copper mining namaqualand

Granite Mines In Namakwaland

Namaqualand A Short History of Nearly comprising granite hills the vast sandy expanse of the copper mining companies which we will learn about later Get Information Springbok Okiep Copper District Namakwa District Namaqualand

Venetia Mine Anglo American

Venetia Mine Welcomes FUND MANAGERS DELEGATION A GENERAL OVERVIEW LOCATION TANZANIA WILLIAMSON Lake Victoria NAMIBIA ZIMBABWE MOZAMBIQUE LESOTHO SOUTH AFRICA DEBMARINE Cape Town KOFFIEFONTEIN FINSCH KIMBERLEY MINES Kimberley Johannesburg ELIZABETH BAY NAMDEB AUCHAS Durban PREMIER MARSFONTEIN THE OAKS Pretoria Gaborone TSWAPONG LETLHAKANE ORAPA JWANENG NAMAQUALAND MINES BOTSWANA VENETIA

The O okiep Copper District Namaqualand South

Abstract The O okiep Copper District is the oldest formal mining area in South Africa Between 1852 and 2024 the 2 500 km 2 area yielded two million tons of copper from 32 mines ranging in ore tonnages from 140 000 to 37 million tons

Gone Fishing Okiep

Both are old copper mining towns that have now shut down all mining I think the last mine to shut down was in 2024 and by the look of things they are both are battling to survive Saw this display of flowers just outside Nababeep Namaqualand daisies Nababeep is about 30km s from Springbok and to get there one must travel on a road

Namaqualand mine debacle

· News24 received this video clip from Green Renaissance claiming De Beers has damaged the environment in Hondeklip Baai Namaqualand On behalf of De Beers Christie Pisane Namaqualand Mines General Manager spoke to News24 in response to the allegations

Namaqualand mine debacle

· News24 received this video clip from Green Renaissance claiming De Beers has damaged the environment in Hondeklip Baai Namaqualand On behalf of

Springbok Northern Cape

Today Springbok is the commercial and administrative centre for the mining area and capital of Namaqualand It is a prosperous town with approximately 15 000 inhabitants It is a prosperous town with approximately 15 000 inhabitants

Paper Number 541 Geosciences Institute

Paper Number 541 The Okiep copper mines South African mining company was established in 1852 to mine copper from the deposits Other notable firsts for the region are that the first South African geological report and first geological map produced in this country describe and depict these Namaqualand copper deposits Several famous 19th century explorers visited the copper

Textural mineralogical and chemical characteristics of

The Okiep Copper District in South Africa has produced more than 110 million tons at a grade of % Cu from several small mafic ore ore was smelted on site and generated ∼5 mt of the life of mine attempts to recover copper from the slag by flotation had limited success

Nababeep

Little over 20 km north west of Springbok lies the small village of Nababeep a former copper mining town in the heart of the Namaqualand its quaint sounding name an amalgamation of two Nama words naba or hump of an animal and bib or small spring which translates into place of the rhinoceros

Tourist attractions Springbok

OKIEP Remnants of the Copper Mining Era After Springbok Okiep followed with the copper mining industy Driving through town one soon realizes that the mining remnants in the center of town tells of an era gone by

Namaqualand Railway

The Namaqualand Railway was a 2 ft 6 in 762 mm narrow gauge railway operating between Port Nolloth and O okiep in the Namaqualand region of the former Cape Colony in South Africa It was originally a mule drawn railway built to provide an outlet for the copper mines of the region Constructed between 1869 and 1876 the railway was 93

Mining the Desert The Land Magazine

1 Smalberger J 1975 Aspects of the history of copper mining in Namaqualand 1846 1931 Struik Cape Town 2 Moffat R 1858 Journey from Colesberg to Steinkopf in 1854 5 in Schaefer A 2024 Life Travels in the Northwest 1850 1899 Namaqualand Bushmanland West Coast Yoshi Cape Town

Life 1899 Namaqualand

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Message Boards

Looking for John Cowan who was a mining engineer He would have been at the Copper Mining Company s mine in O okiep Namaqualand in Dec 1875 Jan 1876

Namaqualand

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Namaqualand

Namaqualand about Little over 20 km north west of Springbok lies the small village of Nababeep a former copper mining town in the heart of the

Namaqualand

Namaqualand about Namaqualand in the Northern Cape South Africa was once the pivotal point of the richest copper mining region on earth