Nababeep

Nababeep
	Nababeep
	Nababeep
Coordinates	29 ° 35 ′ S , 17 ° 47 ′ E Coordinates: 29 ° 35 ′ S , 17 ° 47 ′ E
Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	North Cape
District	Namakwa
ISO 3166-2	ZA-NC
local community	Nama Khoi
surface	123.1 km²
Residents	5374 (2011)
density	43.6 Ew. / km²
founding	1860

Nababeep is a historic mining town in South Africa in the municipality of Nama Khoi , Namakwa District , Northern Cape Province . It is located around 20 kilometers by road northwest of Springbok , the district capital. The surrounding landscape belongs to the western foothills of the Carolusberg massif. In 2011 Nababeep had 5,374 inhabitants. The name of this city is derived from a Khoisan term for "place of the rhinoceros".

Regular mining for copper by European immigrants began with the South African Mining Company in the region in 1846. The site was founded in 1860 by the Cape Copper Company .

Attractions

Locomotive of the series Clara in the museum of Nababeep

There is a mining museum in the village about the historical copper mining of the area. A steam locomotive has also been preserved, with which the products of copper mining were brought to the port of Port Nolloth in wagons on a former narrow-gauge line .

In spring, the area around the village is covered with extensive, orange to yellow-colored carpets of flowers of native plant species.

Economy and Transport

The near and far area of Nababeep and the neighboring Okiep is a region with mineral deposits. The typical copper minerals are granular or massive as bornite , chalcopyrite and chalcosine . Areas containing copper appear as intruded gabbro bodies in the regional crystalline . In addition to copper, tungsten and molybdenum concentrations were also found here.

The O'Okiep Copper Company (OCC) has an administrative headquarters in town.

Nababeep can be reached by land via country roads that branch off east of the town from the national road N7 and south of the regional road R355 (Springbok – Kleinsee). There is an airfield in the district capital Springbok.

Web links

Commons : Nababeep - collection of images, videos and audio files

The Tumbleweeds: Okiep and Nababeep (Namaqua). on www.northerncape-info-directory.co.za (English), private website.

Individual evidence

↑ 2011 census , accessed May 20, 2020
^ ^A ^b Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 234.
^ Ian Heinrich Smuts: Influence of Acid Mine Drainage on the soils of Nababeep, Namaqualand with reference to soil chemistry, minerals and metal mobility . (B. Ing Thesis), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 2015 (English, PDF) pp. 8–9, PDF document pp. 22–23.
^ RA Pelletier: Mineral Resources of South-Central Africa . Oxford University Press , Cape Town / London / New York / Toronto 1964, p. 85.
^ PG Söhnge: The Nababeep Near West Tungsten Mine, South Africa . In: American Mineralogist, Vol. 35 (1950) No. 9-10, pp. 931-940, online at www.minsocam.org (English, PDF).
↑ Bruce Cairncross: History of the Okiep copper district: Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province South Africa . In: The Mineralogical Record, Vol. 35 (2004), No. 4, pp. 289-324, ISSN 0026-4628, Gale Academic OneFile, online at www.go.gale.com (English).

[1] 2011 census , accessed May 20, 2020

[Raper,_234-2] A ^b Peter Edmund Raper : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names . Lowry Publishers, Johannesburg 1987 (2nd ed.), P. 234.

[3] Ian Heinrich Smuts: Influence of Acid Mine Drainage on the soils of Nababeep, Namaqualand with reference to soil chemistry, minerals and metal mobility . (B. Ing Thesis), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 2015 (English, PDF) pp. 8–9, PDF document pp. 22–23.

[4] RA Pelletier: Mineral Resources of South-Central Africa . Oxford University Press , Cape Town / London / New York / Toronto 1964, p. 85.

[5] PG Söhnge: The Nababeep Near West Tungsten Mine, South Africa . In: American Mineralogist, Vol. 35 (1950) No. 9-10, pp. 931-940, online at www.minsocam.org (English, PDF).

[6] Bruce Cairncross: History of the Okiep copper district: Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province South Africa . In: The Mineralogical Record, Vol. 35 (2004), No. 4, pp. 289-324, ISSN 0026-4628, Gale Academic OneFile, online at www.go.gale.com (English).