ERA monitors visited Sabon-Barki community and Gyel District, both in Jos South LGA of Plateau State on August 5, 2009 in response to the growing call by impacted communities for a remediation of the ecological disaster and dislocation wrought on their environment and livelihood by nearly a century of tin mining and the failure of …
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Early Tin Production and Nigerian Labour on the Jos Plateau, 1906-1921: Author: Morrison, J.H. Year: 1977: Periodical: Canadian Journal of African Studies ... uncooperative labour found elsewhere in Africa. They also found indigenous tin miners competing in tin production. It is on these two aspects of tin mining - indigenous production and ...
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South Africa: Search Continues for Missing 6-Year-Old Joshlin Smith - South African News Briefs - April 19, 2024 (allAfrica) Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's New ZiG Doomed By Overall Lack of Transparency (ISS)
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the open cast mining method was used because the plains of Plateau were flat and tin was concentrated in old stream beds and was washed down from the younger granite outcropping units (Gyang ...
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the productivity of artisanal mining in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State; while the specific objectives are to describe the artisanal miners' profile, assess the various mining operations, productivity of artisanal mining operation, and identify the challenges encountered during artisanal tin mining. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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Tin mining areas in Nigeria. The. Jos Plateau is shown as a stippled circle; it is. the chief mining area and produces over 90 per cent of the tin in Nigeria each year. miles and by 1919 there were over 80 companies and syndicates producing 8174 tons of tin. Difficulties of accessibility remained serious.
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There were 80,000 African workers. Up to 1960, Jos was the sixth largest producer of tin in the world. Two hundred twenty-five kilometers of land was taken out by tin mining. This is only 4% of the plateau, which is in the valleys. Tin mining began to decrease because of substitutions and therefore prices declined.
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The Socio-Economic Effects of Colonial Tin Mining on the Jos-Plateau: 1904 – 1960 Charles .B. A. Azgaku, Ph.D. 1 Osuala, Uzoma 2 1. ... the Northern part of the Plateau which bears its name at an elevation of about 1,200m above sea level. As a town, it is the most asymmetrically placed State Capital in the whole of Nigeria, located at ...
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difference between the economic variables resulting from tin mining activities. The work showed that tin mining activities impacted on the environment significantly, leaving behind so much social and economic scars that the government needs to consider and take measures to ameliorate. KEYWORDS: economic impacts, sustainable development, …
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In tin mining in Plateau, the open cast mining method was used because the plains of Plateau were flat and tin was concentrated in old stream beds and was washed down from the younger granite ...
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The 'scars' of tin mining is still evident in Plateau State and the `Tin City' of Jos. The state is dotted with over 4,000 abandoned mining ponds, described as very dangerous as they contain radioactive materials. The ponds are reminders of the mining years, when tin was among the major sources of foreign exchange earners for the country.
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African Perspective The history of tin mining on the Jos plateau of Nigeria - an industry which began at the beginning of the 20th Century. Release date: 29 June 1995
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Some of the planting sites for tomato production involve areas that were linked to mining in Nigeria, e.g., Tin deposits in Jos-Plateau, while Coal deposits in Enugu (Fatoye & Gideon, 2013; Azgaku ...
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The Study examines the Socio-Economic Impact of Colonial Tin Mining on the Jos – Plateau. Tin Mining is said to be one of the oldest industry known to mankind. It has been in existence long before the coming into contact ... the Northern part of the Plateau which bears its name at an elevation of about 1,200m above sea level. As a town, it is ...
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Eastern Africa, part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia ...
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T v HE mining of tin has been largely responsible for profound changes in the landscape and in the social and economic structure of the Jos Plateau over the last 50 years. At the beginning of the present century, the plateau was one of the most backward parts of Nigeria; today it is one of the most developed, with roads, railways, towns, dams, and …
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At the turn of the 20th century, large deposits of tin ore were discovered in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria, and in 1905, large-scale mining operations started there. This created ...
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It added that Plateau State was next on the list with seven illegal mining sites found to be taking away tin; columbite, Barites and Zinc. ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa ...
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Jos, popularly called the Tin City in Africa used to be one of the largest mining sites. In this report, ACHOR ABIMAJE writes that the once lucrative trade is going into extinction. Plateau...
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Art isanal tin mining is practiced wor ldwide, it is mos t common in South Americ a, Asia, and Africa (Wor ld Health Organization, 2014). Millions of f amili es in deve loping nations depend on ...
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For the communities of Chugwi and Kewa-Bisichi, which are about 15 kilometres from Jos, Plateau State, in northern Nigeria, mining activities of the past and present have merged to impact locals. In this area, extensive tin mining occurred in the early to mid-20th century, devastating the environment and causing harm to the health …
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South Africa: Granite mining scars Bakgatla village. 28 January 2000. ... AllAfrica publishes around 400 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and ...
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14 February 2021. Premium Times (Abuja) By Felicia Dairo. Plateau State is a Nigerian food basket but tin mining activities are destroying farmlands and the youth are turning away from...
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What remains of tin mining in Plateau today is mainly the scars, disused mining pits and the hazards that they pose.
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AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 400 news and information items daily from over 100 African news organizations and our own reporters to an ...
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Plateau bears scars of tin mining . The discovery and exploitation of crude oil since the late 1950s is also blamed for the decline and near complete collapse of tin mining in Jos. Giving his perspective on what killed robust mining in Plateau State 66yearold Alhaji Adamu Aji who is the ward head of old tin mining Sabon Layin Rusau in Jos North …
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Hardness Test: Tin ore has a hardness of 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale, which means it can resist scratching and abrasion. A simple hardness test using a mineral hardness kit or a scratch test with common materials of known hardness, such as a fingernail (2.5), a copper penny (3.5), or a steel knife (5.5), can help determine the …
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Chinese-funded infrastructure projects have raised controversies due to the size of the loans contracted between 2000 and 2019 by African states worth US$153 billion, and the risk of debt distress ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 7.30 pm. The Jos Pleateau in Nigeria was famous for its tin mining during the time of British colonial rule. In her video work "Plateau," Karimah Ashadu accompanies the Nigerian workers who, even today, believe the mining area to be a jackpot, and encourages them to define themselves beyond the colonial past.
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The Southern part of Jos Plateau is in the Benue Lowlands extending towards the River Benue flood plain. Jos Plateau is situated between latitudes 10°11′N and 8°55′N and longitude 8°21′E ...
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AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 400 news and information items daily from over 100 African news organizations and our own reporters to an ...
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The present work deals with the radioactivity of samples of tin tailings collected from a mining site in Jos, Nigeria. The activity concentrations of the samples were measured using a gamma-ray spectrometer with a hyper-pure germanium detector. In situ dose rates at the site were also measured using a precalibrated survey meter. Potassium-40 was not …
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AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 400 news and information items daily from over 100 African news organizations and our own reporters to an ...
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This solid mineral brought fame and lured a lot of miners both within and outside the country to Plateau State. Though mining of tin was said to have started in 1904 but the exploration of the ...
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