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Phalaborwa is home to Palabora Mining.The massive open pit mine, nearly 2,000 meters across, is Africa's widest manmade hole. Founded in 1951, Foskor's Mining Division in Phalaborwa mines phosphate rock (foskorite and pyroxenite), from which Foskor's Acid Division in Richards Bay produces phosphoric acid and phosphate-based granular fertilisers for local and international markets.
Palabora Mining Company Limited (founded August 1956) is a publicly traded mining company headquartered in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province, South Africa. The company operates a single cluster of open-pit and underground mines producing mainly copper as well as byproducts such as precious metals from anode slimes, nickel sulfate, sulfuric acid, magnetite, and vermiculite.
The Palabora Open Pit – mechanically excavated by Palabora Mining Company, in Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province. The pit is 898m deep and 1846m across on top. The pit is 898m deep and 1846m across on top.
The Selati Game Reserve is protected wildlife area situated between the towns of Gravelotte and Phalaborwa, in the Limpopo province of South Africa, the reserve has an area of about 30,000 ha. The most endangered Lillie cycad, listed under CITES Appendix I, occurs in its hills, and an application for strip mining is seen as a threat. [1]
Phalaborwa: Valley of the Olifants: Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality: Mopani District Municipality (previously Ba-Phalaborwa "Better than the South" Polokwane: Capricorn (previously Pietersburg )"place of safety" Potgietersrus: renamed Mokopane
Most of the people in Namakgale are employed in mining, namely Palabora Mining Company, Sasol Agri and FOSKOR. The majority of the residence of Namakgale speak Northern Sotho language , with the Sepulana, KhePhalaborwa and KheLobedu dialects being the most predominantly spoken forms, is the first language of about 70% of the people.
Gravelotte is a small town situated in the east of the Limpopo province of South Africa.. Mining centre 10 km north-east of Leydsdorp and 52 km north-west of Hoedspruit.It was established in 1916 and named after the farm owned by a Prussian missionary who had fought in the European Battle of Gravelotte (1870–71).
1970s: Phalaborwa Copper Mine development, Limpopo, South Africa. 1970s–1990s: Multiple Concrete Headgears for various mining clients, Botswana, Zambia and South ...