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Rossing mine

Rossing mine, Namibia. Producing, open pit, mining uranium since 1976.

Why Rossing is famous

Rossing is an open-pit uranium mine in Namibia's Erongo Region. Wikidata dates it to 1976. It produced 2,111 t of uranium in 2020, about 4 per cent of world output. China National Uranium Corporation held the majority, and the Namibian government held a minority.1,2,3,4

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Rossing today

Where uranium is mined todayMining in Namibia

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An example ofHusabNamibia's Rossing made 2,111 t of uranium in 2020. Husab made 3,302 t.1ExamplesLanger HeinrichNamibia's Langer Heinrich is 80 km east of Walvis Bay. Rossing is its open-pit neighbour in Erongo.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
  4. Rossing uranium mine (Q1504704) 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).