Mines
Historic coalfields that no longer produce coal are in italics, functional mines are in bold.
- Amansiodo Coal Field, Enugu State
- Ezinmo Coal Field, Enugu State
- Inyi Coal Field, Enugu State
- Obwetti Mine
Obwetti was closed down due to low production in the late 1950s.
- Ogbete Mine, Enugu State
This mine opened in 1915, but was closed and flooded during the Civil War. It reopened in 1972, and became the country's largest coal mining operation until its closure.
- Ogboyoga I Coal Field, Kogi State
- Ogboyoga II Coal Field, Kogi State
- Ogwashi-Azagba Lignite Field, Delta State
- Okaba Coal Field, Kogi State
- Okpara Mine, Anambra State
- Onyeama Mine, Enugu State
- Oyeama Mine, Anambra State
- Owupka Mine, Benue State
- Ribadu Mine
This mine opened in the late 1950s and held enough coal to produce five hundred tons a day for seven years. Sources:
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Famous quotes containing the word mines:
“The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark:M”I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)