The Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (French; literally "Mining Union of Upper-Katanga") was a Belgian mining company (with minority British share) which...
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rest of the country as Katanga Province. The Katangese secession was carried out with the support of Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a mining company with...
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practically controlled all of the mining in the province through Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK). This included uranium, radium, copper, cobalt, zinc...
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Umicore (section After Katanga)
mining and smelting industries, including the Union Minière known before 1968 as Union Minière du Haut Katanga. It has since reshaped itself into a more technology-focused...
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Union Minière can refer to: Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK), a mining company operating in Africa prior to 1966 Umicore, a Belgian metals company...
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Lubumbashi (redirect from Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province)
Etoile du Congo and the copper ore smelting oven installed by Union Minière du Haut Katanga on the nearby Lubumbashi River. The Comité Spécial du Katanga (CSK)...
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July 1963) was a Belgian mining engineer and director of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining company that operated in Belgian Congo during World War...
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Société Ciments du Katanga was created by royal decree on 16 January 1922 to supply cement to the rapidly growing Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) and...
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Partly-owned subsidiaries included the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK), which undertook mining in the Katanga portion of the copperbelt, and the Benguela...
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Once Katanga was firmly under Belgian control, and the mineral resources were heavily exploited by Belgian firms (notably Union Minière du Haut Katanga) the...
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minerals. In 1906 the Compagnie du Katanga, the CSK and the TCL formed the mining company Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK). In 1920 the UMHK, CCCI...
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Congo Crisis (redirect from Katanga crisis)
Announcing Katanga's breakaway, Tshombe said "We are seceding from chaos." The major mining company in Katanga, the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK),...
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Copperbelt (redirect from Katanga Supergroup)
Anvil Mining Domeyko Fault Glencore Camrose Resources Limited Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK) Xstrata Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park Baxter...
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Forminière (redirect from Société internationale forestière et minière du Congo)
Congo portal Thomas Fortune Ryan Societé Minière de Bakwanga Diamang (Angola) Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK) South Kasai "Rue Royale 54-56". Région...
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were exploited, especially copper mining in Katanga province. The Belgian-owned Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, which would come to dominate copper mining...
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Kolwezi (category Districts of Katanga Province)
to be the headquarters for the western mining group of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga. In 1971 it obtained city status and consisted of the communes...
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Gécamines (category Mining in Katanga Province)
Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a state-controlled corporation founded in 1966 and a successor to the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
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Shinkolobwe (category Haut-Katanga Province)
atomic bomb in World War II. Edgar Sengier, then director of Union Minière du Haut Katanga, had stockpiled 1,200 tonnes of uranium ore in a warehouse on...
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minerals. In 1906 the Compagnie du Katanga, the CSK and the TCL formed the mining company Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK). Harms 1975, p. 78. Fage...
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actively recruited labor for large mining companies such as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and Kivu, particularly in Kalima and Kamituga. Many of these...
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provided for the creation of a Control Committee of 5 members. Union Minière du Haut Katanga (Katanga, Belgian Congo) Rhokana Corporation (Zambia) Roan Antelope...
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the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK), the Société Internationale Forestière et Minière du Congo (Forminière) and the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Bas-Congo...
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by the Belgian government and in particular the Katanga Mining Union (Union Minière du Haut Katanga) producing 70% of the Congo's wealth. Prime Minister...
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trust, the Société Générale de Belgique and chairman of the Union minière du-Haut-Katanga amongst many other companies. Félicien Cattier was born in Cuesmes...
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the mine, the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga. The matter was then taken up by the Combined Policy Committee. As 30 percent of Union Minière's stock was controlled...
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after Felicien Cattier, who was chairman of the board of the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga. The mineral belongs to the pyrite group, in which all minerals...
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process. The most contested part was in the province of Katanga where the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, part of the Société, controlled the mineral-resource-rich...
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copper at Kamatanda in the pre-colonial period. The Belgian Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) was established in 1906 and took over the mine. In 1966...
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Bukama on the Lualaba River. The Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) was founded in 1906 to develop mines in Katanga. It was also to participate in building...
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receive the medal was Edgar Sengier, the director of the Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga during World War II. Sengier was awarded the Medal for Merit...
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