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The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has emphasized value addition as an essential standard for mining operations in the country. Value added in mining and quarrying is considered as the output value minus the value of intermediate consumption. During an inspection tour of […]

Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has suspended mining activities in the state. The governor made the announcement on Friday during the launch of the initial 60 Mining Marshalls saddled with the responsibility of curbing the illegal mining of solid minerals across the state. Represented by his deputy, Sam Ode, the governor said the suspension was […]

The Ministry of Solid Development Minerals has hired 2,220 security personnel to stop illegal mining and enforce mining laws. They will also work to prevent theft and other criminal activities around mining areas.

Forty years ago, scientists found alien life. Not on another planet, but on Earth, in the deep sea, in places where plumes of steam and nutrients heated by volcanic activity fed entire ecologies of creatures adapted to harness chemical energy rather than energy from the sun. The discovery redefined life’s biophysical possibilities, and scientists and […]