Athanas S. Macheyeki

Athanas S. Macheyeki is a Professor of Geology at the University of Dodoma. He previously served as Commissioner of the Minerals Commission of Tanzania, Executive Secretary of the Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Manager of Applied Geology at the Geological Survey of Tanzania and Principal of the Mineral Resources Institute in Dodoma. He is the Founder of Earth Sciences Institute of Shinyanga. Prior to his service in the Government of Tanzania, he worked as a Mineral Exploration Geologist with Anglo American Tanzania. He holds a BSc (University of Dar Es Salaam), MSc (University of the Western Cape), and PhD (Ghent University). He developed lithogeochemical ratios for the exploration of Ni-Cu sulphide deposits, including indices such as Pd/V × 1000 (Macheyeki, 2011). He has authored and co-authored more than 30 scholarly publications, including journal articles, geological maps, book chapters, and books, notably Applied Geochemistry (Macheyeki et al., 2020) and The East African Rift System (Macheyeki and Kafumu, 2024).