Shinkolobwe

Shinkolobwe, a settlement in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is known primarily as the site of a uranium and radium mine whose ore supplied the Manhattan Project — including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945. Before World War II, uranium processed here was shipped to Belgium; that stockpile was seized by Germany in 1940 and used in its ultimately unsuccessful nuclear programme. The mine was officially closed in 2004.

• Nearest water from center4.0 km
• Nearest mountain from center49.5 km