COMMODITY PRICES FOR JULY 2005
The
prices provided are to serve as guide to investors. It is the outcome of
survey returns received from our liaison offices across the country and
sample surveys conducted in the FCT and environs in July 2005. Please
note that prices obtained may vary widely and suddenly according to
type, quality, transportation mode and in the case of exportable
commodity, the prevailing exchange rates.
The unit
of measurement is in tonnes expect otherwise stated.
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
Grains
Price (N/tonne) Fruits
Price (N/tonne)
Benniseed
86,000.00 Banana 35,000.00
Cowpea (white)
73,000.00 Onion
43,000.00
Cowpea (brown)
75,000.00 Oranges
28,000.00
Groundnut (shelled)
78,000.00 Pepper (dry)
172,000.00
Groundnut (unshelled) 32,000.00 Pepper (fresh)
80,000.00
Maize (white)
60,000.00
Pineapple
50,000.00
Maize (yellow)
65,000.00 Tomato (fresh)
60,000.00
Melon (shelled)
182,000.00 Tomato (dry) 126,000.00
Melon (unshelled)
75,000.00 Tarmarind 30,000.00
Millet
58,000.00
Rice (paddy)
44,000.00
Rice (Milled)
110,000.00
Sorghum
62,000.00
Soybeans
63,000.00
Wheat 75,000.00
Root
and Tubers
Cash Crops
Cassava 10,000.00 Castor Seed 62,000.00
Cocoyam 43,000.00
Cocoa
165,000.00
Ginger(dry)
165,000.00
Coconut
36,000.00
Ginger (fresh)
75,000.00
Coffee
120,000.00
Irish Potato 49,000.00 Gum Arabic (G1) 350,000.00
Sweet potato
25,000.00 Kolanut
60,000.00
Yam Tuber
40,000.00 Rubber 50,000.00
Sugarcane 30,000.00
Tea
250,000.00
MINERAL
RESOURCES
Metallic Minerals (Nm/tonne)
Non-Metallic (Nm/tonnes)
Cassiterite
0.20-0.60 Clay
0.015-0.021
Columbite
0.15-0.40
Feldspar
0.003-0.009
Lead/Zinc
0.02-0.03
Granite aggregate
0.002-0.005
Tantalite
3.00-12.00
Gypsum
0.005-0.007
Zircon
30.00-50.00 Kaolin
0.003-0.009
Limestone
0.003-0.006
Marble aggregate
0.003-0.004
Silica Sand
0.003-0.005
Talc
0.003-0.005
Trona
0.007-0.009
Gem/Semi Gem
(Nm/Kg)
Amethyst 0.02-0.07
Aquamarine
0.10-10.00
Emerald
0.20-12.00
Garnet
0.015-2.00
Sapphire
1.00-10.00
Topaz 0.008-0.035
Tourmaline (blue)
0.50-5.00
Tourmaline (pink) 0.20-1.50
