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The
Northern Cape Province is a mineral-rich area that covers several
hundred kilometres. It includes the famous Kalahari
Manganese Fields and well-known mines like N'Chwaning,
Blesberg, Riemvasmaak and Jan Coetzee. Because the
Kalahari
Manganese Fields
is such a specialized area, we created a seperate page for
it.
Follow this link to visit it: KALAHARI
MANGANESE
FIELDS
Springbok
is the capital
town of this area and lies on a national road (N7) approx 550 km north
of Cape Town. This
area is of special
interest to us because of its interesting quartz
specimens.
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Steinkopf,
some 50 km north of Springbok,
yields beautiful smokies and
phantoms.
Pella (which
originated as a mission station in the 1800's) is situated a
few kilometres from the Orange River (150 km NE
of Springbok).
It has a Coloured community, many of whom make their living
from mining a wide assortment of crystals from the nearby
hills,
mountains and also the river banks. The area is
collectively known
as the Orange River
area.
These
specimens include orangy-red hematite covered quartz crystals,
clear crystals with green, orange, red, black and amethyst phantoms, to
mention
just a few. Lately these mentioned specimens are becoming
more scarce.
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