The Director-General of the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, Dr Garba Abdulrazaq, will present a “Geological Survey update: Progress report on new findings and available data” at the upcoming Nigeria Mining Week taking place from 14-16 in October.
An official ambassador for the event,
Dr Abdulrazaq will also participate in several panel discussions during the
event.
The Abuja conference and exhibition is expected to attract more than 1200
mining experts, 180+ mines and exploration companies, 40+ sponsors with more
than 24 countries represented. The Mining Association of Nigeria (MAN) has been
an organising partner since the Nigeria Mining
Week’s inception four years ago, along with PwC and
Spintelligent.
“The most ambitious project the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency is currently
handling,” says Dr Abdulrazaq, “is the National Integrated Mineral Exploration
Project (NIMEP), which is government’s rapid response to the dearth of
investible geoscience data in the country. The National Integrated Mineral
Project (NIMEP) is the first of its kind and it is envisaged that the
exploration exercise is expected to generate targets that will attract
investment into the sector, or the commodities considered.”
He also states that: “Mining business is a high-risk business; exploration
activities are essentially carried out to reduce the risk borne by the
investing entities. What the NIMEP project is seeking is to reduce the risk
element along the identified mineral corridors and attract investment. The
preliminary project activities have been presented in a few mining conferences
and the reception so far was great! The reception was like Nigeria seems to be
getting it right now. Naturally by removing the barriers to an object makes the
object more accessible. It is envisaged that there will be a spike in the
number of companies investing in the Nigerian mining sector.” The
Director-General of the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency says that several
companies have shown interest at these preliminary presentations and that more
are coming.
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