Southern Africa
Namibia
Erongo

Rössing uranium mine

The Rössing uranium mine in is the longest-running and one of the largest open pit uranium mines in the world. It is located in the Namib Desert near the town of , 70 kilometres from the coastal town of .
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  • Type: Quarry
  • Description: mine
  • Also known as: “Rossing Uranium Mine” and “Rössing Uranium Mine”

Rössing uranium mine

Latitude
-22.48092° or 22° 28′ 51″ south
Longitude
15.05559° or 15° 3′ 20″ east
Inception
1976
Operator
China National Uranium Corporation
Open location code
5F9QG394+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 211419999
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­quarry
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­surface_mine
Wiki­data ID
Q1504704
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Rössing uranium mine” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rössing-uraanmyn”
  • Afrikaans: “Uraanmyn”
  • Chinese: “中的罗辛铀矿”
  • Chinese: “中的羅辛鈾礦”
  • Czech: “Důl Rössing”
  • French: “mine d’uranium de Rössing”
  • French: “Mine d’uranium de Rössing”
  • German: “Rössing-Mine”
  • German: “Tagebau Rössing”
  • Hebrew: “מכרה האורניום רוסינג”
  • Indonesian: “Tambang uranium Rössing”
  • Japanese: “ロッシング・ウラニウム・マイン”
  • Slovenian: “Rudnik urana Rössing”
  • Spanish: “Mina de uranio Rössing”
  • Ukrainian: “Рессінг (уранове родовище)”
  • Ukrainian: “Рессінг”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Rössing uranium mine”. Photo: Ikiwaner, GFDL.