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Plateau is known for mining and milling of tin and columbite The geological formation and mineral distribution of the Jos plateau is shown in Figure 1
5 ·Continental Lithium is a revenue generating Nigerian mineral exploration and mining company founded in 2017 by two visionary entrepreneurs who have personally invested over $12 million into the company In Jos Plateau State our operations concentrate on the exploration and extraction of tin columbite zircon sand and monazite—four
·One of the oldest mining areas in Nigeria is the Jos Plateau in the Northern part of Nigeria where mining of cassiterite columbite zircon and monazite has been going on for more than a century Masok et al 2015a Unfortunately the mining processes come with accompanying inevitable environmental damage and hazards
·Fig 5 Burrow pits results of pre tin mining activities Source Greater Jos Master Plan 2007 Fig 6 Mine ponds results of pre tin mining activities Source Greater Jos Master Plan 2007 It is against this backdrop that this paper seeks to examine the abandoned tin mined region serving as a potential home for the people with a view to make
·Effects of Mining on Water Quality and the Environment A Case Study of Parts of the Jos Plateau North Central Nigeria James D Gyang 1 2and Edefatano C Ashano
·Jos the Plateau State capital is known as the Tin City Nigeria began tin mining there and the nation profited greatly from it Decades after the mining stopped indigenous communities in the
Mining on the Jos Plateau is dated back to 1902 with tin and columbite as the major targets Federal Department of Museum and Monuments 1979 Mining played a major role in the economic development of the country from 1904 up to the late 1970s Ghana Journal of Science Technology and Development
·6thproducer of Tin in the world while mining of Columbite started from 1933 1945 rating Nigeria as the world exporter of Columbite Mallo 2017 Jos South Barkin Ladi etc States like Bauchi and others also have cassiterite deposit Associated Minerals in Cassiterite Cassiterite is the chief ore of Tin Sn but it houses other
·Volume magnetic susceptibility measurements of cassiterite tailings were carried out on twenty eight tailing samples collected at some mine sites and processing mills in Jos Plateau Nigeria
·Tantalite cassiterite and columbite mining mostly from alluvial deposits and processing the ores have been taking place for over a hundred years on the Jos Plateau Productivity of artisanal tin mining in Jos South Local Government Area Plateau State Nigeria Int J Eng Adv Techno Stud 8 1 46 54 Google Scholar
·Cassiterite and columbite mining and processing have been taking place in the Jos Plateau area for several decades and associated with this activity are extensive amounts of mine tailings There is a growing concern over the radiological impact of these tailings since it has been established that these ores are associated with accessory
·Associated with tin and columbite are the radioactive minerals such as monazite niobium zircon and wolframite Jos is a mining town in Nigeria; mining activities has been going on in the
·Columbite has the same composition and crystal symmetry orthorombic as tantalite In fact the two are often grouped together as a semi singular mineral series called columbite tantalite or coltan in many mineral guides However tantalite has a much greater specific gravity than columbite more than compared to columbite s
·collected at some mine sites and processing mills in Jos Plateau Nigeria The volume magnetic susceptibility values ranged from ± × 10 5 SI to 947± × 10 5 SI with the lowest
TIN MINING ON THE JOS PLATEAU OF NIGERIA B W Hodder Mr Hodder Lecturer in Geography at the University College lbadan occurs columbite of which Nigeria is the world s chief producer though the demand for this min eral has dropped sharply on world markets recently During the boom years some of the
·Company mining tin ore in Jos Plateau in 1905 The discovery of coal in Enugu in 1909 and later the rail connection with Jos Enugu and Port Harcourt in 1927 helped boost mining and rail operation with Nigeria becoming a major exporter of coal tin and columbite The progress and growth that was being achieve was soon tapered by the
·Contributing 78 year old Abok Gyang a teacher in Bukuru Jos South Local Government Area described the mining operation in the area by the colonial masters as day light robbery
Columbite occurs in Plateau state Jos Nigeria mainly in the placers deposits of cassiterite usually found only a few of 10km from the granitic parent rocks So far the federal government of the country creates several establishments and sub sectors for columbite mining management to accelerate socio economic growth; improve national
·Columbite also called niobite niobite tantalite and columbate is a black mineral group that is an ore of niobium and tantalum near the Jos Plateau through Isanlu Egbe in central Nigeria to the Ijero Aramoko llesha areas of southwest Nigeria and a few occurrences in the Obudu and Oban massifs of southeast Nigeria Report Title
·Alluvial columbite tailing test samples was sourced from an abandoned mine field in Rayfield Jos South Plateau state Nigeria Reference mineral sample with a known grindability/work index was also utilized in this study Reference sample was Gyel Bukuru columbite mineral ore sourced from Gyel town Eastern Jos Plateau state Nigeria
The discovery of tin on the Jos Plateau in the early 1900s heralded the influx of several foreign and indigenous mining companies Mention must be made especially of events in the 1950s when the introduction of mechanized mining by such mining companies like the Bisichi Jenta Ltd resulted in higher production of minerals
The tin mining industry on the Jos Plateau has caused extensive man made environmental damage with vast tracks of pastoral land systematically destroyed in the quest for cassiterite and columbite with increased radioactive waste as a result of dumping of mine tailings and several heaps of mine dumps overburden and also mine ponds scattered
The hydraulic mining operation then concentrated in the mining of deposits with cutoff grades of more than /ton The present artisanal mining however is engaged in mining of abandoned low grades /ton of tin and Columbite which at the present economic value still provides income to the artisanal miners