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 .
Wikipedia
  • Quarry
  • …dates from 1921
  • Description: name of a town and a mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as
    “Kasolo mine”
    “Shinkolobwe mine”
    “Shinkolobwe uranium mine”

Shinkolobwe

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Latitude
-11.05182° or 11° 3′ 7″ south
Longitude
26.5483° or 26° 32′ 54″ east
Open location code
5GW8WGXX+78
Open­Street­Map ID
way 613418549
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­quarry
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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