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Large quantity of Iron Ore was on Tuesday discovered in Bendeghe-Afi in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State, a discovery that has never been recorded before.

The Cross River State Ministry of Solid Minerals and the Chinese Team on Solid Minerals Mapping across the state, Tuesday discovered huge deposits of Iron Ore in Bendeghe-Afi, Ikom LGA.

According to Solomon Inok, on getting to the site after about three hours Biking and trekking from the main Village through a virgin forest which canopy created a dark interior to an amazing site was all covered with magnet-attracting stones.

More Pics and Source: https://www.naijahq.com/2017/08/massive-iron-ore-deposits-discovered-cross-river-state/

Good development But my question is always, why waiting for outsiders to come and discover stuff in our backyard when we have research centres with PhDs and Profs.

Imagine our children reading in history books that China discovered iron ore in Cross River Nigeria as if we be mumu

Cross River is is truly blessed with natural resources, not some barren lands.

Long live Cross River state
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Very bad. I discovered small deposits of iron and tin ore in my backyard when i was 10 years old. what do we have professors and phd holders in this country for?

Beautiful news like this , white most involved!

Throughout history black people have never been able to do meaningful things without the white man. Shameful!

ITbomb:
Good development But my question is always, why waiting for outsiders to come and discover stuff in our backyard when we have research centres with PhDs and Profs.

Imagine our children reading in history books that China discovered iron ore in Cross River Nigeria as if we be mumu

CC: lalasticlala

Our Professors and PhDs are only good in embezzling money meant for research and School istration.
Their pot belly won't even allow them bend down to drill or explore the land.
Smh

And the white man there is Chinese? China and stealing of minerals in Nigeria is something that has to be curbed.

this is why cownu is always looking for goldmines to to this redmud Republic

Hmm that's surprising they found iron or so close to surface. The Chinese discovered something locals didn't notice. Anyway they should find out purity of ore and if it's commercial quantity.

good news for the land of the rising sun. a working steel industry at ikom will accelerate its technological development

Caustics:
Very bad. I discovered small deposits of iron and tin ore in my backyard when i was 10 years old. what do we have professors and phd holders in this country for?

I can believe this. Look at this discovery all they needed was a shovel and few magnets probably.

Blue3k:
Hmm that's surprising they found iron or so close to surface. The Chinese discovered something locals didn't notice. Anyway they should find out purity of ore and if it's commercial quantity.

Or maybe at least a few of the locals did notice, but they also realised there was nothing they could do with such knowledge, as the FG claims ownership of all mineral resources. Under such a system, only highly valuable metals like gold are worth taking the illegal route for, and even then, only to the extent no serious investment is required to dig for them.

The Chinese in their hundreds will flood into that village by tommorow and start illegal mining of those iron ore

Chinese and illegal mining

mkpo nnyin ke do.. if good for obio Efik, e go good enta Uyo. Akwa/Cross the great salvation Cross.

No be that Chinese guy them just arrest for Jos?

Nice

The natural vegetation is gone. The guy In the last pix abeg na that iron ore attract his manhood so?

Ok

cool

Iron ore or geologist on excursion

bcus we have oil they seem to have forgotten about d rest mineral resources

illiegal mining commences

NtoAkwaIbom:
mkpo nnyin ke do.. if good for obio Efik, e go good enta Uyo. Akwa/Cross the great salvation Cross.

same way u got 76 oil Wells from them.

soon the Hausa-fulanis will claim it and start looting from their......thieves since 290bc

So much unexplored wealth, without any equivocation, I bet you illegal mining would begin in earnest,


If only the ajaokuta steel mill could have a boisterous resuscitation, our leapfrog into industrialization would be a reverberating tsunami.

Reputed to be one of the largest in sub-saharan Africa, still lying fallow in detoriation and wallowing in decadence,
Despite painstaking efforts of successive istrations, the distasteful situation have become inexplicably irredeemable.

There were replete issues of unsubstantiated grand conspiracy to keep the plant unproductive,
But however, it was also alleged that the company was concesssioned to Indian firm, and the government tried taking back it's full ownership, which left it in legal battles for a couple of years,

Even as the original Russian contractors of the complex were denied the opportunity of completing and reviving the ailling complex, despite several attempts of indicating interest,

The insinuations of foreign importers of steel loosing their market, hence the detrimental moribund status of the plant, means more profit for importers.

Not too long we heard minister of mines and steel fayemi was instrumental to settling the legal case hanging on the neck of the company.

Work on ajaokuta - warri - lagos rail line had begun,
So what is still bedevilling the success of the complex?

Nnamdi Kanu is going to extend biafra map. That guy sef...

ITbomb:
Good development But my question is always, why waiting for outsiders to come and discover stuff in our backyard when we have research centres with PhDs and Profs.

Imagine our children reading in history books that China discovered iron ore in Cross River Nigeria as if we be mumu

CC: lalasticlala

phd and other academic qualifications in Nigeria is just for show, most phd holders don't even know what their qualifications means.

Some graduates got their first and second degree just to improve their job prospect, not that they wanted to solve any problems.