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Ore town was a theatre-of-war where the Nigerian troops and their Biafran opponents confronted each other in a fierce battle for the gain of Nigeria’s soul and territories.
Iron Ore: Nigeria has several deposits of iron ore, but the purest deposits are in and around Itakpe in Kogi State. The National Iron Ore Mining Company was founded in 1979 and given the mission to explore, exploit, process, and supply iron ore concentrate to the Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCL) in Ajaokuta and Delta Steel Company (DCL) in Aladja.
12 cze 2016 · Unlike in northern Africa and Europe, which had distinct Iron and Bronze Ages, the earliest evidence so far for ore exploitation and smelting of iron and metal was dated 700 BC at Opi Nsukka and 500 BC in Taruga-Nok site, whereas the earliest date for bronze artifacts recovered in Nigeria is from Igbo–Ukwu sites dating to the 9th century AD ...
Iron smelting and forging technologies may have existed in West Africa among the Nok culture of Nigeria as early as the sixth century B.C. In the period from 1400 to 1600, iron technology appears to have been one of a series of fundamental social assets that facilitated the growth of significant centralized kingdoms in the western Sudan and ...
The National Iron Ore Mining Company was founded in 1979 and given the mission to explore, exploit, process, and supply iron ore concentrate to the Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCL) in Ajaokuta and Delta Steel Company (DCL) in Aladja. Additional demand has come from several steel rolling mills.
Nigeria as a colonial entity enjoyed boom in the agricultural production and the mining of mineral resources such as iron ore, tin and coal. Foreign exchange was earned from the above resources. Each region had a comparative advantage through which it made its contributions to the center.
Most of the metallic deposits are concentrated in Central and Southern Africa, except for bauxite, iron ores, and phosphate in western Africa. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and the ...
