The Katsina State Government on Tuesday said it has identified no fewer than 547 artisanal miners and 442 mining sites across the state as part of efforts to improve the mining and complement federal government’s efforts of diversifying the economy from oil to the non-oil sector.

The state Commissioner for Resource Development, Mustapha Kanti Bello, who disclosed this at the empowerment and sensitisation programme for artisanal miners in Katsina, said the state would soon partner other mining companies to carry out geo-chemical survey to ascertain the commercial viability covered by the state.

He affirmed that the need for artisanal miners to have value for their products has been the major priority of the state government, hence the formation of mineral buying centre in order to checkmate the activities of buying and selling of mineral resources at their standard value in the state.

Bello added: “The process of establishing the buying centre is currently onging in collaboration with the private sector. Designs, bill of quantities and land acquisition for the centre have already been completed. The centre is to be located at Kankara.

“Benefits from government and funding agencies can only be derived when the ASM come together as cooperative societies and register with tenets of the Mining Act 2007 and all other relevant laws”.

The commissioner however said the programme was imperative considering the focus of government at all levels to diversify the economy from oil to non-oil, adding that mining is key to the economic diversification drive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said: “The artisanal miners are the pathfinders in the mining sector and empowering them will impact greatly on the overall economic activities of the society. This programme is second under this administration conducted by the ministry after accessing the last exercise and learning from the success or otherwise recorded in the last exercise.”

source https://www.miningng.com/katsina-identifies-547-artisanal-miners-442-mining-sites/

Since no one wants the FTC title, make I cough here.....

Nigeria is blessed with numerous natural resources with wicked leaders....

Let me join you guys at the top.. If we no comment wetin we gain?

I'm just here for comment. ah nor fit shout

I no know say our Western brothers get mining (skull) sites for Katsina o

Tends to, will improve, going to, we shall.. been making promises since my parents were crawling.. bunch of disgraceful pigs

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Let me go and start my own mining, may be skull or organ, anyone can serve. Mining is mining. Good morning good N/landers and do have blissful day ahead

Can you see the way they avoid using 'illegal' in that?

Alejob:
Can you see the way they avoid using 'illegal' in that?

Na north na

Identified as wat na.....legal miners or illegal ones?

Very good for the states

kings09:

Na north na

This country is rigged against the South from time immemorial. You will hardly see any police, road safety or soldier collecting bribe on the road in the north and even the boarder na free pass. What a country...

and sumwer in ebonyi state, each coperative of 20 pple is 1million naira, every mineral buyer 1million naira for registration, and everg truck you load 600-1million as tax

Wow. What are they mining?

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if na for Niger delta,d for say na 'illegal' .

THEY IDENTIFIES, ARTISANS MINERS IN THE NORTH, WHILE THEY CALLED THE ONES OF NIGER DELTA BUNKERS.

No chest beating from anybody
People from that side were even boasting of exporting ordinary ugu leaves

400+ mimimg sites in one state


i doubt the mine was setup under govt supervision

olajizz01:
Biafau.ds are not difficult to identify with their hate speech.

??

Artisan miners
And the Navy and army are wasting the lives of the youths in Niger delta for just taking a little crude oil from their backyard.

Ahmeduana:
THEY IDENTIFIES, ARTISANS MINERS IN THE NORTH, WHILE THEY CALLED THE ONES OF NIGER DELTA BUNKERS.

The resources in the North belong to northerners, the resources in the South belong to the nation.

Understand that.

MiningNG:
The Katsina State Government on Tuesday said it has identified no fewer than 547 artisanal miners and 442 mining sites across the state as part of efforts to improve the mining and complement federal government’s efforts of diversifying the economy from oil to the non-oil sector.

The state Commissioner for Resource Development, Mustapha Kanti Bello, who disclosed this at the empowerment and sensitisation programme for artisanal miners in Katsina, said the state would soon partner other mining companies to carry out geo-chemical survey to ascertain the commercial viability covered by the state.

He affirmed that the need for artisanal miners to have value for their products has been the major priority of the state government, hence the formation of mineral buying centre in order to checkmate the activities of buying and selling of mineral resources at their standard value in the state.

Bello added: “The process of establishing the buying centre is currently onging in collaboration with the private sector. Designs, bill of quantities and land acquisition for the centre have already been completed. The centre is to be located at Kankara.

“Benefits from government and funding agencies can only be derived when the ASM come together as cooperative societies and register with tenets of the Mining Act 2007 and all other relevant laws”.

The commissioner however said the programme was imperative considering the focus of government at all levels to diversify the economy from oil to non-oil, adding that mining is key to the economic diversification drive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said: “The artisanal miners are the pathfinders in the mining sector and empowering them will impact greatly on the overall economic activities of the society. This programme is second under this administration conducted by the ministry after accessing the last exercise and learning from the success or otherwise recorded in the last exercise.”

source https://www.miningng.com/katsina-identifies-547-artisanal-miners-442-mining-sites/

So artisanal miners in north are pathfinders but artisan crude oil producers is criminers in south
Wonderful

Good

If you cant tell us it is majority illegal chinese miners and others which we know...At-least tell us the raw materials they are mining