GENERAL
CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Our
company is in a position to prepare feasibility
studies for investment in the mineral industry.
We organize workshops, seminars and lectures to
meet specific needs in the Earth Sciences, Field
Trips and excursions for corporate bodies in Nigeria.
Such workshops and field trips have been organized
for Benue Valley at various times in the last few
years.
These
include Books and other well researched Papers and
Publications by Dr. M. E. Offodile. Managing Consultant
of the company.
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Geology of the Middle Benue (Doctoral
Thesis) ISBN 91-506-00080-X. Published
by Paleontological Institution of the University
of Uppsala, Sweden (Out of Print, but can be obtained
by special arrangement). This
is the doctoral thesis of the Managing Consultant,
Dr. M. E. Offodile which “apart from preparing
the geological map of part of the Benue Valley of
Nigeria, studied the economic potential of the project
areas and resolved the outstanding problems of the
Nigeria Stratigraphy which included:
- The working out for the first time the Stratigraphy
of the area and correlating it with the other parts
of the country and the south Atlantic basins.
- Relating the geological history to events connected
with the opening of the south Atlantic
- Resolving the problem of the late Cenomanian –
Turonian transgressions and
- Resolving the question of the direction of the
Maastrichtian – Paleocene transgression in
the Nigeria Sedimentary basin.
Important
diagnostic macro (ammonites) and micro (forams and
estracods) were described and used to set up the
stratigraphy of the area.
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Co-Editor: Proceedings of International Workshop
on Natural and Man Made Hazards in Africa.
1995 Publication of N.M.G.S. ISBN 978-30956-1-7.
(Available from Nigerian Mining & Geosciences
Society).
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Occasional Papers: Geological Sciences
Vol. 1 No. 1, 2006 ISBN: 978-30956-3-3.
(Published by Mecon Mecon Geology and Engineering
Services Ltd) containing the following:
- Integrated Accelerated Exploration
Program for Solid Mineral Resources Development
in Nigeria (I.A.E.P) (Paper Presented
at Jos Presidential Zonal Workshop on Economic Private
Sector led (Solid Mineral Resources Development
in Nigeria) held in Jos 23rd – 24th November
1994.
- The Inevitable Link of Geology and
Mining to the Economic Development Planning of Nigeria
(2005). (Paper Presented at the National
Academic Conference of the Plateau State Polytechnic
Barkin Ladi).
- Appraising the Geology, Structure
and Environments of Deposition as indicators of
Mineral Occurrences in the Gongola Basin of the
Upper Benue Trough of Nigeria. (Paper
presented at the Annual Conference of NMGS (2006)
Kaduna).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF DR. M. E. OFFODILE:
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The economic significance of some cretaceous
events in the Benue valley. 13th Annual
Conference NMGS Journal of Mining & Geological,
Vol. 14 No. 2 1977 Abstract page 72.
- Reconnaissance Survey of areas of
barites occurrences in Benue Plateau State of Nigeria.
Preliminary investigation of barites deposits in
Azara area of Lafia division. Nigeria Mining Corp.
Report. Project leader and co-author.
- Stratigraphy of the Keana –
Awe area of the Middle Benue Region of Nigeria 1976.
09.15. (Co .Author) Offodile, M. E.
and Reyment R. A. Bull of the Geol. Institution
of the University of Uppsala, N.S., Vol. 7, pp.37-66
Uppsala ISSN 0302-2749.
- Geology of the Middle Benue, Nigeria.
Ph.D Thesis. Publication of the Pal.
Inst. Of the University of Uppsala, 1976. Special
Vol. 4.
- A Mineral Survey of the Cretaceous
of the Benue Valley, Nigeria, Cretaceous Research
(1980). Vol. 1, pp. 101 -124.
Some
other well researched publications and reports of
our Managing Consultant are as follows:
- The Problems of Water Resources Management
in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Mining
and Geology Vol. 19, No. 1, 1982.
- Aspects of the Hydrogeological characteristics
of the sandstone aquifers of the Lafia sub-basin
of the Middle Benue (Nigeria). Journal
of Mining and Geology Vol.19, No.1, 1982.
- The occurrence and exploitation of
Ground Water in Nigerian Basement Rocks.
Nigerian Journal of Mining and Geology Vol.20, No.1
and 2, 1983.
- Geology and Tectonics of Awe Brine
Fields. Journal of African Earth Sciences
Vol.1, No. 4, 1984 (Ms. 62).
- NMGS Presidential Address, 20th Annual
Conference of the NMGS at Nsukka March 1984. The
Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society. A review
of the Past and a Stance for the Future”.
Proceeding and Abstracts Journal of Mining and Geology
Vol.21, 1984 Nos. 1 & 2.
- Presidential Address, 21st Annual
Conference and Inauguration of National Secretariat
of NMGS Jos 10th – 15th March 1985. Ground
Water Development in Nigeria Proceedings and Abstract.
Journal of Mining and Geology Vol.22
1985 No. 1 & 2.
- Water Resources Management and the
Nigerian Ground Water Systems. Water
Resources (Journal of the Nigerian Association of
Hydrogeologists) Vol. No. 1, September 1988. p.63.
“Role of Scientific Societies in National
Development Nigerian Academy of Sciences.
- Ground Water Potential in the Nigerian
Fluvio Volcanic Series of the Jos Younger Granite
Complex. Water Resources (Journal
of Nigeria Association of Hydrogeologist) Vol. 1,
No.2, October 1989.
- The Occurrence and Exploitation of
Ground Water in Nigerian Basement Rocks.
Nig. Journal of Mining and Geology Vol.20, No.1
& 2, pp.131.
- Quantitative Analysis of the Hydrogeological
Parameter for the Management and modelling of hydrogeological
Systems. The Amba River (Lafia).
- Nigerian
Water Development Report (NWDR): Contribution
to UNECA sponsored African Water Development Report
2004 covering Introduction, Background Information
on Nigeria, Current State of Nigeria’s Fresh
water, Challenges and targets for Water Vision 2025,
and Conclusion. (can be obtained from united Nations
Economic Commission for Africa Adis Ababa, Ethiopia).
Book Publications on Water.
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An Approach to Ground Water Study and
Development in Nigeria ISBN 978-30956-09, 1979 AND
Ground Water Study and Development in Nigeria. 2002,
2nd Edition. PP. 435 ISBN 978-30956-2-5:
Covering Hydrological cycle, Hydrogeology of Nigerian
River Basins, Water Resources Management, Ground
Water Chemistry. Ground Water Exploration and location
of boreholes, Drilling and Design of Boreholes Mining
and Ground Water Problems, and Ground Water in the
Nigerian Basement Complex rocks. The Second Edition,
published in 2002, in addition includes; Ground
Water pollution studies, Ground Water and the Environment,
and Climatic Change. New Edition available. PUBLISHED
BY Mecon Geology and Engineering Services Ltd.,
Jos.
