The complete list of mineral resources in Nigeria will be grouped per state, Gold, Iron Ore, Coal, Lead, Petroleum are some of the top finds in the country.
Nigeria is blessed with mineral resources and makes a fortune from exports to developing nations. We are going to look at the complete list of mineral resources in the country and their locations.
Though there are about 44 mineral resources in Nigeria at the moment, crude oil is top among all, and makes up a large chunk of the countries income. We have grouped the mineral resources per state, so you can easily know the mineral resources in every state of the country.
Nigeria is the largest black nation in the world and it is known for its vast deposit of mineral resources. One of the top oil exporters in the world, Nigeria also has one of the largest coal deposits. That’s not all though, the country is rich in gold, limestone, salt, glass sand and lots more.
Mineral resources in Nigeria and states they can be found
This post is going to be useful for those who want to know more about the mineral resources in their state and in Nigeria as a whole. Those who also want to know the total number of mineral resources in Nigeria and in every state can also find this post useful.
If you are also a geography student, you can also find this article useful for your project, assignment, course work, and term paper.
Let’s go straight into this list of all the discovered mineral resource in Nigeria at the moment.
Mineral resources in Nigeria: Abuja FCT
We start with this list of mineral resources in Nigeria with Abuja.
- Marble
- Clay
- Tentalite
- Cassiterite
- Gold (partially investigated)
- Lead /Zinc (Traces)
- Dolomite
List of all mineral resources found in Abia State
- Gold
- Salt
- Linestone
- Lead/Zinc
- Crude Oil
List of all mineral resources found in Adamawa State
- Kaolin
- Bentonite
- Gypsium
- Magnesite
List of all mineral resources found in Akwa Ibom State
- Lead/Zinc
- Clay
- Limestone
- Uranium (Traced)
- Salt
- Lignite (Traced)
List of all mineral resources found in Anambra State
- Lead/Zinck
- Clay
- Limestone
- Iron-Ore
- Lignite (Partially investigated)
- Salt
- Glass-Sand
- Phosphate
- Gypsium
- Crude Oil
Mineral resources in Nigeria: Bayelsa State
- Clay
- Limestone
- Gypsium (partially investigated)
- Uranium (partially investigated)
- Manganese
- Lignite
- Lead/Zinc (Traces)
List of all mineral resources found in Bauchi State
- Amethst (violet)
- Gypsium
- Lead/Zinc (Traces)
- Uranuin (partially investigated)
List of all mineral resources found in Benue State
- Lead/Zinc
- Limestone
- Iron-Ore
- Coal
- Clay
- Marble
- Sakt
- Berytes (traces)
- Gem stones
- Gypsium
List of all mineral resources found in Borno State
- Diatomite
- Clay
- Limestone
- Hydro-carbon (oil and gas)
- Partially investigated) cool
- Gypsium
- Kaolin
- Bentonite
List of all mineral resources found in Cross River State
- Limestone
- Uranium
- Manganese
- Lignite
- Lead/Zinc
- Salt
- Crude Oil
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Delta State
- Marble
- Glass Sand
- Gypsium
- Lignite
- Iron-Ore
- Kaolin
List of all mineral resources found in Ebonyi State
- Lead
- Gold shocked
- Salt
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Edo State
- Marble
- Lignite
- Clay
- Limestone
- Iron Ore
- Gypsium
- Glass-sand
- Gold
- Dolomite Phosphate
- Bitumen
- Crude Oil
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Ekiti State
- Kaolin
- Feldsper
- Tatium
- Granite
- Syenite
List of all mineral resources found in Enugu State
- Coal
- Linestone
- Lead/Zinc
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Gombe State
- Gemstone
- Gysium
List of all mineral resources found in Imo State
- Kead/Zinc
- Limestone
- Lignite
- Phosphate
- Marcasite
- Gypsium
- Salt
- Crude Oil
List of all mineral resources found in Jigawa State
- Butytes
List of all mineral resources found in Kaduna State
- Sapphire
- Kaoline
- Gold
- Clay
- Surpentinite
- Asbestos
- Amethyst
- Kyanite
- Graphite (partally investgated)
- Silhnite
- Mica (Traces)
- Aqua marine
- Ruby
- Rock Crystal
- Topaz
- Flosper
- Tourmaline
- Gemstone
- Tentalime
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Kano state
- Prrochinre
- Cassiterite
- Copper
- Glass – Sand
- Gemstone
- Lead/Zinc
- Tantalite
Mineral resources in Nigeria: Katsina State
- Kaolin
- Marble
- Salt
List of all mineral resources found in Kebbi State
- Gold
List of all mineral resources found in Kogi State
- Iron-Ore
- Kaolin
- Gypsium
- Feldsper
- Goal
- Marble
- Dolomite
- Talc
- Tantalite
List of all mineral resources found in Kwara State
- Gold
- Marble
- Iron-Ore
- Cassiterite
- Colubite
- Tantalite
- Feldspar (Traces)
- Mica (Traces)
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Lagos State
- Glass-sand
- Clay
- Bitumen
List of all mineral resources found in Nasarawa State
- Beryl (emerald)
- Asquamirine and Haliodor
- Dolomite/Marble
- Sapphire
- Tourmaline
- Quartz- Amethyst (Topaz, gamet)
- Zireon
- Tantalite
- Cassiterite
- Columbite
- Limenite
- Galena
- Iron-Ore
- Barytes
- Feldspar
- Limesstone
- Mica
- Cooking coal
- Talc
- Cay
- Salt
- Chalcopyrite
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Niger State
- Gold
- Talc
- Lead/Zinc
List of all mineral resources found in Ogun State
- Phosphate
- Clay
- Feldspar (traces)
- Kaolin
- Limestone
- Germstone
- Bitumen
List of all mineral resources found in Ondo State
- Bitumen
- Kaolin
- Gemstone
- Gypsium
- Feldspar
- Granite
- Clay
- Glass-sand
- Dimesion stones
- Limestone
- Coal
- Crude Oil
List of all mineral resources found in Osun State
- Gikd
- Talc
- Toumaline
- Toumaline
- Colimbite
- Granite
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Oyo State
- Kaoline
- Marble
- Clay
- Sillimnote
- Talc
- Gold
- Cassiterite
- Aqua Marine
- Dolomite
- Gemstone
- Tantalite
List of all mineral resources found in Plateau State
- Emerald
- Tin
- Marble
- Granite
- Tantalite/columbit
- Lead/Zinc
- Barytes
- Irton-Ore
- Kaolin
- Belonite
- Cassiterrite
- Phrochlore
- Clay
- Coal
- Wolfam
- Salt
- Bismuth
- Fluoride
- Molybdenite
- Gemstone
- Bauxite
List of all mineral resources found in River State
- Glass-sand
- Clay
- Marble
- Lignite (traces)
- Crude Oil
Mineral Resources in Nigeria: Sokoto State
- Kaolin
- Gold
- Limestone
- Phosphate
- Gpsium
- silica-sand
- Clay
- Laterrite
- Potash
- Flakes
- Granite
- Gold
- Salt
List of all mineral resources found in Taraba State
- Kaolin
- Lead/Zinc
List of all mineral resources found in Yobe State
- Tintomite
- Soda Ash (partially Investigated)
List of all mineral resources found in Zamfara State
- Goal
- Cotton
- Gold
There you have it on this post “Complete list of mineral resources in Nigeria and their location (2025 update).” I hope you found this piece informative