Shinkolobwe

Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, was a radium and uranium mine in the of the , located 20 km west of , 20 km south of , and about 145 km northwest of .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: name of a town and a mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: Kasolo mine”, “Shainkolobwe”, “Shinkolobwe mine”, and “Shinkolobwe uranium mine

Shinkolobwe

Latitude
-11.05248° or 11° 3′ 9″ south
Longitude
26.54665° or 26° 32′ 48″ east
Elevation
1,404 metres (4,606 feet)
Open location code
5GW8WGXW+2M
Geo­Names ID
922162
Wiki­data ID
Q2096071
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Shinkolobwe” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: 欣科洛布威
  • Chinese: 辛科洛布韋礦場
  • Dutch: Shinkolobwe
  • French: Mine de Shinkolobwe
  • French: Shinkolobwe
  • French: Shinkolombwe
  • German: Chinkolobwe
  • German: Shinkolobwe Mine
  • German: Shinkolobwe-Mine
  • German: Shinkolobwe
  • Hebrew: שינקולובווה
  • Indonesian: Shinkolobwe
  • Italian: Shinkolobwe
  • Japanese: シンコロブエ鉱山
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Shinkolobwe
  • Norwegian: Shinkolobwe
  • Polish: Shinkolobwe
  • Romanian: Shinkolobwe
  • Russian: Шинколобве
  • Slovenian: Chinkolobwe
  • Slovenian: rudnik Kasolo
  • Slovenian: rudnik Shinkolobwe
  • Slovenian: Shinkolobwe
  • Slovenian: Šinkolobve
  • Spanish: Mina de Shinkolobwe
  • Spanish: Shinkolobwe
  • Swahili: Kasolo mine
  • Swahili: Shinkolobwe
  • Ukrainian: Шинколобве

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shinkolobwe”. Photo: Bergeycm, CC BY-SA 3.0.