As most of you are aware, A company called SaMetal are currently removing all the scrap from the mine, I know a special security area was built just on the other side of the PCC for this task.... I heard from the clearing agents at the border that it is quite a tidy sum going out to South Africa.... I just never realised how big, until when I drove down to Cape Town this past week..... I saw quite a few of these red container trucks heading up and down the N7, but on the way back I started to count.... on the entire journey on one day, I counted 14 trucks..... Do the maths....
I know it's great to clean up the desert and all that green stuff, but one wonders how much history(mining) is being removed with it.... Always had dreams of taking tour groups to the Uubvley dumps and showing them..... how financially powerfull this company once was......
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Mike u can add to that my trip yesterday from Sprinbok to Alex bay counted about 8
and on another note passed 2 lowbeds with blue namdeb machines on between Kakamas and Pofadder sold at the auction
I also passed a lowbed with some large mining machine on the back....all heading south, pat Kamieskroon....
They have 20 trucks in total removing scrap metal from Namdeb.
This project is what is keeping Namdeb in the black at the moment and bringing in huge revenue from old scrap. They even took my old washing machine and dishwasher that had reached its end. So at least they aren't cluttering the dumps in town. Long may it continue for the future of the town.
The light veh scrap yard at Uubvley is vertualy empty and it was large