Athanas S. Macheyeki is a geologist, currently a Full-Time Commissioner for the Mining Commission in Tanzania and the former CEO of the Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, former Manager of Applied Geology - Geological Survey of Tanzania, former Principal of the Mineral Resources Institute - Dodoma and former Head of Department of Geology - University of Dodoma. Prior to working for the government of Tanzania, he served as Senior Exploration geologist for Kabanga Nickel Company Ltd, Anglo American Company (Tanzania) and was one of the geologists who explored and evaluated the Buzwagi gold deposit, one of the world-class gold mines. He is the holder of BSc., MSc., and PhD in Geology and developer of lithogechemical ratios useful for Ni-Cu sulphide exploration, particularly on concealed sulphide ore bodies. He has authored/co-authored over 12 publications, most of which are in peer reviewed journals. Dalaly Peter Kafumu is a geologist specialized in mineral exploration and paleosol development in the East African Rift System. A founder and currently lecturer at the Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga, an institution dedicated into competence based education and training to technicians to serve the mining industry. He was Part-time Lecturer in mineral exploration and environmental geology at the University of Dodoma and Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. Former Commissioner for Minerals in the Government of Tanzania and former Member of Parliament. Prior to becoming Commissioner he was an exploration geologist at the Geological Survey of Tanzania. He holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology and two Postgraduate Diplomas in Mineral Exploration and in Education. He has conducted over 10 international consultancy services in the mining industry and authored and co-authored a book on Applied Geochemistry: Advances in Mineral Exploration Techniques and over 15 peer reviewed scientific articles. Li, Xiaohui obtained his Ph.D., MSc and BSc from Hefei University of Technology, China. He is Associate Professor of School of Resources and Environmental Engineering at the HFUT. His research interests focus on the mathematical geology, especially on prospectivity modeling of the mineralization. He has been involved with many projects funded by the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Nature Science Foundation, Nature Science Foundation of Anhui province and so on. Based on these projects, he has published more than 30 research papers and was selected as a standing committee member of the Big data and mathematical earth sciences committee under the Chinese society of mineral rock geochemistry. Professor Yuan, Feng obtained his Ph.D. from Hefei University of Technology, China. He is Professor and vice-dean of School of Resources and Environmental Engineering at the HFUT. He was selected for the “New Century Excellent Talents in University funded by Ministry of Education of the PRC and selected as the vice chairman of the Big data and mathematical earth sciences committee under the Chinese society of mineral rock geochemistry.Professor Yuan’s research interests focus on the petrogenesis, metallogenesis and prospectivity modeling of the mineralization and is a member of the editorial board of Applied Earth Science. He has received a number of awards for his research, including Ministry of Land and Resources science and technology Award, China nonferrous metal industry science and technology award. As project leader, He carried out a number of projects funded by the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Nature Science Foundation and so on.
