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The Benue Trough is a Cretaceous sedimentary basin, an elongated rift approximately 1,000km long and 50-150km wide, and is Nigeria's main source of barite mineralisation across eight states in the north and south-east of the country: Nasarawa, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa, Benue, Cross River, Ebonyi and Gombe ( see map ).