The President NSME

Engr. U. A. Hassan holds ACSM & B.Eng (Hons) in Mineral Process Engineering from Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, England; MSc and PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from ABU Zaria. He is also a registered Mineral Process Engineer with COMEG & COREN, a Fellow of Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers (NSME), Nigerian Metallurgical Society (NMS) and Nigerian Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (NAEGE) as well as being a Member of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Professional Member of American Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration.

Engr. Hassan has over 37years of professional experience in the Mining sector comprising: Academia (Lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic, NIMG Jos, IBBU Lapai, & ABU Zaria). Operations with Nigerian Mining Corporation (NMC) in exploration & exploitation of phosphate rock, Kaolin, feldspar, quartz, calcium carbonate, barite and production of burnt bricks and hydrated lime; with National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency as it's DG,/CEO exploring steel raw materials; and with Steron Mining Co Limited exploring & exploiting lithium as it's Executive Director (Exploration and Mining).

Engr. Hassan has had the previlege of serving two Hon. Ministers of Mines and Steel Development as Technical Assistant - Mines (2011 - 2015) & Technical Adviser (2016 - 2018). He is currently the President of Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers(NSME), the Vice President of Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS) and Member of the Technical Team of the NESG Mining Thematic Group.