Feature: From pit to prosperity -- Nigerian miners find renewed hope from solid minerals revival


By TunjiYang Zhe
  • World
  • Tuesday, 10 Jun 2025

by Olatunji Saliu

ABUJA, June 9 (Xinhua) -- As the early morning sun stretched long shadows across the rocky terrain of a small mining site in Nigeria's central state of Nasarawa, 43-year-old Abubakar Musa, a third-generation artisanal miner, sifted meticulously through the freshly unearthed soil.

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