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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Rossing Uranium Mine Namibia photographs

The crater where the granite is mined.  The terracing goes very deep and the trucks can drive right to the bottom layer.

Here you can see the drills preparing for further blasting to expose fresh supplies and widen the mine.  Everything moves at a slow pace and does not seem to stop at all.

This was the moment the blast went off.  Although it looks quite close the guide said it was  15 km further away in a new area.  The top rock has to be scrapped as it does not contain uranium ore so it takes a long time to prepare new sites.
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