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Groves tried to have the Shinkolobwe mine re-opened and its output sold to the United States.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|pp=285–286}} Sengier reported that the mine could yield another {{convert|10,000|ST|t|order=flip}} of ore containing 50 to 60 per cent oxide, but restarting production required new equipment, electricity to pump out the flooded mine, and assembling a workforce, which would take 18 to 20 months.{{sfn|Helmreich|1986|p=18}} Mine repairs and dewatering cost about $350,000 and another $200,000 was required to divert electricity away from copper mines.{{sfn|Helmreich|1986|p=35}} As 30 per cent of the stock in Union Minière were held by British shareholders and the [[Belgian Government in Exile]] was in London, the British took the lead in negotiations.{{sfn|Hewlett|Anderson|1962|pp=285–286}} Negotiations took much longer than anticipated, but Sir [[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|John Anderson]] and Ambassador [[John Winant]] hammered out a deal in May 1944 with Sengier and the Belgian Government in Exile for the mine to be reopened and {{convert|1720|ST}} of ore to be purchased, and the contract was signed until 25 September 1944.{{sfn|Helmreich|1986|pp=36–37}} The agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Belgium lasted ten years and continued after the war
[[File:BOILER and PROCESS BUILDINGS, SOUTHWEST OBLIQUE - Middlesex Sampling Plant, Process Building, 239 Mountain Avenue, Middlesex, Middlesex County, NJ HAER NJ,12-MIDSX,1A-6.tif|thumb|left|Boiler and process buildings, [[Middlesex Sampling Plant]]]]
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* {{cite book |last=Groves |first=Leslie |author-link=Leslie Groves |title=Now it Can be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project |url=https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetolds00grov |url-access=registration |___location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1962 |oclc=537684 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Harris |first1=John |title=The Magic Key: E = mc<sup>2</sup> |date=June 1962 |journal=Mallinckrodt Uranium Division News |volume=7 |issue=3 and 4 |pages=25–31 |access-date=18 February 2025 |url=https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The%20Mallinckrodt%20Chemical%20Works%20Story.pdf |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802063201/https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The%20Mallinckrodt%20Chemical%20Works%20Story.pdf |url-status=live }}
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*{{cite journal |last =Helmreich |first =Jonathan E. |date =1990 |title =The Negotiation of the Belgian Uranium Export Tax of 1951 |journal=[[Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire]] |volume=68 |issue =2 |pages =320–351 |doi =10.3406/rbph.1990.3713}}
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* {{cite book |last1=Hewlett |first1=Richard G. |author-link=Richard G. Hewlett |last2=Anderson |first2=Oscar E. |title=The New World, 1939–1946 |___location=University Park |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |year=1962 |url=https://www.governmentattic.org/5docs/TheNewWorld1939-1946.pdf |access-date=26 March 2013 |oclc=637004643 |archive-date=26 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926065049/https://www.governmentattic.org/5docs/TheNewWorld1939-1946.pdf |url-status=live }}
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