical Engineering as a relay race. The ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’, the ‘where’, and the ‘which’ of the four programmes and allied fields. (ii) Leadership Skills: Vision, mission, and strategy in leadership. Definition of Leadership: The fact that leadership can be caught (natural attributes) and taught (leadership training). What it means to be transformational leaders; forms of leadership. Academic leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, professional leadership and political leadership. Visionary and strategic leadership. (iii) Machine Design and Fabrication of Mineral Processing Equipment: List of equipment used for gravity separation, flotation of minerals such as shaking table, air float, magnetic separator, electrostatic separator, flotation cell, and design principle of selected machines. (iv) Machine/Equipment Design and Fabrication (based on need-driveness): Equipment used design and fabrication of equipment used in ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. Different type of furnaces: Furnace design and fabrication. (v) Geometallurgy: Interface between geosciences and metallurgy, emerging, need-driven and multidisciplinary scientific field. (vi) Geo-statistic: Critical tool for mine design among other purposes towards sustainable mineral resources development. (vii) Rare Earth Elements: Definition, extraction process route for this rare and expensive metals for specialised industrial applications (viii) Bitumen Processing in Nigeria: The what, the why, the how, the where, the when, the which the who and for whom of bitumen processing (ix) Cement Production in Nigeria: The what, the why, the how, the where, the when, the which the who and for whom of cement production. (x) Gold: occurrence geology, mineralogy, characterization, process design and production in Nigeria. (xi) Platinum Group of Metals: geology, mineralogy, characterization, process design and production.