Grading - 225410

Inventory Reference

Formal Gradings

Grading

Grade IIIa

Grading Date

16/10/2013

GradingComment

Tin mine of historic interest. A report on the history, preservation and restoration of the Vredehoek Tin Mine, Devil's Peak, Cape Town was compiled by P.E. Spargo and R.C. Laugksch in 1990 at the request of the City Planner's Department, City of Cape Town (Number A.F. 1994-200 in the South African Library). The findings were not acted upon and the land occupied by the tin mine falls within the Table Mountain National Park. Grading by: DOUG COLE

Statement of Significance

Vredehoek Tin Mine is one of three mines still in tact in the Greater Cape Town region. Adit to ore body is about 150 metres long with a vertical shaft near end of adit. Worked between 1911 and 1912 when 500 tons of cassiterite ore removed. Cassiterite occurs in quartz veins hosted by slate of the Malmesbury Group and is hydrothermal in origin being related to intrusion of the Cape Granite Suite. Reference: Spargo (2010).The early mines of the Cape Peninsula. Kalk Bay Historical Association, Bulletin No. 14, pp. 1-37.

Significance criteria

Significance Categories

Historical

Sphere of Significance

Local

Level

Medium