Okiep
Okiep is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and was in the 1870s ranked as having the richest copper mine in the world. The town is on the site of a spring that was known in the Khoekhoe language of the Nama people as U-gieb (large brackish place) and was originally spelled as ''O'okiep''.
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- Okiep
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- O'okiep
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- Ventilation shaft built by the Cape Copper Company in 1880
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- South Africa Northern Cape#South Africa
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- South Africa
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- Northern Cape
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- Namakwa
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- Municipality
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Okiep is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and was in the 1870s ranked as having the richest copper mine in the world. The town is on the site of a spring that was known in the Khoekhoe language of the Nama people as U-gieb (large brackish place) and was originally spelled as ''O'okiep''.
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