LEARNOK CONSORT LTD otherwise known as LCL is an outstanding knowledgeable mining company covering vast mining activities in all mineral resources, refining, and exploration in all available mineral deposits within a given cadastre region.
The company is located in Nigeria with multiple operational mining sites in many parts of Nigeria, such as Nasarawa, Bauchi, Jos, Taraba, and in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria (Ebonyi). Due to the wide range of business coverage coupled with the international trade affiliation of LEARNOK CONSORT LTD, the company decided to share offices outside Nigeria, with some locations in the USA, China mainland, and Hong Kong SRA.
LCL could be defined as a multi-functional company hence outside mining activities, the company is also engaged in Agriculture, Construction, Investment, International Trade, and Energy/Energy Industry sector activities. However, the main activities and mode of operation are predominantly the mining of raw materials used in the processing of finished products and the international trading activities associated with the mined products and their components.
LCL at present is not a manufacturer of finished products but rather engages in the activities of mining, selling/supplying raw solid minerals and other useful products that enhance the economic activities of a given nation, and aid in the provision of investment services among investors and their hosts' nations.
The major mineralization resources that have clouded the mining activities of LCL are,
1: Copper Ore
2: Lead Ore
3: Manganese
4: Zinc Ore
5: Lithium
6: Iron Ore
7: Rose Quartz
8: Precious Stones
9: Gold
10: Diamond
11: Coal
12: Tin
13: Bauxite
14: Uranium
15: Granite
16: Mica
17: Barite, and many others.
Also, by exploring further into the other activities of LCL and some products gallery on this website, you will find out other useful engagements of LCL and some pictures that explain the activities explored by LCL and other partners, especially the import and export activities, pictures of developmental/investment projects undertaken by many countries which could as be brought your region, and many others.
LEARNOK CONSORT LTD (LCL) is a Nigerian mining exploration and development company in the mineralization of solid minerals especially copper oxide and sulfide (Chalcopyrite) in Nigeria. The company has different mining sites in different regions however, it mainly concentrates its mining activities within the northern regions namely, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Jos and sometimes the Taraba axis.
The Bauchi site is a host to a large concentration of attracting massive copper deposits with satisfying qualitative CU% that has over a production capacity of 1000 MT of copper deposit weekly, and many other deposits (Lithium, Gemstones, zinc, lead, iron, manganese, gold, columbite, coal, tin) and host of others.
The geological survey carried out at the request of LCL following the Nigerian mining cadastre unit directives investigated the site at Toro LGA (Local Government Area) of Bauchi.
Also, an investigation and research carried out by the mineralogical study of Pingel-Bauchi Malachite Ore by Bamidele Emmanuel, Ajayi John Ade, and Elizabeth Makhatha, the outcome of that investigation was a motivating factor that brought LCL to the search for a copper mining site that will produce an adequate copper profile for the actualization of the company’s objective.
The investigation was carried out to identify the Pingel-Bauchi malachite ore to determine the mineralogical assemblage, the chemical composition and the
micrograph of the minerals. For this purpose, elemental analysis, chemical analysis, ore microscopy, x-ray diffractometry, and scanning electron microscopy were carried out on the
Pingel-Bauchi malachite ore. The result of the optical and scanning electron microscopy reveals that the Pingel-Bauchi malachite ore occurs in a coarse grain locked in porphyritic fine-grain alumina and silica.
Fig1: Microscopy Scanning Showing the locations of the mineral (Malachite) copper ore scattered around the alumina/silica and hematite.
Table 1: Chemical Analysis
As could be seen in table 1, the chemical analysis presented using the XRF technique produced the result in table 2.
Table 2: Chemical Composition and CU% Content
From figure 2, we could see the revelation that the ore contains19.5wt%Cu, 3.64wt%Fe, 1.10wt%Mn, 2.48wt%Pb, 0.40wt% Cd, and 0.5wt%Na. The result indicates that the Pingel-Bauchi malachite ore has appreciable copper content. The 19.5wt% obtained is above the 0 –2.9wt% that Escarate, et al,2015 prescribed for an economically worthwhile extraction. However, the result obtained from the use of XRF shows a similar weight percentage of copper in the malachite ore. The principal element present in the copper ore is iron which is shown in Table I and Table II. From the result of the analysis, 3.64wt% Fe was revealed in the Pingel-Bauchi malachite ore. This weight % (Percent) of iron in the Pingel-Bauchi malachite ore conforms to the assertion of Alpers & Nordstorm,1999 that the iron content of typical copper oxide ore is between 2% and 6%. This also tallies with the observation of Dreier, 1999 that in most oxide copper ore deposits including malachite, iron is present in a variety of oxide, hydroxide, sulfate, sulfide, and silicate minerals In this case, iron is present in its oxide state. The 3.64wt% of iron contained in the ore satisfies the requirement for proper extraction of the ore, this is due to the iron content staying between the 2% and 6% prescribed for the moderate reaction of malachite with the acidic lixiviants according to Nordstorm and Aspers according to Dreier, (1999).
The investigation carried out on the Pingel-Bauchi Copper Oxide ore presented that the Toro LGA Pingel Copper ore deposit was found to have a large unit of copper oxide concentrate in the veins with the adequate result showing the chemical analysis and chemical composition as well as the CU% deposit at the site. However, through the X-Ray diffraction, there is a presence of other mineral composites available as shown from the diffractogram conducted at the site, such as Q = Quartz, T = Tenorite, M = Malachite, R = Riedeckite, Rh = Rhodochrosite, Z = Zincite; which are enough evidence that this site with more traces of iron, and manganese in some of the compounds such as hematite, riebeckite, rhodochrosite and magnesium iron aluminium silicate hydroxide, is a piece of evidence that the Bauchi Malachite site Ore is formed by the dissipation of the primary copper deposit as opined by Dreier’s investigation in 1999.
Fig 1: X-Ray Diffraction of the minerals attached with the Copper ore
A micrographic result obtained through scanning electron microscopy shows in plates the surfaces of the detailed mapping of Ore concentrates as the Hematite (shown in fig 1), and another exposed report from the electron detector shows the association of Silica accompanied with Alumina all circled the Malachite ore in the site we are working from.
Fig 2: Scanned Electron Microscopy that determined Silica around the Malachite Ore region
This micrographic presentation conforms with the Katanga copper deposit (Zambia) which confirms that the Bauchi copper ore site deposit occurs as a fibrous malachite in association with quartz on a beautified surface as shown in the plates in fig 1 and 2.
This mining profile includes comprehensively the compilation of research carried out by the mineralogical study of Pingel-Bauchi Malachite Ore by Bamidele Emmanuel, Ajayi John Ade, and Elizabeth Makhatha in 2015 and the LCL report gotten from the geological survey services rendered by WEST AFRICA GEO-MINING SYSTEMS LTD in 2022 in the quest to identify a small mining lease unit from the Bauchi Malachite Ore for the mining exploration of LEARNOK CONSORT LTD (LCL).
In conclusion, the leasing site for LEARNOK CONSORT LTD (LCL) has copper concentrate that could produce copper oxide ore and other minerals in a commercial quantity for more than 4 years as the authorization license permits, though renewable depending on the available market for the minerals.
From the available report, the present sites in Toro Bauchi State, Nasarwa Akiri mining sites and others can sufficiently supply the minerals products (Copper Ore) of more than 1.5 million metric tons in less than 20 months.
