Mineral Riches and Violent Conflicts in Nigeria: An Appraisal of Mining
Ebonyi State is richly endowed with mineral resources such as limestone, lead/zinc, granite, galena, glass sand, shale, ball clay, marble, pyrite, refractory clay, gypsum, fluorspar, bentonite, quartz, salt, laterite (Raw Materials Research and Development Council, 2012).The mining of these mineral resources scattered across …