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Uis mine

Uis mine, Namibia. Producing, open pit, mining tin, tantalum.

Why Uis is famous

Uis tin and tantalum mine in Namibia. Andrada Mining describes established tin and tantalum concentrate production with possible rubidium and niobium credits. Uis Tin Mining Company, 85 per cent owned by AfriTin Mining, made 63.9 t of tin concentrate in November 2020 and 248 t in December 2020 when it reached commercial production. Phase 1 was designed to ramp up to 720 t a year of concentrate, and Namibia's tin output rose by 3,020 per cent in 2020.1,2,3

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What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Uis today

Where tin is mined todayWhere tantalum is mined todayMining in Namibia

Where next

Mines

ExamplesBisie (Mpama North and South)Two African tin mines: Bisie in DR Congo and Uis in Namibia.4

Deposit types

An example ofLithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatiteUis belongs to the lithium-caesium-tantalum family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Company home page Andrada Mining
  2. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Namibia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  3. Uis mine (Q16902270) Wikidata
  4. Record annual production from Bisie despite turbulent year (21 Jan 2026) International Tin Association
  5. Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment, Chapter O: Mineral-Deposit Model for Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites (SIR 2010-5070-O) 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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