Benjamin Siyowi Mapani

Ph.D (Melbourne, Australia); M.Sc. (Nancy, France); B.Sc. Hons (University of Zambia).

Senior Lecturer

Geology Dept, Faculty of Science, Private Bag 13301, Windhoek; Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue, H-Block, Room H136

+264-61-2063745; Fax: +264-61-2063791, +264-81-2987534

bmapani@unam.na

Dr Mapani completed his Honours degree at the University of Zambia, School of Mines in 1986. Thereafter he worked for the Geological survey of Zambia for four years. One of those years he was seconded to Kabwe Mine, where he did some geostatistical work and local exploration. At the Geological survey, he completed mapping a quarter degree sheet, for the Serenje Area.  In 1989, he went for his Masters in France, at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Geologie (ENSG), in Geostatistical analysis of Geochemical data, which he completed in 1990.  In 1991, he went for his PhD in Structural geology, looking at fault systems and fluid flow mechanisms in these structures at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and completed it at the end of 1993, and graduated in 1994.  Thereafter he worked for a while for Stawell Gold Mines in Australia, in 1995, then he returned to the University of Zambia, where he taught Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geostatistics.

Metamorphic Petrogenesis, (GLY 3821); Plate Tectonics (GLY 37, Structural Geology, Research Methodology, Remote Sensing and GIS, Economic Geology of Gold Deposits, Geostatistics, Field Geology I, II and III.

Tectonic evolution of cratons and mobile belts; structural control of ore deposits; Environmental effects of tailings and wate rocks on water and soils

Selected Publications

1. Selected Publications:

    

   • Benjamin Mapani, Rainer Ellmies, Frederick Kamona, Bohdan Krˇibek, Vladimir Majer, Ilja Knesl, Jan Pašava, Maria Mufenda,  Filadelphia Mbingeneeko. 2010.  Potential human health risks associated with historic ore processing at Berg Aukas, Grootfontein area, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, volume 58, 634-647.
   • Mapani, B., Ellmies, R., Kribek, B., Kamona, F., Majer, V., Knesl, I., Pasava, J., Konapasek, J., Kawali, L,. 2009. Impact Assessment studies from Southern Africa: Human health risks associated with historic ore processing at Berg Aukas, Grootfontein, area, Namibia. Southern African Institute for Environmental Assessment;  pages 1-10; 2009, Cape Town.
   • DeWaele, B., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Wingate, M.T.D., Tembo, F., Mapani, B. and E.A. Belousova. 2009.  The geochronological framework of the Irumide Belt: A prolonged crustal history along the margin of the Bangweulu Craton.  American Journal of Science, volume 309, 132-187.   
   • Mapani, B.S. and Schreiber, U. 2008.  Management of city aquifers from anthropogenic activities: Example of the Windhoek aquifer, Namibia. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, volume 33,  674-686
   • De Waele, B., Kampunzu, A.B., Mapani, B.S.E. and Tembo, F.  2006. The Mesoproterozoic Irumide belt of Zambia.  Journal of African Earth Sciences, vol.46, 36-70.
   • Meck, M., Love, D. and Mapani, B. 2006.  Zimbabwean mine dumps and their impacts on river water quality- a reconnaissance study.  Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 31, 797-803
   • Lupankwa, K., Love, D., Mapani, B.S., Mseka, S. and Meck, M. 2006.  Influence of the Trojan Nickel Mine on surface water quality, Mazowe Valley, Zimbabwe: Runoff chemistry and acid generation potential of waste rock.   Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, volume 31,797-803.
   • Mapani, B.S. 2005.  Groundwater and Urbanization: the case for the city of Windhoek , Namibia.  Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, volume 30, 706-711. (Elsevier Ltd).
   • Lupankwa, K., Love, D., Mapani, B.S. and Mseka, S. 2004.  Impact of a base metal slimes dam on water systems, Madziwa Mine, Zimbabwe.  Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 29, 1145-1151.
   • DeWaele, B., Wingate, M.T.D., Fitzsimons I.C.W and Mapani, B.S.E. 2003.  Untying the Kibaran knot: a re-assessment of Mesoproterozoic correlation in southern Africa based on SHRIMP U-Pb data from the Irumide belt. Geology, 31, 509-512
   • Mapani, B.S. and Mondlane, S. 2003. Preparation of Examination questions in Earth Sciences: Their value and effect.  Teaching Earth Sciences, volume 28, number3/4, 29-32,United Kingdom, ESTA publishing.
   • Mapani, B.S.E. and Wilson, C.J.L. 1998. Evidence for externally derived vein forming and mineralising fluids: an example from the Magdala mine, Stawell, western Victoria. Ore geology Reviews, 13, 323-343.
   • Mapani, B.S.E. and Wilson, C.J.L., 1994. Structural evolution and gold mineralisation in the Scotchmans Fault Zone, Magdala Mine, western Victoria, Australia. Economic Geology, 89, 566-583.
   • Mapani, B.S.E., 1994.  The use of fluid inclusions in shear zones to determine processes of fluid flow: an example from the Stawell gold mine, western Victoria. Zambian Journal of Applied Earth Sciences, 18, 1-8.
   • Mapani, B.S.E., 1992. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Serenje and adjoining areas, central Zambia.  Zambian Journal of Applied Earth Sciences, 6, 1-8.
   • Mapani, B.S.E., 1992. A review of ore forming processes at Kabwe mine, Zambia. Zambian Journal of Applied Earth Sciences, 6, 87-91.
   • Samama, J.C., Mapani, B.S.E., and Tembo, D., 1991. Breccias and their use in paleoenvironments. Zambian Journal of Applied Earth Sciences, 4,22-29.

 Involved with excursions and talks at the Geological Society of Namibia; Member of the council for the Geological society of Africa.