Likasi

History

Shinkolobwe mine, 20 km west of Likasi (then called Jadotville), was described by a 1943 Manhattan Project intelligence report as the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world. The uranium from this mine was used to build the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katanga conflict, a company of Irish UN troops deployed to Jadotville fought valiantly, but was besieged and eventually surrendered to troops loyal to the Katangese Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe.

Most-observed species

• Pied Crow

  Corvus albus Statius Muller, 1776 · Aves
  2
• Oleander Hawk-moth

  Daphnis nerii Linnaeus, 1758 · Insecta
  1
• African Split-skin Toad

  Schismaderma carens (Smith, 1848) · Amphibia
  1
• Ring-necked Dove

  Streptopelia capicola (Sundevall, 1857) · Aves
  1
• African Green-Pigeon

  Treron calvus (Temminck, 1811) · Aves
  1
• Flame Lily

  Gloriosa superba L. · Liliopsida
  1
• Costus spectabilis (Fenzl) K.Schum.

  Costus spectabilis (Fenzl) K.Schum. · Liliopsida
  1
• Amorphophallus abyssinicus (A.Rich.) N.E.Br.

  Amorphophallus abyssinicus (A.Rich.) N.E.Br. · Liliopsida
  1

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2025-05-04
  63 km S of Likasi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 4.4 — 2022-11-16
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 4.5 — 2016-06-03
  19 km NW of Kambove, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M 4.9 — 2011-09-25
  53 km NE of Likasi, Democratic Republic of the Congo