Tungsten Oos
Tungsten Oos is a mine in Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape and has an elevation of 951 metres. Tungsten Oos is situated nearby to the village Nababeep.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nababeep and Okiep.
Nababeep
Village
Photo: Peter Bagshawe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nababeep is a town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Nababeep is an old copper-mining town in Namaqualand, 19 km north-west of Springbok. Nababeep is situated 3 km south of Tungsten Oos.
Okiep
Village
Photo: Waitabout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Okiep is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and was in the 1870s ranked as having the richest copper mine in the world. The town is on the site of a spring that was known in the Khoekhoe language of the Nama people as U-gieb and was originally spelled as O'okiep. Okiep is situated 9 km southeast of Tungsten Oos.
Tungsten Oos
- Type: Mine
- Description: mine in Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: industry
- Location: Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Tungsten Oos” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tungsten Oos”
- Turkish: “Tungsten Oos”
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