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Husab mine

Husab mine, Namibia. Producing, open pit, mining uranium.

Why Husab is famous

Namibian uranium mine owned by China General Nuclear, according to USGS's 2020-21 Namibia chapter. Husab produced 3,302 t of uranium in 2020, about 7 per cent of world output. China General Nuclear Power Group owns 90 per cent and Epangelo Mining 10 per cent. USGS says two of the world's ten largest uranium mines are in Namibia.1,2,3

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Husab today

Where uranium is mined todayMining in Namibia

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ExamplesRossingNamibia's Rossing made 2,111 t of uranium in 2020. Husab made 3,302 t.1An example ofLanger HeinrichNamibia's third uranium mine, Langer Heinrich, was on care and maintenance from 2018.1

Sources

  1. Minerals Yearbook 2020-21, volume III: The Mineral Industry of Namibia US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Namibia (advance release) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Malachite on cobaltocalcite, Musonoi by Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pictures: The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: room where experiments on uranium ore took place. Photograph, ca. 1900., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).