Gravelotte (South Africa)
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 57 '4 " S , 30 ° 36' 41" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| District | Mopani | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA | ||
| local community | Ba-Phalaborwa | ||
| surface | 2 km² | ||
| Residents | 1098 (2011) | ||
| density | 554.5 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1916 | ||
Gravelotte is a South African mining town in the Ba-Phalaborwa municipality , Mopani district , Limpopo province . It is located around 54 kilometers by road southeast of Tzaneen . In 2011 Gravelotte had 1,098 inhabitants in 503 households.
description
The place name Gravelotte goes back to a farm that belonged to a Prussian missionary who took part in the Battle of Gravelotte (1870–1871) in France . Gravelotte is located at a fork in the regional roads R71 and R526.
The area belongs to the Bushveld region west of the Kruger National Park . The range of hills of the Murchison Range extends to the northeast . It is a mining region where antimony and arsenic ores as well as gemstones occur.
Attractions
At Gravelotte there is a huge baobab tree that is a tourist attraction.
traffic
The place can be reached by land via the regional road R71, which forms an important link between Polokwane and the national road N1 to Phalaborwa . The R526 also leads from the south to Gravelotte and joins the R71 in the village. In addition, Gravelotte has a train station on the railway line between Morebeng and Kaapmuiden . Gravelotte Airport is located to the north-east of the Murchison settlement .
economy
The place has been associated with mining activities in the nearby Murchison Range since its inception.
A project started in 2018 has taken up the mining of emeralds near Gravelotte again. The emeralds are extracted from a pegmatitic deposit.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b according to OSM
- ↑ 2011 census . accessed on June 1, 2020.
- ^ Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 130.
- ^ DR Davis, DB Paterson, DHC Griffiths: Antimony in South Africa . In: Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 86 (1986), No. 6, pp. 173–193, online at www.saimm.co.za (English, PDF)
- ^ J. Robb, VM Robb: The Nature of Archaean Pegmatite Deposits in the North-Eastern Transvaal . Information Circular No. 136, Economic Geology Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1979, online at www.wits.ac.za (English, PDF).
- ↑ Mining Technology: Magnum begins trial mining program at Gravelotte project . News from March 13, 2018 on www.mining-technology.com (English).
- ^ Magnum Mining and Exploration Ltd .: Gravelotte Project, South Africa . at www.mmel.com.au (English).