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The Federal Government has established a Barite Processing Factory in Calabar, Cross River State capital
The Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogar disclosed this in Calabar while receiving title documents for a 5 hectares land donated by the Cross River State government for the project.
He said that the choice of Cross-River State for citing the cluster project for Barite value chain development is predicated on the fact that the state is endowed with large commercial deposits of the mineral.
“Barite deposit occurrences in Cross-River State are mainly around Obubra through to Yala Local Government Area which informed the siting of the cluster project in Yala”, the minister said.