The Marenica project is a modest Uranium resource located in the western part of
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
in
Erongo Region. Marenica represents a
uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weak ...
resource of 22,000 tU in ore grading 0.008%
uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weak ...
.
Marenica Minerals, the company that owns the rights to the resource, has put all further development on hold as its majority shareholder
Marenica Energy seeks to develop and market a process for extracting uranium from low-grade ore.
References
Uranium mines in Namibia
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