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ABUBBAKARY SALAMA

Senior Lecturer , Head of MMPE, School Of Mines And Geosciences
Education:

• PhD, Mining Engineering and Rock mechanics, 2010- 2014 Lulea University of Technology, Sweden • MSc in Mining Engineering, 2006-2007 Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Mines De Paris, France • BSc in Mining Engineering, 2001-2005 University of Dar es Sal

Teaching:

For the last 5 years, he has been teaching the following courses:

1. Operations Research in Mining – A third year course
2. Mine Development– A first year course
3. Computer Simulation of Mining Systems– A fourth year course
4. Underground Mining Systems – Postgraduate course
5. Mining costs – Postgraduate course
6. He has supervised 6 MSc students.

Research:

Research interests:  Underground mine planning, mine closure plan, geotechnical investigation

Publications:

  1. Salama, A., Nehring, M., and Greberg, J. (2015). Evaluation of the impact of commodity price change on the mine plan of underground mining, International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, Vol. 25, No. 3, 375-382.
  2. Salama, A., M. Nehring, and J. Greberg. (2017). Financial analysis of the impact of increasing mining rate in underground mining, using simulation and mixed integer programming. Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 117(4): 365-372.
  3. Skawina, B., Greberg, J., Salama, A., & Gustafson, A. (2018). The effects of orepass loss on loading, hauling, and dumping operations and production rates in a sublevel caving mine. Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 118(4), 409-418.
  4. Salama, A. (2019), Prediction of haul unit’s requirements for the open pit mines operating towards closure. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology, 38(2), 8193. 7
  5. Greberg, J., Salama, A. (2020), Analysis of the Current Challenges for Deep Underground Mines: Labour Productivity Improvement. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology, 39(1), 32-46.
  6. Skawina, B., and Salama, A., (2021), Analyzing the Electricity Consumption and Costs of Electrical-Powered Machines When There is Orepass Failure in Underground Mine, Tanzania Journal of Science, 47(1): 180-193.
  7. Salama, A., Greberg, J., and Schunnesson, H. (2014). The use of discrete event simulation for underground haulage mining equipment selection, International Journal of Mining andMineral Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 3, 256–271.
  8. Salama, A., Nehring, M. and Greberg, J. (2014). Operating value optimisation using simulation and mixed integer programming, International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, Vol. 28, No. 1, 25-46.
  9. Salama, A., Greberg, J., Skawina, B., and Gustafson, A. (2015). Analysis of energy consumption and gas emission for loading equipment in underground mining. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM Journal), Vol. 6, No. 4, pages 179-188.
  10. Greberg, J., Salama, A,. Gustafson, A., and Skawina, B. (2016). Alternative Process Flow for Underground Mining Operations: Analysis of Conceptual Transport Methods Using Discrete Event Simulation." Minerals 6, No. 3: 65.
  11. Skawina, B., Salama, A., & Greberg, J. (2019). Simulating the effect of LHD operations on production rates and ventilation costs in a sublevel cave underground mine. CIM Journal, 10(3).

Further publications can be accessed through :https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fxp9slgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra