Shinkolobwe
Shinkolobwe, or Kasolo, or Chinkolobew, or Shainkolobwe, was a radium and uranium mine in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located 20 km west of Likasi, 20 km south of Kambove, and about 145 km northwest of Lubumbashi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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
- Categories: uranium mine and human settlement
- Location: Kambove Ville, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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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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