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Biography
I am a geochemist and an igneous and metamorphic petrologist, with a strong interest in metallic mineral deposits and environmental geochemistry. I hold Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Chemistry, and a Master of Science degree in Geology, both from the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania. I earned my Ph.D. in Mineralogy and Petrology from Christian Albrecht University of Kiel in Germany, where my research focused on crustal evolution and metallic mineralization in the Paleoproterozoic Ubendian Belt of Tanzania.
Currently, I serve as senior lecturer and Head of the Department of Geosciences at the UDSM. I teach a range of courses, including magmatic and metamorphic petrology, metallic mineral deposits, ore genesis, ore microscopy, volcanology and Geology of Tanzania.
My research interests are broad, with a particular focus on the formation and evolutionary of geological terranes and their associated Earth resources.
Research Interest
Geochemistry
Magmatic and metamorphic petrology - processes and petrogenesis
Economic Geology - Mineral deposit studies
Geothermal Resources and Exploration techniques)
Volcanology
Environmental Geology
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Projects
Study of the nature and formation history of polymetallic (Au-Cu-Pb) deposits of the in the Ubendian Belt, North Western Tanzania.
Geochemical and age determination of the Litembo granitoids of Ruvuma region and assessment of their potential for hosting strategic metal deposits.
Investigation on sand mining practices associated environmental impacts and alternative sand sources in Dar es Salaam.
Genesis and evolution of carbonatites, the main Rare Earth Elements deposit.
Publications
Chuwa, G.L., Kasanzu, C.H., Kazimoto, E.O., Apen, F.E., 2025. Trace element geochemistry and zircon U-Pb geochronology of mafic sills from the Karagwe-Ankolean Belt of northwestern Tanzania: Implications for petrogenesis and Ni-Cu-Co prospectivity. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 268, 107614.
Kiswaka, E.B., Stephen, E., Saroni, J.J., and Kazimoto E.O., 2024. The Permo-Triassic Karoo-equivalent organic-rich deposits of the Tanga Basin, Tanzania: sedimentary structures, depositional processes, and deposit types. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews.
Mulaya, E., Gama, R., Kimani, C. Joseph, P., Kazimoto, E. & Elisante Mshiu., 2024. The triggering factors on the 3rd December 2023 catastrophic landslide in the Hanang area, northern Tanzania. Landslides.
Chuwa, G.L., Kasanzu, C.H., Apen, F.E. and Kazimoto, E.O., 2023. Geochemistry and U–Pb zircon geochronology of S-type granites in the Karagwe Ankolean Belt, northwestern Tanzania: Implications for rare-metals mineralization. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 208, p.105078.
Miriam Christina Reiss, Francesco Massimetti, Amani S. Laizer, Adele Campus, Georg Rümpker, Emmanuel O. Kazimoto (2023). Overview of seismo-acoustic tremor at Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania: Shallow storage and eruptions of carbonatite melt. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 442, 107898, ISSN 0377-0273,
Zucchini, A., Gavryushkin, P. N., Golovin, A. V., Bolotina, N. B., Stabile, P., Carroll, M. R., Comodi, P., Frondini, F., Morgavi, D., Perugini, D., Arzilli, F., Cherin, M., Kazimoto, E., Kokh, K., Kuznetsov, A., & Medrish, I. V. (2022). Crystal structure of nyerereite: A possible messenger from the deep Earth. American Mineralogist, 107(11), 2054–2064.
Biggs, J., Ayele, A., Fischer, T. P., Fontijn, K., Hutchison, W., Kazimoto, E., Whaler, K., & Wright, T. J. (2021). Volcanic activity and hazard in the East African Rift Zone. Nature Communications, 12(1), 6881.
Kimani, C. N., Kasanzu, C. H., Tyne, R. L., Mtili, K. M., Byrne, D. J., Kazimoto, E. O., Hillegonds, D. J., Ballentine, C. J., & Barry, P. H. (2021). He, Ne, Ar and CO2 systematics of the Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania: Implications for fluid source and dynamics. Chemical Geology, 586(October), 120584.
Mtili, K. M., Byrne, D. J., Tyne, R. L., Kazimoto, E. O., Kimani, C., Kasanzu, C., D. J. Hillegonds, D. J., Ballentine, C. J. and Barry, P. H. 2021. The origin of high helium concentrations in the gas fields of southwestern Tanzania. Chemical Geology, 120542.
Reiss, M.C., Muirhead, J.D., Laizer, A.S., Link, F., Kazimoto, E.O., Ebinger, C.J., Rümpker, G., 2021. The Impact of Complex Volcanic Plumbing on the Nature of Seismicity in the Developing Magmatic Natron Rift, Tanzania. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 1–25.
Muirhead, J. D., Fischer, T. P., Oliva, S. J., Laizer, A., van Wijk, J., Currie, C. A., Lee, H., Judd, E. J., Kazimoto, E. O., Sano, Y., Takahata, N., Tiberi, C., Foley, S. F., Dufek, J., Reiss, M. C., & Ebinger, C. J. 2020. Displaced cratonic mantle concentrates deep carbon during continental rifting. Nature, 582(7810), 67–72.
Kazimoto, E.O., 2020. Short Wavelength Infrared Spectral Characterization of the Mineralogy of Gokona and Nyabigena Andesite-Hosted Gold Deposits in North Mara, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science 46 (2), 354–370.
Mpangile, Z.M., Kazimoto, E.O., Msabi, M.M., 2020. Reconnaissance Exploration for Gold in the Misaki Area within the Iramba-Sekenke Greenstone Belt, Central Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science 46 (1), 151–170.
Kazimoto, E.O., Mshiu, E.E., 2020. Reconnaissance assessment of the Stenian-Tonian granitoids of southern Tanzania for metal resources by using geological remote sensing and geochemical techniques. Geochemistry 80, 125533.