Nigeria is often described as a country endowed with abundant mineral resources, including the occurrence of over 40 different solid minerals at approximately 450 locations. However, many of these occurrences can be justly described as mineral 'showings,' with little or no commercial prospect.
The few metallic minerals of importance are those of iron, lead-zinc, tin-tantalum, gold, manganese and probably nickel, while the valuable Industrial minerals and rocks are barite, halite, talc, kaolin, gemstones, limestone, marble and granite. They occur as relatively small deposits extracted by artisanal and small-scale mining and quarrying.
There is no single, large-scale or 'major' mining operation in the country, while Ghana has more than thirty of such mining operations. The solid minerals and mining sector contributed a paltry 0.5% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018, with annual production averaging 40 million metric tons valued at about 34 billion naira ($95 million US dollars).
The solid minerals with the largest production are industrial rocks; limestone, granite, laterite, sand, shale and clay that constitute over 95% of production by tonnage and 90% by value. The metallic minerals produced are mainly lead-zinc, manganese, gold, tin and columbite-tantalite which are exported and forming about 0.2 of total exports. The amount of gold produced is unknown, most of which is smuggled out of the country.
Efforts to diversify the Nigerian economy by increasing production and domestic utilization of industrial minerals, iron ores, bitumen and coal deposits form the core of a "roadmap" for the revitalization of the minerals and mining sector, with the main objective of increasing its contribution to 10% of GDP within the next decade. The absence of 'major' mining operations in the country is due to a lack of large or world-class mineral deposits which is attributed to the unfavorable geological and geotectonic environments.
It is surmised that the ancient rocks in Nigeria which lie within the so-called "Pan-African mobile belt" have been subjected to considerable tectonic instability, remobilization and rejuvenation with negative impacts on their ore-bearing potential. Nigeria, unlike Ghana, may well be destined as a "minerals nation" (with several mineral occurrences) but not a "mining nation" (with large mines).
We're mining
better mineral resources
Gold Mining
We major on four different methods. Placer mining, hard rock mining, byproduct mining and by processing gold ore. Other mineral resources we mine includes Nickel, Silver, Pink tourmaline, iron, lead, Zinc, and Coal.
Engineering Service
We engage the type of engineering that ensures the safety of people and quality goods.