Profile

Geology researcher with a research expertise in the field of Economic Geology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Mineral Resource Prospecting and Exploration and Different kind of Ore Genesis and its Mineralization.

Research Interest

My current research work is based on the Genesis of Chromite, its partial melting based on mineralogical, petrological characteristics and PGEs abundances aa well as the association of UHP minerals in chromitites.

Educational Background

Ph.D. Mineral Resource Prospecting and Exploration (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China)2015 – 2020

Thesis: Geological Setting and Genesis of Ophiolitic Chromitites and Peridotites along Indus Suture Zone (Main Mantle Thrust), North Pakistan

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jian-Wei Li

MS Economic Geology and Geochemistry (National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan)

Thesis:  Study of heavy minerals and exploration of placer gold, silver and base metals in the Siwalik Sandstone of Karak Anticline and its adjoining areas, District Karak, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 2010 – 2013

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tahir Shah

BS Geology (University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan)

2005 – 2009

Project in Progress

Origin of the Indus Suture Zone (Main Mantle Thrust) Ophiolite and associated chromitites in Northern Pakistan

Published Articles

2021

1. Muhammad Farhan, Muhammad Arif, Ye Ying, Xuegang Chen, Dieter Garbe-Schonberg, Zaheen Ullah, Izhar Sadiq. “Host rock peculiarities and influence of major structures on gold and base metals sulfide mineralization in northern Pakistan” Periodico di Mineralogia)(2021). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1002/16621
2. Asad Khan, Shah Faisal, Zaheen Ullah, Liaqat Ali, Abuzar Ghaffari, Javed Nawab, Mehboob Ur Rashid “Pyrochlore-group minerals from the Loe-Shilman Carbonatite Complex, NW Pakistan: implications for evolution of carbonatite system” Periodico di Mineralogia)(2021). https://doi:10.13133/2239-1002/17360
3. Umar Ashraf, Hucai Zhang, Aqsa Anees, Hassan Nasir Mangi, Muhammad Ali, Xiaonan Zhang, Muhammad Imraz, Saiq Shakeel Abbasi, Ayesha Abbas, Zaheen Ullah, Jar Ullah, ShuchengTan “A Core Logging, Machine Learning and Geostatistical Modeling Interactive Approach for Subsurface Imaging of Lenticular Geobodies in a Clastic Depositional System, SE Pakistan” Natural Resources Research (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-021-09849-x
4. Asad Khan, Shah Faisal, Kyle P. Larson, Delores M. Robinson, Huan Li, Zaheen Ullah, Mark Button, Javed Nawab, Muhammad Farhan, Liaqat Ali, Muhammad Ali. “Geochemistry and in-situ U-Th/Pb geochronology of the Jambil carbonatites, northern Pakistan: Implications on petrogenesis and tectonic evolution” Journal of Earth Science (2021).
5. Muhammad Farhan, Mohammad Arif, Ye Ying, Xue-Gang Chen, Dieter,Garbe-Schönberg, Chun-Feng Li, Zahid Hussain, Zaheen Ullah, Ping-Ping Zhang, Asad Khan. “Fluid source, element mobility and physicochemical conditions of porphyry-style hydrothermal alteration-mineralization at Mirkhani, southern Chitral, Pakistan” Ore Geology Reviews (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104222

2020

6. Zaheen Ullah,Jian-Wei Li,Paul T. Robinson,Wei-Wei Wu,Asad Khan,Ngo Xuan Dac,Munir Mohammed Abdalla Adam “Mineralogy and geochemistry of peridotites and chromitites in the Jijal Complex ophiolite along the Main Mantle Thrust (MMT or Indus Suture Zone) North Pakistan” Lithos (2020). https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105566
7. Zaheen Ullah, Muhammad Tahir Shah, Rehanul Haq Siddiqui, Dong-Yang Lian, Asad Khan “Petrochemistry of High-Cr and High-Al Chromitites occurrences of Dargai Complex along Indus Suture Zone, Northern Pakistan” EPISODES (2020). https://doi.org/ 10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020002
8. Umar Ashrah, Hucai, Zhang, Aqsa Anees, Hassan Nisar Mangi, Muhammad Ali, Zaheen Ullah, Xiaonan Zhang “Application of Unconventional Seismic Attributes and Unsupervised Machine Learning for the Identification of Fault and Fracture Network” Applied Sciences (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/app10113864
9. Munir M.A. Adam, Xinbiao Lv, A.A. Abdel Rahman, Robert J. Stern, Asma A.A. Abdalrhman, Zaheen Ullah “In-situ sulfur isotope and trace element compositions of pyrite from the Neoproterozoic Haweit gold deposit, NE Sudan: Implications for the origin and source of the sulfur” Ore Geology Reviews (2020). https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103405

2018

10. Muhsan Ehsan, Hanming Gu, Malik Muhammad Akhtar, Saiq Shakeel Abbasi, Zaheen Ullah “The Identification of Hydrocarbon Potential of Talhar Shale Member of Lower Goru Formation by Using Well Logs Derived Parameters, Southern Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan” Journal of Earth Science (2018) 29, 587–593.