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Research and Development

The School of Mines research activities are underpinned by the objective of solving human development problems in our country and the world at large.

Current research projects are:

The Project of Riskased participatory WASH planning and citizenata WASH statistics for African perirban settlements. 3.8 Million USD.
Dr Tambo Research Chair in Water Conservation Fund. Project value 17 Million ZAR.
Tipping Point Explained by Climate Change. Project value 316,837 Euros.
Transformative Environmental Monitoring to Boost Observations in Africa. Project value 154,744 Euros.
Agile Exploration and Geodelling for European Critical Raw Materials. Project value 114,010 Euros.
Wetland Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Transboundary River Basins in Southern Africa. Project value 24,000 Euros.
Enhancement of the electric vehicle battery manufacturing value chain through technological innovation by producing electric vehicle battery precursors via modification of existing technologies to help Zambia enter the lithium electric vehicle battery manufacturing industry. Project value 784,989 ZMW.
Virtual regional pole of engineering geotechnical characterization of Shimabala regional soils. Project value 93,000 Euros.

The school continues to look for partners in research collaboration in the following areas:

Critical minerals value chain optimisation.
Development of new equipment for small scale mining
Resource recovery from tailing dumps
Advanced exploration technologies
Water resource management

Department Projects and Publications

Geology - IWRM
The SATREPS Project team from Japan visited the Department during which areas of collaboration in research were agreed upon, namely: groundwater, environmental remediation and mineral beneficiation.
Development of a water quality and quantity database for the Upper Zambezi (funded by SASSCAL) Project
Collaborative project, DAFNE – Decision Analytic Framework for Food, Water and Energy nexus within the Zambezi Basin continued from the second quarter.
Characteristaion of selected springs in Zambia: Sources of clean water and medicinal health.
Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment Service for Transboundary Basins in Southern Africa (WeMAST). Funded by Africa Union Commission. Awarded to SASSCAL Consortium on 10th November, 2017
Project for Visualisation of Impact of Chronic / Latent Chemical Hazard and Geo-ecological remediation in Zambia, KAMPAI Project. Funded by JICA
A Sanitation Project on “Characterisation of pit contents and developing a scientific understanding of processes occurring in onsite dry pit latrines systems in low income urban areas in Zambia”. Funds secured from Water Resources Commission (WRC) of South Africa as a sub-contractor of the WRC for the Belinda and Bill Gates Foundation Grant Project.
Geology
Geological Mapping in northern Zambia lakes area of oil exploration Block 31.

Research
Applied IWRM Research projects: This will involve carrying out a number of applied research projects, relevant for improved planning, regulation and allocation of Zambia’s water resources as well as for improved water services delivery. To build human capacity, each project will be encouraged to include at least one Zambian graduate student working on her/his degree.
Institute for Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH-Zürich; Surface Waters – Research and Management, Eawag, Switzerland; UNZA IWRM Centre, University of Zambia collaborative research on African Dams Project: ADAPT – An Integrated Water Resources Management Study in the Zambezi River Basin carried out by Masters and PhD students from Switzerland and Zambia.
- ADAPT Goals and Approach:
- Strengthen the interdisciplinary science of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) by creating new models for the real-time control and multi-objective optimization of large hydraulic structures in the Zambezi River Basin (ZRB).
- Enhance the data resources and conceptual frameworks to drive and integrate these hydrologic, biogeochemical, ecological, and socioeconomic models.
- Engage in IWRM capacity building through collaboration and exchange with partner institutions in the Zambezi River Basin.
- Current studies under ADAPT are focused on Kafue Flat’s large dams – Itezhi-tezhi and Kafue Gorge; and Lake Kariba on Zambezi including the prime wetland of Barotse Basin in western Zambia.
The Competing for water: Conflict and Cooperation project – a comparative research programme to establish the nature, extent and intensity of local water conflicts and cooperation and of their social, economic and political impacts through qualitative inventories and studies by three Danish partners Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) as the lead, Nordeco and DHI Water and Environment jointly in the five countries Bolivia Denmark, Mali, Nicaragua, Vietnam, and Zambia. In Zambia, the collaborative partner is UNZA IWRM Centre and the study is carried out in Namwala District of the Kafue Flats. IWMI, Southern Africa is also participating in the Zambian part of the project.
(a) ACP- EU Cooperation programme in Higher Education (EDU-LINK): a capacity building collaborative programme among University of Siegen, Germany Kenyatta University Nairobi, Kenya; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda and UNZA IWRM Centre on “University Capacity Development for Integrated Sanitation Management in Eastern and Southern Africa”. The project develops curricula and university cooperation in “Integrated Sanitation Management”.
- Establishment of Master Programme ‘Environmental Engineering, Monitoring and Management (E²M²) in Zambia supported by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD and co-financed by Universität Siegen; project period is from 1st January, 2009 to 31st December, 2012. Other collaborator is Copperbelt University.
Signed Memorandum of Understanding with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Boise State University, Boise, USA, Central State University, Ohio, USA. The initial focus for Boise State will be on “Partnership for Higher Education Development in Zambia Supporting Sustainable Use and Management of Water Resources, with Emphasis on Groundwater Resources”. Michigan would like to focus on research on the Zambezi River Basin and sharing of knowledge from their studies on the Great Lakes Region of North America.

Acid Mine Drainage Project
Natural Resource Accounting in Zambia project
Potential for Phosphorus Retrieval In Zambia
Value addition to industrial minerals

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