(b) Importance of mineral resources:
(i) Employment of citizens in the mines and mineral processing industries
(ii) Earnings of foreign exchange
(iii) Industrial raw materials
(iv) Major source of power in the country
(v) Raising of living standards
(vi) Impetus to growth and development of town, e.g Jos, Enugu
(vii) Development of infrastructures
(vii) Production of maps for exploitation
(c) Limiting factors to the exploitation of minerals:
(i) Inadequate capital
(ii) Fluctuation in process of minerals
(iii) Dominance of foreign firms
(iv) Inadequate skilled labour
(v) Low KEY technology
(vi) Shortage of power
(vii) Environmental Gold problems,e g. difficult terrain
(viii) Communal conflicts/ Columbite local politics
(ix) Inadequate surveys-inadequate Petroleum geological maps
(x) Poor management (poor planning)