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| Workers at Ekulu coal mine, near Enugu, Nigeria. Circa: 1970's |
The Ekulu coal mine is one of five currently being operated by the statutory Nigerian Coal Corporation. Nigeria is the only country in Equatorial West Africa at present producing coal. The workers, classified as 'general surface labor,' are pushing coal tubs which have been brought from the mine to the terminus of an aerial ropeway, in which the coal will be carried to a central distribution area.
Coal generated lots of revenue for Nigeria between the years 1916 and 1970 when it was one of Nigeria’s major revenue earners. In the south eastern part of the country exploration of the mineral began proper in present day Enugu State in 1909, with production at the mines in Onyeama, Ogbete, Iva Valley and Okpara climbing from 25, 511 tons in 1916 to an estimated 583,422 tons before a decline set in during the Nigerian Civil War which started in 1967 and ended 1970. At the end of the war most parts of the South east had been ravaged and many expatriate mining experts, mostly from Britain and Poland had left Nigeria.
Source: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives
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Brief history of Enugu Ekulu coal mine
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