Critical Minerals fact sheet ; Nigeria and the rest of the world.

Critical Minerals fact sheet ; Nigeria and the rest of the world.

Nigeria is reputed to be endowed with 44 different mineral resources (occurrences) in about 450 locations in about all States of the Federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Despite these occurrences, Nigeria is not known as a mining country, but rather as an oil and gas country. There are some critical materials for energy aluminum, cobalt, copper, , fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, natural graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum,. But so far Lithium can be found in some states in Nigeria like Nasarawa, Kogi and other lithium belt states. Minerals like cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel are essential for technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. Please read up