Nigeria and its tin fieldsCalvert, Albert Frederick
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Nigeria and its tin fields
Calvert, Albert Frederick
Tin mines and mining -- Nigeria
The Juga (Nigeria) Tin and Power Company owns what is known as the Juga
property, which is situated on a plateau 3,280 feet above sea-level,
having a total area of 1,600 acres, and the Sub-Juga property, which
lies upon the lower plateau immediately below Juga, the area in this
case being 6,720 acres. As already remarked, the South Juga property
has recently been added. Mr. Lush estimates that 200 acres of the Juga
property will be highly payable. For the purposes of his estimate, he
took the average depth as 9 feet, which, extending over 200 acres, equals
2,904,000 cubic yards, each cubic yard containing 6 lbs. “In valuing the
ground at 6 lbs. per cubic yard,” Mr. Lush said, “I am not taking into
account only the high results obtained from some of the bottom wash, but
am reckoning it as a whole. I do this because working results may prove
that the wash does not extend over the whole 200 acres, but the gravel
does, and I feel confident will average what I state.” In a similar way
he estimated that the Sub-Juga property would yield 3 lbs. per cubic yard
over 5,808,000 cubic yards.
Tin Fields of Northern Nigeria, Ltd., is a company owning eight square
miles at Federri and nine square miles near Dila River, both in the
Bauchi Province.
In addition to having floated these companies—in which, of course,
Champion Gold Reefs retains a large interest—the company has also large
holdings in the following concerns:
Northern Nigeria (Bauchi) Tin Mines.
Anglo-Continental Mines, Ltd.
Anchor Diamond Mines.
It also still owns a lease over five square miles in Ashanti.
NARAGUTA (NIGERIA) TIN MINES, LTD.
_Capital._—£175,000, divided into 175,000 shares of £1 each, of
which 158,500 are issued and fully paid.
_Directors._—Frank N. Best (Chairman), H. C. Godfray, Herbert
Moir, John Waddington, H. Bousquet, H. S. Reitlinger.
_Secretary._—Newman Ogle.
_Offices._—Friars House, New Broad Street, E.C.
This company owns an area of 3,200 acres at Naraguta, and two further
blocks known as the “C” and “Q” areas of eight square miles. It was
formerly worked by the Niger Company, who won from the alluvial beds
its 1,000 tons of tin concentrates. The company was registered on 15th
January, and the property was taken over on 4th February. Mr. C. G. Lush,
the company’s consulting engineer, has inspected the property, and has
stated that on the Naraguta property they had ground which would give
fully 5 lbs. of tin to the cubic yard. He further reported that ten
acres had already been treated and given that result, which could be
taken as a very fair prospecting whole.
The returns up to and including the month of October 1910 amounted to a
total of 350 tons of tin oxide made up as follows:
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