Moses A OladeDr. Moses (M.A.) Olade is a retired Professor of Economic Geology who has lectured and published widely on the mineral deposits of Nigeria. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Geology in 1969 from the premier University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and M.Sc in Economic Geology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1972 where he studied sandstone uranium deposits. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1974 where he worked on porphyry copper deposits. He was a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa he investigated uranium occurrences in alkaline igneous complexes. He was Professor and Head of Department of Geology at the University of Ibadan Program Director of the first UNDP-sponsored Postgraduate M.Sc. training program in Mineral Exploration for Africa, and pioneer Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure. Supervised several dozens of M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses; and is the author of over 100 journal articles and technical reports. After two decades in the United States working on mineral resources development and environmental protection and teaching as adjunct faculty at the University of Phoenix, he returned to Nigeria in 2012 as a Visiting Professor and Dean at the Achievers University, Owo where he lectured and provided leadership in developing academic programs at the new University, as well as collect data and conduct field visits for this book. Prof. Olade is a distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society and former Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Journal of Mining and Geology. Read More Read Less