Mineral Sands Processing Explained: From Mining to High-Value Products
Mineral sands are among the world’s most valuable natural resources because they contain a variety of heavy minerals essential for modern industries. These minerals are used in titanium production, rare earth elements, ceramics, electronics, aerospace, renewable energy, pigments, and advanced manufacturing. While mineral sands often appear as ordinary sand, they contain economically important minerals such…
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Battery Minerals and the Clean Energy Transition
A few years ago, the young men who used to bring me cassiterite and columbite from the pegmatites around the Plateau started showing up with a different rock. Pale, glassy, sometimes faintly pinkish or lilac — spodumene and lepidolite. They did not always know what they had. I did. The same lithium-cesium-tantalum pegmatites that have…
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Industrial Minerals Driving the Future Economy
For most of my 24 years in this business, the spotlight has always fallen on the glamorous minerals. On the Jos Plateau, where I learned the trade, everyone wanted to talk about tin, columbite, tantalite — and lately about lithium and rare earths. The materials with the dramatic headlines. But standing on those minesites year…
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How Processing Plants Increase Mining Profitability and Maximize Mineral Value
The mining industry has always been a cornerstone of economic development, supplying the raw materials required for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy production, and technological advancement. However, one of the biggest challenges facing mining companies today is how to maximize the value of extracted minerals while maintaining profitability in an increasingly competitive global market. Many mining operators…
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Nigeria’s Position in the Global Battery Minerals Market: Reading the Map From the Inside
There is a particular kind of conversation I have learned to recognise after twenty-four years in this trade. It usually begins with an international buyer or analyst who has just discovered that Nigeria sits on serious deposits of the very minerals their industry is desperate for, and it almost always carries the same note of…
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Lithium Processing Opportunities in Nigeria: The Conversation I Keep Having
A few months ago, a buyer in Asia asked me a question I have heard in one form or another for most of my twenty-four years in this industry. “Kolawole,” he said, “why does Nigeria keep selling the ore and buying back the value?” It was not an accusation. It was the polite frustration of…
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