Uranium prospecting in the Main Karoo Basin
1969–1985 · regional · Prince Albert
Sixteen years of it, following SOEKOR's 1967 uranium hit. ESSO trial-mined into the late 1970s and Beaufort West was talked about as a coming mining town. Three Mile Island and then Chernobyl collapsed the uranium price and it stopped.
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- subject What is under the Koup