Ore Worth Mining is Found at the Hushan Uranium Mine in Namibia for the First Time on May 11, 2015

Valuable ore is found at the Hushan uranium mine in Namibia for the first time on May 11, 2015. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

Ore worth mining is found at the Hushan uranium mine in Namibia for the first time on May 11, 2015

Valuable ore was found for the first time at the Hushan uranium mine in Namibia on May 11, 2015, taking the project's mining production prospects to a new stage.

The mine, located at the Namib Desert in western Namibia, is the third largest uranium mine in the world with a total volume of 286,000 tons of uranosouranic oxide.

The exploration of the mine was China's largest investment in Africa and a landmark project of China-Africa cooperation, as well as a significant achievement of China General Nuclear Power Corporation.

The scheduled output of uranosouranic oxide of the mine was 6,500 tons per year.

The world's largest underground engineering equipment manufacturing base is put into operation on May 11

The world's largest advanced underground engineering equipment manufacturing base was constructed and went into operation in Changsha, Hunan province, on May 11.

The base, valued at five billion yuan ($737.57 million), was invested by China Railway Construction Corporation Limited.

Covering 667,000 sq m, the base integrates development, manufacturing, service and re-manufacturing and mainly produces high-end intelligent equipment for drilling-blasting tunneling, full face rock tunnel boring machines and shield re-manufacturing equipment.

The base had 3,000 employment positions and had more than five billion yuan of annual production value growth.

(Executive editor: Li Shuling)