Shinkolobwe mine
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Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, was a radium and uranium mine in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located west of Likasi (formerly Jadotville), south of Kambove, and about northwest of Lubumbashi.
Key facts
- Mine.name
- Shinkolobwe mine
- Mine.image
- Shinkolobwe.jpg
- Mine.caption
- Shinkolobwe mine, 1925
- Mine.pushpin_map
- Democratic Republic of the Congo#Africa
- Mine.place
- Shinkolobwe
- Mine.subdivision_type
- Province
- Mine.state/province
- Katanga
- Mine.country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mine.products
- Uranium ore
- Mine.closing year
- 2004
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Located in
- Haut-Katanga Province
- Operator
- Union Minière du Haut Katanga
- Image
- Shinkolobwe.jpg
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- Commons category
- Shinkolobwe Mine
- described at URL
- www.icmm.com/en-gb/research/data/2025/global-mining-dataset
- product or material produced
- uranium ore
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Toponym
- Geology
- History
- Manhattan Project
- Cold War era
- Israeli yellowcake
- Closure
- Artisanal mining and smuggling
- See also
- References
- External links
Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, was a radium and uranium mine in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located west of Likasi (formerly Jadotville), south of Kambove, and about northwest of Lubumbashi.
The mine produced the most economical uranium ore in the world and was used for the Manhattan Project and subsequent nuclear weapons produced by the United States in the 1940s and 50s. Before World War II, uranium extracted here was originally taken to Belgium to be processed; this supply was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1940 and subsequently used for the unsuccessful German nuclear program.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shinkolobwe mine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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