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Lignite

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Nigeria
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It is considered the ...
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Ball clay

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Niger
Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica, 6–65% quartz. Localized seams in...
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Shale

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Nigeria
Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that forms from the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles that we commonly call "mud." This...
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Tantalite

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Abuja
Tantalite (Fe,Mn) Ta2O6 is the primary source of the chemical element Tantalum. It is chemically similar to columbite, and the two are often grouped t...
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Iron ore

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Katsina, Kogi
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. Theores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color fro...
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Kaolin

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Anambra, Kaduna, Katsina...
Kaolin is a versatile industrial mineral with wide application in the cosmetic, pulp and paper, chalk, agro-allied and pharmaceutical industries. ...
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Glass sand

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Nigeria
Glass Sand A special type of sand that is suitable for glass making because of its high silica content, and its low content o...
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Lead

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Cross River, Ebonyi
Lead  is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. It is ...
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Aquamarine

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Nigeria
Aquamarine is a color that is a light bluish tint of green that is in-between Blue and spring green on the color wheel. It is named after the mineral ...
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Bauxite

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Nigeria
Bauxite ore is the world's main source of aluminum. Bauxite is a rock formed from a reddish clay material called laterite soil and is m...
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Bentonite

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Adamawa, Anambra, Borno...
Bentonite is an absorbent aluminium phylosilicate essentially impure clayconsisting mostly of.montmorillonite There are different types of bentonite, ...
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Marble

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Abuja, Ebonyi, Katsina...
Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Pure white marble is the r...
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