Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
2917DB1
Site Name
Van der Stel's Copper Mine, Carolusberg, Namaqualand District
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:08
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Archaeology
Archaeology Recordings
Submitted by siyasanga.mhlekude on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 10:12.
Identifiers
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Yes
Classifications
Location
Location
Mapping
-29.646839, 17.945462
Northern Cape
- Namakwa
- Nama Khoi
Directions to Site
Turn-off on R64, just over 7km outside Springbok. Take Carolusberg turn-off and then the site is indicated by signboards from there.
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by:
Statement of Significance
This piece of land, which is owned by the O'okiep Copper Company Limited, contains a mine shaft sunk by Commander Simon van der Stel on an expedition to the Copper Mountains in 1685.
The date, and most likely the other inscriptions, on the nearby rocks are of the same period.
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Declaration Description
The figure ABCD represents 500 square feet of land, being Van der Stel's Copper Mine situate in the Division of Namaqualand, Province of Cape of Good Hope, as shown in diagram No. 7018/58, dated 29th October, 1958.
(This Notice is substituted for Notice No. 270 of 20th February, 1959.)
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
6208
Gazette Notice Status
Notice Date
Notice Number
575
Declared by (Organisation/Heritage Authority)
Diagram Number
7018/58
Archive Status
National monument
6208-575.pdf (150.58 KB)
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