Shinkolobwe

Shinkolobwe is the name of a town and a mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located near the larger town of Likasi. Around 15,000 people live in the town. It was Shinkolobwe's uranium resources that the United States used to make the Hiroshima bomb. Edgar Sengier, then director of Union Minière du Haut Katanga, had sold 1,200 tonnes of uranium ore to the Americans since 1939.

The mine is officially closed; it was rendered unsafe when a tremor caused the death of eight people in 2004. Although uranium extraction in Shinkolobwe seems to have been abandoned, the mine could still be exploited for its cobalt.