The Water Strategic Mega Reservoirs Project is located at five key sites around Doha—Umm Birka, Umm Slal, Rawdat Rashed, Abu Nakhla, and Al Thumama—each about 1 km². It comprises fifteen world-class concrete reservoirs (~300 m × 150 m × 12 m, ~100 MIG each), offering a total storage of 1,500 MIG, and is linked by 650 km of large-diameter pipelines. Commissioned by around 2018 and holding a Guinness World Record, the project raised Qatar’s water reserve from roughly 1.3 days (2010) to about 5.2 days in 2024, ensuring secure potable supply up to 2026. The design supports gravity flow during outages (notably at Rawdat Rashed) and maintains WHO-standard water quality.
The Gold Fields Tarkwa Mine is a large-scale open-pit operation located approximately 300 km west of Accra, near the town of Tarkwa in Ghana’s Western Region. Managed by Gold Fields Ghana (90%) with a 10% government free-carry interest, the mine spans around 20,800 hectares and exploits auriferous paleoplacer conglomerate reefs. In 2023, it produced 551,000 oz of gold from over 14 million tonnes of ore and retains 4.35 million ounces of mineral reserves. Supported by a powerful fleet of excavators, dump trucks, and drills, ore is processed through heap-leach and a 12 Mtpa CIL plant (SAG and ball mills, elution, electrowinning). The mine is a major economic player—contributing over GHS 3 billion to the government in 2024—and the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation has committed over US $100 million toward community development
The Ilanga-1 Solar Plant is a concentrated solar thermal (CSP) facility with 100 MW capacity, located approximately 20 km east of Upington in South Africa’s Northern Cape. It features parabolic trough collectors spanning 266 loops (around 870,000 m² of mirrors) and molten-salt storage that delivers five hours of dispatchable power. Commissioned in 2018 by a consortium of Emvelo, Cobra, and SENER, it’s owned by Karoshoek Solar One (RF) Pty Ltd and delivers clean electricity to Eskom under a 20-year PPA. The project generated roughly 1,500 jobs during construction, included local skills and socio-economic development, serves over 100,000 homes, and avoids about 90,000 t of CO₂ emissions annually.
The Kayelekera Mine (KM) is located in northern Malawi, 52km west (by road) of the provincial town of Karonga at the northern end of Lake Malawi, and 575km by road north of the capital city, Lilongwe. The mine is designed to give an annual production of 3.3Mlb U3O8 from the processing of 1.5Mtpa of sandstone and associated ores by grinding, acid leaching, resin-in-pulp extraction, elution, precipitation and drying to produce saleable product.
The Medupi and Kusile Power Stations are dry-cooled, coal-fired facilities developed by Eskom in South Africa. Medupi is located near Lephalale in Limpopo Province, while Kusile is situated in the Nkangala District of Mpumalanga Province. Each station is designed with six generating units, each rated at 800 MW, giving a total installed capacity of 4,800 MW per site. Once fully completed and commissioned, both Medupi and Kusile will rank among the largest dry-cooled coal-fired power stations in the world."
The Langer Heinrich Mine (LHM) is located in central-western Namibia’s Erongo Region, about 80 km east of Swakopmund and 85 km northeast of Walvis Bay. Commissioned in 2007, it initially operated at ~2.7 M lb U₃O₈ per annum, later expanding to ~5.2 M lb pa. After care and maintenance from 2018, the mine restarted production in March 2024 and delivered ~3 M lb U₃O₈ in fiscal 2025, with ~745,000 lb produced in the March 2025 quarter at an 88 % recovery, processing mostly stockpiled ore while ramping up open-pit mining.
