Phalaborwa
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| Coordinates | 23 ° 57 ′ S , 31 ° 8 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Limpopo | |||
| District | Mopani | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-LP | ||
| local community | Ba-Phalaborwa | ||
| Residents | 13,108 (2011) | ||
| Website | www.phalaborwa.net (English) | ||
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Phalaborwa is a city in Limpopo Province in northeastern South Africa and the administrative seat of the Ba-Phalaborwa municipality . In 2011 it had 13,108 inhabitants. The city is mainly known for mining and tourism.
The name comes from the term pala bora which means something like 'better than the south'. The Sotho , who moved here from the south, named the place.
location
Phalaborwa is located east of Tzaneen and not far from the Kruger National Park in a predominantly rural region of South Africa.
The city has several suburbs (formerly: townships ). The largest are Namakgale (2011: 36,365 inhabitants) and Lulekani (2011: 14,464 inhabitants).
traffic
A railway line leads from the southwest and ends here. The main road connections with other places in South Africa are the regional roads R40 to Barberton on to Swaziland and the R71 to Polokwane . The H9 leads into the Kruger National Park.
The city has an inland airport , Kruger Park Gateway Airport .
economy
Well-known companies there are the Palabora Mining Company , which has been mining copper ores since 1965, and Foskor Ltd. , which was founded on this site in 1951 by the Industrial Development Corporation for the extraction of phosphate raw materials for South African agriculture.
For this reason, a ring-shaped olivine - magnetite - apatite deposit, locally and commercially called phosphorite here , around a carbonatite core complex is used in open-cast mining. In the core of the carbonatite deposit is the most interesting mineral content for copper extraction of chalcopyrite , bornite , chalcosine and valleriite . Another, outer ring is made of a pyroxene - vermiculite - olivin - pegmatoid , the vermiculite content of which is of interest from a mining point of view . Before the state company FOSKOR ( Phosphate Development Corporation Ltd. ) was established, the Transvaal Ore Company and the Phalaborwa Phosphate and Vermiculite Company were already involved in the extraction of raw materials. Most of the phosphate concentrates produced here are transported by rail via Komatipoort and Swaziland for further processing and partly as export goods to Richards Bay .
Due to mining, Phalaborwa is the largest man-made hole, the open pit.
Attractions
In Phalaborwa there is also an entrance to the Kruger National Park .
Web links
- Phalaborwa Trade & Tourism Council (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed October 5, 2013
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 16, 2013
- ↑ 2011 census, accessed November 16, 2013
- ↑ AC-U-KWIK Airport / FBO: FAPH - Phalaborwa / Kruger Park Gateway . on www.acukwik.com (English)
- ↑ Foskor: History - key milestones . at www.foskor.co.za (English).
- ↑ Foskor: At a Glance . at www.foskor.co.za (English).
- ↑ FOSKOR: Mining division - Phalaborwa . at www.foskor.co.za (English).
- ^ RA Pelletier: Mineral Resources of South-Central Africa. Oxford University Press, Cape Town / London / New York / Toronto 1964, pp. 87, 120.