Nuru Said is an Associate Professor at the Faculy of Earth Sciences, Department of minerals and rocks, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His PhD study addressed the spatial and temporal variations of the Yigarn craton mafic-ultramafic rocks using high quality geochemical, platinum group elements (PGE) and isotopic analyses. He applied the same approach to characterize the mafic rocks of the Birimian Terrane of the West African Craton (WAXI Project).

He has special interest and a strong academic focus in the areas of igneous petrology, geochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic setting of  felsic to mafic-ultramafic magmatic systems of all terranes and and geological ages; investigates the processes that led to to the genesis and preservation of ore deposits in various geodynamic settings; integrates multidicipilinary data sets in order to unravel the metallogeny and paleo-magmatic/hydrothermal evolution of mineral systems and controls on orebodies. As such, my scientific research interest focuses on characterization of magmatic systems and their contained mineralization and exploration. 

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Name: Nuru M. Said, PhD
Telephone: +61 (08) 93932430
Mobile: +61 422 331 906
Address: 7 Whitehourse Drive\, Harrisdale WA 6112

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Nuru M Said
Centre for Exploration Targeting M006
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, PERTH, WA 6009
CRICOS Provider Code: 00126G
Phone +61 4 22331906
Email: nuru.said@uwa.edu.au

Date and Place of Birth: 1969, Koloba, Oromia
Australian Citizen, 2003


QUALIFICATION
Bsc, PGrad Dip, PhD W.Aust.

Research expertise in mafic-ultramafic and felsic rocks geochemistry of all ages and their contained ore deposits (especiall Archean and Proterozoic terranes).

SGS_Maaden Lithospheric evolution and metallogeney of Proterozoic terranes of the Arabian Shield.

The evolution of mafic-ultramafic and felsic rocks. In particular, linking between geochemistry, geodynamics and mineralization.