Consolidated Murchison Mine - Beta Shaft

South Africa / Limpopo / Nkowakowa /
 mine, mine shaft
This is the Beta Shaft of the Consolidated Murchison Mine which is Africas only Antimony producer. It is currently owned by Stibium Resources of Australia. The mine is closed pending a restart (November 2016).

Antimony, Sb, is a metallic element having four allotropic forms, the most common of which is a hard, extremely brittle, lustrous, silver-white, crystalline material. It is used in a wide variety of alloys, especially with lead in battery plates, and in the manufacture of flame-proofing compounds, paint, semiconductor devices, and ceramic products.
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Coordinates:   23°55'15"S   30°38'23"E

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  • December 2012 the "eye-blind" of 23.4% Cons Murch employee trust did not realize. The current manager did not even know anything about that, as per a Solidarity meeting the management! This was Mr. Swanepoel's eye-blind to workers when he first informed the employees and community that they planned to take-over the mine - that was the end like all his other promises to employees!!
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