# Nigeria and its tin fields

Author: Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73990

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Nigeria+and+its+tin+fields+Calvert&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The present conspicuous position which Northern Nigeria holds in the public eye is of very recent attainment, and its development has been, comparatively speaking, the work of a moment. The discovery of tin in paying quantities within its boundaries is the secret of its sudden leap to an eminence from which it compels interest, and attracts to itself more than ordinary curiosity and attention. It is with Northern Nigeria as it was with New South Wales and California, with the Malay Peninsula and Rhodesia. Their potentialities were admitted long before the existence of their mineral wealth was made known, but it was not until their minerals were discovered that they loomed into absorbing p...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/nigeria-and-its-tin-fields-73990/chapters/12/index.md)