Shinkolobwe is a locality and a mine of the Katanga (territory of Kambove) in Democratic republic of Congo located near Likasi. She counts approximately 15.000 inhabitants.
Uranium
It is layer of Shinkolobwe which was extracted the Uranium which made it possible to the Americans to build the atomic bomb launched on Hiroshima, that launched on Nagasaki being containing plutonium resulting from nuclear reactors, supplied to them-even with the fuel uranium.Uranium was sold with American within the framework of the Projet Manhattan by Edgar Sengier, the director of the Mining Union of High Katanga which had had the intuition of the importance of uranium and had made transport 1.200 tons of ore to New York since 1939. Officially the uranium mine is closed since 1960 because of the cost of exploitation.
The mine is officially closed, after in particular a crumbling successor in title the death of 8 people the July 8th 2004. If the uranium extraction is for a long time abandoned, the mine is always exploitable for the Cobalt.
However, in August 2006, the Sunday Times publishes an article affirming that the Tanzanian customs officers would have seized a uranium 238 loading on October 22nd, 2005. Loading that the Iran would have imported of Congo (DRC). The Iranian and Congolese authorities contradicted these allegations, and the governor of Katanga, Urbain Ngoy Kisula, request the installation of a board of inquiry.
See too
Internal bonds
External bonds
- Localization
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- Chart of mining Katanga
References
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