Rössing mine Namibia Britannica
Rössing open pit uranium mine largest in area of its kind in the world located in the extremely arid Namib Desert of Namibia about 25 miles 40 km northeast of the small Atlantic port of in the 1960s led to the development of the mine financed by British South African French and Canadian interests It was opened in 1976 and by itself has made Namibia in