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AMBROSE J. M. ITIKA

Senior Lecturer, School Of Mines And Geosciences
Education:

PhD 2000 – Technical University Clausthal, Germany MSc 1990 – Leeds University, UK, BSc 1988 – University of Dar es Salaam

Teaching:

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

Design and Operation of Mineral Processes – for fourth year students
Coal Processing and Utilisation – third year course
Engineering skills in mining – third year course

Research:

Research interests:  Mineral processing techniques, process design, small scale mining technologies

Publications:

  1. Soon-Young Soh1*, Yong-Jin Chun, Ambrose J. M. Itika, 2017: “A Study on Leaching and Solvent Extraction for the Recovery of Copper Ore for Small-Scale Mining in Tanzania”, Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial Cooperation Society, Vol. 18, No. 4 pp. 438-445, https://doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.4.438, ISSN 1975-4701 / eISSN 2288-4688
  2. S.V. Manyele, F. Goroi and A. Itika, (December 7-9, 2017): “Assessment of tyre quality in relation to road traffic accident for upcountry passenger busses”, Proceedings of the 29th National Conference, Naura Springs Hotel, Arusha, Tanzania
  3. Jennifer M. Case, Duncan M. Fraser, Anil Kumar and Ambrose Itika, (2015): “The significance of context for curriculum development in engineering education: a case study across three African countries”, European Journal of Engineering Education, pp 1-14
  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).

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