A Survey of Geo-medical Resources in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria holds a lot of potential for meaningful activities in the mining and utilisationof geo-medical resources. The rich medicinal waters from thermal chlorosodic and oligomineral springs, deep Cretaceous sediments (formation waters), as well as rocks and minerals such as trona, kaolin, bentonite and tropical peat put together, offer the most populous black nation on earth a very huge capacity for the development of geo-medical products as well as the much desired health resort industry in the light of incre…