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Likasi

Smelter town, DR Congo.

About Likasi

Town in the Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.1

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Mines

Worked atShinkolobweShinkolobwe lies about 15 km away.1

Events

Led toCongo uranium ore bought for the Manhattan ProjectLikasi is part of this story: Congo uranium ore bought for the Manhattan Project.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q18780 (Likasi)

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).