*Arshad Ali¹, Mohamed El-Ghali^1,2, Mohammad Kakar³, Iftikhar Abbasi², Sobhi Nasir^1,2, Rehanul Haq Siddiqui⁴, Leonardo Nogueira⁵, Osman Salad Hersi⁶, Mohamed Moustafa², Iffat Jabeen⁷, Nisar Ahmed⁸ (1.Earth Sciences Research Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2.Department of Earth Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 3.University of Balochistan, Pakistan, 4.Saindak Metals, Pakistan, 5.Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, 6.University of Regina, Canada, 7.Project Management Institute, South Western Ontario Chapter, Canada, 8.College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)