Old Cooper Mine
Old Cooper Mine is an adit in Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape. Old Cooper Mine is situated nearby to the government office Department of Education, as well as near Namakwaland Museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springbok and Okiep.
Springbok
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Springbok is a town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. With a population of 13,000, it is the biggest settlement in the region, and the business centre of the Namaqualand.
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 7 km north of Old Cooper Mine.
Old Cooper Mine
- Type: Adit
- Category: industry
- Location: Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.66369° or 29° 39′ 49″ southLongitude
17.87935° or 17° 52′ 46″ eastOpen location code
5F2V8VPH+GPOpenStreetMap ID
way 1367422401OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=adit
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Department of Education and Namakwaland Museum.
Nearby Places
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