Over 7.5 million tonnes of barite have been identified in Cross River, Benue, Taraba and Bauchi States of the upper and middle Benue troughs. Cross River State has the highest quality of barite in Nigeria. In the state, the mineral can be found in commercial quantities in Obubra LGA, Ikom LGA, Biase LGA and Ogoja LGA.Web

southern fringe (Cross River state). • Barite is found in nine states with an estimated total reserve of 22,298,843 tonnes on an average vein depth of 20 metres and a specific gravity of 4.2. • Largest reserves of barite occur in the states of Taraba (8.9m tonnes), Cross River (8.6m tonnes), and Nasarawa (3.2m tonnes).Web

The Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogar disclosed this in Calabar while receiving title documents for a 5 hectares land donated by the Cross River State government for the ...Web

million metric tons of barite have been calculated and documented for Cross River Stat for the first time. This has unarguably put Cross River State as having the largest reserve of barite in Nigeria.Web

Barite deposits in Cross River State therefore occur in a variety of host rocks. These include sandstone, shales, carbonaceous shale, dolerite, granite and gneiss outcrops in …Web

PDF | Barite deposits occur mostly as concealed mineralization dominantly in shales and sandstones of Cretaceous age …Web

Howbeit, the barite ore deposit is located at a distance from Lafia interior and is found in former Awe local government, Plateau state which is now Azara local government area in Nassarawa state ...Web

has unarguably put Cross River State as having the largest reserve of barite in Nigeria. KEY WORDS: Barite, VES, HRP, Reserve, geophysical. INTRODUCTIOIN Barite can occur in three forms, which include stratiform or bedded, residual and in veins. Barite veins occur in many parts of the world and they are the most productive.Web

This is a health risk, especially for babies and Sci 3(1):45–48 123 3810 Environ Earth Sci (2014) 71:3793–3811 Adamu CI, Nganje TN, Edet A (2009) Hydrochemistry of waters near amended by Council Directive 81/855/EEC and Council Regu- some barite mining areas, Cross River State, Nigeria.Web

The Federal government has launched Barite Processing Plant to minimize high rate of illegal mining and smuggling in South-South. geopolitical zone of the country.Minister of Mines and Steel ...Web

... The quality of barite from Cross River State is among the best in the world as experimental studies show that the barites have specific gravity values ranging from 3.7 …Web

Mkpoikana Udoma. Port Harcourt — The Federal Government has announced that Cross River State has over 33 solid minerals including barite, lead, zinc, iron ore, granite, manganese, amongst others. Minister of State for Solid Minerals, Mr Uche Ogah, made the announcement in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, during a two …Web

Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment associated with abandoned barite mines in Cross River State, southeastern Niger ia.pdf Content available from CC BY-NC-ND 3.0:Web

Barite has been mined near communities in Cross River State (southeastern Nigeria). These abandoned mine sites constitute some of the largest …Web

In view of high application in the oil and gas industry, the global barite market size was $1.55 billion in 2019. This is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8 per cent from 2020 to 2027. Although, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 affected its demand as oil producers were crippled with …Web

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A historical resource estimate was calculated based on the historical drilling, yielding a silver-barite mineral resource of 37.2 million tons (33.9 Mt) grading 2.71 ounces per ton (opt) (92.9 g/t ...Web

barite mining sites and (ii) appraise the degree of contamination and human risk assessment of the pond and stream water. 2. Study area description 2.1. Geographic setting Six abandoned barite mine sites at Nde, Alese, Okumurutet, Iyametet, Akpet I and Ibogo (Cross River State, Nigeria, Fig. 1) were studied.Web

For the barite mining industries to thrive, there should be a good transportation network to and fro the barite mining sites. ... Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment associated with abandoned barite mines in Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria. Environ. Nanotechnol. Monitor. Manag. 2015; 3: 10-21. View in Article Google ...Web

CONCLUSION Mining activities for concealed barite deposits has been ongoing in different parts of Cross River State on small scale local mining in hand dug trenches/pits this research is a pioneer work in trying to estimate the total reserve for the state.Web

v ABSTRACT Barite is an exceptional non-metallic mineral composed of barium sulphate and it is used mainly by the oil and gas industry as drilling mud in deep drilling, where highWeb

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The exploration and mining of Nigerian barite are primarily by artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) whose operations are characterized by poor productivity. As a result, the quantity and quality of barites produced do not satisfy the nation's oil sector demands and other industries that require the mineral. This situation leads to massive …Web

5.3. Barite in Cross River State. Hard and soft rocks host the barite vein deposits in Cross Rivers State. It has 35 mineralized locations of which 11 are in …Web

``` sbm malaysia barite miningBarite Mineral Uses and Properties Barite is the primary ore of barium,which is used to make a wide variety of barium compounds.Some of these are useWeb

Cross River State is composed of sedimentary rocks which constitute the Calabar Flank and metamorphic and intrusive rocks which crop out in the Oban massif and Obudu …Web

Please cite this article in press as: Adamu, C.I., et al., Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment associ-ated with abandoned barite mines in Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria.Web

This means that the barite from those different mining sites can be used for preliminary mining activities and other application which require a barite composition in the range of 18 to 34% like kilns, mud drilling, construction, among others [29,30,31]. If the materials are to be used for the main applications, some of the impurities need to ...Web

ABUJA-THE Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc Olamilekan Adegbite, has expressed confidence that the commissioning of the Barite Processing Plant in Ugaga, Cross River State, is a game ...Web

Some baryte deposits in the Northern Cross River, Nigeria were sampled and studied in field and laboratories, based on API standard requirements (2004 and 2010), to ascertain their suitability for ...Web

Barite open mine site is situated at Ibogo in Oban Massif at an elevation of 131 m (Fig. 1). A network of streams and river channels such as Ayuk, Aroi, Essai, Aboyeri, Inyang Ita, Udem, Akparam, and Ifunkpa characterize Akamkpa and environs. Major drainage of the study comprises the main Cross River, Calabar River, and the Great …Web

Numerous domestic barite mining and processing facilities were idled in 2020, and only one company in Nevada mined barite. Production data were withheld to avoid disclosing …Web

The study area (Iyamitet-Okurumutet area) lies within the south-eastern part of Obubra, in central Cross River state, and occurs within the rich solid mineral province of the Lower Benue Trough, Nigeria. In the past decade, there has been an upsurge in the mining of solid minerals in the area, notably barite (BaSO 4). They are both active and ...Web

Cross River was 8,612,880 metric tonnes distributed between the Southern and Northern zones of Cross river (Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, 2010). Barite exploration in t he North is easierWeb

PDF | On Nov 30, 2018, G.N. Njar published Spatial pattern in solid minerals distribution in Cross River State, Nigeria | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGateWeb

However, between 1975 and 1980, the Nigerian Mining Corporation carried out exploratory work on barite deposits in Azara, Nasarawa State in North-Central Nigeria. It had an estimated reserve of about 730,000 tonnes of barite [13]. In 2004, the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development [14] reported only two states with barite ...Web

The Minister disclosed this in the Ugaga community of Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State where the federal government has established a N1 billion barite processing plant where the natural resource is found in vast quantities. ... He disclosed that no fewer than 20,000 jobs would be created along the barite mining value …Web

Barite deposits occur mostly as concealed mineralization dominantly in shales and sandstones of Cretaceous age in Cross River State. Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) …Web