the community is blessed with abundant salt deposit which can sustain any small to medium scale salt industry. the salt deposit found in gabu is of great history to the people of gabu and is mined locally. the community also offers a wide range of investment opportunities in agro-based industries as well as solid mineral industries. other mineral resources found in gabu in economic deposits are; barite, quartzite, clay deposit, gravel, sharp sand etc. barite is currently being mined by different companies in gabu. efforts are also ongoing by the community to prospect for hydrocarbon, limestone, coal and other mineral resources. these resources are suspected to be in great abundance in gabu owing to depositional nature of gabu terrain.