Mineral Deposits and Exploration Potential of Nigeria

by Moses A OLADE

Overview

Nigeria, the most populous nation and largest economy in Africa is endowed with abundant mineral resources, including energy fuels, industrial minerals, gemstones, and metallic minerals. As West Africa has become a major destination for mining investors and exploration companies, Nigeria's mineral resources have generated considerable interest from exploration and mining companies worldwide. This book furnishes a detailed description of the deposits of metallic, non-metallic, solid energy, gemstones and industrial minerals in Nigeria with emphasis on their location, geological setting, mode of occurrence, physical and chemical characteristics, ore reserve estimates and metallogeny. It also provides a geoscientific analysis of the solid mineral sector, mineral production statistics, mining, and potential targets for mineral exploration.

There are twenty chapters in the book, divided into five parts. Part I is an introduction to mineral resources and discussion of the geological and tectonic setting and classification of Nigeria's mineral deposits. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of known deposits of eighteen metals (Fe, Au, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ag, Sn, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ti, Bi, Cr, Ni, Pt, Mn, Al)  with emphasis on their geological environment, mode of occurrence, mineralogy, origin, ore reserves mining history, and exploration. Part 3 describes the distribution, geological setting, and reserves of solid energy minerals (uranium, coal, and bitumen), while Part 4 focuses on the geological occurrence, mineralogical and physical properties, mineral reserves and uses of non-metallic minerals comprised of thirty industrial minerals/rocks and several gemstone minerals. Part 5 reviews the status of the solid minerals industry, new mining regulations, mineral production statistics, mining practices, metallogenic provinces, and assessment of resource potential and exploration targets in Nigeria. A Glossary of Common Terms in Economic and Mining Geology is included at the end of the book. 

This book is an invaluable source of information, not only for geology and mining students, but also for practicing geoscientists, exploration and mining professionals and administrators in government and private companies who are interested or involved in economic geology, mineral exploration, and mineral resource development in Nigeria.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087862125
Publisher:	Geotectonics LLC
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	402
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About the Author

Dr. Moses (M.A.) Olade is a retired Professor of Economic Geology who has lectured and published widely on the mineral deposits of Nigeria. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Geology in 1969 from the premier University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and M.Sc. in Economic Geology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1972 where he studied sandstone uranium deposits. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1974 where he worked on porphyry copper deposits. He was a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa he investigated uranium occurrences in alkaline igneous complexes. He was Professor and Head of Department of Geology at the University of Ibadan Program Director of the first UNDP-sponsored Postgraduate M.Sc. training program in Mineral Exploration for Africa, and pioneer Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Federal University of Technology (FUTA), Akure. Supervised several dozens of M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses; and is the author of over 100 journal articles and technical reports. After two decades in the United States working on mineral resources development and environmental protection and teaching as adjunct faculty at the University of Phoenix, he returned to Nigeria in 2012 as a Visiting Professor and Dean at the Achievers University, Owo where he lectured and provided leadership in developing academic programs at the new University, as well as collect data and conduct field visits for this book. Prof. Olade is a distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society and former Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Journal of Mining and Geology.

Table of Contents

There are twenty chapters in the book, divided into five parts. Part I is an introduction to mineral resources and discussion of the geological and tectonic setting and classification of Nigeria's mineral deposits. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of known deposits of eighteen metals (Fe, Au, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ag, Sn, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ti, Bi, Cr, Ni, Pt, Mn, Al)  with emphasis on their geological environment, mode of occurrence, mineralogy, origin, ore reserves mining history, and exploration. Part 3 describes the distribution, geological setting and reserves of solid energy minerals (uranium, coal, and bitumen), while Part 4 focuses on the geological occurrence, mineralogical and physical properties, mineral reserves and uses of non-metallic minerals comprised of thirty industrial minerals/rocks and several gemstone minerals. Part 5 reviews the status of the solid minerals industry, new mining regulations, mineral production statistics, mining practices, metallogenic provinces and assessment of resource potential and exploration targets in Nigeria. A Glossary of Common Terms in Economic and Mining Geology is included at the end of the book. 

Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction to Mineral Deposits

Chapter 2: Geological Setting of Nigeria's Mineral Deposits

Chapter 3: Distribution and Classification of Nigeria's Mineral Deposits

Chapter 4: Iron Ore Deposits

Chapter 5: Gold Deposits

Chapter 6: Lead and Zinc Deposits

Chapter 7: Copper Deposits

Chapter 8: Tin-Niobium-Tantalum Deposits

Chapter 9: Tungsten-Molybdenum-Silver

Chapter 10: Manganese Deposits

Chapter 11: Nickel Deposit

Chapter 12: Chromium Deposits

Chapter 13: Titanium-Platinum-Bismuth

Chapter 14: Uranium Deposits

Chapter 15: Coal and Bitumen Deposits

Chapter 16: Industrial Minerals

Chapter 17: Gemstones

Chapter 18: Metallogenic Epochs and Metallogenic Belts

Chapter 19: Solid Minerals Production and Mining Practices

Chapter 20: Mineral Resource Assessment and Exploration Prospects

Bibliography

Glossary of Terms in Economic and Mining Geology