Mining industry of Uganda

The mining industry of Uganda, documented as early as the 1920s, witnessed a boom in the 1950s with a record 30 percent of the country's exports.

[2] Uganda's extractive industry activities have been identified by the Natural Resource Governance Institute as focused on "extraction of cobalt, gold, copper, iron ore, tungsten, steel, tin and other industrial products such as cement, diamonds, salt and vermiculite".

[4] The country's mining history is recorded in the 1920s with work done at southwest Uganda's tin and tungsten deposits.

North Korea financed the Ugandan government's project to rehabilitate the Kilembe copper mine.

[10] A-Tec Industries (Austria) restarted extraction at the Kilembe Copper Mines with an investment of US$200 million.

[11] 230 metric tonnes of phosphorus is estimated to be present in approximately 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi) of the Osukuru Hills.