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  • AP: Miners Drawn to Illegal Congo Uranium

    05/31/2004 2:39:24 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 14 replies · 388+ views
    The Las Vegas Sun ^ | May 31, 2004 at 14:31:41 PDT | TODD PITMAN
    SHINKOLOBWE, Congo (AP) - Business is booming in the mining zone that supplied uranium for the atomic bombs unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - despite a decree by Congo's president banning all mining activity here. President Joseph Kabila ordered the zone closed three months ago amid growing concerns that unregulated nuclear materials could get into the hands of so-called rogue nations or terrorist groups. Yet 1,000 miles away from the capital, Kinshasa, thousands of diggers are still hacking away at a dark cavity of open earth in this southeastern village, filling thousands of burlap sacks a day with black soil...