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Langer Heinrich mine

Langer Heinrich mine, Namibia. Care and maintenance, open pit, mining uranium.

Why Langer Heinrich is famous

Namibian uranium mine, 75% owned by Paladin. USGS noted a restart plan for the mine in its 2020-21 Namibia chapter. USGS says the mine was on care and maintenance from 2018, lies in the Namib Desert 80 km east of Walvis Bay, and was owned 75 per cent by Paladin. Paladin released a restart plan in November 2021.1,2,3,4

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Langer Heinrich today

Where uranium is mined todayMining in Namibia

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Mines

An example ofRossingNamibia's Langer Heinrich is 80 km east of Walvis Bay. Rossing is its open-pit neighbour in Erongo.1An example ofHusabHusab made 3,302 t of uranium in 2020, about 7 per cent of world output.1

Sources

  1. Minerals Yearbook 2020-21, volume III: The Mineral Industry of Namibia US Geological Survey
  2. Company home page Paladin Energy
  3. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Namibia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  4. Langer Heinrich mine (Q1791607) Wikidata

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).