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FG announces discovery of gold deposits along Abuja-Nasarawa highway

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: March 18, 2021
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The Federal Government says gold deposits have been discovered along the Abuja, Nasarawa axis through the National Integrated Mineral Exploration Project being undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development.

Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, made this announcement when host to the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, in Abuja.

The minister was quoted in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by his media aide, Ayodeji Adeyemi, saying that the FMMSD would develop the mineral resources in Nasarawa.

According to Adegbite, his ministry was resolved to avoid a repeat of the Zamfara experience (where bandits were largely in charge of the gold mining) in Nasarawa State.

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Furthermore, he said the NIMEP project which had cost the ministry N15bn had generated many geoscience data that had foreign investors excited about the mining prospects across the country.

“Nasarawa State is the home of solid minerals in the country. We had an earlier discussion about recent discovery of precious minerals in the Nasarawa, Abuja axis,” he said.

“As you probably might be aware, we have been talking about this for a while; there is a programme we call NIMEP executed by the ministry where government has put about N15bn into exploration for minerals, one of which is gold.

“We have done this exploration across the country and we have discovered a very nice track of gold deposits especially between Abuja and Nasarawa where we share borders.”

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Adegbite allayed the concerns of the Nasarawa State Government about the menace of illegal gold mining snowballing in the state due to the large deposits of gold in the state.

He said the ministry was working with relevant security agencies to avert such unwanted activities from happening.

On his part, the governor of Nasarawa state said that his state was prepared to work with the ministry to prevent the snowballing of illegal mining in Nasarawa.

Sule stressed that his administration was indeed concerned about the threat of illegal mining and its associated vices.

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