Illegal Mining in Nigeria: The Environmental and Social Havoc Caused …
Illegal mining has emerged as a pervasive issue throughout Nigeria, with individuals from Russia, China, and local communities engaging in unlawful activities to exploit the nation's abundant mineral resources. This has resulted in extensive environmental degradation, fueled banditry, and wrought devastation upon mineral …
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Nigeria Battles Illegal Mining: A Crisis of Lost Wealth and
In a revealing investigation, Nigeria's quest to harness its mineral wealth is facing a dire challenge as illegal mining activities flourish, leading to significant revenue loss and posing severe environmental and security threats. From the chambers of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals to the distressed farmlands of Ezuruike, a …
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Environmental Impacts of Mineral Exploration in …
settings. With large deposit of mineral resources spread across Nigeria fromJos(tin and columbite) in the north to Edo (lead) in the south and Enugu (coal) in the east to Ogun (limestone) in the west,stories of the negative effect of mining on the environment are bound.Records have shown that the solid mineral sector is the second
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Land degradation in gold mining communities of Ijesaland, …
This paper identified 37 mining sites in ten gold mining communities of Ijesaland, Nigeria; examined the forms, levels and extent of land degradation resulted from mining activities; analyzed spatial pattern of land use and finally assessed the effects of mining on livelihood of the people. The study utilized global positioning system receiver …
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(PDF) The environmental implications of the …
Coal mining has a significant impact on people lively hood and the environment, the environmental shock ranges from environmental degradation to destruction of wildlife and their habitat while on the other …
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Environmental health situation in Nigeria: current status …
Environmental health-related risks are becoming a primary concern in Nigeria, with diverse environmental problems such as air pollution, water pollution, oil spillage, deforestation, desertification, erosion, and flooding (due to inadequate drainage systems) caused mostly by anthropogenic activities. This paper reviews the pre-existing …
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Environmental Issues and the Prospects of Mining in Nigeria
The three stages of mineral development, viz exploration, mining and processing, have caused different types of environmental damages, which include ecological disturbance, destruction of natural ...
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Mining in Nigeria: Challenges, opportunities, and prospects
Opportunities for growth. Diversification of the economy: Mining in Nigeria presents an opportunity for Nigeria to diversify its economy away from over-dependence on oil and gas revenues. Developing this sector can create jobs and reduce vulnerability to fluctuations in oil prices. Resource endowment: Nigeria's vast mineral resources provide …
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Promoting climate-Smart Mining In nigeria
high environmental degradation. Already many coal and other mineral mining host communities around the country are facing severe environmental pollution, …
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Environmental Impacts of Mineral Exploration in …
Mineral exploration and processing have caused varying degree of environmental damage in Nigeria. These include alteration …
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Comparative Study on the Adverse Environmental and …
The neglect of the solid mineral sector by the government has led to many environmental and societal problems. In 2008, radioactive materials abandoned since 1960 in mining fields in central Nigeria's Plateau State were reported to pose serious health hazards to about 2 million people (The New Humanitarian, 2008).
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Solid Mineral Mining Challenges in Nigeria: Artisanal Small …
This is an exposé of the challenges faced by artisanal and small-scale mining in Nigeria. Therefore, factors such as environmental, investment fund, equipment, regulatory and administrative challenges are highlighted here. The scope of these types of mining business cover those for gold mining, Zinc & Lead, sand & gravel, and many …
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NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE NIGERIAN SOLID …
The solid mineral sector has been targeted by the Nigerian government to lead this agenda of economic diversification as the country has identified forty -four solid minerals minable in commercial quantity.3 However the scourge of illegal mining of these solid mineral is a clear and
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Ministry of Solid Minerals Development – On the Road to Shared Mining
Ministry of Solid Minerals Development . ... Nigerian Institute of Mining Geosciences (NIMG) Solid Mineral Development Fund (SMDF) Enquiries and Suggestions. ... Call on +2348033111888. Mail at. [email protected]. Office Hours. 8am to 4pm. 44+ Mineral deposits in Nigeria. There are at least 44 Mineral deposits in commercial quantities in …
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Environmental Degradation: Consider Policies To Protect …
Senator Osita sponsored a motion to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the dwindling revenue desirable from solid mineral development in the country.
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Inside the explosive illegal mining business in Nigeria
By the virtue of Section 44 of our constitution that made solid minerals to be on the Exclusive List, mining of minerals whether lucid or solid, takes precedence over any other economic land usage.
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Climate Change, Conflict, and Resource Extraction: Analyses …
Conclusions: Rapidly rising metal prices and demand will continue to fuel environmental health crises associated with mining. Given Africa's growing role in the global mineral economy and the massive number of subsistence communities who will continue to be impacted by climate change, strategies that support responsible artisanal …
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The Status of Land Degradation, Soil Erosion, Landslides and …
Land Degradation and Soil Erosion. Land use-land cover changes (LULCC) have become pronounced especially in developing countries because of unprecedented population explosion and subsequent overexploitation of natural resources good instance of which is the upper Eyiohia river catchment in Nigeria (Abbas and Fasona 2012; Obiahu …
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Environmental Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Similarly, in Nigeria land degradation represents one of the most crucial challenges facing the country. It affected an estimated 50 million people in 1990, at an annual cost of US$3 billion, including costs of food importation (Economic Commission for Africa, 2001).Generally the impact of soil erosion on farm-level productivity is often …
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Acid Mine Drainage: The Footprint of the Nigeria …
Mining of solid minerals in Nigeria has been taking place since the beginning of the last century, and being a developing country with a characteristic lack of …
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The Devastating Effects of Environmental …
2. DEGRADATION. Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water, and soil, the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife.(Wikipedia) When the environment becomes less valuable or damaged, environmental degradation is said to occur.
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Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta Ecosystem: …
Other activities include shipping, dredging, and sand mining. These activities produce solid and liquid waste. It also result in the sedimentation of the river by washed-up soil. ... Anthropogenic pollution is a major cause of environmental degradation globally. Nigeria is the largest producer of crude oil in Africa because of the oil-rich ...
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SOLID MINERALS IN ANAMBRA STATE: NEGLECTED GOLD MINES – Radio Nigeria
Despite being richly blessed with mineral deposits, Anambra state is one of the States in need of government attention to harness the mining sector now said to be in the hands of artisans and illegal miners, who risk their lives and expose the environment through unwholesome practices that cause erosion and other environmental …
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Environmental Impacts of Mineral Exploration …
Mineral exploration and processing have caused varying degree of environmental damage in Nigeria. These include alteration of ecological state, air, water, soil pollution, destruction of soil ...
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25 Environmental Laws in Nigeria
25. MINERAL ACT CAP. 286, L.F.N 1990. The Mineral Act is one of the Environmental Laws in Nigeria that monitors and regulates the mining of minerals (non-oil minerals) and prohibits mining operators from cutting or taking protected trees without consent polluting watercourses, exploiting water unauthorised.
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Environmental impact assessment of coal mining at Enugu, Nigeria
Sixty-five percent of the respondents said that water pollution was most severe environmental impact of mining in Akwuke. The major health hazard caused by mining in Akwuke (55% of respondents) and Iva (65% of respondents) was blindness. Indeed, 82.5% of respondents indicated that mining affected the pattern of settlement in …
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SOLID MINERAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN …
housing provisions in the built environment. The mineral exploitations and industrial establishments that are solid minerals based, in no small way, contribute to the socio-economic transformation of the environments through job creation. This is made possible by taking from the environmental local resources and paying back,
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Environmental effect of mineral exploitation in Nigeria
The three stages of mineral development, viz exploration, mining and processing, have caused different types of environmental damages, which include …
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Mineral Exploitation and Environmental Consequences …
Nigeria, from Jos (tin and columbite) in the north to Edo (lead) in the south, Enugu (coal) in the east, and Ogun (limestone) in the west, thus tales of the damaging effects of mining on the environment are inevitable. According to records, behind crude oil, the solid mineral industry is the second largest contributor of pollution [3].
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The environmental implications of the exploration …
Abstract. Mining activities can have serious negative effects on the environment, these effects occur from the exploration stage to the closure stage of a …
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