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Tin Mining on the Jos Plateau of Nigeria | Semantic Scholar

T v HE mining of tin has been largely responsible for profound changes in the landscape and in the social and economic structure of the Jos Plateau over the last 50 years. At the beginning of the present century, the plateau was one of the most backward parts of Nigeria; today it is one of the most developed, with roads, railways, towns, dams, and …

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Jos: A Century Of Tin Exploration And Environmental Neglect

The mining companies are gone, leaving over 4,000 ponds are still abandoned and dangerous. The miners are still living close to exposed radioactive particles, while there are no records to track and regulate the number of people whose health have been affected mining on the Plateau.

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The Socio-Economic Effects of Colonial Tin Mining on the Jos- Plateau …

Some of the planting sites for tomato production involve areas that were linked to mining in Nigeria, e.g., Tin deposits in Jos-Plateau, while Coal deposits in Enugu (Fatoye & Gideon, 2013; Azgaku ...

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Tin Mining on the Jos Plateau of Nigeria

Tin mining areas in Nigeria. The. Jos Plateau is shown as a stippled circle; it is. the chief mining area and produces over 90 per cent of the tin in Nigeria each year. miles and by 1919 there were over 80 companies and syndicates producing 8174 tons of tin. Difficulties of accessibility remained serious.

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The role of the Edo people in the development of Tin Sheds …

The Amalgamated Tin Mining Company former known as Nigerian Tin mining company and now known as Consolidated Tin Mining Company had more influence in the area and operated there for a longer period than any other company and had its headquarters at Bukuru. By 1939, A.T.M.N. controlled 26% of leased mining …

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Africa: Plateau Bears Scars of Tin Mining

What remains of tin mining in Plateau today is mainly the scars, disused mining pits and the hazards that they pose.

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(PDF) Impacts of Derived Tin Mining Activities on Landuse/Landcover in

The tin mining activities in the suburbs of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, have resulted in technical enhancement of the natural background radiation as well as higher activity concentrations of ...

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(PDF) Ecological Impact of Artisanal Tin Mining in Butura, Plateau …

Art isanal tin mining is practiced wor ldwide, it is mos t common in South Americ a, Asia, and Africa (Wor ld Health Organization, 2014). Millions of f amili es in deve loping nations depend on ...

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TIN MINING: ITS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS AND …

In tin mining in Plateau, the open cast mining method was used because the plains of Plateau were flat and tin was concentrated in old stream beds and was washed down from the younger granite ...

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The story of Cornish tin mining

The whole site is a great place to get an overview of the Cornish mining story, bringing 18th-century Wheal Mexico ("wheal" means "mine"), Geevor's 20th-century tin mining infrastructure, and history in the superb Hard Rock Museum together. Cornwall's landscape is rich in metallic mineral deposits, particularly where granite and ...

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How Poor Regulation of Artisanal Mining Impacts Health of …

For the communities of Chugwi and Kewa-Bisichi, which are about 15 kilometres from Jos, Plateau State, in northern Nigeria, mining activities of the past and present have merged to impact locals. In this area, extensive tin mining occurred in the early to mid-20th century, devastating the environment and causing harm to the health …

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Journal of Sustainable Mining

the open cast mining method was used because the plains of Plateau were ﬂat and tin was concentrated in old stream beds and was washed down from the younger granite outcropping units (Gyang ...

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Exposure to high background radiation level in the tin mining …

The present work deals with the radioactivity of samples of tin tailings collected from a mining site in Jos, Nigeria. The activity concentrations of the samples were measured using a gamma-ray spectrometer with a hyper-pure germanium detector. In situ dose rates at the site were also measured using a precalibrated survey meter. Potassium-40 was not …

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Ej Atlas

ERA monitors visited Sabon-Barki community and Gyel District, both in Jos South LGA of Plateau State on August 5, 2009 in response to the growing call by impacted communities for a remediation of the ecological disaster and dislocation wrought on their environment and livelihood by nearly a century of tin mining and the failure of …

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Socio-Economic Impacts of Tin Mining in Jos, Plateau …

difference between the economic variables resulting from tin mining activities. The work showed that tin mining activities impacted on the environment significantly, leaving behind so much social and economic scars that the government needs to consider and take measures to ameliorate. KEYWORDS: economic impacts, sustainable development, …

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PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TIN …

of tin in Jos Plateau started with 1.5 metric tons in 1914 and reached peak production of 17.740 metric tons in 1943 when Nigeria became the 6th world producer (Patterson, 1986). However, the lack of proper environmental monitoring ... Figure 3: Tin mining pond used for irrigation in (a) Bokkos, (b) Barkin-Ladi (c) Jos- South. (Cutesy G. M.

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AfricaBib | Early Tin Production and Nigerian Labour on the Jos Plateau

Early Tin Production and Nigerian Labour on the Jos Plateau, 1906-1921: Author: Morrison, J.H. Year: 1977: Periodical: Canadian Journal of African Studies ... uncooperative labour found elsewhere in Africa. They also found indigenous tin miners competing in tin production. It is on these two aspects of tin mining - indigenous production and ...

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Nigeria: Jos

Jos, popularly called the Tin City in Africa used to be one of the largest mining sites. In this report, ACHOR ABIMAJE writes that the once lucrative trade is going into extinction. Plateau...

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Tin Mining on the Jos Plateau

There were 80,000 African workers. Up to 1960, Jos was the sixth largest producer of tin in the world. Two hundred twenty-five kilometers of land was taken out by tin mining. This is only 4% of the plateau, which is in the valleys. Tin mining began to decrease because of substitutions and therefore prices declined.

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Pains of years of tin mining in Plateau

This solid mineral brought fame and lured a lot of miners both within and outside the country to Plateau State. Though mining of tin was said to have started in 1904 but the exploration of the ...

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names and addresses of mining in plateau state

Plateau bears scars of tin mining . The discovery and exploitation of crude oil since the late 1950s is also blamed for the decline and near complete collapse of tin mining in Jos. Giving his perspective on what killed robust mining in Plateau State 66yearold Alhaji Adamu Aji who is the ward head of old tin mining Sabon Layin Rusau in Jos North …

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Impacts of Derived Tin Mining Activities on …

The Southern part of Jos Plateau is in the Benue Lowlands extending towards the River Benue flood plain. Jos Plateau is situated between latitudes 10°11′N and 8°55′N and longitude 8°21′E ...

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BBC World Service

African Perspective The history of tin mining on the Jos plateau of Nigeria - an industry which began at the beginning of the 20th Century. Release date: 29 June 1995

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Decades after mining ceased, communities in Plateau still …

At the turn of the 20th century, large deposits of tin ore were discovered in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria, and in 1905, large-scale mining operations started there. This created ...

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South Africa: Mining Communities Bear the Burden of …

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Tin (Sn) Ore | Minerals, Occurrence, Formation, Deposits

Hardness Test: Tin ore has a hardness of 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale, which means it can resist scratching and abrasion. A simple hardness test using a mineral hardness kit or a scratch test with common materials of known hardness, such as a fingernail (2.5), a copper penny (3.5), or a steel knife (5.5), can help determine the …

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Nigeria: Mining Activities Robbing Farmers of Arable Land in …

14 February 2021. Premium Times (Abuja) By Felicia Dairo. Plateau State is a Nigerian food basket but tin mining activities are destroying farmlands and the youth are turning away from...

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How Poor Regulation of Artisanal Mining Impacts Health of …

The miners have an obligation to answer to the government and abide by the law. In the case of Plateau, where the companies (like Jos Tin Mining Company, Nigerian Tin Ore Mining Company, Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria, and Ropp Tin Mines) left in the 1980s and 1990s, the government failed to hold them accountable at the time.

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Nigeria: Niger, Plateau Top Nigeria's Illegal Mining List

It added that Plateau State was next on the list with seven illegal mining sites found to be taking away tin; columbite, Barites and Zinc. ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa ...