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SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, INC.7811 Shaffer Parkway • Littleton, CO 80127-3732 USA
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Student Chapter Annual Report FormThe purpose of this form is to report on Student Chapter activities over the previous year. The report provides a useful medi-um to document the status and progress of individual chapters. Annual Reports are used to evaluate applications for SEG sup-port and to keep Student Chapter information up-to-date on the SEG website. Please provide a summary of Student Chapteractivities in a concise form as suggested below. Description of programs may be supported by a limited number of photographsand figures in a format appropriate for publishing on our website.
Submission Deadline: 30th September Submit to: studentprograms@segweb.orgThis form should be submitted with the Student Chapter Membership Information form
Month/Year Reported — From: Mo./Yr_______________________ To: Mo./Yr. _______________________
Student Chapter Name: _________________________________________________________________________________
Student Chapter Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________
Student Chapter Website : _______________________________________________________________________________
Student Chapter Executive Committee (each must be SEG Student Member in good standing) (type “Vacant” if position not filled):
President: ___________________________________________ ________________________________________Name E-mail
Vice President: ___________________________________________ ________________________________________Name E-mail
Secretary: ___________________________________________ ________________________________________Name E-mail
Treasurer: ___________________________________________ ________________________________________Name E-mail
Student Chapter Academic Sponsor (must be SEG Fellow Member in good standing):
__________________________________________ _________________________________ ______________________Name E-mail Phone
_____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________Address Fax
Student Chapter Industry Sponsor (SEG Fellow Membership is highly recommended; Industry Sponsor should not be affiliated with thestudent chapter’s institution):
__________________________________________ _________________________________ ______________________Name E-mail Phone
_____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________Address Fax
Sponsoring Institution or Company (name): _________________________________________________________________
Attach a list of names of all Student Chapter members (please indicate by * if SEG Student Member).
On a separate page(s) provide a summary of annual activities:1. Regular meetings, lectures2. Field trips (dates, area visited, field trip leaders, number of participants, sponsors, benefits for students). Note: this is
not the place for a detailed field trip report that is required from a Student Chapter who has received SEG funds.3. Organization of conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants, benefits for students)4. Participation in conferences, workshops, short courses (theme, number of participants from the Student Chapter, ben-
efits for students)5. Fund-raising programs6. Other programs7. Future plans Aug2009VS
10/2013 5/2014
SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS MAKERERE UNIVERSITY STUDENT CHAPTER
MUK, P.O BOX 7062 , Department of Geology and Petroleum studies
N/A
DAVIS MWESIGWA dmwesigwa9@gmail.com
BRIGHT MUHONEREZI brightonmuhoo@gmail.com
SUSAN AKAMPURIRA akampuriras@yahoo.co.uk
MARIKO BEEGIRA beegiramark@yahoo.com
John V. Tiberindwa johnvtiberindwa@gmail.com +256-71345787
Department of Geology and Petroleum studies, Makerere University
Avrom Howard aeh@nebuconsulting.com +1-970-234-9757
NEBU Consulting LLC
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
SEG MUK STUDENT CHAPTER ANNUAL CHAPTER SEG MUK Student Chapter commenced in September 2013 after its approval
and conducted the following activities.
Meetings SEG MUK chapter has held about 15 official executive meetings since
September, 2013 discussing field trip plans, SEG memberships, fundraising for
events and others.
Field Trips TRIP TO MINERAL ORE DEPOSITS IN WESTERN UGANDA Makerere SEG Student Chapter was privileged to have conducted its first field
trip to mineral deposits of Kasese district, Uganda from 19th to 21st January,
2014.
Stop 1 (20th)
Five trip participants travelled to Hima cement industry and traversed around the
limestone quarry a few metres from the cement plant after safety and caution
presentation from Mr. Joseph Kabaseke a PRO formerly working as a mining
supervisor.
Participants interacted with the quarry manager who provided more information
regarding the limestone mining in the area.
Like most other sedimentary rocks limestone is composed of skeletal and non
skeletal grains such as aquatic organisms, ooids, peloids, intraclasts, extraclasts.
These organisms secrete shells made of aragonite, calcite and leave these
shells when they die.
interaction with quarry manager
A presentation about physical and chemical techniques involved in the use of
limestone to manufacture cement by Mr. Philemon Mubiru a laboratory chemist
concluded our visit as shown summarized in the figure below.
transforming of raw materials into fine powder with binder characteristics
Product milling (clinker storage, milling, packing)
Pyro processing (burning line)
Raw mix separation (quarrying, crushing, grinding, blending
Stop 2 (21st)
Participants made it to the formerly abandoned Kilembe copper mines in
Nyamwamba area, Kasese district.
A presentation about further mineral exploration for copper , cobalt in the area by
Mr. Alex Binego Kwatampora a senior geologist welcomed us to the plant.
Formerly pyrite a product from processing chalcopyrite for copper was used in
the cut-and-fill method but later found to be a cobalt ore thus among exploration
targets are to excavate it and process it for cobalt.
participants with Mr. Alex copper cobalt mine tunnel
Stop 3 (21st)
At about 10: 30, from Kilembe mines another stop was made at the Nyamwamba
hotsprings that could act as geo-medical hotspots where natives visit for fun and
treatment of various sicknesses.
FIELD TRIP TO EASTERN UGANDA This was carried out from 8th to 12th February 2014. The aim of the trip was to
cover different tertiary alkaline volcanic rocks of Eastern Uganda in different
stages of erosion. Each of these have have unique characteristics and some
complexes have been useful economically and others still have potential .
Partcipants included 9 Bsc students 1 Msc student and was headed by Dr.
Andrew Muwanga a senior lecturer at the geology department.
inlet
exit
Stop at Peripheral Bukusu Carbonatite complex A central vent conglomerate of Bukusu complex is surrounded by a poorly exposed
broad zone of ijolite, melteigite and nepheline-synites and a rather narrow fringe of
pyroxenes, micapyroxenite, and hornblendite. This out crop is located at the edges of
the busuku complex and it consists of a quartz granitoids which has the composition of
quartz, plagioclases, and some alkaline minerals. The complex is surrounded by a
broad zones of feldspathization in which leucocratic granite and synite and quartz
pegmatoide have developed from the country rocks (granodiorite-gneisses).
Stop at Busumbu Phosphate mine The phosphate mine is located along the southern foot of the carbonatite. It is an open
pit mine within the Bukusu complex. The mine was established by the Busumbu Mining
Company after the East African Industrial Research Board carried out investigations to
obtain phosphate fertilizer for Kenya. Ores are of hard phosphate rock outcrops such as
phoscretes as well as friable phosphate bearing residual soil. These are underlain by
pyroxene-phlogopite-apatite-magnetite rock at depth, near a carbonatite vent. Friable phosphate was mined by hand from shallow adits and pits from about 1945-
1963. It was then crushed, dried, ground in a ball mill. Coarse magnetite was removed
to provide a fine grained phosphate rich powder. This was used as a raw phosphate
fertilizer.
Hard phosphate rock (grading 25-30%) was mined by blasting, crushed and screened
from 1950-1955. The undersize resulting material was exported to Kenya where it was
roasted with soda ash to make a soluble soda phosphate fertilizer. The grade of the
soda phosphate is said to have been 28% P2O5 with a solubility of 18% P2O5 in citric
acid. Production was superseded by the Sukulu operation in 1965. This mine was
produced a lot of agro-minerals like franchite, vermiculite and phosphate and from this
was considered as the agro-mine.
A recent re-evaluation of Busumbu ridge has given a resource estimate from the
surface to an average depth of 6m of 8.5 million tonnes with a grade ranging between
11-19% P2O5
abandoned Busumbu phosphate mine
Stop at Sukulu Carbonatite Complex The Sukulu carbonatite complex is a circular group of hills, about 4km across that
consists of carbonatites intruded from multi centres.
The principle carbonatite at Sukulu is sovite coarse grained and calcite rich, although
irregular patches of berfosite, dolomitic carbonatite, and ankerite occur as cross cutting
veinlets. The rocks are rich in magnetite, apatite, micas, tremolite, zircon and
pyrochlore.
sovite at Sukulu carbonatite complex
In the carbonatite, several wide valleys are filled with thick chocolate-brown residual and
colluvial soils. The soil of the North valley were worked by open cast mining and apatite
concentrated and used for manufacture of single superphosphate at the nearby factory
Holes dug leading to underground mining
of Tororo Industrial Chemical and Fertilizers Limited (TICAF), a subsidiary company of
the Uganda Development Corporation.
Near Sukulu phosphate are lime burners who make use of the Calcium carbonate which
is heated to give CaO ,Water is then added to CaO to form Calcium hydroxide which
turns powder form as it gives out heat(Exothermic). Lime that comes out of the whole
process is used in; Road construction, smoothening walls before painting and
strengthening the soil.
participants at Sukulu carbonatite complex
MUK Geology Barbeque This took place on 9th May 2014 at Makerere University staff canteen and
was attended by geology students and distinguished guests. It was hosted by
the association of geology students at the university uniting different chapters
particularly SEG MUK student chapter. The event commenced at about 17:45 and
among the special guests was Mr. Dozith Abeinomugisha a senior geologist
working with Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development who encouraged
students to advance their careers in the field of geology.
SEG MUK Chapter president delivered a brief speech to the geology fraternity
about the good news of SEG MUK approval and its benefits as well as
encouraged all geologists to join the society. Among other invited individuals
were the MUK AAPG president, MUK SEG president, MUK SPE president,
MUGA president and East African Geoscience Association vice president.
some of geology students that attended the event
After speeches from special guests the outgoing president SEG MUK president
introduced the present old executive committee and handed over to the
appointed new executive committee and attendees took dinner.
SEG MUK president (left) with presidents of other chapters cutting a farewell cake
Future plans
� Conducting career talks from experienced economic geologists and mentors
in the industry and academia.
� Organising more field trips particularly to areas like mineral ore deposits of
Northern Uganda; Titanium deposits in Kwale, Kenya; gold deposits in
Buzwagi, North Mara, Tanzania and other possible areas.
� Increasing student SEG memberships
� Creating SEG MUK website etc
SEG MUK Chapter Members
YEAR III
MWESIGWA
DAVIS(*)
dmwesigwa9@gmail.com President
MUHONEREZI
BRIGHT(*)
brightonmuhoo@gmail.co
m
Vice President
BEEGIRA
MARIKO(*)
beegiramark@yahoo.com Treasurer
AKAMPURIRA
SUSAN(*)
akampuriras@yahoo.com Secretary
MUGENYI
SULAIMAN
mugenisula56@gmail.com Member
MUHANGI
ROGERS
muhangirogers@gmail.co
m
Member
KYOMUGISHA
KIIZA LEAH
leahkyomugisha@yahoo.c
om
Member
KAKOOZA
CHARLES
charkaks0@gmail.com Member
KAJUMBA GRACE grace21kajumba@yahoo.
com
Member
CHELIMO LABAN labn.chelimo@yahoo.com Member
YEAR II
ANKWASA IREEN
(!)
ankrynreal@gmail.com Member
NANTONGO
CATHERINE
DEBORAH (!)
ncathypink07@gmail.com Member
MUGANGA
MICDAD(!)
ftmicdad@gmail.com Member
MULINDE
RODRICK
mulinderodrick@gmail.co
m
Member
KUSIIMA GERALD gkusiima@cns.mak.ac.ug Member
YEAR I
BUGEIGA
ALLEN(!)
allenbugeiga@gmail.com Member
MAFENE EMMA ekanumaf@gmail.com Member
MUGISHA
RONALD
mugishalawry@gmail.com Member
KITAKA
WILBERFORCE
wilberanode@gmail.com Member
NUWAGABA
ALLAN
nuwagabaallan810@gmail
.com
Member
SESSANGA BOB opersessa@hotmail.com Member
ALARU ISAAC konirasch@gmail.com Member
KASEDDE BINT bintex2006@yahoo.co.uk Member
AKANKWASA
PHILLIPO
akankwasaphillipo@gmail.
com
Member
NDAGIJJE edwardndagije@gmail.co Member
EDWARD m
OPIO JOREM joremopio9@gmail.com Member
KIRABO ERISMAS merikgift@gmail.com Member
KIGOZI SAM kigozisamuel14@gmail.co
m
Member
SSEJJEMBA
MARTIN
ssejjemba1992@gmail.co
m
Member
WAAKO JULIUS waakojulius@gmail.com Member
Academic Advisor: John V. Tiberindwa johnvtiberindwa@gmail.com
Industry Advisor : Avrom Howard aeh@nebuconsulting.com
NB (*) SEG student member (!) Pending SEG student member
In conclusion we would like to appreciate the support rendered to the chapter
by Dr. Walter L. Pohl in its establishment and as well as SEG grant of $1000
to the chapter to support its activities as well as Department of Geology,
Makerere University. Thanking you all.
Founding President (2013 – 2014)
Davis Mwesigwa
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