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Clay resources exploration and exploitation has been on a steady increase in a bid to satisfy a growing mineral resource utilization industry. This necessitated a preliminary geophysical investigation of Orin - Ekiti clay deposit aimed at investigating the subsurface lithology, make deductions on the depth and thickness of any clay

MINERAL RESOURCES Ekiti state is rich in mineral resouces, most of them still untapped. They include Cassiterrite, columbite and tantalite which are found in Ijero. Ceramic (ball) clays and Kaolinite clays are available at Isan Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area. These are the details

Ire Ekiti the City of Clay, Ire Ekiti, Ekiti, Nigeria. 1,376 likes · 10 talking about this. IRE EKITI, ITS INDUSTRY, ITS PEOPLE, CULTURE, RELIGION AND...

Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologies Issue 25, July-December, 2014 ISSN 1583-1078 p. 46-57 Characterization of some clay deposits in South West Nigeria * Fatai Olufemi ARAMIDE1, 2, Kenneth Kanayo ALANEME 1,2, Peter Apata OLUBAMBI 3 and Joseph Olatunde BORODE 1,2 1 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 704, .

Five Clay samples from five different clay deposits in different parts of the South Western part – of Nigeria were prepared for analysis. The clays were those from Iseyin in Oyo State, Ipetumodu in Osun State, Ifon in Ondo State, Igbara-Odo and Isan in Ekiti State. They are .

CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): The suitability of some local clay deposits in Ekiti State, for lining the furnace to be used to degrade woody biomass to fuel and chemical products was investigated. Four major sites in Ekiti- State renowned for abundant clay deposits were selected, namely; Ikere Ekiti, Fagbohun Ekiti, Ishan Ekiti and Ara Ekiti.

affected most Ekiti clay deposits as found mainly in the study area (Aniyi,1985; Ahmed,1986). Analytically, all these explanations show that major clay deposits examined were sedimentary clay deposits. These clay deposits should be technically planned for Ekiti state industrialization, if beneficiated (Shittu, 1998).

Working properties of some clay deposits in Ekiti State, Nigeria were investigated with a view to determine their suitability for use as refractory bricks. The samples were collected from three different commercial pottery clay centers in Ekiti State; they are Ara, Awo and Isan.

Abstract:The characterization and value addition to some Nigerian clay deposits; Ijapo Estate, Akure in Ondo State, Ire Ekiti in Ekiti State and Ilesha in Osun State have been carried out. The characterization was done by employing four different techniques on the clays in the as-mined states. The relative proportions of the

mineralogy and physicochemical characteristics of eleven clay deposits at Ekiti Environs in South Western Nigeria with a view to evaluate their economic potentials, as a contribution to the nation ...

Jun 14, 2013· Ilorin, Nigeria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ilorin is one of the largest cities in Nigeria and is the capital of Kwara State... and the highly exportable rich tantalite deposit of Iporin, make Kwara State rich in . Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Oyo Ekiti, Kogi, Niger, Kaduna and Plateau States... the expanded courtyard will be constructed with heat-absorbing granite (marble) finish.

Ekiti state is rich in mineral resources, many are yet to be discovered and most of them discovered are still untapped. Below is a feldspar site in Oke-Ewu in Ijero-Ikoro road, Ijero Ekiti

Compositional Characteristics of Geophagic Clays in Parts of Southern Nigeria ... Geophagy is the practice of deliberate consumption of soil and clay deposits by humans, birds and other animals in the wild. ... Edo state; Elewe-omo store, Aramoko-Ekiti, Ekiti state. The market samples were traced to their geological locations where they occur ...

This includes some local clay deposit from Benue state and Ikete Ekiti which . 30 . Leonardo Journal of Sciences ... July-December 2017 p. 29-44 high melting clay (53-73%) [16]. The alumina composition of Ishiagu satisfies the ... Clay Deposit in Imo State, Nigeria, Pacific Journal of .

The suitability of some local clay deposits in Ekiti State, for lining the furnace to be used to degrade woody biomass to fuel and chemical products was investigated. Four major sites in Ekiti- State renowned for abundant clay deposits were selected, namely; Ikere Ekiti, Fagbohun Ekiti, Ishan Ekiti and Ara Ekiti. The clay samples

Jun 08, 2014· Clay Clay deposits found in Ekiti State are predominantly Kaolin tic with high alumina contents. Clay deposits abound in Araromi-Obo-Ekiti, Isan-Ekiti, Ara-Ijero Ekiti.

State of States THE 2018 EDITION . ... EKITI LAGOS In 2017, ceramics products bought globally amounted to $52.7bn. Ekiti could leverage on its abundant laterite and clay deposits to become a significant player in the sector, and earn approximately $1.2bn from ceramic sales. CERAMICS ONDO COCOA &

Ekiti State. 2Department of Geology, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. ABSTRACT: The epigenetic lead-zinc-barite fluorite deposits of the Benue Trough are localized in N-S trending fractures developed within the lower Cretaceous Albian shales, limestone and arkosic sandstones. The mineralogy of the sulfide deposits consists mainly of

The suitability of some local clay deposits in Ekiti State, for lining the furnace to be used to degrade woody biomass to fuel and chemical products was investigated. Four major sites in Ekiti- State renowned for abundant clay deposits were selected, namely; Ikere Ekiti, Fagbohun Ekiti, Ishan Ekiti and Ara Ekiti.

Jul 20, 2018· This study considered the mineralogical, elemental composition in form oxides and engineering properties such as particle size, specific gravity, bulk density; water content and atterberg limits of two kaolin deposits in Kpankorogi in Edu Local Government of Kwara State and in Ijero-Ekiti in Ijero-Ekiti Local Government Area, Ekiti State.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 2, ISSUE 12, DECEMBER 2013 ISSN 2277-8616 182 IJSTR©2013 Analysis Of Mubi Clay Deposit As A Furnace Lining Aremu, D.A., Aremu, J.O., Ibrahim, U.H. Abstract: Mubi clay was investigated to examine if the deposit can be used as a furnace lining material. The result ...

Feb 28, 2013· The clay samples used for these analyses were collected from five major clay deposits identified within Ekiti State in the south-western part of Nigeria. The study area is situated between longitudes 4 ° 45˝ to 5 ° 45˝ East of the Greenwich Meridian and latitudes 7 ° 15˝ to 8 ° 5˝ North of the Equator. The area is completely within the ...

lithium metal from clay samples from Isan Ekiti, Ijero Ekiti, Orin Ekiti and Ire Ekiti deposits. In this paper two methods were used to extract lithium from clays samples collected from locations

Kaolinite is the predominant clay mineral of the studied clay deposits with subordinate quartz, potassium iron oxide and aluminium phosphatic minerals. There is localised occurrence of halloysite. The absence of vanadium in the EDS data of rolled into tubes kaolinite sheets of Ado Ekiti clay .
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