early developmental history of Nigeria and form the backbone of her industrial growth and sources of energy. Sequel to the discovery of oil in exploitable quantities in the Niger Delta region caused emphasis to shift from solid minerals to the oil sector and …
Akinnagbe et al. (2018) assayed forty (40) borehole, well, and stream water samples of ground water in Ijero Ekiti using the RADH 2 0 alpha spectroscopy method. RnC in the samples are within the ...
Prevalence of internet addiction and its effects on academic performance among college students in semi-urban settlement of Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State Nigeria September 2020 DOI: 10.30574/gjeta.2020 ...
Ekiti State is part of the Yoruba Race that has Oduduwa as their Father, as a result of this the Ekiti State has its existence from IIe-ife ( the Cradle land of Yoruba Land). Ekiti State was formed on October 1, 1996, with other five states by General Sani Abacha (Military Regime). This State was carved out of Ondo Sate.
This study revealed that the groundwater of Ijero is low mineralized, chemically potable and suitable for irrigation while artisanal and small-scale mining activities have no …
Ikere-Ekiti is a city in Ekiti State, South West Nigeria. It is an agrarian community, known for production of Cocoa, Yams, Palm Oil and cassava. The 2006 National Census puts the population of ...
The LC and GLSI models were employed in this study to evaluate groundwater vulnerability to contamination from a mining site in Ijero-Ekiti, Nigeria. The maps generated by the two models were graphically compared. The results showed that the GLSI model compensated for the LC model's intrinsic flaw of being insensitive to the …
Quantitative responses from a systematic random sampling of 506 residents of Ijero-Ekiti mining community (southwestern Nigeria) are presented with an emphasis on risk …
Precambrian pegmatites occurring as near dykes and massive types were studied for Emure-Ekiti and Ijero-Ekiti respectively, with the aim of characterizing them geochemically and determining...
Tailings sampling A total of 24 tailing samples were collected from different locations in Ijero Ekiti, Ekiti state, Nigeria. It is located 7.82 latitude and 5.07 longitude, elevation of 491m above sea level and the 3rd biggest city which is situated in the northeast part of Ekiti state.
Ijero area comprises of Ijero-Ekiti with other component towns including Ikoro- Ekiti, Iroko- Ekiti, Ayegunle-Ekiti, Ipoti-Ekiti, Iloro-Ekiti, Temidire-Ekiti, Ilukuno-Ekiti and others are Epe-Ekiti, Ara-Ekiti, Araromi-Ekiti, Oke Oro-Ekiti and Odo Owa -Ekiti. The area covers 473.5km2. This study is limited to Ijero-Ekiti where most of the mineral
The measured activities concentrations of 238 U, 232 Th and 40 K from Ijero Ekiti soils both in the mining area and Odo-Oye Ijero (control) are presented in Table 1. It was observed that the mean activities of 238 U measured in the mining areas (128.05 Bqkg −1) is much higher than the area where mining is not going on (42.02 Bqkg −1).
The research area is located in the North-Eastern part of Ijero-Ekiti, a mining site and its environment (Fig. 1). It is located between Latitudes 7º 49′36″ N and 7º 49′53″ N; Longitudes 5º 3′58″ E and 5º4′19″ E; with an elevation above sea level of 532 m.
The geotechnical appraisal of the clay deposits around Ijero-Ekiti, southwestern Nigeria, indicated that Ara and Ijero clays have 49.2% and 24.1% clay fractions, respectively, while Ilukuno ...
Imesi-Ekiti was founded by OJUGBAYE, one of the grandsons of Oduduwa. He was reported to have migrated from llarẹ Quarters, Ile-Ifẹ at the same time with his two brothers: – Ọlabomoju, Ọnadeji. Also, Ọlọya (leader of the Omuos) journeyed with the three brothers and their followers through, among other places, Igbajọ, Ijero and ...
... Ijero, on 7° 46′ 00′′ N and longitude 5° 5′ 00′′ E is located in Ekiti state, southwest Nigeria. This area is renowned for pegmatite hosting minerals such as tourmaline, kaolin, and barites...
Senior Lecturer, Ekiti State University - Cited by 201 - Economic Geology & Petrology ... Compositional characteristics and industrial potential of the lateritic clay deposit in Ara-Ijero Ekiti Areas, Southwestern Nigeria. OO Akinola, RA Obasi. ... Journal of Geology and Mining Research 13 (1), 11-20, 2021. 2: 2021:
FROM IJERO-EKITI, EKITI-STATE, SOUTHWEST NIGERIA Obasi, Romanus Ayoola and Madukwe Henry Department of Geology Ekiti State University, PMB 5363, Ado- Ekiti, Ekiti State- Nigeria. ABSTRACT: Geochemical analysis of ten (10) representative pegmatite samples reveal high silica (SiO 2) 66-78 wt % and alumina (Al 2 O 3) 10.08-19.57 wt % …
The research area is located in the North-Eastern part of Ijero-Ekiti, a mining site and its environment (Fig. 1). It is located between Latitudes 7º 4936′″ N and 7º 49′53″ N; Longitudes 5º 3′58″ E and 5º4′19 ″ E; with an elevation above sea level of 532 m. It is accessible by road transport; a federal road
With a population of 222,000 people as it was shown with the 2007 population census, Ijero Ekiti is the second largest town in the whole of Ekiti State. The Ijero local government has a largely agrarian population producing cash crops such as cocoa, kola nuts, coffee, kola, cashew, and timber. She also produces food crops such …
One study reported the radiation dose of 238 U, 232 Th and 40 U in soils from mining and living areas in Ijero Ekiti Nigeria to be of mean concentrations of 128.05 Bqkg − 1, 24.8Bqkg − 1 and ...
Mining Site and Pits: Around the pegmatite ridge are various places like Port Harcourt, Lagos and Ibadan. Part about five different mining sites belonging to the locals. of the …
Taiwo Abiodun, who recently visited Ijero-Ekiti, writes on the illegal mining of the mineral resources and the danger it poses to the community. The Nation September 27, 2015. Ijero is one of the ...
Location and geology of study area The research area is located at the North-Eastern part of Ijero-Ekiti, a mining site and its environment (Figures 1and 2). It is located between Latitudes 7º 49'36" N and 7º 49'53" N; Longitudes 5º 3'58" E and 5º4'19" E; with an elevation above sea level of 532m. It is accessible by road ...
Abstract: Nigeria pegmatites are concentrated in a 400km NE-SW trending belt of which Ijero pegmatite is inclusive. Ijero pegmatite is wholly crystalline igneous rock located in about 50km NW of Ado-Ekiti with coordinates 7°49' N and 5°5'E and is mineralized. The Industrial minerals found here after mapping and sampling 12 mining pits ...
ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF GEMSTONE MINING IN IJERO-EKITI, NIGERIA. T.B. Afeni1*, F. Ibitolu2. 1Federal University of Technology Akure, Akure, Nigeria 2City College of New York, New ...
The activity concentration of 238U, 232Th and 40K in the soils of mining and living areas of Ijero Ekiti were determined using hyper pure germanium gamma ray spectrometer.
Waste materials from mining tailings, often contain significant amounts of potentially valuable minerals. This study aimed at unearthing the valuable minerals in Ijero Ekiti …
This study focused on assessment of possible impacts of artisanal and small scale mining activities on groundwater in Ijero-Ekiti. Thirty groundwater samples (2 from the mining pits, 5 in the ...
The geochemical results reveals that the Emure-Ekiti and the whole rock samples of Ijero-Ekiti are considerably siliceous, with an average value of 68.72% and 68.6% respectively, while the ...