Mounana is a town in

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

. It lies on the N3 road and from 1958 until the 1990s was a major

uranium mining Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the earth. Over 50,000 tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia were the top three uranium producers, respectively, and together account for 68% of w ...

centre. The mine is now closed, and it is now primarily a centre for

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

. According to the 1993 census it had a population of 6,372 and in 2013 it had an estimated population of 12,437.

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Populated places in Haut-Ogooué Province Uranium mines Mining in Gabon {{Gabon-geo-stub