Rosh Pinah
Private city Rosh Pinah
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Rosh Pinah from a bird's eye view (2016) | |||
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State Region Constituency |
Namibia ǁKaras Oranjemund |
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Establishment date | 1968 | ||
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Website | roshskor.com.na | ||
Political data
Mayor : Chief Executive Officer : Ronnie Slabbert (Town Manager) Last election: 2015 Next election: 2020 City administration address: |
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Geographical data
Geographical coordinates : 27 ° 57.54 S; 16 ° 45.36 E Height : |
Rosh Pinah is a private mining town in southern Namibia . It is located around 100 km northeast of Oranjemund and 200 km southwest of Keetmanshoop . The city belongs to the constituency of Oranjemund in the ǁKaras region . The main industry is the licenses of six existing mines for the extraction of zinc and lead , especially the Scorpion zinc mine .
The city is located around 20 km north of the Oranje in the so-called Gariep Belt , between the diamond restricted area in the west and the Hunsberge in the west.
history
The geologist Michael McMillan discovered in the geological mapping of the area in 1963 sulphide deposits and five years later, in 1967, the construction and finally in 1969 the operation of the first mine began. The first mine operators were the state-owned Iscor from South Africa and the Moly Copper Mining Company of the Jewish industrialist Mosi Eli Kehan, who also gave the place its Hebrew name ( see Rosh Pina ).
Since 2001, RoshSkor Township Pty Ltd. has been trying to about the proclamation of Rosh Pinah as a city and the associated opportunities for further development and land acquisition. In January 2011 the proclamation was still open and was not completed until June 2019.
Infrastructure
With the main road C13 via Witputz, Rosh Pinah has a road connection to the national road B4 located in the north and a road along the Oranje to Oranjemund and Noordoewer .
Rosh Pinah has a hospital and since February 15, 2011 its own police station .
The city or the scorpion mine has an airfield. This is 15 kilometers north of the city and seven kilometers south of the Scorpion Mine.
Educational institutions
- Rosh Pinah Academy
- Hoeksteen Primary School
- Tsau-ǁKhaeb Secondary School
annotation
- ↑ Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .
Web links
- Official Website of RoshSkor (English)
- Scorpio zinc mine in Rosh Pinah (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosh Pinah proclaimed a town - doubles in size, Namibia Economist, November 23, 2001
- ↑ Rosh Pinah still awaiting news on proclamation ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Namibian Sun, January 28, 2011
- ↑ Sidai Clinic
- ↑ Pohamba opens new police station, Allgemeine Zeitung, February 16, 2011 ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 27 ° 58 ′ S , 16 ° 46 ′ E