‘Collaboration will boost mining foreign exchange earning’
Director-General/ Chief Executive of the National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC) in Jos the Plateau State capital, Prof. Linus Asuquo, has said improvement on Nigeria’s foreign earnings is achievable through healthy collaborations with relevant foreign organisations. He spoke during a technical/ fact-finding visit of Directors and Engineering Consultant of Diamond Aggregate Mining Limited India to National […]
Director-General/ Chief Executive of the National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC) in Jos the Plateau State capital, Prof. Linus Asuquo, has said improvement on Nigeria’s foreign earnings is achievable through healthy collaborations with relevant foreign organisations.
He spoke during a technical/ fact-finding visit of Directors and Engineering Consultant of Diamond Aggregate Mining Limited India to National Metallurgical Development Centre, Jos,
The DG /CE who was represented by the Director, Finance and Human Resources Management, Dr Abubakar Yusuf Tumi told the team from the Indian company that NMDC does not partner with foreign organisations with exploitative tendencies rather with those that have symbiotic principles in collaborations.
He told the delegation that NMDC’s collaboration with other partners/collaborators has proved that the agency is indispensable to value addition in the mining and steel sector.
According to him, NMDC has researched and upgraded many minerals for governments, corporate organisations and individuals using the latest beneficiation and scientific methods.
He stressed that choosing NMDC as a government agency to collaborate within Iron Ore upgrading/beneficiation is the best decision the Indian company has taken considering NMDC’s unquantifiable benefits to Nigeria and India in terms of foreign exchange earnings
He assured the Indian team that NMDC being one out of three research and development centres in Africa that has the best manpower and equipment in mineral processing and beneficiation, they are ever ready to add value to any type of mineral or metal presented to them for assessment.
He encouraged the Indian company to get the necessary certification from the Nigerian government particularly from the Mining Cadastral Office of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Abuja so as to have a hitched-free mining and exportation business in Nigeria.