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Uranium Mine Ownership - Africa

(last updated 8 May 2008)

Contents:

 

> for old mines, see Decommissioning Data - Africa

> See also: Database Index: Uranium Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa external link (African Development Information Services)

> Explanation of Signs and Symbols

 
BOTSWANA   flag

Mokobaesi / Kraken deposits, Letlhakane Project exploration ongoing

Size: 7,731 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.012% U

 
CAMEROON   flag

Kitongo deposit, Poli area exploration halted

Size: 11,130 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.085% U

 
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC   flag

Bakouma Uranium Project exploration ongoing

Size: 15,769 tonnes U (TOTAL)
Ore grade: 0.23% U

Patricia deposit

Size: 10,176 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.17% U
 > Download Technical Report June 2007 (1.3M PDF) external link (SEDAR)
[ISSUES]

 
CONGO, Democratic Republic of the   flag

(for old mines, see Decommissioning Data - Congo, DR)

 
GABON   flag

(for old mines, see Decommissioning Data - Gabon)

Mounana reclamation ongoing

(shut down in 1999)
[DETAILS] · [ISSUES]

COMUF - Compagnie des Mines d'Uranium de Franceville

Mikouloungou project exploration completed

Size: 4270 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.311% U

 
MALAWI   flag

Kayelekera deposit exploration completed

Mar. 16, 2007Reserves *)Resources (300 ppm cutoff)
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:2,157 t U7,491 t U2,315 t U9,230 t U1,731 t U
Ore grade:0.12% U0.086% U0.11% U0.070% U0.051% U
*) Reserves contained in Resources
> Download Technical Report: Mar. 16, 2007 (3.9M PDF) external link · Feb. 27, 2006 (4.9M PDF) external link · Feb. 24, 2005 (4.7M PDF) external link (SEDAR)

Aerial view: Google Maps external link new window

[ISSUES]

Kanyika exploration ongoing

Size: 3,392 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.0060% U

 
MALI   flag

Faléa property

Size: 4240 tonnes U
Ore grade:

 
MOZAMBIQUE   flag

Mavuzi project exploration ongoing

 
NAMIBIA   flag

Engo Valley · Goanikontes · Husab · Ida Dome · Klein Spitzkoppe · Klein Trekkopje · Langer Heinrich · Marenica · Rössing · Trekkopje · Tubas · Tumas · Valencia

(for old mines, see Decommissioning Data - Namibia)

> See also: Spatial Development Initiative: Potential Mining Projects external link (Ministry of Trade and Industry)
> Download: Mineral Resources of Namibia: Nuclear and Fossil Fuels - Uranium external link (2.4M PDF - Geological Survey of Namibia 1999)

 

Rössing operating

End 2005ReservesResources
stockpiledprovenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:1,033 t U3,222 t U34,700 t U4,410 t U66,678 t U47,471 t U
Ore grade:0.018% U0.032% U0.028% U0.042% U0.025% U0.25% U

Aerial view, mine: Google Maps external link new window
Aerial view, tailings dam: Google Maps external link new window

[ISSUES]

 

Langer Heinrich mine operating

2006Reserves *)Resources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:9,261 t U4,130 t U12,393 t U6,728 t U21,461 t U
Ore grade:0.061% U0.057% U0.051% U0.042% U0.051% U
*) Reserves (2005) contained in Resources
> Download Technical Report: Jan. 8, 2007 (3.5M PDF) external link · June 7, 2005 (8.9M PDF) external link · Feb. 24, 2005 (5.1M PDF) external link (SEDAR)
Aerial view: Google Maps external link new window

> Calculate Mine Feasibility
[ISSUES] · [OLD ISSUES]

Langer Heinrich Uranium (Pty) Ltd

 

Trekkopje Uranium Project development planned

Aerial view: Google Maps external link new window

> Calculate Mine Feasibility
[ISSUES]

Trekkopje deposit

Apr. 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:   3,103 t U1,937 t U
Ore grade:   0.011% U0.011% U

Klein Trekkopje deposit

6 Oct. 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:887 t U41,503 t U  974 t U
Ore grade:0.012% U0.011% U  0.0076% U

> Download Technical Report Nov. 28, 2006 (3.8M PDF) external link (SEDAR)
> Download Bankable Feasibility Study, Interim Progress Update Report, Feb. 2007 (300k PDF) external link (SEDAR)
> Download Preliminary Assessment April 26, 2007 (2.6M PDF) external link (SEDAR)

 

Valencia deposit exploration halted

June 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size: 11,787 t U2,154 t U13,769 t U7,962 t U
Ore grade: 0.010% U0.012% U0.0093% U0.0085% U

> Download Technical Report March 2008: Forsys · SEDAR
> Download Technical Report June 2007: Forsys (6.4M PDF) external link · SEDAR (1.8M PDF) external link
> Download: Technical Report Oct. 24, 2005 (1.9M PDF) external link (SEDAR)

Aerial view: Google Maps external link new window

> Calculate Mine Feasibility
[ISSUES]

 

Klein Spitzkoppe deposit, Karibib District exploration halted

Size: 1217 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.024% U

Engo Valley Uranium Deposit

Size: 1638 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.029% U

Tubas and Tumas tenements

Tubas project

Size: 14,923 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.019% U

Goanikontes deposit

Jan. 2008ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:   4,962 t U22,808 t U
Ore grade:   0.020% U0.017% U

> Download Technical Report Oct. 2007 (5.5MB PDF) external link (SEDAR)

> Calculate Mine Feasibility
[ISSUES]

Husab property

Ida Dome prospect

> Calculate Mine Feasibility
[ISSUES]

Marenica

Size: 5,769 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.018% U

 
NIGER   flag

Akouta · Arlit · Azelik · Imouraren · Madaouéla

(for old mines, see Decommissioning Data - Niger)
[CURRENT ISSUES]

Arlit operating

End 2005ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:16,716 t U  6,397 t U10,115 t U
Ore grade:0.3% U  0.16% U0.3% U

SOMAÏR - Société des Mines de l'Aïr

Akouta operating

End 2005ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:7,909 t U15,737 t U2,544 t U5,725 t U18,718 t U
Ore grade:0.46% U0.43% U0.33% U0.31% U0.25% U

COMINAK - Compagnie Minière d'Akouta

Imouraren project exploration ongoing

End 2005ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:  118,100 t U25,500 t U 
Ore grade:  0.11% U0.1% U 

[ISSUES]

Azelik deposit (Teguidda deposit), Agadez region under construction

Size: 12,764 tonnes U
Ore grade:
[ISSUES]

Madaouéla deposit, Arlit region exploration halted

Size: 6,191 tonnes U
Ore grade:

 
SENEGAL   flag

Saraya East deposit

Size: 1462 tonnes U (historic)
Ore grade: 0.20% U

 
SOMALIA   flag

Alio Ghelle deposit, Bur Area

Size: 1950 tonnes U (proved reserves), 3400 tonnes U (semi-proved reserves)
Ore grade: 0.076% U (proved reserves)

Mudug Province deposits

Size: 4200 tonnes U (estimated resource)
Ore grade: 0.068% U

 
SOUTH AFRICA   flag

Beaufort West · Blyvooruitzicht tailings project · Bonanza South · Buffelsfontein · Cooke Section · Denny Dalton · Dominion · East Rand tailings project · Ezulwini · Hartebeestfontein · Klerksdorp · Old Randfontein Section · Palabora · Potchefstroom · Randfontein · Rietkuil · Ryst Kuil · Southern Free State Goldfield · Springbok Flats · Vaal River area · Waterval · Western Area · Western Rand JV · West Rand tailings project

(for old mines, see Decommissioning Data - South Africa)

In South Africa, uranium is a by-product of gold mining.

Historical uranium production to 1996 external link (395k PDF - Chamber of Mines)

Hartebeestfontein / Buffelsfontein closed

Buffelsfontein
underground 2005		ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:  3,178 t U1,901 t U 
Ore grade:  0.018% U0.016% U 

Buffelsfontein and
Hartebeestfontein
tailings dams, Dec. 2007		ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:7,038 t U14,058 t U7,038 t U14,442 t U1,781 t U
Ore grade:0.0070% U0.0062% U0.0070% U0.0061% U0.0084% U
(Resources include Reserves!)

> Download Buffelsfontein Technical Report Nov. 8, 2006 (2.7M PDF) external link · revised Dec. 5, 2006 (2.7M PDF) external link · revised Jan. 31, 2007 (1.1M PDF) external link · revised May 22, 2007 (4.6M PDF) external link (SEDAR)
> Download Buffelsfontein - Independent Audit Report, Jan. 18, 2006 external link (4.5MB PDF)
(uranium recovery shut down)
(mining halted after March 9, 2005, earthquake and restarted Nov. 2005)
[ISSUES] · [MORE ISSUES]

Randfontein, Gauteng closed

(mining halted)

Ezulwini project (formerly Randfontein Four Shaft)
Jan. 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:  1,495 t U1,108 t U83,969 t U
Ore grade:  0.061% U0.081% U0.064% U

> Download Technical Report Nov. 8, 2006 (1.9M PDF) external link · revised Dec. 5, 2006 (1.9M PDF) external link · revised May 9, 2007 (2.7M PDF) external link (SEDAR)

[ISSUES] · [DECOMM. ISSUES]

Beaufort West deposit - Karoo Basin exploration halted

Size: 23,000 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.08% U

Palabora

(uranium recovery shut down in August 2001)

Springbok Flats deposit exploration halted

Size: 18,000 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.06%-0.1% U

Vaal River area mines operating

(Great Noligwa and Kopanang mines; Moab Khotsong, Savuka and Tau Tona mine projects)
End 2005ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size: 13,920 t U1,081 t U37,713 t U8,347 t U
Ore grade: 0.039% U0.055% U0.109% U0.126% U

[ISSUES]

Western Area

The uranium recovery plant of the mine was closed in 1998 for economic reasons.

Bonanza South deposit (Klerksdorp area) idle

Size: 270 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.0076% U

Dominion deposit (Klerksdorp area) operating

Dec. 31, 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Dominion Upper
Size:   10,028 t U15,508 t U
Ore grade:   0.053% U0.026% U
Dominion Lower
Size:   8,832 t U7,127 t U
Ore grade:   0.075% U0.020% U
Dominion Surface Tailings
Size:   346 t U 
Ore grade:   0.012% U 

> Download Technical Report Feb. 17, 2006 (7.7M PDF) external link · Technical Report June 14, 2006 (5M PDF) external link · Technical Report Aug. 1, 2006 (3.8M PDF) external link · Technical Report March 2, 2007 (5M PDF) external link (SEDAR)

[ISSUES] · [OLD ISSUES]

Rietkuil deposit (Klerksdorp area) idle

Dec. 31, 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Rietkuil Upper
Size:   18,863 t U15,574 t U
Ore grade:   0.050% U0.042% U
Rietkuil Lower
Size:   5,515 t U15,004 t U
Ore grade:   0.045% U0.036% U

> Download Technical Report Feb. 17, 2006 (7.7M PDF) external link (SEDAR)

Ryst Kuil Uranium Project

Size: 30,385 tonnes U
Ore grade:
[ISSUES]

Denny Dalton uranium/gold project exploration halted

Size: 9350 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.03% U

Cooke Section / Old Randfontein Section

Nov. 30, 2007ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
surface dumps
Size: 15,172 t U *)25,983 t U42 t U 
"Ore" grade: 0.018% U *)0.0083% U0.0047% U 
underground
Size:  2,553 t U1,577 t U11,526 t U
Ore grade:  0.034% U0.046% U0.042% U
*) Cooke Dump

[ISSUES]

Rand Uranium Co.

Western Rand Joint Venture projects

[ISSUES]

Mintails West Rand tailings project

Oct. 12, 2007
(in tailings)		ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:   5,658 t U3,688 t U
"Ore" grade:   0.0041% U0.0028% U

Additional inferred resources: 2,308 t U (0.0043% U)
> Download Technical Report Oct. 12, 2007 (PDF) external link

[ISSUES]

East Rand tailings project

[ISSUES]

Ergo Mines Joint Venture

Blyvooruitzicht tailings project

[ISSUES]

Southern Free State Goldfield

Potchefstroom deposit, Klerksdorp deposit

Size: 20,885 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.011% U
 > Download Technical Report Nov. 2007: Witsgold (4.5MB PDF) external link · SEDAR (4.5MB PDF) external link

Waterval project

Feb. 2008ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:   157 t U120 t U
Ore grade:   0.030% U0.030% U

 
TANZANIA   flag

Mkuju River project exploration halted

 
ZAMBIA   flag

Bungua · Gwabe · Kariba · Lumwana · Mutanga · Njame · Njame (Chirundu JV)

 

Lumwana copper project exploration completed

Apr. 29, 2008ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Malundwe
Size: 3,467 t U  729 t U
Ore grade: 0.10% U  0.073% U
Chimiwungo
Size:    609 t U
Ore grade:    0.061% U

> Download Technical Report, Apr. 2008 · Technical Report, Aug. 2006 external link (1.4M PDF - SEDAR)
[ISSUES]

Njame, Mutanga, and Bungua deposits

Size: 5414 tonnes U (estimated resources)
Ore grade:

Njame deposit (Chirundu JV)

May 8, 2008ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:   1,283 t U1,213 t U
Ore grade:   0.033% U0.023% U

[ISSUES]

Chirundu Joint Venture

Gwabe deposit

May 8, 2008ReservesResources
provenprobablemeasuredindicatedinferred
Size:   150 t U1,028 t U
Ore grade:   0.017% U0.026% U

Chirundu Joint Venture

Kariba project exploration halted

Size: 5269 tonnes U (inferred)
Ore grade: 0.032% U
[ISSUES]

 
ZIMBABWE   flag

Kanyemba uranium-vanadium mine project exploration completed

Size: 1800 tonnes U
Ore grade: 0.6% U

"Zambezi River Project"

Lowenbrau

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