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2014. Aerial view of Navachab Gold Mine. The Navachab Gold Mine is an open-pit gold mine situated near Karibib, in the Erongo Region of Namibia. The operation is owned by QKR. [1] Navachab, the oldest gold mine in Namibia, takes its name from the local Navachab farm, where the gold deposit was found. The deposit is located 6 km south of the ...
On 1 December 2011, the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy granted license to Swakop Uranium to develop the mine. [2]The uranium in the Husab deposit is granite hosted, and currently consists of an administration and housing area and three open pits. [3]
The tender board of the Namibian government has been established by the Tender Board Act. 16 of 1996. [1] Preference is given to local companies if possible. Since early 2010, all unskilled and semi-skilled labour must be sourced from within Namibia in order to qualify for government tenders. [2] Namibia is not a democratic country.
Uranium mineralization was first discovered in the Namibia's Rössing Mountains, Namib Desert in 1928 by Captain G. Peter Louw. Though he tried promoting prospecting, it did not occur for another three decades. In the late 1950s, Anglo America Corporation of South Africa drilled and performed some underground exploration, but because of ...
ISO 3166 code. NA. Internet TLD. .na. Namibia(/nəˈmɪbiə/ ⓘ, /næˈ-/),[15][16]officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angolaand Zambiato the north, Botswanato the east and South Africato the east and south.
Politics of Namibia. The Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) is a government ministry of Namibia, with headquarters in Windhoek. It was created at Namibian independence in 1990 as Ministry of Trade and Industry, [1] renamed Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development in 2015, and got its current name in 2020.
The Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) is a state owned enterprise established by an act of parliament as the national port authority of Namibia, [1] managing principally the ports of Walvis Bay and Lüderitz, as well as managing a Syncrolift dry dock facility in Walvis Bay. Namport was founded in 1994. [2] Its head office is located in Walvis Bay.
Namibia is a higher-middle-income country with an annual GDP per capita of N$79,431 in 2022, but has extreme inequalities in income distribution and standard of living. [10] It has the second-highest Gini coefficient out of all nations, with a coefficient of 59.1 as of 2015. [11] Only South Africa has a higher Gini coefficient. [12]