Kombat is a mine and its associated

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at the southern margin of the Otavi Mountain Range in northern

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. It is situated East of

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on the B8 to

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. Kombat at its peak had over 1,000 inhabitants. it is almost abandoned, although ''Kombat Primary School'' still operates at reduced capacity, and a clinic is serving the remaining inhabitants. In the vicinity, the Welwitchia Health Training Center brought life to the known ghost town of Kombat. It offers a Bachelors of Nursing Science program, Enrolled Nursing Science and Midwifery as well as a Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology. There are recreational facilities such as Kombat Lodge where visitors and people of the town can enjoy themselves.

Kombat mine

Minerals were discovered near Kombat in 1850. Around the year 1900, Kombat Mine was opened to extract copper. It was operated by ''Tsumeb Corporation Limited'' until the 1970s and by ''Ongopolo Mining'' as from 1999. In 2006 Ongopolo and the mine were taken over by

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PLC, a mining house based in London. Soon thereafter in 2007 the mine flooded, was abandoned, and was dormant for several years. In 2015 Namibian businessman

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acquired the town and the mine for 50 million N$, allegedly with the intention of re-selling it to the Namibian government at a handsome profit. In November 2021, the Canada-based ''Trigon metals, Inc'' announced it had secured $5 million in financing from IXM to reopen the Kombat mine, agreeing to sell concentrate from the mine to IXM for distribution. Mining resumed the next month. Nambulite-136231

Besides copper, there are sizeable deposits of lead and silver. The mine is known for a host of rare minerals, including

Nambulite Nambulite is a lithium bearing manganese silicate mineral with the chemical formula . It is named after the mineralogist Matsuo Nambu (born 1917) of Tohoko University, Japan, who studies manganese minerals. It was first discovered in the Fun ...

and

glaucochroite Glaucochroite is a calcium manganese nesosilicate mineral with formula . It occurs in metamorphosed limestones. It was first described in 1899 in Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, New Jersey Sussex County () is the northernmost county in the ...

.
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at ''Kombat'' (2014)

References

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