GIANT MINER

The availability of immense solid Mineral  in Edo is no longer in doubt as we have proven reserve of Dolomite, limestone, feldspar, kaolin, Granite , Gold , Sand among others. This becomes more authenticated when Journal of National research Volume 3, No.11 published in 2013 shows the distribution of limestone, dolomite and Marble within Akoko Edo, okpella, igara, atte, Etsako to mention few geographical locations. This was the view point discribled by Gov. Godwin Obaseki in December 18, 2016 on Nigeria Observer news that "Edo solid minerals can generate more revenue than oil".  But to strengthen the investor in the mining industry require a clear Road Maps for a sustainable funding.  Who are the Miners? A Miner is someone or a company having relevant Mining Rights, permits or licences from the Federal Government that are currently working no matter how small the level of operations is. Hence this Narrow our search to active Title Holders and not Lease Specula...

This article will dendriticaly explain how someone can add value to himself,  how to become the best in your field of study and get the job of your dream. It not new that securing job nowadays is very difficult for fresh graduates and that only those flexible enough with content rich brain can secure for themselves good job even after 4/5 years of study. Is not by grade or certificate now, the new currency exchange in labor market for job is value the son of knowledge. Thanks to God almighty, the giver of all wisdom, wisdom is the principal thing, in all your gettings get wisdom and knowledge. Actually, most Mining Engineers are paid base on productiveness, efficiency and knowledge inbuilt. This fact can't be compromised, how good is it if you can be sincere with yourself as a student reading this article or as a graduate reading this article, ARE YOU EMPLOYABLE? CAN YOU ACTUALLY DELIVER BY DEFENDING THE CERTIFICATE YOU CARRY??  Job interview is a package put ...

 I will be sharing knowledge on most important aspect of Mining Engineering, which is Drilling and blasting.  Actually, I always considered this as the most important aspect because as a Mining Engineer this is our tool, this is the only aspect that other Engineers can never share with us as a Miner. This aspect is wide and extend to various other Fields. Some of which are: 1.Petroleum in terms of casing perforation, Exploration (seismic survey) among other applications 2. Civil engineering works in the aspect of road construction ( road obstacle rock fragmentation), subsurface liquidification/compaction to mention few. 3. Borehole drilling: most time during Borehole drilling bed rock encountered are fragmented by blasting. This is just few out of the application of drilling and blasting in other Fields. What is Drilling? Drilling is the creation of artificial hole into rock by man controlled or automated machines without the admittance of man in the hole. M...

Many questions runs through my mind in 2016 when I was about to start the journey of my 5 years mining engineering study in Federal University of Technology Akure. I kept asking myself, which field is wealth host as far as Engineering is concern?  Why? Because I am aware of how many graduates have nothing doing after NYSC than to start from square one"learning peti trade" The first thing that comes into my mind was the abundant availability of mineral resources in Nigeria my country. I know From economics, establishment of companies in any country depend vividly on the availability of raw materials. I also understand from news that, the chance of getting job in my country is narrow if the wrong course is study but wide if the right course is study. But to be candidly speaking, there is no wrong or right department, the only problem is that most final year student  produced from most institutions are usually valueless. Some may study Geology without any useful Geolo...

COVID19 pandemic is generally know as a world wide challenge at this time. According to NCDC, Nigeria has recorded 288 cases as at today 10/04/2020. Mineral industry  Miners as other Nigeria workers lament on the effect of this pandemic as it's affect their operations in the mine. The president of Mining Association of Nigeria (MAN) as earlier declare the shutdown of all Mining industries in the country to contain further spread of the virus. Compliance to this order by the Miner will cost them a lot. Foreigner mine workers will definitely evacuate the country as well as those in charge of processing plants. Remember what civil war did to Enugu coal mine till today. This holiday will also led to the abandonment of mine surface water which will require high pumping cost. Apart from dewatering cost, most developed pit face will have been locked by erosive sediments and debris. .......If the pandemic could stop mining operations . How do we find to pay annual service fee f...

Get more Artificial Neutral Network ANN is a machine learning that mimics human natural neurons. It involves training data set to create a network that predicts as many as possible output using Sigmoid and logic function and other nonlinear activation function.Different algorithm can be use depending on the amount of available data set and required Mean square error and R. This is highly applicable in mining for Blast optimization, prediction of strength parameters, block number in dimension stone quarry, among others. Any thing optimization and prediction in mine or other field ANN is the solution.

I will share things  to clear somethings about #AKURE_Explosion This incident was fishy to me at start, but as an explosive engineer and Mining Engineer in making I try to make some findings about what really happened.  Firstly, explosive of large quantity is capable of creating such crater depending on it concentration. I will start with this, that the explosive been transported are usually contained in a vane/truck. *Why will the explosive detonate and create a crater??* *Reason for the Explosive Initiation* 1. By definition, Explosive is a chemical  compound which can be liquid or solid capable of undergoing rapid or violent detonation (in form of exothermic reaction)  under the influence of an impulse such as heat, fire, spark, lighting to release large volume of gas, waves and Energy. Can the Explosive be initiated by fire even when not charge with any primer or blasting accessories??? Yes. There are sinerio where there is explosive misfire under the ...