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Manuel Nopeia

Dr Manuel Nopeia

Postdoctoral fellow
Name: Manuel Nopeia
Location: C1 Lab 433
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 4739

Email:听nopeiam@uj.ac.za

About Dr Manuel Nopeia

Dr. Manuel Nopeia has been employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Instrument Scientist at the Department of Geology, 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, South Africa, since October 2025. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Resources Engineering, with a specialization in Economic Geology, from Kyushu 欧美福利100000 in Japan (2022). From 2016 to 2017, Dr. Nopeia worked as a junior geologist at VALE Mozambique, contributing to the Expansion Project for the Moatize Coal Mine in Tete Province. Over the years, he has focused primarily on studying orogenic precious and base metal deposits, as well as magmatic-hydrothermal base metal deposits in both Asia and Africa. His research also encompasses various issues related to the mineral extractive industry and its societal impacts in Mozambique.

Supervisor

Prof. Axel Hofmann

Research interests

Geology and geochemistry of hydrothermal and magmatic-hydrothermal mineral deposits, particularity base, precious, and critical metals

Current projects

  • Witwatersrand gold
  • Precambrian precious and base metals in Mozambique and Zimbabwe
  • Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in Japan and the Philippines
  • The mineral extractive industry and society in Mozambique

Selected papers

  • Suharjo, E., Takahashi, R., Agangi, A., Syafrizal, and Manalo, P., Nopeia, M., 2025. Apatite and biotite geochemistry constraints on the petrogenesis of the granites in Bangka Island, Indonesia: Implications for tin mineralization. Resource Geology, 75(1), e70017. .
  • Mokane, L., Agangi, A., Takahashi, R., Betsi, T. B., Phili, K., Nopeia, M., Kelepile, T., Fukuyama, M., Bagai, Z., and Manalo, P., 2025. Geochemistry and U鈥揚b Geochronology of Garnet From the Somerset and Arab Gold Deposits, Vumba Greenstone Belt, Northeastern Botswana: Implications for the Timing of Gold Mineralization. Resource Geology, 75(1), e70012. .
  • Agangi, A., Bunga Naen, G., Nopeia, M., Amini, H., Takahashi, R., and Manalo, P., 2025.Kuroko deposits of NE Japan: the product of high-temperature, shallow felsic volcanism in a deepening continental rift. Terra Nova. .
  • Nhamutole, N., Bamford, M., Souza, P.A., Felix, C.F., Pereira, E., Bastos, L., Mandes, L., Deus, O., Nopeia, M., and Carmo, D.A., 2025. Reconstructing the Late Permian-Early Triassic environment of a coal-bearing succession in the Maniamba Basin, Mozambique (Central Gondwana): A multiproxy palynological and geochemical approach. International Journal of Coal Geology, 304, 104755. .
  • Soberano, O. B., Takahashi, R., Manalo, P., Agangi, A., Sato, H., and Nopeia, M., 2005. Mineralization Characteristics of the Hokuryu Epithermal Au鈥怉g Deposit, Hokkaido, Japan. Resource Geology, 75(1), p.3.70003. .
  • Nghoongoloka, A., Takahashi, R., Manalo, P., Agangi, A., Sato, H., Mocke, H., Nopeia, M., Blamey, N., Enno, T., and Bowell, R., 2024. Genesis of sediment鈥恏osted copper and silver mineralization at the Omatapati prospect, Kaoko Belt, Opuwo district, Kunene region, Namibia. Resource Geology, 74(1), p.312341. .
  • Nopeia, M., Imai, A., Yonezu, K., Takahashi, R., Agangi, A., and Jamal, D., 2024. Timing and origin of gold mineralization in the Neoproterozoic Xixano Complex, Mozambique Belt, northeastern Mozambique: Case study of the Nanlia and Makorongo prospects. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 218, 105350.
  • Nopeia, M., Imai, A., Takahashi, R., Yonezu, K., Manalo, P., Tindell, T., Jamal, D., and Agangi, A, 2023. Geology and geochemistry of gold mineralization at the Namicupo prospect, Mozambique Belt, northeastern Mozambique. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 249, 107220. .
  • Seaba, O. L., Imai, A., Yonezu, K., Nopeia, M., and Baliki, K., 2023. Nature and conditions of gold mineralization at the Tau deposit, Mupane mine, Tati greenstone belt, Botswana: Evidence from fluid inclusion and arsenopyrite geothermometer. Resource Geology, 73, e12316. .
  • Nopeia, M., Mondlane, S., Takahashi, R., Jamal, D., Abdulgani, I., and Baptista, 2022. An integrated geoscience approach to effective formalization of artisanal mining in Mozambique: a case study of Namuno District, northeastern Mozambique. The Extractive Industries and Society, 11, 101098. .
  • Nopeia, M., Takahashi, R., Imai, A., Jamal, D., and Agangi, A, 2021. Geological and geochemical characterization of the Nanlia and Makorongo gold prospects, Mozambique Belt, northeastern Mozambique. Ore Geology Reviews, 135, 104195. .