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...

century, copper has been mined at Springbok and its surrounding towns such as Okiep, while a large mine extracting copper, lead, zinc, and silver is located...

Concordia Garies Hondeklip Kamieskroon Kleinzee Nababeep Nieuwoudtville Okiep Pella Pofadder Port Nolloth Soebatsfontein Springbok Steinkopf Britstown...

Municipality, which also includes a number of surrounding towns such as Okiep and Nababeep. The town lies at an elevation of 1,007 metres (3,304 feet)...

Municipality. The port was previously a transshipment point for copper from the Okiep mines, and diamonds from the Namaqua coast. Since the 1970s the principal...

Railways (government) or private lines of historical significance (e.g. Okiep railway). Klipplaat–Graaf-Reinet closed in 2001, re-opened 2015. Graaff-Reinet–Rosmead...

town in Namaqualand, 19 km north-west of Springbok. Founded in 1860 by the Okiep Copper Company. The name is of Khoekhoen origin and means ‘rhinoceros place’...

coverage of 120 km/r, centered on Okiep Springbok Keetmanshoop Vanrynsdorp Alexander Bay Pofadder Rigtersveld Okiep Lutzville (30 Towns Surrounding Springbok)...

Kuruman Rugby Club Marrigolds Nababeep Rugby Club Ocean Collegians Rugby Club Okiep Thistles R.F.C Orania Rugby Club Oranjemund RFC Phantoms Rugby Club Pofadder...

saw active service during the Second Boer War, including the Defence of Okiep, and trained thousands of reinforcements during World War I. After a shadowy...

the Anglo Boer War, the Boers used Concordia as their headquarters whilst Okiep (some 6 km away) was under siege. Today some of the magnificent examples...

23 mines in the area. Springbok and its surrounding towns (Nababeep and Okiep) were the center of this mining activity. But, in the early 2000s the last...

of February 1902. His operations in the North West included the siege of Okiep (April–May 1902) until after the Treaty of Vereeniging when he finally put...

is the railhead of a line from Cape Town; ore from the copper mines at Okiep is transferred there from road transport to the railway. It is also located...

conflict, Smuts sought to take a major target, the copper-mining town of Okiep in the present-day Northern Cape Province (April–May 1902). With a full...

Okiep copper mine, South Africa...

Meløy, Nordland, Norway; the Messina District of Limpopo Province and the Okiep Copper District of Northern Cape Province, South Africa; Falkenberg Municipality...

L.; Anhaeusser, Carl R. (1996-06-01). "Steep structure formation in the Okiep Copper District, South Africa: bulk inhomogeneous shortening of a high-grade...

with Western Province and represented his country at rugby union. Born in Okiep, Namaqualand, Wrentmore appeared in five first-class matches for Western...

comfortable base in the west of the Cape Colony and was besieging the garrison of Okiep, Northern Cape. Reitz formed part of the negotiating delegation from his...

develop talent among disadvantaged youth in the Western Cape as far as Okiep. Applauz Arts Initiative was registered as a Section 21 Company (not for...

he rose rapidly in the Church hierarchy becoming successively rector of Okiep, Northern Cape; Stellenbosch and finally the cathedral parish at Bloemfontein...

mineral deposits), the Witwatersrand reefs (a gold mining area), and the Okiep area (a copper mining region). The Workers' Museum, located two blocks away...

prisoners. Next day the Boers had gone, and the column pushed on to relieve Okiep, where a garrison including a detachment of the 3rd Queen's (Royal West...

The three elliptical-shaped eggs originally collected in 1937 between Okiep and Springbok averaged 7.8 x 6.0 mm. Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R. (2018). "Goggia...

crèches and aftercare centres in Cape Town, the Cederberg Municipality, and Okiep. One of the pieces, SCOOP: kitchen play for carers and babes (director:...

"9/2/102/0003 | SAHRA". sahris.sahra.org.za. Retrieved 9 July 2023. "History of the Okiep copper district: Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province South Africa. - Free...

the area. When the railway was built to carry copper from the mines near Okiep, it passed through Steinkopf on the way to Port Nolloth, growing the mission...

Komaggas 364014 2.6 3,116 Kotzehoop 364001 9.3 467 Nababeep 364010 123.1 5,374 Okiep 364011 38.6 6,304 Springbok 364012 37.6 12,790 Steinkopf 364005 7.6 7,842...

Boers. He threw every man into an attack on the copper-mining center of Okiep. His force surrounded the town, but could not attack the garrison head-on...