Simon van der Stel Copper Mine
Simon van der Stel Copper Mine is a quarry in Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape. Simon van der Stel Copper Mine is situated nearby to the peak Carolusberg.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 10 km northwest of Simon van der Stel Copper Mine.
Simon van der Stel Copper Mine
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Categories: tourism and quarry
- Location: Nama Khoi Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.64664° or 29° 38′ 48″ southLongitude
17.96175° or 17° 57′ 42″ eastOpen location code
5F2V9X36+8MOpenStreetMap ID
way 552206965OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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