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Derived from the Nama word 'U-gieb', meaning 'the great, brackish spring', Okiep was, until production ceased in 1918, the world's richest copper mine. Okiep is the oldest mining town in South Africa where copper was first discovered and mined in 1855.

Eight kilometres north of Springbok, it echoes copper's boom years. Nine-hundred defenders, mostly Cape Copper Company employees, built nine blockhouses and repulsed General Jan Smuts's forces' concerted efforts to take the town. Today, on a hillock, only the remnants of stone walls remain.

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A fully intact steam engine and the only remaining pump house of its sort in the Southern Hemisphere, were used from 1882 to pump water from the mine.

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Cornish Pump House

Area: Okiep, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa

Cornish Pump House

Area: Okiep, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa